skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obvious they are betting heavily on automation being the future. It's risky but if it becomes true it's going to be world-shaking.
>I don’t see how a glass screen, no matter how amazing it feels, would be better than a keyboard.

2007 called, it wants its arguments back -- for those were the same arguments made in favor of Blackberry and other crappy experiences compared to today's touch smartphones.
Agreed, but permaculture techniques that work vary by region, even down to the microclimates. If local experts are consulted, it should work well... but if not, there will be some years of trial and error before they get it working well for each installation. Even so, better to start such an effort today and get through those trials, so we're in a better place in 10 years.
Most colleges have open source course websites where you can just go and read the syllabus etc. Not “all in one place” but pretty good resource.
So if it asks to click on traffic lights, and a large enough group of people click on, say, red cars, can we make their their self-driving cars stop if they see red cars on the road?

Come on HN, lets all do this for a few days, you know we can do it ;-)
I remember reading about USB access at one point, that'd be fun!
In addition to the resources other have mentioned, I've found this http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ valuable.
Does anyone understand what goes into Ubers sales and marketing expense? It appears they are spending roughly 500mm a quarter on this line item which is enough to eat up most of their entire gross profit. Are their high Sales and marketing costs a function of their high driver churn?
Hmmm... Who consented to their joining the NSA Prism program?
ContNet
How do you refinish a lodge skillet? Someone accidentally used the rough side of a sponge on it and there's a shiny metal peeking through now. Also, is it safe to cook with before refinishing with that spot?
Patents have expired since then, and a trackpoint in some form is now viable.
So is Amazon going to be testing this in Everett, or the edge of Bothell in Snohomish County? Seems like a very odd choice of place to do this test, I'd be afraid a tweaker would jack these Amazon Scouts just for fun.
It’s a shame they haven’t budged much on push notifications. I know they have a reputation because they are used so much for spammy purposes, but I see that as a UI problem rather than a problem with push notifications themselves. I think if iOS got push notifications we’d start to see non-spammy use cases, e.g. one-click waitlist notifications and no-install turn-based games. One fun use I've found (I have an Android so push is supported) is getting messages with the loss at each training epoch in Keras (see the side project in my profile.)
"ZFS on Linux has now worked around the removal of the API."

I'm just curious: how did they do that?
Then all the residents of Leningrad would be noticeably longer living than the population of USSR. That didn't happen to my knowledge.
TempleOS does not run in real mode, it runs in long mode (64 bit)
I was thinking the same. I'd double-check any architecture that proposes moving private keys around.
I believe the "read this hard-to-read text" ones are helping machines read text, the "is this a street sign" ones are helping machines drive cars.
The reason websites are CAPTCHA laden is because they want to make it harder for people to legally scrape their sites. For this reason, you'll be hard pressed to convince the owner of a site with a login CAPTCHA to remove it.
My experiences with GHCjs have been positive, though admittedly not very deep.
Is there a news believability index somewhere. I’m getting a bit leery of Bloomberg “exposés” after it turned out the Supermicro story was bullshit.
> Should we just shut down BP?

By what legal process? What happens to the assets, the investors and staff? Does it matter that the British Petroleum is, in fact, a British company?
Exactly I looked at going expat for a large company and you basically got everything provided and you usually arranged your tax affairs to do very well out of it.
We hate them for the same reason we hate airport security theater; they do not work and have a high burden on the people being subjected to them. Plus, as it’s Google doing it, you can hardly escape the goddamned things. So yeah, we blame Google for using us as data classifiers and adding hoops and hurdles to the open net, while accomplishing precisely dick.

I for one hope that AI gets to the point that it can effortlessly beat them, so we can stop dealing with them.
Carmakers will probably adopt the ZF system, as they did it with gearboxes. ZF's products are known to be expensive but are extremely reliable in general.
I'd use Kotlin for several reasons:

1. good ecosystem for Java libraries on serverside (and mobile) for parsers with Markdown, etc. you could re-use the parsers between mobile & server to reduce dependencies

2. Code re-use on apps for Android & with multiplatform projects you get a lot of re-use for iOS (and swift is pretty similar, so you'd have an easier time porting)

3. Code re-use between the apps and the Javascript front-end for web (kotlin transpiled to Javascript). One language for both front-end and back-end (similar to why a lot of people use npm for serverside), which I find to be way more maintanable

4. You get similiar ease of programming as Python, etc. but with better performance

5. Kotlin can be used with React, Vue, & Angular and can integrate with existing Typescript annotation files by a conversion tool

6. You can use ktor to easily setup a server without having to setup a full Java servlet container
Buck, Bazel, Pants, Please, Meson, Gn, SCons. I haven't even finished reading comments in this HN entry and I'm already lost
There is ZERO technical details in this PDF beside 'we track head closely'
> but we do need to set aside some land to just be land.

Not if "just be land" also involves cattle farming.
They, uh.... don't make money.

From the article:

>Uber’s losses today are the stuff of startup legend.

>In Q3’18, the company reported another quarter in the red. Revenues rose nearly 40% year-over-year to $2.95B, but the company still lost more than $1B on a GAAP basis.
Speak Memory
Master of Orion II was slightly better in this regard - there were 2-4 technologies in each tech discipline per rank and you could only research one of them (except for early game tech where everyone would get everything on the list). This meant you could plan your tech strategies ahead of time - barring random breakthroughs and salvage tech - so you could design your empire around the tech tree you were going to pick.

The game also completely broke this approach by including a racial attribute that guaranteed you discovery of every technology at each level - "creative". You could stack population growth and the Creative stat and pay for them with minor downgrades in other nonessential characteristics (e.g. ship dodge % or spying effectiveness %). The resulting race would have stupidly advanced ships and the economy to support them very early in the game, which usually leads to a total stomp as you just roll over the local enemies and claim a large chunk of the galaxy map as your own, turtling until the endgame.
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
Thank you for the link to the Wikipedia page. Makes for good Sunday reading :)

If am tracking everything right, then an (albeit simple) description of dependent origination is that we can't necessarily predict the unknown-unknowns of our actions. If so, I don't see how dropping out (in the Timothy Leary sense) is any different from other phenomena that cause unforeseen consequences?

Using your example as my example, that Politico piece presupposes that increased sex ala the sexual revolution is itself an altogether "good" thing, and that the effects of Netflix et al is impacting that previously held ideal in a negative manner. At the risk of sounding contemptuous, I quite frankly don't see what the big deal is, and it reads more akin to vacuous hand-wringing.

Do you have another example of what you are trying to describe? Perhaps I missed the forest for the trees in your above link and haven't approached the topic in good faith.
I’m learning the Elixir/Erlang/OTP ecosystem now. How would you do the term/text layer? ETS with frequent writes to disk? Mnesia?
It's absolutely more efficient for me to self-checkout, if I have the right number of items. For some reason, the store I go to has extremely slow cashiers. They have no sense of urgency, probably because it's a low paid job and they're going to be there for 8 hours regardless of speed.
I'm comfortable with driving without any of those things -- my motorcycle, for example, only has a speedometer and a non-resettable odometer. (It's like that from the factory. Many street-legal motorcycles are similarly equipped.) You know how much fuel you have by knowing the capacity of you vehicle's tank, how many hours or miles you have driven, and your pre-existing (or found on the internet) knowledge of you vehicle's fuel consumption.

My car's battery gauge has never worked, not in the 20+ years that my father and I have owned it. (I don't know if it worked for the one person that owned it before him, or if it never ever worked.) The only time it would have been helpful is the one time the alternator died. OP has an electric hybrid, so it's a bit more useful to them, but still not critical.

The "check engine light" is helpful to people who know little about their vehicle, telling them "please take me to a mechanic!" Otherwise, they seem to be more annoying than helpful -- the family minivan that said "I need an oil change!" because changing the oil yourself didn't reset the counter, or the endless O2 sensor replacements the SUV wanted. You could learn much more, and with less annoyance, by sticking an inexpensive ODB2 reader into your car once in a while.
Four Lessons After Eleven Years in Silicon Valley
Comparison of Transformer and Recurrent Neural Networks on Multilingual NMT [pdf]
You should read something about it before you speculate idly:

"In August 2018, speeds on I-66 averaged 56.2 miles per hour, compared to 52.7 miles per hour for the same time period in 2017."

https://blog.arlingtontransportationpartners.com/one-year-of...

Also, bear in mind the Metrorail orange line runs along I-66, so mass transit is available. The DC region's workforce is highly educated and many workers have a decent degree of freedom about their schedule. It sounds like people have also been carpooling more, too. That goes to your point about raising peak throughput -- the easy way to avoid paying the toll is to have someone along for the ride, too, which doubles throughput (at a minimum; have a full car and whoa, Nellie). How many billions would it cost to double throughput for SOVs?
I switched to ceramic pans because of these concerns. More sticky than teflon but much better than traditional iron or stell pans.
Yes, but only the symmetric part. You handshake in userspace, then you pass the negotiated cipher keys/IV to the TCP socket with `setsockopt`. Last I looked, the only cipher supported was AES-128-GCM.
Everything is "potentially toxic", especially in California. Currently, however, "scientific consensus" suggests PFTE is safe.
"the current free market "

Thats my point. I do not consider the current markets very free. Very distorted by many factors, but that is another topic.

"Most of those jobs would be gone in a decade, and then you're right back to where you started, "

That is probably the most optimistic asumption about what it takes to change the whole energy base of our current economy, I heard so far.

Anyway, even if:
Space for example is huge. I see some (infinite) potential there. And on infinite other projects to make this world more beautiful instead of the opposite.
Kids are getting bored on their phones today all the time.
Weekly Robotics #24
A US government employee stationed in a foreign country receives allowances that pay for the full cost of housing and utilities. In Mumbai, the housing allowance is relatively small as such things go ($1500ish/mo depending on grade level and family size), but there's also a 25% hardship allowance and an education allowance sufficient to send your K-12 children to an eye-wateringly-expensive private school. Other benefits include four to six weeks a year of vacation, three weeks a year of home leave, most likely both US and Indian holidays, and they probably have authority to throw in a 25% relocation incentive on top of that. FDA is also allowed to pay in excess of the usual federal pay cap for some positions. If they really can't find people willing to take that deal, they've got some major organizational issues that need to be addressed.

(Source: I work in a different part of the federal government, but most of these rules are set by State.)
What kind of disabilities are we talking about? Because I’m pretty certain that to a blind person a car won’t help them much, and in fact probably makes life in general more dangerous. Further poor people who have a mobility impairment are often forced into dangerous situations, such as operating a motorized wheel chair in mixed automobile traffic instead of being able to use a dedicated bike lane (yes I’ve seen this many times).

EDIT: I'm not saying wheelchair-bound and other similar people should be banned from driving. Like today, we can add wheelchair-only parking accommodations. In fact, restricting traffic to only people with a genuine need will make their trips faster.
UK law chose to add a restriction for abusive or threatening language. The edge is in a different place, that's all. I don't think the UK has ever restricted speaking out against conscription, the US used to. Different countries, different restrictions.

It is still free speech within the legislated exclusions set by the two countries. No one gets fined or imprisoned for standing outside parliament complaining about the government all day etc.

In accepting the penalty without disputing it in court, we'll never know if a court would have upheld this case as a reasonable fine or interpretation of the law.
I’ll reconsider after a millennium or two of usage.
I think 99.999%+ trustworthy/reliable self-driving cars are a long, long away for both technical and socioeconomic reasons. I am not an autonomous robotics expert; however, I do have some background in control systems engineering & system verification (i.e. how do you know your system will operate correctly).

Technical reason(s):
- neural networks are not even the right way to model decision making for controlling a complex system in a complex environment. The NN to adequately cover the system dimensionality will be so unpredictably non-linear so as to make it inherently untrustworthy (i.e. you can't predict behavior over the entire range of possible scenarios the system may/will encounter); this applies to sensing / computer-vision aspects and decision making aspects of the control problem. Actually controlling the vehicle by comparison is easy and is already a solved problem using good ole mechanics/dynamics and classical system control theory.

- Adequate sensors for cars to 'see' as well as humans in all conditions are really expensive and will be for some time... as the level of economically tractable sensors improves, the expense of maintaining them will still be high.

- the embedded systems languages being used for CV and system control (mainly C/C++) are not amenable to formal verification. Even if all embedded sys programming is done in SPARK or Rust... there are hardware level bugs as well.

Socioeconomic reasons:
- our legal system is set up to reap maximum punitive damage from car owners/manufacturers for "their" mistakes. All a jury has to hear is "that autonomous car did something a human wouldn't do... and caused the accident." and the car owner (and the car co. in the event of a bug) is on the hook for the liability... possibly massive liability.

- electric cars and autonomous cars are probably not even the right solution to the problems they are trying to solve ("the environment", "too much traffic", "I don't like driving" etc.). Shuttling around one or two people in a 3000-4000 pound car is much, much less resource and energy efficient that things like electric bikes: building a car has a huge, upfront environmental/carbon impact that, imo, is not negated by the facts that is it electric or autonomous. Quick example: for a 40k USD car; 15k-25k USD is direct/indirect energy cost for material sourcing, manufacture and car assembly and delivery. Even a really nice electric-bike, by comparison, is easily well under 1k.

For this reason, I think we are going to see increased activity in cost effective single person transport and local municipal change [not allowing cars on some/many city streets] to help make things like bikes, trikes, and scooters safer to use.

I could write a lot more on this... but that is all for now.
I've gotten really into standup, since it fills a weird niche. I love listening to people who care about their craft talk about it (like Jiro or Chef's Table, for example), however that's often hard to come by... except for comedians! Since their job is to talk, and they all tend to be pretty free during the day, there's thousands of hours of comedians talking about their craft online.

If you're looking to get started with a podcast, I recommend WTF, You Made It Weird, Good One and The Old Ones. Guests worth listening to (on any podcast) are John Mulaney, Bo Burnham, Mike Birbiglia, Conan O'Brien [1], Bill Burr, Louis CK on WTF (I know I know), and Kumail Nanjiani/Emily Gordon. And all three Harris Wittels episodes of You Made It Weird are heartbreakingly worth listening to.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eoAIsZClo4bnlNM3JCb0hoSlU...
> Does anyone understand what goes into Ubers sales and marketing expense?

I would guess free rides for new rider signups, promotions to get regular users (gotta boost dem revenue figures, drivership, and rideership numbers for the IPO) and driver cash incentives to sign-up and later drive during specific periods of time.
The main flaw of this article is if we add congestion pricing to manhattan to help pay for upgrading the MTA, Cuomo will just take that money when he next raids the MTA funds for some new upstate pork-barrel measure.
Markup.rocks says it is client side and appears to be using ghcjs: https://github.com/osener/markup.rocks/blob/master/Makefile#...
Nice work! Reminds me of the type of projects that used to be posted as "Image of the Day" on Flipcode.

http://flipcode.com/archives/iotd.shtml
California's constitution makes affordable housing hard to build
This is true, it takes effort to visualize, but it becomes automatic over time. You don't think about everyday language. You just use it. Same with books.

Take the time to develop this skill when you aren't in need of escapism and you can reap the benefit when you are in dire need.

There are other benefits as well. Developing your visualization skill is one that benefits pretty much everything in life. Visualization greatly aids learning and understanding.
Ceramic is actually a marketing gimmick referring not to the material used but rather the process of making it. It is still teflon-coated and just as toxic as "non-stick."

Wish I had a source but I'm on mobile.
Ask HN: Which is the best online coding platform in 2019?
I can code in basic html, css, ruby and JavaScript and have completed a few side projects.

If I wanted to develop my skills by working on example code tutorials and supported by a helpful community, where should I look?

Any stories or anecdotes about your various experiences would be welcome.
I'm not making an isolated demand for rigor, because I'm demanding everything we do does not include clear systematic biases in one direction. I'm making a global demand for the most minimal amount of rigor you could possibly use and not necessarily arrive at incorrect answers.

Your study has a clear systematic bias (edit: Actually it doesn't even say what you claimed it did, but if it did it would have a clear systematic bias), that most costs scale with population density, and it was done studying an area (the US) with a much lower population density than the area at hand (manhattan). Assuming your study is entirely correct, its answer is incorrect when applied to the problem at hand. You would have to be an idiot to rely on it because the only way it is "right" is by being incorrect by the right amount in the right direction by sheer chance.

Likewise, if you tried to apply a study about public transportation done in the middle of the Sahara Desert to San Francisco, I would call you an idiot.
Privacy-concerned users in Russia will just switch to rootable Android devices they can set up the way to store the data a more safe way.
> My feeling is that every vehicle other than delivery trucks should be banned from the city. There is no compelling reason for anyone to drive in Manhattan.

I recently played for a contra dance in Manhattan. My band members and I drove in a small car, with a sound system, keyboard, and other instruments. I would have been happy to pay some sort of toll/charge/fee/tax but any other way of getting our equipment to and from the gig would be far more expensive and a lot of a hassle.

(My family doesn't have a car, and I commute to work on the subway)
Kannada? I'm not indian but I remember these symbols from a twitter crawling project.
Market > Marketing > Design > Code.

I suspect you might get the code part right and fall short on at least one of the other three.

For help with the marketing part, you might want to consider my book (the second edition just came out in beta): https://pragprog.com/book/actb2/technical-blogging-second-ed...

I understand the desire to remain anonymous here, but if you email me with some details, I can give you more specific pointers.
Sorry, but you are flat out wrong. For example, the halting problem is NP-hard and undecidable [1]

I think you might confuse NP-hard with NP-complete. There are problems that are NP-hard, not in NP and unsolvable. If a problem is NP-hard _and_ in NP, then they can always be solved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness
It is much less of a problem on yard. There is less lashing out toward unplaying family members and they are more likely to abandon or solve frustrating situation.

See, and when they are not playing video game they are responding questions without trouble and I don't have to tiptoe around then. They are more willing to breat the game for answer or help. I don't have to treat them as someone special who can be approach only at certain times and with bigger caution then actually working adult.

I think this is honestly what they call gamer entitlement - the idea that other people are there solely as your service and you have no duty to communicate politely.
You realize other people can drive the car?
I guess they are rolling up the child's entire lifetime of Carbon usage including all flights ever taken etc.
If I understand right, an existing user (who already has an account, and a device) wants to add a new device, they…

• On new device, make a key pair.

• On new device, log in to server and send new device's public key to server.

• Server sends approval request to old device, which includes the new device's public key.

• On old device, receive the approval request and the new device's public key. Decide to approve new device.

• On old device, take old device's _private_ key, encrypt with new device's public key, and send encrypted blob to server.

• Server relays approval message to new device.

• New device decrypts blob, and deletes its original key-pair (that was generated at the start). New device now uses old device's private key. The public key is derived from the private key.

So in the end, old device and new device have the same key pair.

Please let me know if I got that wrong!

Assuming I got it right, this strikes me as problematic, because it means that all the devices are sharing a private key. If any one device were compromised, then all past messages would be exposed; if the compromise were to go undetected, then future messages would also be compromised.