skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me personally, the technical parts just fell off. Where defcon has the really interesting stuff, CCC has talks how you can send SMS with an RPI, an USB dongle and ready made software that are okay for a beginner's tutorial but that I find lacking for this kind of event. I've watched maybe a hand full of talks from the last CCC, but I always find myself running out of time instead of talks when I look at defcon (they've massively increased the amount of talks with the different villages lately), and the quality is much higher.

Back in the days, politics came into play where technology meets the real world and politics are involved, now it felt more like a party's youth organization's online-convention. But I gather that's what the majority of CCC members want, and it's fine by me, there's obviously a demand for that kind of event, they are quickly outgrowing their locations, it's just no longer anything I really care for.
They're bedded in gravel, wouldn't take much to bottom out on the tracks.
It's only the electronic compasses in mobile devices that are garbage. I've experimented with holding a regular small mechanical compass in one hand and a cell phone in the other. The mechanical compass is steady and accurate whereas the cell phone compass jumps all around. It's just poor design.
But RedHat is painfully license driven. So much so, that even if you pay for RH, you would be tempted to use CentOS just to avoid the annoying tooling and infrastructure that RH has built to do license checks.
I agree that this was predictable. Which raises the question, could outside observers (e.g. journalists, victims) have prevented this somehow by individually funding more staff to have him observed 24/7?
In real life, I'd rather explore the rest of the corridor when there are no more monsters around, and even more importantly I would exploit the stupidity of monsters that forfeit their positional advantage. Why should I do something different in a game?
Gold only broke out two months ago. For the most part it has been around 120 for over five years. And this is probably a consequence of all the trade issues as we get ready for less trade from tariffs.

But the fed doesn't control long term rates (probably wish it did). The short end is heavily driven by technical factors including the overnight rate (even then that is only a target and it doesn't anyways follow what the fed wished it was). The long end isn't the same. It is driven by return on capital (higher returns both seek out loans and can afford to pay more for them).

If there was long term mispricing we would see it in the tips market, and we don't. The research shows the opposite - been little arbitrage exists in the market and it is extremely well allocated.
I greatly prefer this playstyle to more recent designs where every possible choice is so carefully balanced that all decisions do not matter. Put in some seriously underpowered guns that no-one will use! Some routine repeating monsters that stop being a challenge once you get their weakness, some super-difficult alternative approaches that everybody will learn to avoid! Gaming is, to a large part, about feeling smart for very little actual effort.
This is exactly the scenario that AR is best suited for. Assuming that it works at all, the orientation data from the camera + gyro will be essentially perfect.
Tab-completion for your command-line apps
In case anyone wants to know what happened to C&C, I heavily recommend this documentary [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/OlIkGlTMUNE
Why doesn't Microsoft provide free food as Google and Facebook do? (2015)
I loves his new collection of a short stories, some are better than others, but overall there are a ton of unique ideas on display. The Merchant and The Alchemist's Gate is such a great time travel story in particular. I didn't enjoy the one about digital creatures (it went on for way too long!) or the one about the child-bearing device.
You can at the one in my town if the group isn't full.

Last time I went we were only a group of four so we had a couple join us.
0-60 times is a more useful metric as 99% of real people drive cars on public roads. Nürburgring "times" is more of an impractical wet dream for most people who mention it.
Hi folks,
I recently left Google (8 years, 4 months, 4 days :)) and co-founded a deep learning startup. We’re building a large scale model to learn human behavior and detect, predict, and explain suspicion and fraud. Our focus is on insurance involving human beings, accidents and their health - such as disability, workers’ compensation and other areas.
“Insurance” may sound like a boring problem domain, but it’s far from that. On the ethical side, it’s a huge problem, with estimated $40B-$80B paid out to fraud annually, with very little recourse to the fraudsters. And we’re all paying for it. The detection process today is almost entirely manual/human intuition based, not data driven. Our mission is to put a stop to this loop hole by leveraging large historical data sets and deep learning and introducing a modern, systematic real-time detection approach. We put it in the hands of professional detectives. We provide realtime monitoring, alerts, explanations and supporting evidence.
The data set is a time series of events starting with an accident + injury, followed up by many diagnosis, interviews, witness statements, medical reports; treatments, with some final outcome. The outcome can be a full recovery, partial disability or a permanent disability.
This time series is represented by a large structured as well as large unstructured corpus (10s of millions of documents). The problem domain is super interesting - we’re building a real world “Minority Report” to stop bad actors from abusing the system, and help the good actors get paid immediately, and stop bad medical providers from doing evil.
There is a lot of interesting NLP work. The data sets you’d be working with involve individual demographics, job histories, geography mapping, health history, injury causes, recovery and treatment methods, objective witness statements and subjective claimant reports, industry codes, criminology, graph theory and workplace safety, to name a few.

We're looking for one more data engineer and/or data scientist with strong programming python skills to join the team. We are super early so you’re getting in on the ground floor, but we are well funded (closed a large seed round recently from several top-tier VC’s in SF and NYC). We already have a large data set and a customer and are seeing early success with our initial model. Our office is in the middle of Manhattan.
You’d be working along side industry experts and researchers. We’re building a company culture taking the best engineering and cultural practices from Google and mixing in the freedom of working at a startup.
You can publish white papers and speak at conferences. We’re working closely with Google (TF + cloud teams) so you’ll also get access to that resource. You can use your favorite tools, including PyTorch and FastAI, and get access to powerful VM’s.
If you’re interested in the current position, or want to reach out and stay in touch for when we start hiring again, or want to collaborate because you’re working on a similar problem, connect with me on linkedin (mention hn/yc) or email me: tomasv at deepfraud dot com.

Thanks all!

-Tom
Drive an Audi, or a Porsche. You'll realize how... muddy... Tesla handling is.
there is a thing called trunking and switching, and it has been in use for a long time.

g00gles patent describes this hueristic, and g00gle did not invent it. This is what made the free for all that was police radio scanning, turn into a hack required situation if you wanted to follow a conversation instead of getting, what is equivalent to reading from a paper shredders bin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunking
I suspect anti-american bigotry by the British doctor.

It is a cliché that Americans are hypochondriac* (especially women) so I can imagine some stuck-up British guy being so completely unprofessional and damaging.

* Why is it not HYPERchondriac? I wish medicine would replace hypo with another prefix: how many deaths and how much damage occurs by miscommunications due to mixups of opposites? Edit: hypochondrion means "below the cartilage" where the Greeks though the "seat of emotion" organ was - arrrgh.
This is silly. If the power is only up 95% of the time, nearly everyone will buy natgas/propane generators and then you’ve wasted a lot of effort going green. And that’s 95% on top of our normal outages which aren’t from production issues, but delivery.
Important to remember that current technology isn't 100% reliable. turbines fail, support systems fail, hot weather reduces effective capacity because steam doesn't condense efficiently into warmer surroundings.
Sure, there are obviously visual warnings in real life, like that. Pretty sure that kind of thing is universal.

I'm talking about something that would pop on the Waze display, like 20 seconds ahead of reaching the crossing.
Death IS the gain bro.

He probably paid those guards a lot for the right to die.
The claim is that the Chinese are copying stuff via industrial espionage. I get that.

But Apple also sued Samsung for using rounded corners on a phone. So there's a lot of gray area in IP enforcement.

A similar non-chinese example is the AV1 codec from Google or the Android compatibility with Java. Both are claimed to be IP theft by other western parties. I don't think either of those claims hold up, and I have no real reason to believe that China's violations are any more morally suspect without a lot more specifics.

Modern IP enforcement has left me in a "boy who cried wolf" mentality when it comes to infringement. To be honest I'm more scared of China playing that game in a hardball manner than I am of them ignoring it.
There was a beautiful, but gut-wrenchingly sad article about trauma in elephants in the NYT about 13 years ago. It's a super long read but it's highly recommended if you're interested in this topic.

It starts off by describing how elephant attacks are on the rise throughout the world, which for people in regions with wild elephants is totally unprecedented, describing how in the aftermath of government sponsored cullings roving bands of young elephants in places like Uganda would target humans and other animals. It then follows a Ugandan researcher at Cambridge interested in the parallels between the trauma in elephants and trauma in communities impacted by the Ugandan civil war (particularly the Acholi, targeted by the now infamous Kony for recruitment).

"For Bradshaw, these continuities between human and elephant brains resonate far outside the field of neuroscience. ‘‘Elephants are suffering and behaving in the same ways that we recognize in ourselves as a result of violence,’’ she told me. ‘‘It is entirely congruent with what we know about humans and other mammals. Except perhaps for a few specific features, brain organization and early development of elephants and humans are extremely similar. That’s not news. What is news is when you start asking, What does this mean beyond the science? How do we respond to the fact that we are causing other species like elephants to psychologically break down? In a way, it’s not so much a cognitive or imaginative leap anymore as it is a political one.’’

...

‘‘I started looking again at what has happened among the Acholi and the elephants,’’ Abe told me. ‘‘I saw that it is an absolute coincidence between the two. You know we used to have villages. We still don’t have villages. There are over 200 displaced-people’s camps in present-day northern Uganda. Everybody lives now within these camps, and there are no more elders. The elders were systematically eliminated. The first batch of elimination was during Amin’s time, and that set the stage for the later destruction of northern Uganda. We are among the lucky few, because my mom and dad managed to escape. But the families there are just broken. I know many of them. Displaced people are living in our home now. My mother said let them have it. All these kids who have grown up with their parents killed — no fathers, no mothers, only children looking after them. They don’t go to schools. They have no schools, no hospitals. No infrastructure. They form these roaming, violent, destructive bands. It’s the same thing that happens with the elephants. Just like the male war orphans, they are wild, completely lost.’’

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html
Wonderful wonderful game! Countless hours of fun, my friends and I still talk about specific episodes and PKs that terrorised us.
True, but then I'd hope to see something brought to the party a little more substantive than just shouting at the consensus. Maybe an attempt to show credibility, or humility if making a case for a previously undiscussed aspect or link etc.
I'd say I care much more about 60-0 and 40-70 than 0-60. Those are both much more indicative of how good the car is in real world scenarios on the road where a performance car might be worth having (overtaking slow moving car, emergency braking).
How exactly did they get access to the Facebook Ad Library API? You need special permission for that: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/api/

Also, per those docs, ad spend is a range; I'm not sure how the article infers exact values.
"Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" was really stunning for me, personally. Also enjoyed the titular story, though I had already read it before the collection came out.
"VW secures US$25B in battery supplies in electric-car surge" https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/vw-secures-25-billion-battery-su...

"Volkswagen will invest almost 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in battery cell production at a facility in western Germany" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric/volks...
App being open-source means you can compile and build it yourself.

They've also gone to extreme lengths to prove that the software running on their servers has not been tampered with: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/#trust-but...

I think your doubts create very unreasonable expectations for Signal.
Desire paths fascinated me. I've seen several grow, and I've seen the reasonably understandable, but ultimately fruitless attempts to inhibit them: Why don't landscape architects and planners actually welcome them (like one does in this article) instead of confronting them?
I loved Doom and Doom II growing up -- no game has had more influence on this hobby or me as a person. But I never got much into Doom 2016, and I never could put my finger on why -- until now. So thanks
"Has anyone used this?"

Perhaps not much on purpose, but it kicks in automatically if the Perl script is setuid. So you'll find questions about it where people are struggling with it.
Same here. For reasons which now escape me, I decided to play through the whole [1] of Quake II without ever getting hit or otherwise taking damage. I don't remember it making the game easier, just differently difficult. I spent a lot of time reloading.

I get very irritated by game designers who decide that I'm just not having the right kind of fun. Enemies spawning right behind me in an area I've just cleared, or infinite spawns, usually trigger an immediate uninstall. The Deus Ex games got this mostly right, mostly. (Those abysmal boss fights being the exception; I gather they were done by a completely different team, and my god it showed.)

[1] Right up until the final boss fight, anyway. I think I made an exception for that. I think I swore off consumables like the Quad Damage too, but don't recall the details.
This is an interesting article show casing what kind of data is available through the API. There are many graphs, lots of data. But, little insight from my perspective. Democrats are rather targeting women and younger demographics than Republicans. Oh well...
It doesn't plead. It asks one time. At least on Android. I said no and it has never asked me again.
TED's secret to great public speaking (2016)
Lets split this into three:

1)ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery

If they are doing that(Which I strongly suggest they are not, well at least not yet), then having multiple views allows google to remove things that move (people/cars)

2) Depending on how they do this, if its using "visual landmarks" then people are a massive pain. They move, and cause all sorts of problems when doing positioning. So they'll need to be removed for the system to work properly.

3) The actual scary part is not the faces, persay. Its the fact that any picture where google has streetview is now able to be precisely located, regardless of who, when or how it was taken.
Writing an Elegant and Extensible Network Stack in Swift
thanx, the pb seems to be any further mention of J.3p5731|\|
Cool, I read those a while back. Where will be the the factory located at and when is the ETA for completion? Have they broke ground yet?
i don’t have a facebook account so i get a warning at the top: “By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies”

this is so against gdpr it’s crazy.

facebook, what the hell?
If this tech allows BEVs a significantly higher range it would be a game changer. Currently the range is about the same as gasoline cars with a longer refueling time. For your average consumer that’s not an improvement. But if I can go 800 miles per charge all the sudden my BEV looks like an iPhone X compared to your flipphone traditional vehicle.
There is no shortage of videos of people in cars pulling in front of visible trains. Drivers stop over rail tracks all of the time. Frequently pedestrians hit by trains, excluding suicides, have earphones in.
Is this person arguing in favor of the NPC meme?
Things that can help with voice strain:

- take breaks

- stay hydrated

- tea with licorice root (Yogi brand: Throat Comfort is one example)

- speech/singing coach (I have not tried this yet, but apparently it can help a lot)
Exactly.

The project can be done by a small dedicated team though.

Many teams require support past development life cycle, so I could see a small team upgrading and passing support back to the original product owners.

It seems the politics for this type of move was too costly, I guess.
YTD isn't even 1%, almost anything else has done better.
I just remember that an inch is 2.54 cm, exactly (unless it's a "survey inch"), and there are 12 inches in a foot, and 3 feet in a yard ... but then I get stuck remembering how many yards there are in a chain and how many chains in a furlong.
The problem with the principle of epistocracy is the implementation. When what's at stake is control of an entire country, huge amounts of resources will be directed towards subverting any system that you create.

What's good enough for the purposes of immigration control isn't necessarily good enough for the purposes of voting. A civics exam would select the most motivated groups who are willing to cram, as well as the knowledgeable, and there's no guarantee that the latter would outnumber the former. You want motivated immigrants who are willing to study in order to enter your country, but you don't necessarily want to restrict voting to the group of people who are most willing to put in effort, because that group includes everyone on the political fringe.
A growth mindset improves achievement
The proteins in a cell form complex organelles, each with a specific role to play in the functioning of the cell. The cells in your body each specialize to constitute a complex, conscious organism. Likewise, you are part of a complicated social and technological network.[1] And just as the cell doesn’t ask the proteins what they think of their functions, our human ecosystem doesn’t care much what we think about it’s operation. As technology creates more and more refined models of the human body and mind we will find ourselves slotted more and more tightly into roles so the whole machine can operate more efficiently.

[1] https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/USAconscious.ht...
The Universal Page
A common conspiracy theory floated at a previous dayjob was that Oracle does no license checking because you're not going to get far into the operation and maintenance without Oracle DBAs/engineers around anyways.

After seeing how clunky some of the tooling is (sqlplus is downright byzantine for no good reason), I have to wonder...
otherwise you just to provide them a few details, accept some bs agreement which no-one really cares about and then you’re set.
Oh man, the Shrieker in the Phogoth boss room entry hallway on a void burn nightfall! (Destiny, I'm sure most anyone who played it will know the scenario). Amazing game and does all things mentioned in this article at times.
Cool, thanks for sharing.

1. Why did you choose to use react? As far as I can see, this seems to be just a one html page?

2. What are the use cases?
> The problem I'm referring to isn't conflict resolution, but rather spurious re-creation of files that have been deleted.

That is conflict resolution, over the set of files. Which is why Unison provides the "reconciling changes" UI.

> Which implies you need to choose one node from {A,B,C} that is the most likely to be available to sync the other two to.

Yes, that is a way to avoid update conflicts.

> IMO a topological sort would be an even stricter requirement than spanning tree, in that if one node becomes available, you can't sync anything "below" it!

Yes, it is also a way to avoid update conflicts.

> (eg I use unison for maildir).

Why? IMAP already takes care of synchronization, without any potential problems.
Another technique is to provide limited ammo, forcing the player to figure out how to move forward without killing everything, which means there are enemies pursuing from behind as well. Open map designs (such as Doom II) were great for that, because an enemy you woke up at the beginning of the level could end up almost anywhere on the map, providing pressure from behind and creating tension when you had to backtrack. It's less interesting when you can afford to sweep through a level exterminating everything you see.
Yes, unfortunate but true. And probably true of just about any controversial legislation, meaning whichever direction you want the country to go, over the long term it just swings back and forth.
Phonetically (for Europeans) and from a grammar/alphabet/etc standpoint Japanese are easier than Chinese.
In Hebrew its Chinese.
MkWii has the best physics, some of the best tracks in the entire series, a thriving community despite being 10 years old and having official support dropped 5 years ago, and is just overall the best game really.
Ah, you mean the one for macOS only. No, I was talking about the multiplatform one.
Tron 2.0 and some other games by the same studio (No one lives forever?) had "reinforcement buttons" that roughly doubled a monster spawn when one of the first group managed to access the button. Still a far cry from the "direct reinforcements to the rear of the player" option that would end any playthrough quite fast, but a very satisfactory repeated sub-goal.
> The disconnect here is that had IBM enforced hard license limits the organization may say that the product is too expensive and look for an alternative because the customer is forced to buy more licensing mid-budget cycle.

Also, things can go wrong with automated license enforcement, and at large enterprise scale, that would be costly to the customer (and therefore IBM as they'd be summarily replaced). I can already imagine the HN headlines: "Flights grounded due to BGP mishap knocking IBMs license servers offline", "HDD failure costs $CORP $8.6M/day after IBM DRM prevents installation of replacement cluster"