skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things might be easier for the thief, but others I imagine harder.

Multiple on-board backup locations of numerous video sensors means unless the entire vehicle is torched (and even then), some evidence of the people who carried out the theft will probably survive.

When talking about autonomous platforms, a jammer might no longer be sufficient. If communication is lost, how hard is it to launch a drone (or multiple) whose job it is to keep visual contact with the vehicle while increasing distance, and relay the feed up when communication is re-established (how large an area does a jammer affect?).

There are ways to mitigate these defenses/logging (reduce all unique visuals, stop vehicle in tunnel), but also ways to minimize those mitigations.

I'm not sure it's any easier than when a human is present to defend the goods.
Last line: "But win or lose, the age of "friendly" computing has begun."

Feels bittersweet to recall the age of "friendly" computing in these dark days of "antisocial" computing.
you might look at the novel Autonomous by Annalee Newitz for her take on such a world, it's quite interesting
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20170966, which was the earliest submission of the original source.
Also related -- all of Super Mario Bros. in one image:
https://i.imgur.com/g6JQ2WV.png / https://twitter.com/Doomlaser/status/1004802864433147904
> GE used tens of billions to do stock buybacks rather than pay down its liabilities.

Is this such a bad plan if equity funding is expensive but debt funding is cheap?

If you can secure a loan against your assets at 3% and buy back preferred or common shares paying 5%, then it can make sense. It’s one way to avoid a dividend cut while decreasing dividend expenses. You can always issue the shares again later.
>disconnect the last car and take everything

That's no fun for the ICE 20 miles out.
As expected no answer to the questions asking why they sold out the web and handed more control to google.
I think this is only the case when getting a mortgage, which involves a regulated third party which is likely going to resell or insure the debt, involving fourth parties.

If you just buy the house like you buy anything else, everything is negotiable.
Logic Pro X update taps the tremendous power of the new Mac Pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20170966
I wonder how common this is in a worldwide or perhaps developed country-wide comparison.

I know this happens/exists, but I have not seen it in my country. There are people who simply will not read what they are signing, but having to sign something that is factually wrong or impossible or without having the option to read it hasn't appeared to me yet. While anecdotal, I would have expected to see this as well if it is as widespread as I'd expect it to be. (I sign about ~10 things every week which might be on the low side or high side depending on job/location/context)
In addition to what everyone else said, about a year ago I was chatting with an engineer who was in San Juan bidding on work with PREPA. One of the things he pointed out was that the entire grid is ancient. And aside from the typical problems that makes, virtually none of the physical pieces can be purchased of the shelf because they've been replaced by new designs everywhere else.

Every replacement part need requires that PREPA either have the part machined specially, or they need to purchase a production run of whatever the part is.

The conversation left me with the impression that its likely less expensive to simply replace large sections or even re-engineer than to incrementally improve the existing infrastructure.
These already exist, there are 5 autonomous regions based around minority groups. There's also Macau which has a similar status to Hong Kong even if the system is quite different.
> I think it's extremely likely it saved people from overdosing or taking the wrong drugs. The review system let people vet their dealers before buying.

Based on what? How many OD victims never lived to give a 3 star rating "overdosed, would not buy again"?

You should watch Cocaine Diaries (http://exclaim.ca/music/article/blurs_alex_james_in_bbc_doc_...) - a documentary about a rock star, after talking about cocaine fueled parties, was invited to Colombia and met with everyone from villagers to a cartel hitman. To think that there's no violence in the _production_ alone, let alone distribution and retail, would be naive. And to think that giving the cartels safer channels to sell and increase their market would make those precursors safer is something I can't really picture.
>If you are diagnosed with cancer and that diagnosis is confirmed by a second doctor, do you need to demand access to your labs so you can review them personally "with a medical attitude"?

When considering a medication that is being sold to me such as an anti-depressant with possible long-term harmful side effects, I absolutely want to be familiar with the clinical efficacy and peer reviewed literature on that medication to assess the risks of whether it's worth it for myself.

What about opioids? There were some studies conducted by experts and promoted by the Sacklers that said that opioids were not addictive. Surely I don't have a right to be skeptical of those claims because the surveys were conducted by experts, right? I'm not a post-doc researcher, so obviously I can't tell you that OxyContin is habit-forming.

You're basically arguing for blind trust on the part of the patient, which is very disempowering.

It's very understandable when you present unquestioning obedience and credentialism worship as the only alternative to taking active steps towards being empowered, why people would tell the "experts" to fuck off and trust their own common sense instead as Taleb describes [0]

[0]: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
The Apple III was backwards compatible with the Apple //.

Copland and Taligent never shipped to developers or users so neither wasted time on it.

I had an Apple //e card. Using the included software, you could setup a ProDOS partition on your hard drive, and copy files from the //e to the Mac. Apple bundled converters that you could use to convert AppleWorks documents to Mac app documents.

Mac86 sucked but the DOS Compatibility Card for the PowerMac 6100/60 with a 486DX/2, a dedicated sound card, and the capability of adding 32MB of dedicated RAM was quite good until Windows 95 came out and it could only use 16 bit drivers. That was my second Mac.
"This guy" was Niklas Luhmann, by the way, an influential (and regularly misunderstood) German sociologist and social theorist, heavily inspired by Parsons and cybernetics.
I completely don't understand what you said about burden on developers to set up some system.

> "Can you be doing whatever you feel like, and one or more companies are making millions in revenue based on products made possible by what you are working on, and expect to have a decent living?"

Still no.

There are few good reasons to contribute to open source, and they are nothing about profits other users make, because the process and the product are rewarding to the contributor.

Now there are some bad reasons to contribute to open source, where the motivation is perverse, the situation looks distastrous, and only these cases would take advantage from any such policing, subsidizing, taxing, wealth redistribution.

Does that person do the work to use the product themselves? Then such external factors don't matter, the person extracts the value they intended to have.

Does that person do the work to meet interesting challenges, mess with smart people, and have fun? Obviously it's nothing about getting money from other users.

Does that person do the work to promote themselves in careers? Other users matter only as big or numerous names, not as revenue.

Does that person do the work with the only outcome being the profit for companies which the person expects to pay back, while putting on work under the license which does not require users to pay at all?

Or, in addition to that, they bring a FOSS product to the market, profit from providing value-add services to that, but get broke because someone else starts to provide similar value-add services with their product, all being legal?

Your thoughts are completely about these people, and these people have really perverse motives from the outset.
There is no need to be upset, there is no real finality here, everything has to be measured.

That being said the LUTs would follow the same pattern as execution - all threads would use them and if they are a part of the executable they don't change. This combined with prefetching and out of order instructions means that their latency is likely to be hidden by the cache.

New data coming through however would be transformed, creating more new data. While the instructions and LUTs aren't changing the new data being created on each transformation can either be kept locally so it doesn't incur the same write back penalties and cache misses by
due to allocating new memory, writing to it and eventually getting it to another CPU.

If the same CPU is working on the same memory buffer there is no need to try to allocate them for every filter or manage lifetimes and ownership of various buffers.
Very cool!

I noticed that the extension is inspired by Sindresorhus. I think he's totally nailed the way to architect and structure extensions now. Especially if you look up a lot of guides on how to build extensions, they really don't tell you anything about how to include npm packages, or distribute the extension in an automated way. Refined github does all of this in a really clear way that, I think, works very well. I recently used it's structure to rewrite an extension of mine and it helped so much.
I really want to try some of this. I'm a fan of Cambodian-style fermented fish, and so this Icelandic fish seems like it might be another option for me.
Ever listen to Android web developers? The matrix of versions of Chrome to test if you need to "properly" support Android due to financial or corporate policy reasons is fascinating. It's not as bad today as supporting IE6 and IE11 side-by-side due to idiot corporate policy, but the wind shifts one way or another and it certainly could.

(Fun spitballing doomsday scenarios: LineageOS gets more traction and needs to harder fork; or, Huawei is forced into a hard fork and takes the entire Chinese market with it, which could snowball other markets across; or, some Android worm causes friction with the major carriers and they get back into the version/upgrade micromanagement game even worse than before.)
I already have a Mac mini that I bought because the Mac Pro was no yet available when my old iMac die.

But is a good option for Pros?? No.

My brother, at my right at 3 meters from me, laugh in how pathetic and anemic is the Graphic card in the mini. Also, it have 20GB Ram for what I must pay (sorry, I recheck: for much less) upgrade the anemic start at the mini to at least 16GB that is already low for me (I need to integrate ERP software and run Mysql, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, firebird, windows, docker and more).

I also need to buy an external drive to put at least 1TB SSD. I already pay to upgrade to 512 SSD internal.

I already constrained in hard drive space. I buy an extra Synology.

The mini no the iMac (I have one before) is a sufficient alternative. Is what I can afford and makeshift extra cables and enclosure to match what my brother have (it work on 3d and photography).

And then, what extra magical thing for Pros this machines do? Apart of raw power, OSX are just decent Unixes, but have null of the extra capabilities of Amiga or BeOS, just to name ones...
Yes they were that’s how I know them. Object Desktop was quite nice.

They moved away from OS/2 around 2000 I think.
Chrome still has some competition. So does AMP, if you count, you know, HTTP.
For these kind of forms my signature is just a line; screw it. I've seen electronic forms where you literally type out your name in print, and sometimes they get cheeky and put it into a signature looking font. What's the point? I'd love to see whichever engineer cobbled that half baked system together watch it get blown up in court.
http://ieefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/General-Electric...

Here is a link to the actual report.

This reads like they started with the conclusion, and then kept googlig for facts to support it. Importantly, no where does it connect the energy transition to the number 193 billion. They say a thing happened in 2016 (an acquisition), in 2018 another thing was much worse (GE's mkt cap), so obviously that 2016 thing caused the 2018 thing.

Dissapointing givien the high caliber of donorsto the IEEFA.
I have little knowledge on what Dread Pirate Roberts actually did but I cannot imagine spending the rest of my life in jail.
> "Processed meats typically contain high amounts of sodium and preservatives," Hu says. In addition, high-heat cooking methods, such as grilling, can produce carcinogens. And recent research has linked high red meat consumption — especially processed meats — with less diversity and abundance of healthy bacteria in the gut. "This may contribute to an increased risk,"

They are literally throwing darts at a dart board.

This medical industry is corrupt beyond repair. It needs disruption.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM will all 'embrace' block-chain for the same reasons explained here...

https://medium.com/@qroshan/block-chain-solving-imaginary-pr...

"Service Providers like Amazon/IBM have nothing to lose to give ‘Block-chain-as-a-service’ for any one willing to fork their money for such things. They are happy to take your money. Just like a stock broker, the more you use their compute power to do utterly useless things the more profitable they are."
Gun control in the USA has always been enacted specifically for racist reasons, from the very first regulations designed to disarm freed slaves that defended themselves against lynch mobs, to federal regulations in recent history when the black panthers carried long arms onto the floor of congress.
Not much, so much more is possible. But if Stack Overflow goes out of business, I quit. I do not miss trying to find obscure stupid things myself. The Internet is very good at making my time more valuable.
If you're not zero margin, you can't scale the same way.
C'mon, you can't tell that story without sharing how you got your shoulder injury and whether it actually ended up being a good match.
It is relatively trivial to integrate Twilio and email for 2FA/OTP and/or password resets etc. That's my personal method. I also use the jsonwebtoken package and passport-jwt typically for the JWT which keeps that all pretty clean and means I don't have to mess with doing any of the header parsing etc (not that it is that much work).

If you exclude the database access/update code from the auth portion of the setup and use passport with the supporting packages, you'll write probably on the order of less than ~200 lines of JS to handle all the standard auth type things (just did a rough count on one project I have). That included in my case using twilio to send 2fa and OTP codes via SMS (sends via email too but that uses a different library I wrote).

The choice of database and specific schema of course isn't factored in to those figures. For mongodb, it typically only adds an additional ~200 lines, but for postgres (no ORM tooling) it'll be more like 300-600 lines. But you will need to write this code no matter what if you want to maintain a user table, even if you use a third party, you'd just have a federated key instead of a username/password combo.

So in the end, I would say for < 300 lines of proper code (excluding db crud) you have the basic structure setup and working.

BTW -- I am excluding from my LOC counts above my middleware I wrote for things like logging, metrics, etc. But even including them wouldn't make it change by much.
If needed: http://archive.is/eiekb
Out of curiosity, how much flows from Chromium to Chrome, compared to vice-versa?
For some areas of physics. In my field(plasma physics modelling), non-open source codes abound.
Like you said, it’s uncertain what % of the gigs are of the spammy variety. That said, we’ve used it for a lot of design work and manual processes.
Would be interesting to have a head-mounted display a la VR headsets and model a truck with the virtual windscreens being the camera outputs on the truck. Would be interesting to see.
You can edit it. The same way they don't expect you to read it, they don't read it either.

So just edit it to say what you agree with and move on (and don't make a fuss, call their attention to it - they should be reading these just as much as you should).
On the contrary, I’m not trying to defraud anyone. I’m using a custom signature as evidence that it actually was me; if someone swipes my card and uses it somewhere it’d be obvious that it wasn’t me because the signature would not match the consistent deterministic gibberish that the real me would have signed.
How about outpatient prescriptions? Does a GP (or group thereof) get a budget of expenditures on prescriptions that they have to stay within?
Star Control devs lawsuit settlement involves exchanging homemade honey
I found this fairly interesting:

> Below, we'll demonstrate how a specific smart contract platform (Ethereum) can interoperate with our enterprise cloud data warehouse (BigQuery) via oracle middleware (Chainlink).

Given that Google Cloud's recently hired new CEO is a former President from Oracle [1], I guess this is nothing more than a nod at Oracle to maintain on friendly terms?

Hard to imagine Google Cloud promoting an Oracle blockchain middleware 6 months ago..

[1] https://www.businessinsider.nl/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kuria...
I'm sure we could crowd-source it. I know $500 isn't enough, but it's what would add to the pot.
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If you keep posting unsubstantive comments or flamebait to HN, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
U-Net for Brain MRI Segmentation on PyTorch Hub
Doesn't the data seem to reflect the clustering effect for writers in London has waned. As you approach the 21st century that clustering effect goes toward the population line.
> But the new divide emerging will increasingly be between those who have no choice but to rely on digital services for health, education or even companionship and those who are wealthy or privileged enough to choose human interaction instead.

Reminds me of the switch from when being fat meant you were wealthy to when being fat meant you were poor or didn't have the leisure time to exercise. The fashion always depends on what you have the ability to choose to do, rather than an objective scientific standard. I think it also shows up in the backlash when people realize that something that has become prevalent is harmful, but only the few have a choice to do something different. I see this in my own life; sometimes it takes major effort to go and do something away from the screen and to be mindful of little daily things.
Zendesk Launches Answer Bot API and Mobile SDKs, Guide Enterprise Improvements
I disbelieve having software cracked are favorable by any developers who spent countless sleepless nights coding with sweat and blood
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN.

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Do you have examples of those standards organizations? The only other one that I have first hand experience with is ANSI and I know they charge for their standards. I have been dealing with X12 EDI and some of the standards for that are close to $1000 and that is for a single file format. The health care X12 standard has dozens of file format standards.
The actual piece is imho more interesting and less opiniated: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/educati...
Remember, in research it is easy to conclude that some treatment does no good -- just do sloppy statistics. E.g., collect some data, flip a coin, and report the results of the coin flip. That will work because the coin flip is, in probability, independent of everything else including the data and treatment. Well that's not the only way to do sloppy statistics -- just pick some measures that are relevant but not very good. And use a small sample size.

E.g., there are some reports on how much data was needed by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to conclude that the Higgs Boson DOES exist -- the amount of data needed was beyond belief. Sooooo, anytime well short of that much data they could have conluded that the Higgs did not exist, that is, so far their data failed to show that it DID exist. Same for any treatment: If don't collect enough data, use poor measures, let the data get corrupted, etc., i.e., do sloppy work, then will fail to find where the treatment did work and conclude that it didn't.
Possibly because if you make an experiment out of is, then there's ethical concerns that you might have to consider (or worry about other people throwing in your face), where as if you just do it because of your stated belief it would help, then that specific problem is no longer a concern.

It's impossible to rationally consider all the myriad decisions we must make in the modern day, so people rely on rules-of-thumb that work in most cases (or we hope they work in most cases). For example, "don't perform medical experiments on people that may cause them more hard than not experimenting". Unfortunately, we often start relying on the rule-of-thumb as the reason instead of the heuristic that helps us short-circuit a rigorous rational reasoning, and then we end up with people using those rules of thumb why to deny, or criticize, actions where it makes no sense.
Ive used this as a reference and passed it around my manager leaning engineering circles. Its really good as a basis for a conversation. The major takeaways for me are

1. Culture has to be an explicit decision

2. Changing culture is incredibly difficult. Emphasis on incredibly.

Chances are you wont be able to build a stars culture, but lots of companies use that as their implied cultural northstar and fail at it.
I'll check it out, what should I ask for? Do they call it hardfiskur or is there a Russian word for the equivalent?
> The problem is that as long as you want to use something else as the master version and do not want to bother with XCF files at all

That seems needlessly dangerous in the workflows typical for graphical design. Usually you import one or more source images, make your changes, and export a new image, leaving the source intact (specifically so you still have an original copy of the source images for later use in new, entirely-separate projects).

Sure, this makes it a little bit inconvenient for one-off edits, but I suspect one-off editing ain't the target use case for GIMP, much like how it ain't the target use case for Photoshop.
This oracle has nothing to do with Larry Ellison. From the article:

"If the data are not derived from recently added on-chain data, a trusted source of external data is required. Such a source is called an oracle."
Don't worry, it pretty much isn't possible to do so without semantics which will basically make your program "drift" during run-time away from what a newly compiled program would do.

EDIT: Assuming inlining and call-by-value struct is a possibility.
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I don't think they even forked it necessarily, and the Qt hack/patch wasn't even published. It was just presented at some Linux thing. This was the only story I could find that resembled a reason for inferiorhuman's prejudice. There are also hundreds of current existing GIMP forks, and no evidence that the GIMP crew is gearing up for street violence.
There's still a lot of development on the Kubernetes features for Spark. If you are really thinking about moving your production jobs from Yarn or Mesos to Kubernetes, wait until version 3.0 comes out.
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