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Kees is one of the few developers in the world doing the boots-on-the-ground rough-and-tumble soul-withering grunt work of actually making Linux kernel more secure. It's not glorious work, but it's perhaps the most important work anyone's doing in the kernel these days. The world runs on the Linux kernel, and from a security standpoint, it's really been a mess (see: Dmitry's Syzkaller talk). Too many contributors are drive-by scattershot "my boss told me to upstream this stuff" types who don't really care about the incremental suckage they inject into the kernel. Bravo on Kees for doing what he's doing.
That seems... surprisingly lucrative. For the effort required, anyway. I'd be happy to supplement my income by $300/day, by quickly firing off 100 typical Amazon reviews on my lunch break:

* "Great product!"

* "I bought this for my husband and he seems to love it!"

* "I bought this for my grandson and I don't know what it is but he's happy!"

Six-figures a year would be more than feasible.
He looks like he sits on a park bench and eyes little girls with bad intent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jMPI_pUec
With today's weakening of regulatory standards, I don't know how safe new fission plants could be. The guy in charge of it all (self-admittedly) doesn't really understand nuclear energy, and would be prone to misunderstanding the science presented by industry leaders, possibly to the detriment of safety.

I know, that's a whole pile of variables; but variables should be reduced when it comes to nuclear energy, IMO.

That said, I greatly favor nuclear over, you know, burning stuff, and I'd like to see it succeed alongside renewables.
Depends on the enterprise I'd guess? Yes if you have strict, centralized IT rules, not if your department has flexibility in running the stuff under its control.
These things are starting to get annoying. What's the plan here? Make a game AI MVP, make sure it wins against pros in a PR event, make lofty statements how promising the new AI revolution is & make sure to make vague connections to AGI and that the human brain is soon obsolete, and finally wait for the AI hype to pour funding at you to do some bullshit project with the primary purpose to make some corp/exec look modern?
This is highly misleading information from the usual suspects. The total output in kWh of heavily subsidized solar/wind energy is not the issue.

The problem of the "Energiewende" is that the highly volatile wind/solar output can not supply the base load without massive buffer storage. The technology for that storage does not exist. Only nuclear, coal or the more expensive natural gas can supply the base load.

What actually makes the whole charade work is that Germany dumps surplus electricity (at a loss) during peak times and then imports what's missing during down times from other countries (for example the highly nuclearized France). If all the neighboring countries did what Germany does, it couldn't work.
Not after the fact. It's too late then, and it won't get done. History has to be pretty when you push it. The idea of being able to group commits is very nice, and IIUC BitKeeper had that.
Obviously C/C++/Rust with handwritten state machines could make this way smaller, e.g. under 100 bytes. But at some point there are diminishing returns, and also developer productivity, bugs, and security are big tradeoffs.

Looking at this another way: you need >20x more memory to achieve the same level of performance as native code in C#. Suddenly the benchmark doesn't look that great anymore.
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? in JS you can promisify cb style lib you can await any function that returns a promise so why do you have to use libs that support it ?
I've worked on multiple shipping and loading docks. If you haven't had this type of work experience it would be difficult to understand that the entire line is one big connected system. If just one person stalls their part of the process, the other pieces both upstream and downstream are affected. And believe me, everyone on the line instantly knows who is falling behind and you'll begin to feel the eyes on you immediately. If the issue is not resolved quickly, the entire line might need to stop, which is rule #1 that you don't ever do. Sometimes you just get behind and realizing you need to catch up quickly, 0 fucks are given. If you're stacking and shipping a pallet every couple minutes then you're not going to care about a single case or two being damaged. Is the box torn open because you threw it? Fine, turn it around on the pallet so no one can see the tear - problem solved. Is the supervisor riding you for being too slow? Fine, I'll show them who's slow, because it isn't me - look how fast I can do my job (without caring about what gets broken). Your job isn't to care what happens to these thousands of mystery boxes you're handling each day, it's just to get them out the damn door on time.

The mood issue is real as well and it's less about personal feelings in general and more driven by how you're being treated at work. Any shift in the normal routine can set the mood of the entire warehouse and in return lead people into not caring. It could be announced mandatory overtime or even something as simple as removing something from the break room. Retaliatory action isn't seen as an inconvenience against the customer, it's a middle finger to corporate. You treat us like shit and we're going to make you feel it too, proxied through customer complaints about broken or missing items. Some individuals do go off the rails and it's usually related to some sort of perceived slight against them by the company. A lot of these could have been squashed if the manager didn't throw up their arms and say there was nothing they could do about it; take it up with HR. Most of the time if someone in corporate had just listened to the issue and let the employee get it off their chest, that would have been enough to calm the anger. What many white collar employees in the front office don't realize is how seriously some small and inconsequential issues can matter to blue collar laborers. This could go on and on about blue vs. white collar relations and management practices, but the point is that it's not about the customer so much as it is about internal politics and maintaining the status quo.
> Not having to move the camera around is massive.

If it's so massive, why did their camera-limited agent have near-parity against their non-camera-limited agents?
That's the gccgo frontend; the more usual Go compiler is here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

It's still handwritten though so your point stands.
The odd thing about this is that it can be much more work to handle things roughly.

One time I was waiting for a flight and watching the activity out the window, and the guy who was transferring bags from the little truck-train onto the ramp that slides them up into the airliner was throwing each bag into the air and onto the ramp.

It was clear that it would have taken much less effort to just set each bag onto the ramp - wouldn't even have to be gentle, just don't go the extra effort of throwing them in the air.

But I guess treating them gently wouldn't have offered the same satisfaction.
Side note: the author of said piece is a member of Germany‘s communist party’s think tank [1]. So I‘d take his data-collection with a grain of salt or two.

[1] https://www.rosalux.de/profil/es_detail/KWR6NOICIU/conrad-ku...
>...come up with a similar stupid name for them...

Farcebook? Been guilty of that one for 8 years. Never had an account, so the label is all hearsay ... but what i kept hearing made me afraid to become a Farce of myself ... so i said to myself "stay away". Hard enough to be self-effacing.

i do still hope we will find a way to communicate easily with relevant others without doing violence to our communication methods for the sake of (what is essentially) a random nudnick's business plan and profit model.

Farcebook likes to go around and break as many things as fast as possible. Before them we had serious people and thought oriented to finding compatible methods. They still exist, but all the oxygen in the room is depleted by Farcebook.
Actually renewables are rather famous for not being very safe at all. Turns out that mounting heavy glass plates on rooftops ... can end with a very quick trip to ground with a heavy (and if broken: sharp) glass plate right behind you. Example [1].

Wind turbines need a lot of mechanical components mounted 50 meters (up to 150) off the ground. Needless to say, these components aren't what anyone would call roomy. One component is a big gearbox, or as the technicians call it a "meatgrinder" [2].

TLDR: Nuclear: 0.1 deaths/PWh (US) 90/PWh (global). Wind: 150 deaths/PWh Solar: 440 deaths/PWh [3]

Note that Coal and Oil numbers exclude health impact of the intoxication that is highly visible in places like India and China, but really also plays in many US cities. Even if they're not quite at the point where the sky turns brown and acutely toxic.

Only Hydro power is even remotely competitive with nuclear power in deaths.

(global for nuclear means believing the numbers claiming Chernobyl caused more deaths than 2 US nuclear bombs, or you could more reasonably interpret it as including all deaths due to nuclear weapons. You can freely add in all deaths due to radiation research (low 3 digits), it won't affect the numbers)

In a way it's funny. Solar has already killed more people than nuclear (realistic Chernobyl numbers), including the 2 bombs. And will pass the threshold of adding all numbers together just after this decade ends. Somehow that's never mentioned.

So taking the most pessimistic numbers, Nuclear is 60% safer than Wind turbines, and a staggering 500% safer than solar power. If taking the optimistic numbers for nuclear ... it's absolutely ridiculous.

[1] https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171019/corona/corona-50th...
[2] https://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/content/siemens-techni...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
Then you're admitting that you're not here to actually debate in any sort of rational manner. If you make a claim and can't substantiate your claim when called out on it, then your claim has no rational or factual basis. At which point your entire argument falls apart, especially when you call something a 'very obvious fact'.
Something similar is actually a plot point in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep".
Last I checked UPS Ground charges $0.90 per $100 of declared value (first $100 is included for free) (FedEx Ground is $1 per $100; first $100 is also included for free).
Your video is the only non-animated one i can find, and really, its just of a dolly bumping into a car, then cut to 'car being on dolly' and disappearing out of view. All the pictures in the article seem taken from the animated promotional stuff for stanley-robotics.com which itself seems unrealistic as best. And even the 'already used in France' bit is misleading, as it was a trial at charles de gaulle with no information on the scale or success.

Their site looks like its there to attract investors rather than sell any kind of real product.. i might be wrong but i don't think this is going to amount to anything, shame.
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I would guess that a lot of your cell data are processed by code generators that use the lex/yacc toolchain. While perhaps they're not commonly used in implementations, they have a large number of deployments.
Why is this the top comment?
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It might just be right that if renewables can't meet current demand, prices go that bit higher to keep usage in line. It's not a given that we must consume as much as we do (or more) forever given the finite nature of the planet and everything.
Because it's true, and people on Hacker News value the truth, because we are virtuous.
Not disparaging the author, good on you for working on building this! I’m sure you learned a lot from just compiling everything together.

My question is, isn’t everything in this guide pretty much just a straight up copy of the actual TensorFlow docs/guides? What’s the difference?
You get what metadata is, right?

That FB doesn't get to snoop what you're saying doesn't prevent them from knowing who you are saying it too. They still control the app.
Nope, they at one point just stole your address book, without consent. Later they added consent, but the UI is still sketchy and tries to trick people.
I'd assumed VimScript was written using Flex/Bison; turns out it's written directly in C: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/src/eval.c
> that claimed Germany is exporting more energy than it is consuming

No one claims that. What is claimed and what is actually correct is that Germany exports more electricity than it imports.

> They in return, being annoyed by repeatedly having their grid brought on the brink of collapse

Contrary to popular myths the German electricity grid is one of the most stable in the world.

https://energyathaas.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/gt.jpg

> Excess energy can’t be saved

There isn't much excess electricity from renewable energy. What we have are is a situation where coal / nuclear are exporting their electricity and are not willing or able to reduce their energy production enough.

Note also exporting and importing electricity is nothing bad. We will see much more electricity exchange in the coming decades within the EU. The reason is that the EU is pushing an EU-wide electricity market with competition and wants to get rid of country-local closed energy markets with monopolies or oligopolies.

Better adjust to that.

> but none of the German consumers will get these prices on their energy bill

Check out industry prices - they are consumers of electricity, too.

> surpass any goalsso far

Example, published in 2012:

http://www.renewable-energy-concepts.com/fileadmin/user_uplo...

It says: 'Bis spätestens zum Jahr 2020 soll der Anteil der erneuerbaren Energien an der Stromversorgung mindestens 35 Prozent betragen.'

This has already happened in 2018.
One thing I always recommend when doing segmentation is first altering the color space; even utilizing a CNN (which should, when trained, essentially perform that step). This is especially true of pre-trained models where you don't know if it's been tuned for that.

Just in terms of edge detection, you'll see nearly a 10% improvement just from shifting the color space to LAB:

https://austingwalters.com/edge-detection-in-computer-vision...

What's even better about the color space conversion, is you can utilize it as a pre-processing step to dramatically reduce the number of edges to search:

https://austingwalters.com/chromatags/

In the case of a blue sea, you can shift to the LAB color space and probably only search the 'A' channel; the channel representing green to red. As the 'B' channel represents yellow to blue. Which is less likely to produce edges in the ocean.

This means you only process 1 channel, which dramatically speeds up most algorithms.

Just food for thought.
I've heard saltwater batteries make sense for this, they just need a lot of space.
Visual Studio has always been 1st class for developing whatever Microsoft is currently pushing, and the debugger is by far the best I've used.

Anything outside of that is average, if anything.
See the table of the subtle differences, why does podman create images that aren’t compatible for example? Regardless of what Docker does, if you make tools that are for a specific use case why blur the lines?
The tragedy is that even now some are arguing that this is all perfectly okay...
Haha that first one's great, addresses (what is sadly) a real need.

I've seen that cthulhu-worshipping madman one before, but the results are disappointing. I'm sure much better can be done in that direction. e.g. (is this the most famous SE answer of all-time?) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
And at what cost to the citizens? Will this action be the spark for war in the future?
The point well made later in the article is that even if they had kept their nuclear plants running, coal would still have increased in 2012 and 2013 because in those years energy production from coal was very profitable and Germany has a ready export market to sell it to. Irregardless that domestic energy consumption actually trended down in those years.

> Both effects – the drop in coal and CO2 allowance prices – have made coal an extremely profitable fuel for power generation. Notably, both developments happened in 2011, the year of the nuclear phase-out.
Costs are the real issue not worker safety. The trucking industry kills lots of people and nobody saftyreally cares. So, it’s really a straw man argument about non issues.

Really, I would have no problem with Nuclear if it was cheap, but nobody can get it to be cheap (not even China) even without the need to load follow. We need cheap power and supplemental load following / storage. But, Nuclear is simply well behind the curve on both sides of the equation. Safe, stead production at 4c/kWh without subsidies would be a game changer or load following at much higher prices.

Now, if the economics looked great then sure, but this stuff is all about minor improvements that don’t really change the game.
This is interesting. Is it possible to implement a linked list while eliminating the end of the list ‘edge case’, in the fashion of the parent article?
I assume I have to leave my car off, but in neutral with the parking brake off? How else could they drag around an AWD/RWD car by just pushing it around from the front?
Huh, I thought it was well-known that many borders were drawn arbitrarily.

India / Pakistan is one example. Lots of middle Africa. Basically anywhere where colonialism played a major role and there wasn't an ocean or giant mountain range to make it more obvious exactly where to 'draw the line' (usually fairly literally).
Indeed, we need more people like him.
In complete agreement. I was fortunate enough to a have friend who waived those costs for me.

The takeway is that, anecdotally, the UPS $1,000 threshold appears to genuinely change behavior; anything less is pragmatically just another package subject to careless/willful transport abuse.
"I'm unhappy with my life so I'm going to make other people unhappy too."

How about these people do something with their incredibly valuable short lives other than being miserable? Unless you're in chronic pain of some kind, being alive is a gift. It's a treasure. Every moment is precious.
A few decades would be accurate. The model from the Jalopnik story was 1984. The article came out in late 2018.
We did; we're not accepting résumés at this time, if that's why you're asking...
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” — Jack Kerouac
Agreed. Having a zone is reasonable, otherwise people could make it a mile over the border and CBP would have limited enforcement ability.

However, 100 miles seems excessive.

That said, it’s more complicated than “a 100 mile constitution free zone”. CBP can have checkpoints and can briefly question people, but they can’t search a vehicle without a warrant.[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
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You're welcome to actually challenge his figures and the conclusions he draws from them, rather than just making a tawdry ad hominem.
With all due respect, I think your perspective is both limited and narrow minded. Games are how we as humans develop in adolescence. They are incredibly powerful tools in helping us through the process of learning how to learn.

All the model architectures and machine learning techniques that have been developed through the playing of these games, exponentially increasing in difficulty from Go to Starcraft, can be directly applied to real life tasks.

What is life anyways if not just a superset of sets of games to be played? Optimizing the output of a protein structure designed for chemical catalysts, teaching a car how to get from point A to point B while navigating a rule based obstacle emplaced environment, etc, etc. All merely simple games, and yet filled with pretty much infinite possibility.

Underestimate the power and potential of machines learning to play at your own folly.
As someone who actually builds things you have more leverage than you think in this or any other conversation with your manager, you need to learn how to use it better.
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Interesting, did not know about coffee pots. However for pump handles the contact area and time in contact is much greater than a single touch of one fingertip, plus the fact that it is much more likely for the hand on the pump to then immediately be in contact with drinking utensils or even wiping the mouth etc. So I still think crossing buttons are not a plausible vector. Be happy to read any sources that contradict this though...
It's relevant to nearly everyone who would be interested in the title of the article, though.
> He said that passenger feedback was “overwhelmingly good” during a five-month trial at Charles de Gaulle last year, where the system operated so seamlessly that some customers were not even aware a robot had been involved.
Still curious as to what his motivation to reverse engineer this camera was? Extra features? Custom features?

Genuinely curious - seemed missing from the blog post.
I'm a layman, but to my knowledge navigating a digital environment and a real one are the same minus some steps of the process. A self-driving car recreates a digital reality via sensors with as little delay and fidelity loss as possible, then navigates a digital car within that rapidly constructed virtual reality. It then signals back to the real car to navigate the real car exactly how it would navigate the digital one given its immediate digital environment. Since many of the hard problems lie with the navigation in the digital space, removing the sensors-to-digital part of it by training with video games still nets a lot of valuable learnings that can be brought right back into real-world applications. Also, learning in a fully digital environment allows this part of the learning to be done without the spatial/time constraints of reality.
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https://github.com/barak/latex-coffee-stains is slightly updated (Nov 2018)
lol. wouldn't surprise me one bit if there's an additional watermark buried in tiny variations in the kerning or something as well...
Psychologist have found that people will cheat least in controlled tests when someone is watching. Even if the person can't audit them.

EVEN if no one is watching and it's just a picture of an eye.
Pay more if you go over. No discount for under.
That’s like complaining about shoes or buildings as old tech. Wind is the second cheapest power source behind solar in ideal conditions and operates when the sun is down.

Which is why countries and companies that don’t give a fuck about the environment are all over it. It took a long time to beat coal, but games over it won now it’s just a question of time.

However, replacing natural gas as peaking power that’s still in the works.
How do you block a UPS driver from getting out of his truck with just a bicycle?
That thing is not using TCP...