skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the future could be radically different from what we see now, depending on technological advances. 'Phones' with 'Apps' is one thing, but a genuinely smart system which could have tendrils into your phone, your watch, in your robot helper, or just being aware of what you do around the house and have a voice would be a game changer for old people and certainly I would expect things to go that way in the next 30 years.

I saw a film a few years ago, 'Robot and Frank' which was set in the near future where such systems were becoming available. Frank would have perhaps been 40-50 now and while he had used technology he was not comfortable with the robot his son got him. At least this film educated my partner about the possibilities of such systems and/or software without being too fantastical (Robot is a little clunky, compared to Ava from Ex Machina)
nom is neat, but wouldn't pest be closer to P6 grammars https://crates.io/crates/pest
For Scotland, the maps are pretty good (much better than Google Maps here). I was quite surprised.
Have you seen the Swiss Micros calculators? https://www.swissmicros.com/index.php
If you enjoyed that, the developer, David Li has a lot of other great projects: http://david.li/
You don't think I might have mentioned it if he was?

He says that people who are loyal, hardworking, and not too bright are best suited to being slaves, and it stands to reason that some races are more inclined towards those traits than others, and that probably includes Africans.
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Using race as a proxy for suspicion would probably scale just fine, however, there are other reasons it is unlikely to work in the US.
> From the definition of "Ideology", epistemology is specifically excluded

Considering there are epistemologic ideologies, I'm not sure how you can claim this.

For example, in the West (and now common throughout the world, since most of the world has adopted Western epistemology, whether they admit it or not), we believe in the scientific method -- that if we can observe, measure, and replicate an experiment, we have established 'empirical truth'. The idea that such a process can establish universal truth (rather than simply be individual measurements of how the universe acted at a certain point in time) is based on the Abrahamic notion of an unchanging God. It is certainly an ideology in and of itself. It may be a useful ideology, but claiming that it is not an ideology is just dishonest.
The sane thing about it is that it keeps the rule system simpler.
Yes, I was talking about the guards.
The Model 3 is the best selling luxury car in the US. Outselling tons of SUVs, in a US auto climate where the biggest automakers are ditching cars altogether in favor of SUVs.

I'd say that counts as "economically realistic", even if it doesn't meet your further-back goalpost of "best bang for the buck". If the Model 3 isn't economically realistic, someone should tell that to Audi and BMW and Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/teslas-model-3-was-2018s-bes...
We used to have them every few feet when I was a kid (enough that any given night we could catch a few in a jar, observe, then release), but some nights I see maybe one or two in an entire night. My kids don't know the joy of playing with lightning bugs that I knew :(
Unfortunately I work remotely. I think my wife would suspect it was me ;)
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I live in Europe and only use Apple Maps. It is good enough. Sometimes POI are missing, that’s when I use Google Maps (Browser only)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909650
One thing I notice is that there is no way to restrict search to the map area, or to refine by "Search this Area."
Rebuttals of the "Oh yeah? Well, what world changing things have YOU done?" variety are common if someone brings up anything remotely negative about Tesla.
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It's regional.

For a long time (in internet time), Apple Maps were clearly inferior to Google Maps.

These days, it's more nuanced. In some geographies they have parity. In a select few, Apple is ahead. For most, though, Google is better.

For speed and privacy reasons, I check Apple Maps first. If I don't find what I'm looking for, then I go to Google Maps and follow up by force-quitting Google Maps when I'm done.
By "generics", I presume they mean template parameters which are checked at declaration, not at use.
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What‘s your country? Using Apple Maps all the time in Germany and found it to be actually better than Google Maps (though with a tendency to reroute around traffic more often than Google Maps used to do).
This is much more geared towards privacy then security. From a security standpoint there is nothing wrong with using google search or email, but it is obviously not very private. I suppose it also depends some on your threat level. For someone committing crimes, is much more worried about law enforcement, tor or similar is a good idea. For someone trying to avoid hackers it doesn't get you very far.
>It's easy to make your car better when you can charge vastly more and you've got tons of VC money you can blow through in pursuit of some distant goal. Established car companies have no such luxury.

Isn't that called "disruption" and is the entire reason Silicon Valley exists?
Anecdotally I prefer helping my grandma's generation (she's 80) than my peers and younger (35).

My grandma knows she doesn't know anything. She won't do anything she's unsure of, won't click any link or button without getting my advice first, won't install stupid shit because she doesn't know how and even if she did she's not confident enough to do it on her own.

The worst that she could ever do is fatfinger something with her crummy arthritis fingers and I have to take a 15 minute drive to her place and spend another 15 minutes fixing it.

People that are my age or younger though? They'll click anything on Facebook and share their information everywhere, will download anything and install it without second thoughts. Their devices are the digital equivalent to Typhoid Mary. Since they think they know stuff, they'll click through dozens of links and dialog popups so even getting them to answer the question "So what did you do?" is a monumental ask, much less fixing the issues they've caused.
Since a few years ago, I stopped using pesticides and herbicides altogether and just let my weeds grow where they like. I live in the Bay Area and once spring comes along my lawn and the sides along my footpaths bloom with clover flowers, dandelions, and other flowers that I don't know. Bees love them and it honestly looks great. I did notice some nightshade plants come up around my back yard, but my pets seem to know instinctively to avoid them, so I'm not taking them down. I recommend it to anyone who is not forced by their neighborhood association or landlord to kill them.
Europe is however more likely than the US is to get bad quickly. It became a bad place to live for example from 1914 through 1918 and then again from 1939 through 1945 with, e.g., shortages of food and other life essentials while the US remained OK unless you were in the small fraction of the population that got drafted into the US military (and even then you would not have endured food shortages).

Although the creation of the EU was motivated in large part to prevent the recurrence of that sort of badness, the EU does not have the power to restrain the militaries of the individual European countries. Note that the EU was shown not to have the power to compel the Italian government that came to power because of the general election of March 2018 to adhere to EU regulations on deficit spending.
DuckDuckGo debuts map search results using Apple Maps
This is so sad to hear. I lived in Pacific Grove as a child about 18 years ago. The monarchs would cover trees and entire yards, turning them bright orange. It was the closest thing that we had to seasons. To be 27 and realizing that this natural wonder could already be a thing of the past is heartbreaking.
Oh thanks, California. Now I have to rewrite the setting of my time travelling novel because there's no more butterflies.
Except for the fact we are, in decades, affecting climate in a way that took several millennia previously and we've contaminated the water and air with not only microplastics but all sorts of outright toxic compounds.

Then of course we are making species go extinct 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate because we are contaminating ecosystems, clear-cutting ecosystems and causing ecosystems to collapse by directly influencing climate making it impossible for parts of those ecosystems to survive.

Life is already orders of magnitude 'tougher than the past'.
Or for other countries to start enforcing these same policies on US travelers.

US citizens don't realize this is a problem because it doesn't affect them, so they don't try to change it.

Get the entire EU to treat us as crappy as we treat them and there will be pressure to change it. I say all of this as a US citizen who travels abroad somewhat regularly.
More stressful than having colleagues whose power has corrupted them and knowing that nobody will believe you (or worse, that you'll be the target of reprisal) if you report them?

I think that taking the reporting part of police abuse out of the hands of police (ie, by ensuring that bodycams are a secondary viewport, while overhead observation by ordinary, independent persons is primary) will make the job less stressful, not more.
Human beings have become destructive apex predators. In nature, apex predators.. even though they are keystone species...have an impact on prey density and regulation of the eco system. They do not destroy the very system that sustains them.

Human beings are not supposed to be apex predators but we have taken over that role without embracing the intricacies of the responsibilities involved with it.
Salt is not toxic in all respects - salt lakes and rock formations have been natural environments in themselves, which have been present and integrated with more common ecosystems throughout natural history.

The challenge is how to understand and work with natural ecosystems well enough to not burden them with salt concentrations that harm them, and perhaps even to fit and enrich them.
I can see the US perspective with concerns after 2001. It is hard to have to be scritinized, but it is a new reality.

Nothing wrong if you are a foreigner avoiding it. I don't think the anti US crowd is productive here, because they still will have to keep the measures in place.
I'd argue for it. Apple is missing a search engine, has deep-enough pockets and resources to build its own engine if DDG API contracts were stopped, and is favored by people who value their privacy.
Have you seen software work well when developed like that? If so, what kind of software, in what kind of an organization and other context?
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You can only accumulate and save so much non-productive stuff. You can have a granary with several years' worth of seed. You can have an oil reserve. But you don't want to have a factory sitting unused (it rots, it depreciates). You don't want cash burning a hole in your pocket -- you want to reinvest this (yes, into raising production, but you'll need demand to increase to, otherwise... see below). And you're not going to build an ever-larger {grain, oil, cash, whatever} reserve.

Capital creation isn't like having a grain reserve in case of drought. In a steady state you don't want to be producing much more than is consumed, not for long -- you should be producing just enough more than consumption, on average, to allow for some waste.

Of course, the context is global. You can produce much more than you consume locally, if you export, but globally, producing more than is consumed for long is just another way of wasting resources. You can always try to stoke demand if you built too much production capacity, or if you want to build more production capacity, naturally, and you can produce more than is consumed while you're doing this. But in the long run you shouldn't produce much more than is demanded.
The difference here is that the DAO was openly asserting the claim that it would surpass the need for lawyers and the legal system. That software-enforced contracts were all you needed.

Traditional software makes no such claim.
The issue with smart contracts is that the people behind the idea don't seem to understand that the issue with traditional contracts does not lie in the parts that a clearly defined, but in those that are not. These are the parts where the legal system comes into play in order to reach a decision on grey areas like that.

The other problem is the obvious issue that smart contracts make the implicit assumption that we are able to write bug-free code. Evidently, that is not the case.

There clearly needs to be some sort of mechanism to sort out issues that may arise from this. But in practice Ethereum has replaced an imperfect but robust mechanism in the form of the legal system with one guy, who is accountable to no one, making discretionary decisions with no guidelines to bind him.
Sounds good in theory. Now, say I want to use github over ssh, how do I check if the randomart image is correct? (Getting my configs from github tends to be the first thing I do on a new machine.)

The CA approach is probably good if you control the servers you use. Right now I connect to about 5-7 ssh servers on a regular basis, and I don't have (full) control over any one of them.
What about molten sodium energy storage?
Alternative: in countries where Apple maps suck, try Here maps: great UI and offline maps.
The article's title is actually "New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy".

Summary of a key result: "In one set of experiments, for instance, we showed that our system could shrink a neural network by 90 percent while reducing its accuracy by less than 1%. At the same compression rate, the best prior method reduced the accuracy by about 3.5%."

Link to the 2019 AAAI paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00641.pdf
Brilliant - combine this with Russia economically benefiting from climate change - emerging artic shipping routes / oil drilling opportunities from ice melting[0] - and people wonder why climate change cynicism is on the rise.

[0] https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-to-reap-benefits-...
> Would you say that that employee should receive the same amount of tolerance and sensitivity as the one who was afraid of flying?

It depends on how much I think about it and who is asking. If anybody who isn't academically interested is asking: Of course not, how dare you even present this idea!
Otherwise, starting from the lack of free will, why are we judging them differently, and aren't we claiming that one made a conscious choice to not talk to gay people while the other didn't make a conscious choice to not fly? I'm with you that norms and traditions provide a clear answer, one that I'd most likely give as well intuitively. (And I'd be very surprised if you couldn't treat both with similar methods; neither is treated by firing her.)
Take any given server.
Log the IPs of invalid SSH attempts to access the machine over 3 months.
Plot the IPs on a geolocation.

Chinese originating IPs are the overwhelming number.

I posted my actual data years ago as a response to some comment, but I could just grab my recent logs and nothing has changed much (frequency, outliers, and some volume trading).

While the phrasing may be obtuse, it's a sentiment reflecting reality.
I had the AC Pro in my home, and had just bought an AC HD to upgrade it. So I had a "spare" AC Pro just laying around, as you do when you computer for a living.
It's pretty regional. It's less confused about Dublin's public transport system these days than Google is, say, so I've started to use it more.
Put up an example board of all the metrics that a user will see prior to them needing to sign-up.

I'm not sure if the design is an all or nothing approach - meaning PH, Stripe, and GA are required, but if there is the ability to position the metric views on boards, having an example for users to look at or even themes based on type of products would be interesting.
I don’t think this is true at all — helmets are very useful safety equipment when motorcycle riding. Protection from bugs and airborne rocks is very real — I had some rides where I had to pull over and clean my helmet visor to see through all the grasshopper guts I’d hit — flying objects will hit you and very likely cause an accident or at least a lot of discomfort if you have no face protection. Helmets are worth it on those points alone even if you discard the (very real, very substantiated) potential to turn fatal impacts into survivable impacts.

That said — wearing a helmet can cause one to take more risks out of a belief in greater survivability odds. On the track in full safety gear — the odds of crash survival really can be high enough to justify the extra risk taking mentality — loud pipes don’t boost survivability to anything remotely the same degree as helmets — in my opinion it’s very likely that someone who genuinely (and mistakenly) believes their loud pipes make them more perceivable will allow that belief to influence their actions and be very likely to drive less defensely.

On the general topic of helmets increasing risk taking — I actually do think this belief can lead to meaningful increase in chance of mistakes in other contexts. I’m an avid rock climber — a very small percentage of climbers always wear a helmet but most only wear one when doing climbs with significant amount of loose rock. The main safety use of a helmet when climbing is protection from falling rocks or other objects — there are some rare circumstances when a helmet could protect you when you fall but those are quite unusual — generally only happen when you get flipped upside which usually only happens when you mismanage the rope position. It’s _possible_ the helmet could help protect from a climbing fall but much better protection is to correctly manage rope position which is necessary, typically straightforward, and also something you are unlikely to do wrong when climbing at your level. If you put a helmet on and suddenly feel “able” to take more risks when climbing you are making a big mistake — the very marginal extra fall safety of the helmet is not worth increasing your risk taking at all — but it can often be hard to avoid increase to risk taking even when you are aware the increase is not justified. In my opinion, the helmet is not worth making this trade off (except in areas with lots of risk of rockfall or dropped gear from parties above).
At least in Safari, pinch-to-zoom does work.
But it does support other/better trackpad gestures like pinch to zoom and twist to rotate the map.
There is a difference between artificial change of languages and natural change though, isn't there?
In most cases of "Work for hire" ownership transfers as soon as the work is done and not based on payment. There's a lot of situations where payment may be late or (more likely) potentially disputed. It's almost impossible to write a contract which clearly states when work is "Done" and a payment due so no one wants to have a dispute over existing work. If this is a long (2 year contract) in theory work from a year ago is not "owned" until the contract is done and "paid in full". This language is shaky in a few places around this point.

I (really) don't know if this is a big deal for due diligence but a hiring party would likely strike this language immediately.
Literally my point! Tesla can't do that! hires professionals to reverse engineer a Tesla Oh , Tesla did that! What shall we do today Pinky?
Yes, a major version upgrade two months prior. 8 weeks later, over Holiday season, you are expecting... what exactly?!

A fireplace video and new game is exactly what I would expect as a bit of fun to wrap up the year.

OP claimed Tesla has their priorities wrong. I strenuously disagree and provided ample evidence to back my assertion.
Isn't every developer in a non-trivial software project a library developer? As soon as you have a common piece of functionality you want to reuse - that's a library.
Last time I was there, US passports lane was slow, foreign was very fast.
Read the report yourself. It stands on its own.
Do you believe this will have an effect?
Getting lucky is not the same as relying on luck.
Apple is missing a search engine. That doesn't imply that Apple needs a search engine, nor does it imply that acquiring one would be the most profitable thing they could be doing with their available resources.

Arguably, a key part of Apple's success is that they don't behave like Microsoft.
Oh my. If only C++ would have used proper macros from the start...
I wonder if there could be a library of legal terms so I can build my contract with it like I can build an image using a canvas library.

initial_boilerplate()
add_jurisdiction("England")
add_involved_parties(foo, bar)
etc
maybe tissue that goes into the hole and over with tape tight. test with recording.
Another good source of info - produced by ThoughtWorks:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html
I get what you're saying but this kind of capture already happened with Sinclair, and it's mind-boggling how awful it can be at times. I think any kind of competition would move the needle closer to fairness rather than away from it.
And grey areas are useful to society, they allow some imprecisions.