skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends what you mean by "AI". Autonomy in aviation is far ahead of what you can get in ground vehicles. Autopilots are commonplace, even in light aircraft. There are established systems like TCAS for traffic avoidance. Aviation remains incredibly safe, despite huge levels of autonomy, because of the regulation involved.

What (I think) we need is a regulated system where every drone uses a standard transponder and negotiates airspace either with a controller (e.g. IFR) or other aircraft (e.g. VFR). The future is not everyone flying drones with proprietary AI collision avoidance. One existing product in this space is FLARM which is used by a lot of glider pilots and light aircraft, they also make a UAV variant: https://flarm.com/products/powerflarm/uav/

Autonomous drones themselves exist, are inexpensive, and can be set to fly a survey pattern based on a number of pre-selected GPS waypoints. Ardupilot will do this. The data is used for mapping at a much higher level of data than online maps. Think agri, ecology, general site surveying, etc.

That said, drones are not ideal for replacing aircraft in the large scale mapping. The flight time is poor. An aircraft modified for surveying can cover hundreds of square kilometres a day. A consumer drone with an hour's flight time (good luck) is going to struggle to compete.

Collision avoidance at the local level (e.g. are you going to hit a wall) is a different issue, and that can be solved by standard depth sensors.
> Wage slavery is a term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.[1][2]

Does it mention anything about a limit or a salary or something? If you make 200k+ a year, sole provider for a family, pay a mortgage in a high COL, depend on your job for your healthcare and you're left with little to no disposable income, what does that make you relative to your job?
It’s disappointing, sure... but is it surprising?

To a lot of US-ians the GDPR is just some EU bureaucrat stopping them from making more $. Nothing matters apart from being able to do whatever you want and make $.

It’s just a different mindset.
Author here. I actually agree with you about the post being disjointed - Res Obscura is basically just my historical notebook where I jot down unusual things I might want to remember. Was teaching the Crusades to my world history class this week, hence the content about that.

Like I say toward the end, I'm mostly interested in the case as a hypothetical early example of pseudo-Lamarckian thinking (i.e. the assumption that babies somehow "know" their parents' language despite having no contact with them).
Basically, you can't take any science reporting major media at face value. The headlines are written as click-bait, and typically in a non-scientific fashion. Some scientists are also prone to releasing catchy PR that misinterprets their results.
That's a good point.

But Walmart build pickup points at upscale neighbourhoods. They even built an automated store to do so, and it'd 20x80 foot, pretty small:

https://newsok.com/article/5551667/walmart-introduces-automa...
I am struggling to understand how it is bogging down requests with data that are "unrelated" to the session.

Cookies are delivered with the request. If it has feature selections, great, no more work necessary on your part.

If the feature selection is hidden behind a user ID, then you need to look up the user ID in a database and then request the user's features.

Indeed, it seems to me that requiring a login in order to customize the viewing experience is what bogs down requests.
preach brotha, it really is mind blowing that it's been allowed to get this out of control
Under the mostly accepted principle of parsimony, yes.
But a cookie notice is not part of the GDPR, right?
I don’t disagree at all on the size but I wouldn’t classify it as a mansion just a big house. As a Utahn who works remotely with lots of people from the coasts. I feel its my duty to mention Utah isn’t as cheap as they think it is ha.
No, it is true, If you don't the EU Army will come and get you. /s

It's a basic idea, and HN prides itself on being smart, but there aren't global laws. No one gets to enforce civil penalties outside of their jurisdictions, without exceptional circumstances. If they fine you and you don't have offices there just ... don't pay? The EU might not exist in 10 years anyway.
Metaphysics is basically a question of axioms. Reasoning can't get off the ground without some unproven assumptions. We can certainly talk about our assumptions without proving them!

I would argue that most axioms used by thinking brains ultimately derive from evolutionary processes. But again, this is different from proving them, and brain development is far from simple.
>We got patent trolls now we'll have GDRP trolls

Do EU lawsuits require the plaintiff to pay the legal costs of the defendant if they lose? If so, I doubt we'll be seeing GDRP trolls unless those GDRP trolls are well financed and prepared to pay all of the legal costs.
Agreed. Uber disabled a safety feature that would have prevented this fatality -- but that doesn't mean that the automation was therefore safe apart from Uber's mismanagement of it. It's entirely believable that had that safety feature been fully enabled, it would have also e-braked in 1,000 other situations which didn't result in a collision. And false-positive e-brake events are definitely worth avoiding: they can get you rear-ended and injure unbelted passengers.

This doesn't mean that Uber therefore did the right thing in disabling the system; it probably means that the system shouldn't have been given control of the car in the first place. But my point is that there is no readiness level where driverless cars will ever be safe -- not in the same way that trains and planes are safe. The driving domain itself is intrinsically dangerous, and changing the vehicle control system doesn't change the nature of that domain. So if we actually care about safety, then we need to be changing the way that streets are designed and the rules by which they are used.
There are several factors. Technical brilliance is one, but Kubernetes is of course not entirely alone there; DC/OS (which is what you usually would be talking about these days if you're saying "Mesos", since Mesos is just a scheduler and doesn't in itself provide most of the features you need) is also highly regarded. Swarm is not highly regarded, and often disparaged as an inferior imitator.

Another big reason is better marketing and evangelism. Kubernetes has a lot of companies betting on it and who are actively promoting it. It has the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) [1], a suborganization of the Linux Foundation. While CNCF also includes Mesos, it was initially, I'm told, invented as a way to move Kubernetes out of Google, thereby commoditizing and democratizing it as an open-source ecosystem; Kubernetes was the first CNCF project.

It's a savvy move on Google's part. It's reminiscent of Sun's "standardizing" of J2EE, JMS, etc. back in the day, which in itself spawned a whole cottage industry of enterprise software and certifications. CNCF/Linux Foundation, of course, offer certifications, as well as events (KubeCon) and training programs, all of which involve marketing and evangelism.

So there's a whole engine behind Kubernetes which make the competitors (of which we have Hashicorp Nomad, DC/OS, Amazon ECS and to some extent CoreOS (at least their original cluster design) and Rancher) seem like children's lemonade stands by comparison.

But even with all of this momentum, none of this would work very well if Kubernetes weren't popular with developers and sysadmins. Kubernetes has been enthusiastically embraced for its excellent design, and so there's little pushback from below; when devs tell management they should be betting on Kubernetes, it's easy for them to say yes, but the opposite is also true. And since Kubernetes also works to commoditize containers, it ends up being one of those rare projects that appeal equally to developers, sysadmins and suits. The pointy-haired bosses at IBM and other big corporations realize they can leverage the platform for their own enterprise offerings.

So you could say that Kubernetes scales all the way down to the individual developers, and also all the way up to the highest levels of big corporations. It's the Linux of container orchestration.

[1] https://www.cncf.io/
Traista GDPR blog
Ask HN: How would you characterize different generations of Developers?
I think I am just getting out of a rut of romanticizing early software development days. Where people were exploring and discovering precedents and patterns.

I felt strongly before that the Javascript ecosystem was an awful place, and I've managed to escape that somewhat. I'm still yearning for scientific, calculated approach to software development, even in the web world. And I'm just not convinced it is there, and I can't tell if that is a result of the people, or structure of modern development patterns.

How would you characterize various generations of developers?

Are modern developers really as cavalier and dismissive of small warnings and errors as some of the cynical literature out there would have me believe? Are there people out there that care about the quality of the code behind a website, like people cared about the original design of the Nasa Shuttle system? Are they the majority?

Do you think software development being sold as a profession of 'rockstars' and 'wizards' lends to a community of pepole who act like those designations?
I thought we established they received a non-zero dollar fine.

Their annual profit is about $13BN, they were fined $2.8BN which is about 22%. I think that along with imprisoning an exec that was complicit in the lie is a significant and reasonable deterrent/punishment.

As for VW significantly increasing the likelihood of any given arbitrary citizen getting cancer I'd love to see the numbers on that. Sounds like hyperbole to me[0]

[0] http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/06/14/diesel-fu...
Now quote the numbers for following years please.

I did. Go back and try again. You are so eager to defend the EU you can't even be bothered reading what I wrote and immediately dived for the insults: scaremonger, propaganda, lame.

Now for your misunderstanding of basic supply and demand.

Look. Let's say there's a million euros in circulation, total. People are using these million euros to buy and sell things. Suddenly the ECB awards itself 9 million euros and starts spending them. Eventually the currency equalises out and those 10 million euro total are spread over the entire economy. But the total amount of stuff being bought and sold hasn't changed, so the prices must have done - they will have gone up by 10x. Likewise, an external currency will now buy 10x more euros than before.

If you understand that you will understand what I was talking about.

Your confusion about the USD/EUR rate is fairly basic I'm afraid. USD was also engaged in huge money printing during the same period. Despite that the ECB still managed to depreciate the currency. The reason the value started dropping at the start of 2015 is that this is when Mario Monti began huge monthly printing runs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Europe

on 22 January 2015 Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, announced an 'expanded asset purchase programme': where €60 billion per month of euro-area bonds from central governments, agencies and European institutions would be bought
Brooklyn's Robotic 3-D Printing Factory Brings Manufacturing to the Masses
On a related note, I still love this interview: Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress:

https://intelligence.org/2013/12/13/aaronson/
No that's not correct. GDPR applies if you are in Europe. So a US citizen in Poland is protected but a Polish citizen living in the US is not.
Terrible enough to make it one of the most valuable companies in the world :)
If there's a successful business that blocks EU access due to GDPR, that's a huge immediate opportunity to enter that market in the EU (unless, of course, the business model is based on resale of personal information).
> I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip

Likely outcome of the unlikely discovery of some lost ancient document that somehow makes The Woz indisputable CEO for life.
That's just not how it works.

Recital 23 (referring to Article 3, Territorial Scope)

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union.

An attempt to prevent EU users from accessing the site at all is about as strong a signal as it gets regarding this. When you're blocking all of Europe by IP, it's pretty fucking obvious you're not envisaging offering services there.
I find it difficult to get to sleep if I'm actually hungry when I get into bed.
Gently Modifying a Masterpiece – Dark Souls Remastered
I never understood the evolutionary push to develop flight, because I thought of it as an expensive form of transport.

Until this graph, which shows the cost of transport to actually favor flight over terrestrial locomotion.

http://www.wprize.org/images/TuckerCostGraph.gif
So now we get a new status quo: "These measures are onerous and bake in internationally-controversial concepts like 'right to be forgotten,' so now companies may actually decide to punt on doing business with 500 million customers because the risk outweighs the rewards.' "

Good work everyone.
And the machines mentioned in the article sold thousands of units at most.

The theme of the article is that the creators of these machines made a big bet on the idea that novelty and imagination alone would carry expensive, underpowered machines to market success, and that even when those machines were actually technically impressive, those bets were wrong.

The HERO was able to stay on the market for so long only because Heath was making their real money on electronics kits. The RB5X was able to stay on the market for so long because the overhead was close to zero. Androbot & Arctec folded almost immediately, because the TOPO was a $400 RC car and the Gemini was a $9000 tech demo with no arms.

A business plan that depends upon upper middle class frivolity to the tune of thousands of dollars per family is unlikely to succeed. Everybody in the article learned that the hard way.
To me it seems like a case of wanting to have the cake and eat it too.

"I want to use your free service without participating in your monetization model. K thanks" -- EU citizens
Fortnite generated $296m in the month of April across mobile, console, and PC
I hope and I wish the market and Android will force Apple to make this decision within the next 3 to 4 years.

They are still not making Apple TV set.

With WatchOS and the Apple S3 chip already includes 90%+ of the features needed. I bet the S3 cost less then $20, and Apple could have sold it at $50 along with WatchOS to specfic market that Apple do not intend to compete. Fridge, Fan, Lamp, bikes, TV set, radio, kitchen appliance or what so ever.

Apple currently charges $1 for the controller of Lightning Cables regardless of volume. They could have just offer similar program.
What are your thoughts on LEAN?
Yeah. All I really want is more RAM so that I can tab between Safari and Facebook without one of them getting unloaded and losing my place.
> knowledge of existing libraries, algorithms, systems, permissions

I can't help but notice, also, that no project management "methodology" emphasizes (or even allows for) time spent researching/learning existing libraries, algorithms, systems, permissions, even though I think everybody would agree that this is where you're going to get the biggest payoff.
Jobs never bought anything from Xerox. How do we know this? Xerox filed a lawsuit against Apple in 1988 -- after seeing that Apple was suing Microsoft and others left and right for what was essentially derivative work based on Xerox's. Xerox feared that Apple was scaring off potential licensees with their on-going UI patents lawsuits. Their lawsuit however never went nowhere and dismissed on procedural matters.

Xerox had a division that invested in tech companies like Apple in the late 70's. I believe Xerox had something to the tune of $1M in Apple, but contrary to popular belief, Apple never traded their pre-IPO stocks in exchange for two visits at Xerox PARC. Xerox PARC was actually open-house and at least several thousand people went to see their demo throughout the 70's. Jef Raskin, who had spent sometime at Stanford and intimately close to research and dvelopment done at PARC urged Apple engineers and Jobs to see what they ought to be doing.
With IoT stuff, especially light bulbs, the "escape hatch" to avoid some of the cloud nonsense manufacturers might disable at any time is to ensure you get devices that have local-only control interfaces. So basically bluetooth, ZWave, Zigbee, or a WiFi API that works 100% offline.

There are quite a few that fit that requirement, but among the WiFi bulbs I know that LiFX devices all support a local API with official documentation[1].

I was able add support[2] for the LiFX bulbs to Mozilla's IoT gateway because of that local API.

These are all largely closed devices though, the real solution is to get devices where the firmware is under your own control. However that's easier said than done, as it constrains your choices quite a bit.

[1] https://lan.developer.lifx.com/

[2] https://github.com/infincia/lifx-adapter
In the context of Marxism open border means broader reach for authoritarian policies.
The difference is that one is an example of actual and well-thought out legislation in the EU which is generally welcomed by the people most affected by it: EU citizens.

The other is a trumped up example by someone on whom the GDPR self-admittedly has hardly any bearing but who still insists on throwing a hissy fit because legislation is somehow un-american or something.
It had a trailer which could be commanded to dump the objects it was carrying
Consider this case, startup app in a niche market, only available on US app stores, and a one man dev team that needs to focus on app dev not compliance for some regulation that could never apply to their customers. Yet needs to be sure they don’t end up giving the company to the EU because someone over there signs up on a marketing list.

That’s the startup I’m presently working on. We’ll expand beyond the US borders (and implement GDPR) when we advance to a larger revenue stream. But right now, GDPR compliance is a distraction that interferes with gaining enough traction to help us afford the engineering and legal resources to ensure such compliance.

NOTE: we delete all client data when they cancel already. And we don’t do any creepy marketing.
Kubernetes Authentication with Conjur
> who the hell taxes revenue, instead of profit, other than the backwards Russian state anyway?

Both Washington and Texas for starters....
>Nothing has been learned

In my limited view, this is pretty much the case. When I was telling our management team about the GDPR and how it relates to our new European-focused project, the first thing the CEO said was "how do we get around this?"

Management decided we're not gonna comply with the GDPR and just hope nobody notices.
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Definitely not the only one, but I think the trend is toward using formatters.

José Valim, creator of Elixir and general programming whiz, I think perfectly summed why formatters are so great in a talk he gave at Elixir conf.

(I am paraphrasing from memory here so if someone has the source, please chime in.)

The gist: “I started using the formatter
and at first I ran the it on my code and I hated it. It’s taking all my carefully, hand formatted code and messing it up! But then I ran it on OTHER people’s code and I loved it, as the code started to look like the standard format I had gotten used to.”

I think many people don’t start to like formatters until they see what it does to other people’s code. Many people like their own fine tuning, but that’s only half the question. For a big project, most of the code I read will not be my code. I prefer all of that code be in one, consistent style. Sometimes formatting is expressive, so it is a trade off, but for me the lost expressiveness is far outweighed by the Gaines consistency.
So using the law didn't work. What is a rational reaction? To try one of many other approaches? Of course not...draft and pass more laws, but bigger this time. If someone has a hammer and everything looks like a nail, all they are going to do when the hammer doesn't work is tweak the hammer. Instead of stepping back and saying that a provision in the law can be fixed here and there (e.g. requiring regulators to do something as if words are enough to usurp apathy), why not question whether the method in the first place is the problem?
The problem with all of this is that you have a ton of disposable income when you make this much money and live in Utah, even with student loans this large. Unless you are a dummy with money. C.f. the dude's enormous, expensive house, which, yes, is optional.
I can see why you'd be disappointed - if popular websites started blocking US customers I'd be pretty bummed out as well (even if it was easy to circumvent).

As a dev though, I also understand the frustration. Creating startups is already time-intensive and stressful. A lot of us are on shoestring budgets. Most startups will fail. To a solo developer in the US, the idea of spending time understanding and complying with GDPR is daunting, it's more than just a hindrance to many. Still, I don't want to break European law, so maybe it's easier to block EU users at first and change policies later if profitable.

I think blocking is at least showing you respect the law, compared to just doing nothing and being non compliant.
Yes, you asked Mozilla for the web page, and they decided to load Google Analytics.

Mozilla is the Data Controller, and they asked a third-party (Google Analytics) to process the data of Mozilla's users (that includes simple visitors to the site), making Google a Data Processor. The Data Controllers generally have more obligations than Processors, since they control how the data is handled, and to whom it's passed.
Sure. But please remind me, how did we end up with VW case on a GDPR topic in the first place?
That does not seem relevant? You are certainly not giving them a license to do whatever they want to do with your content just by hosting an RSS index of mp3 files on the web.
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To be fair, miniaturization never has been a problem in the electronics industry evolution. Nowadays you can have more than 4,000,000,000 transistors in a 10nm chip and the lithographic process advances to produce these chips tend to evolve into even further miniaturization and more transistors.
I'll not save it, and continue labeling any business entity that obstructs any of my freedoms for profit as an enemy.
AMD is launching VEGA 20 in 2H @ 7nm. Also, Nvidia is expected to launch a 7nm video card this year.
It applies to companies that do business in the EU. They could at least seize any assets that you have in the EU, including future profits there. If you don't do any business in the EU to disrupt then this doesn't apply to you anyway.