skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only ethical decision a self driving car has to make is to not actively kill people. What you are proposing sounds to me to be merely a way to stealthily kill people you don't like with self driving vehicles and then use the "ethical decision engine" to gain plausible deniability. To make decisions about "social status" you need a database of people and their "social status". So where are you going to find a database of people with low "social status"? Well every prison and police station has one and oh and for good measure we can also add some skin color detection because that type of analysis can be done in real time.

Or we could just build better self driving cars and accept that some people will be killed but in exchange they maintain the agency to improve their chances of survival instead of being randomly killed on the sidewalk because some stupid idiot wanted to shave off 3 seconds by jaywalking. Just do stupid shit, the car will kill someone else anyway.

The idea that we should encourage a moral hazard like this strikes me as incredibly disgusting.
Regardless of local law, it's against AirBNB's TOS to have an undisclosed camera in the room. You should contact them. https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnbs-rul...

I ran into a situation where there was an undisclosed camera inside a room I rented (with the bathroom in its field of view, no less!). It put me in a tough spot because in an unfamiliar city, I don't want to cancel my room and have to look for another, but I also don't want to be spied on either. I covered the camera and disclosed it to AirBNB after the fact. I'm not sure what happened to the hosts, if anything.
This is one of the problems with cryptography: with a little knowledge, you can end up making yourself completely insecure while believing yourself to be very secure.

People generally imagine that "encrypt this block of data" is a simple primitive that does everything you want it to. But naive encryption doesn't work like that. In the worst case, where you use ECB for the block cipher [1], you end up with the ECB penguin: https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/. Your secure crypto becomes a pretty trivial Caesar cipher, just on a larger alphabet. Other modes (such as the CBC mode you used) aren't so bad, but if you have some hint of the structure of the underlying data, you can start perturbing the ciphertext to manipulate the encrypted data.

The modern solution to that problem is "authenticated encryption," which means that you add in an additional guarantee that the ciphertext hasn't been tampered with. Even then, there is still room for doing things incorrectly (padding is a real pain!).

[1] This is so bad it shouldn't ever be an option in any tool.
Yeah, no. I will become one of those people who beats up robots. I live in San Francisco, and the reason I put up with the cost and garbage and stupidity in large part is because I don't need a car.

Cars already own non-urban everything, and can stay there. We need to be moving in the other direction. How's that ban on cars on Market St. going?
grrrr

there's -> there are
Yeah, could work
You can be both a YouTuber and an astronaut. They are not mutually exclusive.
The Kinesis Advantage 2 ist available with a QWERTZ layout (including German umlauts).
No, breaking in a house is completely illegal and most of the time unethical. Claiming a username for yourself has a long tradition (fortified by sci-fi and cyberpunk novels of the 80s and 90s) and is not at all that clearly a bad thing.
Their job is to automatically distribute content on fake blogs and fake social media profiles, not too far out to think they do the same with their own services, pumping them with comments from fake profiles.

The first post on the first page of that thread is an interesting read, what a way to market your services.
AirBnB has also helped many low income minorities make additional income, because usually these are the people building and maintaining local culture.

Most AirBnB guests are not doing what you describe. Call the police, and let AirBnB ban the loud ones.
I tend to think that it's as good as Google maps.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/128469
Population control has been happening for decades now. We are rapidly approaching a flat, replacement-level birth rate.

Population isn't growing because of births. It's growing because of much longer lifespans, that go hand-in-hand with the economic and health care improvements that are raising life expectancy from the 50s to the 70s in most countries. Another generation or two, and that effect disappears into the overall population.
Not caring about one's own children's education as much as one's ideology could probably be described as narcissism.
yeah, it's funny. This would be like car people (or pick any other group) in forums, pointing to some super popular car made 50 years ago and then making fun/light of all the crazy stuff the best engineers at the time felt was necessary.
Vertical farming will never explode because even after accounting for transportation costs it will still be cheaper to grow staple crops in open fields with direct sunlight. Only high value specialty produce makes sense for vertical farming. Even increases in solar panel efficiency and artificial lighting won't significantly change that equation.
Yup.

He was a mixed bag as a director as he could get sort of autocratic, impulsive and ... was a bit out of his element a lot of times.

But, you could hold him to his word, he listened, and he was loyal. One of those flawed guys who... you'd still choose to work for if you could.
this sounds exactly what machines silently taking over would say
Are we talking about extended validation or domain validation?

With domain validation it is likely better to use dane in the context of email. The sender looks up the key and mx record and act accordingly, and for postfix there are plugins that already do it. Very few current users however.
I wonder why non-English versions of Google are behind on this (I agree that they are), surely much of the Google search algorithm is language independent?
Secret Swiss Agent: Puzzling comments reveal new twist to the Lyme disease saga
Conversation Between Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel (The Portal Podcast)
This is the type of NIMBYism that is contributing to the housing policy problems. Instead of using nuance and recognizing the good and bad, only the bad is focused on and the proposals are to throw it all out.
Wow, I think you are right. 422 youtubers with >10e6 subscribers [1], 536 people have been to space [2].

[1] https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/500/mostsubscribed
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nam...
the kids just vape!
"keeps surfers from getting lost in cyberspace"! The web was such a magical mystery in the 90s.
China's one child policy did essentially that - financially encouraged people to have less children and the result was the murder of female babies. So many that there is an alarming amount of boys versus girls today: 118.06 boys to every 100 girls born (measured in 2010).

Remember that high birth rates are only a problem in poverty.
It’s usually ‘640kb ought to be enough for anybody’

Which probably wasn’t actually from Bill Gates

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
You should perhaps teach a class in responsibility deflection. It's very impressive how you are able to do something that, while perhaps inline with T&C, is indisputably a dick move - and turn around and blame everyone else! Just own up to it dude. The companies have bad policies, and you were a bit of a dick, them's the breaks.
Maybe, if we don't have an abundance of food for 10 billion people, people will think twice before having more children? The environmental challenges with our existing number of people are already overwhelming.
That last point about materials is interesting. Commercial extraction of aluminium was only discovered in the late 1880s and Duralumin (an early alloy) wouldn't be invented until 1909. Thanks to these discoveries and the Great War the prediction was way off.
I didn't get a point and shoot camera until sometime in the early 2000s and didn't transition fully off of film until I got my full-frame EOS in 2006. (And didn't get a smartphone until about 2009 when I got an iPhone 3GS which was sort of their real breakout model.)

So, if anything, I'm a little surprised peak was as early as 2004 or so. But I guess that was the point where casual snapshooters were really starting to switch over to P&S digital in droves--which of course is where a lot of the market volume is.
The Web of hyperlinked documents would still work. But webapps would not be able to run arbitrary code the moment they were navigated to. Perhaps there should be a clear user-visible distinction between an HTML document with some styling and a full-blown application (that happens to use DOM for layout).
> Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman

Dude, you may not like Musk personally (which is glaringly obvious), but at least stick to the facts - he triggered much needed car industry transformation more than anybody else in recent times. industry itself wouldn't change itself so rapidly even if planet would be burning, that's obvious. And mankind gravely needs it now. Plus small detail about revolutionizing whole commercial space industry in extremely effective way.

Mankind now gravely needs more of these 'snake oil salesmen', even with their missteps
The issue with the intermediate 'specific lanes' step is three-fold 1) those buses and trucks will still require a human driver for most of their journey for dealing with the non marked sections so there's not too much gained because you're still paying someone the whole time. 2) the infrastructure is useless without the vehicles and the added capability in the vehicles is useless without the infrastructure so there's a chicken and egg problem with getting either started. 3) On top of those unless the lanes are completely segregated the only real thing adding hardware to lanes adds is making lane keeping easier. If not you still need all the accident avoidance cameras/lidar on the car the same as you need on a more 'free range' auto.
There is also the consequence of removing rental inventory from residents of that city because renting to tourists is more profitable if you don't have to meet any of the other conditions of running a legal hotel.
> That's your bottom line, but you also seem to be under the understanding that this energy that hits our skin is at all times absorbed, which isn't the case in physical reality. It's mostly reflected -- the fact that the human body stops it means little with regards to it's effect on said body, or any such accumulation of effect.

I certainly hope you are correct in this (in all possible practical situations and applications), and the ultimate things is of course, as you write, to

> wait for independent replicatability in human models, or something more similar to humans, before I turn to FUD.

But why outright disregard any doubt or questions or people that want to understand more before we implement some new somewhat untested technology? Calling them "absurd", "idiot", "frothing at the mouth", "blithely unaware of the last century of human progress", etc. - just doesn't seem helping the progress, and outright counterproductive. It's emotional reaction, a negative and attacking at that. Science has no place for emotions. It shouldn't be ok to be emotional about these things, just because you assume you are right. The other people assume exactly that about their own thoughts, and if you get emotional about it, you're just as counterproductive as the worst ones on the other side of the intellectual divide. It doesn't lead to new progress.
Cool stuff, but did anyone else feel like they were reading an advertorial for the author? Managed to pack most of their CV in there.
Until a better solution is brought forward, my team implemented a PGP packet library to make everyone's lives a little bit easier: https://github.com/summitto/pgp-packet-library

Using our library you can generate PGP keys using any key derivation mechanism for a large variety of key types! When using it right, this will greatly improve how you can generate and back up your keys!
Yes, I've hung out on Johns and Casey's streams. I don't bother much with handmade.network because very little there interests me. Essence is kinda neat, but it is a long way from practicality and I'm not sure how much my ideals and Nakst's align.

I also think a forum or IRC channel would be more appropriate, but email is a start and I appreciate you taking the initiative.

See also Probono's Hello[0], but I'm not sure he hasn't decided that Haiku already fits for him.

[0] https://github.com/probonopd/hello
The abstract mentions "choice models in which educational decisions involve intraindividual comparisons of achievement and self-beliefs in different subjects"

This is a fancy way of saying lots of kids'll stick with the things they think they do best at; and they'll decide that by comparing themselves to their peers and comparing that between subjects.

For example, if Alice is a 75th-percentile maths student and a 85th-percentile english student; whereas Bob is a 75th-percentile maths student an a 65th-percentile english student, Alice is less likely to study maths than Bob despite having the same marks in maths as she recognises her talents lie elsewhere.
So many comments here missing the point. As a developer, I can use wasm to ship a single binary that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. I can use the language that I want. I don't need to have Xcode, visual studio, android studio, or any other set of tools: you can reasonably build an app with your text editor and LLVM.

And then, you can use my app by typing its address into your address bar. No installation needed. No polluting your home directory. No registry entries. It's sandboxed, you're never giving the app permissions that you don't intend. A service worker can be used to make the app available offline. My dear grandmother could use this without confusion. My dad can use these apps and feel confident he's not not infesting himself with malware or bundled software.

The complaints about "the web doesn't feel native!" and "it's less secure!" and "it's just as easy to ship a native app [for my platform of choice]!" are tired arguments. We've finally got a simple way to distribute apps fully cross platform in a way that CAN respect privacy and guarantees a reasonable level of security. And, it's pretty darn fast.
I wish there was much more research in that area. It’s a very hard problem and the benefit would be enormous. All the brain power that goes into ever better surveillance and selling ads would be much better used there.
I agree and believe we’re seeing it now, and have been seeing it. Here are the other changes I can think of:

-Greater prevalence of plant-based diets

-Steroids and hormones in farmed animals

-Pesticide development and usage

-Vitamin/nutrient supplementation

-Less whaling :)
I gave a talk on how to properly set up PBNs / Site Networks way back in 2011 https://youtu.be/r23NYXiorUo

The thing is, this mostly stopped being relevant about 2ish years later circa 2013-2014. Google massively improved its ability to identify and penalize or discount these things.

You can still make effective PBNs to this day, but the cost to get them to pass the google sniff test is basically on par with just doing legitimate marketing, but carries additional risk.

Given that, most of the serious search marketers I know have long since abandoned these crappy tactics in favor of serving searcher intent and earning relevant links through smart content promotion and outreach. Folks who still buy and sell this stuff are mostly people who haven't updated their skills in a very long time, or those that prey on the same.
We need to regulate corner cases just like we did with trains, regular cars, medicine, e.t.c

Someone supposed dedicated lanes - that is goog thinking, dedicated intersections is the next step. No pedestrians allowed, but no lights whatsoever. Then, a section of city where regular cars cannot drive, and pedestrian areas are automaticaly driven at reasonably low speeds.
Thanks for posting this... as a non-programmer, I really enjoy reading how the games I grew up with worked. If you enjoyed reading this, there's a great Youtube channel called Retro Game Mechanics Explained:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRqWnW5ZkVaP_lZF7caZ-g/vid...
Waymo had autonomous vehicles in Arizona giving selected members of the public rides without safety drivers in November 2017. They since stopped.

So if you really stretch you can call that an accurate prediction.
Ask HN: Is it ok to make a list of female software devs available for hire?
Hey, could you please advice — we are making lists of developers available for hire by tech stack and other params, but is it good to make a special page for female developers?

From one side it looks like a good thing — all these movements for Women in Tech and other organisations, but from the other side... I don't know ️
Arc: Webserver
Entire apartment buildings being profitable by converting to AirBnB is a symptom of corrupt real-estate though...
A problem with this is that I don't think there are very many places with available, extra lanes.

That prevents a smooth, gradual transition. Essentially you're proposing a massive public transport project that will progressively take over and replace existing transportation infrastructure.

I guess that's possible, but we could have done that without autonomous automobiles and it hasn't happened yet (well, not on a pervasive scale). Actually, if we could do that, I'm not sure we'd actually choose autonomous vehicles, as generally envisioned, as the mode of transportation.

Put another way: I think the whole lure of autonomous vehicles is the idea that they can adapt to existing infrastructure rather than the other way around. That's exactly what seems to make makes it possible for them to catch on in a big, general way, and eventually replace human driven cars.
The limit on credits is what ultimately made me cancel Audible, I wouldn't care if I could keep stacking them up for a year but I go through long phases of not purchasing audiobooks so after a while I noticed I wasn't getting new credits while paying a subscription and realised that... It's their business model, like a gym, Amazon makes more money out of people not using their credits than from using them.
A lot of search results in my native language return totally garbage results where clearly they just scraped for keywords and then threw them on a site. Another tactic is to Google Translate articles from other languages, which obviously ends with a totally unreadable post, but it still ranks well because it hits some keywords.

It's actually weird that these rank so high. The very least Google used to do well was to filter this garbage. I can understand them losing the SEO battle, but that they fail to filter straight-up spam is quite interesting.
Isn't one of the key ranking factors time users spend on the page? Wouldn't poorly written / empty worded articles cause users to bounce quickly thus causing them to rank poorly?
I read this and it struck me as irresponsible too. By all means hack your own pump, since it's your own life you're risking. Absolutely do not hack the pump of another. I'd be concerned if doing so is even legal.
And during Apollo, the Astronauts kind of were a contemporary version of "rock star": they were chosen from a pool of daring test pilots, they drove fancy custom Corvettes, etc. As the initial problems with space flight were worked out, space flight increasingly become a specialization for science and engineering than something for highly qualified dare devils with "the right stuff".

I'm more intrigued by the disparity in China - they seem to be in a similar phase to Apollo, where there's massive national support for the program and it's attached to a sense of national pride. I wonder if it's also that culturally they've tended to more aggressively exhaust natural resources so colonization elsewhere feels like a more natural next step.
Show HN: Serverless Asynchronous Task Execution in Python
> Simply being safer than humans is easy- we are already there.

Seriously?
I'll take Lisp over this. Sorry.
I'm not familiar with writing code to wipe memory, but couldn't you just use volatile keyword? Volatile writes are not supposed to be optimized away, and pointers to non-volatile types can be cast to pointers to volatile types.

Edit: Actually looking at your link closer (too many #defines makes my eyes glaze over), it looks like the final else branch appears to use volatile like I mentioned.

I assume all the branches above it are optimizations for different systems?
> Do my son's engineered superpowers make him more human, or less?

Theres a line to be drawn here and it depends on the functionality of the implant. Implants that restore normal function versus implants that do something else which healthy humans could not achieve without.
The Unicode Consortium Launches New Website in Celebration of World Emoji Day
Ironically it's the countries which practise capitalism most ideologically that have below replacement birth rates.
Timing seems coincidental
Besides those numbers, you'll also notice that quite a few of those are companies or organisations, not individuals.
Beam announces first hard fork
I would expect full self-driving to come through remote operation capability - at first a single person can remotely operate one vehicle. After some improvements it would be possible for a single operator to control 2 vehicles and so on.
... for now. What would be far more reassuring would be a statement from Google that Project Dragonfly does not meet their ethical standards as a company.
At least some of the people who do this kind of thing take safety very seriously.

https://openaps.org/reference-design/
well if you see the link I posted, there are 11 examples from various points in the past. I was just making the point that their track record with technology predictions isn't stellar.
I mean isnt that one of the main reasons of a tech blog nowadays?
Does this improve on gpg2 —list-packets for practical debugging/auditing of extant GPG setups, or is just useful for people who want to do alchemy on top of the OpenPGP packet format?
"Snow Fall" was, I think, the NYT's first serious effort at a multimedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Fall

Similar comment at the time:

> The NYT just kinda blew my mind. A newspaper article just blew my mind. This is, by far, the best multimedia storytelling I think I've ever seen. Kudos to the team involved in putting this together, you've shown me the future of media and the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4951041

I don't really understand how the same paper does these incredible articles and then totally whiffs on other attempts such as:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/arts/dance-da...
Surely it wouldn't be any more of a security than a native app, since this hypothetical Electrasm would itself be a native app?
It's strange that you link to these articles to somehow justify the shitty thing you did, and they're straight out saying that you should _not_ be doing what you're doing.

The first paragraph of your post... "I quite often sign up to things just to snag the name."

GitHub:
"GitHub account name squatting is prohibited."

Telegram:
"we reserve the right to recall usernames assigned to unused bots and channels, as well as openly squatted usernames"

NPM:
"Don't squat on package names, user names or organization names."

Dick move.