skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have made the same argument about any hard problem before it was solved.

"So this guy says a machine can outplay chess with just a CPU, some memory and a bit of code. He neglects to mention that humans have a brain capable of general intelligence".

Year later, computer beats human in chess.

"So this guy says you can teach a computer to play Go just by unsupervised training of neural networks. He neglects to mention that humans have a brain capable of general intelligence".

Year later, computer beats human in Go.

"So this guys says you can program neural network to play computer games competitively using vision and deep learning. He neglects to mention that humans have a brain capable of general intelligence".

We don't need AGI for self driving.

The difficulty of self driving is probably less than a dog walking on the street.

No, a dog doesn't steer a car, because he doesn't have hands, but he's performing the same vision and planning tasks like a human (or AI) driving a car.

He knows where he is, he knows where he wants to go and he uses vision and his non-AGI brain to plan a path to get there while also avoiding dynamic, unexpected obstacles.
That's because sharks are endangered. Different situations.
This apparently includes ads (at least for Hulu--unclear for the rest) so not really comparable to Netflix.
It is quite likely that you're not fully compliant, esp wrt chapter 3.
Arctic sea ice may well be gone by September [2017]
Anecdotally that has rarely been the case for me or people I know for simple requests like that. At least in 2019 with devices from the past couple of years
I've never been a fan of Yelp as either a service or a company, but the assumption that they used yelp to look up the phone number isn't warranted here. Yelp's whole value prop has always been reviews and discoverability, and you're just handwaving that away and claiming that the only relevant workflow here is googling a known restaurant after having made the decision to order and using Yelp's page simply to find the phone number.

That isn't to say that I don't think Yelp's behavior here is gross, but the broader picture you paint of pure middleman rent extraction with no value created, eg with:

> The person used Yelp solely to look up the phone number of a restaurant.

Is circular in that you assume your conclusion and then point to it as evidence.
That's interesting, I wonder if this harvard study on "catching up on sleep" accidentally shows in some way how much sleep is required to flush out the toxins? They stated, "10-hour sleep opportunities consistently restored vigilance task performance during the first several hours of wakefulness."

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/2/14/14ra3.abstract
As El Niño sets in, will global biodiversity collapse in 2019?[2018]
How do you test MPI applications on a single machine?
I think there is that, but also the yelp user experience is mostly pretty polished, there's a nice app, maps integrated, large amount of restaurant info, reservations, take out from the app, probably forgetting other things but that's a lot of work and polish to just get to the point where you can ask other people to put the effort into leaving reviews. There's no guarantee any one will
Since people are sharing their stories. I can add some.

I alone used to be “The IT” for a small e-commerce company, but it was young (very few people over 30).

People can just be absent minded sometimes.

One person contacted me claiming that they couldn’t get new email. After going to their PC and asking her to show me, she opened her mail client and then closed a dialog asking for her new password since she has changed it.

Another had “weird mouse behaviour” she had a Mac and couldn’t click on anything without a context menu popping up. I came over and assumed that the mouse had its right button stuck, but, no. A stack of papers was resting on the control key.
I've always used Google maps just because of the integration with Maps. Yelp's constant nagging to install the app and create an account also damaged their user experience enough that I never felt the need to switch over. Google generally has less reviews, but I don't spend any time in small towns in the US and when I travel Yelp isn't that helpful anyway.
Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City
Most modern video codecs (vp9, av1, h264, h265, etc) handle motion-less or motion compression very well with diff between frames. The newer ones handle motion based frames better by shifting the next frame around to find the smallest diff. Ffmpeg just uses whatever codec configured.
ya it looks like potential tendon impingement/bursitis to me.
De Re Atari got me into programming! Joyful memories indeed.
Ask HN: File-based password manager for Linux
There are many password managers out there that keep reinventing obscure UIs and obscure file formats. Can we instead just say that:

- A username:password entry with all extra fields (such the the site url), is stored as a
text file, encrypted with AES.
- The filename is the short description of the creds and that filename is also encrypted.
- These files can be put into folders that denote groups.

If everything was decrypted, it would look like this:

/passwords
/banks
/mybank1
username:foobar
password:qwerty
url:foobar.com
/mybank2
...

However on the disk it's stored in the encrypted form:

/passwords
/21ef..990d
2899..8827
/0012..2718
7728..8291

On top of that we need some tool that lets you go to bash, cd to that folder, enter the password in a secure way and then it would let you use "nano" to open any of those text files.

$ cd ~/pass
$ passtool
> master password: qwerty
$ nano banks/mybank1

The killer feature is that you can use "rsync" without decrypting anything: you can rsync creds between backup harddrives, usb sticks and so on. If you accidentally added a few creds here and there and not sure which copy is the most up to date - rsync will let you fix it and you won't need to type that 100 chars master password.

What do you think?

P.S. HN's formatting is just wow. Add "white-space: pre-wrap" to CSS, guys. It's 2019.
As an Indian I personally root for Huawei. If not for any other reason that Ericsson (70% just a decade ago) and co have had a monopoly for far too long.

The only jobs that Ericsson brings to India are low end back office jobs and at the most billing software. Even though it could have been one of their largest growth markets.

This could be a good opportunity to get them/Huawei to setup more cutting edge R&D (especially PHY layer), co-development and manufacturing. India should hand out some Chinese medicine to the Chinese.

High tech is a chicken and egg problem, India has all the ingredients, but apparently free market doesn't work when monopolies are involved.
> There were frequent (weekly) protests at Chinese buildings (I remember one in particular that seemed to always have a crowd of people, in Sheung Wan, on Connaught Road I think?).

The Beijing liaison office. That's attracted a lot of protests in the past few weeks, and has had a temporary barricade around it for about as long.
sleeping on the left can directly put pressure on the heart.
Triple nitpick: China calls its diplomatic mission to the UN a "permanent mission", not an "embassy".
Very cool. Can this camera also be hacked for amplified sensor reading for night vision? Infrared or UV photography? Long exposure photography?
You seem to carry a lot of unwarranted assumptions with you. For example, you assume my age and call people "you kids", despite not displaying enough maturity in your own comments. You assume the reason the police is looking for laser pointers is obvious. It's actually not. Depends on the side you ask, the answer could be that the police are just looking to frame the student, or that the student pointed the lazer pointer at someone, then hid it in his bag. I suggest you take a step back and assume fewer things. It will help you to be more rational and less emotionally charged.
That even today many European languages don't even have a basic dictionary. I'm not talking about the "guess the next word" feature. All I want is a dictionary that could suggest a correction to a misspelled word.

Use two languages at once? No way! I guess they need to invent a new chip or something.

Swipe to type? Hehe.

The keyboard in itself is fast and good but it lacks features.
The thing is, self driving wars will likely be over before economies of scale for production of lidars will happen.

If non-lidar system doesn't work, then the cost of lidar, even at $10k, is irrelevant.

If you can make non-lidar system work better than humans (i.e. with quality acceptable for regulators) before the cost of lidars drops down significantly, then lidars lose based on economics.

And the cost of lidar won't drop significantly quickly. The next step-change in price would probably require mass production i.e. production of hundreds of thousands of units per year.

Even if lidar robotaxis happen before non-lidar ones, initially they'll be made in tens of thosands of units per year, leaving a couple of years for non-lidar tech to catch up.
He should care what experts think. Whenever someone probes Musk in their own area of expertise, they find his knowledge is that of a stubborn, overconfident dilettante.
It's not obvious, they've been using them to disable cameras facial recognition.
Physical Trojan Horses Are Back
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Probably edited, and FB kept editorial rights as part of the agreement to do those.
If I count the number of times my kids have watched other people unwrapping toys/playing Minecraft on YouTube, it's a tough call.
This is a really bad example because I do that one myself a lot and it works perfectly well with siri.

Google assistant is better with more context “give me cycling directions to work, avoid going down Lexington”
Thanks for this, gave me a really good laugh.
Some more context; they're not only used to interfere with facial recognition. They're also being used to annoy the police officers, as well as people who are watching from their windows when protestors pass by. I've had lasers pointed at me when I was just looking out of my window over the protests.
HoloClean: Weakly Supervised Data Repairing
My grandma* used to say: After an evening meal, go to sleep on your left side; if you wake up from bad dreams, turn to right side and sleep till dawn/morning.

* she died 23yrs ago.
There is zero chance a radar will recognize a traffic light. It is prone to false positives, to boot. Its only use is tracking large metal objects: cars and trucks, for the purpose of adaptive cruise control.
It already exist.

Heroku, Meteor, Firebase, Lambda Functions, Google Cloud Run and I'm sure there are others that I can't name off the top of my head.
I don't find reviews helpful at the best of times, food is simply too subjective. Some people want "authentic" dishes, others want anglicized (think texmex) versions, each will give poor rating to the other. Some people will want something sweet others will find the sweetness too strong. Everyone has a different definition of "too spicy". "Restaurant" is often to granular too, sometimes a good place will have some bad dishes, should I care about the reviews of people that bought those dishes?

For me finding good restaurants is still a trial and error process that technology can't improve on.
Fun fact: this is not the first time Yelp has done this. I recall over ten years ago they tried exactly this feature as a way to monetize listing phone numbers as part of premium business listings, or something like that. They would charge for phone calls like ad clickthrus.

An interesting technical detail: they made the phone numbers gifs so they wouldn’t be indexed by search engines.

I could be misremembering details and I can’t find anything online, but I’m pretty sure this happened.
Yes, a root certificate afaik.
"Rude"ness is almost always a feedback loop, and my guess is it more often than not starts with a customer being rude, and then builds from there.

Like you, I basically never have encountered a restaurant employee that I would say is rude.
Joe Rogan Experience – Bernie Sanders
If self driving becomes a reality robotaxis will retail for several hundred thousand dollars.
Someone did that already. It’s called DigitalOcean :)
Around the rocky's - I've noticed that storm drain systems are always a huge piece of infrastructure. They seem to dump to the local river. Why don't the cities harvest that water and treat it instead of dumping it into the river? They may be able to build retention ponds and hold on to it for a while. Treat it later. No need to just toss it.
"For Google's Python Class, it's best to use Python 2.7"
It bothers me that the term “capitalism” is being overloaded to mean “patents and intellectual property”.

Other than that, this is a fantastic read, and it sounds like they are doing great work.
I get something like this but on Instagram. I get a badge on Instagram saying that I have pending notifications on Facebook and there's an "Open Facebook" item in the Settings menu of the Instagram app.
I always see people say how great gmail search is, as does the author in this article.

This befuddles me.

Gmail search often leaves out results I know are there, and sometimes comes up erroneously empty. I can verify this, because I store my emails offline. They are indexed by notmuch. I find notmuch to be not only faster than gmail search, but far more thorough: notmuch gives me hits that gmail skips.
China doesn’t have strong rule of law, so the law might exist but just being ignored until convenient to enforce.
Assuming the owner is smart and does not want anyone to detect that such a thing exists, then no one can. As soon as the owner feels that someone else knows, they will send a message back as a warning and tell themselves to be more careful.
Rocket Lab unveils plans to recover its rockets with helicopters
Pharma would like to have a word with you.
> Back in the 90s and early 2000s we thought anything can be hacked by any clever person.

We did?
The employee laptop's traffic. I don't have many details since this is new to me too. Here is some solution and what it does. https://www.netskope.com/solutions
I support Democracy in HK. Please contact your representatives to support Democracy too
Is there a reason to lase random people looking out the window? Is it to shame you for not joining the protest, or because you could be a police or pro-China observer, etc.?
The Cold, Hard Math Says Netflix Could Crash 70%
React-TypeScript-todo-example-2019
I find myself sleeping in bellydown position.
You have to have a certain amount of karma before you can downvote.
Eh? The moat is their massive back-catalogue. One hit movie will get you precisely nowhere as a competitor.
Great option for editing Org mode files on the go: org-web – 200ok
NYC, among very few other places in the US, actually has some insanely good options for business grade (and priced) connectivity. (HFTs pay for very high speed connectivity.) As for why it's free to NYC mesh, I don't know. Pet project of an employee?
Hulu has some educational documentaries as well as Netflix. There's also curiositystream if you want all docs and even some on youtube. There's tons of educational streaming online, it's about all I watch.
What do you mean by "profile"? I think you just need to "take ownership" of the maps place, and then presumably you can control the links and phone number and such. Hopefully there is some verification involved...

I have no idea how to actually do this, I just remember seeing a link asking if I own this or that business on maps, I guess when it is unclaimed?
It's "collateral" for the contract. Locking the phone is their way of putting a "lien" on it. Taking people to court over relatively small unsecured debts will eat through a good chunk of the margin that telecom companies are making off of those contracts in the first place. A locked phone is a couple hundred dollars worth of extra leverage to get a debtor to not default on the contract.
Common lisp's multiple values took some getting used to. In particular, having gotten used to tuples and lists, it is somewhat bending to realize you can return multiple things without either.
Blair Witch cost closer to $30k to film (and could be done for a fraction of that today) but the real costs were in the marketing/advertising blitz that made it a phenomenon.

https://www.newsweek.com/blair-witch-cult-165634
Fan who plays in a local league and who has been training hard to get into the pros.

But still, an amazing story.
Because there's no pleasure in that for humans?

Of course that becomes wrong if many humans embrace the idea that minimizing suffering for animals is a good thing. At that point you would also be increasing the humans' "moral/ethical pleasure" in a kind of self fulfilling way. But there's no reason for this to happen except human hubris.
I use dactyl manuform at work and at home. so far, i really like it for typing and writing program.
Liquid Ass – How Two Guys Got Rich by Making Things Smell Like Crap
Kashmir – A Twitter Thread
Don't know about you guys, but I'm back to sailing the high seas. Netflix was terrific when it had a deep backlog of old good content. Now it's mostly junk originals with the sheen of cheap that's hard to qualify. And I won't subscribe to Disney+ on principle haha - I can't see myself supporting and encouraging more power to the huge blob corporation.
But what was the lowest price, and how much did they raise it from that point?

If I look at this article[1], they have a screenshot of size 4 pampers for 22 cents each, in 2010. In 2019 dollars that's 26 cents. The current amazon brand is 23 cents each, and the same pampers are 26 cents.

It doesn't seem like they've abused any dominance here. It's very possible they could do it in the future, but that's not the same thing.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diapers-price-war-201...
Near-invincible ‘water bears’ may have survived lunar probe crash
Expected something. Got that thing. Did not disappoint.
"grain" and "grass" are both plants. The food chain isn't any more complex in either case: sun -> grain/grass -> food animal.

Plants definitely do have different rate of heavy metal accumulation, and presumably other toxins, though I'm not aware of any evidence that a typical feedlot diet of corn+soy is better than all grass with regards to potential toxin bio-accumulation. This isn't to say that there may not be other health benefits to raising pasture animals on 100% grass.

Animal-based animal feed is certainly a thing, though in my experience "100% vegetarian" diet is often the the cheapest type of meat. Organic meat, while more expensive, guarantees it will be raised "without antibiotics, added growth hormones, mammalian or avian byproducts" [0]. This does seem to exclude fish-meal type feed, which presumably is allowed to be used in organic meat production - though I'd assume its more economical to use a plant based feed in almost all cases.

[0] https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Organic%2...
Yes, and as a side note, Foursquare has a free tier (ratelimited) Places API. Now that Google Places API is ludicrously expensive, I tinkered with Foursquare and it was a very enjoyable experience.
A Conversation with Christian Picciolini
> think carefully about even interviewing someone with Facebook on their resume

Good, engineers need to be accountable for their complicity.
I'm not sure what the reason is. There's a hotel across the street from me, and some people were looking out of the window, instantly they had 5 lasers pointed at them. Someone was pointing a laser at me too.
It's not at that point yet. PRC does have a garrison inside HK but they're sitting still. It's possible they could go in plain clothed to collect info and provocateur to discredit the protesters. It'd cause a pretty big meltdown if they were busted doing that.

Aside from that: HK has control over its statutes. https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/index/en/subject

Basic law (the part PRC plays a role) is the constitution. For an overview: https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/facts/index.html

Aside, Here's a better article: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=210397
I'm not sure that's true in the long term either, an invasion might not be possible, but what's to stop China bombing enough power plants and other infrastructure to send the country back to the stone age and invading after everything fallen apart? Even the bombing part they might not have to do directly, blaming it on some terrorist group.
Fascinating. Of course any exponential growth tends to come to an end long before the impossible predictions, but it still highlights what a unique time we live in where we take growth of the population and the economy for granted. It has to slow down in the "near" future. Near being probably fifty years or more.
PCM-DVD has a specific way in how the channels are interleaved. For bit depths higher than 16, each sample is split so that the lowest byte is stored following the high bytes of all channels. There's also a 3-byte metadata which has to be prefixed to each packet. All of these steps could have been done via a bitstream filter but since the codec_id is different, this has to be done at the encoding stage.
From another article too:
> Chief Inspector Chow Hok-yin from the organised crime and triad bureau said officers approached Fong because he was acting suspiciously, but he ran away. Officers chased and caught him, and found 10 torch-like laser pointers, each 18cm (7 inches) long, in his plastic bag.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...
My kids don't have the attention span for Disney movies. They want to watch Blippi, and toy unboxing videos. Content for children is pretty simple.
Modern Androids only support mtp for data access, which doesn't work well for that use case.
I'm sort of the opposite. Diagrams just show an abstract to me. At a high level they are great, but I always find myself trying to dust off the diagram and figure out what really is happening underneath. Its always so damn complex!
Sometimes after sleeping, especially after a good night's sleep, I have a feeling that my brain has been scrubbed clean. It physically feels "fresh", similar to the feeling of having brushed my teeth. Not totally sure if it's not just my imagination, but I like to think there's some science behind it :)
Theres a method of unlocking new/any iOS device using the GSX api that Apple maintains for the remaining list of Authorized Stores. Apple will not approve anyone new for the list, and they have changed up the requirements to connect to the API lately from just a username/password (which were often hacked or bribed), to client side certificates and blessed static ips (at a time when even the OS X networking libraries didn't support this), to a new version just now that I won't give the details but you can find if you do some github searching.
> The impact on battery life briefly made it into the headlines back in 2015 when it was discovered that the main Facebook app was using the voice-calling feature to run in the background.

I thought they were just running silent audio?
It's very hard to provide both as abusive software (malware) tends to take advantage of the open-endedness of platformas to abuse the users.
> It might be possible for companies like Facebook to rewrite their code to use an iOS 10+ Notification Service app extension to decrypt the notifications instead, but that requires major code changes and has additional limitations.

Perhaps, but iOS 10 is now 3 years old; Facebook has had plenty of time to make those major code changes, as opposed to continuing to use VoIP push notifications for things other than VoIP.
He wants to do it with Super Puma. Ahem, its maximum takeoff weight is 9 tons...

There is a limited supply of Mi-26s in the world, and I bet nobody these days will be eager to even lease theirs.

Why none out of those "new age" launch companies uses the simplest solution? Parachutes and solid fuel rockets for soft landing.
The problem is that it didn't just work e.g. on Windows with filenames that contained non-Ascii chars for a long time.