skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While VACNet is amazing, and completely eliminated pretty much all "exploits" that cheaters could come up with to dodge the Overwatch system, Trust Factor on the other hand has been a bit of a mess. The assigned trust values seem really random in my experience (you can't see the exact values, but if you queue with someone who has a slightly or significantly lower Trust Factor than you do, you'll get a message), tend to fluctuate wildly from one week to the next or even just between single games for some people, and there are so many players complaining about it that they had to auto filter every thread that even just contains the words Trust Factor on the CS:GO subreddit.
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When you spend the money on those things your bank or credit card merchant processes every one of those transactions. Cobol is almost always doing the day-end processing on those systems. Hence, while the products you use don't directly rely on COBOL, the fact remains that COBOL is powering the economic transactions that allow those businesses to exist currently.
Seconded. I've complained before about websites that try to get too magazine with their articles and how it ruins the narrative. But this? This is done really, really well.
No, I'm not defending PGP. Even without the automation, every PGP-encrypted email almost certainly results in a bunch of internal plaintext emails between employees that could easily accidentally cc the wrong person, etc. I'm just pointing out that the chances of replacing PGP with something genuinely secure for these kinds of use-cases are close to zero.
Despite high hopes, incompetent new comers discover they can't compete in new industry...
We don't need self-driving cars that can go anywhere (ie. level 5) for them to be widely useful. A car that only worked in bright sunshine on a preprogrammed set of roads would be immediately useful to me.
Agreed. Also the forum he's referencing to is BlackHatWorld for those curious.

It's well known that some of the sellers on there are artificially inflating their views and replies, and a few of the top sellers are probably using hacked logins to write reviews (their database was leaked a few years ago: https://hacked-emails.com/leak/8bf5ed9ca2ea1b009c1b/blackhat...)

For example, take a look at this thread: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/captain-jack-sparrow-2019-...

Thousands of replies that all sound very similar "Order confirmed Transaction ID: XXX"
I like that system because it increases housing supply.

Instead of a new hotel or hostel getting built, there won’t be demand for it and an apartment will be built instead (or some other structure).
Honestly, let's ignore the health concerns for a moment. Even though its important, lets say it's not.

What's described means these bands are unreliable. A lot of these high frequency bands require clear line of sight or a hopeful bounce off a surface that doesn't absorb it. Partly why the high frequency wifi routers are not taking the market by storm. They're slightly niche.
I agreed with author, until recently. Everyone hates it when their favorite utility app becomes abandonware. And the reality is that keeping an app up to date with all the new features on a mobile platform is non trivial. Many times I really wish that apps would switch to subscription model so that I can pay to make sure they don’t get forgotten about. In a software world that requires constant updates, consistent payments makes sense.
It seems like a consequence of the search engine monopoly is that the SEO side of the arms race only has one target.

If we had many important engines with many algorithms, it might dilute any particular tactic that SEO uses.
In the back.
Oolong: MVU for Kotlin Multiplatform
dragonwriter is being facetious.

An accountant or tax adviser needs reasonable applied math skills, but isn't likely to need to know the difference between a cardinality and a cartesian product.

Likewise, most working programmers don't need to know the difference in their day-to-day work - although they might need to in order to pass a CS degree as a gateway to getting hired.
We got brains, a learning system better than anything we could ever hope to create using current AI/ML technologies.
My initial reaction was the same as yours. The fact he wrote this up gives me hope he did this more to raise awareness to how much of a problem this is.

He was asking for something he was probably not entitled to, was open and honest about that fact and various services turned the usernames over to him.

Imagine what someone with ill intent and using fraudulent means could do.
Websites can use the "referer" [1] property to show you where visitors are coming from.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
Theoretically, you could get more performance out of a smaller pack, the VW ID. R used just 43kWH to set the electric record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. However, that's a lightweight race car.
Tesla seemed to want to make this a really livable car with lots of superlative records so by using super light construction paired with a massive battery they can build a car with incredible range (This range would be a production car record.) but that same pack can handle incredible draw. I imagine this will be like a model S on crack: It won't handle fantastic but will have hilarious power.

Also, they claimed that it was using twin Model S packs in their design but were planning to move to a Model 3 evolution based pack. (The Model 3's pack is much more energy dense due to larger, better, specialized cells.)
Dask does not have "experimental Arrow integration". It supports using Arrow to read Parquet files but no Arrow-based computational functionality.
We're using a lot of sensory data to compensate for the fact that the "AI" driving the car is really dumb. It lacks any meta-level understanding of the problem domain and is essentially a stimulus-response system similar to a very simple insect or even a single celled organism.

We can drive a car with much more limited sensory input because we have a very high level cognitive model of what we are doing. Better model equals better decision making on far less information.

Slight tangent:

Having kids was an interesting chance to observe how far we are from "real AI." You can show a 3 year old one example of an object and after a few seconds they can subsequently identify that object in any lighting condition or from any angle. They can identify it with one eye closed. They can identify variations of it, pictures of it, and line drawings of it. One example, seconds. The human brain absolutely destroys any AI/ML we have.
But space and weight are limited on a supercar. So you have to choose one.
Because we really don't know how to emulate "thinking." Some overconfident people think they can, but it's a much harder problem than making an ACID-compliant relational database.

Also, because we tend to forget that technological innovation that takes a few decades, or a century, is extremely fast in a historical context.

Our ancestors aren't going to care if we have self-driving cars in 2020, 2080, or 2120.
"Good enough" is a risky goal when not everybody shares your sense of what that is.

Early in my career good enough meant it worked correctly with no thought put into how that functionality is going to age.

I would do things like find a function that did most of what I need, add a bool parameter to trigger a new mode (usually giving it a default value), add some comments, commit, ship! Ten years later that function has four more mode parameters and it's a mess.

These days I'm better at doing one more pass to break things apart or change the interface to accommodate new functionality. I also try to never have bool parameters that triggers a different mode and almost never give parameters default values.
I'm glad this tech is starting to move along, but, boy, is this stuff at a crude and barbaric level. I can't imagine putting this crap in my head.
> Maybe we should make Linux an acceptable platform for more people rather than optimizing for proprietary web applications that you don't even own a copy of anymore.

Won't ever happen for two reasons: 1) The Linux Desktop community would have to admit that there are better ways to do things, and 2) They'd have to agree on what those things are. 20 years of Linux Desktop history show these things to be impossible.

Theoretically, a new community could spring up and put a new userland on top of the Linux kernel, like Android did, but it would seem like the people who have the interest in doing such a thing (like myself) lack enough time, talent, and/or ability to organize sufficiently to pull it off. Not to mention that we'd all have to agree too.
In a familiar fashion, if you use fzf.vim along with ripgrep you can run :Rg without any arguments and get a real time filter on finding any text within your project.

Normally you would run :Rg with a phrase to search for, but leaving it empty and typing it in live is really useful sometimes.

It's really fast too. On my machine running in WSL, it searches through hundreds of files and almost a megabyte of text as fast as I can type.
> The owner can reassign any names they want.

Then maybe they should include that in ToS, See how many signup.
The article understates the risk the team that went to the north tower undertook. It mentions that they might not have an escape path, but that really doesn't communicate how exposed they were.

It's not uncommon for a fire crew to advance into an exposed position to make an attack or search for victims. As was the case here, there is usually a hoseline or two set up in a defensive position, covering their escape path. The difference is, this is usually done in a comparatively small space (i.e. a crew holding the staircase of a house while a second crew searches the upstairs). If the defensive position starts to look at risk, the exposed crew can make it back within a minute or two.

The crew in the northern tower of Notre-Dame would have taken far longer than that to make it back through, and it's very likely that if the defensive position had been lost, it wouldn't have been recognized until it was too late, trapping the crew in the tower.
Considering that airbnb payments come through wire transfer (or SEPA), you'd have to be pretty dumb to evade taxes.
They're likely "insurance seats" suitable only for a backpack or duffel bag as is typical for performance cars.
I have recovered Twitter accounts before - and I don't advise going blackhat.

In my case, my employer wanted an account which was inactive. We reached out to our brand partner (I think) and discussed it with them. They didn't tell us what methods they used to verify the account was dormant, but they did ask us to prove our trademark etc.

A few weeks later we got the account.

Now, that's with a fairly standard trademark dispute - it will probably be harder if you don't have a tm.
Still under active development, nothing is really ready to use yet
Which part of the article I linked is xenophobic? Which part is a conspiracy theory? And finally, which part has been rejected by the French authorities?
Alice and the EPC?
I feel like posting this link here goes against

> The "subscriber link" mechanism allows an LWN.net subscriber to generate a special URL for a subscription-only article. That URL can then be given to others, who will be able to access the article regardless of whether they are subscribed. This feature is made available as a service to LWN subscribers, and in the hope that they will use it to spread the word about their favorite LWN articles.

> If this feature is abused, it will hurt LWN's subscription revenues and defeat the whole point. Subscriber links may go away if that comes about.

but hey...
Figma (https://www.figma.com/) is a design tool that runs in the browser and makes heavy use of WASM. It's definitely slower than using a native app like Sketch, but not slow enough to be completely impractical. A few design people I work with here in India have switched to Figma from Sketch, and they seem very pleased with the results.

I can see WASM becoming useful for enabling apps that do real-time audio/video/image processing in the browser. Games are another obvious use case.

Maybe one day I'll be able to run an Ableton-lite right in the browser.
> The web has shown over and over again to have far less privacy

This may be inherent to the web but a native app would (given the current level of sandboxing) have more freedom to make http requests than a webapp. So there would be no win in forcing the bad actors to make native apps.

The argument about owning the software is a valid one, and I for one am not terribly excited about the continuous updates to everything which sometimes changes the UI of a tool that I use and know and cost me time out of the blue. However, I am using wallabyjs, a "native" app (plugin to vscode) and it updates itself practically every other day. I think that reality is hitting all kinds of software anyway.
Machine learning is just the lay-persons statistics, or something to that effect.
somebody get me a new shirt!
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And a new keyboard...
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These are all covered in man drool...
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I'd pour hot grits in my pants for one of these
Seems pretty aerodynamic to me. Can you point to a better shape?
Humans actually aren't that great at driving - tens of thousands die on the road every year. Autonomous cars do great in ideal conditions (the suburbs of Phoenix AZ for example) but in conditions where the model lacks training data (i.e. bad weather) they have the same struggles as human drivers.
2 minutes is 2 minutes too long. I don’t want to sit and wait while my mouse recharges.

(Yes, swapping batteries tajes some amount of time, but so does finding and plugging in a cable, so that’s a wash as far as I’m concerned.)
That rejection would be more credible if it came with an alternate explanation (none as of right now), or if it hadn't come while the building was literally still on fire.
Curious how a self driving car would’ve responded in the NYC blackout, and to Good Samaritans directing traffic at various intersections
Taking what's probably a joke too seriously for a moment, I don't think that follows at all. This is a research group within Microsoft doing exploratory work, so it shouldn't affect Windows at all. Further, they say they are "starting with Rust", which is not a whole lot slower than C++ (and you can always dip down into a different language for extremely performance sensitive parts).
A) We can't put a brain-equivalent computer in the car, and can't program it to be as good as a brain at driving

B) We have higher standards for autonomous cars. The people saying it can never happen are saying it will never be perfect in all conditions, not that it will never be better than humans.
You'd be surprised how well the lidar systems on these actually do see in the rain. Snow and ice is another story, and hydroplaning as well, but again it's not the sensors hampering it here. It's the logic. It's much more complicated than it first appeared, and right now the AI for detection and recognition is light years beyond where the self driving car logic is. You can watch a few YouTube videos of people training networks to drive cars (and also look at how well every company is currently doing) to see how difficult it is to get an AI solution for driving behavior.
I'm sure there's some oddball lawyer out there who reads every T&C they're presented from start to finish, but for 99.9% of people, that would be an unreasonable burden.
>For example, all present-day populations show about two percent of Neanderthal ancestry which means that Neanderthal mixing with the ancestors of modern humans occurred soon after they left Africa, probably around 50,000 to 55,000 years ago somewhere in the Middle East.

I thought subsaharans lacked Neanderthal admixture?
The word colonialism is a pejorative. The tone of the word in modern language is extremely negative. The point being made is that the word is so negative that the commenter had to go as far as nazis to find another word that is worse.
Because it's not just the sensors, there's a lot of purely human interaction going on on the road. Looking at the other driver at the intersection and trying to understand what to expect from them; same for someone crossing the road in front of you - is the guy drunk? Eye contact - nope, he looks fine, he will give way. Etc. etc

Come try to drive in Paris or Rome at peak hours. No way on Earth AI can handle this kind of traffic.

I always say autonomous cars will require infrastructural change, similar to the one happened when we transitioned from horses to cars. How exactly - I don't know yet, but with the current infrastructure Level 5 seems impossible.
Desalination and farming the Sahara could get us to 10B people without genetically modified food. GMO would on the other hand cost less.

The meat industry also generally gets less competitive as food becomes less plentiful. Feeding the worlds 600 million cows takes significantly more food than feeding 600 million people would. Granted not all cattle are fed from productive farmland, but it’s a common practice.
Good point. I am new to this and I just wanted to publish it & go to bed. Will fix it later.
VerbalExpressions, a Regex Builder for JavaScript
I believe this is a great use of public funding for basic research.

Plate tectonic theory is strangely both very recent and very old—it was conceived in the 1950s and has led to major discoveries in the private sector.

While the immediate implications of a breakthrough like this (extreme topography separating mantle transition zones) don’t likely have an impact on society at large, a series of them likely will.

It would be great to unlock additional resources, perhaps in less volatile areas, or more cleanly, by using a new model for earth processes.
Something like semantic-aware String, yes.
(with syntactic sugar to avoid me repetitive tasks, plus the ability to uplift an existing code using String to its typesafe version in the most straightforwatrd manner). Something like the generics system but for String.

I of course can uplift my String into Objects. But it is unneeded for 90% of the String usages. Plus it forces you to unbox the String from its Object to pass it to a function that consumes just a String.
So you would be ok with it, if lots of people would now start regularly claiming your known usernames on all possible platforms?
In addition to the examples given, I offer the opinion that using the same language for front- and backend is nice. I currently achieve this with JS, but it would be nice to be able to do the same with, say, Rust.
A dead person's account is going to be inactive.
You are an entitled prick.
The premise of the article, though, doesn't seem to hinge on higher level or complex math.
I submitted with the original title and it never even hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20453837

It’s unfortunate how effective editorializing is.
PGP has one big problem:

Lack of a proper email infrastructure.

And by "email infrastructure", I mean proper support by most email clients contact apps.

The most basic use case seem to have never been addressed. You receive an email with a public key attached. Clicking on it should automatically open your contact app and ask if you want to add it to your contact's details. It should also be synchronizable with cardDAV or any other protocol of your choosing.
Nintendo announces updated Switch with better battery life
Because driving a car is essentially analogous to full artificial intelligence.

We don't know how to do that. Like at all.
I feel like this is applicable on a smaller scale than tourist/locals as well. I have lived in the same place in the same city for 7 years now and I have almost never been to any of the good bars/restaurants close to me. I'm always surprised when friends who live other places in the city recommend me places that I've walked past a hundred times in my neighborhood but never went into, and vice versa. I wonder why it is like that. I don't have a good answer myself.
Are you looking for contributors? I don't have any rust, arrow or k8s experience but been looking to learn all 3, I've also been looking to contribute to os projects so I'm happy to pick up any low hanging fruits if you are interested.

I do have a few years of experience with Spark and hadoop if that's worth anything.
Speed / power is a similar affair; a bigger battery is essentially more battery cells, and more power. The increased weight doesn't significantly detract from top speed, as air resistance dominates. In fact, additional weight increases down-force on the road, and thus the maximum force the wheels can apply.
They have a lot to work with since their competitors have to carry V10, V12 and W16 engines
Yes, like most convertible supercars/hypercars. The Pagani Huayra, all the Koenigseggs, the LaFerrari Aperta, Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, etc.
EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
But the billions of dollars in investment are here and now.
The following will happen before self-driving cars:

- Robotic trash cans that perfectly sort recyclables and compostables without any contamination

- Drones that fly around and kill invasive plants

- Landscapers that show up with robotic lawnmowers

- A dishwasher that can load and unload itself automatically

- My Tesla can keep in its lane when it passes an on ramp

(ect)

The problem, IMO, with self-driving cars is that there are other AI problems that are easier to solve. Until we start seeing more "consumer AI" in lower-risk products, self-driving cars will always be something coming in the future.
Because any average Joe with minimal intellect nevertheless has an intellect. It's impossible for a computer to actually understand or comprehend anything. Pattern matching, what computers are good at, has its limits.
Search for "<my area> plumber" returns totally gamed results. Has for years. No idea why that obvious use case is so broken. My wife hired one and the plumber was useless so I investigated. I've found obvious spam nests of multiple sites with duplicate styling and nothing seems to have changed.
Legislatures and regulators give a bunch of excuses for why this is bad, but the reality is that they don’t want to lose control over the monetary system. and Facebook is already and easy political target.
I'm thinking more things like Comfort Inns or the lower-end Marriott brands. I'd put Travelodge and Motel 6 pretty near the bottom of the national chains. I had the misfortune to have to stay in a Travelodge last year because of a last minute trip.

But, yes, there are also still quite a few non-chains or small chains that aren't... great.
On highway is where it's at. City corner cases are going to be Impossible for a long time, but caravans of self driving trucks could easily happen in the next couple years. It already happens with a person in the front vehicle that is followed closesly in a train by robotic vehicles.
> Does anyone who owns a Tesla know if you can configure it to reduce the acceleration or artificially limit the top speed (e.g. "teenager mode" in other cars)?

Yes it has both options however they're profile settings that can be changed by the operator. There's not parental profile or anything like that.

There's a valet mode which just nerfs the car all around but that's independent from the speedlimit and acceleration characteristics settings.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-dow...
Wow. I hope you never end up in an argument with your bank (or mortgage holder or employer or anyone else) who abuses their superior knowledge of legal minutia that they forced on you.

It’s one thing to say “I’m raising a risk.” It’s another to blame the victim.
The Netherlands probably emits less. Does this mean we can dismiss all climate change projects because it won't mean anything on a global scale? Stupid and ignorant reasoning. What matters is the emission per person, and don't forget about emission in the past.