skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had this in some pharmacies (of all places) here in Vienna since 2017. They claim it's all offline and used for ads only, but nobody really believes it. Bayer had also installed some in Germany, but stopped using them after backlash from privacy NGOs.

Incidentally, in the same year, a lot of facial recognition tech was installed in train stations and other places after the terror attacks in Europe...
> Audi chooses to limit charging thresholds to preserve battery life and your conclusion is that they must have a rapidly degrading battery pack?

I mean, that would be a weird reason to limit it, but every other reason is weird too. 12% degradation over 100k miles would be pretty high. They've started with 12% degradation from the factory by design in order to avoid it!

I can't think of a good reason for this, tbh.
So just address the problems with this "limited physical surveillance" first. Because this approach got copied by many countries, sanctioned by western democracy and freedom.

An approach born out of fear and incapability of interpreting data related to "extremism" while simultaneously instilling paranoia in anyone.

The calculation around security is way off and created whole industries that want to keep it that way. This is the worst form of policy making in the last 50-70 years. And it has a solid head start.

So yes, it would be indeed wise to keep your criticism to yourself, because it should be considered improper.
They also got a ton of Bitcoins since 2013, so I doubt they are hurting on that particular asset.
And... I addressed that?
Pump and dump manipulation. Every unscrupulous finance bro flocked to crypto like flies on a cowpie.
is there a Lua implementation for VxWorks? That seems to be the main constraint in their choice of language(s)
It's interesting to add a disagree warning.

I wonder how many of those there are currently. When I read crash reports (granted this is a very specific group of reports that don't apply to every day flight) it is interesting how often there are "too many / confusing alarms" and at the same time the fundamental instrument "disagreement" is sometimes not one of those alarms. Often in those reports a pilot(s) simply didn't recognize the instrument "disagreement" and / or didn't know what to do when that type of situation occurs (granted some in the reports were proven to be poor pilots and so I'm not generalizing about all).

I don't know if it would really help to have those types of alarms too as a misbehaving instrument often has it's own alarm due too, sometimes even the "right" one goes off too ... granted considering the situation with this aircraft it might be a different situation and worth adding even as a one off.

Lots of complicated decisions.
As an ex-Realmer, I'd like to congratulate everyone involved in Realm in the past few years. Great engineering talent, extremely dedicated and motivated people. This is the company that has helped me understand the value of good marketing. I've also been inspired by what a good product owner can do.

Kudos to everyone. It's been a long road, and I'm glad that the codebase that initially started as a text editor finally found a new home.
They [the runners] are suffused with the Daoist ideal of wu-wei that sees effortlessness as the epitome of human action

I found Edward Slingerland’s “Trying Not to Try” very interesting in terms of making connections between classical Chinese philosophy and contemporary US/western thought about neuroscience.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050134-trying-not-to-t...
> If I understood correctly the biggest issue was that pilots simply didn't understand what was going on with their plane

No. This is not what happened.

The Ethiopian pilots followed the new procedure that Boeing published after the Indonesian crash, where the MCAS was already suspected. The Boeing procedure was not sufficient to save them. The detailed facts about this have been supplied by the flying data that was recovered from the crash, then sent to a French specialized investigating team, then announced by Ethiopian authorities. There are numerous reports about this from reliable sources, including most newspapers.

The simple fact that some people still believe in a proven-wrong scenario is worrying. I suspect the cause is often a mix of the contempt for Southern countries, and idealization of the big firms and their technology. Of course, the American authorities and the initial Boeing claims have also helped biasing the public view. And the modern alternative sources of information probably contributed. Though I remember that, long before social networks replaced newspapers, 75% of Americans believed the absurd theory that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
Looks great, but in addition to hardware I still need to learn what to do with it. Also it doesn't ship until June 30th :/
No. It just means that startx no longer requires root to start X. It removes setuid root from one more executable.
Headline reads like Daily Mail clickbait.

Edit: thanks for updating the title.
Unfortunately I don't really have the expenses to pay for classes
Tesla in the past has made unachievable predictions around self driving. From charging people for FSD and not yet delivering.
No, it is really a different bug. One is speculation around branches, the other one is speculation around hardware protection check (which is not implemented internally as a branch). In fact, while all OoO CPUs are vulnerable to spectre, not all of them are vulnerable to meltdown because, for whatever reason, their designers decided not to speculate around hardware checks (possibly because the check could be implemented efficiently in the critical path given their L1 cache design).

I'm not an hardware designer, but likely both instances of speculation use the same snapshot and rollback logic, but that's about it.
A database is not comparable to SOA or ESB. They are 3 entirely separate concepts. They're not used to solve the same problems and they are not interchangeable. The only confusion is in thinking they are.

> There is no need for SQL databases, ever.

What? This is nonsensical and ideological.

> MongoDB is so flexible, it can work as a cache

That's meaningless because any database can be used as a cache, but caching is not as simple as storing some records in a collection.

You seem to be caught up in some hype around Kafka, event-sourcing and MongoDB when this is a rather poor architecture choice for most applications. If you're going to say that relational databases are useless, you need some solid arguments instead of mixing up a bunch of buzzwords.
OpenBSD has done a few of these daemons over the years, where they reject existing popular implementations to do their own with their own priorties. I started typing a list but really there are too many, big and small. They tend to have the OpenBSD minimalist, security focused, "no bullshit" approach.

It's not very much like systemd.
The Windows experience with leiningen can be pretty good when kept up to date, which can be done easily using https://scoop.sh/ to install it and update it once in a while
Last yellow german telephone booth dismantle
I disagree. There is always value in learning something simple and master it than learning something complex and barely scratching the surface.

It teaches you fundamentals, especially on an embedded system such as R-Pi.

The first language I learned was C on an ARM processor. Learning about registers, bit manipulation, seeing how compiler optimizes the code based on GCC flags, understanding pointers, memory management, the whole thing is difficult for a beginner but to me, it was immensely helpful. I also love Python/Julia/Java/JavaScript but man it makes you appreciate neat things higher languages offer.

One day I want to build my own 8-bit computer from discrete gates. I’m sure it won’t be a waste of time.
But what if I declare to be the opposite or "they"?
Can I sue the store?

I think the government should regulate that tech.
Show HN: Caged Brain – Can Computer Predict Your Next Move? 🧠 Vs
I like to think the latter would actually be better received on HN
The lunar south pole mentioned in the article has two features which could make it economically important: cold traps, possibly containing large quantities of water ice [1] and nearby peaks of nearly eternal light [2].

Put the two together, and you can build a solar-powered ice mining, oxygen- and hydrogen-producing operation to fuel your rockets and keep your astronauts properly hydrated and oxygenated. Even if you're only interested in near-Earth space, this could be cheaper than lifting the same amount of stuff from the bottom of our gravitational well.

But before you can do all that, you need to explore the place in detail, and then build the facility. Doing it all using only robots could be harder than having a few humans on the ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_south_pole#Cold_traps

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light#Lunar_so...
And how many people do that? Is there an organized process for advocating that?

I guess what I’m really asking is: does Coinbase do this? Because honestly, if Joe User doesn’t know to do this and it’s not made available through the most popular consumer interface... it doesn’t matter.
So? It probably means you look like a typical female.

They probably don't care for 100% accuracy. Most people's sex is trivial to identify. Age is much harder.
You mean this? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/featur...

I'll check it out. Thanks!
Hardware wallets have been used for years.

2FA should be enabled for any centralized accounts, like exchanges, but there’s no authority who could require a second factor for a real Bitcoin wallet.

Edit: multi-sig has been available for a while, so I suppose that could almost be considered 2FA
The "without standing out too much" part is the problem. You could use any of the face paint / jewel techniques that work on face detection algorithms in general [1], but they're all pretty obvious unless your personal style is already quite non-mainstream.

[1] https://cvdazzle.com/
Simplicity, correctness and security before features.
To be fair to Tesla, the "profits from here on out" statements came with some caveats around Q1 2019. I get the feeling that they have moved even more one time charges into the one-time-bad-really-bad quarter as a result.

To be fair to your point, the "Autonomy Day" presentation implied a willingness to renege on the promises about other quarters as well.
Simplicity. I have a long love for FreeBSD, but the project has different aims than OpenBSD.

Linux and FreeBSD are novels. OpenBSD strives to be a short poem.

Linux and FreeBSD push really hard to add cutting-edge features, but OpenBSD pushes hard to see what can be removed and still retain essential functionality. OpenBSD packs a remarkable amount of functionality into a code footprint that doesn’t feel like it has grown appreciably since I first ran it in the late 90s.

At the same time, this flensing process has allowed OpenBSD to move quickly on some innovations like “doas” instead of sudo. They also maintain cononical implementations of their other products like OpenSSH and were able to move quickly to their cleaned-up OpenSSL implementation LibreSSL.

As for laptop support, I wouldn’t say their hardware support compares to Linux. That is, they don’t support everything. Rather, for supported laptop (and desktop!) hardware, that suppport is excellent. Put another way: that which is supported is supported very well.
Tangentially related, but with even less features: AWS’s Firecracker, a hypervisor with even less features for running containers as VMs: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...
Seems like "longer" visits would be in order first.
From the article, without comment: 'He’s a big proponent of his own ignorance, saying he doesn’t choose to learn more than a smattering of Japanese because he needs mystery and “a sense of open space in life, something to offset the sense of the familiar.”'
Good point. But then you wouldn't really avoid "737MAX" you'd be avoiding "Boeing". If the price increase theory is correct then you'd end up paying a lot more since you restrict the options of planes a lot more.
> Lou Reed made it pretty big though.

Not compared to the influence he had on other musicians. The general music loving public is not THAT familiar with him. He was a musician's musician. (Also an asshole and abuser of women, which has nothing to do with this discussion, but I can't praise him without mentioning this.)

> There's something phoney about podcasts. I see most podcasts as similar to TED talks or books by Malcolm Gladwell.

Ironically, Malcolm's podcast "Broken Records" has an episode where Rick Rubin discusses this, in a way. He said something to the effect that all musicians start out copying their favorite musicians, until they find their own sound.

I think this is the same for podcasts. Most podcasters are new to the form, so they haven't had the time to find their voice yet. They're still figuring it out.

Ira Glass himself speaks to this point:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Twitter Experimenting with the New Layout
Just to say I also love this OS, although I'm very far from a hardcore hacker.

It just worked out of the box on that generic unbranded laptop I retrieved (no touchpad though).
I use Xfce wich is well integrated, and the package manager is plain simple and easy.

Definately better experience than my previous Linux ones.
Some penalty on performance though.

PS : I've put it on my Raspberry Pi too.
I pressed paused on podcasts because for every great one (first season of Serial) there were dozens of lousy ones.

Even the highly regarded podcasts are often surprisingly ineloquent. Take Maron's. Great guests, but I almost feel myself getting dumber listening to him fumble and pause.
It's pretty clear what's happening here: the author prefers music to podcasts, and then tries his best to make some sort of argument to justify this. His arguments are at best nonsensical and at worst completely contradictory.

I was considering writing out a response to each of his points but it's honestly not worth my time. A lot of what the author says is a blatant slap in the face to podcasters that spend so many hours tinkering with their work. Quotes like "By sound good, I meant that I wanted podcasts to sound considered." and "...podcasters aren’t thinking hard enough about what their talk sounds like" are ridiculous if you know any serious or notable podcaster in person.

One reason why this might be happening [to the author] is because the author wants podcasts to be more like music, but the reality is that even though music and podcasts are competing for the same resource (ears) their goals are mostly different. The primary differentiating factor is that podcasts almost always aim to convey some concrete information to the listener, and this constraint will always limit the ways the information can be transmitted to the listener (as opposed to music, which is more free-form in nature and isn't necessarily subjected to any restrictions).
Nim – Natively compiled language with hot code-reloading at runtime [video]
But literally in this case it was security keys.

Even including an API key into the binary build is avoidable. Add an OAuth-style negotiation for the key as the first startup process.

Start digging deeper and there are fewer and fewer reasons.
If by investigate you mean "click on the seat map", sure I agree that you could investigate and dig into the details.

> I don't understand why people skip the relevant details just to make a point.

You were the one who said you had a body type that made you more prone than most to want to choose a specific seat (as do I). I took that to mean that you were more prone than most to use the seat map before purchasing, making it all the more unusual to think that you'd not been shown an aircraft model prior to booking previously.

You've had extraordinarily bad luck given that 10% of your flights had equipment changes at the gate. That's a level of chaos for airline operations that is unheard of in the industry.

I don't think the 737-MAX is going to suffer from negative margins because customers will be afraid of it. I flew yesterday and will fly again on Monday. I'd get in and would put my family on a US-carrier 737-MAX right now, without any software or hardware fixes in place. (Yes, Boeing made errors here. I also don't think that an AA, Southwest, or Alaska crew would have crashed the second one.)
Doing it with robots would be almost comically hard.
In the case of Kleiner, the article puns it on a wrong bet (green energy) rather than being too conservative.
Hacks are distributed as .ips patches or deltas. No original code is distributed. Most romhacking sites are fairly careful about not allowing ROMs or links to ROMs being distributed. The difference with the commodore port was it was a direct port of a full game with a cartidge ROM being distributed. At least I think that's why this got taken down while hacks stay up usually.
I'm really confused by the author's arguments

> With all of the world’s unheard songs beckoning us with their endless mystery, why would anyone choose to waste their precious listening hours on a podcast?

Why is he trying to compare music to podcasts? Because they're auditory? By that same token, it could be argued why anyone would choose to waste their precious listening hours on music with all of the world's unheard audio books beckoning us with their endless mystery and wells of knowledge and information.
I've mentioned this before but, how many technologies do you see companies working on where they say, "well we have one approach we think is gonna work, but we're also going to spend a ton of resources and time developing this other solution that we don't think is going to work, that would be useless if the first approach does work. Oh and it would make our cars 5k more expensive at least."
The prior generation of surveillance based on programs where you had to sign up first, got some card or something, and you scanned it during each purchase. These programs were opt in, and I never did. This new generation is on by default and doesn't let you opt out. That's a very troubling development.
It will try to guess your current gender, not your gender assigned at birth. Same with age, because your age assigned at birth has likely changed too.
"Simple is better than complex". The simplest tool that gets the job done, is the right one to choose for that situation.
Do you think you would still object to that mindset if your kin were on the receiving end of that 50% false positive rate where a 'positive' outcome would mean you being wrongfully arrested, whereas all others had just a tiny chance of this happening?
We use it with a wrapper[1] for continuous testing of an operating system[2]. The wrapper will perform the installation process as users do, then run the testsuite and upload the results. It's nice because it lets us catch regressions in the installation process, too.

[1] - https://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/

[2] - http://releng.netbsd.org/test-results.html
>But also because crypto is totally unregulated -- and by the rules of the game, if you have the keys, you have the coins -- you have zero recourse.

I don't think that's true. If you could go to the cops with dead-to-rights evidence that someone stole your coins, pretty sure the cops could still charge them with larceny because the law still views cryptocurrency as a form of property. Plenty of people have been charged with crimes for stealing cryptocurrency -- the ex-secret service agent who stole from the custody of the Silk Road investigation comes to mind.

It's just that catching and prosecuting cybercriminals across jurisdictions is a _very_ hard problem that it might as well be that you have "no recourse" in 99.99% of cases.
And what exactly is the benefit for me as a customer? I wished the future was less flashy and ad-packed. So much mental overhead in ignoring this stuff
Correction: low liquidity of the majority of cryptocurrencies/tokens. BTC has by far the best liquidity among the cryptocurrencies.
This is why you need to develop in-house talent for execution of strategic initiatives. The consultants are very useful for helping formulate strategy and they are worth the money. But implementation has to be done by the organization itself as the knowledge and network required to implement an initiative is deeply organic.

Once the management had settled on a strategic direction, they should have hired key executives , managers and architects and developers. They should have then supplemented this taskforce with contractors or even outsourcing companies.

Let Accenture own the whole initiative from soup-to-nuts was dumb. Fire that CIO!
So basically what you're saying is RTFM, in a polite fashion :)
Why is this taking up space on the Washington Post? Doesn't this belong on a personal blog or on twitter? Or better yet in private diary? My response is as follows: I'm against self-indulgent, curmudgeonly writing like this intended for public consumption being given the patina of approval by respectable publications like the Washington Post.
But the Audi e-Tron is incredibly massive: curb weight of about 5600 lbs/2500 kg.

The Model S is closer to 4600-4900 lbs.
The Niro EV is about 3800 lbs.
It's the New York Times, so not too far from Daily Mail.
In addition to Todd Mortimer's slides, linked in the sibling comment, there is this video of the same, which I enjoyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSSHtRv5Mg
Scheduling theory to understand why ordinary/common/intuitive efficiency metrics will make project/task/service delivery late in proportion to the variation of project/task/service request arrival times.
Exactly this. It’s also thousands of dollars worth of energy cost over the vehicle’s lifetime and enhances the effective charging rate (miles charged per minute). It also reduces weight.

Efficiency is hugely important for profitable and desirable electric vehicles and significantly enhances the environmental advantage as well.
Yeah but that was in an active warzone where there was little to no retribution for poor behavior. If you have to live next door to the people you police, you're probably going to behave a bit better.