skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is impressive. Despite other comments going against the intelligence of recruiters, I got no doubt everyone (even without tech background) will get the point of why this is cool.

if you're interested in Polygots the POC||GTFO¹ pdf's have you covered.

Volume 0x07 is a PDF, a Zip file, a BPG (Better Portable Graphics) and an HTML file all in one.

Even crazier than pocorgtfo07.pdf, the pocorgtfo16.pdf is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a Bash script that runs a Python webserver which hosts Kaitai Struct’s WebIDE which, allows you to view the file’s own annotated bytes. The zip archive has further resources to insane reversing deep dives, code to study and more.

For me this is art!

[¹] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
In the SECs defense they are badly understaffed. There are 4300 SEC employees; finance is now 9% of GDP.
I don't think there's much regulation for 3rd party alarms. You could regulate the OBD-II port I suppose. Some manufacturers isolate it from the more dangerous internal CAN bus, others don't. Though these high end alarms can be hooked into that too.
You are aware that -W turns on more warnings that -Wall?

Be glad they fixed it, sometime back, so "-W -Wall" doesn't turn off the extra -W warnings.
The only thing in common is Windows in the name.

Kernel is unrelated, .NET version are unrelated, there is a sandbox in place, COM has been redone, only a Win32 subset is supported.
IMO Tesla does not have the hardware on the Model 3 to do full self-driving.

I believe that stereopsis (multiple cameras using parallax to solve for per-pixel depth) is necessary to get a practical, well-functioning self driving system working. LIDAR is just too expensive and not good enough, but stereopsis is extremely flexible and can have extremely high angular resolution.

Combine naive stereopsis with temporally-coherent sensor fusion (e.g. a well-designed Kalman filter), and I think you could have very robust ranging. Humans are already very good at this with two narrowly spaced eyes (stereopsis to 1/4 mile range is not unreasonable for a person)-- but a car is not limited to a 1.5 inch stereo baseline; it could have a stereo cameras on opposite sides of the windshield. That would hugely increase the depth sensitivity, even at moderate resolution-- parallax can be detected well below the Nyquist limit (since Nyquist cuts off frequency, but does not destroy phase).

Tesla is totally failing at even the basic level of environment awareness (c.f. cars which have been driving into exit dividers), which is what I consider to be the easy part of self-driving (the hard part is getting the machine to participate in a nonverbal social environment, which is what the roadway is). Rumor has it that Teslas can't detect obstacles far enough ahead to avoid them at more than 30mph-- absolutely abysmal, if true.

If it were me, I would put cameras on the Tesla windshield in this pattern:

xXoO OoXx

Where x and o are long-range and wide-field cameras, and caps and lowercase are dynamically exposure-adjusted to capture both brights and darks. Each pair has the largest possible parallax baseline. And I would do a big, fat sensor fusion on all eight of them to get a high-res, depth-augmented HDR map of the surroundings. No fancy, expensive sensors. Just a large number of cheap cameras and sophisticated software. Maybe do some tricks with cycling 'attention' or multi-res hierarchies to keep the computation load down and realtime.

Tesla has only three cameras with different FOVs and a very narrow baseline-- I doubt they are doing stereopsis. And I don't think they can do the job without it.
Analyzing kernel crash dumps comes tro my mind as a feature that seems windbg only.
A more visually illustrative implementation of the prediction mechanism can be found here: https://roadtolarissa.com/oracle/

Both cite that same "Aaronson Oracle" as the source inspiration.
> Spacex only very recently got their closed cycle engine working, the pinnacle of rocket efficiency, catching up to, again, early 1970s Russian technology.

The Raptor is the first functional full-flow staged-combustion methalox engine, and it's already been successfully fired. By some measures, that surpasses both Soyuz technology and the RS-25. Of course, we have yet to see what their true Isp and T/M numbers will turn out to be, but they do plan to use multi-stage (including a refuel in LEO) with separately tuned engines on each. The overall performance (i.e. tons to Moon and beyond) will be very interesting to see.
School board members stay in 4-star hotel and charge it to taxpayers
I didn’t hear anything about the 10k grants to startup school attendees. Did this happen?
I'm looking at that Google report link and it says, for 2017 Tech, 39.2% asian, 53.2% white, whatever that means.

It's worth mentioning that for 2017 leadership, the Google numbers are significantly different: 26% asian, 68% white (and 75% male). So the decision making is still quite white and male.
Created a throwaway account for this. As a foreigner who has spent significant time living the US, indeed this seems like the kind of mealy-mouthed, somewhat vapid meta-commentary about "unity" that offers nothing more than some soundbyte call for some abstract value (in this case "better disagreement").

It doesn't address, for example, the fact that the two political factions in America now accept different versions of reality. You cannot square that circle with "better disagreement". You cannot paper over a disagreement on the nature of fundamental facts with simplistic calls for a better discourse.

To offer the most salient example: the question of whether or not the President of the country, with the help of his party and a major media outlet, is conspiring with a foreign dictatorship to undermine the democratic integrity of the country.

One demographic believes the above to be true. The other either does not believe it to be true, or alternatively does not believe it to matter even if true.

This is not some issue that can be simply bridged with "better disagreement". I'm sorry, that's just something you don't get to do.

To offer another example: whether the former President of the united states was indeed an illegitimate candidate due to not being a natural born citizen.

One side believes this to be true, the other does not.

This disconnect on reality exists across the spectrum, and the lines are harshly drawn.

If Americans cannot acknowledge that this schism in their country is arising out of a fundamental and deep disconnect on facts and reality that is widening on a day by day basis, not some mere "communication issue", they will never truly be able to understand and address it.
ChromeOS is not part of anything, other than US school system and Googleplex.

Contrary to what gets discussed on HN, its worldwide desktop coverage is even lower than GNU/Linux.
Seeing the comments about incompatibility above, I wonder if docx would be a better format for such a "polyglot format CV". AFAIK docx is a ZIP, and in a ZIP file the header/directory is located at the end of the file, so technically the beginning of the file can be "garbage".

(Not tested)

Edit: rereading, I also did not mean to imply the boot loader = garbage :) More that bytes that comprise a boot loader would look like garbage to the ZIP format.
Services can also go down when the infrastructure is up too.

Self hosted solution can give that responsibility away though.
SpaceX lands and reuses orbital class rockets for real-life missions.
How can I train an RNN to OCR my scribbles? It would be the perfect mix of physical paper and digital notes.
Yes, the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Can you explain how? In many cases when a "generalized result" comes out there was already a generalized result that covered all but obscure corner cases.
Exponential curves are unnatural. If there is something that constrains growth--such as physical laws about energy constraints--then you'll get a sigmoid curve instead. And it does seem that we're on the slowdown section of that curve for computers. Meanwhile, in biology, we can summarize most of the research results of the past few decades as "it turns out that this is more complex than we thought it was."
Was thinking to try this out as a self hosted solution but requires a domain.

Demo looked ok.

https://github.com/cydrobolt/polr
Regardless of whether or not it’s a good measuring stick to see who to hire (it’s probably not), I feel like DP is something that ought to be in a professional programmer’s toolbox.

I’m an embedded developer too, and I end up reaching for DP every year or two. I think I probably use it _more_ because I’m in embedded: if I was willing to accept harder to analyze memory requirements and runtime performance, which I almost always am outside of embedded, most things I’ve solved with DP I could have more swiftly solved by composing algorithms and data structures from the standard library.
The junk, including Candy Crush, was never downloaded or installed on your system. Those were just tiles that, if clicked on, would download and install them.
Could you add your twitter or contact page on the product page which I can use to reach out to you?
Anyone valuing startups on GAAP earnings is an investor who will never invest in a startup. Appreciating it as a measure in this context is not a virtue.
First stress kills, so the heath benifits are meaningful.

Second, these systems are adding redundancy. As both the system and human driver needs to fail which means someone that’s only paying attention 98% of the time can still cover for 49 out of 50 times the system fails. Current data suggests a net gain in safety which is likely to improve as these systems mature.
Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respiratory Illness, and Income
Nice straw man and appeal to emotions. Health care providers are already required to be vaccinated (at least in my state). That’s a perfectly reasonable condition of employment for that profession.
I certainly hope hazardous weather conditions go the way of small data caps.
If the job can be done on a single node, there is absolutely no reason to use hadoop or spark or anything of the sort.
Airbnb employee identified as victim of fatal bike accident in SF SoMa district
The bank for the best high school hackathons in the world
OSX has native smart card support

When you have opensc installed it will detect your yubikey as a smartcard and ask if you want to unlock your computer with it

:edit: you also need to go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Advanced > Turn on screen saver when login token is removed
Yeah, but -Wextra has some options that I consider to be of dubious value.
I took it the same way. If there is a better way to judge the true financial prospects of a company we should be taxing them accordingly.

My point was that GAAP is probably the best we're going to do because of the consistency problems.

The moment you start applying special rules or caveats per company you stop being able to compare companies properly as an investor, at which point the measure becomes useless as a talking point as well as being useless for tax calculations.

My original post was framed against tax because it doesn't really make a difference. If the new method is good enough for comparison between companies it's good enough to replace GAAP - unless it's not.
I'd recommend mend throwing Elixir on this list. It's similar to go and it has the Erlang ecosystem to build off of. The language is very mature and nearing a level of feature completion. It's got HA, concurrency, and robotics support with nerves.

I've spent so much time focusing on it after coming from Ruby and I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed with my experiences.
Where is any of that discussion even being had anymore? The once vaulted values of the right you profess have been co-opted by the singular motivating force of demonizing and owning the libs. The old guard of conservatism has been reduced to mumbling around the fringes about this thing or the other. And you do not see any such talk in close proximity to the current power center of that party.

In fact, that power center is now a cult of personality.

So, seriously, why are we acting like there is any real debate as to the old ideological differences?
> As a sanity check, the fact that no other intelligent life has been observed is evidence that it is unlikely.

I'm not sure this is particularly useful. It could be like a medieval European saying land to the west of the Atlantic doesn't exist, because they've never once seen it through their looking glasses.

How far could we detect intelligent life, say on a similar level of current humans? If it is based off of radio ways, we would only be able to detect life within a 100 light year radius of earth, which is merely 2% of the way across our galaxy.
You're going against the scientific consensus if you're suggesting animals don't have any emotions. Do you have any reason to believe that they don't?

Whether tigers hunting for survival is immoral seems entirely tangential to whether animals can feel.
It's some old good news, but 2018 or 2019. Results would be really interesting.
Ohh! That's great. It's a good step to boost the students skills
The $50 Ham: Getting Your Ticket Punched
> it will probably outlive the json

your comment reminds of of a hilarious but very true ringing anecdote here¹ about json and 'The Sins of the Father' :-)

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708617#8709223
It'd be ironic if the great filter was that "population required for development and construction of interstellar travel" is very close to "population at which civilizations exhaust their resources and collapse."
So some of the biggest H-1B proponents are racists. I'm shocked!

I thought the H-1B critics were supposed to be the racist ones.
Automated Security Analysis of AWS Cloud
w00t! thanks. Last tried this 4+ years ago on a kickstarter yubilike device, it didn't work well.
Reviewing Modern JavaScript Applications
I too think it’s an awesome project, I wasn’t going to comment because I didn’t have anything to add so I thought I’d say how neat it was in this thread ;)
You miss the obvious driver who is not an Uber driver only but one who is an Uber driver as a side hustle. This person owns a car for their own reasons, they want to drive around and have access to a vehicle. They 'rent' that expense to Uber which comes out of their compensation.

Here is another way to look at it. Someone who rents their apartment on AirBnB for one week a month which generates enough revenue to pay their rent, and they live in the apartment the other weeks of the month. This arbitraging of costs is similar to what Uber drivers do.

If Uber were to shift completely to self driven cars, all of their arbitrage ability would be lost, as the full costs of the cars would then be on their books. Now if the business model of having cars available 24hrs a day and there was no drivers fee allowed them to be profitable, that would be an interesting model. Of course one of the things that is going to happen in self driven cars will be things like drunk people throwing up all over the car, resulting in the car being out of service while someone cleans it. Or being defrauded when someone steals a phone and tells a self driving uber to drive them to the next state so they can sleep in the back seat. Then you are back to a security guard who is watching cameras of cars, but how many do you need of those? What do they get paid, are they 'contractors' or employees?

I'm rooting for them to change the world for the better but I've been unable to guess at a business model that would allow them to be profitable yet.
Khan Academy has everything from basic addition to multivariable calculus and linear algebra. All free and online.

https://www.khanacademy.org/
Well, did Ford not just basically quit cars, but for one model?

Watch GM do a similar thing.

Yes, they want to sell and for the reason you gave.

I am saying they will not do anywhere near as well with fully self deiving cars. The ownership incentives are very different.
This a really big announcement for the crypto market and it is going to affect the market hugely in
quite a lot of ways.goodjob
This is not going to save you either. To have this be efficient, the compiler needs to prove many things: for example, that the end iterator and the current iterator come from the same base object. Compilers don't do this, because comparing iterators from two different objects is UB.
Depends on the experience level of the interviewee. If they are fresh out of school I expect them to know algorithms and data structures and maybe some specific topic they studied at an advanced level (like compilers, db, graphics, etc). If they are 5-10 years into a career, they should have a lot of knowledge about whatever it is they've been doing. If someone says they have 5 years of Android programming, I'm going to ask them a lot of Android API questions as well as Java.

In either case, there are questions that have multiple difficulties of responses. The more experienced/capable they are, the more nuanced and complete their answers will be. For example, ask a Java person how GC actually works. Most people have very little idea, but the best talent knows a good bit more.

But there are other variables. I've known perfectly intelligent and productive coders who took months to build a really complex well architected system that didn't solve the business problem and hence were a bad hire.
I’ve been using Terraform a lot lately and aside from no debugger and even line numbers on errors, I wish it had used a real language and had usable errors like this. Great too see, it’s the human computers that are the most expensive to run so you don’t want to waste their time.
+1 to what he said. What many people complain that their Developer is bad, is mostly because of lack of business process and communicating clearly to the dev. Many small businesses still operate with the mindset that throw requirements to the other side and get back fully working bug free code which rarely works.
I'm interested in kawa for scripting an application I'm trying to make in java/scala. Scala's Ammonite somehow works too and I just wrote one of those dirty hacks to wrap an ammonite repl running in a term window so I could use ammonite's completion and execution in an org-mode buffer to explore/script things. However, sometimes lisps make interactive exploring a little simpler and that's why I initially embedded clojure.
Clojure's emacs tooling is spectacular, so much that it feels like I'm actually extending emacs with java libraries. But with clojure I had 2 problems:

- embedding a clojure repl the usual way after the update to java 11 started giving some error I couldn't solve. Sure, I could just juse java 8. Or use my project as a jar dependency, but doing java -jar ... and already having a nRepl server running is simpler than adding a jar to the classpath from a repl

- licensing: I still don't know which license to use between bsd/apache and gpl, but in case I go with the gpl there is that epl/gpl incompatibility for distribution. However, even for this I think there are workarounds that would be ok for my case

The point is that kawa doesn't have these last 2 problems at all, and writing geiser support is a good elisp practice that also produces something that may reveal itself useful later.

And that's why I'm interested in continuing the geiser-kawa attempt that https://gitlab.com/mthl posted at https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55.
I evaluated several other languages/platforms before choosing java, but eventually only java and javascript had the killer library. I went java.
I've raised dozens of dogs, and like humans, some need some coaching about good behavior and some get along just fine without ever needing discipline.

That's a separate issue from the one I raised, namely that animals display species-oriented preference in their dietary range, and that for some animals this preference can be emotionally/socially based.
Good faith breeds good faith, and bad faith breeds bad faith.
Modum is hiring interns in zurich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
Yesterday, I booked a cab to go home, and rather than taking a right turn from the main highway to my home which was around 2.5km away, and there was no traffic (it was 1 AM), Google Maps recommended a route which essentially took an inward spiral route to my home (crossing one other highway, two main roads). And then charged me double the amount. I disputed the charge, and they instantaneously refunded the extra charge (wtf? Why charge in the first place?)
Is there any easy way to know if you suffer vitamin D defeciency? I'm in Vancouver, and especially at this time of year you end up inside for pretty much all the daylight hours Monday-Friday.
I can’t, but I can say:

1) Heidi Howard’s papers are very fun to read. She’s done lots of work I’ve enjoyed esp wrt Raft
2) She touches on two things in this story’s paper that I first read in another paper of hers that are a joy to realize for two reasons a) She made a practical improvement in the already simple Raft protocol b) quorum != (obvious) majority - in (eg) Raft she identifies that quorum actually spans two states, which are

* leader election and

* “regular” mode with a leader and requisite # followers

Read/watch on and be amazed[0][1]

[0] http://hh360.user.srcf.net/blog/2016/08/majority-agreement-i...

[1] https://youtu.be/gYkueS5sKqo
...which leads immediately to the question of whether they're using the fact that HDDs have multiple platters.
> Saying "fuck that and fuck you" to anyone who supports that system is a reasonable reaction, in my opinion.

Why is saying "men can't be women" considered hate speech, and "fuck you" is not. One conveys unreasoned aggression, while the other is a clumsy attempt to state objective truth.
I did not know about this! I agree this is art! I am bookmarking this to check it in more detail, thanks!
Ignoring antifa’s role in this is a bit disingenuous.
The first part of your post reminded me of this quote from Futurama.

Professor Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure!

Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?

Professor Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
Thanks :) actually the positive comments such as yours are very valuable when people present their work, and I appreciate them.
I support most of the liberal platform, but in recent years a large portion of the party's base has turned into a cesspool of hatred, cynicism, and thoughtless reactionism. We used to be the party of idealism and belief in people's basic goodness. What the hell happened?