skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both the UK and France have a completely independent nuclear response.

Small nuclear arsenals that are not highly redundant. They do not have MAD-level nuclear forces.

> None of these countries have kings.

This is just semantics, they do have kings in all but name.

> Russia is a waning power...

They have enough tactical nukes to take out every major military force in Europe and enough conventional forces to clean up what's left.

> China, whilst growing fast, does not have the capability to project power...

They don't have to project power at all. They just have to disarm the militaries of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, which are all on their doorstep.
Seriously? The one with TWO touch screens?

If you can honestly make a claim that you can consistently and accurately change climate control on the bottom screen without taking your eyes off the road I will... well I don't even know. Disbelieve? :-/

https://www.caricos.com/cars/a/audi/2019_audi_a7/images/25.h...
Driver's licenses surely have photos still in EU nations, right? I don't think the GDPR speaks to this.
I completely agree. I ran a 100+ node compute cluster a couple years back, and the uptime of our nodes was three nines at most. This wouldn't have been bad if they had had any form of reliable storage or quick recovery, but at the time their s3 competitor was limited to 20t per bucket (because it was just NetApp hardware).

Azure is a freaking mess. If it hadn't been Microsoft we were selling to, we'd have never used it.
This may sound counterintuitive, but perhaps the best way to warn future generations of the danger of the area would be to make the area MORE dangerous. That is, install a highly radioactive cube of something that will kill -- very quickly -- anyone who comes within a mile or two of the site. People will learn to avoid the area very quickly.
As a new parent this is something I hadn’t considered. I use Siri quite a bit in our car with CarPlay and haven’t noticed if it bothers our child but I’ll be more aware now. Thanks!
Yes. Your will be facing multiple lawsuit and go down if it found out that you knew that there was no chance it would have ever work. Maybe facing criminal charge too.
> Are cars still a topic? Who owns a car here? I don't and i really don't plan to. Public transports, bus, subway, train, carpooling, stuff like that seems more than enough for me, ...

Must not be from the US...

> ... here in europe (france) at least

Yeah, saw that one coming. I wish we had good public transport here in the US, but realistically most people need to have access to a car. Even people living in large cities.

My current commute is from the middle of the city to the edge along a major freeway. It is 10 miles by car and takes 20 min on average to work, ~30 min. back home because of traffic. Public transport would take 80 min each way not counting traffic. Riding my bicycle would take about the same amount of time, but I would arrive quite sweaty. I drive because saving those 2 hours per day is 100% worth it.
So from what I can find, it seems gfx-hal works with GLSL, compiles it to SPIRV, and then uses that (somehow). I'm just not sure how it uses the SPIRV for each backend.
> And there is plenty a chance of that person being correct.

That reads like you said that there's a fairly high chance that his daughter is a whore. You should either retract or clarify, depending on whether you meant that or not.

Or did I completely misread this?
I would like to travel with my wife and kids.

It is insane to me that we are coming up with these impractical user interfaces with implausible limited use cases, when... we had interface that works! I'm refusing to let go of my aging Subaru, because any rental I've tried is impossible to drive without taking your eyes off the road or a myriad other safety and practicality compromises
We should hold war tight.

Which projection are you using? One of the ones that is wrong (on the low side) every 3 years?
"You set up a strawman and destroy it without answering any of my questions; this seems like arguing in bad faith."

I gave you a scenario that is very possible without some sort of regulations. We have regulations in place because experimental drugs can kill people without proper oversight.

China is not known for having a good track record in terms of regulations or caring about the life of a human being. Many people still won't buy baby formula to this day because of the lead scare a few years back.

"I hope you are never stricken with a life-threatening illness that cannot be treated with our artificially limited set of legally available interventions."

You are too emotional to have an actual discussion about this.
For better or for worse. A lot of those things should not be on the road.
I believe so, but again I'm just one person and not privy to all data.
Again, that sounds just awful. Why do we put up with this when we had a UI that worked perfectly, with no interruptions to music or family or taking our eyes off the road? Why are we putting up with these compromises? :<
The standard's not that high; you just need to avoid, say, the bottom quarter of the barrel. A bunch of comments in this thread are fine.
What they mean is that due to a lack of intermarriage, their genetic makeup looks very different than what it would be it they were intermarried with other local tribes.

Presumably all other local tribes have already intermarried over many generations and the differences within them is minimal.
What they should do is invite the person and the person can decide if it’s too much for them. In this case, my wife and I are perfectly capable deciding if she’s not going to handle it well. If she was older she would be perfectly capable of deciding if she can handle it or not. The thing that makes me the most upset is that the person having the party decides that it’s too much for another person, and then acts like they’re doing you a favor. Don’t take the decision away from the person.
That's terrifying. (Have car with touch screen. No car should have a touch screen)
We saw an article on this subject the other day [0]; rehashing what I said there:

This is an intellectually interesting problem, but not a practical one. There are two scenarios:

1) Society is similar or more advanced than we are - they'll figure out what is going on pretty quickly. Any damage done is irrelevant given that human population is measured in billions. It would be like someone falling in to old mine workings today - to be prevented, but not something the original miners need to feel responsible for.

2) Society has regressed to the point where they no longer understand what nuclear waste is - discovering a radioactive waste dump will be a boon to their scientific efforts and they'll be so busy hailing the people who discover the magic rock as heroic discoverers that they won't be worried about the cost.

We're going to leave behind some much nastier residues than nuclear waste with longer half lives. There is not a single practical issue that a human would worry about 10,000 years ago that is relevant to us today. That length of time isn't something civilization copes with.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763131
My understanding is that this is exactly how these images are generated. One network makes the image, and another tries to find flaws... They both get better together.

Here's the first 2 Google results for "GAN" meaning "Generative Adversarial Network"

https://skymind.ai/wiki/generative-adversarial-network-gan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_netwo...
"Turn on wipers"

"Playing weezer"

It might be good if voice control was perfect but it'a long way from that and still offers little benefit over buttons and knobs.
Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
I think you should get a car that meets your needs, and makes you happy.

On the other hand, many people "overpurchase" things in their life based on "I might" stipulations that are actually very rare.

I wonder how many pickups have actually hauled things in the bed on more than rare circumstances? How many jeeps have actually been used off-road?

conversely, how many people sell their perfectly good vehicles for no good reason than they like something new?
I've had cars with either, and I'm kind of ambivalent on BMW iDrive vs Honda touchscreen, but my main complaint with everything I've driven is the way Bluetooth will not connect reliably. Sometimes you have to restart your car or your phone to get it back, and once that didn't work and only unpairing it and repairing it worked. This is really, really, basic and I sometimes feel like screaming because when I was younger, whatever the flaws of a radio or CD player, at least they consistently worked every time you switched them on.
No, sprints are about creating artificial deadlines to stress developers to work more hours to meet so-called commitments/forecasts.
It does not work of course, but that is what it is about.
Still waiting on them to ban antivax pages which harm a vast amount more people
You also need base load during the day when wind is blowing and it all of a sudden disappears. Don't say this doesn't happen as I've seen it many times.

Think about it. Wind might be 30% or more of your dispatch and then it just disappears quickly (even with multiple forecast vendors you are lucky to have a 2 hour warning). At this point you have to either have a lot of headroom (excess thermal generation for times like this) or you hope you can startup a resource in time. Therefore you either need storage on a massive unheard of scale, very fast starting resources, or lots of thermal generation for those times of trouble. Another option would be drastically increasing the demand response in the region (basically shut all the A/C's off at a few universities for an hour or so).
A Plastic Recycling Revolution Is Brewing in China
Yes, I know about impostor syndrome. I know a few who've confessed to me they suffer from it - and I sure prefer to work with them than the delusions of grandeur types who waste my time.
I would phrase it slightly differently - they are not a dealbreaker, partly because people are almost always going to put other considerations first, and partly because most people are not going to experience them thoroughly before buying.
Absolutely not.

First, I don't want to yell at my stove. I don't want it to misunderstand me. I don't want to forget it is on (dials are pretty easy to notice out of place; yes you can add a LED but now you're compensating for a flaw that doesn't need to exist).

I don't want to compete with my Google Home or my Alexa. I don't want my Kitchen to end up a constant stream of barked commands as I cook.

I don't want to stop conversation or music just to turn my stove on and off.

I don't want to take the time to speak "Stove, please turn on the bottom right burner to setting of five" when it takes me one fifth the time to actually change the knob.

It's a UI that works. It works great. Everybody STOP messing with UI that works great, pretty please :P
May I ask why the move from Erlang to C++?
I was using Bandzip. Just installed and tried this. It opens fine just like any other zip type program. No lag.
> likely why AWS offers a 100% uptime SLA for Route 53

Well, that's interesting. We occasionally see getaddrinfo() calls fail claiming domains that we know exist at the failure time (b/c the records are completely static) don't exist. (We've not got a reproducible case for this yet, and it's incredibly rare for any given VM/service. But across our fleet, it crops up fairly regularly.)
certainly in Azure; I've also seen very big efforts towards privacy as the direct result of GDPR. Windows, I'm much less confident.
For sure. A coworker lost his wallet while hiking after a sales visit prior to his flight.
Yes, RealNetworks still exists, and now it’s selling face surveillance software
Having good content is important part of seo.
Isn’t a passport good enough? Why do I need to help train their ML model if a manual check works?
Analysis requires a certain level of mathematical maturity to motivate, follow, understand, and appreciate. This level is roughly acquired after having taken undergraduate coursework in ODEs, linear algebra, or abstract algebra.
Be Excellent To Each Other.
Congrats to the GitPrime team.

While the acquisition price is public, would love to learn more about revenue or # of customers. They must have had some serious revenue/traction to be bought for $170M.
My impression is that not all cultures demand extroversion so much. See Japan, Austria, etc as some easy throw away examples. No one there is considered strange for being a bit stiff and un-expressive.
I think it's perfectly fine to have that opinion, but if you're reading this thread, it's about cars, so it equates to "this thread shouldn't exist" which isn't very constructive.
Googling this version (with a couple of words I remembered), brought me to a page with the version I heard before but it does not seem to be sourced:

Selig sind die, die nichts zu sagen haben und trotzdem schweigen

(And google also found something I assume is a singular version: "zu sagen hat und trotzdem schwiegt")

[0] http://events-stg.clasadvising.arizona.edu/nichts-zu-sagen-z... , last paragraph at the time I looked.
I love how that sort of argument keeps coming up.

We are going to take UI that works.

We will instead make the UI that doesn't work. It'll be more expensive, more prone to failure, and it'll come with safety compromises.

To address those compromises, we will install more software that's more expensive and more prone to failure.

I understand I'm the minority user who just wants to drive his car safely and use buttons and dials that I can move without staring down at my knees while hurtling down the highway at 100kph while hoping that collision avoidance saves me and paying extra thousands of dollars for the privilege of poor UI. But I do wonder which planet everybody else is on...
personal experience, own a TM3, I rarely if ever need to use the screen. Not even for navigation. Some simple actions are almost automatic for me when I do want to toggle, muscle memory even works then.

with regards to touch screens vs physical buttons, I tell friends at work who have mocked the TM3 display. put a sticker on every button then remove them as you use them on a drive.

plus some cars put buttons in far worse places but as with most cars you adapt real quick. after all its not that you need more than a few buttons from the dash
an extension is already in the IRS database?
You'd pay almost any amount of money to make your color blindness go away? Do yo have one of the ultra rare varieties that severely impact your sight? As a person with run of the mill red-green color blindness, it doesn't affect me much at all.

Edit: read it wrong, sorry!
> Shouldn’t you be more concerned about coal plants in China contaminating your waters?
Oh course we are concerned, and for what I know our government is keep contacting the Chinese government; however it is hard for Korea to make changes in China’s energy plans.
Korea is both migrating from neuclear reactors, coal plants, etc... to LNG plants (which are much more clean and do not produce much dust) and renewable energy.
Might not be space, the water disturbances could be projectors submerging.
>Retirement is boring, youll end working anyway just to have something to do.

Hobbies, dude. Tons of interesting hobbies, available for the doing, many requiring little to no financial outlay.

And with some fields like programming, you can even do the same work post-retirement, just for fun or to teach others.
For anyone reading, I’m not responding to this as it doesn’t address anything I, the study, or the original article said.
Clearly you have not met my stove! It literally polls the buttons once per second. It's a total crapshoot if you need a short press or a long press to register input. Voice control on this unit would not remove anything you'd miss.

I grew up with a stove that had an analog clock and a mechanical timer. Now THAT was a nice stove interface...
As far as I know, it does not have USE flags, but you can customize the compilation however you want, adding build options, patches, etc. They also provide binaries for a good amount of packages if you don't want to build some from source.
.NET Core is getting MASSIVE adoption in the large midwest city I work in. I expect .NET Framework to go on life support in a couple years.

The ability to build and run applications on Linux is something even old school .NET shops are excited about.
Oh, Mu intent was to express my own opinion. Looks like our opinions line up :-)
Wow. Thinking about this, I think I could take on the "not speaking part" fairly easily. Although I'd still exclaim stuff out loud about my own performance at whatever I'm doing (e.g. foot tripping, "nice work dhead!").

Giving up writing is also possible given I'd have no devices around or paper. But giving up reading would be the toughest. Trapped in my own mind for a month, I'd need LONG forest walks. I'd basically have to walk all the time.

Were you allowed humming?
Because batteries will get cheaper rapidly as we start making millions of EVs per year, negating the requirement (but not the capability) of using EVs as distributed storage (instead of simply as distributed load).
Spartan+Awesome+Pre-Summer+Savings
What are people using the screen for? I do maps and Spotify, all of which is controlled through the phone, voice, or steering wheel control. None of it requires interaction while driving aside from thumb flicks

Having a screen is much better than a separate phone or gps unit showing maps.
> Only if you dig deeper do you find that you can just print and mail in the form yourself.

I guess I'm mainly shocked that mail wasn't seen as the preferred (or at least the most obvious) way of doing this. Mail, unlike online 'solutions', is documentable (copies + certified + delivery confirmation) and proven adequate for use in a courtroom. Also, pretty much all government communication can take place through it.
Thoughts Concerning Numerical Logging Formats
> While the acquisition price is public, would love to learn more about revenue or # of customers. They must have had some serious revenue/traction to be bought for $170M.

Not exactly. I was at a startup that was only doing about $15M in annual revenue that got picked up for $350M. A lot of common PE values in tech are well past 25x in public stocks which seems (oddly) "normal" these days.
I love how this keeps coming up from people who cannot comprehend that there are other people in the world - people who don't live in downtown of a city with good public transportation; people who need to move stuff; people who have need to travel; people who cannot easily walk or bike - they may have health issues or specific disabilities; people who live in places with inclement weather; people who live in places where distances are large.

Essentially there's folks who think entire earth is a hipster downtown, and anybody else should just move, while collapsing economy, sending housing prices into stratosphere, impacting everybody's quality of life, and so on.

Yes cars are still a topic. Get out of your own head, travel a bit, talk to people, learn to empathize.

I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but that's just an unbelievable amount of ignorance and lack of awareness and sympathy for other people.
From build 1903 onwards they have implemented a Styx/9P file server which the windows client can use to modify linux files: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...

I will be interested to see if they have managed to fix the irritatingly slow I/O with this too.
IEA

https://www.iea.org/weo/?fbclid=IwAR0IEeDUoV-VGjztxl5JKYaJWZ...

Current energy usage is not projection and thats less than 1% globally.
The Mystery of Human Uniqueness
I can't imagine thinking millions or billions of people getting displaced and potentially losing secure access to food is less important than having to look at windmills
"Sorry, you’re not allowed to access this page."
Put multiple offers against each other?

If you're already in a remote engineering position, show that you bring more value than Tom in SF, even though he's paid more.
environmentalists don't -do- anything

Thinking is doing. I would argue that Rachel Carson did a great deal. http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Informing us that we are ignorantly, recklessly ruining the only place humanity has to live is doing something. Consider how our ill-considered 'doing' has left us with limited alternatives and a ticking clock.
I don’t know if I agree with that. The Turkish ethnostate tried to wipe Armenians off the map. Who is Facebook to tell Armenians how they can express their response to that?
You don’t, really. Whoever is checked in first gets the seat. The second person will be questioned, and hopefully it will be cleared up. With the number of flights in and out of the US each day, it’s bound to happen unless the false positive rate is extremely low, which would only be possible through an extremely invasive cataloguing of photographs beyond those taken for DMV and Passport photos.
At the point where you can't distinguish between real/organic and generated, this argument collapses though.

What feels "human" can be manufactured. Imperfections can be artificial, too.

We like to believe we're flawless arbiters of what's human, but we can be fooled in almost all cases. Most of all in photos. The soul remains an abstract concept.
Ask HN: Anyone a Microsoft Co-Sell Partner?
Has any startup got experience being a Microsoft Co-Sell Partner?

Looking for anyone to share their experiences..

How do you maximise the partnership and value?
Machine Learning on Google Cloud Functions
My employer requires the use of burner devices when traveling abroad. It’s pretty simple - don’t cross borders with sensitive information.

It’s a inconvenience but the reality is the legal climate for privacy is abysmal.

I hope it changes, but until then, your best bet is to stay well within the law and not make an example out of yourself.
Yes. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609999/us-doctors-plan-to...
AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans
I would be interested to see the average wage of the US vs the average wage of the world over time.

I imagine the net result of globalization will be to make the two converge. (hopefully human rights will be converging too EDIT: I mean rise)
The newest iteration of 18.06 [0] is using this textbook [1] that incorporates usage of Julia in a companion book.

[0] https://github.com/mitmath/1806/blob/master/summaries.md

[1] http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/
My sympathies - that's because, unfortunately, you have a stove where somebody took UI that works and tried to "modernize it". It sounds like it has touch buttons.

We have a brand new, nice stove that has knobs. It works GREAT :).

My next purchase will be a microwave oven that doesn't have million useless buttons but instead two dials/knobs - how much power, and how long. And I don't expect to ever use the how much power dial either :P
> I wonder, is the plan to stay on this side of the space, as a lightweight language with potentially smooth FFI interoperation with other low-level/Rust code?

I personally hope this is the case; I feel like Lisps in that space are scarce. Strange interactions between the GC and "alien" functions are one of the things that make FFI painful even when using a Lisp with otherwise-thorough FFI support (like Chicken Scheme or most Common Lisps).
>>The purpose is to Filter out people who can't code at all.

You shouldn't need a 60-minute in-person interview to figure out that they can't code.
Completely disagree.

You buy the dress because you want to convince yourself you look like old school Crawford or you want others to be convinced that you look like old school Crawford.

The point of models 99% of the time is to show the clothes. This isn't going to get rid of super models, but it's going to step on the turf of all but the most popular models.
My phone will turn 9 this year, and the only reason I'll have to replace it will be the ever increasing bloated nature of mobile apps.