skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define ‘rare’... I remember reading plane autopilot ‘disengagements’ aren’t actually rare or uncommon but happen 1000s of times every day worldwide.

Also, this is completely ignoring that a) autopilot doesn’t work at all without lots of infrastructure on the ground (try landing on autopilot when the airport ILS is down or absent, for example), and b) there’s a non-trivial set of flight conditions in which autopilot cannot be used at all.

People really should stop comparing plane autopilot to autonomous cars, the technologicalies share almost no similarities whatsoever. Plane autopilot doesn’t do any object recognition, AI, machine learning, adapting to the environment, etc. At the very best it will tell you when there’s another plane flying too close (based on an explicit location sent from the other plane or the ground), or when you almost run into the ground. That’s it. Everything else the autopilot does is just setting the flight controls to follow a preset path, and ensure the plane stays within the flight envelope.
May not mean much, but the last commit to the source repository was on "Wed, 04 Mar 2015"

http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/fatelf/
You would think that for a crime report to be accepted it would necessarily have someone's signature on it. That person is where the buck stops.

Furthermore, you'd think that after word got out about this happening several times, the police would start to look at lot more sceptically at an auto-generated Hertz stolen car report.
The U.S. does protect that right. Here, Ms. Manning is apparently being asked to incriminate Julian Assange, not herself.
I cannot fathom how they put obvious mistakes in the training material (e.g. hairline in the last example). How are they selling something when their own training material shows it's total bunk.

The time and money spent on that could be spent on actual police work...
Would you prefer an open source alternative or paid version of certain software?
Almost everything has an open source alternative. Eg: mattermost and Slack. We were in process of generating dashboards on tableau when a friend suggested superset from Apache- which would serve the same purpose. I still went with tableau simply because of more extensive use, so help available online, as well as its customer support and forums. I do have a preference for choosing softwares used by others to achieve same tasks - more results on google and better help online. Though I have seen a few firms opt for open source versions. What is your take on the same.
Are you saying that they will be lost and people will keep buying it again and again?
I've been wondering if the book "Mazes for Programmers" might also contain some useful advice. Or maybe the algorithms can be found elsewhere, too.

It describes various strategies for proceduarly creating mazes. Perhaps many puzzles can be mapped to a maze, as the search tree for solving them would essentially be a maze?
AP is like a student driver. Perfectly safe as long as the instructor is there to take over with very short notice. So saying AP is safe because % crashes in $ millions of miles is pretty irrelevant. AP only drives with supervision and when this is missing it crashes.

How many times did the driver have to intervene to avoid the crash? Tesla provides no data about this. But next time you hear “AP is so safe it only crashed 3 times” just remember that student drivers also almost never crash. As long as it needs constant attention, not considering this in the statistics makes them irrelevant.
I think the aluminium cans have a thin plastic or polymer coating on the inside too, which stops the drink from tasting like metal... so not sure if it's 100% plastic free either.
Absolutely. This is obvious but...
I could be wrong (i'm no expert) but i remember part of the GDPR is about "data portability" and is exactly that: you should easily be able to export all the data you've provided. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
I would assume this includes articles you've written.
The main point for me is that policemen made it really clear that, once public procedures and policies have been defined by a legitimate government, unless those policies infringe internationally recognized human rights, it's not up to the single citizen to challenge them!

If you don't agree with them, democracies give you the means to start a public discussion. But, in the meanwhile, you comply. That is civilization!

Do you know that idiocy of sovereign citizens? Well, London police demontrated that none of that bullshit will be tolerated. And, while I personally dislike being continuosly filmed, I think that London police has just made London a better place to live.

London city is not the wild west.
The avg. speed in London for example is already down to 19km/h due to traffic jams. I don't see a problem with setting it to 20. You'll even reduce the chance of traffic jams by lowering speed limits.
There's quite a pleasant traffic simulator to play with:
http://traffic-simulation.de/

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37200/umfrage...
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After they learn to walk and talk you don't have less time with two kids especially if the time diffecene is small enough to play with each other. A single kid has only his parents to interact with.

At ten kids I guess you have a - somewhat misbehaving - staff. Half of the kids are capable to help out with the other half or other chores at the house. All they need is a manager :)

I cannot say much about the personal time though - I'm still in the 'learn to walk and talk' phase and with 3 toddler in a small house there is virtually none. However I read on reddit that after 20 years every kid be at some kind of university and I finally will have free time for playing games and talking to my wife. That sounds nice:)
Why won't you just try training on a smaller network? That way you 'force' the network to train on the small amount of filters you have right?
Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019
The methods are not constant:

def foo
Array.send(:define_method, :sort) do; [100, 200]; end
end

puts eval([1, 2, 3].inspect).sort[1] * 2
foo
puts eval([1, 2, 3].inspect).sort[1] * 2

But, anyway, my points isn't about partial-evaluation of values specifically (although JITs can and do do that); instead of int and 2 you can consider a type with 4 billion subtypes. JITs do specializations that an AOT simply cannot possibly do (not without code explosion).

Now, as I wrote in the original comment, I'm definitely not saying that JIT compilation is "better" than AOT. I am saying that the "zero-cost abstraction" philosophy of C++/Rust and the "zero-cost use" philosophy of JITs are two extremes that are each perfectly suited to two very different software domains.
One of the big problems here being that some libraries will ship different header files for each platform, rather than doing everything with #if. For example, LibJPEG.
Even in the most well-behaved country, everyone will drop some litter at some point - even if through hurry or accident. When you multiply "once every thousand opportunities" by city's population density, you still get a lot of litter. Add to that people who're drunk and people who simply don't give a fuck, add random spillage (e.g. wind knocking trashcans over or pulling trash out of them), and you get a visible fraction of litter simply, probabilistically caused by just so much trash being produced.
> I don't buy through itunes because of drm

iTunes does not have DRM and is the only reason i buy albums through them: after i download the album, i have a bunch of m4a files i can play with any player i want, in any device i want and store on my own external drive.
Potential violation of the prime directive...
just remember, many of the same people here would be cheering on the Justice Department for using similar tactics against people they don't like. You can see it in the comments all the time.

That is why Justice can get away with it. They should be prevented completely from being able to use these tactics. The outrageous fines, the outrageous costs to defend against them which even some well off cannot afford, and the use of the press to twist the message to their liking.

Until we realize that everyone deserves the same treatment we will never change the system.
I think if your idea about decentralizing can accurately be described as fragmenting, then it’s probably not a good thing. I don’t know anybody that wants to have multiple separately maintained versions of the same project. When I use a piece of software, I want to have a good idea about how it will behave. I want to pick a project that I can be somewhat assured is fit for purpose, and that will provide stability. That’s why people investing in maintaining and using the most widely used and adequately maintained projects. If I don’t like the direction maintainers are taking a project in, then I can fork it. If enough people feel the same way as I do, then that fork might also become widely used and adequately maintained. There’s plenty of examples of exactly that happening, and I can’t see anything that’s undemocratic about it.

Regarding having a centralised service like github, I can’t see how that impacts the democraticness of anything at all. I can pull from it, I can push to it, I can fork on it. The centralizedness of it doesn’t seem to have any impact on participation to me. It just seems to be a matter of convenience. The less places I have to look for the thing I want, the better my experience is.
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Exactly. I uninstalled Steam to prevent myself from playing video games but now I find myself wasting time on instagram/reddit/youtube/twitch instead

:(
What does Kik use cryptography for?
I'd describe it as less simple than adaptive cruise control in the clouds: they can put planes in holding patterns.
Defense in depth is a useful concept for a lot more than just security.

Yes, of course people shouldn't litter. But some will anyway, and even in the unlikely event that no one on Earth litters ever again, plenty of trash will still escape from trash cans, trash trucks, etc., especially on windy days.

So the answer is we need defense in depth against litter. Littering should of course be curtailed to the maximum extent possible, but the litter itself should not last indefinitely upon escaping into the environment. It should degrade in a reasonable amount of time, or at least be totally inert and non-disruptive to animals and the environment (which plastic is not).

So you're both right. All available measures should be taken, so that combined, the optimal result is achieved.
Note that, while it doesn't matter much in this case, with `du` you'll get ~±4Kb out of nowhere because it measures by fs blocks. You need `--apparent-size` for the file size―which doesn't exist in the BSD version (= MacOS version).
He is right. Medium was cool around 2016. Before the content was behind a paywall and the free content was accessible in a visible way. They send you a mail with interesting stuff everyday and now it's dead to me. The mobile site is horrendous, a banner where it says to download the app which can't be canceled after five or so tabs. The asshole that designed it should never get a job in the business again.
As an owner and autonomous driving fan I keep asking the same question. Will autonomous cars be legislated to always obey the law or will that still be a judgment left to the driver if the car can be driven either way.

I am surprised there are not laws to have cars alert you to the fact your speeding for the systems that can read speed limit signs in addition to have current maps.
Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider
They also bought Compaq which had bought DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), of PDP and VAX fame.

To complete the set, they should have bought Sun, instead of letting Oracle do that.

(Seems they were busy blowing the billions on a software acquisition now resulting in jail sentences.)
This makes me wonder, if a lottery ticket network is roughly 10% of the size of the original network, then I would expect that statistically you'd have to train a randomly initialized verion of it 10 times to get the same result once. Is that true? Or is the actual topology of importance here?
Perhaps you should write a blog post how to do it?
From fixing IBM mainframes in the late 80s, they were far more unreliable than modem machines. Or at least, a mainframe consisting of many interconnected frames joined with thousands of tiny cables could throw up wicked problems that required hours or days hunched over an oscilloscope or logic probe to isolate.
They probably seemed more reliable because of relentless redundancy in the hardware and a highly focused maintenance staff who proactively followed up on logged intermittent errors before they became serious.
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Just like there's some difference between trains, high speed trains and freight trains, there would be some differences between trolleys and freight-trolleys or high speed trolleys. But the fundamental design is +/- the same.
Yeah there is. Probably quite a few, though this one came up first:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-applaud/
The trouble with bank that I had - most of the websites were firewalled.

I was gardening various projects on GitHub and increasing my StackOverflow reputation.

I wasn't enjoying it.

At some level there is a need for accomplishment.

Poor work ethics become a virus, difficult to concentrate at home later.
The U.S. certainly does. It's set out in the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution.

In this instance, however, Chelsea Manning has been given immunity from prosecution -- meaning she can't "plead the Fifth".
she's not
Just wondering how you manage Spotify + your own music collection. Is there an app that can play both Spotify and imported files and present them in a single UI?

At the moment I can’t enjoy anything that’s not on Spotify simply because I wouldn’t be able to listen to them really. I have hours of music on Spotify playlists and I would only need maybe a dozen of songs that aren’t on there, so manually switching apps for those few times would be annoying.
"Providing a safety net for all citizens" is really just wealth redistribution. So too is progressive taxation (as opposed to flat taxes), which is something you're presumably in favor of.
For most casual music listening I use Spotify; one thing that annoys me there though is that there are some songs which have clear compression issues, the kinda wavy, watery sound from early low bitrate MP3s. I can only notice it in one or two songs with a lot of guitar distortion / wall of sound though.

Its recommendations, daily mix and automatic playlist generated after listening to a full album are getting VERY predictable though. That is, same bands and often the same song. I'm not saying Spotify needs to improve their algorithm per se, it just needs to add a bit more variety - switch up algorithms from time to time, shuffle, start way down on the list of matched songs, something like that. It's getting annoying to the point where I'm considering switching to Apple Music for a while.

Anyway, for physical music I buy vinyl nowadays. I don't even have a vinyl player (yet), just a box of collectables / memorable albums. I don't like CDs, the boxes feel far too flimsy; I've never owned any.
> I'd like to see people's iTunes collections in 30 years...

I bought my first album from iTunes 10 years ago and it is right there in my external HDD since iTunes does not have any sort of DRM anymore (it was removed years ago). Unless computers in 20 years do not allow people to have local data and force them to use The Cloud (at which point i'd probably stop using computers altogether outside of necessity), i do not see them disappear.

If fact i rebought several albums i had in CD format because i lost some of the CDs after moving and a bunch of M4A files in a folder are more convenient than a bunch of CDs in a box (although TBH i do get the nice feeling of having something to look at that is physical... but only for things i really like and for me that is usually games not music).
How much street cleaning staff do Japanese employ?

Anyway, the example still works. Even if littering was purely societal, on the timescale of years society is fixed. It doesn't change. You can't suddenly convince people to pretty please change social norms. Your options are either a) get a law in place that directly addresses undesired behavior, which is not free and works only to the degree you'll enforce it, or b) stop playing off the obvious failure mode of your society for your personal gains.
So, maybe this is not quite the same thing, but wasn't it Arch (and only Arch?) that made python point to python3? And in doing so went against what the upstream Python project explicitly specified to do? I remember dealing with a few users who ran into this.
Air pollution may be damaging 'every organ in the body’
I'm just leaving Japan after spending a week touring around the country, and I definitely did see litter. Not as much on the streets as in the US, but still some, and the beach was absolutely jam-packed with litter that had washed ashore.

Litter is inevitable. A lot or the time it isn't even conscious. You can just forget that you had set a bottle down next to you, and happen not to look back when you're leaving. Or it can fall out of your pocket or backpack unnoticed when you're retrieving something else. Or the wind can just blow it out of a trash can or vehicle.
If the content has been deleted then they don't have to give it to them. Backups aren't covered by GDPR.

> So, what are the alternatives? According to France’s GDPR supervisory authority, CNIL, organisations don’t have to delete backups when complying with the right to erasure. Nonetheless, they must clearly explain to the data subject that backups will be kept for a specified length of time (outlined in your retention policy).

It's talking about right to erasure, but it would apply for requests for personal information. They don't have to crawl through their backups for you, only the current data.
I have purchased some albums in the past on itunes and discovered with disgust that they had DRM. They were only playable on itunes. I returned them (a not very user-friendly process).

I have googled it a bit and it seems that DRM is not used any more on iTunes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay#iTunes_Store_DRM_chan...
It's truly amazing that we can do this.
Any recommendations for music stores which sell mp3's? I ordered Nokia 8110 4G and ditch my smartphone once it arrives. I think it only supports mp3's so I need to start buying albums and not rely on Spotify.
Why not use two apps?
While we're on the topic of prog, Spotify also has nothing by Henry Cow or Fred Frith in general, which combined with the lack of King Crimson is a dealbreaker for me.
I don't recall saying anything about virtue.
We'll have 'full self-driving' in a year, so option 3 is on the table very soon, according to Tesla's marketing.

I assume that this is mostly pr in terms of how autonomous the ai will be once again, but many people may buy it and then get blamed for it when accidents happen.
Yup. Also, when smoking outside, people do have a strong incentive to dump the butt ASAP, whether there's a trash can in sight or not - cigarette butts are dirty, smell really bad (even for smokers' standards), and can foil clothing.
> and Megadeth.)

Laughed at that one.
All the ads you have clicked on?
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2009. That’s when the DRM was removed. 10 years ago.
In all fairness, I'm not sure how much of that applies 14 years later.
Stationary objects are very detectable with radar as they have relative motion to a moving vehicle. Also objects with no relative motion are only tricky for CW doppler radar.

The issue is mostly your last point. The radar sensors used have low resolution and would have trouble distinguishing a turning semi from an overhead sign.
> Isn't it a crime to accuse someone falsely?

That's not really applicable here, because Hertz doesn't seem to have accused anyone. It sounds like Hertz, either due to badly designed procedures or employees taking shortcuts, can lose track of which car a renter has been loaned.

This leads them to find that a car that their system says is not rented out and so should be on the lot is missing [1]. They then report that missing car to the police.

The person with the car gets detained and maybe arrested because they were found in possession of property reported missing by the owner, not because they were accused of anything by Hertz. So at most Hertz would face civil liability under some kind of negligence theory.

[1] In most of these cases, the same lot with the missing car should also have an extra car present that their records say is out with a renter, so the total number of cars in the lot should match their records. There should be a sanity check somewhere that says if the total is correct, but a car is "missing", then they should identify the extra car, contact the renter who supposedly is out driving it around, and find out if that person somehow got the missing car.
@waxzce: "FYI, as cloud provider we rawly loss around 25% of CPU performances the lasts 18 months due to different CVE and issues on CPU and mitigation limiting capacity using microcode, so we stuff more CPUs, but prices didn't go down at all... That's a kind of upselling. #IntelFail"
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I'm leaving Japan right now after having spent a week here and I definitely saw a noticeable number of people cleaning up litter.

The best was an old man pulling a map out of the mouth of a Nara deer that was eating it, then scolding the deer like it was a dog. So yeah, even the deer are taking care of litter, even if they shouldn't be. I also saw a bunch of them eating the paper ribbons that the deer crackers come packaged in.
You ask people to change their passwords, and when they do so, you store them with the new scheme. You can do that by e.g. requiring everyone to change their password on their next login/visit.
I mostly buy my music via bandcamp nowadays and from time to time I buy a vinyl. I don’t believe in the idea of the superiour vinyl sound, but I like that it makes listening a concious ritual.

Because I DJ from time to time I like to have the stuff I like on my drive and so it ends up beeing either a download or vinyl. CD has totally fallen out of favour with me..
In Japan everything is overpackaged using ridiculous amounts of plastic (more so than in Europe, for example), and yet people don't litter.

I think it's important to tackle the issue from both ends.
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No, it’s entirely possible in principle. If you build a perfect optical cavity, weigh it, pump a bunch of light in, and weigh it again, you’ll find that the weight went up by ghf/c^2 summed over each photon added to the cavity. Divide by g and you get the sum of the masses of the photons. 1 kg of photons would be enough to destroy your lab and the rest of your city, so only a very advanced civilization would ever do the experiment on this scale.

Photons indeed have no rest mass, but it’s impossible to ever find a photon at rest unless you yourself have no rest mass, in which case you also have no ability to do experiments.
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The Kennedys speeches were on another level