skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

Which other vehicles on the road actively steer your vehicle away from an imminent collision when it's safe to do so?

Tesla's blind spot monitoring doesn't just detect what's in your blind spot, like other vehicles, it also detects whether a vehicle is slowing down or accelerating into the "blind spot" adjacent to your vehicle.

Their autopilot or automated emergency braking doesn't just brake when a vehicle in front of your slams on it's brakes, it slows down when someone in front of that vehicle hit the brakes.

There's a lot of intelligent engineering there, and a lot of improvements that are pushing the industry to be safer and more responsible. There's a lot of negative press out there, but much of it is not based on fair statistics.
That’s what I don’t understand about all the “switch to brave” comments.

Everyone does that and Firefox still goes away. And you’re left with Google still running the show.
> used a loophole in the ordinances

How can something that is standard in the ordinances of multiple districts (and is pretty common nationwide) be considered a loophole? It is pretty intentional that this work is exempt.
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I found irony in this:

"I’ve heard from venture capitalists frightened to talk for fear they can’t sell portfolio companies to big tech"

So you want to profit from selling out to big tech, but you're afraid of them because they've become so big and powerful - in part by buying other companies...
I'm not an expert, but all greenhouses I've personally seen have natural ventilation with vents high up (such as at the peak of the roof) and near the ground.

The greenhouse effect makes the air inside a lot warmer than outside. This reduces its density, and it becomes buoyant and spills out the roof vent.

There may also be fans, but you can get some ventilation for free (energy-wise).
Anyone who's worked in the video game industry knows how insanely inconsistent compatibility can be on across different device configurations. With browsers using more and more GPU acceleration, it wouldn't surprising if some configurations have major performance bugs. The one thing with Chrome is that it has very good compatibility.
Then why was the original study published? And why did it get so much press?
Kanban does sound appropriate, but it seems like the biggest thing still missing is prioritization.

One team = one ordered list of priorities. Someone has to make the call.

It doesn't mean there aren't multiple things happening at the same time, but it does mean there's always one ranked above the other. This is the biggest thing I've struggled with when introducing kanban concepts to non-tech people: they will try to have several #1 priority items - sometimes by having several priority lists or categories that are all "equally important".

Prioritization doesn't have to be perfect, so long as it's continually refined and the priority of items in-progress (almost) never changes. It had to be recognized that stopping work adds several hours to the time it will ultimately take, and doing it more than extremely rarely is a great way to completely destroy your team's morale. Even if it's a "only a five minute task", you have to act like it's a 3 hour drive away (and back again).
It's a great robot! His remote controller seems a bit cobbled together, but you can easily use a $50 RC controller with a $5 receiver and an Arduino to control whatever you want with 16 channels, it's amazing!
There's exactly 1 implementation of Rust. Rust is whatever HEAD in the Rust repository implements.

C was standardized nearly 20 years after the first C compiler. The original C standard and its revisions were written in a way that (with some exceptions and caveats) effectively christened existing implementations and codebases as "C", just not necessarily in their entirety. The guiding principle has always been to iteratively formalize and evolve existing practice. If a standard were to effectively tell any compiler or project that wasn't line-for-line "conformant" or "correct" or "strictly conformant" to GTFO, the C standard would have failed in bringing order to chaos. The use of "undefined behavior" was and remains a mechanisms for achieving that goal. C isn't trying to "have it both ways"; it's addressing real, substantial dilemmas within a huge software ecosystem.

C's approach is somewhat unique and idiosyncratic, but rooted in a historical context that cannot be ignored. And it's success is undeniable. Some languages, like Rust, with only a single well-accepted implementation have the luxury of staying silent. Other languages (e.g. Ada, once upon a time) with diverse, equally relevant implementations that use a heavier hand in directing the evolution have a poor track record. You can't force a vendor to implement some behavior if they don't want to; and if you attempt to coerce them they're liable to walk away. C++ is another somewhat unique case, but while there remains substantial diversity of C compilers that are as a practical matter functional C11 implementations (C11 made alot of C99 optional), there are now effectively only two relevant C++ compilers: GCC and clang. (Maybe Visual Studio, we'll see.)

Step back and consider why C remains so popular and successful despite its obvious and well acknowledged faults. People think it's an accident of history that C has been so influential, but I think that's self-serving. It's much easier to say that than to acknowledge that the evolution of C reflects an uncomfortable reality in the technology industry regarding the forces that lead to success and failure. Node.js and PHP reflect some similar uncomfortable truths. C's concept of "undefined behavior" is an attempt to cabin and grapple with some of those realities in an honest and more intellectually rigorous manner. That's why it's so easy to pick on "undefined behavior" in C; its whole function is to help outline the contours of and acknowledge some very deep pathologies rather than ignoring them or pretending they don't exist. Rust's unsafe{} is loosely similar, but you can't directly compare the two because both the historical and contemporary contexts are different. Again, there's precisely 1 Rust implementation; it doesn't need to formalize undefined behavior in a way that permits reconciling diverse behaviors (behaviors that are often justifiably relied upon) and providing a path to better, safer, unified semantics. Rust developers can ignore various matters of undefined behavior until one day it can dictate the One True Way, without risk of splitting the community or making itself irrelevant.
No, they infiltrated a Rpi already on the network (e.g. a research SBC) which itself was also able to access other machines.
My employer works around this issue (last I checked) by just charging a flat shipping+handling fee for non-VIP customers (VIP customers get free shipping and various other perks in exchange for their yearly membership fee).
In terms of 'ruts', the horse drawn proto-railway dates back to Corinth half a millennium earlier:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway#Ancient_systems
JPL builds robots and robots are made from SBCs.
In some things I see where you're coming from, but while I work two programming jobs and have 4 kids and very little time, I think I'm generally more knowledgeable than in the past. I don't have as much _potential_ simply because I spent the last 15 years writing code instead of trying to make it as an artist or an athlete or an academic, but I have continued to grow in those areas, albeit slower than I might have if I had made different choices.
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> always concentrate to the top

Your imagination is limited, especially considering that there was no class system when people were painting caves in Chauvet, nor was there one for the 20,000 years after then. One class of heirs parasitically expropriating from a class of workers is a new phenomenon for humans, over the long term. Capitalism is even more short lived.

> wealth...their funds

Talk of inanimate things is just an obfuscation of theirs (and yours). There are no signs pointing down from the heavens that some heir owns this or that. It scarcely matters any way.

The heirs who do not work have a social relationship with those of us who do work. We work and create wealth, they expropriate surplus labor time from us - if we are carpenters turning $150 of wood and material into $200 every hour, we keep our created wealth as wages in the beginning of the day, at the end of the day we are working only for the heir. They expropriate all the wealth we create toward the end of the day. The important thing is the labor time and social relationship, not the expropriated product of labor.

> helping...responsible

They have no role in such things. History is replete with revolutions and the overthrow of economic systems. Their role is like the czar and his pretenders in Russia - to receive the bullets and bayonet thrusts of the Bolsheviks who were replacing them.
Not saying that this is the case, but if Google properties use ServiceWorker, this could happen.

Google properties have a history of having suboptimal code served to Firefox.
We're paying too much in America.

Thats mostly because of population density and sunk labor costs for building the infrastructure. Many parts of US are so sparsely populated that the densely populated regions have to subsidize some of the costs of buildding the infrastrcuture in those regions.

Canada is the worst when it comes to mobile services because they don't have cities like New York to subsidize the sparse regions. I mean the most dense metro area - Greater Toronto area has a population nf 4 million or so.

Any densely populated nation has very affordable mobile services. In my experience - UK, France, Singapore and SE Asia all have affordable mobile services.

Of course, no one can match Jio when it comes to price:feature parity. They have done what no other telecom provider in the world could do. It was and still remains one of the biggest bets in the telecom world and it wouldn't have been possible in any other country, except may be China.
Not everybody with access to the light switch should be able to take control. This is a security problem.
How about the dangers of electronics repair?

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/21/1960s-rock-musi...
A new generation of Firefox for Android is coming next week. It's called Firefox Preview – it doesn't have all the features, but it should be much faster, if you want to give it a try.
cat foo.json | jq .
The Lord of the Rings trilogy comes to mind. The trilogy set a record for academy awards.
> Jio had a lot of money to use to grab the customers by offering free deals

How do you make money offering free deals?
An honest question: do you think it’s the information-seeking behavior that is the problem, or that the information-seeking is a manifestation of a different behavior (e.g., procrastination)?

I find that with a lot of people it’s procrastination. There’s no information block thorough enough to address procrastination; it finds a way. It has to be addressed directly.
Key Product Management Lessons I Learned at Startups
Maybe. Nawa's ultra-capacitors sound good:

https://newatlas.com/nawa-nanotube-ultracapacitor-production...

I hope they get adopted by Formula E. A bank of ultra-capacitors in front of the main battery should make the cars lighter with stronger regenerative braking.
It's the Effect Size, Stupid: What effect size is and why it is important (2002)
It was more of the opposite. The study claimed that conservatives had a more physiological reaction to threats.
"The information" is literally plastered all over a giant article on Slate and we're yelling about it as we speak. That's not very effective suppression.

The demand seems to be that "If Science ran an article they're obligated to publish anyone's refutation of that article". And that's insane. It only seems sane to you because your political outrage glands demand justice for someone using the previous study as spin, but that's not Science's problem, and it shouldn't be. Go run the outrage pieces on Slate, that's what it's for.
NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative
Principle of Some Astonishment
Not a big fan of that choice, but isn't Cliqz is a privacy-oriented search engine, rather than an advertising company?
Received a phone call on fb messenger, a proposition to go to a very odd traditional party that i never and no one in a 1000km radius would have googled.

Started googling "party", can you guess what was the first autocomplete result?

Android phone
>I can't think of any laws/rules/different version of our world where wealth won't always concentrate to the top.

A progressive corporate income tax. Small businesses will finally have an advantage to big ones and there will be no need for captains of industry to lead behemoths the size of Amazon.
What kind of audit?

Every telemetry probe requires a privacy review in addition to the code review. If you want more, the source code is available online. Do you have more in mind?
I found that weird. Sending something out to review that would definitely not get published regardless of the review is a complete waste of time for the journal and the reviewers. I would find it insulting as a reviewer to be asked to do that.
That $240K person is 10x as useful as those $80k people, on average.
Ask HN: Isn’t free/mandatory vasectomy more efficient than contraception?
When I read this [0], I thought that it’s simply ridiculous. It would be easier, simpler, more efficient, safer and cheaper to offer free vasectomy to men after freezing their sperm cryogenically (incentivizing them) and making it mandatory after they have sired 1-2 children.

The sperm of younger males have chances of less mutations, gives women choice and freedom and the procedure is reversible. It doesn’t have the complications of female sterilization or the trauma/morbidity of abortions and the religious proscriptions against contraception as the sperm is stored anyways. It also offers protection in nebulous situations like incest, rape and teenage pregnancies.

Why is it always up to women when it comes to reproductive responsibility. We already bear the burden of pregnancy and it’s various side effects. Isn’t fresh/mandatory vasectomy a better hack?

[0] [..]The solutions are tough, he says. “To start, make modern contraception and back-up abortion available to all and give women full equal rights, pay and opportunities with men.[..] here :- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich [..]
Personally when I am looking at something interesting that I want to learn from, I always ask:

"What is the difference that make the difference?"

These are my general observations:

When you do not understand what the important variables are, most often than not, you end up clueless.

Humans are not good with too much complexity. When too many variables are playing a role, it is usually not clear what dominates.

Being a generalist helps understanding. To figure out what is going on, a generalist mindset helps because you can find clues from other domains.

Over generalization is the root of all evils. People usually dramatically fail when they think the situation is the same of one they observed in the past but it is in reality VERY different. This happens because they are looking at variables they observed in the past situation that are similar. But they are not seeing or underestimate other variables that dominate the new situation.

In general, even when you think you got it, it is useful to test a few times (assuming you can) to find out, if you really got it right.
Man! The cyberpunk dystopia is here; it just doesn’t look as cool as I wanted it to.
I'm of the opinion America lost that conflict and it was so terrible because officials chose to be restrained in overt military action, out of fear of direct conflict with the Soviet Union, and at the same time unrestrained in covert action. It was a poisonous mix that achieve nothing but years of death and misery; that said a full scale push by America could have spiraled into nuclear war.
I finally broke down and ordered one, and an hour later I got an email from Cliff Stoll with a long series of photographs of him packaging my Klein Bottle – including the packaging and invoicing, with my name on it.
Word-for-word copy of the original press release: https://www.ipmu.jp/en/20190619-symmetry

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05337
Wait. The problem is not that some people is rich. If we agree that poverty is the problem, we can see that capitalism decreased the percentage of poverty in the populations where it was active.

It seems you are saying that "the rich are the ones causing the misery of the poor". If it were so, poverty wouldn't have decreased with capitalism. If it were so, you should explain why are there more poor people in countries without capitalism, and why so many people want to migrate to the US and so few people want to migrate to Cuba.
https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=508
I saw him speak in the late 1990s. He was absolutely a character, but also a fantastic speaker. Nobody was looking at their watches at the (well-attended) talk I was at.
I'm the opposite way, interestingly -- the more I have to do, the more I get done. The less I have to do, the exponentially less I do.
This was only active until 1979; the US currently has no military presence in Taiwan.
The headline used here is from a one sentence factoid in the source article, and is unrelated to the main point of the article.
This isn't meant to be some zen gardening, however... sometimes not having something is itself a feature.
When you are younger your learning rate of change is higher but you also don’t necessarily know what you don’t know. As you get older you start to appreciate that things are more complicated than they first appear. In school everything that you learn (besides learning how to learn) is already known. Mastery gives you confidence to approach the unknown which is life outside of formal education.
Won't some body think of the children?!
The issue at hand is that Chrome may or may not perform surveillance or support it. If that is the concern, with Chromium you get to see everything it does and you know the code you're running, like any other open source project. So I disagree that using Chromium is a privacy concern similar to using Chrome.

Browser monoculture has advantages and disadvantages and would be the topic of a separate discussion.

I never claimed that Chromium is free of "corporate encumbrance" nor do I think that's a problem. I don't think there's any realistic risk that if Google stops developing on Chromium we would be losing that browser, there's too many people outside of Google with invested interest in keeping Chromium going so a popular separately maintained fork seems likely. And even in the extremely unlikely case that Chromium disappears overnight and nobody wants to touch that code base ever again, there are other browsers out there.
I was great at Visual BASIC 6.0 until Dotnet came out. I had years of experience in VB 6.0 but nothing in C# or VB.Net. Technology passed me by, and the same thing happened when I did COBOL and FORTRAN on an IBM 370 Mainframe. I didn't lose my touch, technology passed me by.

So now I have to catch up with Python, C# and other languages. I've been sick from the stress of a toxic environment at work and had to go on short term disability and rest. I didn't become stupid or lose my touch or get soft in the head. I can still program VB 6.0 just that nobody wants those skills anymore.
Its an interesting project. I wonder how they keep earthworm or other insects out of home.
Are people really paying lawyers to fill out offer letters and the like? My lawyers in the early 1990s would just send me templates to fill out use -- for free.

There must be more to this than is in the article.
Japan was an economic competitor to the United States, but not an ideological or military competitor. China is all three. Even at the height of US-Japan economic competition, they remained military allies, and Japan and the US both had democratic political systems. China and the US view each other as military competitors, and China's state ideology (that democracy is unnecessary for economic development, maybe even an obstacle to it) is diametrically opposed to that of the US.

By contrast, while India may in the future become a serious economic competitor to the United States, it shows no signs of being (or becoming) an ideological or military competitor. While the US and India don't have a formal military alliance like the US and Japan have, the US is very much interested in selling military equipment to India [1]. Unlike China, India is a democracy like the US, and while the US and India do sometimes have ideological disagreements (especially with BJP governments on the issue of religious freedom), those ideological disagreements are minor compared to those between the US and China.

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2018-09/news-briefs/us-eleva...
So they are hiding behind a "Slack does not offer enough security to protect our IP", which I don't completely by. But I'm surprised in the Nadalla Era that Microsoft would be taking this approach.

If the people in your company are using a competitors product, aren't you better off letting them do that to be most productive while at the same time learning why they are using those products in order to make your product better?
This is exactly the kind of pseudo-wisdom that I read the GP as referring to, though.

In the case of Go, the core team saw the pain of indirection-masquerading-as-abstraction in complex Java/C++ codebases and considered the whole thing to be a boondoggle. As a result of this we’ve been saddled with a popular language in which two massive projects (gvisor and kubernetes) have had to hack their own expressivity into the language just to build complex software (i.e. codegen’d generics)

I worry about the cyclic nature of progress in our industry, where wonderful advancements can be made and then walked back or under-utilized because we aren’t patient enough to learn them thoroughly.
I have a lot more problems with Chrome than Firefox in the last year or two. FWIW.
Isn’t his reply valid and an exception to the rule given the context?
I saw him speak twice. His sense of wonder is pretty unmatched.
Those are IQ tests (mental quickness on tiny tasks), that don't cover knowledge and wisdom.
> direct non-repayable cash money funds up for grabs to anyone showing something on paper

If it is indeed that useless and wasteful, why the US is forcing China to stop such state funded initiatives? It is so far one of the key issues blocking the China-US trade talks.

Using your logic, US should just relax and sit back to watch China waste all its limited money on such highly corrupted projects and to have itself destroyed.
It’s not normal — usually it’s caused by buggy extensions but even that improved when they dropped the legacy extension interface due to problems like that.
I just stick to HN. I run out of new things to look at after about 45 minutes on it.
RowHammer is particularly frustrating because it's a combination of hardware/firmware/OS/software vulnerabilities; you need multiple levels of protection and it's hard to count on having them all.

I remember having a discussion about rowhammer on the v8 team when the original paper first came out - most of us thought it wouldn't be possible to exploit in JS but I suspected it would. Unfortunately I was right :/

I suspect at some point we'll discover WebGL can be used for rowhammering somehow too.
I really try not to, if it is at all important that it actually gets done, and done correctly.

People who are reliable and competent exist, but they are seemingly very rare.
Opportunity cost and real costs of labor for vasectomies+reversals are vastly higher than for contraception.
This will never happen because it turns internal IR (subject to change) into a formalized format that people will depend on every detail of, including bugs.

If you want bytecode, use wasm.