skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you try to shoot drones with a rifle or handgun. In most cases you would use a shotgun with birdshot, which isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet unless it hits you in the eye. Still, never shoot at anything unless you’re sure of not hitting fragile things behind it, but fearmongering over shooting down drones isn’t very productive.
That looks great. It was not immediately clear to me how the parameters are tweaked. build_model has a hyper parameter tuning parameter hp that is modified but it would be good to add a paragraph explaining what values get tweaked.
Google is killing YouTube’s “Hangouts on Air” this year
> other than old things that might not be ported

That's about the only reason to care as far as I can tell.

I was pretty surprised to see that relatively recent ports like Bioshock Infinite won't be getting a 64-bit update. We had 64-bit games back in 2005 starting with the original Far Cry, so I'm not sure how this could even be a problem nearly 15 years later.
That's a myth or some weaker form of legislation. Their mandate is to secure, esp for COMSEC, defense organizations. They usually have contractors build the tech for that, esp Type 1. Non-defense cant buy it. They also publish hardening guides for all sorts of tech. Anyone can use those since almost all of those techs are insecure.

So, NSA has a massive mandate for stopping another 9/11 with surveillance but restricted one on defensive side mainly about securing defense organizations. That group recently downgraded its standards with Commercial Solutions for Classified or whatever it is.
i believe this, too. essentially: paying attention to things and trying to make sense of them drives you crazy. the world only has pockets of order. you have to act crazy/stupid in many cases. it's hard to align strategy with situation. society is a mechanism for cataloging these strategies, but demands equal payment. you have to help them to get them to teach you which mode to be in. and they're still wrong often. just knowing this can drive you crazy.
V lang source code is released
https://github.com/vlang/v

(I posted as Text because somehow github links are recognized as `dead links` on HN)
How does Canonical get paid when someone spins up a vm with Ubuntu?
Having marketed analytical products to VC audiences twice, I'm just not convinced that the VC ecosystem is even designed. They seem to prefer status quo (high risk) over data-informed decisions.
The V Programming Language is open source
Just skimmed the table of contents. Looks like the vast majority of the report is investigating their patch policy. Okay. Fine. It was bad. But really, I think they missed the point.

What I really wanted to see was some discussion about how vulnerable the entire US identity system is in the first place. The data is mostly valuable to hackers because there's an assumption that anyone with a birthday, social security number, etc is the person they claim to be.

A verified twitter account shouldn't be more secure than the best the government can offer. Governments need to step up with an modern identity system. Having one secret social security number for life is ridiculous. Having to do financial transactions in-person at a bank so you can present your driver's license and sign with a pen is ridiculous.

You shouldn't need to use a social security number directly. There should be a token system where you authorize companies to reference your data. Just like using twitter to sign into another service. You verify that you're actually the owner of that identity.

The US needs to learn that social security numbers were never meant to be used as identifiers. It's awful. Just fix the real problem.
You are in the minority. Most IT and devops people are massively change averse and tend to blame all problems on the most recent change. They would rather pay more for a known quantity. This is even more the case for non technical management.
Microsoft Bans Slack After Slack's IPO Success
I am not an expert in the law, but I do not consider someone who has legitimately and properly applied for asylum to be an illegal immigrant (a term which to me [and I believe most others] describes an economic migrant who has failed to follow the established practices for legal immigration).
AsmGrid – explore x86 instruction data from AsmDB and cult
Did you know there are 1.5 million auto-related deaths per year around the world. And in 7 years around 23 associated with Teslas? And none of the autopilot accidents affecting other people?
Fun fact: This page is about 43-Man Squamish, referred to by the 6th question on the faux Trivial Pursuit game card shown for a brief instant, at approximately 1:10 of Wierd Al Yankovic's "White And Nerdy" video:

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

Trivial Pursuit Game Card:

https://imgur.com/gallery/vhbTBFd
You might get an immediate hit to development, but given a bit of time non-US developers would step up their game. A lot of FOSS is paid for by big companies who would likely want to continue operating this way, so they would reroute expenses accordingly.

Crypto didn't die when it was export-restricted, and that stuff is really complicated.
> My understanding is that it's a standoff between NVidia and Apple largely due to NVidia's poor behaviour the last time NVidia was included in Macbook Pros around 2012.

Yes, I have one of those famed 15” rMBPs that many devs say “over my dead body” when you suggest upgrading to a newer model. Zero GPU complaints after the initial bugs were ironed out (and the bad batches replaced).

Note that AMD offered virtually no competition to nVidia in either the mobile or the workstation configurations (power or efficiency) up until at least the availability of the R9 Fury a couple of years ago.
If you have no use for 32-bit than you shouldn't care...
For modern software or many fields, 32bit isn't critical.

However,
Some fields still have some 32-bit based products (or frameworks) which would break on Catalina.

Why would someone use 32bit?
There are closed-sourced products that never released as 64bit. for software developers that's quite rate but still for some fields there are no real alternatives for those products.
so they should keep older versions or run VM.
Information addiction: How information is like snacks, money, and drugs to your
I came up with this idea on my own when dealing with the AWS Bulk API files. I did make a "Show HN" but it got a total of four upvotes.
That was just lack of maintenance in a small town.
Chennai, India, with over four million people, is out of water.[1] 200 days of no rain on top of overpopulation and limited water resources. Some water is being brought in by train and in tank trucks. "Local gangs taking control of public water taps and dominating supply from street-corner tanks is too common." There are some desalination plants, but not enough.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-chennais-water...
Houston has this: https://www.houstontx.gov/parking/volunteer.html

Take a 4 hour class, and you can write tickets for cars parked illegally in handicap spots.
I guess it is dangerous to do that in a densely populated area. He would wait for them to get low and hit em with the bird shot.

Still I think his energy would be better spent talking to our local government about setting up a drone ban.
That’s kind of the problem. No matter what Samsung does, without support from Google, features added to core Android and third party support of the features, it doesn’t matter.
Everything I know about the Dunning-Kruger effect, I learned on HN.
I too wish we could get rid of all the bloat and use the marvelous machines at our fingertips to their full potential. But I seriously doubt that you can write a bloat-free OS that runs on multiple brands of laptops with a bloat-free webbrowser that allows me to read most websites with a small team in reasonable time, no matter how brilliant the people involved are.
Look at exception TSU.
>I'd assert that it's happening right now, given that neither of us are likely informed enough to empirically support our assertions here. We're merely sharing our rather vague impressions.

That's fair. A lot of what happens here can probably be described as anecdotes sparring with other anecdotes.
Practically all mobile chips support virtualization. In fact, Qualcomm always runs your OS (on both Android phones and Windows laptops) under its own tiny hypervisor.
Show HN: Gravitle – 2D soft-body engine built with Rust for the web
In general, the developers are wherever the corporate sponsorship is these days. i.e most development on key packages these days isn't done as a labor of love by most developers anymore. Also, at least a significant fraction, if not the majority, of those doing FOSS development here in the U.S. weren't born here. Linus being a perfect example. So it's not like we have any magic pixie dust that makes U.S.-born developers special.

So you're right, you can't pipe them out through fiber channel but you don't need to. You just need to fund them wherever you want them.
Wow, that's... terrifying? I feel vaguely terrified. It makes me feel like a big dinosaur about to be supplanted by tiny birds and mammals.
Even building for 32 bit again can be a lot of trouble, let alone updating every little dependency
Nothing cloud is relevant when your production network has no outbound access to the internet due to PCI. ;)

Not sure about the other two (will check it out) but we have have apps in 4 programming languages across several teams. Structured (JSON) logging is the easiest way of sending data to one place from literally everywhere.
My $599 Weekend in Space
Bill Gates-Backed Carbon Capture Plant Does the Work of 40M Trees
sports cars provide their claims (fun, performance, image, etc), healing crystals don't.

No one buys a sports car to remediate a physical illness. ( well, maybe depression or other related psych problems? )

The car salesman's hyperbole will not kill me, in most cases.

A person telling me to use a gem to heal cancer is, in effect, harming me by prompting me to waste my precious time on ineffective treatments with no basis in reality.
It occurs to me that a better way to blacklist would be something like:

jq -r '
tostream
| select(length > 1)
| (
.[0] | map(
if tostring | (
test("^[A-Za-z$_][0-9A-Za-z$_]*$")
and (
. as $property
| ["if", "else"] | all(. != $property)
)
)
then "." + .
else "[" + @json + "]"
end
) | join("")
) + " = " + (.[1] | @json)
'

You whitelist against what the syntax allows for identifiers and then you blacklist reserved keywords. Writing it this way makes it easier to verify for correctness when comparing with the ECMAScript Specs. This is still a non-exhaustive blacklist and the whitelist regex lacks allowed unicode characters.
> While Equifax’s Countermeasures team is responsible for writing, testing,
and installing signatures and rules ...

With so many articles talking about Equifax's incompetence, I guess I'm a little surprised that they even have a Countermeasures team.

> ... his office was using two different versions of Struts and that neither was among the versions listed as vulnerable in the alert. He requested confirmation that his conclusion was accurate and noted that the business impact could be quite heavy if he was incorrect.

Sadly, the business impact ultimately seems much less significant than you might imagine.

> The senior manager that the developer ultimately reported to did receive the alert but did not forward it to the developer or anyone else on the developer’s team. As a result, this developer did not receive the GTVM alert about the Apache Struts vulnerability.

I wonder if individual devs could/should subscribe to these CVEs? Is that possible? Not that this dev should have, but that you might want not want to rely on your company's bureaucracy to figure out important stuff like this.
I thought the same, but then it makes sense if you look at it from the sort of fuck-you attitude that FB leadership tends to have: "So you want to undermine us, fine. But what if we undermine you first?"
Because he's special
For example: limit the ability of executives to sell shares of stock they receive as compensation, requiring a delay of five years or so.
Bet city officials wouldn't work for free but hey, sucker citizens might.
"heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit" - HA! Exactly this!

Ah yea, fiddling around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to make funky menus to show the games I had installed (I think, it was a while ago ... also something to do with mscdex .. but that might have been later)
My read is that it IS the USD.
'...it may actually cement the dollar as the world currency once and for all. As the Association mops up all the fiat in the world they’ll likely turn it into dollars on the back end anyway, so Euros and Yen become Dollars and cents.'
> isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet

The overwhelming majority of the world lives less than a few dozen feet from their neighbors. Homes tend to cluster together even in the middle of nowhere.

Now please, pretty please, stop encouraging people to discharge their firearms into the air.
"If you can, carry a pager"

Why a pager? I wasn't even sure that they still made them.
Anthony Davis Is Finally a Laker
So you excluded Japan because there is an alternative mechanism that can cause low reporting rate. How can you be sure other countries don't have something similar (alternative mechanisms) that may account for the low reporting rate?
> This was somewhat tongue in cheek, but again I liken it to people who buy lottery tickets for the entertainment of spark their imagination of what they'd do with a windfall.

People actually win the lottery. I think that's a big distinction.

How many people have been harmed by pseudo-science quackery like crystal healing? How many crystal enthusiasts have skipped doctor appointments because of it?

I'd wager that more people are harmed by pseudoscience and religious false pretenses than they are by the state lotto, but alas I have no number to back up my hunch -- and they're hard numbers to come by.
I can imagine working on a special purpose machine that streams legacy software in similar to how stadia streams in video games.

This might not have been feasible or practical a few years ago.
I had a "CAUTION: NAKED BUNNY WITH ATTITUDE" sticker on my Thinkpad.
Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level over the next millennium
Not sure, IANAL. But for this type of problem (leaking pipe) you'd want metrics on flow and volume on your in, out and transit (or whatever the fluid equivalent is) connections.

I don't know how it's currently done in the USA, but I would have expected utilities to be governed in a way that makes sure they are the first to know when there is a problem and have access to information to solve it. If, for example, you'd see a drop in pressure that doesn't match a trend, or an increased flow, or one of your sensors simply has more data to report, regardless of what data it is, then you know a problem exists. Simply having a tank somewhere and measuring what is in it doesn't even scratch the bare minimum for such an important thing.

Here, we have had a few different methods over the last century, like government-only, public-private combinations with single-vendor tenders, and multiple private companies in different zones to ensure diversity to prevent monoculture problems. But in all of those instances of drinking water governance the rules were for the public/government to decide are always enforced. Those rules are (simplified, there are about 70 super-specific main articles in the law just about residential drinking water):

- definition of what drinking water is (contents, usage)

- definition of what a utility has to do

- definition of how you make drinking water

- definition of how you transport it

- definition of how to measure it

- definition of continuity guarantees

- definition of governing structure of a water company

- definition of task exclusion and production scope

- rules regarding public health

- rules regarding enforcement of the definitions

- rules regarding other rules affecting the water company, supply, demand, transportation

- rules regarding other rules affecting this ruling

The ones that would specifically prevent this are the rules about the governance model, measurement and continuity. They make sure a water utility company has to know what its water is, where it is, when it is, and all of that for the past, present and future. And if you can't follow the rules, you cannot be a water company. By law, those companies are also required to maintain and connect all residents in their zone, which means residents have a guaranteed water supplier.
Nasa set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches
They want regulation so they can capture the Gov, this is move is meant to accelerate this process.
APL and the culture surrounding it is what you get if you assume that programming languages are, like human languages, meant to be learned and fully exploited, unlike the lowest-common-denominator dumbing down that's more common in mainstream programming languages. I find it very interesting how much people can learn if they try.
And in a few years you can just switch to flatpack or whatever it is that wins out, not like you're locked in for life just the packages exists as snaps today.
It's likely not but it is also probably not a good fit for citizen enforcement, which is why it was given as an illustration.
Do we know that though? Is a distracted auto pilot driver more dangerous than the average person in a car without any aids?
Came across this yesterday as well. Was on a slow internet connection and the images failed to load. Pretty neat.
> Visualizing temperature change isn't the problem I've ever had with people. It's always been about: "okay, so what does 1.5C mean?"

That plus a few other things, including how much variance is to be expected?
The whole article is basically a rehashing of the video with tons of screenshots from it.
Libra isn't a cypherpunk wet dream, but it moves us in that direction and thats a good thing. This article is written from the perspective that crypto mass-adoption is right around the corner (i.e. just a few UX tweaks) and that Libra will displace the crypto-utopia that could-have-been. I couldn't disagree more.

The lack of adoption is a combo of a 1) network "dead-zone", 2) reversal risk, and 3) regulatory friction.

FB & Co are uniquely situated to fix these 3 in a way small companies just can't.

1) Any network is useless unless people you need to use the network are using it. Cryptos are still in the "dead-zone" where there's not enough people using it where it has value as a payment platform. By integrating into existing apps (Venmo, FB Messenger, Paypal) that could change

2) Every fiat transaction has some level of reversal risk. There is legislation in the US that requires, and companies that implement, reversal of payments if the payor claims fraud or account takeover. Any company that sits in between fiat systems and the crypto systems have a huge amount of this risk cause they can't reverse crypto payments. These companies are uniquely capable of handling this risk because they already spending resources to figuring out that you're a real human being and you are who you say you are.

3) Regulatory friction (AML/KYC) is something these companies are uniquely able to tackle because they have your identity. Furthermore, they have the legal resources to find out how far they can push the line and lobbying to keep them from harm when they get too close.
As mentioned in the link, the first version of the proposal - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p115... - has a simpler summary of what the actual changes are.
This reminds me of the 1990 novel 'Earth' by Dan Brin, which featured a near-future populace that all wear the equivalent of Google Glass, and use it to self-police everything they see. Like an open source version of a police state.

Not saying it's a good thing, but I feel like it's inevitable with the ubiquity of cameras.
If you're referring to ifuncs, they aren't doing anything like "JIT itself": your rtld simply calls your function to decide which version of the function you want to call and updates the PLT.

FreeBSD kernel uses ifuncs for SMAP, XSAVE, ERMS (Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB), RDSEED.
Parking tickets are much more reasonable to delegate than a moving violation.

You don't have to stop the violator, because they're usually not present, and you can leave the ticket on the vehicle.

The circumstances that lead to a finding of violation are subject to less dispute. Cyclist claims light was green, citizen enforcer claims light was red, is harder to prove vs parker says time was 5:30 and citizen enforcer says time was 4:30. Some parking tickets are more sensitive to location -- if the vehicle is very near the boundary between acceptable and not acceptable, perhaps an escalation to a sworn officer is in order, but parking in a red zone / parking in a bike lane / parking in disabled without a visible permit is usually clear cut.
The WWDC by Sundell 2019 Retrospective
> Is there any benefit in getting a diagnosis?

For me, unquestionably. I got my first and current full-time position at a very well known technology firm through their hiring program for autistic individuals. Through that program I also met a mentor who became a very good contact of mine, specifically because she has an autistic son and understands the condition to a better extent than just anyone I might find on my own. Because I struggled with social contacts in college I find she's the one person I can really associate with. From experience, I would say having hiring programs oriented toward people with a diagnosis makes work-related things feel much more sane, and in more ways than just the material benefits it provides, because in my case it feels like the people who put them together understand the things people like me struggle with and try their best to account for them.

Besides that I personally found that having a diagnosis makes events in my past that made me feel completely ostracized from my surroundings make far more sense in retrospect. Now I'm more aware of societal/mental issues I might have from reasonably established consensus, and I try to factor them into how I act toward people and myself.

There is the argument that they're still just mistakes to learn from, diagnosis or not, but after I merely became aware of the condition I thought, "Hmm, that describes me pretty well in some ways." After that I felt like I was limited in the past by not understanding that I might in fact have some similar mental inclination, and instead attributing more things that went wrong to factors in my control. I guess in some ways it's less about the diagnosis than understanding you might be inclined to act in some way due to things outside of your control (which can of course be changed with enough practice).
Maybe. It may be the case as other commenters in this thread have said that the automation actually lets them prepare for unexpected events more than normal because it handles the mundane steering and speed adjustments.
I was trying to do a quick check on US law for water utilities, but there doesn't seem to be a single source of truth on that one.

Edit: the EPA seems to have a federal act on file for drinking water, but even with all the rules described it leaves a lot of holes where you would want guarantees instead of 'fix-after-the-fact' rules.
Bingo. Next stage too big to fail.

In the current climate of accelerating a new cold war, and potentially a hot one with Iran, the gov needs to take back control of all it's propaganda channels. FB has proven itself here as very valuable asset for disseminating view-points and is "too valuable" not to be unregulated
Thanks for sharing. Makes one think about all those efforts to come up with a way to make nuclear waste sites look scary for millenia. Of course, you could just bury it somewhere and not leave a mark, but that's no fun.