skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're just someone who contacted me, and asked for help with identity management, VMs, VPNs, OPSEC, etc, etc, etc. It's not uncommon, given how much I write online about that stuff. Sometimes, if they want too much hand holding, I request payment (Bitcoin). Sometimes I actually configure and test stuff for them, if they're willing to pay.

But I have no clue who they are, and vice versa. Indeed, I emphasize that I don't want to know anything about what exactly they're up to. They could be hobbyists like me. Or criminals. Or cops. I mean, I have no way to know. So I don't worry about it.

Basically it's TOFU. Ideally, they contact me via GnuPG encrypted email. So who they are is their public key, and an email address. Sometimes, for convenience, we more to Keybase or some other secure channel. But whatever, their identity is their public GnuPG key.
Why Pedestrian Deaths Are at a 30-Year High
It is like one of those movies that did not age well. Sort of like Mighty Ducks and Fight Club.
The iPhone would be more expensive then this aircraft if we only built 100. Just shows the value of scale.

There should be an alternative military group that tries to leverage the existing supply chain to build robust defensive weapons.

The spacex approach.
You can clearly see here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHW3sm2j0g) that Autopilot is detecting moving, stationary, stopped and oncoming vehicles.

There could be situations where this does not work accurately and that's when problems occur. If you watch closely you can even see it sometimes in this video.
This has nothing to do with predatory ads. It’s because these ad policies can be used to exclude certain races from certain housing which is illegal.
Thank you! It's definitely another feature we're looking into!
Millennials can't afford baby boomers' homes and it's creating a major problem
Disclosure I work at Kong

The comparison doesn’t fully translate because Envoy is a proxy, and Kong is a control platform that comes built on top of a proxy. We actually love envoy here, and think it’s a great product. The value that Kong brings is more up the information and abstraction stack versus just the core proxy we’re built on, which is rapidly becoming commoditized.
Any feedback is very much appreciated. I know no-one is asking for another JavaScript UI library. But I've built the features and "proven" the unparalleled performance. No empty promises here. Now I'm at your mercy.
curl -A "iswearimnotcurl" <exploit>
Most of the top earners in Silicon Valley are at FAANG companies which I assume are more C++ shops than Node startups.
The Drunken Sailor and Conservatism
I guess you don't remember Backpage getting taken down?

Facebook creates the market for these types of targeted advertising to exist, and they should have at least a basic understanding of the laws and not permit companies to advertise to certain demographics when it would be in clear violation of the law.

That's like saying, oh we were too oblivious to understand how the platform we created could be used while we still profited significantly from our mistakes in the meantime.
Yes, absolutely. I support the current unionization effort in my workplace.
ISIS has a clearly defined religious teaching and a core part of their message is using power as well as violence to push their religious teachings onto others to create a world Islamic kaliphate.

On the other hand what is being called alt right and white supremacisrs by mainstream organizations is bullshit:

- The economist called Ben Shapiro alt right today https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1111248348114...

- The guardian says Jordan Peterson is supposedly alt right https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/201...

- Bret Weinstein is supposedly alt right

And ridiculously enough Ben Shapiro is a Jew that is the biggest hate target of the alt right, and Jordan Peterson is hated by the alt right such as Richard spencer and Vox Day.
The GOP leadership, for sure. The rank and file are conservative mainly for social reasons.
Looks like pretty good code, but interesting that they only have a few dependencies and decided to implement a lot of stuff, like kernel polling, themselves rather than using the mio crate. I wonder why.

They also implemented the noise handshake in a non-generic way tightly coupled to wireguard protocol, again written themselves instead of using an external dependency, which I think is also the approach other wireguard implementations have taken.. which is fine, but harder to independently verify. There's a lot of code there.
Bwahaha, hired too many incompetents?

They have outsourced the fuck out of their projects to uh, questionable means.
So it's like the T. Rex from the original Jurassic Park movie? "He can't see you if you don't move."
I have friends that I know use keybase for work with a specific corporate account. I want to talk to them using their private account which I can't because the app only supports a single logged in user. So, is it easy or possible to have multiple accounts logged in and used at the same time? This includes that support for android also.

Maybe the chat application should be extracted into a separate more native application maybe since another "problem" I see my friends talking about is that it is too slow.
> One thing I’m very concerned about, as we try to educate the next generation of developers, and, importantly, get more diversity and inclusiveness in that new generation, is what obstacles we’re putting up for people as they try to learn programming. In many ways Stack Overflow’s specific rules for what is permitted and what is not are obstacles, but an even bigger problem is rudeness, snark, or condescension that newcomers often see.

>

> I care a lot about this. Being a developer gives you an unparalleled opportunity to write the script for the future. All the flak that Stack Overflow throws in the face of newbies trying to become developers is actively harmful to people, to society, and to Stack Overflow itself, by driving away potential future contributors. And programming is hard enough; we should see our mission as making it easier.

It's good to see that acknowledgement coming from Joel. I wasn't one of those newbies facing that snark, but as an earlier contributor it was really depressing to see the general attitude shift from "yeah OK this question's not the best but it was asked in good faith so I'll answer" to "you're a worthless human being for wasting our time with imperfection".
I wouldn't say there are a lot. Among pure PoW coins I only know of Dogecoin, Monero, and Grin. Of those, Dogecoin and Monero have tail rewards at 1% and 1.7% (respectively) of initial rewards, while Grin has an eternal emission of 1 Grin per second. Kind of shocking how it took more than 10 years for the simplest possible emission to be tried...
A LIDAR array is a requirement for automated driving. It can operate in some conditions that radar cannot. lidar, radar and computer vision should all be used in concert for best effect and Tesla knows this, but chooses/chose not to in order to meet a price point. That choice may have been the right one, I don't know.

Hacker news (and me too, to be honest) focuses on Tesla, but there are a lot of other players doing this and doing it better IMO.
I'm pretty sure at this point Apple has lost the trust of the professionals community. I personally don't think I would ever buy new equipment from Apple again. At most, I might buy a refurbished iPhone SE downgrading from my iPhone 7 (or spare parts for my iPhone 7) and spare parts for my 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro. It's simply not worth upgrading to new Apple equipment unless you have a lot of spare change burning a hole in your pocket, or you're a visual/graphic designer and your programs are Apple-specific.

This really should concern Apple. Professionals are the ones requiring the latest equipment, purchasing the highest-margin products with the highest price inelasticity (not looking for discounts), the ones most likely to advertise through word-of-mouth, and the ones contributing the most to brand value. Apple should only look at how they lost the gaming community back in the mid-2000s to Windows, and the rise of today's e-sports and streaming industries led by said professional gamers, to see what kind of impact losing just one professional community has in terms of opportunity cost.

I doubt Apple could ever be successfully commoditized because of the strength of their existing moats, but given Apple's discounts of late and inability to successfully innovate in professional hardware, they're heading more towards Wal-Mart and less towards Harrods, and that may lead to additional headaches or intangibles down the line (anti-trust worries, higher support costs and other operational expenses, decreased customer satisfaction), which all gives the impression Apple's golden age has come and gone.
Sounds like TACC is deadly, then. Can Waymo handle this situation or not?
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Being able to naively navigate city -> street -> number is incredibly useful, and that it is occasionally broken doesn't make it an undesirable feature.
I was thinking of Kongregate, which most of its users abbreviate as "Kong". Was like wow, they are really expanding!
Agreed. But more like boofing vs. dabbing.
Yes it is! It's my friend and I's first open source project for Vue...previously we only used React so we're still newish to the community.

It'd be awesome to go next time, did you get a chance to go?
What are your resources?
I wasn’t arguing about the merits of having aggressive attourneys, I was just indicating that this is a person who’s entire career is built around distorting the truth in his (or his clients) favor.
x86-64 is very non-deterministic - way too many issues can impact individual thread performance. Better go with a barrel processor design.
Would you mind to share a github or its still private wip ?
For that, the shop must be in violation of a law. I am not a lawyer, but there are plenty of cases where the crime is punishable, but goods and services involved are not, even though these are clearly designed to facilitate.
I watched the whole Ada process (a series of reports that developed into the language spec). While often criticized at the time of being 'designed by committee' that wasn't really the case, but did have a lot of people critiquing it. It was a great language once you understood how to structure your programs. I think it would have had much better uptake if there were free/open source implementations of it back then, but I don't think the DoD even considered that, so it cost quite a bit of money to experiment with it and very few students had a chance to use it.
Yes, the analysis is called definite assignment analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_assignment_analysis

It was a great victory of Java and C# to require this. Java's analysis is "buggy" and C#'s is complete.
I am a lawyer, and while I know nothing about the law in question (not even close to my specialty), I can tell you that statutes are only half of the story. The other half would be court decisions involving those statutes. We live in a common law country which means that court decisions & precedents act as law themselves. They can't just overturn a statute or ignore it, but every court decision on a statute acts as a further refinement to the law in question.

So we'd have to pull relevant case history. You can't just look at the words in a statute. Each single term of art could have a chain of cases arguing over the specific meaning of that term.
A video of something similar on in-use track: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-46828430/manila-s-tro...

>Manila's 'trolley boys'

> One way to travel in the Philippine capital, Manila, is by trolley. Passengers choose this unofficial transport service because it's quicker and cheaper than other options. For the homeless community that runs the illegal service, it puts food on the table. But it's also incredibly dangerous.
> Strange how when some foreign state censors FB or Twitter it's an outrage, but when FB or Twitter sensor people directly "there are other places".

Because a government has a monopoly on violence, while a private company has freedom of association. You're conflating two different situations that are only superficially similar.

> Social media and platforms were supposed to be open to society (hence "social")

Yep, and that didn't work out so well. Hence, the bans.
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> My system has a simple and clever way to equally represent the dense equatorial regions and the sparse arctic and antarctic regions, and that equals shorter codes.

> With pencil and paper, you'll be able to figure out how to go N, E, S, W by X distance by adjusting a particular character.

Topologically speaking, I am intrigued :)
But for the interview they would just need a travel visa right? If they were accepted they would still need to travel to the US and have the same issue they did prior?
I saw you give a talk about bikeshedding in APIs at Great Wide Open in Atlanta a few years ago.

I don't know why but after that talk I always assumed you played a role in some of the language design.
If they don’t use the App Store and that’s the only way that they can get apps, then why would you spend time and money supporting them?
That's the problem. The branches of the US military are based on theater of operation, rather than mission.

Close aerial ground support is 100% a different mission profile than for air superiority fighters and air defense batteries.

If I were commander in chief, I would move most of the military to a new Logistics Corps, and put it in charge of all unit and cargo transport, aerial refueling, airdrops, at-sea resupply, construction and fortifications, vehicles maintenance, and permanent base buildings and facilities. Next, the nuclear triangle of long-range bombers, ballistic missile silos, and missile submarines would go into the Strategic Deterrents Corps, along with ballistic missile defenses, launch detection satellites, strategic-threat tracking radars, and hypersonic cruise missiles. The rest can go into Offense, Defense, and Special Teams, or any other arrangement they please. Once logistics, diplomacy, and strategic advantage are already taken care of, the tactics should be adaptable to the conditions of the conflict at hand.
Are these towns near a time zone line, that find it more convenient to be in the time zone of a nearby large city on the other side?

I've seen both, and neither.

Sometimes it's it's because they're in a deep valley and the sun rises much later than the rest of the zone they're in.
Ask HN: Do you use Bureau van Dijk services?
Do chineese people wanting a homeland in their own country make them chinese supremacists? No. But you believe it does when white people do, and the contradiction makes your head spin. Thats called cognative dissonance.
If a poor person acts in a self destructive manner, it is not societies fault, it is their own. Trying to find excuses for them isn't helping them and is in fact actively harmful.

The usefulness of Stoicism comes from accepting the difficulties of life and dealing with them without indulging in excess with the excuse that it's for "self-care".

When you fail and blame others, you fail again and again, because you can't learn what the root cause is in order to change your approach.

I'm not saying that being poor is easy; I know first hand that it's not. I'm saying that the fact that it's not easy is the point and reason to adopt Stoicism.
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In this case it actually makes sense because it's not easy to find a non-paywalled version of the paper.
Cost, culture.

Ada compilers, versus Rust, used to cost a lot of money. Rust is novel so it doesn't have that historical baggage and reputation associated with it.

People view Ada as verbose (it is, I won't disagree), but it's not that cumbersome (in my experience). And reading it is a pleasure compared to reading a lot of other code. From a maintenance perspective, I greatly prefer it to C.

Static analysis tools and coding practices have made C and C++ safer languages than they used to be, even if they're not innately safe languages (or designed with safety in mind) as with Ada and Rust. So this mitigates the need (though drives up the costs if you want to do it right) to use a safer language in the fields that really care about safety.
This kind of overlooks that the cost of the aircraft isn't entirely in the original production and (possible) training of pilots. They also require a large ground team burning several man-hours for every hour that they are in the air. The problem with the mass AI fighter drone scenario is that the logistics chain and maintenance costs kill you.
How about instead of a one-stop-shop social network, we go back to the random topic-specific forums of yesteryear? It decentralizes discussion, allows individuals to freely associate among themselves, and doesn't result in a "one size fits all" mentality when it comes to moderation.
SO is like Amazon, I don't like using it, I don't want to use it, but its so big it's unavoidable. The culture on SO is pretty bad, while it might be better than the Q&A sites of yesteryear it's not a lot better.
Talk about increasing shareholder value!

The result of:

(num_person-hours_saved_by_SO * num_of_developers_in_world * dev_hourly_rate)

must be staggering. I'm sure companies around the world can point to SO for a non-trivial percentage of bottom line revenue.

And forget about the bean counters for a sec: as a DEV, SO saves so much pain that I have no idea what I did before it came to be.

SO is truly doing God's work (and I'm not a religious man).
That reminds me of my dad's recollections of working with Engineers (of what branch, I'm not sure) in the oil refinery he worked at for ~30 years.

He was a pipefitter and he almost said what you just said word-for-word on a regular basis. If he had any corrections—well—he's just a lowly pipefitter, he can't be correct. Then he'd go out, work to their spec, the system would fail and he'd have to be called back in for overtime to fix it when they adjusted the spec to suit the problems he originally pointed out.

Nothing new under the sun, huh.
Not sure how you got that from what I typed.

The fact is the 4 coordinates (two numeric, two with the stupid "N/S/E/W" corresponding with traditional), decimal points, and reverse order from an X,Y coordinate system, are hardly easy to memorize. They're next to impossible to memorize.

What part of pencil and paper didn't come across?
Yeah and Ill argue that in todays current environment thats the “correct” business decision because thats how all the forces line up to push you.
I wonder if it’s just a matter of when you come of age online. I’d say the same thing about it once being cute and fun, except 5-10 years earlier.
Who has time to watch a 30 minute video with no summary and no idea what it's really going to be about?

It might be great, but I'm not going to gamble 30 minutes of time on it on the off-chance it might tell me something new and valuable.

Video is just such a crap medium when unsupported by a decent text overview.
TECO users look down upon you with scorn and contempt.
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You don't have to worry about most small cell towers, since they are usually directional (pointed towards the ground to maximize signal coverage) and relatively low power. In the countryside with tall towers that cover tens of kilometers... well... it's kind of hard to miss those with a missile.
Manila's 'Trolley Boys' [video]
A better approach would be to focus on making more and more improvements to level 1 autonomy. The driver would be hands-on all the time, but the computer would intervene as necessary to prevent collisions. We already have some of that with forward collision prevention systems, blind spot warning, stability control, etc. Just keeping improving those systems by adding more sensors and authority over more vehicle controls.

Level 4+ autonomy is only going to be viable on a few limited roads for decades to come. The AI and sensor challenges are tremendous. We shouldn't let that long-term goal distract us from real safety improvements that could be realized relatively quickly with minimal technical risk.
These platforms can be overrun by a majority of discriminatory ads. I remember using Craigslist about a decade ago to rent housing in Virginia. Over half the ads easily contained some kind of gender, age, family or religious discrimination (interestingly enough I never saw an ad that explicitly listed race, I suspect that is because explicit racial discrimination is so taboo people used more implicit means of discrimination).
The market didn't demand a high survival rate or efficacy for barbering either, but do you think that the (conscious or unconscious) that software engineers are some sort of magical wizards will last forever?
Razer Blade 15 for me now from my Air instead of a future Pro
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Climbing down the slippery rocks to the cave, the team spotted remnants of a destroyed shipping container - and soon, between the rocks, Garfield phones - in a more complete condition than any found before them.

This sounds like a Nancy Drew book in real life.
Look, this keyboard thing is a huge stain on their reputation. But I think you vastly overestimate all the other vendors in this space.
I may have misread but I read “actual backblaze” as their $5/mo per-machine backup service

I do indeed use B2 for my personal Linux backups
Using NLP to gain insights from employee review data
I think this is the death knell of most people trying to casually pick up Ada or most used-but-not-extremely-popular languages from the 70's and 80's, our expectation of doing something meaningful and sensible has just moved so far that not having the supporting libraries means a lot of upfront work. I think I've gotten stuck here for LISP, getting back into Pascal, Ada, and probably some other languages I wanted to experiment building a modest size application with.

It really shows how valuable having that very active and mature core library or managed package library is to a language. I did the same learning path as the prior poster but then just ended up stuck.
Aptiv releases industry's largest public dataset for autonomous driving
I can only speak for my mid-2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and the whole pad is clearly flexible and very slightly sprung (and yes, it's made of glass - thin glass is quite flexible). You can see it flex and bend by looking across it while deflecting it - it's most easily seen by looking at the gap around the edge of the pad, between the pad and the laptop casing, while deflecting it close to the edge. The gap varies as the pad is deflected.

What it doesn't do is haptic feedback when it's turned off. There's no click. I infer that's because the click works by applying a mechanical kick back close to the point of deflection. Your finger wouldn't feel it as a click if there was no mechanical movement at all. A bit like a speaker: speakers are mechanical devices too.

https://ifixit.org/blog/7084/force-touch-track-pad/

> we’re pretty sure the magic pressure sensors in the new Force Touch trackpad are tiny strain gauges. Mounted on flexing metal supports, they detect the amount of flex on each—and based on that, the force from above.

Flexing = movement.
Word Influence Analysis Tool ‘SyncedLeg’ Open-Sourced
More Than a Third of China Is Now Invested in One Giant Mutual Fund
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Now, they need to actually do a an April fools joke! We have replaced bing.com with clippy.com, its more handy
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
I think the point you make about walled gardens needs to be addressed more than it is. It seems to have become normalized across all platforms and that is disturbing.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise of a walled garden when there are no other options to install on a device.

The web is the only freedom devs have left and even that is starting to erode - article 13, neutrality etc.