skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You live there. You're allowed to remove items from your own porch. I think the scenarios would be:

1) Cops show up and and say, "Hey, that was a bait package. Can we get it back?"

2) Same as 1), plus USPS/FedEx/UPS would be unable to locate the tracking number.

3) Cops pull you over, thinking you're a porch pirate. You tell them where you live, and they regret the error, and ask for their bait package back.

(But these scenarios probably wouldn't happen in the first place. I assume that the chosen bait locations were done with the knowledge of the residents.)
My sample size of 1 says the opposite. I was driving from Greensboro to that hometown of Lowes. I think ~3 hour drive, speed limit is 70, in the middle of nowhere. I'm doing 75 on cruise. Guy pull behind me on the road empty as far as the eye can see. Rides my bumper for 10 minutes. The lights go on, speeding ticket. Feel free to fly out here again and go to court. The ticket for 5mph over the highway limit? $350. I spend a thousand to get a big time attorney out there, took it to court, got it dismissed. Just to prove a point.

How many stories out there have you read about this happening to people - small town, passing through, and they rape you on made up bs because it's hard for you to come back and go to court. How about all those small towns in the news where they steal all the cash out of your car?

Small town cops are not bad people - to the small town in which they live. Saying they are not bad people in general is opposite of the truth. It's like saying the nazis were great people because they were good to other nazis.
They've always had firmware updates for PCs and I'd rather have an industry wide open source solution that individual OEMs. Just recently Lenovo messed up flashing a TB chip firmware and bricked several high end notebooks.
I think if you want to be the best, you've got to train with the best. Success has a positive feedback loop.
Better version:
http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/5834170785f26b37002af46d

And from the other side of the river:
http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/57ecedae64b1bf2050ab00c1
I'm curious how this affects the NIMBY fights about antennas. Some of those fights are about aesthetics of the antennas, but some of the concern is around the radiation, which is not a finished debate. Mobile phone signals have been designated as possibly a cause of cancer by the WHO if I recall correctly. It hasn't been possible to rule out that mobile phones do not cause harm, which is something I was surprised to learn. I thought it was a settled debate that mobile phones were safe.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
Didn’t think Facebook could get any worse? Think again
The biggest complaint of public systems is wait times for services. If the rich can jump ahead and get treatment ahead of the poor then congratulations you've built a system that enables the rich to pay for life saving operation, while the poor do not. Right wing parties then spend their time in power weakening the public system so those wait times increase or quality of service lessons.

Another way of looking at it is we don't have private firehalls. I'd argue healthcare is the same.

Interestingly we are moving towards having private security forces, enabling some to be more safe than others. I don't agree with that either. So, maybe it's a philosophical difference, I feel strongly that for basic rights (e.g. health, safety) we should all be treated equal, and money should not grant me special treatment.
It looks like the firmware in surface devices is based off of this.
Well that's my point - however they're doing the targeting is so good as to be creepy and so I wish there was a way for me to force them to show me why I'm seeing a particular ad.
To be fair, to understand the subtlety of hacker news you have to have a high IQ and at least three ML papers.
This has the issue that you have to add this to your Workflow and nice wrappers have to be put on all workstations.

A mirroring setup like provided in GitLab (see sibling post) takes that burden away.
It's still abuse. Threatening your child's life is very much not okay under any circumstances.
Seems like a poorly designed incentive on Amazon's part is enough to establish reasonable doubt. You get what you measure.
Logically, no. But most of humanity would not treat them equivalently. I'm sure Tversky or Kahneman have done something on this topic.
There are non-doomsday possibilities for AGI. Imagine a super-intelligent AI that was built from the start to value humanity and our way of life, and from there it chooses to protect us and enable us all to do what we want more. (Of course, this could go in dystopian directions, but even those are better than extinction.) A super-intelligent AI that is built to value humans could decide to "uplift" humans' intelligence to be able to keep up with it in places that humans desire to keep up with it.

If we can figure out decision theory and how our values work, then when we figure out AI, we can hopefully build it to be aligned with our values from the start, instead of blindly hoping it happens to play nice with us instead of brushing us off like ants.
Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings halt flights
Fair criticisms! It's true if we'd used Mongo Atlas or something similar it would likely have been a different story - often the MongoDB support spent half the time on the phone trying to work out what version of mongo, opsmanager etc. we were running.

Re criticism of OpsManager - I think this is fair, given the sheer number of hoops we had to jump through to get a functioning OpsManager system running in AWS - no provided cloudformation, AMIs etc. £40,000 a year felt like a lot for a system that took 2 or more weeks of dev time to install/upgrade. The authentication schema thing was a bit of a pain as well, though we were going from a very nearly EOL version of Mongo (2.4 I think).
You could have informed consent of some of the occupants and not all e.g. tenants, roommates. I also assume they have informed consent, but there was no explicit mention of this consent in the article.
It's one thing to understand right from wrong. It's another thing entirely to expect a 22-year old, struggling to get on their feet, to look their boss or a VP in the eye and say "this is not ethical." You're asking them to risk everything: their job, their income, their reputation when they've only just begun.

That's a big ask even for someone who has taken hundreds of ethics courses.
Yes, I've found I use StackOverflow sites mostly now rather than blogging things.
Only now!!! Where have you been?
In addition to making the request difficult for systems like git, if inconvenienced storage formats are exempt then this could easily be a loophole to circumvent the GDPR entirely. Facefriend, Instatwit, etc could, e.g., store all user data in something like git (your messages are committed using your name, etc) and point to this convoluted system as an excuse to not comply.
What's a "DeepFocus enabled headset"? Presumably eye/focus tracking?
To add to the pile of responses: in Scala, Slick is great library that lets you compose sql queries and fragments of queries quite effectively. (http://slick.lightbend.com/)

At my company we built a UI on top of Slick that lets users of our web app define complex triggers based on dynamic fields and conditions which are translated to type-safe SQL queries.
I didn't know these either and they seem like bolted on instead of properly integrated. Excel should overload the same operators to be able to write =A1A2 for example. But that being said it seems clumsy but workable. It does have a full set of math functions. For your example you can just do =improduct(A1,2) and it works. And that's just a slightly less convenient way of writing =A12. Certainly much better than having two cells per number?
> dozens of comparable offerings exists at low or no cost that can take over subsets of the functionality in people's lives.

This is exactly what the study is designed to measure. If this was indeed true, exactly how much money are users's willing to pay to keep Facebook even when they have other free alternatives available? If that amount is greater than zero that tells you that Facebook is valuable to those people beyond the cost they are currently paying for it.
That was a TSA thing -- they were TSA officers. Las Vegas. And I didn't get approached -- I wasn't lined up, as described.
Copyright length has been increased several times over the past century, so before any copyrights can expire, they get extended. "Oddly enough", each time, the extensions "coincidentally" tend to happen right before the Mickey Mouse copyright expires.
In the "Introducing Project Mu" blog post it says "The Microsoft Devices Team is excited to announce Project Mu, the open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core leveraged by Microsoft products including both Surface and the latest releases of Hyper-V."

And I saw in one of the tickets for Virtualbox [1] that:

You go VM-entry, execute guest, VM-exit. Cooperatively. Unfortunately MS launches Hyper-V at boot time as a service and keeps a hold of the VT-x, regardless of use or not

and

This is a problem with Hyper-V being too aggressive and not releasing VT-x once it's got a hold of it. VMWare and VirtualBox for example can not only coexist, but they can run concurrently. Not so with Hyper-V.

So does that mean that we can finally have virtualbox/vmware when hyper-v is enabled but not in use, or do they have to open up more in order to get this fixed?

I am afraid that may be the case as the only thing I saw in my first quick glance was VTd(directed io) code[2] and in a quick glance in other repositories I saw VMCALL but I haven't found VMXON yet, so maybe it is a step in the right direction.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16801

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/mu_silicon_intel_tiano/tree/rel...
That's the big takeaway here, in my opinion. Regardless of the fault with MailChimp (and I do think they're at fault here), you should never rely on a free service if it's mission critical to your business and there should never be a single point of failure like this. If this really was as critical as OP claims it is, then they should have taken more care to ensure that this wasn't even possible.
How does this fit with https://www.hanahaus.com which already exists?

(note: I've never used Hana though I walked through the one in Palo Alto just out of curiosity, and it simply looked like a random co working space).
This seems unrelated to foveated rendering unless I'm missing something. Foveated rendering reduces the complexity of rendering in areas outside what the fovea is looking at, because they are blurry to us anyway. This adds blur to out-of-focus objects; but it seems obvious that in order to appreciate the effect you'd have to be looking at them via your fovea.
I hope that no one identifies with those machines so much that they can't take valid criticism of what that thing leads to. Sure incorporating of objects into ones self image is common, but I do not think we can solve it by tip toeing around the issue. Yes you are affecting the climate and your local environment by all your actions, quite a lot and this particular thing is horrible.
The article is very well written. Their team do leverage great tooling for thing such as Gor. I love Gor. I used it + Mongo OpsLog when migrate from AWS -> DigitalOcean and eventually have to migrate back to AWS because DigitalOcean cannot deliver good performance as AWS and they throtle CPU(lots of steal CPU).

OpsManager is great for team that don't have dedicated devops I think and have great dashboard/visualization.

However, run your own MongoDB is very easy. Not like Postgres(unless you used RDS). However, when using RDS, you still have downtime when upgrading db, it still have a small amount of time the standby in MultiAZ is promoted to master, DNS is updated, and during that yourcurrent primary is not writeable or even not available. MongoDB is way easier to operator. You add/delete/node on fly and client auto discover network topology. Plus https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/production-no... this links give great info to tune it: thing like run on XFS, mount with notatime options...puts opslog on high iops volume etc...

Peformance isn't a factor to pick your database much nowsaday. They looks great on the benchmark. However, try for yourself before pick one on your workload. Postgres does has its own ward.

Pick a database based on how well your team confident with it, how does the database help you move fast enough or deliver business value. Don't follow the hype or silly benchmark.
First step is to publish the numbers so we can see if they make sense.
Edward Tufte will set you straight.

The first rule of objective graphs is always show the origin at 0. As an informed graph consumer, if the origin is not 0 you should immediately distrust your eyes, and question the motives of the person showing you the data. The relative sizes are being distorted. Why?

In this case, there's a 15% difference in Y values in your data that on the graph is presented as two lines that are separated from each other by 33%. Just by removing 0 and 1 from the chart.

On the other hand, that effect is diluted a bit by what you've done on the X axis. Log scale tells a story about trends. The relative slope of two lines on log scale says something. The distance between them doesn't mean much, if anything, although the brain can't help trying to make it mean something.

I believe you will find that a great deal of what you lose by plotting y = 0 you'll gain back by plotting x on a linear scale. Those lines deserve to be much farther apart.
Why would a building owner disagree so staunchly with a leasee subletting to smaller offices? Can you fill me in on their motivation?
Learning: don't try to go completely vertical because it increases the number of people who are threatened by you.
Contaminated hospital bed sheets might be a source of infections among patients
Heroin is valuable, however.
Sonny Bono happened.
First case, that's the point. Nobody would use it so everybody would move onto something else.

Second case, being the only one out (i.e. the black sheep) means you might consider paying for it to not stand out.
It's about the same price, except you're totally covered and it includes your pension. Oh and you don't even see the money, it's paid by your employer directly.
>Classic tube guitar amps got a lot of their tone from the phase splitter, power amp tubes, and power amp transformers.

100% this. A tube gain stage in isolation isn't especially difficult to imitate using solid-state electronics or DSP, but sounds nothing like a tube amp.

>Utility for guitar amps would be for "hybrid" amps with a tube preamp and tone circuit feeding a solid-state power amp.

The Vox MV50 amps make a decent attempt at this, pairing a Nutube with a class D power stage. It's tiny, it's reasonably loud and it sounds pretty good.

I suspect the lack of interest from other manufacturers is mainly due to cost; for the price of a single Nutube module, you could add a decent DSP chip and gain a whole bunch of extra functionality. An ornamental 12AX7 and an orange LED has better showroom appeal and costs significantly less. Purists will still want real tubes and real transformers, budget-oriented players will want an amp with all the DSP bells and whistles, leaving the Nutube caught in an uncomfortably narrow niche.
I think I would be better off selling small things like books and training courses to be honest. Assuming I could get several hundred a month it would cover my expenses long enough till I could ramp that up.
Ah. In that case, the wording is just really weird.
Really the lesson is to use constrained API tokens, going so far as to make single-purpose users as necessary.
You might want to check out ASP.NET Boilerplate
https://aspnetboilerplate.com/
It varies greatly depending on where you live. Where I live, an Amazon package was stolen once six months ago and it literally made front-page news in the local newspaper. People don't lock their houses, they leave their keys in the car. Most of the time, nothing comes of it.

Most of the country is somewhere between here and "thief follows UPS truck and steals all unattended packages," but there's lots of places where leaving packages unattended makes good economic sense.
WebAssembly vs. ES6 – benchmark battle
It seems like HNers are quite willing to believe that Amazon factually has the "We'll pay a non-employee contractor a bonus to move without authorization onto private property to take a package they don't have any documentation for and reintroduce it into our logistics system at some arbitrary point in the future" policy.

This... is an unlikely policy for Amazon to have.
“Drivers... want to keep the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive.” “If drivers were classified as workers they would inevitably lose some of the freedom and flexibility that comes with being their own boss."

Lol. These companies are still pushing this blatantly false propaganda that you can “make $25+ an hour” and that you’re free to just pop in and out if the system whenever you want to achieve that. Here’s the reality - you’re only going to make that kind of money on a few select hours. Namely - late nights, early mornings, and weekends (again mostly nights). The reality is most hours of the week you may be looking at making <$15 an hour, and that’s before you consider wear and tear, gas, extra insurance, tickets (given enough time you will get fined doing this kind of work one way or another), and all the other little costs that come up (bring tissues and water bottles and candy for your passengers!).

There’s virtually no freedom in this unless you’re literally just trying to make beer money for a night and work for 2-3 hours a week. If you depend on this for consistent work (read: not a career, but a full time fill in between jobs) - you’re going to be raked over the coals. You don’t get a choice in when or where you work. Hell you don’t even really have the choice to decline rides unless you’re willing to drive all the way to a person (up to 15 mins away), THEN the app tells you where you’re headed, and at that point you probably have a person standing there looking at you. You can drive away and cancel, but these companies know that the empathetic nature of most people makes that extremely painful. Plus you’ve wasted your time and gas (unpaid) getting here, so you’re paying for this “freedom”. You can’t set boundaries for where you work - you might end up hours from home and again, you now have to subsidize the cost of getting home again.

So basically every claim these companies make about the value they give to their workers is bullshit. You don’t control “if” you drive, any more than you control “if” you eat. You don’t control where you drive... pretty much at all. And you don’t control “when” you drive unless you’re willing to work below minimum wage. I would love if these assholes get buried and have to pay back all the drivers historically for the wages they deserve and give compensation for the psychological manipulation they’ve orchestrated. I can’t believe that in 2018 we still permit these shenanigans that systemically restructure themselves to squeeze through clearly illegal employment methods that would be handled in any other industry.
What Happened to the ArtStation Android App?
Because forcing everyone to drive someplace to pick up a package is extremely annoying to customers who have a reasonably-secure location to leave packages.
Are these proper manhole covers? I mean the big heavy metal type that can support vehicle traffic? The one in the picture seems the type for covering access to a "manhole" but not one under a street. I do have to wonder whether the local cell will drop out every time a huge metal object, a bus, rolls over the cover.

>>It eliminates traffic disruptions from street construction, and there are no antennas awkwardly placed on buildings, marring the appearance of a neighborhood.

Said by someone who has never attempted to install anything inside a manhole. They will need to close the streets. You cannot just creep through the sewers installing stuff without disrupting the traffic above. Workers are not moles. They will need to run new lines. And in modern cities, the type without the huge walk-in storm sewers of NY/London/Paris/SF, there will still be digging.

With many innovations these days it is hard to determine feasibility from initial articles/claims. Lots of inventions seem to exist only to get grant money, with no hope of practicality (solar roads, solar windows). If these are lightweight manhole covers that cannot support traffic (ie just an antenna mounted atop an aluminum cover) then I'll chalk it up alongside those sidewalk tiles that generate electricity from pedestrians: might work, but will never be practical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Roadways
https://www.6sqft.com/pavegen-opens-worlds-first-smart-stree...
I am a bit lost here. Is the UEFI boot same concept as Linux UEFI boot? How will it elvove and help Linux in the future?
AFAIK, there have been several legislation changes (often at the behest of Disney) to extend copyright protection length. It was often done retroactively through several years of content. So many years of material were extended through this specific year instead of works expiring for a particular limit for work (e.g. 75 years).
Maybe Mickey is not popular anymore, and Disney is moving on to newer IPs.
We should start having a plastic tax per gram of plastic, and based on the type of plastic (how easy it can be recycled). Maybe if these products became really expensive and people bought less of them, companies will find other methods. I'm very, very sick and tired of the over use of plastic in our society. Plastic does play a useful role in our lives, but I don't think every product we buy needs to be in that thick clear plastic that is very hard to open without cutting the hell out of your hand. Companies claim this is a theft deterrent, and it might be, but I think we can do better than the over use of all of this plastic. It's just everywhere now, including your body.

Or, instead of a tax, a deposit which you get some or all of it back when you recycle it like we do with aluminum cans. Plastic is only about 100 years old, and look what we've done. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch...

Edit: removed erroneous editorialized comment
Ruby 2.6 JIT – Progress and Future
These features were removed in 2015.
could it not be seen as an advantage? in reflection we have fourth power, but in obstruction its inverse square of the distant (group of) stars?
Saying you know when you don't is a lie. Instructing people to say they know when they don't is instructing them to lie on your behalf.

The answer should be: "I can't know." Followed by one of: (1) Let me connect you to someone who can know (2) Let me tell you how much it costs to find out (or 3) Also we don't care.

That would be honest. Not saying it's easy.