skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you read 20 articles while driving a car or walking to the store or cleaning your house? I find they're a great way to double-up with activities where I'd otherwise be bored out of my mind, and I can take the opportunity to learn about something, or at the very least not be bored.

TV might be more entertaining, but I've never heard anyone argue "Why would you sit down and watch the new Game of Thrones episode, you should listen to a podcast instead!" Being an audio-only medium makes them a lot more amenable to consuming while you do something else. They're only competing with music and audiobooks in that respect.

It's not like I get home from work and think "You know what I want to do this evening? Sit in a chair and listen to podcasts for an hour."
Facebook has me as “African American cultural affiliated” but when you look at me you would think that I am a white middle aged male.
Maybe they know more about us than we do? :)
Nah... Daily Mail headline would be 'foreigner taking away our DNA tests'
> why aren't Democrats doing that?

Because universal federal ID is unpopular and also potentially constitutionally problematic. Then Social Security numbers were introduced, there was a lot of opposition that had to be overcome, including two supreme court challenges that were decided by one vote. Whenever Republicans propose voter ID and Democrats attach universal ID to make it equitable, the bill dies because universal ID is a sticky topic.

> Do you feel the same way with respect to other rights, though? For example, with respect to various licensing and permitting schemes on gun ownership and carry?

There are no such schemes in the United States. Anyone over the age of 18 can buy a gun in all 50 states unless disenfranchised by some other action, like a felony conviction. Some types of guns and some types of carry require special licenses, like concealment and handguns, but there is no general-purpose "gun license": you can always buy long arms for better or worse.
> a lot of facial recognition tech was installed in train stations and other places after the terror attacks in Europe...

Do you have any more info on that?
Most of the "wat" video's complaints also apply to Python. And JavaScript has had many more years of considered design and development than when JQuery or Node made it popular.
"Offer will be more calibrated to your needs" and other bs like that.
Keep in mind the author is a pop music critic, so of course he's against anything that could impact his income.
The embedded environment is what makes this setup make sense. But in the general case, C is less than ideal for GUI programming compared to what's available in other languages, because of lack of first class closures and more complex data types (or at least classes). Otherwise you are basically in the 80s doing Win32 GUI programming all over again.
Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian
I don't get why he's downvoted. Virtualbox (which is not proprietary), VMWare, Hyper-V are way easier to use.

That's a fact.

And not many people need to look at the code in real life...
They can go nicely together as SV shows.
I agree with you if you are talking about Python vs C.

But a new GTK2 book sounds like teaching Python 2 for beginners.
Coin Flipping Request Delegation for Privacy in P2P Networks
Yup. I have a small studio (for podcasting, among other things) and my go-to microphones are $99 sE L7 dynamics because to my ear they're cleaner than SM58s. I have a few others available, like the AT2035 that sits at my desk, but the difference is so, so marginal for any spoken-word stuff that I don't know why someone would bother.

(The above is with one major caveat: I'd kick a puppy for a half-dozen RE20s. I love the sound of them.)
Ever heard of sales? Companies do this constantly.
Really? I hear that some people do not like the "NPR voice". OK, that's a criticism of the format, I suppose.

But to then compare Ira Glass/TAL with TED or Malcolm Gladwell stretches credulity.

TAL is the pinnacle, the granddaddy of storytelling, of many types, shapes, and colors. It can't be painted with a single brush. Ira Glass usually speaks for a couple of minutes of each episode.

I would challenge you to listen to some of the classic episodes and then tell me it still reminds you of TED:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/129-cars

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/570/the-night-in-question

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/414/right-to-remain-silent/...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/206/somewhere-in-the-arabia...
Then why is Clojure implemented on the JVM?

As Rich Hickey says: because it has _reach_

The JVM is widely used.

ClojureScript on JS is because JS also has reach.
More relevant ads and targeted offers of course. Now whether you value that as a consumer and have a realistic way to avoid it is an entirely different question.
with all the world's unheard podcasts out there beckoning us with their endless mystery, why would anyone choose to waste their precious listening hours to another 3-chord pop tune?
I spent eighteen months researching my car and six more months waiting for it to arrive. It didn’t even have a price for the first year, but I knew approximately what to expect and I paid approximately what I expected. I forgot the exact price within 24 hours of the day it arrived, I got a final quote, and paid it. (I can tell you exactly what my loan payment was, though!)

The price matters between when you decide to commit and when you actually commit. If you accept a range of prices, the the price matters less than your timing in any potential discount or package benefit cycles.

It is difficult to care about (Tesla price guess here!) $45k vs $44k vs $46k, but is extremely easy to care about seeing the price drop $1k the day, or the day after you purchase it.
While it's sad and unfortunate that it's come to this, hopefully it will be for the best. Other countries rely too heavily on the US regulatory bodies and as those regulatory bodies are becoming more and more compromised by business interests and interference, it's becoming more important that other countries step up and provide redundant regulatory bodies.
I appreciate that this all looks a bit Allende, but the MB government collapsed from within due to popular protest. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-mistakes-specialrep...

> it is none of your business who the citizens of a sovereign state decide to elect.

This rather depends on what the new government is actually doing and whether it's getting people killed in the street again.
> (1) Add a third AoA sensor, with voting among them.

Interestingly enough, poor software 'voting' was one of the things that lead to Qantas' A330 suddenly diving downwards mid-flight a few years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

> In the usual case, when all three AOA values were valid and consistent, the average value of AOA 1 and AOA 2 was used by the FCPCs for their computations. If either AOA 1 or AOA 2 significantly deviated from the other two values, the FCPCs used a memorised value for 1.2 seconds. The FCPC algorithm was very effective, but it could not correctly manage a scenario where there were multiple spikes in either AOA 1 or AOA 2 that were 1.2 seconds apart.

They never did actually determine why the sensor data was corrupted.
Yeah but I'd like to know how the unintentional mistake was made. Eg

- Debian OpenSSL was a Debian dev trying to prevent use of uninitialised memory (because Valgrind complained), without realising that uninitialised memory is used for randomness.

- Years ago a bunch of PHP stuff (I forget what) was seeded with the string value of a randomness function, rather than it's output.

What happened here?
Can't wait to read how racist and sexist these cameras are.

Too bad this would be illegal in Europe though. I'd love to see what the algo tries to sell to me. Amazon already thinks I'm a complete weirdo.

EDIT: Amazon is probably right though
Great way to put it.
> why don't people start by suspecting some kind of criminal organizations like the mafia instead?

Same logic as you've just used: it's so easy you don't need to be the mob. What would their edge be anyway? All you need is enough money to rent some cloud servers.
OpenBSD has its own hypervisor these days https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html
I'm not advocating and peddling the "China Model", I'm only speaking my understanding dealing with it. More often than not countries are controlled by the priviledged, and they can more easily shaped people' mind now.

When you pitch democracy to Chinese, the vast majority of them will rebut your every arguement with their pragmatic "narrative", they only want a tiny part of it or simply don't. Their upper class tour western countries and see dilapitated infrastruture, "people being poor", streets not safe, cities old "like villages", they feel proud.

And the system essentially hijacked their wealth, it will be too costly to change, care only about how much money made and what to buy and nothing else.

Until the "China Model" suddenly collapses, it will be shiny to some.
It's quite far from Daily Mail.
>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?

Yoy could replace podcast with pretty much anything. I don't like listening to music all of the time or doing any one thing all of the time for that matter. I get bored and I just don't enjoy it as much anymore. And really, I love music. I used to want a job like Radio DJ where I could listen to music all day and I love coding because I mostly get to do that. But, I don't want to listen to all the music ever created because a lot of it just isn't for me and the mystery stops feeling endless after a while. My listening hours aren't precious to me if I listen on the commute, 8+ hours at work, and at home when I'm doing chores. Every single day. I wish those hours were more precious sometimes. I'd love for music to feel as meaningful to me as it did when I was a teenager when I only had a few CDs and new music was a big purchase or something given to me by a friend. But now it's like I'm drowning in too many options and I'm just shuffling through different playlists trying to find something that sounds interesting. So I listen to Audiobooks or Podcasts or just my own head radio if I can. It's not wasted time at all because it helps me enjoy music more in the long run.

This really is a terrible article and it seems like an immature opinion to have. I'm surprised to see it in the Washington Post.
If I were a mid-level manager at Epic, I wonder how I would handle internal politics at this time. So many competing objectives...

1. Focus on producing novel content to keep the game interesting, mixing things up enough over weeks/months, but without killing the core mechanics.

2. Hire lots of new employees, all while knowing that the popularity bubble may burst and they may need to be laid off in the near future.

3. Give bonuses to my employees, who are working their tails off, to prevent resentment. Especially in the over-worked video game industry.

4. Acknowledge that this lucky streak is unrepeatable, and that if the game falls out of popularity, there is likely no one to blame. But when it happens, the demoralization will hit hard and the layoffs are inevitable.

5. All this, while the company reaps huge profits.
The ads are there so you buy stock in Boeing.
Very exciting, for anyone who didn't know today is china's space day!

Even if it takes 10 years of valve time, its still exciting to hear something like that happening in my lifetime. I'll be able to hopefully witness the first human born off of earth :)
https://www.openbsd.org/artwork.html

> [...] This artwork emblazoned CDs and posters up until version 6.0, after which we stopped producing product and only release software on the internet.

See also [0]; you should be able to make your own t-shirt with official logos, and donate as usual [1,2,3]

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=155439809001096&w=2

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

[2] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2019.html

[3] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Yes, by promising an upgrade.
Why not? These are really expensive cars (especially Model S and X). An $80,000 car that has a life of 500,000 miles is $.16 a mile. This hypothetical NY to Miami trip is 1,300 miles one way. If you do no driving in Miami that's 2600 miles or $416 in depreciation if all miles counted the same (they don't, the first miles depreciate things a lot more). You can easily get a plane ticket for that, two if you look around.
this is such an old problem: how to passively measure feedback from users in realtime in offline locations. i’ve seen all kinds of solutions so far, but nothing stands out. hopefully these new systems will eventually produce something more actionable.
JAX-RS 2.1 Reactive Extensions with RxJava Backpressure
There's really nothing but an opinion in my response (and in the item I'm responding to) and a bit of bragging certainly doesn't invalidate that in the slightest.

Besides that, if you think that there are no people out there who can consistently write solid software, well...you're just flat out wrong. (And if you think you can't find them on HN, well wrong again...)
Because the question isn't about what a theoretical best system consists of. No one (including Musk) denies more sensors could theoretically be beneficial. Adding a gravitational wave detector to your car would ensure the car doesn't accidentally drive into black holes, making it more safe. This additional safety would not be economical.

Same principle with LIDAR. Adding $5k hardware per car and a ton of R&D doesn't seem economical to Tesla, since they think they can get pretty much the same with just their current sensor suit. Time will tell if they are right and what AP + sensor suite customers will choose.
When the Old Penn Station Was Demolished, New York Lost Its Faith
I always wonder if the people that invent these technologies are bragging, like: "You know all the crazy dystopian technology that has ruined the world in futuristic sci-fi movies? I make that!"
With the soaring price of helium, I wonder what it costs to fill up that gas bag and how quickly it leaks out. And at what point filling it up costs more than the "almost expendable" aircraft.

In the novel/film Contact the character S.R. Hadden lives in an airliner that rarely lands. With a larger Phoenix that lifestyle could become available to somewhat less wealthy billionaires. Maybe it could eventually become an atmospheric variation of seasteading.
Packaging JavaFX Applications for the Desktop
>Is there any advantage to keeping humans on the noon long term at this point?

Because it's cool?

To play that mindset out to its logical conclusion, is there any advantage to human beings continuing to be alive at all? The whole point of this thing is to have fun and distract ourselves from inevitable mortality. There is no particular end state of existence to which we should be optimizing beyond human enjoyment and enrichment.
Amazing. 18 hours ago a mapper removed it from OpenStreetMap. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/69503927
There's a whole class of makeup techniques designed to enhance attractiveness by creating the appearance of a different bone structure. Maybe that could be useful here? We need makeup experts who can develop "counter-contouring" techniques to skew your face's scanned appearance away from your identity.
It sounds like that guy created what appeared to be a legitimate wallet creation service, and then emptied the accounts of anyone who used it. That definitely sounds fraudulent.

We don’t know if the person “guessing” Ethereum keys is also the one generating them, but from the article it seems there are multiple people scanning for known keys, so at least some of them aren’t intentionally duping users.
ok, found it.

http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Update-MariaDB-fro...

10.2 is a no go for us as the new client library
requires atomic ops killing the client library
on a handful of archs.
Also the adversarial image sticker from this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704583
This recalls that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise is getting peppered with virtual ads left & right after walking into a mall.

The thought makes me shudder a little.
About this:

"A database is not comparable to SOA or ESB."

It feels like you are deliberately misreading what I wrote. SOA and ESB and the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about are 3 different approaches to deal with the problem of "In large Enterprises, you will inevitably be trying to get multiple services and databases to work together."

That may not be the only reason for SOA and ESB and unified logs, but multiple services with multiple databases is clearly a very large reason for the rise of these 3 different architectures. It is trivial to find articles in which "multiple services and databases" are mentioned as the impetus giving rise to each of these 3 architectures.

Is that more clear?
We had a similar experience with Vantiv, whose parent company (Worldpay) was recently bought with about $50 billion. I just can't understand how business works sometimes.
> you mean "click on the seat map"

The seat map is presented at check-in, after you buy the ticket.

But you can see the plane model also before purchase by googling the flight number or by digging into the flight details on the purchase page. Both are things that most passengers won't do.

And in the end you're still at the mercy of the company which can decide to change the plane at any time until the boarding starts.

> That's a level of chaos for airline operations that is unheard of in the industry

I seriously doubt it. They happened with most major European airlines. Unless the implication is that EU airlines provide a much lower level of service then at most we can attribute it to bad luck.
It's what we in the industry call a "pun", or a "play on words".
Yes, benchmarks.

But it's not just benchmarks. It's capabilities.

He should please provide references that compare other runtime platforms' capabilities side by side with JVM's capabilities.
You assume that the tech has a high accuracy rate. Facial recognition tends to fail for African Americans, unusual bone structure (remember how neural nets thought that seemingly random noise was a banana?) or tricks of lighting. So no he probably doesn’t and even if that was the case, this is invasive and not okay.

It is invasive for the following reasons, the technology is pushing to you instead of letting you choose how to interact with it. You can’t opt out or not consent to the tech. It poses a significant barrier to usability because what if there’s an offer for men chained to faces that the system thinks are male or vice versa? Now he’ll have to prove his masculinity to an algorithm or ask someone to intercede? That’s additional friction on top.

Pushing not pulling seems deeply unethical and counter productive.
I don't know if I "struggle" with email, but emails often stay in my inbox for days or weeks. I sort and organize them a bit, though.

I'm a researcher and most of my email is from frequent collaborators whom I know well, or automated academic stuff.

Reason #1: Some emails I expect to not be able to respond to for some time. We're discussing a project and I need some hours to think about it, read papers, etc. before I respond. These threads go for months (with many meetings interspersed).

Reason #2: I like email to double as reminders or to-dos (though I also keep a to-do list). So for example an automated email reminding me to review a paper by May 20. I won't archive that until I've done the review.

(Edit: I like the idea of sorting every email when I open my client, if not archiving it. I just don't get enough email for this to be a problem.)
So a fork of Qemu that makes no promises to keep AMD support, and uses words like "leverages".

Its not clear why this needs to exist, as opposed to working with upstream to produce a single tree that can be built with a slimline profile enabled
Connect up that credit card reader to a camera at the checkout register and now those cameras guess your identity.
> If the West ever returns to the idea of democratic society where everyone should have access to education, housing and good working conditions. Where we run our countries, our infrastructure and invest in scientific progress together. And where we believe that running businesses in line with the values of society is better. Then they would want democracy as well.

In that matter, don't you think it's the financial status that pushes all the ideas back?
There is a fundamental tradeoff between resources spent on individuals vs total resources.
I like the idea of podcasts because of the amateur angle, not so much since it's basically just another version of talk radio. I don't doubt there is some loss in social contact if you use a recording to fill-in for conversation, but there's something a little off-putting about music too.

It worries me sometimes that (given my age) 'More Than a Feeling' or 'Hold On Loosely' are so etched into my brain...and I'm a jazz listener/musician. Why is that? They live next to old commercial jingles and show the amount of programming that can go on in the 'independent' mind.

To finish up my old man rant, it's funny how modern people need constant noise and a steady supply of sweet beverages to avoid unease. Maybe there's a book here on the curative value of quiet walks and drinking plain water, it wouldn't be very long though.
i’ve seen such systems all across europe. they’re as illegal as cctv, i.e. not at all.
Lol and articles like these are exactly the reason why people feel this way
>I couldn't be happier to see the elites complaining about podcasts.

Especially when the elite's journalistic production (e.g. WP articles) are not really higher quality: just follow some long established conventions, are self-congratulatory, follow the norms of polite talk, try to not ask the "wrong" (elite-wise) questions, put into use all the BS they've learned on "essay/creative writing" class, etc, which is why they pass for "serious" by people conditioned to seek those traits.
> more of something about pride and "against-hate" than about liberty and freedom. At first this distinction may sound strange to people, but it is important

Yeah, you're going to have to expand on how a movement based on freedom from violence, freedom from discrimination, and freedom to marry isn't about freedom. Otherwise this turns into one of those "the people insisting I stop using slurs are the REAL tyranny" arguments.
The West has been telling the 'third world' to adopt Western democracy like if that was a silver bullet and a requirement for development.

Most of these countries are very poor and without any democratic experience.

Now China comes and provides an example of a country that managed breathtaking development without democracy.

> It is hubris to think that anything rises or falls by the form of governance

Good governance is crucial. Western democracy does not seem to.

> China is comparably successful with its investments in Africa

Well, Western countries do not invest in Africa. China is successful because they are willing to.
> Blockchain is absolutely riggable, that’s what a famed “51% attack”

that sounds a bit FUD-dy. 51% allows you to make a double-spend, not "absolutely rig" the blockchain. even with 100% hashrate you won't be able to spend bitcoins without having a private key.
> a novel form of DNA testing being used in criminal cases

I feel like any "novel form of" really shouldn't be evidence until it's proven.

Granted I also recognize how courts really struggle understanding the magical world of what science is proven and what isn't.

I do worry that it's up to each defendant to effectively fight these fights that are big topics and would be crazy expensive to "disprove" something the government says is proven, but isn't.