skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the article it says a SpaceX rocket brought them into space in the first place
Technology in North Korea
More complete article: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613277/chinese-scientists...
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Twitter Tracking You in Incognito Mode – Using Window.Alert()
Slick new AR indoor navigation app coming to iOS soon – 9to5Mac
Yeah the SEC force them to be brutally honest.

"We have previously received a high degree of negative media coverage around the world, which has adversely affected our brand and reputation and fueled distrust of our company. In 2017, the #DeleteUber campaign prompted hundreds of thousands of consumers to stop using our platform within days. Subsequently, our reputation was further harmed when an employee published a blog post alleging, among other things, that we had a toxic culture and that certain sexual harassment and discriminatory practices occurred in our workplace. Shortly thereafter, we had a number of highly publicized events and allegations, including investigations related to a software tool allegedly designed to evade and deceive authorities, a high-profile lawsuit filed against us by Waymo, and our disclosure of a data security breach."
Wow, we're finally seeing all of these exact charts and figures that have been secret for so long. The easily digestible charts start on page 98.
I didn't know much about Dissenter until I Googled it just now, and it looks like its audience is primarily folk on the far/alt-right. Hell, it was created by Gab[1].

Given the rhetoric that is often found in comments from those groups, it's not too hard to imagine that the complaints Mozilla cited as the reasons for removal are legitimate.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#Dissenter
I think it's important to note that if the Citizen's Commission members were identified within the 5 years after the theft, they would have been tried and jailed. That's the risk you take. They kept their silence about their identities for over 40 years.
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I love this quote:

> Assange may be an asshole. Scratch that, Assange is an asshole. But we’re going to have to stand up for him anyway.

That being said, the more I read into the story, the harder and harder it is to defend him.
If you have to create a special message board that is the only place where you can say what you want to, perhaps you should think about what you are saying.

This is so obviously not an issue of "free speech." Free speech means the government cannot prosecute you for what you say. Any company can tell you to fuck off for any reason though, and that's the free market all the "free speech" advocates love so much.
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I don't think any of those examples are edge cases. The first set are normal traffic conditions that in the context of self-driving cars are easy to solve, especially in narrowed conditions such as on a highway. Moreover, mid-range cars already have collision warning and automatic braking systems. As to your example of traction issues, pretty much every modern car that I'm aware of has had computer assisted traction control systems for a while now.

The edge cases that are difficult essentially boil down to entity recognition; unexpected and moving obstacles, road sign changes, traffic light outages or alternate signal pathways and the like. Some of those definitely would require government level coordination which is about a lot more than technology.
> People are presumed innocent until the facts are known.

Inside the justice system, yes. I am not a part of the justice system, and I have every right to have my own opinion. I'm suspending my personal judgement until I feel I have a better handle on what's happened.
I don't really understand why they don't "teleport". There are additional ways to get to a point ahead of a slowed down train with a replacement train, right? When you see one is dragged down too much and starts clogging, introduce a new train in front that jumps in at an expected schedule, then slowly empty the old train and take it out of the loop when its empty.

I haven't seen that but I'm not sure why its not done. I don#t think it will be more expensive in the long run than increasing slack. And the service experience and maintenance level is increased drastically.
Does it matter if they do the same thing (or worse) openly or covertly?

Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...

China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Yingying_Zhan...
None of those were asked to navigate and interact on roads with non-autonomous vehicles. That's the hard part I'm referring to. Simply staying in the lanes and taking the right turns is relative easy compared to figuring out what the people in the other vehicles are going to do. If you set the bar such that they never misread the situation then yeah, that's going to make the job effectively impossible. If you set the bar at "as good as an attentive but not very smart human" then I think we can make it in a reasonable timeframe.

FWIW I know of at least one company that's developing their autonomous vehicles with a remote piloting feature. In the event that the vehicle runs into a situation it cannot handle control is passed to human operators in cubicles that take over control of the vehicle on the spot and release control only after clearing the obstacle and the on-board autonomy gives the green light. They also had ambitions to record what the human operator did and program that into other vehicles into the fleet on the fly as they approach the obstacle. It sounded very ambitious (and data hungry) to me, but is probably the only way to fully remove the controls from the vehicle cabin in the foreseeable future.
Pride comes before a fall. (scnr)
>The fuzzy finder’s project crawling performance has been improved dramatically by switching to a ripgrep-powered backend. This is most noticeable in projects with large numbers of files - for example, we measured a 14x speed boost in a project with 270K files.

Another leaf out of VS Code's book?
Building a vision-controlled car using Raspberry Pi from scratch
"We do the right thing. Period."
As they say, space is hard and SpaceIL is hardly the first to have lost a lander.

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

It came tantalizingly close to working, though, and I have high hopes for future attempts. Per aspera ad astra.
Contrast with Elon Musk saying the next launch of the Falcon Heavy (today) has a 5-10% chance of failure. [1] This is after it has already successfully launched once.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1115998728878321672
I feel the same way here in DC. Both as a pedestrian and as a driver. (For example, the other day my wife and I were trying to cross a street and nearly got hit by a bicyclist going the wrong way in the lane. Of course, I was looking for cars following the rules and didn’t think to look for a bicycle coming from the other direction.)
> *according to the US laws that govern freedom of speech, etc.

He's an Australian currently in the UK though. I don't like the global reach of US laws.
Chandrayaan-1's Moon Impact Probe was an impactor, not a lander.
going 75-80 on I-80 isn't speeding. that's the pace of traffic even in the slow lanes. people do slow to like 70-75 if there is a highway patrol car nearby but since speed limits aren't really enforced 80 is the de-facto limit. and since cars are no longer the greatest cause of death in the US, they gotta let it go to cull the herd a bit and get that death rate up. (/s)
"We have incurred significant losses since inception and may never achieve profitability" is pretty standard in S-1s. Nothing particularly interesting in these sentences.
OpenAI is hiring an engineering/research manager
Note:

- Expected to be teh largest IPO this year in the US.

- 10th largest all time

- trying to raise around $10B

- 2018 Year Ended Revenue $11.27 billion

- 2018 Year Ended Net Income $997 million

- 2017 Year End lost $4.03 billion.

- 10 billion trips in September 2018, up from 5 billion in September 2017

- Gross Bookings From Ridesharing $41.5 billion in 2018

- Revenue From Ridesharing Products $9.2 Billion in 2018

- List under UBER, good ticker!!

- 29 banks listed as underwriting the IPO, for those of you wondering, yes that is alot. Like 20+ more than a typical IPO.

From Bloomberg:

- 2018, Uber's operating loss totaled $3.03 billion, however it technically turned a profit in 2018, generating $997 million in net income. That's thanks to a $5 billion "other income" benefit.

Other Income is defined as:

- Interest income, which consists primarily of interest earned on our cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents.

- Gain on divestitures, which consists of gain on sale of divested operations.

- Unrealized gain on investments, which consists primarily of gains from fair value adjustments relating to our investments such as our investment in Didi.

- Foreign currency exchange gains (losses), net, which consist primarily of remeasurement of transactions and monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency at the end of the period.

- Change in fair value of embedded derivatives, which consists primarily of gains and losses on embedded derivatives related to our Convertible Notes.

- Other, which consists primarily of changes in the fair value of warrants and income from forfeitures of warrants.

- Lyft now at $61/share, ouch, there just is no other way to put it. THey pulled a lot of financial engineering tricks to boost their IPO price and well the results speak for themselves:(

Biggest Surprise to me:

- Uber Eats comes in at $165 million for Q4, for comparison Ride sharing generated a total of $2.5B in net revenue, the rest being ride sharing.

- So Uber is not really all that diversified in terms of ride sharing vs other, they are essentially Lyft in more markets.
I don't think the fact that he once worked with a sincere whistleblower to release information in the public interest should automatically excuse anything else he may have done.
FWIW, I have never encountered the concept of the "American race". Are you sure it's actually a thing? To me the line from American Dad's theme song seems like a joke (since America has many races).
Atom's user interface feels more ergonomic. Atom can show panels on the left and right at the same time, so you can set it up to have the file explorer on the left, and Git on the right, enabling you to work without having to switch between views. The small buttons for quickly folding panels are also a nice touch.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/26777
So they pushed manning to get her arrested again and breach her immunity so that they could get to assange. Clever.
It might be a stretch to call it a landing, but the LCROSS mission maneuvered a Centaur upper stage to a controlled crash on the moon. IIRC it was done at night so that telescopes on Earth could see it, but none actually did.

Actual landers tend to try to land during lunar day, to take advantage of the warmer temperatures and to have sunlight to recharge batteries.
You have two tee shirts and some random dude on hacker news eternal gratitude — me.
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If you really want to see cycling mecca, you've of course got to go to Amsterdam, but it does at least sound like we're better here than in Austin. Though of course there's still much more work to be done.
I've been involved in enough government stuff to know that resources like that don't get spent unless the target is _really_ bad.

The FBI often refers cases with single digit millions in losses to state and local, because the SAs are busy with bigger cases.
Deport to Sweden then deport to the USA was the scheme Assange was afraid of IIRC. Something about Sweden having a stronger deportation treaty than the UK...
I didn't notice any condescension in the article. I thought it was fairly positive towards the mission. Also, India was mentioned in the article.
Not to mention 0.1% of the budget!
But you're still having an engine failure when the engine is far away from anyone that could potentially start mending it.
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If that's the case, then document.querySelector works like a charm.
That's very interesting although I'm not sure we fit their criteria. We are certainly interested in making our badges as recognized as possible.
I wonder if someone connected to Uber has been trying to support the Lyft price. Given its still tanking it must be costing them loads.
Disagree to agree here. It should really be how things can work. We have the opportunity and possibly the unity to get together on a vision for mankind for the first time in history. Obviously there are challenges, but if all people got to vote in their respective democraties for a global push to space - I would be surprised to not see it approved.
This exact comment chain seemingly occurs in every S1 post.
They could fail to ignite if you were attempting a burn from a stable orbit into another orbit.
I miss your comments on slashdot.
Certainly, but would it have been morally (not legally) correct to have had them tried and jailed? Personally, I would have said no, in that their actions were clearly in the interest of the greater public and uncovered illegal actions on the part of the state. This is a difficult question though; I have not made up my mind entirely as to where the boundary lies.
Well, he allegedly attempted to hack into US computers, right? If a US citizen hacked into Australian servers, they could be extradited from the UK as well.
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There have been steady improvements for the FFI and macro system and I hope that continues. Both of those are important for C integration.
What bugs me is this statement:

> Summary is: an attacker accessed the production infra that runs (link: http://matrix.org) matrix.org, hence the rebuild. Source code & packages are unaffected.

> We do not think user data was targeted, but are playing it safe.

They don't think "user data was targeted"? I mean chat is super sensible information, how can you assume this?

What could have been the case is that their possible vulnerable Wordpress instance got compromised?

I hope they had their Linux host properly secured, judging by their documentation on hosting I don't see their strengths in hosting infrastructure, but I don't know who is actually hosting this infrastructure.

https://www.shodan.io/host/104.20.20.236

https://www.shodan.io/host/104.20.21.236

PS: Kudos for their quick public communication, I hope there is going to be a recap soon.
This was an extremely low budget mission. Live video is of course doable, but probably not with the budget.
The prime minister of Isreal announced they'll try again in two years. So that judgment may be a little premature.

Regardless knowledge transfer isn't limited to either of those.
“Planet of the Apes” is not part of the title.
NickServ always felt like a terrible hack to me. It doesn't help that some major servers have incredibly stingy limits on NickServ too. I've had usernames age out after only a week, and the registration process is fairly cumbersome. Plus it involves sending a password in plaintext over the network, which never felt good.
From the article:

> But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit.

> The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from Antarctica to Chile, involved a team of more than 200 scientists.

> "No one of us could've done it alone," she told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds."

> "We're a melting pot of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, and that's what it took to achieve something once thought impossible," Dr Bouman says.
We have a Honda with similar system. It can be annoying in heavy traffic, but wow is it amazing on long drives between cities. There's no more fighting the cruise control when you and the vehicle in ahead are a little out of sync speed wise - either due to 75mph being a little different in each or due to performance differences on hills.

On the whole, I find a 3+ hour drive a lot less stressful with the adaptive cruise control, and I arrive feeling much less fatigued.
Thank you for reply. Did you test some other sites before going to Google Translate?
> as of December 31, 2018, we had an accumulated deficit of $7.9 billion

zoinks
Stanford experts examine strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal
I believe ANYONE facing a US court gets US constitutional rights.

Otherwise we could run roughshod over any foreigners we wanted.

(Yeah yeah, extraordinary rendition, etc. I know.)
No, we wouldn't believe that you think its bad since you did it. We still know its bad.
Too bad. "You just destroyed a 100 megabuck lander." Alternatively, 85% of a Juicero.
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> think we'll need general artificial intelligence
> to handle that.

There are roads near me that people struggle to drive down. The amount of negotiation with other drivers, the ability to bump up a hedge or pavement, or reverse hundreds of meters ... or sometimes the need to assertively barge through. But we have nice roads, so geo-fencing to AI certified roads sounds fine.
Huh... Safari on iOS crashes on that page
Good thing there isn’t more than one perspective on what is right and wrong. This could’ve been a meaningless platitude otherwise.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Most of what I've seen called "protected intersections" do include traffic lights. Are you using a different definition?
To be fair the hardest and most expensive part was handled by a US company. Many small countries have put satellites up using launchers from the larger players.
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Just watched the ted talk from the woman who came up with the algorithm to photograph the black hole and she had a slide of the best picture we can get of the moon from earth and she said each pixel on that picture could fit something like 600,000 oranges. don't think it's possible that we can see a spacecraft landing on the moon with what we have.
When you're signing contracts at DoD scale, typically you negotiate a "vendor can only increase prices X amount per year" clause.

Companies that get screwed are those who aren't big enough to negotiate that kind of deal up front.

But no, a Top 50 or large government type contract is never going to be at the mercy of unexpected price hikes.
Not picking winners is also a decision that impacts other countries. It's like a default option in a UI -- there are no neutral options.
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As a former NYC cyclist, I can say that your accusations are patently absurd. First, if cyclists blasted through red lights without looking we would all get hit by cars within a few intersections. Second, of course cars have come close to hitting you. It's New York. That's how they drive there. It is always jarring to hear what I anecdotally believe to be a minority of pedestrians who actually believe that cyclists are in any way, shape, or form more of a threat to their safety than motor vehicles. Luckily for us all, NYC is getting more and more friendly to cycling, though it still does have a long way to go.
It's probably just that people have heard of DuckDuckGo and it's good enough to not make it necessary to search for a better performing alternative.
And, if people are so upset about it, just run uBlock and Ghostery, like I do.
I'm impressed by the paper's 16 co-first authors and 13 co-last corresponding authors. While something like this might be more routine in a field like physics, it's a good look for biology and I hope the trend of sharing credit continues.
"A glorified data center manager" is exactly what AWS and Azure are.

I don't have enough eyes to roll at the cluelessness of your comment.
Building on what you said, I would love to see more powerful node traversal functions make their way into every environment I work in. It's something worth making a push on. Moving around a tree can be a joy, and it unlocks many solution domains that might not cross your mind if you're not thinking about them.

One traversal mechanism I'd love to see but I've never seen implemented coherently is... given my relationship to ancestor X, iterate through all my antecedent peers under x. This would make processing some kinds of structured data far simpler.

End really is one of those hats-off bits of magic, and it's one of the first things that come to mind when any of the frothing haters pen statements that preclude anything good coming from method chaining. It'd be even better if ES supported Ruby-style send syntax eg. array.map(&:to_s). And yes, I put it last because I was going for clever.

You know what drives me even more crazy than ES' lack of deep copy/extend? How is it possible that ({k: 1} === {k: 1}) is false? I find this to be maddening. Thank goodness for lodash.
Just a brief scan and it looks much healthier and diversified than Lyft. Of course far from a perfect business or anything.
Their revenue is 5X Lyft's revenue. Doesn't look good for Lyft's stock to be honest.

I wouldn't be surprised if after their first earnings release, Lyft stock goes below 40 USD.
Indeed, and the Israeli project was a new experiment in low cost, volunteer rich space exploration. Its outcome and repetition _is_ significant to everyone. Indeed, nationalistic associations distract from rather than enhance a project.

And we have a few examples of internationalism already like the ISS. And presumably any Mars mission will have to be international. Which is another one of the reasons such projects is worth while.
The choice is about releasing version 1.0 vs constantly adding features that are better suited for versions 2, 3, 4+. What can be done now, at reasonable cost and technology level? My position is that we could have a system right now that would alleviate traffic congestion and offer greater safety. Advancement on the harder problems comes with real-world experience in the field.

The doing is the learning.
I understood incorrectly then. Nice to hear.
It can freeze from icing or other low temperature conditions after takeoff. The sensors are heated to prevent this, with a system in place to detect if the heater has failed, but they can still jam from a heater failure that is not detected or heavy icing.
> The supposed meddling in the internal affairs of a government is these INA papers which are embarrassing for Ecuador’s govt.

No, it's not. The INA leaks, AFAICT, are part of (but not the whole of) the basis separate accusation that Assange and his supporters have been attempting to destabilize Ecuador.

The biggest deal with regard to foreign governments was actually over his intervention, which had public aspects, over Catalonia.

It also, most critically because it targeted the embassy's host country, included overt interventions in British politics, including his accusations that the British government fabricated the link to Russia in the Skripal poisoning.
Suggestions on easy low maintenance blogging platforms? I have been wanting to do my own blog on security for some time, even got a domain. I don't really want to do Wordpress, it makes me sad and I'd rather have someone else host.
> the 286 as what it was, a deeply flawed first attempt to solve the problems of the 8086/8088

The 186 never gets any love...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186

...and yes, despite it's flaws, it did make it in a few PC machines...kinda.
The US isn't special in this regard. Many nations have extradition treaties with each other and they are often invoked in cases of espionage. To paint that as US law "reaching the globe" is a bit facetious; everyone is entangled in everyone else's law—especially when it comes to espionage.
I, for one, couldn't get used to VS Code look and feel for some reason. I mostly do Sublime Text, but I combined it with Atom a lot in the past. So yeah, not about features or anything.