skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t Jeff Dean still use Google+ for his ramblings. How can they do this?

Honestly that is the only reason I use Google+. So I can follow a bunch of people.

I hate Facebook, I hate twitter. It’s infested with ads.

Google+ was a great idea if google just stayed calm.
A child is a child.
People also dislike the idea of the EU forcing every child to eat a kilogram of french cheese every morning before school.

Luckily, neither is likely to happen and - even if it were proposed - the UK has the power to veto it ever happening.

assuming we are in the EU. if we're outside, we just watch and weep.
I always liked the idea of simply banning distracted driving. Why have the law play cat and mouse with new technologies.
No I don't agree. When I go to work in the morning there is nobody at work who wants to go elsewhere and there won't be until lunch time. Either the shared car is burning fuel driving empty to get back out to where people live who want to get to work, or it is sitting in a parking lot. The first makes the shared car more expensive, the second is just what we have today so I may as well own the car and get the convenience of being able to store things in the car (golf clubs for example).

Even in the best case, there are lot more people who want to get around during "rush hour" than the rest of the day, so most shared cars could at most work for 2-3 people each day. The types of people who are on the road during not rush hour are more likely to have a larger group (kids) with them so the shared car needed for them is a different size.
Edit: overshared
A lidar sensor will almost certainly _always_ be lower latency than any sort of image processing engine.

A lidar gives you a stream of 3d points in the order of megavertices a second.

The processing pipeline for any visual system is at least frame rate of the camera (the faster the camera, the less light it can get) plus the GPU transfer time(if you are using AI) then processing.

this means you are looking at ~200ms latency before you know where things are.

Lidar is a brilliant sensor. Maybe it will be supplanted by some sexy beamforming Thz radar, but not in the near future.
For those who are interested in TrueCrypt history, here (it is in Russian) https://news.softodrom.ru/ap/b19702.shtml (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...) author did a small research and came to conclusion that TrueCrypt most likely was created by a Czech guy named David Tesařík.

Update:
IMHO this research is the most comprehensive one which I saw regarding TrueCrypt authorship
I get it. I live in the U.S. but in a more rural community on the east coast, and even to find a tech company is at least an hour away. So I didn't have an easy way to network within a tech focused community either at first, but I would make the drive/flight to the larger cities to do that.

However, what I found was that there were still a ton of companies doing things I never imagined near me. They weren't name brand tech companies, or even tech companies but because of the nature of software/hardware it was easy to find people who needed more than a website designed. Also, networking locally led me to other contacts people had out of the area that were more the type of work I ideally wanted.

My point being, don't discount your local area even if it is more rural or not "techy", you would be amazed at the contacts people have that are a good way to get started.

As far as doing it solely online, it isn't impossible, but it is a major disadvantage and requires a larger effort. Being in a niche area of tech would help, being known for something would be best, if you have neither than I'd suggest you start with building your brand (you). e.g. start a blog (or be super active online in places), gain some credibility while you have a job than use that to help you find opportunities. This is a slower process, but if you combine it with networking locally you might be able to find decent work in a reasonable time.

Also, depending on your Country and cost of living, you might be able to use Upwork or similar sites to gain some experience doing independent projects and a fair wage for you. In the U.S. freelancers cannot compete with the low cost of living in other Countries that lets developers bid such low amounts for work on those sites, but for you it might work out.
Or the stronger version: don't sign up for recurring subscriptions, period.

The exceptions are things you strictly need or that serve as investments to help you earn more; and even then, choose the least expensive plan you can possibly get away with. (In this day and age, for most of us that means internet; phone; most basic plans for each; and no digital services.)

Subscriptions add up really quickly and will drain your income before you even notice.
America’s internet connectivity issues are holding the country back
In my opinion it should be ethically wrong to call a 5 years old a whale even if he/she is one.

> based on their age and susceptibility to marketing

When you realize that you are (by mistake or not) marketing to 5 years old that can spend thousands for addictive entertainment you should also realize that something is seriously wrong.
Sure. Those objections are just as valid for "how i felt last week", though. The past is a foreign country, even to those of us who were around for it.
ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op
I see what you are saying. It seems the article is conflating different things to make it appear worse unless I too am missing the quote where they refer to a 5 year old as a 'whale.'
In my country, marketing to children is illegal period.
They have no monetary concept.

Coca-cola was recently found guilty of this in the "food industry self governing organ" in Norway [1]. This is where complaints go first and if Coca-cola continues it can result in fines and whatnot.

They were using people from youtube channels that primarily makes videos for children in their own youtube channel videos.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3...
>Go march in the streets en mass and things will slowly change

The Afghani and Iraqi Wars engendered some of the largest protests in human history. They are still ongoing.

In America, when you march in streets, they make laws so cars can run you over
>> In a virtualized environment, if attackers can find a way to read memory from neighbor virtual machines, they can access the data from those machines.

I would not advocate memory encryption as a defense against this kind of attack. It's added complexity to fix a different problem (untrustworthy virtualization). OTOH it is useful to protect against physical access at the hardware level - and that's not really a common concern but is valid is some cases.
I can also highly recommend Fisks books (I have The Great War on the shelf and refer to it often), but I would also like to add Robert Baers books, he was a CIA case officer who speaks farsi and is pretty knowledgeable about things. I think it is also highly worth reading up on the original coup that installed the Shah in the first place, it was essentially the first coup the British used their newly trained (everyone knows the OSS became the CIA, but who did the OSS learn from? The Brits) American orgs as a proxy in an overthrow.

Which is one of the reasons moves like this by the UK are interesting; much of the current American sentiment towards Iran was shaped by the Chatham House group in the first place.

Also I sat down and actually read all the IAEA reports in 2010 or so and besides the mossad planted laptop fiasco, all indications were that Iran was not seeking weaponization or even virtual breakout mode, and I have yet to see any good evidence to the contrary other than claims of "secret evidence".
Did you read the article? "The European trade vehicle was conceived as a way to help match Iranian oil and gas exports against purchases of EU goods. However, those ambitions have been toned down, with diplomats saying that, realistically, it will be used only for smaller trade, for example of humanitarian products or food." So effectively the EU-Iran trade deal is just a diplomatic move rather than a real trade deal. Also EU companies do not want to risk getting sanctioned by the US by getting into any trade with Iran.
> if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative

I'm working on something at the moment. More experiment than anything else for the time being but the purpose of it is to have a minimal "social network" for keeping in touch with people, and that's about it. Very little in the way of notifications and most facebook-like features. Just a way to keep in touch and keep contact details for people you care about.

Question for anyone who would be interested in such a thing: How would you suggest monetising or funding such a project?
Martha Stewart, before she was a star, worked as a stockbroker and knew or should have known what she did was wrong.
I feel like I have been somewhere in the middle on this. I feel like to reach level 5 autonomy, the vehicles are going to have to have really good image processing from conventional cameras. In fact, they might need it to be so good that the lidars themselves become redundant.

But there are a lot of possibilities between zero autonomy and level 5 autonomy that might almost require lidar too in the short term.
Could you expand on what you mean by "relevant difference?"
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted.

I read a lot, and was reluctant to getting a kindle. Now I've owned one for a year and I wouldn't go back. Being able to read from bed without glasses, with a bit of light from the device itself is just perfect to me for reading at night.

It's much more portable - which is great! The battery life is also amazing on those devices so my worry of having to charge them too often quickly disappeared.

The only books I do (sometimes) read in 'dead-tree books' are the more technical ones. But even those I'm starting to replace - some programming books have images embedded where the fragments of code are, so the formatting is preserved as the kindle can show the images perfectly fine.

The convenience and comfort of a kindle is just amazing - but for some more technical books with bad ebook support you still need traditional books.

I do tend to buy traditional books from time to time though - becaus I like the way they look on my bookshelves. Though now only for books I really like and want to be reminded about when I'm looking around in my room ^^
When does it fail, and why does it fail? As I've noted elsewhere, per capita income in China has increased about 130x (in constant dollars) since 1960. They've gone from abject poverty to Western standards of living for most of their citizens. That's astounding.

Small nations that have stayed with old-school communism and are mired in poverty - North Korea and Cuba at this point - have been almost totally isolated from the rest of the world for decades, unable to trade with large, obvious, prosperous neighbors. Is it the five year plan, or the sanctions?

The USSR eventually failed, but they did improve a great deal over the economic situation Russia was in at the time of the revolution. And honestly, there's no guarantee that a financial collapse won't wipe out the world of western capitalism, either. The US came perilously close to that in 2008.
> Facebook. Yes, they are evil.

How would you know if not for the news?
> half the world isn't actively trying to destroy most people/nations

True, including Israel.

You do realize that the occupation and abuse of Palestinians by Israel is what drives those Arabs that hate Israel, right? It's a rallying call, if you will.

As for genocidal rhetoric, it's been done both by Israeli neighbors and Israel itself.

As for military might, Israel is clearly on top.

> I do recognize it must suck ass to live in Gaza and I feel for them, and hope for a better future where their lives don't suck ass. I have no idea what to do about it though.

> I know it's inconvenient for Europeans and progressives who think they can just lift the blockade and stop operations in Syria and everyone will live happily ever after

As for Syria, is a sovereign country that you have no right to operate in, nor do you have the right to constantly violate Lebanese airspace.

How do you expect other countries to respect you, when you don't even respect international law?

As for Palestinians, there's always the rhetoric that they will never become peaceful etc. but how about you stop thinking of 'Greater Israel' and stop building illegal settlements as a first step? You can't continue jacking their land and somehow come to an agreement with them.

As for Gaza, yes, lifting the blockade, at least for essential supplies, lifting fishing restrictions, not targeting civilians and perhaps sponsoring targeted programs to build infrastructure there etc. would help. Stop sniping nurses and journalists as you did with the great match of return, that would be nice.

Build some goodwill, allows Gazans to leave and study abroad, sponsor some targeted infrastructure projects...

> but when that filters through my ears it becomes "we don't give a fuck if you live or die."

> Why should I care about the opinions of people who don't give a fuck if I live or die?

For my part, I absolutely care for you to live, but it could be said that it is what comes out of Israel is to my ears as if you don't care whether Palestinians live or die indeed.

There's much talk about their violence etc. but from what I've studied, it is driven by desperation. There's no prospects there, no future, no joy, no nothing. When there's such a situation, resisting what they, (and the international community btw), see as occupation is pretty much the only thing that occurs to many of them.

I realize the issue isn't simple, but as I said, outreach and show of goodwill go a long way. Stop building settlements for one, enforce security in their areas from settler attacks as well, build infrastructure, come to the table and most importantly stop dreaming of 'Greater Israel' and you may get somewhere.
I'm a white American who grew up harvesting tobacco on the side. It's not a gig Americans are willing to do. It sucks, it's dangerous, it doesn't pay all that well, and it's seasonal. For reference, I quit cutting tobacco in favor of cleaning out sand filters for sewage treatment plants. Which is to say, shoveling literal shit out of a hole in the ground is preferable to being a farmhand.

The American people you see doing this stuff are by-and-large the family of the land owner or teenagers whose backs are still functional (and have school duties during the off-season).

If you have a family, then you're going to need either a primary job, or an RV to move around. The only people making money farming are the land owners, and even then...
Age matters

> Alcohol brand starts marketing campaign targeting 18 year olds

> Alcohol brand starts marketing campaign targeting 5 year olds
I’m not a fan of Medium (mainly because of the UI both on mobile and desktop) but it doesn’t seem like you have anything to back up what you are saying.
For someone accusing others of being "propagandized out of your mind" you seem rather uninformed.

>"The current Iranian regime is there BECAUSE of Western meddling, it would not exist otherwise."

The original Iranian Revolution was a reaction to Western meddling and policies. The current regime is there because of the consolidation of power of the theocracy. The executive branch is actually subordinate to the Supreme Leader and the Supreme leader controls the military. Iranians don't get to vote for the Supreme Leader - that's a position for life. The Islamic Republic borne out of a referendum in 1979. There hasn't been a meaningful referendum since. 60% of the population is under the age of 30, many of which are not interested in living in an Islamic republic.[1]

>"The U.S. supports 75% of the world's dictatorships."

Please provide a single citation for this statistic. This is an absurd statement.

>"It simply wants control of Iran's natural resources, same goes for Venezuela,"

The US doesn't need Iran's oil, neither does it need Venezuela's. The US has been a net exporter of oil for a while now. The US shale boom has been in effect for years.[2]

[1] http://time.com/4046788/iran-revolution-nuclear-deal-youth/

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becom...
This thread went from factual to political very quickly.
That's why you'd do it in this fashion.

A nuke in a random container on a ship filled with thousands of them, owned by a bunch of shell companies, combined with the fact that the evidence gets blown up in the process...

Quite a bit harder to track to a source than "hey look a rocket launched from Iran".
I went with Tutanota.com which on top of active development also communicates regularly with its users on what features are being worked on. Plus they allow you to have/create a bunch of different email addresses under the same mailbox.
I've inherited one or two projects like the first one you describe before, and, when they don't have tests, it's awful.

The problem is, regardless of how stable the code was, or how easy it was for the original author to test it manually, if the code hasn't been worked on for ages, then the original author is either gone or can't remember all the details of how it was supposed to work anymore. Which leaves you in a dangerous situation, because there's no good way of knowing which behaviors are by design and which ones are incidental.
I'll have a look over the weekend!
It's important because the article headline is a bit clickbaity. It's true that Facebook called children "whales" but not "as young as 5", since the linked chat transcript in the article mentions a 15-year old child.
> the kernel can read all memory

That's great, iff you have root-level access.

> I don’t even see how a future MKTME v2 would be useful for DRM.

Intel already tried that with SGX. (Intel's documentation for SGX was all about creating a "Trusted Computing" environment, using the old Palladium/NGSCB DRM-sense of "trusted".
Here you go: https://joinmastodon.org/
Mobile-readable versions of the owner's manual quotes from both your messages (don't use code formatting for block quotes):

Warning: Autosteer is a hands-on feature. You must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times.

Warning: Autosteer is intended for use only on highways and limited-access roads with a fully attentive driver. When using Autosteer, hold the steering wheel and be mindful of road conditions and surrounding traffic.

Warning: Autosteer is not designed to, and will not, steer Model 3 around objects partially or completely in the driving lane. Always watch the road in front of you and stay prepared to take appropriate action. It is the driver's responsibility to be in control of Model 3 at all times.

Warning: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h), may not brake/decelerate when a vehicle or object is only partially in the driving lane or when a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary or slow-moving vehicle or object is in front of you. Always pay attention to the road ahead and stay prepared to take immediate corrective action. Depending on Traffic-Aware Cruise Control to avoid a collision can result in serious injury or death. In addition, Traffic-Aware Cruise Control may react to vehicles or objects that either do not exist or are not in the lane of travel, causing Model 3 to slowdown unnecessarily or inappropriately.

Warning: Several factors can affect the performance of Automatic Emergency Braking, causing either no braking or inappropriate or untimely braking, such as when a vehicle is partially in the path of travel or there is road debris. It is the driver’s responsibility to drive safely and remain in control of the vehicle at all times. Never depend on Automatic Emergency Braking to avoid or reduce the impact of a collision.
In short, not entirely. Bayes' theorem helps when you have a correct model. People don't have access to truth or correct models. Generally people applying Bayesian methods are using cookie cutter formulas. These can't protect you from the many many ways one can muck up their data especially if you want your decisions and density intervals to be close to "right".
Humans are not safe drivers. If Lidar makes the autonomous care safer than humans I want lidar.
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But it is not downvoted. It is heavily upvoted despite being wrong and misleading. Because it is fun and snarky so lots of people upvote it regardless whether they even understand the issue or not.
It was only consumer OneDrive before. Now it uses the Microsoft Graph API so you can use OneDrive business accounts too.
The POTUS can arbitrarily take military action as long as it can somehow be tied to 9/11 so in effect the type of government doesn't matter much when it comes to the military threat each country imposes.

Also, the US has a history of military intervention, suppression, assassinations and overthrowing democratically elected governments.

That the US is more "liberal" is about as reassuring as being told the potion that is being used to poison you is 100% organic and GMO-free.
Love it!

Speaks to the human need for genuine connection. By doing these sorts of activities, we help reinforce the fabric the binds all of us to each other.

We need more things like this that allow us to simply be “humans” together.
Likewise. If it’s not offline, verified and off-site, it’s not a backup.

Raid is useful for availability as well as performance though.

Also while we’re discussing raid, the price/gb of a mirrored set of larger disks vs a raid 5/6/10 of smaller disks (for the same total capacity) is always worth checking - usually comes out in favour of mirrored pair in my experience which also has better performance (especially when resilvering) and resilience and lower energy costs.
This was years ago, and there wasn't much interest so I took it down.
Intel names Robert Swan as permanent CEO
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Tried out a country specific query and the results were relevant. Seems promising!
Artchain
Ask HN: Creative uses for retiring HPC servers?
I have about 20 numbers of

HS22 blades, each with

2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v2 @ 3.50GHz - total of 8 cores per blade

128 GB of memory.

70 GB of spinning disk.

1Gbps networking

Can you think of any creative uses for doing non-critical work on these servers?

1. Power is not a concern.

2. I'm not mining any coins.

3. I'm not particularly interested in hosting network mirrors for anything-

Looking for something that can be indirectly useful to our users (research group), or something that can be a learning experience for myself (Sysadmin).

So far, I have thought of

1. IpyParallel - expose all these servers through a single Jupyterhub server.

2. Kubernetes / Singularity play cluster - learning experience for me.

What else do you think I can do with them?
Just to Tbilisi for a couple of days, though I want to return and see Kazbegi/Stepantsminda, Kutaisi, and much more.

It is just a charming old city with cobble stoned streets, a river running through, between hills, with a funicular (cable car) running up to the fort and the "Mother of Georgia" looking down ([1], similar to Christ the Redeemer in Rio).

Excellent food and wine and brandy, cool bars (41 gradus), decent weather, inexpensive, many historical sights, long history, native script, much friendly, very hospitable, wow.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mother+of+georgia&ia=images&iax=im...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartlis_Deda

(If you have specific questions, feel free to email (see profile).)
What even qualifies as "marketing to children"? Can I not set up a tabloid with a lollipop on it?
Robot that can ‘imagine itself' built by scientists
It's much more fun feeding Facebook with bogus info.