skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never heard of this company.

How can I test drive their cars that are in production (2 models according to the website)?
How would you distinguish a performance based on the public-domain Bach-Gesselshaft Ausgabe from one from a different score? Also I don't think Sony prints editions of classical texts.
Well Geoff Goldblum made that assumption, and he was able to scp his files straight into an alien workstation soooooo
You'd hope that there'd be mechanical, non-hackable safeguards in place to prevent obvious over-pressure situations. Why would any part of the system allow a serious over-pressure that would result in catastrophe like this?
Is there any reason this can't be done in reverse? (IANAL) Perhaps a small orchestra can put a bunch of stuff online, with copyright of their performance, and then issue takedown notices on all of Sony's versions.
Most bloggers aren't ever going to "run a real app in production."

Most {net,dev,sec}ops engineers aren't writing blogs.
> Reminder: $250t debt is $250t assets on someone else's balance sheet. The money is not owed to aliens but to other humans.

The problem is there is no guarantee that those assets on the balance sheet are actually real. This is a global aggregate which is owed from humans now to humans in the future, and using micro-scale accounting identities isn't appropriate.

Those graphs are indicating that real production is insufficient to meet future consumption. When that happens, there are serious consequences.

Those consequences can take the form of deflationary writedowns, an inflating currency, or a combination of both. Whatever the case, the the people of the future don't get the results the people of the present have promised.
Yeah. To add insult to injury, Trump's useless tax cut actually could have paid for free college for everyone instead: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/05/the-tax-bill-compared-t...
Suffice it to say you're demonstrably incorrect.
It's on BFR, not Dragon2, so probably a few years away.

Their previous plans for a lunar flyby were with a Dragon 2, which would theoretically be possible as early as next year.
Memo to the Silicon Valley boys’ club: Arlan Hamilton has no time for your BS
I mean, you are right about humans as a species, but oh god, not as drivers. As a cyclist commuter, pass/get passed by a lot of cars and see a lot of irregular/irrational behavior. Everytime there is a change in the traffic rules along my route (detour, construction, closed lane, new signalling) you will get a pretty high rate of people who either ignore the change, panic and drive recklessly, or panic and come to a confused stop.

Maybe we need driverless cars that can show panic faces when they don't know what to do and be coached by a friendly citizen what to do? It would be super cute.
I think that only affected how easy/hard it was to determine whether the collateral was good or not. passing a note around doesn't really affect the original amount unless there's some premium or discount on the original value.

For example, if 10 people borrow $10 from Alice, she is owed $100. If she packages that as 10 separate loans with one dollar of debt from each person and sells them for $10 each to 10 other people (Bob, Billy, Blake, etc), she's no longer owed anything, but the people downstream she sold it to are. In this case, her reselling has resulted in no additional total debt, but it is harder to tell whether the loan contains deadbeat non-payers or not. If the second set resells again, the obfuscation is even greater.

If Alice or some downstream seller sells for less or more than the original loan for some reason (or with different interest, which can't be forced upstream?), then the total debt amount might change.

In any case, it's still all down to whether the original loans are secure or not. If the people default, and there's no collateral, the end result is no different how many times it's been resold (if no amount has changed), it's just a matter of who is affected and how easy it is to tell whether the loans are of good quality or not.

Although, if I'm mistaken about or missing something, I would definitely like to know.
Write a parser for a complicated file format.

Write a simple interpreter for a C-like language by parsing it into a syntax tree, constructing a stack of symbol tables, and evaluating the nodes.

Once that works, write a version that emits code for a stack-based virtual machine (a simple stack machine written concisely might eat just a few screenfuls of code).

When that works, symbolically evaluate the stack bytecode into variable references, pick a simple architecture (I like MSP430 for this but ARM will do) do a trivial register allocator, implement register spill to the stack, and emit real code.

Then read Lisp In Small Pieces.

Worked OK for me!

A surprising amount of the complexity you might perceive in a "real" programming language just comes down to how expressions are parsed.
I lost $1,200 sponsoring something like this on Indiegogo. It failed and nothing got shipped to us backers. Sadly, they didn't open source any of their work. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robot-dragonfly-micro-aer...
<devil's advocate hat> If developers didn't keep serving up products contaminated with hidden privacy violations - and were actually held accountable for their product/service when it caused harm to their users - perhaps calls for licenses or charters wouldn't be quite so necessary...

Equifax did the developer equivalent of exposing most of the US to salmonella. Reports this week seem to indicate it's had practically no detectable punishment via any form of "self-responsibility".
> It's not. Certificate authorities are regularly compromised by invasive workplaces, sketchy governments, and crappy CAs. PGP keys are much more secure.

Citation very much needed for this claim that (publicly trusted) Certificate Authorities are "regularly compromised" while some random guy's PGP keys on his laptop are "much more secure".

You claim to be worried about "sketchy governments" so here's a nice simple exercise. List the maintainers of the top say, 100 Alpine packages and for each the countries of which they are citizens and their country of residence. Someone worried about "sketchy governments" would definitely know all this of course, since it's _far_ easier for a "sketchy government" to lean on one individual.

Next I'd like to know what Alpine is doing to ensure all those PGP keys are kept safe and that, for example, nobody's PGP key for signing Alpine packages is on, say, an unencrypted backup they took back in 2017...

If one of the CAs in the Web PKI does something they shouldn't there's a public forum for discussing how it happened, what's being done about it, how it will be prevented from happening again, and so on. Where can I find the public forum where Alpine maintainers have to confess to anything that goes wrong?
The startup world’s cuddly, cutthroat battle to walk your dog
Burden of proof goes the other way here. This is why (one of the reasons) bogus DMCA complaints are never prosecuted. You need to prove that they believed you hadn't read the complaint and knowingly went after you anyway. We only persecute people for using the legal system maliciously, not accidentally incorrectly.
If it was Russia trying to send a message, you'd think they'd have done it on an election day. Still though this is pretty crazy, especially given that most buildings in NYC have a gas hookup.
High-Accuracy Inference in Neuromorphic Circuits Using Hardware-Aware Training
and turn them into cheaper amazon labor.

gg mr bezos
Resurrect the original promise of OpenID! I want this capability, but I definitely don't want it controlled by big companies, and poor stewards of consumer best interests at that.
cowering at the feet of scrum master goons, boot-licking their rituals like a servile worm

Truly cinematic imagery, bravo
Oh, I'm sorry. I've misread your comment.
SpaceX has been kicking ass for a while now, I wouldn’t bet against them being in it for the long haul.

BUT, I don’t think the people who sign up for this should seriously expect to fly around the moon. That is a very very non-trivial engineering challenge, and the only people who did it were highly trained, had balls of pure cast iron, and frankly accepted the very real possibility of death. I feel that the statements “SpaceX is the real deal and not to be discounted” and “selling tickets to the moon is a PR farce” are compatible.
Making the Most of Your Technology During Hurricane Florence
Mainframes share a lot of similarities with cloud data centres. Redundant hot swappable components (even the CPUs in some models). Virtualised operating systems (VMs were invented for mainframes). These days it wouldn’t be unusual for some mainframes to be running mostly Linux instances.

You could almost think of a mainframe as a cloud in a box, and if one isn’t realiable enough, you can always run two or more.
whenever I see someone with a clipboard wandering the halls at work I turn around and leave the building
Aesop's Fables. I read any copy I could find when I was a child, and together, they had a lasting and profound impact on my life.
Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Master Your Priorities
The key take away that I get from this article:

"How many more ways do we need to say that copyright bots and filters don’t work? That mandating them, as the European Union is poised to do, is dangerous and shortsighted?"
> 2) The blog being in a public Git repository is nice for transparency.

The expectation that all your code is on a public repository (I blame GitHub for this) is one of the most horrifying developments in software engineering.
Did you use any server or client game or rendering framework? eg. Phaser, pixi or the like. And when you say the simulation is running on the client, do you mean it is client authoritative and the server just acts as relay? What sort of actions do you send?
I learned working at Microsoft that it's not enough to be ahead of things. You also have to be good at pushing your agenda (I was terrible at it while there).

I've decided it's a little like running for political office. Popularity contest? Sure. But it also means that your ideas have to run a gauntlet. You have to defend and reshape them in sometimes-hostile circumstances.

Not a bad thing, I now feel.
LIVE: Jeff Bezos at the Economic Club of Washington – Sept. 13, 2018 [video]
I'm curious why you seem to be speculating/implying that this was a deliberate "attack"/act of terrorism, when the linked article doesn't mention anything of the sort.

Your comment seems to be implying that there is some sort of evidence of hacking here, which, unless I'm missing something, does not seem to be the case.
SCADA does not imply the ability to remotely move mechanical parts to result in a negative condition in the pipeline system.
Innovation Takes the Exponential Express (2015)
Here are your 2018 Ig Nobel Prize winners
From what I understand, some repair work was being performed. Apparently the gas infrastructure there is some of the oldest in the nation.
But with Amazon you don't have to build your own storefront, or online site at all. Just make a listing, and ship to FBA. I imagine that alone creates more businesses.
Ticketing can also turn in to a "roving packs" situation, by means of misaligned government incentives. At the end of the day, if someone does something wrong we should probably just take the fine and burn it.
Hasn't there been a lockout of employees for a while, and folks were getting replaced by scabs?
Firefox Focus with GeckoView (on Android)
I would pay both money and time to read that. I still occasionally revisit your comment about FCRA, just in case I ever have to use it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833
I'm still taken aback by how quickly government (federal, state) allowed testing of driverless cars on public roads. Feels like a cold calculation made on behalf of citizens to say "some people probably need to die in order to bring this to market quickly, and that's ok with us in these areas."
This is NOT meant to be incendiary. I'm trying to learn. Why not use Netlify instead? It seems to have everything you need from a static site host and has a comprehensive, well-documented toolchain. Seriously, what am I missing? Would DO be better under peak loads or something?
Design question: are the players click-to-move because that improves performance compared to, say, following the cursor at all times? Compare this with agar.io, where the player is always moving towards the cursor.

Well done on this game. I assume I'm playing on American servers but as an Australian this hasn't caused me many issues.
You can't judge things based on a 0% default rate. Some of the debt is expected to never be paid back. Lots of high interest debt heavily bakes that in, so counting them as held to maturity with 0% default is just going to make your statement tautological.
I used to live in Andover, MA in a prior existence, and while the town is very rich it is also as they say, very historic. I wouldn’t be shocked if the infrastructure was ancient. As for Lawrence (disclaimer: it may have changed) it was a seriously poor former mill town, and I wouldn’t be shocked if their infrastructure and services were in awful shape.
That's an interesting idea (and something touched on in The Dark Forest[1], which is pretty good just for a peek into hard sci-fi through the lens of another culture).

How large an area would you need to cover to accuratly dim a star's output to an array at another star, say 100 light years away, if you positioned yourself towards the edge of the solar system? Is this cost effective, or any faster than using targeted EM?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
I assume there is some way to pierce the corporate veil and go after owner's private assets if they are continually operating in an illegal manner like this.
> Laptops on the other hand, those are more problematic

Windows laptops.

My MacBook has been up 56 days 14:06 hours.
The transit won't get built if it doesn't make economic sense to do so, and right now it doesn't make sense to do so because most communities aren't dense enough to support it. Fix the zoning first and allow dense construction, and then it will become economical to build out transit. No one's going to build subway out to single family home suburbs; it will simply never be economical. About the only thing that makes sense there is bus routes (which already exist). But building subway to a neighborhood that consists of 5 floor multi-family homes and mixed street level retail? Yeah, that works. That's what large swaths of NYC look like, and land value here is higher because of it (which should appeal to existing owners).
I think we need to keep our expectations realistic. Most of those would challenge a significant portion of human drivers (and the scenarios suggested by sibling commenters are even more likely to cause a human to crash), and it's perfectly acceptable for a human driver to say "X crazy thing happened causing me to crash. What the fk?"
Everyone pays interest, the rich just pay less because they are less risky.
The industry term is "dickbar", coined by John Gruber about persistent toolbars:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/06/dickbar
Neutrinos seem like a good option, if you have a good way to collect them.
Do you:

1). Blame 50 years of infrastructure neglect to the point that the US is ranked a D+ [0] in infrastructure.

2). Blame a country with the population of Nigeria, the GDP of Italy and the military spending of Suadi Arabia?

[0] https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
Deleuze says "make a map, not a tracing." Here the map is the tracing, because mapmakers in this sense are intent on capturing the territory and the raw data in the finest fidelity, rather than capturing the essence of the territory. (It's arguable that the former is a prerequisite for the latter, but it might also be arguable that focusing on the former makes you lose sight of the latter.)

This article is also reminiscent of Seeing Like A State, which is quickly becoming my favorite book. The book notes that maps (and map-like devices, like censuses, even systems of measures), again prove to be an imperfect device for capturing physical or social reality, failing because the territory changes too much too quickly.
The only thing I'm using is Planck.js as the physics engine, besides that it's just raw canvas. I did spend quite a bit of time deciding whether I should go for WebGL or Canvas, but Canvas was just easier and it performs well enough.

There are actually 5 canvases stacked on top of each other - background, glows, objects, interface, cursor. The glows layer has a CSS blur property on it, which lets it be done on the GPU. Initially I just used the canvas shadowBlur everywhere but it was horribly slow, so this was one of the biggest performance boosts. The other layers are just there because they're invalidated/refreshed at different rates for performance reasons. The interface layer is particularly slow to update as its got to draw all the button icon paths, so it only ever rerenders the parts as they change, as opposed to some of the other layers which rerender every frame.
The press release says 3 billion light years. Probably just a mistake at TC

PR: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/22
This so hard. You'd think we'd have it figured out by now.
Thanks! I'm not open sourcing the game at this time, maybe in the future I might consider it.
> Perception for autonomous vehicles is effectively a solved problem.

The problem is that you can't separate "perception" from "cognition". A human could drive a car reasonably well via a webcam feed, so does a webcam count as "solved perception"?
That is not something I'd want to do. Docker's solution is good enough for almost every build that happens. I can eat the time cost not covered by that solution and not have to worry about bugs stemming from improper copying of dep snapshots.
Oh good, yes glad you found it. I will take all your feedback into account. I really should add a training mode! Thanks!
Meanwhile, the W3C is working on an open standard for simple public key authentication to websites: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/

I'd much rather authenticate to websites with a key stored in my phone's secure element than I would with an auth service provided by my carrier.
There is a really simple algorithm to convert infix to prefix or postfix. The pre/postfix is then interpreted/compiled easily. This was one of the first things my comp-sci teacher in HS made us do after teaching linked list/stacks/fifos.

Of course if you pick a language like forth (mentioned below) the whole problem is sort of moot.
Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm still unsure if you're saying that Channel I/O (or its equivalent) is missing from current x86 server systems. Does virtualization affect this situation?

Initially, you mentioned high utilization ratio and throughput. I think the former is a red herring [1], but I'm curious about the latter. I've certainly witnessed poorer I/O throughput under virtualization, but on bare metal, throughput doesn't seem to be limited (beyond the capabilities of the bus).

[1] e.g. it doesn't matter if CPU is pegged but I/O channels are at 10% if the workload is CPU-bound and CPUs are the expensive part to scale. Or substitute memory for CPU.
good point, first is to make it expensive or nullify multiple bot efforts. that will take a real life KYC type of verification. collusion is still a possibility.
> Surely part of the problem is that so many people love or want to live in a place that long-term, can’t get water, is subject to deveststing earthquakes, and is overpopulated in terms of what can be sustained in a sane manner over time?

If you replace "water" with "food and water" (which seems a reasonable thing to do as both are necessary for people to live), and allow substituting hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, etc., for earthquakes...then doesn't your statement apply to nearly all large cities?

They almost all have to import food, for example. How is that fundamentally different from importing water?
I didn't know the CIA did that, thanks for sharing.

No idea what caused today's explosion, but the USA is clearly not without enemies and vulnerabilities in its own infrastructure.
Not knowing any better, I could only guess something similar to the San Bruno gas explosions a couple of years ago which were caused by aging and poorly maintained mains gas pipes.

Can only hope the damage is contained quick.
The best part is that the DMCA theoretically has provisions to protect you against fraudulent claims, but no platform holder implements them. You can get absolutely blanketed by fraudulent DMCA notices and you have no recourse because companies like Google refuse to provide you any way to sue the person who's violating the law to harass you, and the companies don't make any attempt to filter out fraudulent notices.

Some random kid in Iowa could cost you thousands of dollars in daily revenue for weeks (while you wait for your dmca'd content to come back up) and you have no recourse because the law doesn't have any teeth.
I work at Uber now, on the Freight vertical. I refused to join under Travis but I took my chances under Dara. The culture is fantastic and Dara has done superb work reshaping it, including a values refresh and significant changes in corporate culture. I've worked at 8 tech companies in my career and Uber has the best culture by far. Long gone are the days of "toe-stepping", replaced by "ideas, not hierarchy". This rebrand is a great external reflection of the internal change. There's still the passion at Uber to change the world for the better, but gone are the days of growth at all costs (and all the chaos that comes with that). Uber is definitely the place to join in Silicon Valley right now, if a "startup feel" is what you want but also a brand that's a verb. We're hiring!
I don’t blame anyone for trying to get away from the constant distraction and productivity-death of the trendy open office (which is actually just a way to avoid spending money).
I don’t know about the rest of the nation but the natural gas infrastructure in Massachusetts is comically terrible. It isn’t unusual to be walking down the street in Boston (note: a separate utility than tonight’s incident) and to walk into a cloud of natural gas. I had such a cloud on my residential street for years that was strong enough to burn your eyes. National Grid would come by every few months, stick a probe in the ground, and declare it not worth fixing despite our repeated calls. I wonder how much of their product actually makes it from production facilities to end households without leaking out along the way.
> If it was Russia trying to send a message, you'd think they'd have done it on an election day.

Today was the NY primary election, which includes a progressive AG candidate vowing to take on Trump at a state level as a bulwark for the federal investigation.

(I think it's extremely far-fetched, but just figured I'd point that bit out.)
It’s peculiar to me that you have repeatedly attempted to create a rumor that it was hackers even though there is no evidence to support that. Are you playing at something or just enjoy spreading misinformation?
This game is pretty much unplayable on Firefox on Linux due to how slow it is, even with an 8th gen i7 processor. Seems to run fine on Chrome, but having to switch is super obnoxious
>"If interstellar travel is feasible at all it will have to be at FTL speed"

Why is that? Special relativity already demonstrates that space contraction at near light speed would allow interstellar travel at human scale duration, with the side effect of time dilation for moving observers.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox