skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”Providing redundancy to road infrastructure planet-wide is ”

IgorPartola doesn’t talk about “planet-wide.

”Not only is the modification expensive, you have to convince the local authority to foot the bill, do it right, maintain it, etc. Never going to happen.”

Not in the USA, where government solutions are “socialism”, and voters rather pay for individualized solutions (example: not allocating money to maintain roads, but letting individuals bear the cost of repairs caused by potholes (https://www.wired.com/2015/07/heres-much-citys-crappy-roads-...)

Other countries may act differently.

”What if one of these "transponders" fails?”

You use passive transponders that rarely fail, and put them at every x meter, where cars work fine if they’re at every 2x or 5x meters, and maintain your roads.

I don’t see why that would have to be more expensive than the existing practice of adding, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road) and various lane markers to roads (cat’s eyes probably could be sufficient for relatively good lane keeping)

Even if it is, it may still be a net win if it means lanes can be made less wide, or distances between cars can go down, or even if it ‘just’ means fewer people getting killed and maimed in road accidents.
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I never understood this either, it's not practical advice for most people. You might as well say "become a plumber", "do electrician school", or even "go be a doctor".

There are a variety of high demand and well paying jobs, but not everyone is interested in them, or even cut out for them.
I was thinking the other day that there isn't really a good reason why I couldn't control my car with a PS4 controller. I wouldn't advocate for that as an industry wide change, but I'm willing to move beyond huge steering wheels and gear shifts
I feel like the novel uses for such an API don't outweigh the costs.

Even if Apple did provide such an API, the app in question also blocked access to social media apps via the VPN. My head would explode if Apple allowed apps to exercise direct control over others apps in such a fashion.
==Seems like a failed attempt to avoid adding gas to the burgeoning Russian collusion hoax.==

And this sounds like someone searching for an answer that doesn't challenge their preconceived beliefs.

==Why did the Russian attendees at that meeting meet with the firm hired by the Clinton campaign to find dirt on Trump both immediately before and after that Trump Tower meeting?==

Not sure what meeting you are referencing, but this is textbook whatabout-ism. The discussion is on Donald Trump and his campaign.

==Because the campaign manager owed $20M to a mutually associated oligarch and wanted to show he was in a position to make good on his debts.==

And how does this show he was in a position to make good on his debts? Why does someone $20 million in debt take a campaign manager job without pay? How was he going to magically get $20 million by virtue of Donald Trump winning?

You stopped your logical thought because it took you exactly where you wanted to go, go one step further and you may start to get uncomfortable.

==It's not uncommon for people's preconceived beliefs to outstrip their willingness to think critically about rationale for whatever specific, concrete evidence is available. ==

Maybe this is a chance to take your own advice.
It's Screen Time and you can find it under Settings > Screen Time. It doesn't really track social network activity as much as iOS app usage by app categories (it can't tell if you were writing a post, browsing images, etc.).
I tried putting up 400 posters in one day for a startup
But what's easier to remove; your site or the third party links on the website?

I don't remember third party domains being problematic to remove compared to the first party stuff?
It's an invasion of privacy if the tracking is unsolicited. It's not an invasion of privacy if the tracking is the point of the app.

The app had paying users, it clearly had value to some people.
The Libra whitepaper is supposed to debut this month, so I guess we'll see to what extent it's a true cryptocurrency.

I wish Libra was building on an Ethereum scaling technology, like Plasma, but most likely it's a new standalone proof-of-authority blockchain where the validators are the hundred companies investing $10M each.

In terms of the sliding scale between centralized and decentralized, Ethereum v1 and Bitcoin are considered to be "pretty much impossible to change history"; Ethereum v2 is expected to be "extremely impossible to change history"; but Libra would require only that the hundred companies agree to a process by which history can be changed: Libra will be very centralized in practice and while it might and I hope help take crypto mainstream, Libra is not a substitute for Ethereum's secure base layer.
Show HN: A curated library of venture capital investment pitch decks
Hi all,

We’ve needed this for ourselves since we saw these pitch decks pop up on LinkedIn every few weeks. We wanted a library with all these pitches curated, but what we found was either: not going deep enough or a 404 return of a now-defunct website.

Personally, that's what I find the most interesting: the early days. Not how big companies look like today and what decisions they take now — but rather what decisions got them there from the early days. Because when we start, we're in that position.

I hope it will inspire you but, more importantly, I hope you’ll do something with it.
You are the only person making sense in this thread. Michael Crichton was right about journalism. It's crap and you only realize it when it covers something that you know in-depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
In the early 80's, I had a PDP-11 with an 8" floppy drive. When I bought an IBM PC, I used Kermit to transfer my files to the PC over the serial cable. Fast forward 30 years, and I had put my PDP-11 Empire game up on github. Someone emailed me that it was missing a file. I was dead in the water, having gotten rid of the 11 long ago.

I recalled my roommate in college might have one. Called him up, he said he was about to discard it, I called him just in time! He said it was unlikely to work (been a long time since it was powered up), and unlikely to be able to read those ancient floppies, but was willing to try.

I had kept the floppies in the attic, and mailed them to him.

They all read perfectly! He sent me all the files on them, and bit images of the disks.

Thank you Shal, and thanks DEC for making machines and floppies that still worked.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11

I wish I'd kept my 11.
Do you really want 3rd party developers to be able to write apps that can introspect all other apps running on a phone?
Yep. One thing which I have learnt from watching Shark Tank is that many companies would come with crazy valuations because they make millions in revenue. Only once questioned by the sharks would they disclose the much bigger operating costs and were severely bleeding money instead of profits.
Being able to support yourself and a family with a (single) full time job. That includes owning a home, a car, being able to afford to see a doctor when you have to, going to the occasional movie and taking a vacation once in a while. It includes being able to do all these things without being one illness or one unexpected expense away from being homeless or destitute. It includes the prospect of being able to be able to retire no later than your mid 60s with enough money to maintain a similar (if not the same) standard of living.

~40 years ago this "middle class" standard of living was readily attainable for anyone who diligent, reasonable intelligent, and willing to work hard. Not only that, it was standard for such a lifestyle to be achievable with only one household member working. Now the much more common circumstance is that both adults work, many of the above living conditions are barely achievable, if at all, and many families are one financial hiccup away from disaster.

We can debate over the various reasons for this change in the economic landscape for working people, but there is no debate to be had over the reality of it. The change has been substantive. Its much, much harder for the average working person today to live comfortably and raise a family than it was just a few decades ago.
I assume Samsung TVs already auto-update which makes it even more puzzling that the virus scanning isn't also automatic.
See what you did around this time yesterday
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I'm talking about students, not institutions or rules. I'm saying that if you're a student, and you need to work for a living, pick your major with some wisdom, no matter how much you want to "seek knowledge".

My position is "Student, protect yourself." I take no position on whether the rules ought to change to protect students. (Perhaps they should, because 18-year-olds probably will get carried away with the romance of "pursuing knowledge" and ignore the way the real world works...)
Not exactly it but Schadenfreude is pretty close
This is just another example of how our society is under pressure to change to giving basic support to all people in order to handle the chaotic realities of labor markets and financial vehicles.
But how long are those visas good for? If it's multiple years, then we really need to count how many active H1Bs there are, not the number issued yearly.

I just Googled and found this article:
https://qz.com/949589/the-h-1b-visa-cap-tells-you-very-littl...

... which indicates that about 500,000 H1B visas are currently valid. If those were to all go to tech workers, that would be about 1/7 of all software developers, which is definitely enough to move the needle on compensation, access to entry level jobs, and so on.
That doesn't prevent the car from being repossessed though, just makes it a bit harder. Automated license plate scanners are increasingly becoming a thing too (and they're feeding into collaborative sightings databases), so it's easier and easier to locate and thus repossess a vehicle.
You can rent their hardware via Nicehash etc and mine it yourself if that's your thing.
> * Carriers CAN and likely WILL charge for it, because they can and because sadly (as noted above) RCS is visible to them as something more than an encrypted stream of data

Exactly. Carriers will see this as another revenue opportunity with almost zero marginal cost. They'll pounce on charging a premium for it. They want the glory days of per-minute per-text charges where you had to buy large pre-paid packages or risk high per-message charges.

Google has failed themselves repeatedly at their chat offerings.
I personally believe it is due simply to Google's incentives: You don't get a promotion for maintaining hangouts.

Wave, GChat/Talk, Hangouts, Allo. All failed by Google neglect. Why should RCS be any better. It isn't even dependent on Google's neglect. It is dependent on our already highly unreliable North American carriers.
> bought or destroyed

Fits the narrative precisely.
for $1600, i'll just craiglist myself a 49cc scooter if i want a not-bicycle to get around on. 90+mpg, 30mph top speed, no special insurance or licenses needed, you can park it on the sidewalk, and (in my city) use the bike lanes. And it even carries groceries!
I basically agree with you, but after some head scratching, I think I follow their argument, which seems to be this:

1. Lack of higher reasoning is a disadvantage that self-driving cars won't escape any time soon.

2. But SDCs can more than make up for that by making fewer dumb mistakes, giving them a better overall safety.

3. However, if you use machines to take away the dumb mistakes from humans, you change that equation, and the overall stats could go the other direction.

In reality, I don't think it's that simple. When ABS was newer, they studied it (https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...) and found that ABS improved overall safety, but safety paradoxically got worse in slick conditions (rain, snow, ice). The effects of safety improvements aren't always what you'd expect, so theorizing doesn't tell you much.
That mode is also non-square, with an aspect of 0.6:1. The IBM PC and its various video cards in the early days used a number of tricks to keep the cost down, one of those tricks is to keep the horizontal and vertical sync signals the same for different modes as much as possible. (Recently I’ve started to appreciate just how many tricks they used to keep the cost down, without sacrificing hardware reliability in the process!)

For both 320x200 and 640x200, HSYNC ran at 15.75 kHz, VSYNC ran at 60 Hz. When you go from 320x200 to 640x200, all that happens is the pixel clock (the rate at which you read out from RAM) is doubled, so you get exactly two pixels horizontally packed in where there used to be one pixel. The older hardware, like EGA video cards, can only generate one other HSYNC speed: 21.8 kHz, for special 350-line modes. When VGA came out, it doubled the HSYNC frequency and, for these modes, would just read each row out twice.

http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/video/bios_video_modes.htm

So SCREEN 1 should have 1.2:1 ratio, and SCREEN 2 should have a 0.6:1 ratio.

One of the better ways to verify this kind of thing is to compare box art from DOS video games to screenshots taken from DOSBox or sprites extracted from the data files. You can see that the screenshots from DOSBox match the sprite files, if you leave aspect unadjusted, but if you look at the box art from the retail packaging, you will (often) see artwork and screenshots with the correct aspect ratio, just like you see on real hardware.

Here's a DOOM Wiki page discussing it, with a number of pictures and sources: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Aspect_ratio
This app is spyware - it's no different to Facebook and Onavo in how it can be abused[0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
Rainbow flag-waving corps donated millions to anti-gay members of Congress
I agree that formatting could definitely do with some work!

If you put each link on a line and then leave a newline between each one you should get a nice list though.
When you set up 2fa with Google they give you a set of backup codes you can use to get back in case you lose access to your phone/authenticator. It's important to store those somewhere safe.
I'm putting words in NeedsMoreTea's mouth here, but I think he was referring not to deposit schemes, but deposit and reuse schemes.

In the 70s and 80s, soft drinks (at least in California where I lived) were packaged in really heavy, thick glass bottles. You paid a deposit on purchase, and a refund on turning it back in, and then the bottles were cleaned and reused.

These schemes have seemingly all disappeared. Many or most states still have deposit programs, but the intent is to recycle the glass, not to reuse the original bottle.
FWIW, all my laptops are currently arm-based (chromebooks), for the simple reason of price + battery performance.
Is there a good reason not to burn all the plastic instead of shipping it to foreign lands?
iOS Apps for Smart Lights and How They Can Be Better
The average user will not understand the implications of the tracking. And even if the tracking is benevolent today, who's to say that won't change when the company is acquired in six months?
Finally there's progress on this front. I've been spoiled by Magit and using git any other way takes a lot of effort, but it's a non-starter on Windows when it takes 2 minutes to do magit-commit because of the number of git subprocesses it runs. I almost thought it would be unfixable due to the different process model of Windows. The official docs[0] on this issue also depressed me for a time...

[0] https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Microsoft-Windows-Performance....
It would absolutely end up that way but that's OK as long as the "rebels" can still interoperate.
Agree.

These two snippets inspired /facepalm:

> While Twitter is a free service, I would still expect some level of assistance for someone who has had the same account for 13 years and can get thousands of people to verify my identity.

'free service' being the operative words, and they can probably trust the user to do all the hard work of maintaining a new account for another 13 years (with associated pageviews) without lifting a finger.

> I made sure to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled with this service. It turns out that the 2FA with text messaging sent to a cell phone may be useless when hackers steal your SIM right out from under you.

O RLY. The point of 2FA is that one of those factors is a physical token which cannot be stolen remotely. Anything involving SMS to a phone number is not 2FA and never will be 2FA and anyone claiming otherwise is either an idiot or assumes you are...
The Immortal Mind of the Archive
In the US, professors come in different grades: full professors, assistant professors, associate professors, etc. (https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2016/02/a-short-guide-to-academ...)
I'm not sure what your real world experience with Java is, but GC is actually quite good and in server side Java I had no issues for years. G1 evolves and I had no issues with it. In Java 12 there is ZGC that have similar goals as Shenandoah, too. It is not like Shenandoah is something that is intended to be mainstream in Java. While G1 is optimized for throughput, Shenandoah is sacrificing performance for very short stop-the-world phase. It really depends on your requirement which one is better. There were multiple GCs before and alternative vendors have their own, for sure. What is your current pick and why is it so much better?

JVM is really good tech, it allows ecosystems like Scala, Kotlin, Clojure etc to exist. Since Java 8 there is class data sharing that may reduce your startup time and memory requirements a lot, especialy if you run multiple instances with same classes on same server.

Java ahead of time compilation was experimental since Java 9 and GraalVM should also help a lot if startup time is critical.
Because the price determined by the market is wrong. Wrong!

I wish taxpayers had a union.
It's mind boggling that there is any good way for an app that just tracks your social media usage to make money when they have to tunnel all their user's internet usage. (Assuming they actually made any money on that $500k revenue...)
I've used several of these for years in conjunction with

ip route add blackhole "${ip}"

Blocking via route uses less CPU and memory than iptables+iplist hashes, but iplist hashes can be useful if you want to track what is being blocked. If using iptables, be sure to block in the raw table to avoid connection tracking table CPU hits.
By the same author, one of the most terrifying story I've ever come across:

A Sea Story
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s...
I recently enjoyed Rich Harris' talk "Rethinking Reactivity"[0]. He nicely ties spreadsheets into the current trend in "reactive programming".

[0] https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao
I have these kinds of arguments with my C# co-workers all the time, and they usually have some annoyingly reasonable solution like "create a database serialization class with a linked list consumer". :)
I don't necessarily disagree...that's just not what's happening in the real world. Car manufacturers are moving forward, quickly, with self-driving tech.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_question

Also, the excuse might be the same in the two questions: brute force may be less demanding than particular calculation.
> Facebook’s early motto was “move fast and break things” (the ghost of that motto lives on as the Facebook guest wifi password).

What is the password?
That's a ridiculous accusation. All that article is saying is that when you use the TV's voice control feature, your voice (and any other background noise) gets sent to their third party voice recognition provider (Nuance). That's just the nature of how voice assistants work, it has nothing to do with ads.
You need persistent storage for OTT applications to store authentication tokens. Without this storage users will have to re-authenticate every time they start an OTT application, usually this means entering their email and password using an on-screen keyboard.

Some streaming devices do come pretty close to what you're proposing, though. One technique is to unpack apps from persistent, (sometimes) read-only storage into a RAM filesystem at boot time, then run the app from there.
So you’re okay with all of your personal information going through a third party whose explicit aim is to monetize the analytics?
One can be both
On Using Web Components in React
GCC has gotten too bloated. It could benefit from compile time CONFIG_ options to remove all the fluff, such as superfluous diagnostics.

If for whatever reason I have to include GCC in an embedded this sort of "misleading indentation" and "suggest parentheses" nonsense just wastes precious flash space.
See Onava.
Yeah I don't know. Rent a 911 for a day, and then sit in the Prius again.
I think the title chosen by the submitter is editorializing. There's a question of whether or not diagnosis amounts to treatment, and a less editorialized title might read ".. doctors can be sued for misdiagnosing patients they don't have a formal relationship with" however that isn't even really correct, since the doctor in question was acting in a formal capacity when he made the diagnosis.
Yes. "top" and "ps" are pretty useful tools.
Sandboxing apps (and implementing other strong security mechanisms) is not an abuse of market position.
a) Facebook used app usage data to acquire and crush competitors.

b) Advertisers could use it to personally identify you.

c) Criminals could use it to blackmail you e.g. using Tinder app whilst married.
There's a "trust but verify" element of airplane automation that is ingrained in you as a pilot...

What we're talking about here is several seconds heads-up with visual AND instrument confirmation, that the computers are doing what they're supposed to before we allow the plane to land.

Let's say we never get to full autonomous driving on roads mixing autonomous cars and human drivers. In that case, is it ultimately going to be that different from the way we teach people to look both ways before they cross the street, and teach new drivers how to deal with highway on-ramps and intersections?
Ask HN: Is anyone still using Meteor framework?
I remember they made quite a fuzz 5 years ago, but now after I checked it after some years it seems they are done. Anyone knows how MDG the company is doing? It seems this startup have failed. They seemed so promising at the time...
It's crucial to keep in mind that this is not a zero sum game.

There is not a fixed lump of labor to be divided up.
How to think about stock options in job offers at startups
The only SMS's I get nowadays are from automated systems (bill pay reminders, shipping, energy usage, etc). I don't talk to a single friend over SMS anymore. It's either iMessage or FB messenger (for Android people). Both of those provide a MUCH better experience and even if Apple ever supports RCS (I kind of hope they don't and it dies off) I won't use it without encryption. RCS is such a clusterfuck and I the carriers have proven time and time again that they are incompetent greedy fools.
There's a lot of very real safety improvements that have been added (or mandated) over the past decade. They are saving lives. It doesn't matter if you don't value these improvements for whatever reason; the rest of us will still benefit from your vehicle having them, so they are now required.
Isn't TSO enabled on EC2? Their bulletin implies it at least, I seem to remember the same.