skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who do you think is more privileged, with "privileged" meaning access to money, support, opportunities and potential for advancement: Will Smith's kids or a white poor guy who grew up in West Virginia?

This is a misunderstanding of privilege.

You don't compare Smith to poor people in West Virginia, you compare him to his Hollywood peers. And there are fewer roles for black men, so yes, he is less privileged than his peers.

For poor white people the situation is more complex but anyone providing services knows that poor white men face significant disadvantages across a range of indicators and they're trying to fix it.
Please tell me how you control the A/C without touching the screen. For example, for increasing/decreasing fan speed.

And how you switch radio stations (I still haven’t figured that) out.

Or how you get to a second/third/fourth screen because Renault couldn’t figure out how to show all useful info on one screen.

Or, since Bluetooth is finicky, how to initiate phone connection.

All the things I had to do while driving, multiple times.
Well deserved hype
Anybody can do a little bit to help insects. It ranges from planting a pot of some flowers, to building an insect hotel, to switching to a more natural lawn or talking to your city council to replace parts of the lawns in parks with more insect friendly meadows.

However, I don't see how I as consumer can choose agricultural products that are friendlier to insects. Organic agriculture also uses pesticides and monocultures. Reducing one's meat intake is always a good idea, but other than that how can I judge the impact my food choices have on biodiversity?
And then every time you re-read the code you have to look it up to understand 1/ what the hell is even this and 2/ is it the right one at the right place.
> But there's no way to make it start with the stereo off. If the car is on, the stereo is on. The only way to turn the audio off is to twist the volume knob all the way down to zero before you turn off the car.

I have a 2016 Hyundai Tucson with a similar, but slightly different feature.

Turning the volume all the way down before switching off the engine does not effect the startup volume. When the engine starts, the radio comes back on at a preset, but reasonable, volume.

However, if I turn the entire screen off, by pushing the volume knob in until it clicks, before stopping the engine, then on start-up the radio will be off, but so will the entire screen, which also controls navigation, bluetooth connectivity and the reversing camera.

My first action after starting my car is 90% of the time to turn the volume down on the radio.

However, I must say that's really the only niggle I have with the Tucson. Everything else I'm pretty pleased with. While it does have a touch screen, I hardly use it, as everything can be controlled with tactile knobs and buttons. The touchscreen is used most when stationary and inputting a new destination address for navigation.
> Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal.

How do you think these refinements happen, if not by trial and error? You don't just discover the right way to do something, you more likely also find a few wrong ways in the process. If there's one thing history has taught us about innovation it's that it happens in the most unlikely of places.

You know what else have gone through multiple refinements over millennia? Pleiades of religions that claim to successfully usher our spirituality. Are they wrong, are they right? Who knows? What I'm observing is that the world is still here waiting for something better.
It's crazy how disconnected from nature we have become to not notice in our everyday life an extinction event happening at this very moment.
> with separate physical wheels and buttons, for controlling the heater / ariflow

Not on Talisman. You can only set the temperature with knobs. You want to increase/decrease airflow? Welcome to the touchscreen.
At Sivananda in Rishikesh they alternated between Asana and Pranayama. This was quite effective. I have had some good teachers (eg. Dharma Mittra in NYC), but rarely do they get into Pranayama at all.

The Mantak Chia book is exactly the kind of text I've been looking for. Thanks!
Mass – A pre-training method that outperforms BERT and GPT
> I’ve yet to find radio control on the steering wheel. The inly controls behind yhe wheel are colume up/down and mode (IIRC), whatever mode means.

On some cars there's some sort of wheel in that stalk (sometimes embedded in the stalk itself so can be easy to miss as it's hidden behind the steering wheel).

Also if the volume up / down is on the radio stalk, maybe the track up / down and stations change is the arrow buttons on the handsfree controls? Or does that always just scroll through the contacts list?

I assume the mode is to switch between inputs e.g. radio / bluetooth / USB / ...
"They Live" is a great comparison. Of course this isn't new to someone on HN who follows this technology and the companies using it for a living, but for my uncle who just posts pictures of his dog it's a bit shocking to see that the computer knows that it's (likely) a picture of a dog next to a tree, even if he was aware on some level that computers these days are capable of that kind of classification.
Have you used Google Video Search recently? for vast majority of people internet is Google and Facebook. It is not ideal, but it is not to be ignored.
Nah, people are dumb (exhibit A: myself) and overly trusting of parsers/sandoxes.
I believe we just all assume that passport here really means the citizenship.
It still works (perhaps only some of the API deemed 'fingerprinty' is blocked, I don't know) - slowly - it just shoots CPU usage up and battery down.
So maybe there was an opossum once, and now you have to forbid vegetables for life ?
Owning a house in the suburbs entails getting apossums once or twice a year: it's nature !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

> The United States certified in April 2017 and in July 2017 that Iran was complying with the deal.[371][372]
> On 13 October 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would not make the certification required under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, accusing Iran of violating the "spirit" of the deal[…]

I was checking the news here, but I didn't find an article that suggests that Iran violated the agreement:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-44032008
"Is it ok for one person to dig a well on their property, and say, pump millions of gallons out and sell it?"

--> This is an actual problem in India. The govt made electricity FREE on farm lands. So, now people with farmland dug borewell, pump out water and sell them in tankers in the city, where many apartments don't have municipal water connection.
Water is cheaper for apartments where there is low ground water, as cost of electicity consumption for farmers is nil.
> You can't possibly think that drunk drivers and those driving without a license are the target market for self-driving cars.

You are correct, I don't think that.

That group just represents a small subset of the drivers that present a danger on the roads today.

Now since you asked, I would say the real target market for self-driving cars is big business.

They are the ones pushing hard for this technology, not for the safety aspects that I have focused on, but instead for the cost savings this technology will bring to their bottom line.
Pretty powerful! Lots of breakage with things that touch this file. Simply downloading it in Chrome caused issues, Chrome began extracting it to a temp folder (presumably for some malware scanning?) and quickly started filling the disk.

Windows 10 then began doing the same thing for Windows Defender, but some sane limits aborted it after a few seconds.
True, assuming you're in top-1% condition. Even a usually top-1% driver is going to be far worse off if they're tired, or distracted, or had a fight with their partner that morning, etc.
Only 1 Somali national died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash. The largest group by nationality were 32 Kenyans, and Kenya has a GDP per capita of $1,800/yr. But there were many other nationalities, including many from countries with far higher GDPs. 70 (of 149) were from Canada, the US, and the EU.

The Lion Air victims were almost entirely Indonesian nationals. Indonesian GDP per capita is $3,800/yr.

I get your point, but I don't see any windfalls here. On the face of it, $100 million seems more at the very low end of what might arguably be considered reasonable compensation. The high GDP nationals from the Ethiopian Airlines crash are likely to take a large chunk of that $100 million. Plus people flying, especially those resident in those areas, likely have above average incomes. Seems like Boeing is low-balling. They basically said as much: "We hope this initial outreach can help bring them comfort."
Anything that increases societal atomization is bad. People need to feel they're contributing to the commons, to society at large, that they're needed and useful. Also, multi-generational welfare, the logical result of chronic unemployement, is a trap, a failure mode that does enormous harm.
Bxaq: Chinese android app that steals tourists' messages
Golang RBAC Framework: Grbac
grbac is a fast, elegant and concise RBAC(role-based access control) framework

https://github.com/storyicon/grbac
Most drivers are probably not as competent as you. Think of women who text while driving. The car stopping by itself instead of running a child over is going to save lives.
Only if the companies get forced by regulations to actually target that metric.

The participants are in it for the profit, not for saving lives. The US health care misery is a prime example of what happens when you try to solve a situation through the market, which by definition has to treat human lives as an externality: People in the US die earlier than in any other first world country.
They're not just walled gardens - they're choke points on important global data flows, and silos for distilled intelligence that can be abstracted from those flows.

Closed Data - controlled by monopolies, and generated by the enclosure and privatisation of user activity - is far more of an issue than Closed Source ever was.
A channel dedicated to creating point-and-click cracking tutorials for complete [expletives] gets banned (go figure.) People cry: waahhh, free speech, think of the [security researchers.] Sorry, but I fail to see how any of this relates to infosec.

If it were really about security research then most of the content would be about theoretical topics like classes of vulnerabilities, how PoCs work, how to write basic shell code, links to assembly programming, and so on. But instead these geniuses give us gems like: how to run [this script] to break this [system version], a guide for tween dummies.

They distill their knowledge and weaponise it for use by anyone, and that's not security through obscurity. That's knowingly building a loaded gun, showing people that its cool to fire it, handing it to children, and then saying: lol, don't use this okay, totally for research only! Yeah, sure. Anything for dat ad revenue, right? Face it, none of the people watching these videos are there for education.

The only people this benefits are the script kiddies. InfoSec researchers sure as hell aren't using YouTube for their vuln disclosures and don't need to be spoon fed cooking recipes for doing pen tests or R & D.
> I'll put money on a truly driverless taxi service being available in at least two US cities in under 5 years.

How much are you willing to bet?
Or tired. Or at night, especially on rural roads.
To avoid this, I use Firejail [1] with a custom rule set to limit the browser's access only to Downloads and its own profile folder. Does anybody know of anything similar for MacOS?

[1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
YLLMV (Your Local Legislation May Vary), but reverse engineering and subsequent modifications are completely legal here, if they're more for compatibility than competition.
Nice to see what model caliper Harbor Freight cloned, too. :D My cheapie HF special has the exact same case & access port. Time to find out if it is electrically the same as well!
Politics means that London only has one GoA 3 system (the Docklands Light Railway, a grade-separated system where each train has a human operator who closes the doors and interacts with passengers) and no GoA 4 systems (which don't have any staff, humans are merely passengers). Even in the longer term London has no specific plans for GoA 4, although some London Underground lines which are below ground for their entire run will likely become GoA 3 and several are already GoA 2 (meaning a driver sits at the front but they don't make most routine operating decisions they just close the doors and watch the track ahead)

Sydney has a GoA 4 system already.
I’ve just concluded that a decent GUI/UX requires more resources than any OSS project ever will. Or even any project outside of Apple/MS.
[x] More expensive, [x] less usable, they sure hit all the right check boxes.
Sure - but let's not pretend we can't even understand the allegations.

"Sex ring"? What does that even mean?

Someone liked sex is not the issue. Someone cheating is not the issue being litigated.

That said, agreed - two sides to the story and I'm sure we'll get another version of what happened.
How is all of this possible when the network is barely able to support half dozen transactions a second? It's not even enough to cover one shopping mall, let alone some "countries" or the whole planet.
The estimated cost of £1trillion has to be an underestimate.
https://www.ft.com/content/036a5596-87a7-11e9-a028-86cea8523...
Meanwhile the UK contributes around 1.5% of world-wide emissions. Assuming climate models are correct, the effect on the global temperature will be unmeasureable. But at least government ministers will stand proud even as inequality increases. https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-u...
>> This is not a known result.

> And without actually doing the implementation that question will never get answered.

Exactly. Which is why it is imperative the engineering community does not assume outcomes beforehand.

Much of the concerns you list I agree are likely benefits, with the "not drive drunk", "not get tired", and "not susceptible to road rage" items being a near certainty due to eliminating biological aspects.

What autonomous vehicles might not be better at could be:

. snow

. black ice

. mud

. severe thunderstorms

. able to operate in high dust environments

. adapting to rapid unexpected operating conditions

. when to run a red light (emergencies, external threats, some combination of conditions above)

Are these edge conditions? Maybe. Or you could call them functional requirements not often discussed.

All I'm saying is that there is a lot more to general-purpose driving than what can be shown in a limited setting.

IOW, show me an autonomous vehicle which can complete the Paris-Dakar Rally[0] and I'll show you someone who will say it's time for people to stop driving ;-).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar_Rally

EDIT: formatting
I just know : my mom has a garden and in winter she used to feed the birds. Since 2 or 3 years the birds are not stopping eating this food when spring comes - my mom now feeds the birds all year. At the same time insect have become noticeably fewer
it's important to note that it should be compared with what it's supposed to change: gold mining, bank stores, payment systems. Then the cost is less.

Also important that this is the first iteration of a technology that will eventually be replaced with Proof of Stake systems which will be replaced by X.
In the sense that bitcoin miners can 'just' more their operations to mining-friendly countries until there are no more mining-friendly countries, sure. But pragmatically Bitcoin would not survive a coordinated assault on it's legality if enough countries decided it's too environmentally toxic.

Plus, there's no reason why Bitcoin should survive. Another cryptocurrency that's much more energy efficient would work just as well, so people could move their money if regulation was likely. It's one of the existisitential threats that Bitcoin faces in the long term.
In my view, accidents aren't the main issue, it's more the disruption caused if an AV, with no human driver, encounters the 'freezing robot problem' (I.e. When traffic lights not working, with policeman directing traffic) & gets stuck in a busy city centre, blocking traffic all around.

I'm not aware of any fallback remote takeover mechanism that can be used to recover AV's on this situation.

EDIT: I'm convinced, that until we majorly overhaul our road infrastructure to be more 'robot friendly', it's hard to see _fully_ autonomous AV's work in major cities I.e. electronic beacons on lane dividers, electronic signals on traffic lights, vastly stronger GPS network or replacement thereof, six nines level mobile network coverage at high bandwidth.
wow what a hate comment really. you totally miss all of the pain points that Bitcoin addressses
How does "write \alpha to get the α symbol" remotely compares to being trained in Latex?

And as pointed out, you don't need any IDEs, this is even supported in the REPL. And using a specialized editor for a language/environment is hardly unusual (not that it's needed).
My brother used to let me read Mad Magazine out loud to test my just learned reading skills when I was in 1st grade (circa 1963). One time, I pronounced a word as "eye-doyt". My brother knew that wasn't a word and had to look at the page. The word was actually "idiot".
Not true for html files. They are widely regarded as harmless.
Ask HN: Is there a way to filter blogspam from Google search
I write tech articles for a living, and have noticed how difficult it is becoming to find information out about tech companies, projects and products without encountering a firewall of corporate blog-spam. To me the results of these Google searches feels like Alta Vista just before Google ate their lunch in the early 2000s.

I have tried filtering out the first 10-10,000 results in MillionShort [0], but all I get are less successful land-grabs for valuable SEO space around those hot keywords.

I'm usually the last to hear about the hot new solution, so if there is one - please share!

[0] - https://millionshort.com/
I suppose caching just the output is feasible. It's not zero maintenance, but it's easier than maintaining two separate systems.
Why on earth would someone do bug fixes for free for a corporation that has cash reserves of $250 billion but is too stingy to pay for quality control?
But if this is only leaking the directory you choose to download, Bob's already your uncle?

Issue is that people don't and don't want to choose a fresh/clean-enough directory every download.
Waymo committed and failed to launch a public driverless taxi service in 2018. Cruise is still publicly committing to 2019 although it's widely believed they will miss that mark. Zoox says 2020. Argo is aiming for 2021. Not to mention whatever timeline Musk tweets for Tesla's constantly moving target.

There are more, so there is a lot of hype. Otherwise how would these companies be raising billions of dollars on unproven technology?
It's gonna bite us in the ass pretty soon, because the direct consequence of this effect is that the ability to launch a successful network depends on marketing - you need to achieve a critical mass of users pretty much instantly, since each new user won't stay for more than a day or two if their friends and content aren't there. That requirement forces potential new tech to have massive backing by a strong entity like a tech giant.

I wonder if we'll end up seeing state actors (or supranational entities like the EU) promoting state funded networks as a public alternative, as is sometimes the case in industries that tend to be monopolistic due to the cost of starting - transportation, telecommunications, etc.
Sure, the Costco pizza's just an example because I happened to be contemplating their calorie-including menu while standing in the grocery checkout line the other day. That's expensive junk food and happens to actually have some vitamins in it, hidden amongst the grease and fat and colon cancer. Check out pop tarts for some real WTF junk food cheapness. Neighborhood of 10,000 calories in a box of 48 "pastries" (24 2-packs), depending on the flavor. Around $11 if you don't catch it on sale and buy the real deal instead of an off brand. Zero prep (can optionally heat, don't have to, microwave's about as good as a toaster so equipment's flexible if one or the other's broken or missing) and keeps forever.

I'm not advocating junk food, mind you. I just don't get why people say it's expensive and so poor people must only be saving time with it, at best. Sure, it can be expensive, if you're running around buying name-brand potato chips or something. It can also compete with bargain-hunter, ultra-penny-pinching healthy cooking, though, on a strictly price basis, while conferring other benefits (health not among them). Depends on what you buy.

Incidentally, the canonical junkfood-diet meat to accompany rice and beans is hot dog, not chicken. Easier to cook, comes pre-ruined so you can't accidentally ruin it during cooking, competitive with even very cheap chicken on price, keeps much longer.
I'm not sure how much we can extrapolate from those benchmarks.

Despite the name, compilebench[0][1] seems to do a lot of non-compiling stuff. It appears to be more of a filesystem benchmark.

[0] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/compilebench

[1] https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/compilebench/
I haven't seen the HBO show (although I've watched the BBC documentary some have said it's based on), but while radiation is creepy I actually find it a strangely encouraging story. It took a lot of screwups and broken safety culture for things to get that bad, and the serious consequences were quite localized. If Chernobyl is the bar we have to clear for safe nuclear power - well, that doesn't seem too hard!

I guess that's probably an unusual perspective though, and most people will just be reminded that radiation is scary.
This one scares me. No one seems to be doing anything about it, and the results could be massive.
Just don’t go posting about this on YouTube!
Honestly, I do this a lot when I'm back visiting relatives who live in the southern US; my neutral accent goes out the window and I add a little twang, speak more slowly, and say things like "thank you ma'am" a lot. It's kinda second nature since I went to school in a rural-ish area (University of Florida) and it makes a shockingly big difference in how people treat you sometimes.
Interestingly, the article doesn't look at its own chart carefully. When economy is booming, everyone becomes an expert in everything. Companies which have no business existing or entering certain segments do anyways because - why not? They need to earn yields above and beyond the market normal.

When there is a recession, many companies are wiped out and/or acquired, thereby reducing the overall tax numbers.

Honestly, all these articles bemoaning current state of the market tell me that we might be nearing a high.
I wonder how many people were confused by this "water is boiling at 212 degrees" bit. Sloppy, no unit, no pressure and not a typically used unit either.