skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only just found out about borg and restic, but the sites I looked at both mention "backup" prominently. And that makes sense. If I ever sign up for rsync.net, it will be so I can store long term backups of my stuff, which I might add to incrementally, but never really change.

But Unison is for syncing, which means maintaining eventually consistent replicas of a changing directory tree (up to some pragmatic exceptions and manual tweaks). The whole point of Unison is to turn multiple devices into a single failure domain, which requires a separate system for storing safe backups.
Unfortunately, the person stepping down in this blog post (Greg) was one of the people who I looked up to when I was really enthusiastic about racket because he was obviously "getting things done" in the language -- solving problems, making things.
> All current lidar-based approaches I'm aware of also supplement with radar+cameras. LIDAR isn't sufficient in isolation. GPUs consume way too much power, there's no way you can cavalierly just add more of them as a scaling solution.

Yes, but they don't need to get point-cloud level spacial data from a suite of cameras. That takes more compute power to do at 60fps accurately with cameras than with a lidar.

> Not even sure how to interpret such a statement.

Let me rephrase: You don't need the vehicles to work in worst case conditions at all, if economically they're still a success if you don't allow them to run in those conditions.

If Waymo or Cruise who whomever has self driving taxis in 2020 deployed in temperate cities, and Tesla doesn't have L4 autonomy until 2024, at which point it also works in a blizzard, it doesn't matter if they're cheaper and more effective them. Tesla will have already lost.

> Custom ASICs for ML that Tesla is building is fairly well-understood tech at this point.

This is one small piece of the puzzle. You also need algorithms that Tesla doesn't appear to have, and (camera) hardware that Tesla claims to have but others seem to agree can't support what they want.
I've never used grubhub, but this is shady.

In a rush I once had to find and call a hotel and get a reservation. The site I used looked like a typical priceline or whatever- looked legit. Instead of providing the phone number of the hotel front desk, it sent me to some shady hotel booking service. I was tired and probably not thinking straight - but they took my card and the room was booked. After arriving at the hotel I indeed had a reservation, that was nice. What wasn't nice was that it wasn't paid for. I had no idea who I called, and it was super late so I had no options. If I wasn't in a gigantic stressful situation at the time I would have done more to figure out what happened.

Not saying that grubhub or yelp is THAT shady, but that kind of business practice is.
It irritates me when business guys try to give technical people the shaft like this.

If you're building the first version of the product and plan to grow into the role of CTO as the company grows, you should be an equal cofounder with 15 - 50% equity.

Read this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...
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Some examples I dug up, in chronological order:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/faceb...

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/27/hill-facebook

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva... / https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1003643865797218304 / https://twitter.com/davidcicilline/status/100346971021689241...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/03/02/facebook-...
Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan (2017)
Well the notification icons still don't retain state no matter what device I'm on, as in, I can check my notifications, determine that nothing exciting happened, and open the app 10 minutes later and have a red icon for the same notifications.

Sometimes I wonder what 1,000 programmers do all day
Mens rea alone isn't enough to be convicted of a crime, but the actus reus in this case sounds like possession rather than use.

I don't know about HK laws on laser pointers but here in Australia there are restrictions on laser pointers - anything >1mW requires a permit in most states, without a permit you're liable for possession of a prohibited weapon whether or not you planned to use it. Even <1mW, you may be required to have a reasonable excuse for possessing it if you take it into a public space (at least in some states, I haven't checked all of them).
In streaming services, content is king. If you look at the box office, Disney is killing it, and it's not even close.

According to https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/?debug=0&view=parent&p=... Disney was responsible for 38% of all movie gross revenue so far this year!

The other thing is that anecdotally, the biggest viewers of streaming video services are children. Disney is especially strong in content aimed at children.

Disney is going to be very hard to compete against.
https://youtu.be/jqG1fX3ZaLQ
I don't understand articles like this. Do they really think it helps their case to say fracking is bad because of climate change? The fact that the technique is effective shouldn't be a reason to ban it! If you want to regulate carbon emmisions, then do so, but I really feel that trying to attack it from different angles just weakens the argument.

It also means that the article spends virtually zero time talking about things that may actually be risks of the practice, or potential solutions. We aren't getting rid of natural gas powerplants any time soon. We could do a better job of monitoring and cleaning up leaks of fracking chemicals and wastewater injection though, if we focused on that.
Why "flagged"? Too PR?
Meetings were NOT designed for distributed companies
Hey, do you agree with this?
Higher than you'd think, apparently.
"Demand better business practices" signal
When you buy an app from the App Store. Apple claims the entire price of the app as revenue, pays out the developer and gives the developer a 1099 at the end of the year. My relationship is no more with the third party app developer when I buy an app from the App Store than it is if I buy a third party accessory from the Apple Store or if I buy something from Walmart.

There is no difference.
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I use it all the time to set reminders. "Ok Google. At 2 PM next Tuesday remind me to <insert pretty much anything here>".
So if one morality position is animal suffering = bad then rather than arguing using animal well being/suffering, they should instead for example promote artificial meat that look and taste exactly like octopus. That I believe would be more effective approach.
> Do you have proof of this claim, especially for "security issues"?

ffmpeg was known for overly strict code reviews before the fork, but afterwards Michael N. (the lead dev) merged every single libav commit back in without review and called it weird names like "Qatar" he thought were funny.

To be fair he was also schizophrenic and hallucinating. Good coder though.

> Your phrasing makes it sound like the project lead was the instigator.

He was quite difficult to work with, for instance you couldn't get him to delegate anything, and he wouldn't localize ffmpeg because it would take a few extra CPU cycles to look up strings in language tables.

I haven't been able to look at the project in a while but he's probably better.
Facebook engineers know exactly what is going on, and I don't think they actually care.

If you want to see exactly how creepy the whole thing is going to get in the future, you just have to take a look at the transcripts from the Software Engineering Daily podcast where a group of engineers from FB were interviewed recently. The interviewer never once mentioned the word privacy in the entire interview across all the five interviews (with pretty senior FB folks who have been there for quite a while). Or for that matter, there wasn't really a single question across all the five interviews which left me thinking "Well, at least there is someone inside Facebook who disagrees at least minimally with company policies".

You can search for this in the transcripts yourself.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...
What's Next for Amazon Scout?
8chan: Owner of extremist site lashes out as scrutiny intensifies
Fan who threw 96 MPH at in-stadium radar booth signs contract with A's
In two or three years you'll have a EV option that can surpass your regular distance; and any legal hurdles to installing the required electrical systems are something that should be dealt with on state/national level and made illegal for your jurisdiction. By the way, "slow charging" only requires a regular power socket so no install required in most cases.
You get to see really bad shit without support or and often with less respect than you deserve.

If that interests you, you want to be a paid firefighter, as you usually get union protection, the camaraderie helps, and you can rotate assignments if it gets to you.
IIRC parsers let it reconstruct metadata from files that aren't muxed, or inaccurately muxed. For instance, you'd need one to read raw .h264 files properly into .mp4.

Not sure how that would apply to GIF.
> I don't know about HK laws on laser pointers

I think at this point you should be looking into China's laws on laser pointers, not Hong Kong's.
No, it isn't. Get that moral relativism bullshit out of here.
He who takest the buyer’s money dost set the price.
Do it. Not sure why you're being downvoted
Good. This sort of thing why I don’t have Facebook on my phone.
If you're streaming, you don't need to implement full I-frames; instead you can do a kind of top-to-bottom rolling refresh. The video will be corrupt until the decoder catches up, but that's OK.

This is mostly used for TV broadcasts where you don't want the whole keyframe to get lost because of some brief interference. It's also good because it lowers peak bandwidth per second.
Multilingual Speech Recognition with Corpus Relatedness Sampling
>> I'll respond clearly: We're multiple computer vision leaps forward away from what Elon needs for success. They're easily half a decade behind Lidar based systems. And people die as a consequence of putting those systems on the road.

>Custom ASICs for ML that Tesla is building is fairly well-understood tech at this point. High-end smartphones have used similar tech for years now

joshuamorton is right and you didn't really address the point made. It isn't about understanding the hardware, it's about understanding the software. You point me to any individual who can tell you concretely how a specific convolutional neural network (CNN) arrives at a given solution and I'll take this all back.

We know so little about how CNNs work, and plane old neural networks (NNs) for that matter, it's embarrassing. They're prone to adversarial attacks, not only that, you can successfully mount the same attack against _any_ NN that was trained on a common dataset. We don't know how to effectively defend against these yet in a white box setting.

We have no idea what the solution space looks like. We barely understand why one of the most simple optimization algorithms outperforms almost all others on at these tasks. We barely understand why randomizing data visitation results in solutions that perform completely differently.

The counter argument goes something like "we tested it on a big eval set and it aced it" Well I'm here to tell you that things change. Assumptions made in creating that eval set might not generalize to all real-world cases. And in this case bad assumptions result in death.

As someone who has spent a good portion of my life working on this stuff I've learned that sometimes (most of the time) the best choice is the obvious, known, simple one. The fact that a good portion of cars may be controlled via something we know so little about should worry you.

On a different note, I think you're also missing why Tesla have opted to invest in a percept suite that doesn't use LIDAR. That reason is cost. Tesla needs to sell cars now. They and their customers cannot afford to put LIDAR on their current platform. At the same time they need to move the metal and they know their customers want AEVs. I think their strategy is sound from a purely business cost/benefit analysis. It's a risk but from a financial perspective a good one, because if it works they hit pay dirt.
> I think downvotes are fundamentally broken.

How do they even work? I see posts get downvoted, but no downvote button.
There's payment (out and also in), so it doesn't rely (entirely) on good will - running a connectivity-important node can even net you payments!
I had that icon too and was confused because I couldn’t find any message. On the desktop Facebook site it turned out I did have a new message from someone who wasn’t a Friend. I changed the settings to disallow messages from people who aren’t friends. And never had the issue again. But I just checked and I can’t find that setting now...
It's annoying that in this article it's pretty obvious what the main downside is, namely the likely very high cost of producing Solein (electricity, labor, machinery), and the author and company make no attempts to address this issue. In particular the fact they proudly announce they are using "renewable solar energy" make me suspect a high amount of electricity is needed per gram of Solein.

Edit: my suspicion is semi-confirmed by HN user achenatx: their process starts with water electrolysis. That alone means one kg of H₂ requires a minimum of 50 kWh, costing 5 USD (at $0.10/kWh). How much Solient do they produce from 1 kg of H₂?
With the current situation in HK, and his position, there may be valid concern it may not be used legally

It’s not that hard to prove intent if he is really innocent

If he’s really star gazing, why does he need 10 lasers? Show some evidence of your plan (where you are planning to go to star gaze, who you are going with (10 lasers are a bit too many for 1 person’s needs). Have you always been interested in Astronomy? It is rare (not impossible) for someone to suddenly find an interest in star gazing overnight.

Of course, it may be hard for police to actually prosecute him based on just intent - HK laws are still quite good. However, if he's been seen on the protest frontlines, plus ownership of lasers, it might make more of a case.

HK is not a place known for star gazers really - the light pollution is horrendous
By now he would top out at about 30/hr [1]. Not great for 5 years experience. It seems the sanitation worker... the trash man... gets to about 35/hr over the same period [2]. Both jobs involve heavy lifting and unpleasant odors, but the paramedic training is more demanding and it's hard to describe the daily mental pounding paramedics have to absorb.

Paramedic is a fun job but tough. Hard to leave all of that at work.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/fdny/jobs/career-paths/ems-salary-...

[2] https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/10/24/want-to-become-an-ny... (not the most authoritative source but it was easy to find)
I personally prefer Chip and Signature. We have the same system in Hong Kong where most cards have a Chip and PIN but most card readers will just ask for your signature anyway. It puts the burden on the merchant to check the signature instead of the cardholder to not have their PIN guessed/overseen. We also seem to have no limit on PayWave (contactless) transactions but for larger purchasers the merchant may ask for a signature over the "No Signature Required" slip anyway.
Google itself isn't exactly ethical anymore unfortunately
Easy, Amazon just adds “no devices may be sold that compete with ours” to their TOS.
There's a permanent (one-person) Falun Gong protest outside the consulate in San Francisco. At least, it was still there the last time I went.
Note also that the winds are driven by the temperature difference between the equator and the poles.

The greenhouse effect warms the poles more than it warms the equator, thereby lowering that difference. So less wind. Which means the water that evaporates and then precipitates back down spends less time traveling horizontally in the wind. Evaporate straight up. Fall straight down.

So, wet areas get wetter. Dry areas get dryer.
That seems entirely circular. The mobile website is poorly made, so people use the mobile app, so the mobile website is neglected. I can understand why the mobile app gains dominance after the cycle starts. The question is more why this cycle starts.
seL4 isn't an RTOS, FWIW.

There is hypervisor support, sort of. Insofar as there's enough there to build your own hypervisor (we ended up needing to do something like this), and there's a sample VMM for a very specific host and guest target combination available that's created via CAmkES.

Making an seL4-based hypervisor truly cross-architecture capable as well as generalizable for different host and guest target configurations is a non-trivial, painstaking, arduous task. In fact making anything on seL4 truly cross-platform isn't easy. The kernel doesn't provide much in the way of unifying abstractions over the architecture differences. The different architecture details are mostly thrust onto you to figure out what kind of abstractions you want to make.

The MCS (mixed criticality support) stuff in seL4 getting mainlined should make it theoretically possible to invent/create a hypervisor that enables you to run MCU oriented RTOSes & applications in an isolated context atop non-HRT hardware. Data61 has mentioned that they're going to take a whack at making some part of an AUTOSAR stack that runs in a context like this, but I have no idea how far along that is. Separately, we're looking at leveraging the same underlying capability for a variety of different adjacent purposes.

That said, there are a variety of supported platforms you can already build seL4 for: https://docs.sel4.systems/Hardware/, our experience has been that some work better than others. It's possible to run in QEMU as well to get started.
There's been protests at the London Chinese embassy fairly frequently since 1997. More visible and frequently reported during the 2014 umbrella protests, and again during these protests.

I'd be a little surprised if there haven't been similar at embassies in the US - perhaps they're just not attracting enough numbers to be widely reported?
While many neighbors could be connected directly to a traditional ISP, in a hilly/mountainous area, only a few nodes may be able to connect directly to an ISP, and this will connect indirectly accessible nodes to the Internet via only intermediary nodes. This is not theoretical - the test network in Oregon does this.
Empathy, you should try it, it feels good.
I am pretty sure China doesn't have a restriction on laser pointers. There are laser pointers up to 1W for sale on taobao.com
> The crux of the argument is you will still need the algorithmic complexity in the end with or without LIDAR, so it doesn't add any advantage.

The approach described still uses the same ML on a Lidar data representation, but with an extra step on image recognition to put it into that data format. Image recognition only adds computational complexity post-hardware-sensor because you first need to generate a Lidar-like 3D map. So that is conceivably an advantage for Lidar in the long run given that its method for making the 3D representation of the space (upon which the ML runs) is dirt-simple physics-wise—much simpler than the image recognition algorithms and camera electronics used by image recognition. It's just not cheap yet because the market for processors and cameras is huge and the products have become incredibly sophisticated and cheap. Again, hard to imagine an idea as simple as Lidar not getting much cheaper with scale.

> I'll just paste the quote FTA

My point wasn't an ad hominem one, so I don't think the fact that an expert like Karpathy said "crutch" changes the fact that it's slanted phrasing. But given that Karpathy works for Tesla and has a vested interest in assuaging investors and consumers, it makes sense why he used slanted phrasing. "Lidar is a crutch" makes Tesla sound more visionary than "we don't want to pay for Lidar because it's still too expensive and we think we'll be able to rival Lidar with image recognition." It's a nice way to subtly jab at competitors who are investing in Lidar and frame it as if Lidar was the tech that had catching up to do (when, in fact, the opposite is true).

Since the key point of the article is that ML algorithms work better with Lidar data representations, it's pretty hard to see it any other way. They both go to the same intermediate data representation, and Lidar still wins in a head-to-head. Again, you can argue validly that cameras + image recognition will be good enough, but calling Lidar a "crutch" seems like pro-Tesla spin by a high-up Tesla employee whose job is to make Tesla look good.
De Re Atari (1982)
It seems like a smart win win situation for you. I bet if the WSJ ect. did the same it would drive non trivial growth
Just randomly found this online and it brought back so many joyful memories.
No but it's really instructive to Taiwan, which is seriously up-armoring now.

HK is doomed for sure, but Taiwan isn't.
Similarly here. Very happy with syncthing.
DE-CIX is our donated IXP connection. We connect via peering and transit at an internet exchange point (IXP). We don't pay for an ISP connection.
Siri works just fine for setting reminders.
You try pointing a laser-pointer at a police officer around here and you will be lucky if you are just arrested.
There's actual video footage of HK police officers arresting a kid because he had a flashlight in his backpack. They deemed it as a "weapon". Right now, HKPD is going on a rampage and making up excuses to arrest anyone who is brazen enough to talk back at them. It's juvenile. Good luck to the police officers who think that they'll magically go back to their normal lives after this. After grossly mistreating so many ppl in the community they swore to protect, they should expect spit in their food.
https://www.monkeybrains.net/
Hybrid fission-fusion reactors combine the worst features of both. Why would anyone want one?
Yukio Mishima's biography is a depressingly vivid example of the dangers of repressing your identity, with his repressed gay identity seemingly spilling out into far-right nationalism and then terrorism.
Spending billions of borrowed dollars on junky “original” content was the beginning of the end for Netflix.
Hostile architecture discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621709
Are you effectively saying the onus is now on pedagogy to determine the most effective way to distill those concepts to earlier learners? Just trying to understand where the actionable side of this starts coming into play.
I don't think you read the article. He's saying that someone else uploaded it, not the shooter.
Another way to think about this: huge potential for a competitor. It's not like Disney has a moat for creativity. Blair Witch project cost something like $100K
I use Siri to do the same. Is it an issue of better ASR or NLP that makes the difference for you?
youtube-dl -x <url> uses ffmpeg out of the box to extract mp3 audio from a video.