skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People's safety isn't something to be iterated.

Any security patch will already come too late -- when it comes to cars, it must not have security problems to begin with.

The cybersecurity model just isn't safe for this. It's up to them to fix this, not me.
So the answer to “What’s Snapchat’s AR Endgame?” is “no”?
It's linked from the CNET article:
https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NHTSA-2017-0037
Yeah. Instead of burning gasoline for our cars, we will burn oil/gas for electricity for our cars.
I've found that the umbrella term "DevOps" carries a lot more than what most people might realize, creating an interesting space to solve problems that are about logistics, technicalities, human behaviour, communication, planning and execution of projects, etc.

YMMV, but I find that any "good" engineer can learn to excel where the need is, provided the structure is there to support and encourage such behaviour (which is easier said than done, and most often what you will get to judge when interviewing).
Those industries have stringent regulations on them.

When an aircraft has a bug, there is a federal investigation.
Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow
It's not tho.

It's really not. Most of the software you use every day was developed by very average software developers. The vast majority of the work software developers do isn't terribly novel or particularly difficult. And you know what? They do just fine. Things work well. Systems stay on line. Companies make money.

I've seen too many "bad" teams produce perfectly functional software over the years to think that this gap exists anywhere but in Joel Spolsky essays.

I think comparing carpenters to software engineers does a disservice to carpenters. Software developers to me are more like dry-wallers. A really good one can do it faster, but the end result mostly always looks the same.

The difference between an average and a great carpenter, however, is immediately obvious. There is real craftsmanship there, and you can clearly see the difference.

It isn't until you get to the edges of software development that those same differences become clear. When you're dealing with very high scale, very aggressive performance metrics, or very difficult mathematical concepts you see the difference between average and great developers. But those are less than a fraction of 1% of software projects I'd wager.

* I should note: I'm a software developer.
>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a cybersecurity vulnerability warning for users of Medtronic's CareLink 2090 Programmer and CareLink Encore 29901 Programmer devices.

Medtronic is also the company that made vulnerable insulin pumps that could be wirelessly instructed to stop all insulin delivery, or inject a fatal dose into the user.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
"Women are and have been marginalized in the US" is not a statement which is mutually exclusive with "Black people are and have been marginalized in the US", so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
Thanks for submitting this. This is an interview I did with Jim Blandy a back in may. He was so great at explaining the sort of 'What is Rust for' question as well a just a fun person to talk to.
First the climate came for the coral reefs, and I did not speak up because I am not a marine invertebrate.

Then, the climate came for the rest of the arthropods, and I did not speak up because I only have two legs.

Then, the climate came for the fishes of the sea, and I did not speak up because I do not have gills.

Then, the climate came for the plants, and I did not speak up because I am not a tree.

Then, the climate came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

These are serious warnings the planet is giving us and those in charge are more concerned about their nest egg than their grandchildren's future. Something's gotta give, and so far it's Earth's ecosystems.
Wasn't Sendgrid rejected by Y-Combinator? I guess it can be hard to tell at the early stage.
Do users have the ability to stop updates without repercussions?

Is it really a choice that cannot be overridden by the update?

If X declares war on California, will California shutdown every Tesla in X?

Will I be allowed to export my Tesla in 15 years to whatever developing country I like?
Hopefully uncommon, anyways. Imports with side effects sounds like a nightmare to debug.
I think that misunderstands the purpose of non-rigorous surveys like this one, which after all only included the "125 [out] of the 384 female founders who have participated in YC", because that's who had signed up for the mailing list they used. It's a rough estimate, and probably a lowball one given that their survey mechanism excludes any respondents who chose not to maintain ties with YC for one reason or another.

The purpose of this survey is to jump up and down while waving its arms in the air and yelling "WE HAVE A PROBLEM"!

We have a problem.

We don't know the exact size and scope of the problem, but at a glance it looks like it's probably bad. I would love to see reliable data about precisely how bad, including among many other things gender cross-tabs. But that data doesn't exist because nobody's gone to the substantial effort to properly collect and publish it. Maybe, if we're lucky, this report will help to create the political will to bring some of that data into existence.
Years ago, my family used to drive to our grandparents' village in hot, summer Friday nights.

The windshield ended so pestered with dead bugs that the first task on Saturday morning was to drive the car to the river to clean it. I remember it vividly because it was so fun to wash the car with the cold river water.

Last August I went stargazing with my wife. We chose a secluded area because it was far away from light pollution, a few hours away from the capital.

We watched the Perseids for a couple of hours in the middle of a field. We had no lights on, but being CO2-emitting mammals, no flying insect bothered us. We had anti-mosquito spray ready but we didn't need to use it. There were a few ants but that's it.

Afterwards, I drove an hour and a half at 2am and only a few bugs died on my windshield. I didn't even need to use the wipers the next morning.

I hate mosquitoes as much as everybody else, but something has been happening to insects in the last 20 years. As a human it's comfortable but I'm honestly a bit afraid for the environment. And studies like this don't paint a positive picture.
That's a pretty good summary, yes.
Like that time your pet dog went to live on a farm?
The hardest part is learning how to architect large projects.

The difference between good and great is being able to refactor when you hit a wall, and avoiding the wall entirely by designing things well up front.
Draco: 3D Data Compression
Meanwhile in the finance industry... Excel 2010 only supports TLS 1.0
Awesome work guys!
http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Introduction/Photorealistic...
I am going to read this part when I get home.
You can always just use their native application...
wow, it's great to see a player from the modern era acquiring the bahamut from the past.
The "wildly differs from company to company" hits home hard. It's like organizational schizophrenia and existential crisis had a child that got named "Product Management".
Oh, Dabeaz has so many great talks. He has one of those teaching styles that can contagiously convince even the most Python dismissive person to start learning it.
> For example, in Python you can ask for a specific TLS version

libcurl has the same thing. A really common problem in PHP ecommerce libraries and applications is the misuse of CURLOPT_SSLVERSION to pin a specific protocol version. Then their payments stop working every few years ...
I don't think I've ever worked someplace where the product manager role is fundamentally creative. It's their job to j understand stakeholder concerns and coordinate the team around solutions. But designers are typically doing the creative UX work.
How Sears Was the Amazon of Its Day
Primary difference is that there are plenty of thst in books and movies and paintings and music. I am saying that as someone who likes that stuff and can find plenty of it whenever I am in mood.

Interactivity has nothing to do with it. As much as I like games, they are not that much different. Nihilumbra the game is great and depressive, it can be done just like comedy games could be done or romance games could be done or any other genre could be done.

The only difference is that western game industry moves like herd, everybody doing pretty much the same thing at dame time. It has much less variety then other art forms and is too much winner takes all for companies to be creative.
An internal combustion vehicle burns gasoline or diesel for it's entire life. An EV gets cleaner every year as coal and gas are replaced by renewables. Even today, burning coal and natural gas, an EV is cleaner and more efficient fueled off of those generators than a petrol vehicle.

We'll need enormous amounts of storage to move to intermittent renewables; lucky for us, a million EVs are sold every six months, and that timeframe continues to narrow.
The original forum post this article is about has better info IMO:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/neural-networks.1014...
It's interesting how many hardware and software services are "in the cloud" now. For example Slack monitors the conversations of thousands of businesses, and there's no telling what they do with the data behind the scenes.
"Spam company"
Will my car be taken over and kill me?

Will other people's cars be taken over and kill me?

Will my car be taken over and be used to drive me to someone who will harm me?

These are life or death concerns and let's not act like they're not ignoring this.
You just gave me deja vu.

Your comment brought me back to the year 2000, I’m sitting at my desk waiting for something and trolling f—ckedcompany.com, reading about how the future is CRM and pets.com.
I'd like to see the Survey of YC male founders on sexual harassment to support this claim.
The argument tarboreous put forward, as the parent, is presumably the one under discussion.

The problem is it presents a false dichotomy, or at least a choice which highlights merely a current state and not a move towards future improvements, and uses that blindless to make a case against EVs.

Thing is, even if a country is 100% coal and ICE right now (which is already not the case, China is not 100% coal), moving the fleet to EVs is still a good move. Putting aside an argument as to whether central power generation is 'cleaner' than distributed (ICE) generation, as long as a country also makes moves to renewables in it's centralized power generation, then the two things work in conjunction.

A lot of the current 'omg greenwashing' push-back is people confusing arguments for 'better' solutions with those for 'perfect' solutions. Which don't exist. Better is still worth doing, and paralysis until 'perfect' comes along is a big ol' waste of everyone's time.
Do you understand that if you perceive non-harassment as harassment, you're perceiving it as harassment, so of course you think you're not misperceiving it? Like, you get that reality is sometimes different from your perception of it?

If someone suggests you're misperceiving something and your only reply is "I'm not because I know I'm not," you have an obvious epistemological problem.
We do, for the most part, in our most densely populated areas. It’s just not cost effective elsewhere even taking into account disaster risks and rebuilding costs.

However, there are probably some areas - especially small towns and the dense semi-suburban outer shells of major cities - where we don’t but it might be cost effective.
Your markup/middleman argument pretends that Bitcoin didn't fairly recently have massive fees for transactions - for a while, one's $10/month Pornhub subscription would've cost $40+/month. (Side note: said monthly subscriptions are another challenge here for crypto and porn...)

Cryptocurrency stored on an exchange can be frozen, just like one's PayPal balance can be. Wikileaks takes PayPal (and credit card, bank transfer, checks, etc.) donations currently on their site.
> Also, someone may argue that women who were actually harassed are probably more involved in these matters, and hence more likely to respond to such surveys.

You may argue this, but I wouldn’t say it’s a given. For one thing, especially at the higher end of the scale (“unwanted sexual contact”, or hypothetically even rape), people who have had traumatic experiences may have a strong desire to avoid recalling them – especially for something as (relatively) unimportant as a survey – potentially producing the opposite effect.
> I doubt UA would follow through considering it is illegal to submit known false debts.

I wonder if they've snuck in a mandatory binding arbitration clause into their contract, and if that would cover disputes about false debts. Even if the false debts were totally illegal, arbitration could make it impractical to challenge them.
> will not have any GPL'd code in the base OS, as it's not truly free

That's a disingenuous way to put it. The GPL is a free software license. It is "free" as in libre by all common definitions of "free" in regards to software.

The GPL is not compatible with the BSD dev's preferred license, which is much more likely the reason they avoid using such code.

By all conventional definitions, the BSD and GPL licenses are "truly free [software licenses]."

You're welcome to argue that the BSD license is better (because, for example, it lets sony create derivative playstation OSs without providing that source code to their users, ensuring their users have less freedom than if it were linux) or that the GPL is better (because it would prevent the previous), but they're both free licenses.
Is there a modern/past player here? Both companies were founded within a year - 2008 and 2009
There is something of a moat in that brand new services will end up in the spam box. All of the services you mention did a lot of trial and error to see how many parallel connections they could make to big email domains, dealing with spam-marked ip addresses, etc.

Perhaps not a huge moat, but there is some secret sauce.
The article says:

> One of the big benefits of RISC-V is that the architecture is open source.

To which I reply:

...Yeah, until Intel / AMD / Qualcomm / WhatHaveYou Corp.™ say that the implementation below is proprietary and must be defended with a copyright law. And probably compilers for Intel RISC-V CPU and AMD RISC-V CPU will be different because of a vastly different microcode. :(

I want to believe in RISC-V but I am afraid the current incumbents will find a way to capitalize on the idea without showing any goodwill or actually working together... in just a few short months. Never underestimate a team of expert lawyers and marketers I guess.

And I really wish that I am wrong. I will follow any RISC-V news eagerly.
I agree, and have always thought that most online communities have baked-in expiration dates based on what I think of as asshole entropy. Over time, such platforms will always tend towards more assholes, as asshole behavior triggers more asshole behavior, and drives away non-assholes. The only question is how long does it take to reach that point.

Another way to look at it is, good comments are capable of inspiring more good comments, but low-quality comments always seem to lead to more low-quality comments. So comment quality in general is also subject to entropy in most forums and social networks that I've seen.

Some combination of moderation and lacking appeal to general audiences allows specialized forums like HN to reach a steady state, with probably more assholes than desired and fewer good comments than desired, but at least it's not continually hurtling towards collapse.
The word "just" implies that getting enterprise clients is easy. If they're established (i.e. old) enough and their support is good enough to justify the price point and support substantial enterprise revenue, that's a fine differentiator.
Ah the new paper from Hawkins et al.

Thanks, OP this will be Sunday morning reading at its finest.

The ideas from his 2007 book have stuck with me and it will be very interesting to see where the state of their art is.
Tesla absolutely launched their over-the-air capabilities without sufficient planning. If you look at the early Keen Labs presentations[0] it's insane that it was launched the way it was. At least they added code signing later...

[0] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Nie-Free-...
Anyway, you see in their app Amazon and Paperspace, the prices are not decided by them. I'm not saying it's cheap, but paperspace it's the cheapest I've seen for cloud gaming.

Anyway, my use of parsec is my home computer, so I don't really have the difficulties you're facing.
The /proc interface tells you what the process is doing in the kernel (eg, after a system call), which is orthogonal to getting a user-space stack trace. Both are helpful. The userspace trace is arguably more helpful. The nice thing about the kernel trace is that you're likely to have symbols (or be able to download them); that is unlikely to be true for userspace if you're running a commercial binary, for example.
Why does this even exist? Why won't they just sell A-to-B tickets always cheaper than A-to-B-to-C?
> However, this seems like a particularly shortsighted form of gatekeeping because it also cuts off a pipeline for young and inexperienced people to get into game design and programming. Riot and Blizzard have hired many of the Warcraft3 modders as full-time employees, but where will the next wave come from?

Is this even a problem? Are there game developer shortages?
Wow, this is a big deal! Great move by Twilio, bringing together the premier SaaS SMS provider and the premier SaaS transactional email provider under one roof.

It's only too bad that SendGrid has struggled to get its marketing email solution off the ground in a meaningful way. If anyone was going to eat MailChimp's lunch, SendGrid would be my choice as top contender. And yet despite SendGrid releasing many iterations of their marketing email solution over the past 5 years they've never seemed to get a lot of success outside of their bread-and-butter transactional email vertical. Their marketing solution brings in less than 20% of total revenue last I heard.
> The speed with which her entire career and body of work was tossed in the garbage really makes me think that it isn't possible.

Are you saying it shouldn't have been thrown in the garbage? I don't pay much attention to the entertainment world, including that incident, but I just lookup up the tweet that triggered the whole thing. I can't think of any context in which I would have any desire to show any support at all for a person who would tweet such a thing. If you feel differently, could you expand a bit on why?
A concealed, sauce-filled moat? Yum.
Walmart patents a shopping cart that can track heart rates
There’s a thriving black market for selfies with passports
Right, and Dropbox is just a feature.
There are still very large oil fields up north, but they are a bit too expensive to extract right now. If gas prices go up enough then they can start getting oil from there.
Thank you for the clarification, I am not a native English speaker as you can probably tell. :) The gender-neutral form I was talking about is the way unknown people are sometimes being referred to: "user should click on the button so she can access the hidden page".

I found GGP's comment an expression of surprise, though it does sound a bit blunt - but given the international audience of HN I try not to judge posters too harshly.
A ‘Sugar Date’ Gone Sour
But who would want to buy a car that was made in a tent?
It depends how you look at it. Once you've booked your ticket, United is better off if you don't take the last leg of the flight than if you do. Prior to booking, they would of course prefer you book the more expensive ticket. Forcing you to take the last leg is about encouraging you to book that more expensive ticket; it's not because they actually lost something when you chose to skip the final leg of the journey rather than take it.
Stop penalising stories based on the behaviour of users in the comments. If users can't be trusted to discuss something, disable comments on the story instead. This site isn't purely a mechanism for enabling discussion - it's also one of the primary ways that members of the tech community can become aware of issues, and algorithms that prevent sensitive topics from being visible because they always trigger pointless arguments in the comments don't provide benefit.
Clock speeds are not and have not been the limiting factor in social impacts of computing since the 90s.

The limiting factor is software architectures, and organizational architectures, which are extremely primitive.

Consider the basic notion of contractors fulfilling simple tasks, a la Lyft/Uber. That has only been around for a few years and we can only do it for the simplest and most unambiguously evaluable tasks like “drive to here and then here”.

Also consider that the absolute simplest programming tasks, like “make a parameterless function that calls several other parameterless functions”. This is a task any literate person could do and yet it’s technically out of reach of 99% of computer users. Not because of clock speeds, but because we don’t understand software architectures or human tool use well enough to design it.

Those technologies will someday be widely available across a broad range of industries to all levels of employees. But we are not close to that time. There is an incredible amount of basic research required to accomplish it.

And an utterly trivial amount of CPU resources.
LOL Then we could no longer pretend that Facebook doesn't still exist because of e-stalking unrequited loves and exes.
Yeah, cloudflare sees a lot of backend systems too (servers); whereas Google probably gets more from (and is reporting on) devices attached to humans.
$2b is definitely a "doesn't have a great moat but has a great business" valuation.
Even if that were the case, it's still an efficiency improvement.

Large turbine power plants + electric motors with regenerative braking is still about twice as efficient well-to-wheel as gas powered cars.

https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/wells-to-whee...
> Nah, this isn't a legal debt that they can forward to a collection agency, as pointed out in the article.

My understanding is that many collection agencies aren't very scrupulous about they debts they try to collect. Many of them are false, already paid, or lacking necessary documentation.
As a sibling comment pointed out... better than I could there's perception bias in thinking that just because something outwardly looks similar, that changing it hasn't been just as hard or harder than initially getting to that point from earlier technology that looked quite different.

Sure, I think in general once the form and use of a given product or technology is set, much more labor is going to be invested in perfecting and polishing it than was originally invested in creating it.

This is entirely logical - once X is perfected, we know X is going to sell (or be used) so money spent making the most desirable version of X is well-spent. Whereas if X is still in flux and you spend a lot of time and labor on small changes to X, you might find out some other version of X appears, making your investment nil.

Here, there's also the factor that the perfection and polishing of a given technology can mean that it stands in the way of changes that would otherwise improve things. And network effect increases this effect as well.

Edit: and remember, all this is talking about why revolutionary changes to products and technologies stop.
I just skimmed the paper and there are literally 0 (zero) equations in there, is this normal for these kinds of papers?