skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the operation of the power grid also dependent on this source of the energy? e.g. coal vs. wind
"Howto: signify(1) signatures with a YubiHSM" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=155723329924761&w=2

https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html#ed25519-hardwa...
What Intuit/TurboTax is doing here is a classic bait and switch. TurboTax is legally required to make filing free for many individuals, but funnels them into unnecessary paid products. They make it almost impossible to find the free product, going as far as making sure those pages are unindexed from search engines.

I highly recommend this Reply All podcast and the links on the page to learn more: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol/144-dark-patt...
Strobe Lights
ya good point, it does show what they are hearing though :). But ya, doesn't seem like much to see here.
If they don't have a way to test and look at machine code on these architectures... then how can they know their workarounds for compiler optimisations are working?
It's not quite a monopoly. Small-time online personalities can choose at least between YouTube and Twitch right now for video. I expect there are a few less popular platforms, too. Anyone care to comment on which ones?
i thought this was going to be an infinity mirror. oh well
> Then secondly you could have certain lanes or roads that are designed for specific self-driving vehicles

I have a friend in mapping at Uber ATG. Uber Eats is only available in areas she has mapped which makes me think that they aren't waiting for dedicated infrastructure and relying on their mapping database for now, at least for early development. Granted, Uber Eats isn't using AVs, but that makes me think the GIS crew is doing some heavy lifting there. Pure speculation on my part though.
The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
> You get paid to push products at people and call it a career.

Just like a career in sales. And while nobody really likes salespeople it's a generally accepted and potentially very lucrative career choice.
There are tradeoffs around capacity, power, and longevity. I suspect Volkswagen doesn’t care if the battery in their prototype racer is trashed after a year, so they can push it hard.
This is not a drug, but medical device technology. Therefore, I believe this would qualify for the FDA's pre-market Breakthrough Device Program[1] clearance which, if I'm reading the guidelines correctly, says they can have an expedited decision within 45-60 days from submission[2].

This is under the umbrella of the FDA's Medical Device Safety Action Plan[3] overhaul.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/how-study-and-market-you...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/108135/download

[3] https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/cdrh-reports/medical-device-sa...
Streaming and tiering do help, and I believe all browsers do that. Still, the article's point is valid that offline compilers can spend more time compiling, because even if you have a faster tier before you, running a slower compiler eats up battery and increases the time before the code runs at full speed.
Breaking Down Mirai: An IoT DDoS Botnet Analysis (2016)
"The project was reported to have ceased late last year but rumors that it remained active persisted."

so that's probably never going to be 'terminated'
Does anyone know the technical details of what Google would have needed to comply with in China? From my understanding, a lot of western companies do business in China via (51% local controlled) "Partners" that ostensibly run their infrastructure for them, and obviously have to abide by local regulation. This includes operating an "Information Security Management System" (a euphemism of a sort) that interfaces with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for auditable end-user access logs and content blocking.

It seems this is governed by these standards, but I failed to dig up a copy of them. Is it true that any western company offering a mainland Chinese version of their product exposes these interfaces?

YD/T 2248-2015 - 互联网数据中心和互联网接入服务信息安全管理系统技术要求 - Interface requirements of information security management system for Internet data center/Internet service provider

YD/T 2406-2017 - 互联网数据中心和互联网接入服务信息安全管理系统及接口测试方法 - Test specifications of information security management system & interface for Internet data center/Internet service provider

YD/T 3212-2017 - 内容分发网络服务信息安全管理系统接口规范 - Interface standard of information security management system for content delivery network service

YD/T 3213-2017 - 内容分发网络服务信息安全管理系统及接口测试方法 - Test specifications of information security management system for content delivery network service

YD/T 3214-2017 - 互联网资源协作服务信息安全管理系统接口规范 - Interface specification for information security management of Internet resource collaboration service

YD/T 3215-2017 - 互联网资源协作服务信息安全管理系统及接口测试方法 - Test methods of information security management system for Internet resource collaboration service
In the US teaching's in an interesting position, being one of the only salaried jobs with reasonable amounts of time off (once you take out the parts of Summer teachers are actually working—planning, late Summer meetings and such, plus the extra hours during the school year, it's still quite a bit better than most US jobs) that you don't have to fight or compromise to attain, and one of the only ones where taking lots of parental leave—even repeatedly—isn't likely to do serious harm to your career. The schedule also matches up pretty well with when one's kids are out of school, both during and outside the school year. It's probably the most family-friendly common job there is by a long shot, and there are teaching jobs anywhere there are people so it's relocation-friendly.
I really dig the inception demo. I think this would be a great companion to FStar also written in OCaml.
> Imagine these advantages not being subtly embedded in the life experience of well-off Westerners, but being directly for sale—and turned up to 11. Intergenerational social and economic mobility would disappear. [...] augmentation could also become a tool to entrench inequality even more firmly.

I disagree with this argument that commercial performance enhancement will destroy social mobility. The effect would be strongly dependent on the economics of such a market. Conversely, an efficient market in a new technology can be democratising.

If hypothetically an inexpensive brain-computer interface could give a person access to information in a way which substitutes conventional education, then this could negate the preexisting socioeconomic divide which education creates. Particularly conventional education is unavoidably expensive because it involves labour on at least the part of the student, whereas the cost of a neuroprosthetic device, as with other electronic technology is diminishable.
Text of the bill:

https://congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1044
Just because it's your child doesn't mean you get to provide open heart surgery. There's some fat gray line between what a parent can do medically and what they can't. Hacking an insulin pump feels like it is over the line, but I'm not sure. If my child was on track to lose a leg and their kidneys in the next few years and their doctors told me nothing more could be done, and I was an AI expert who educated myself on the domain, I'd expect people to stay the hell out of my way.
meaning they renamed the project of course, people fall for this trick every time.. pathetic
Thanks rvz!

The simple answer is that this matters to many people: e.g. a company wants to get closer to a gender balance in their workforce. Also, only 14% of engineering jobs in teh US are currently occupied by women: https://insights.dice.com/2018/01/12/relatively-few-women-en...
Will a computer ever write War and Peace or compose the 9th Symphony too? How about solve an unsolved math proof? No reason it can't be automated, right?
You may have heard of a company called Amazon.
both are used, "on accident" frequently enough to be considered legit, although I agree it sounds weird.
> I'm still happy that for now they've decided not to assist and facilitate one of the most Orwellian nation's to ever exist.

Don’t get too excited; they haven’t announced a lack of participation in PRISM yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
These types of Visas typically require that you do graduate studies in a US academic institution to be considered "high-skilled". Nothing against this but I've seen many folks add another post-graduate degree just to tick a box.
Event if you think the protests were justified and French will benefit from it, in the short term it hurt Paris (many destructions to street furniture, monuments, banks, restaurant, shops) and affected negatively the life of the Parisians (burnt cars, closed shops, tourism industry affected etc.)

That is only what is meant here, of course these are 2 different things.

They could also have added the Algerian African Cup victories "celebrations" that turned into riots and looting (we'll see what happen next Friday).
> Every well-known bad cryptosystem eventually sprouts an RFC extension that supports curves or AEAD, so that its proponents can claim on message boards that they support modern cryptography.

I'm being attacked! :P
We're already doing those things. If you dropped the birth rate 50%, the population would still grow for the next few decades. Why? Because the primary cause of population growth today isn't high birth rates - it's increased life expectancy.

If you want to control the population, you'll have to resort to more old-fashioned means, like banning antibiotics and vaccine and the occasional genocide.
Part of it is Not Invented Here Syndrome. That's not always bad. No framework does everything well, and the ones that come close often have fundamental architectural limitations. Even the best of them become bloated or outmoded over time. Once things start being designed by committee, they tend to go downhill quickly.
The fact that they even started the project speaks for itself.

Companies don't have ethical standards, only slick PR departments.
Just look at all the videos of idiots spinning out and ramming spectators while leaving Cars and Coffee. You’d never be able to achieve that sort of loss of control in a Tesla.
they'll probably change their minds by the time they grow up anyway

The poll was conducted on 8 - 12 year olds (https://theharrispoll.com/lego-group-kicks-off-global-progra...) so I agree that there's time. When I was on the younger end of that range, I wanted to be a garbage collector, probably because it seemed like it'd be great to ride on the back of that big truck. I might have gotten wiser with age.
Neuromarketing: The Art, Psychology, and Science Behind Great Marketing
One of my first freelancing gigs was for a guy who maintained one of these.

He peddled this pills and had built an impressive (by 2009 standards) network of 87 WP installs with generated crap in them that linked heavily with each other, all on this OVH instance and had managed to break one of the plugins he used for this purpose, so he posted a bid on GetAFreelancer, which I won and never saw a cent for.

I'm still really pissed about that for some reason.
The number of active astronauts though is a lot lower than the number of active YouTubers with a lot of subscribers. Also, 10M subscribers is a lot. One of my favorite YouTube channels has about 1M subscribers.

https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQO...

SocialBlade estimates their earnings as being at a minimum $4k per month. But the range is up to $56k per month. They also have a patreon where they have almost 4k people donating at least $1 per video, although when they last had their donation amounts public the average was substantially higher. IIRC that was was close to $10k per video. At four videos a month, that's $40k per month. They also were basically given a $1M boat by a luxury boating company, and many of their videos are sponsored by Audible or Squarespace.

So, at least for this channel, $500k/y in revenue is a pretty conservative estimate, although I'd bet even money they make more than $1M per year. I think setting the bar of "famous and successful" at 10M subs is too high.
You will never define a complete and consistent algebra. You will never exactly measure the momentum and position of a particle. They're not brutally hard problems, they're not possible. We know that there are a set of things that are impossible. Why is recreating human intelligence in silicon beyond that consideration?
> Or just go to a hotel!

yeah Let them eat cake
Why we're moving our agency, and clients, to Kubernetes
Yeah and the applications this has for the gaming and entertainment industries are huge. I'm very excited for this. People can change dialogue at will without the need to book sessions with actors. You could create a radio drama without recording a single clip.
I'm actually excited about the possibilities. I've watched DataFusion from afar, and I have spent a decent amount of time wishing the Big Data ecosystem had arrived during a time when something like Rust was a viable option, both for memory and for parallel computing.

I use Presto all the time, I love how fully-featured it is, but garbage collection is a non-trivial component of time-to-execute for my queries.
It would not surprise anyone if Project Dragonfly's termination occurred as a consequence of current trade spats between the two nations which could lead/has led to some animosity towards each other's products/services.
Local Privilege Escalation in most Dell machines running Windows
Damn right, these days it's about as true as G not doing evil.
How could they know this if you are not using GA?
What's the difference between this person going on a philosophical exploration of biohacking and AI versus some drunk at the bar? Their CV.
>>When he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I hacked his insulin pump and built an AI that learned to match his insulin to his emotions and activities. I’ve also explored neurotechnologies to augment human sight, hearing, memory, creativity, and emotions. Tiger moms might obsess over the “right” prep schools and extracurriculars for their child, but I say why leave their intellect up to chance?

At some point you cross the line and the state intervenes. Why isn't he turning HIMSELF into a cyborg but his son?
Corporations are one of the ways to abstract slave ownership. Sharing the blame involves sharing the profits. Organizing complex activity ? Why do you think organizing complex activity requires a corporation ? Complex activity is organized in all forms of business ownership. Wtf ?
The ugly part of this is that if drivers get used to self driving in reasonable weather then, in the one percent of the time (or less) when conditions get really horrible, their driving skills won't be up to the challenge.

However as self driving becomes common investment will be made to make roads easier for self driving technology and extend the technologies usefulness.

Even now in snow storms when temperatures are just below freezing human drivers have a hard time coping. If self driving just has to do better than that. It doesn't have to be perfect.
>they really only understand about 10 jobs.

This is a pretty poor assumption IMO. This crappy article didn't even bother to list the ages of these "children" (were they 6, or 16?).

Personally, I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was in 2nd grade, but by 6th grade I wanted to be an electrical engineer (which is what I ended up doing in college). I was never really exposed to either of those by anyone I knew, only from reading.
Pyro 0.3.4
If you’re a person who is currently five years old, what does an astronaut even do? Sure they went to the moon, 50 years ago.
This collective consciousness apologizes. We often forget that we alone represent 10 to 20% of the human population. We will confine ourselves to the boiler room of our respective offices and continue to work from there.

We have estimated that the increase in the number of visits for acute asthma care for adults with dog allergies who live with dogs could add up to $0.5 to $1.0 billion per year to the cost of care. Our control over the global economy is reaching new heights every day.
Interestingly enough my blog that had little traffic (at best 15000 page views and probably 2 or 3 comments per month) also had some posts cloned. Not even necessarily the most popular ones.

The cloned posts ranked higher than my blog posts
As opposed to not doing anything which is the current state of Diabetes for the most part, which too, kills you and if not outright kills you then slowly does via financial ruin.

How many episodes of hypoglycemia do you think one needs to have, in an utterly broken healthcare system in which being ordered paramedics and given sugar pills costs you $XXXX per occurance.

And if you're gonna talk to me about responsbility and healthy living please join the real world some time.

That's why people choose to take actions into their own hands. Because being a victim of a system that just doesn't care enough leads you to either take the handles or down under.
With that same explanation - i think if China's internet were more "open" we'd see youtube/vlogger higher on their list, no?
The issue comes in that financial regulations of the AML and OFAC variety are basically dependent on money only moving in significant amounts through institutions with a lot to lose by not playing ball, and the account creation process having as many controls as possible.

While the immutable ledger is nice, it isn't new, nor does it change the game at all. To be honest, the Libra thing wouldn't be much different at all given the right set of business processes being built around it.

The problem is who is doing it, and what they gain if they are actually allowed to implement those controls. Facebook would have an undisputed goldmine. Full data on every transaction you process through Libra, all your information as collected through integration with services like LexisNexis (which is bloody creepy by the way, even if it is based on public records) plus their already problematic information w.r.t their social network graph.

There is no way that much data collected in one place isn't a societal liability. Period. But no, we're getting reporting that regulators are worried about terrorists. Never mind that private currencies just make auditing and forensic accounting that much more difficult.
America is based on an idea, not historical aristocracy or genealogy (i.e. blood and soil). We were founded on freedom. The US, as the first start-up country is simply not comparable to other countries. This is why an American conservative is not comparable to a European conservative. Certain degenerates are attempting to import these European ideas into the US (e.g. Bannon), but I will not condone these illiberal policies that are contrary to the founding of America.
Losing yourself in virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects
Object sure, but generally it’s not really an issue. Simply avoiding or driving over broken tire bits etc is generally a non issue.

A object would need to be substantial enough to cause an accident and then roll into or fall onto a highway. That’s far from a 1 per million miles of driving situation. Remember, something falling off a truck would also take a while to slow down.
"Given the lack of evidence"

That's the very definition of speculation.

"speculation seems quite unfounded"

Purely a matter of personal opinion. There is a clear trend at play in France that is very uncomfortable and disturbing. I think it's lunacy to ignore it. But to each their own.

That such speculation is often met with animosity is strange in itself.

The conspiracy theory, if there is one, is that there is evidence of arson, but it's being suppressed by the authorities. I'm explicitly not taking a stance on that.
The Internet Is Coming to the Rest of the Animal Kingdom
TBF, often times people at the top are there as the result of rejecting others' advice many, many times, and so rejecting advice does not set off alarm bells to them the way it might to most other people.
> If you have an issue with visitors, talk to them.

This is externalizing a social cost: Normally your neighbor (that you know personally, ideally, so you can discuss any matters with somebody you know) will take care of their visitors' conduct.

When we're away, we sometimes have friends over to house-sit, but we know them, we know their conduct, they know us, and they're not interested in giving us a bad reputation in the neighborhood.

With airbnb, the owner of the apartment likely doesn't know their "visitor" (otherwise, why pay a commission to airbnb?) and often they're not around to enforce standards. It's a huge diffusion of responsibility.
Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience? (2014)
> friends house sit

and

> Tourists and visitors existing in a space

are very different things.
But as a local, you can visit off-season/off-hours and avoid the worst of it.
Byar Volta is a shaft-driven e-bike that might never need charging
That's exactly where I am, too.

Just because GMO can be used to solve human problems does not mean GMO will be used for human problems. It's more likely to solve corporate problems instead.
What did he trigger exactly that wasn't triggered by regulation? He just exploited some regulations to keep his structurally bankrupt company afloat long enough. Tried the same with Solar City and failed BTW.
It does make sense.

How does a curated list of women in tech available for hire help solve that? Won't both companies that pay and treat women fairly in line with men already be hiring them... and women already be choosing to work for them?

I think a gender-specific list of people available for hire isn't conducive to the actual goal. We need a way to change the culture of bigoted companies.

I agree a pro-active effort makes sense... just the question is: By doing what?

(Not trying to be difficult).
Thanks for the great visuals!
Choas is kinda funny. When you have systems of a large number of non-linear things they tend to average out. A time traveler could be as little as a single particle and still re-shuffle the entire deck so to speak. But it's still the same deck of cards.

In the end you're still in nearly identical initial conditions. While the individuals will change, the whole of society will be extremely similar due to statistical mechanics. Susie being slightly more aggressive will be balanced out by Johnny being slightly less aggressive, etc... You may cause a new extrema event though like Johnny inventing a cheap nuclear bomb, or you may prevent one.

A good time traveler would be able to sit outside time and probe reality using tiny changes until they get the outcome they want. But at that point you are so powerful I can't imagine anyone would care. Maybe that's why we didn't all kill ourselves yet. Some time traveler poking at the timeline.
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> The "robot" car has a big trolley problem that isn't easily solvable.

I really think this is overblown. it's not hard to think of a solution to these issues because we already have it in traffic laws for humans. there are rules for accessing the right of way. if you follow the rules and make a good faith effort to account for people who don't, it is pretty hard to be found at fault for an accident, or even "cause" one to begin with. rear ending someone starts with too close of a following distance (or too high a speed) for the conditions. tbones and head on collisions can only happen when one or more people are moving without the right of way. pedestrian strikes on the street can only happen when the pedestrian or the driver is not observing the other's legal right of way.

sideswipes are kinda ambiguous. it's possible for two vehicles to check that there is space in the middle lane simultaneously, then merge into each other. I don't think it's legally required, but I never merge into the middle lane when there is a car to the far left/right.
I have a few gigabytes on tarsnap for pennies a day.