skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course you can use it. The claim Hotz seemed to be making was that the major AV stacks weren't doing it, which would have been major news to me.
What comes after we pull ourselves out of the "marketplace of ideas?" With no marketplace where will original thought come from?

The whole point of the marketplace is to sift through all the bad stuff and find the diamonds in the rough. You can't have a market without bad stuff, and the benefit of having a market is that it finds good stuff.

A world with less bad ideas is a world with less good ideas.

It's not impossible to create. It's not necessarily bad. But it would make our society much less dynamic.
Content is often tinkered with on HN by the two mods but it’s usually noted and for a purpose, might be one of them just really likes pops.
From my European perspective, this reads like a typical leftist pov. First of all, of course everyone has to change their way of living. This has been the corner Stone of left ideology since forever.

And then of course the attack on EV, because it is not about the climate, but about individuality. Individual travel simply does not fit into a world view where everyone has to change their way of living into the rational way. And offering a different solution is heresy.
Go hiking with a field guide for edible plants or someone knowledgeable.
Large corporations hamstringing reformist politicians rubs some people the wrong way. The major nonhuman players have always participated in politics, but when they prevent others from participating in politics it's seen as another line being crossed.
I agree with other users. I took it as an official designation that Amazon had vetted the product and/or vendor for consistency, and that returns/reviews/volume of purchase were all factors in a genuine recommendation for the product.

I'm a tech savvy 30-something cynic, too. Think about how it would fool others.

If the name of the product or brand line was "Amazon's Choice" then I would consider it branding. But when used as a designation, I expect more.
this is insane..

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=elevated+roundabouts+for+bikes+on+...

I've read tons of articles about bikes in netherlands and how they design roundabouts. But never this.

It's a bit too much in terms of landscaping impact but it must be sooo lovely to bike..
It does make me sad that Tesla didn't just throw all the (affordable?) tech they could into their cars, and then figure it out later.

Eg, it seems like they are taking the "figure it out later" approach, but they limited what they can work with to just camera information. Which to me is a shame. I'd like to see Tesla's model with lots of inputs.

Then again, I don't ship these cars, so I'm probably being ignorant :)
Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
I didn't realize XArchiver was obscure. I use that pretty regularly.
Absolutely. I have zero sympathy for Apple and I hope they lose this and their anti-trust case. At the very least, I hope it costs them billions.

IMO, it should be illegal for companies to sell computer hardware and then block users from sideloading.
> everyone tries to get out of jury duty as much as they can.

Perhaps it's the fact that I live in a smaller city, but literally no one I know had tried to get out off jury duty, except one friends in the last months of her pregnancy when she had preeclampsia and was ordered by the doctor to rest (so a legitimate reason).

One advantage of this is I get to hear all kinds of great stories about various cases (including a murder, in one case).
I think that is a disingenuous take on their comment. They said it is culturally and linguistically distinct from the mainland ruling class. I think it's pretty easy to see how that arose from the historical separation. They specifically mention how it came from years of British rule, and skipping the cultural revolution. They didn't even mention Guangdong.
That would be the same trick it does when you look at it with both eyes open...
Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? Have one fewer child.

Nothing else even comes close.
It’s a simple fact. It’s easy to do. But nobody wants to do that.

It’s far less painful to pretend that we can keep the Titanic from sinking by making sure we sip our boat drinks from metal straws.

The point of the post is that we’re trying to consume our way out of a consumption problem, but predictably, a group of technology people want desperately to believe that if we just make the stuff we’re consuming better — with technology! — we’re helping.

To this end, it’s worth pointing out that the only item on that list that relates to family size is midway down, where it talks about family planning for the third world...something other people can do, so that you don’t have to change your life.
> I do 2-4 hours a day.

Just reading this gave me anxiety.
Manipulating Emojis in Java (Bear and 1 = Panda?)
I think more dire is staffing the hotline appropriately. Routinely people have to wait upwards of an hour to connect with anyone.
The browser can't implement xeyes (the cursor position outside a window is surely not visible?), so it will never be a serious replacement for X11.
Senators use the DC Metro and Stock Market traders in NYC use their subway.

Big Subway systems in big cities are pretty famous for seeing executives in suits and celebrities sit in the same bus as beggars.

> ill gotten gains

That's... quite an assumption you're making there. Sure, some execs are assholes. But most true wealth is driven through cooperation.
Some relevant Wikipedia links

1-
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

2 -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Islamic_pl...

3 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazwa-e-Hind

4 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya

5 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubal

6 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirk_(Islam)

7 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khilafat_Movement

8 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus

9 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_India_with_a_Thousand_...

10 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...

11 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Relationship_with_Muha...

12 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Islam

Please read all of these wiki links in detail and think about each of them.

I have not put any news/oped/ links.

Nor am I putting anything of my own.

The western world needs to know what is coming for them, I am not saying that what is coming for them is good or bad, but it's coming.
Wasn’t 911 chosen to be hard to dial by accident?
This is weird. Especially the title. As an immigrant I do not believe that I should be entitled to anything in this country.

And we claim we have "capitalism"... bullsh*t. It's a country with strong and dangerous socialist values, with key political players pushing for even larger dependency on government for ordinary people, the idea that's very easy to sell but purely evil in nature. We teach people helplessness.
Likely due to a mod re-upping the post as described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
I agree, I see it as an extension of the work being done by people like Major Hayden to increase the amount of CI testing being done.
https://www.slideshare.net/MajorHayden/continuous-kernel-int...
If cell phones can figure out how to call local 911 from wherever they are I'm sure this can be done.
Too little too late? That's the best the writer could say?
Pessimism is not what we yearn for.
That's why I like 999, despite the risk of it being entered accidentally (this isn't as common as Americans seem to imagine). Same goes for 112, which is just as likely to be input by accident.

In placing an emergency call, sometimes milliseconds count.
Boy, all kinds of new accounts in this thread, with just one or two comments about the Hong Kong situation.
One would expect Trump has more reason to "save face" in this trade war, with an election coming up.
The Mysterious Fate of the World’s Largest Butterfly
Playing a Strategy Game with Knowledge-Based Reinforcement Learning
But why dependent types and not one of the many other formal methods that have been around for decades? Especially given the trend towards compilation speed being a relevant design choice (e.g., golang).

Sound global formal verification largely sucks. Type checking is about as far as we've ever gotten using it for widespread real world applications, and most type checkers in major languages are only "sound-y".
Ask HN: What happened to Google's programming-related search results?
Historically, Googling tech questions would yield a link to the appropriate section of the official documentation, relevant posts from Stack* or personal tech blogs, and maybe a wikipedia/c2 article.

However, as of late (~past 6 months), 30-50% of the results are w3schools-esque sites like "tutorialspoint.com", "thegeekdiary.com", "cyberciti.biz", "geeksforgeeks.org", "thegeekstuff.com", "appdividend.com"... all providing some ugly, ad-littered rehash of the real documentation. This occurs even in an anonymous Google session [0].

While the official docs are usually still first, they are increasingly getting overshadowed by these terrible results, particularly in the Google featured snippet [1]. Both ddg and bing seem to suffer from the same problem.

Is the pagerank of these sites legitimate, or the result of some new SEO tactic? Is this phenomenon actually as recent as it seems? Is there a centralized list of such websites somewhere that I can blacklist?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/U0CKhrf.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/TyWoKgS.png
There is no expectation of privacy in public places. You are trying to prove me wrong by subtly shifting the argument.

> You're claiming that because there's no expectation of privacy on the street someone can just run CCTV and do what they like with those images.

I never claimed that. But I will say that there is no legal restriction on filming a public space in England.
I feel like, until a defended has been prosecuted and some time has passed (post prosecution) any potential defamation of character should be illegal. So no printing news stories about how guilty someone is prior to a guilty verdict actually being had.

Haven't enough people's lives been ruined over this yet? Can't we all just grow up and stop acting like 4'th graders in the schoolyard pointing fingers and tossing rocks?
The real problem, as the author tangentially points out, is our over-reliance on cars to move us around. That’s due to the intentional choices that we have all made. If you look at the structure of suburban areas of cities in the US, you’ll immediately see that they are entirely designed the assumption of the existence of a personal car for YOU. You simply cannot get around without one.

A choice that I’m grappling with personally (as someone who lives in the suburbs in the US and owns two Teslas) is that I should really move somewhere more sustainable, i.e., more density so that I can get rid of my cars. That’s more difficult given family needs etc. If I didn’t have to factor others’ needs, I would have done this already.

This is the point that I think the author is trying to make. Changes at the margin aren’t addressing the real problem - they’re treating the symptom, not the disease.
A Very Short Story (1924)
>Taxing stuff that comes from large scale industrial destruction of the environment is completely different than everything.

That's pretty much everything. At the very least, the commodities used to make everything are sourced from large industrial processes.
It's also useful to point out that Kashmir was neither a part of India nor Pakistan after independence from the British in 1947.

It was only after Pakistan launched an operation to capture Kashmir, that the then ruler of Kashmir signed an "Instrument of Accession" with India, in exchange for military assistance.
> if they can get their hands on iOS images without specifically agreeing to a contract - is there a contract?

If I can get my hands on your car without specifically agreeing a contract to pay for it, ...
Their mortality rates were 100%, as are ours. Their life expectancy was infinitesimally small relative to the eternity they'll be dead for, as are ours.
Because there’s no objective definition for “hateful”. It can easily be defined as “content I don’t like”, leading to arbitrary silencing of voices.

As always, the question becomes: who decides which people are to be silenced?
https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex start from there. We've been thinking about incremental programming very hard for very long.

https://github.com/deepfire/reflex-glfw uses this for example, but I haven't personally tried it.
A lot of people seem to be down on this, citing GPS and other traditional numeric systems.

But I think this is much better for police specifically. For reasons that are not about data or systems so much as physical practicality.

Consider circumstances like these: A panicked hairdresser lost in the forest. An old person with progressing dementia; forgot where they were. A kidnapped child trapped in a room or locked in a car. Anyone in a burning building who can smell smoke. Try any of these situations when the cellphone is at 5%, or when the call keeps dropping, or when you can barely hear because it's so loud, or barely see, or you're drunk, your hand is broken, you're on drugs, you're dehydrated, you're hypothermic, you're bleeding, you're surrounded by buzzing insects...

Now think about the physical practicalities of a numbers system like GPS. To use any numerical system, you're talking about memorizing a string of eight or ten digits off one app and then reading them into a phone call. Yes, it may be possible to go on speaker and minimize the call app (if nobody is hunting you) but lots of people can't figure that out on their best day, much less in life-threatening situations. You have to be able to memorize it when you're afraid of death or shivering in the cold outside. Maybe the call gets disconnected and you have to go back, oh shit I closed the app, what was the number, oh I mixed up some numbers near the end, oh my god....

Almost anyone can remember three words without trying. A child can do it and my grandma can do it. Even if you get disconnected, it won't be hard to remember the words even minutes later. You can't miss a number, you can't transpose the numbers by accident because if you make a mistake it'll be obvious since the words aren't adjacent in the grid (for this reason). It's incredibly practical for the physical and mental constraints of a police situation, and that's why they use it.
To avoid total humiliation?

Even if they withdraw it completely nothing prevent them from introducing another similar bill at a later time anyway, so protesters would not gain anything apart from having humiliated the executive even more.
For a country that talks a good game about order and the rule of law they sure act a lot like a desperate and lawless dictatorship.
Great idea. B-number routing changes are straight forward. Some questions they would need to figure out is:

- Where are we routing this

- When the target is full, which hotlines do we route to and in what order (load balancing)

- Will this use e911 coordinate forwarding? i.e. what privacy controls will be in place

- Will this get priority override on cell networks? i.e. bump non 988 calls when cell site is full, but not bump 911 or first responders. (GSM capability)

There are probably a few other details that would need to be sorted, but it should be easy from a technical stand-point.
The Revolt of the Feminist Law Profs
It was a good one, and timely.

My thought listening to that podcast was that the Chinese government wouldn't expend this kind of effort and expense to silence people en masse unless they felt vulnerable.
Neat idea! I could see a "trending recipes in your city" feature being really cool to try new recipes. Good luck with the app
Unfortunately, the issue requires a significant historical context, which is carefully stripped from most of these media articles to control the narrative. :-/
Ouch.

I've been developing 'tech stuff' in one form or another since 1980-or-so. I rarely (read: never) have an idea that someone else somewhere hasn't already had.

Usually, I use that to my advantage by being able to research all the ins and outs of similar, but not the same ideas. That's cool.

Once I came up with an idea that, to me, was completely unique. It had to do with using ultrasonics (hypersonics? idk - frequencies above the range of human hearing) and 'beats' (where 44000 hertz and 44440 hertz sound sources would combine to give you a pure "A" tone, as people perceive them). I could build a 'virtual' sonic environment and with software give each 'audience member' a perfect reproduction, and also make it so that somebody not wanting to listen, would hear nothing. Essentially virtual speakers in 3-space.

Woah! I thought. A new idea! And implementable! And the 'virtual speakers" can go from 0 hertz to 22K, linearly! And the highs and lows don't get distorted by room configuration!

Well, Google to the rescue. Apparently, some really smart guys in Germany figured it out a couple of years before I did.

It made me happy, because they had proved out the idea. But it made me sad, because I will probably never have a "First!" idea, ... ever. (Even if the idea was new to me. I guess the Germans have a word for that - Zeitgeist. Because, they have a word for everything)
Because, as indicated, it 'buys absolution' for the individual. That means they don't have to do anything else to feel they are contributing. Which shoots the moonshot in the foot.
Sexuality and Intimate Relationships
Very true, thank you for pointing that out.
Probably the first legitimate use case for those "buy a follower" services I've heard of. $20 worth of followers and you'll suddenly get priority support by their social media team.

If only those services weren't seeded with compromised accounts, I wouldn't even feel bad about it.
The cpp static analysis tools are all wildly unsound. This is a core design principle behind all real world deployable static analysis systems, whether they are based on abstract interpretation or model checking or symbolic execution, or anything else.

Static analysis is a powerful technique. But sound formal methods have been failing to make a splash for nearly five decades.
“To put things into perspective, the median average household income in Malaysia is USD1,215. Not too bad for a single unmarried 28 year old chap eh?”

Maybe he should just leave this part out.
Come on, pharmaceutical prices are controlled already, by the tiny number of companies in that market. Which is the opposite of a 'free market'.

Its obvious to me we're not discussing this in good faith any more. Pendantry will get us nowhere.
Creative cloud runs wonderfully on a cheap gaming PC.
US New Deal housing policy worsened segregation (2017)
Agreed.

My father was the Mayor of a medium sized city and stirred controversy from time to time, and was a favorite target of the local press. He loved it- he took some of the cartoons most designed to poke at him and framed them and put them on the wall in his office.

The give and take is part of the vital breath of democracy- thin skin isn't a useful trait to have in the public square.

He is still beloved by many of the same press on a personal level due to his steady persona and good humor, regardless of the level of agreement with his political views, something sadly missing in the modern political firmament.
They way I look at it, Google treats support in the same way that Amazon treats APIs.

In that they know they're making a choice with consequences and pain. But they see the strategic value of that choice (never running a support org) as outweighing the tactical pain.

Additionally, I'd guess the internal opinion is "If users need support, then something is broken and we should just fix it."

Where I think this falls down, which Microsoft learned 30 years ago, is that:

(a) Unless you're asking, you're not going to surface visibility of broken things. Users will just find a way to deal, while being pissed off. And then some product team finds out there's been a major issue for the last 5 years.

(b) Unless you're actively soliciting feedback from your customers and users, you're at high risk of building the wrong thing. We see this with enterprise GCP frequently. "Oh, you need Y feature? We never thought about that, because {insert internal way that Google does things, but no one else does}."
The American Dream. If you want to stick it to your boss join CodementorX (now arc) and start building static websites on the side. You'll make more money if you apply yourself and then you can quit your job and move your family to Malaysia to avoid paying taxes.
not sure a biologist knows more about the body than a surgeon. isn't it more like asking a surgeon to run the department?
Who was your insurer?
Some perspective on EVs: Project Drawdown lists CO2 reduction by adoption of better cars as #49 in it's ranked list of of climate change solutions.
#1 and #2 are refrigerant management and onshore wind turbines respectively.
"If you drive towards a wall and you're accelerating and all you're doing is slowing the rate of acceleration"

I don't like your metaphor. Individually this may be enough to slow down for that tight hair pin. As a society each additional electric car is someone putting the brakes on some massive train, others may still be mashing the accelerator, but eventually the balance will tip.
Where is Xrisk?

Networked version of the board game we used to play continuously at work.
The suicide prevention hotline is never your friend.
For non-religious, more "empty mind" meditation, you can also look at Zen Buddhism if you haven't already. Zen meditation techniques usually involve focusing on breath or using simple visualizations.

I recommend the book, "Zen mind, beginner's mind" for an introduction to non-religious meditation, written for a western audience.

FWIW, my personal opinion is that meditation is a type of mental training. The specific techniques you should use depends on what you want to train. "Empty mind" meditation is good for training "mental silence", impulse control, and focus. Love meditation trains love, including loving humanity and loving yourself, and shouldn't be underrated. If you have specific goals for self-change, IMO you should use that to create your own "training program" by altering the visualizations used when meditating.
There's also a big middle ground. For example, some semi-green power is generated by breaking wood into flammable gases + carbon ("biochar"), then burying the carbon and burning the gases.
People used to say the same thing about the WWW.
> ad-littered rehash of the real documentation

It could very well be that ad-contaminated content is preferred because it's what pays Google's bills.
That's an interesting way to put it into words. In paper sounds like a really unefficient pipeline (vegetables -> animals -> humans).

Thanks for that, made me reflect on how stupid it sounds but how common it is.
They need to get armed and take all police stations and government buildings. Otherwise it will fizzle out as more and more of them get arrested. With big China ready to move in, should be done quickly, in one night, so next China's steps would look like invasion.
Because the news of the journalist got beaten up by the protesters went viral. There were more than 4 billion views on the related searches [1].

I will refrain from commenting on politics (don't have the time to contribute) but must say that I found both sides are incredibly biased against each other.

[1]: https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%88%91%E4%B9%9F%E6%94%AF%E...
Apple has always been hostile towards traditional security researchers (remember how they harassed the guys behind the wifi remote exploit?)

Which is why the $1m announcement was an odd move and done people on HN consider it just a PR thing.