skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luxury is a trap.
This is a very good model.
Which one? They probably make a few hundred models between Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac.
Maybe I don't understand what this is measuring but wouldn't Teslas be close to all-American? They even make the battery cells in the same site as the rest of the car I think. They don't show up anywhere on that list.
Platinum being cheaper than gold is one of those random facts that makes the world seem seriously off-kilter to me these days. It used to be much more expensive.
There are some proposals that use mechanisms like Harberger tax to combat squatting. https://discuss.ens.domains/t/highlight-robin-hansons-more-o...
thanks, great resources!
Instagram may allow creators to syndicate IGTV videos to Facebook
I don't know. I'm in a US coastal megalopolis covered in cell data towers, so I haven't encountered that issue yet. I'm sure it will happen at some point, but I think the web apps have offline capability.
Weird.

I follow auto news a lot, and I hear the opposite.

Chevy Silverado is one of the worst truck up there with Dodge. Dodge isn't even domestic any more.
Maybe you don't, but I'm never buying a car without a 360 camera ever again. It's available in even the cheapest cars, and makes anything parking related both easier and safer.
Filmmaker Mode (a.k.a. Death to Motion Smoothing)
You're totally right, and it's <1% of the car, but perception is everything. BMW doing it the DIVX way[1] for a feature that's included on a Ford Focus rubs me the wrong way badly.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
I wish people would realize this with gun statistics. Deaths per million rounds fired must be in the vanishingly small category of non-importance. We are lied to on a daily basis about so many things.

My 1990 BMW has no airbags but it has ABS. Airbags are for people who crash. It's MPG sucks, though, like 19mpg highway. Newer cars get 23, winning! I'm looking at Honda Civics...
It depends on your weight and how much tolerance you have, but a fatal does could be as little as 2 grams (2000mg) of THC, which is about 100X what it takes to get high. Since marijuana is about 20% THC, and you only actually absorb about half of that when you smoke or injest it, the minimum lethal dose is probably about 20 grams, though some people may be able to tolerate a few times that amount. Fatal marijuana overdoses are rare, about 200 per year in the U.S., but they do happen. Claims that you can injest your body weight are based on articles written by advocates who can't do basic math.
I asked a discount broker about buying physical gold back in the 90s and was told it would cost about 10%.
What’s New in Terraform v0.12
According to the page OP provided here:

> The Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LD and GMC Sierra 1500 Limited, both carryover models from the prior generations, come from Canada.

https://www.cars.com/articles/cars-coms-2019-american-made-i...
This was a special good reading for me, thanks. I loved the maths.

What about un/conditional gratitude, or un/conditional compassion?
I'm interested in modeling biochemical systems -- a lot of work falls under this umbrella. Thanks for the offer of chatting about this stuff, if you're still interested my email address is joe@compellingpython.com
>Has anyone set something like that up?

Yes! I did "Captcha for phone calls" for a school project earlier this year. It would play a quick message along the lines of "Hey, to ring my phone just enter these numbers: XYZ", and redirect the call to my phone if the captcha was correct.

The challenge was redirecting calls to the challenge even if they were originally directed to my phone number - the solution was to write a custom call handler (Android) that rejected calls if they weren't in my phone book, and then set up call-forwarding on rejected calls to go to a Twilio number with the challenge. There was a nice edge case where if I actually missed the call, it would just redirect you to the challenge again... but it was good enough for the class.

While testing, I accidentally actually got someone to use it! A guy repairing my watch called me, got directed to the challenge, and actually followed directions! Which was surprising to me. I also caught some obvious spam callers (same first 6 digits), and unsure if there were any other real people who did call and got confused or just hung up.

I've been meaning to clean up the code and publish it, but haven't gotten around to it - there's lots of hardcoded numbers in there.

(Disclosure: currently employed by Twilio)
I believe they don't actually use left and right, but use the cardinal direction instead. So it's something they need to be constantly aware of. Ie: their kids song would go "Put your south hand in, put your south hand out.."
It was called "Send Me to Heaven"
https://www.wired.com/2013/09/send-me-to-heaven-app/
It wouldn't be giving to ROC, but returning. I am not sure how many people know this fact: the Chinese copy of the Treaty of Nanking is currently in Taiwan (the treaty that ceded Hong Kong to the UK.)
You get addicted to dopamine release, not weed. Nicotine has addictive properties. Opioids have addictive properties. No one has ever sucked dick for a dimebag.
Very cool. How do you route your legacy number? Did you port it to Twilio?
Fast food owners: let's mechanize all processes and take away all agency from our workers so they're easily replaceable!

Also fast food owners: none of our workers enjoy their jobs and leave after a few months why is that
Johannes Lundberg wrote a thesis on doing this with FreeBSD and has a framework https://github.com/johalun/rustkpi

https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1238890/FULLTEXT...
How did they measure the clairity of the water to make sure they were the same?
My personal favorite is Zoom
Same here, but it's often damnably (maybe even purposefully) difficult to figure out how to do it.
The letter's point is that if they make movement today on attempting to block access through their current means, it can only end in a GFW-like situation because it can't meet PRC standards otherwise. Even if it takes years, it ruins the economic prospects of the city as a technological leader.
Police Civil asset forfeiture. They charge your property with a crime, not you and the property has zero rights. They take, cash, homes and cars and use it as pennies from heaven/slush fund.
IEEE lives up to its name
When I was younger I used to work for a market research company doing surveys over the phone.

The way their process worked was:

* Big company wanted a survey completed.
* Big company would want it targeted to a specific state/regional area, so would provide a list of post/zip codes.

* Survey company would translate the list of codes into phone prefixes for each area.

* Computer would randomly generate phone numbers in the area - starting from xxxx 0000 through to xxxx 9999 for operators to call.

That meant you'd get disconnected numbers, businesses, private/silent numbers, faxes, modems, etc.

So having a "clean" number didn't protect you. While a few projects were targeted to specific people/numbers - most were just random.
It's a seasonal allergy. I'm pretty sure that "cut loose" in this case just means when the time of year comes that the trees naturally start releasing their pollen.

I'm not a botanist by any stretch of the imagination, but I believe that once pollen is on the trees, the wind is the final thing that shakes it loose.

Here's a video showing what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEYcBnE-IPA
Absolutely. I've just put the finishing touches on a tool which pushes feeds to my inbox too.
I find this hard to believe given that security isn't about "having security", but about "not having buggy software". Unless you're a power user, you're probably mostly just using web applications at this point, so your main target points are the OS and the web browser.

Someone "using Linux" is likely to be running various things such as SSH/HTTP/file servers, native IRC clients, random build systems (running "npm install" instills a lot of trust on the NPM repository and any packages involved). All of these things increase the attack surface.
I'm nearsighted, but as a kid I had an enormous range of focus with my eyes.
I could rest my finger at the end of my nose and clearly see the whorls in my fingerprint. I could feel the muscles in the front of my eye contracting when I did this.

That went away over time, even as my prescription became much more nearsighted (I'm almost 9 diopters now)
No slides, unfortunately: https://blackhat.com/us-19/briefings/schedule/#behind-the-sc...
Not sure why this was downvoted when it's a statement of fact:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...
>All of this is to say that I would trust the domestic manufacturers on anything truck related before I would trust one of the foreign companies, Toyota definitely included.

As someone that has owned lots of foreign and domestic trucks and family has as well, this is a completely absurd thing to say. My Dad’s farm truck Toyota Tundra is past 333k miles on the same engine.
I love that this is an email tool for reducing Slack usage. Lol.
I ported the legacy number to another SIP provider. Twilio is still cheap ($1 a month or so per DID, plus $0.004 per minute), but other providers are less than half that. For that price difference, I had no reason to choose another provider so I mostly did that for fun and experimentation.
We handle peaks of 800k tps in few systems. It is for an analytical platform. Partition in Kafka by some evenly distributed key, Create simple apps that read from a partition and process it, commit offset. Avoid communication between process/threads. Repartition using kafka only. For some cases we had to implement sampling wherein usecase required highly skewed partitions.
Impressive. But what's the need of number 4? Why not just give up that number?
> I'm saying have urban and rural with a sharp divide. Inside the 'event horizon' of where you'd normally have suburbs, have car parks and dump people on to urban transport that uses space more effectively like trains/buses/etc.

The problem with this design is that cities commonly grow over time. If you have a core which is full of 30 story buildings, it makes much more sense to allow the radius of the core to expand from 10 miles to 20 by bulldozing some car parks and replacing them with more 20 and 30 story buildings than to have to bulldoze the existing 30 story buildings and replace them all with 95 story ones.

The sharp divide is what we already have and is one half of the causes of the existing problem. You have a core which is zoned for higher density surrounded by suburbs that aren't, which prevents the dense core from expanding outward as necessary. The other half is that even the core doesn't allow very high densities, so you generally don't get 50+ story buildings even there, you just get outrageously high rents instead because it can neither expand upwards nor outwards.

You're essentially suggesting that it expand only upwards, but that's still a lot more expensive than expanding in both directions, and there comes a point that it becomes impractical. We don't really have a lot of experience constructing large numbers of 200 story buildings and even if we could figure it out it probably wouldn't be cost effective and result in affordable rents.

Meanwhile there is a threshold density above which you can have things like effective mass transit, at which point expanding outward at the same density allows you to maintain those advantages over a larger area without paying the high cost of constructing buildings at the limits of our engineering talents (and also paying to destroy existing tall buildings in order to do it).

Which is basically what naturally happens without zoning density restrictions. In theory someone could then build a 30 story building in the middle of the suburbs, but that doesn't make a lot of sense when it's more profitable to put that building closer to the core, until the core is already full of those, and then the most profitable place for that building is right next to the core. Which is how the core expands as needed. You don't really need to prohibit people from building at inappropriate densities when appropriateness is already closely aligned with profitability.
What's the difference between automation and outsourcing when what you care about is American's losing jobs and not having a backup?
Was this by any chance Cassandra? Sounds an awful lot like what Datastax did a couple years ago.
It's much easier to picture robots and automation than go into complicated discussions about outsourcing and market forces. Main stream media gives Yang less than 2 minutes to explain his platform when he appears on TV so he has to distill it down into sound bites. The next Democratic debate is going to be another reality TV squawk fest with 10 candidates on stage prepped to throw oneliners and soundbites.
I agree. The “rape rooms” did not justify the war. My point was that the war had APPARENT reasons, not valid reasons. There were no valid reasons.
I have perfectly normal vision (no nystagmus that I know of), and still notice PWM LED displays moving relative to the surrounding microwave, when my eyes move around.
I personally feel like the "spaghetti bundle" representation of the data (where a random sample of potential paths are drawn) was the most straightforward image of the uncertainty embedded in the forecast. Has it been considered as a means of public communication?
That's also the pitch for Dark (https://darklang.com)! Great minds think alike
I have a mobile phone, and don't want to use the carrier's voicemail. I use Asterisk instead, and also use Speech Recognition to get an email transcript of voicemails.
Installing Istio 1.2.5 on Kubernetes [video]
Google pushes these concepts because they want Chromium to be the operation system that will replace Linux/Windows/Mac. Something like Chrome - Total Control Edition.

Why, I dont know - but in the 90s people said Microsoft was after world domination. Similar reasons might apply.
Do you support telemetry if it makes the product better, and not used for ad targeting?
I've found SumatraPDF to be the lowest overhead document browser for Windows. Surface book is actually a really nice piece of kit. I'm surprised the surface laptop came from MS.
Why do users receive 30% of revenue? They are the ones being advertised to.
Midtown had a bunch of small parks nestled between roads in lots of places near Columbia U.
192mg/kg is on the higher end of estimates, which do range widely because they are based on animal studies. However, it's not comically large. Do the math, and it comes to just over 14 grams for a 75 kg (165 lb) adult. That's more than most people would ever consume in a day, but it's far less than the 600 gram lethal dose of alcohol for that same person. Alcohol kills far more people because it takes 100 - 250 grams of alcohol for a 75 kg adult to get drunk, so the lethal dose of alcohol is only about 5X the intoxicating dose vs. 100X the intoxicating dose for THC.
Out of curiosity, how much does this setup cost you to run per month? My main aversion to Twilio is their awkward pricing scheme.
This is really inspiring I have been dreaming of building my own little portable notebook, powered by PI4 and a hefty USB-C battery. With the beautiful, small HDMI LCD panels available today and a 3D printer, its within reach!

100% inspired by https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ which I first saw here on HN
I always thought the brain's visual processing was straightforward until I saw a pinwheel illusion at a museum once.

Here are some examples to try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam3-uyj0_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyEIAfyXx8
Could they not still use the last open enterprise version? At least until they can migrate. Which is troublesome, but at least buys you time - something you wouldn't have if the database never had a free/open-source version.
Slack's webhook integration is super easy I got my bot up and running in a minute.
Part of the study claimed that in a month of diving exercises you can replicate this clarity of vision underwater in European (and presumably any) children. That should be easy to reproduce. The part about a speculated adaptation to better tolerate salt water in the eyes, less so.
Hardly anything.

SIP calls through Twilio are $1/month plus $0.004 per minute for incoming calls. The spam scoring APIs are "costly", and maybe cost $0.01 combined per lookup.

Google Speech Recognition and TTS are virtually free for my use case. Asterisk can easily run on a $5/month VPS.
That's the libertarian approach, which says legalize everything, tax everything. Am with you on it, although am not sure, how that would work with hard drugs ( cocaine,mushrooms,LSD, ecstasy,heroin). Again within hard drugs - cocaine is vastly different from doing LSD. A single dose of LSD in a bad setting could mess your psyche up for life. What you are doing is choosing the better of two evils.I would rather buy a pure form of LSD from Pfizer that one from a street dealer with a nefarious source and containing crap knows what!
Queues eliminate bursts, bursts are not harder to process unless the response must by synchronous.
Yes, that is exactly what is happening.
14 iOS exploits, including 0-days, and they upload all data to their C2 using plaintext http? With this level of sophistication I feel like it can only be intentional, but why?

edit: their implant is compiled unoptimized, has NSLog statements, serializes data by writing everything as files to /tmp (a "rather odd design pattern", as Ian Beer put it), in addition to the http issue just described. The implant/C2 code was likely written by a separate, less experienced team, than the one that wrote the exploit chains (which might have simply been purchased?).
On what code? Any code you pick is an arbitrary benchmark. There are infinite number of context free grammars you could feed the compiler and for any of them in might make some unknown optimization X that is superior to all other compilers. The number of programs that you can write are infinite therefore you cannot say for certain that is better or worse for all programs, or in other words, objectively say it is terrible.
It could also be a student suffering from anorexia nervosa, which the confessional aspects of the essay would fit well with.
You would think this to be universally good advice based on the risks related to alcohol intoxication and alcoholism, but it’s not. Some people would do better to not smoke weed and instead drink moderately and socially.
I don't want to be too explicit but there are several cases of this in the past few years. The playbook was the same as Cassandra. Open source as a marketing tool...
In my state, it's going to be "Sorry Mr Tolkien, but we eliminated all of the departments that are not STEM enough."
It’s possible that there’s a difference between admitting it happened and an honest portrayal of the institution.
> How are they partnering with all of the device companies to get this on at least most phones?

They are partnering with the existing spam filtering apps that users have already installed on Android and iOS. No need to involve the vendors or carriers.
Heh, wait till he finds out BMW charge a subscription for Auto and Carplay.
> I feel like you'd probably have to have an AGI to meaningfully evaluate an essay.

So the reason this isn't the case, is because there are very simple metrics that tend to highly correlate with essay quality. It doesn't mean the grading-bot is actually evaluating essay quality. It's just looking for properties that are statistically associated with good essays. Remember, at the end of the day as long as the bot's ranking is close enough to the human grader's ranking, nobody really cares about the internal logic.

A very straightforward example is spelling mistakes. People who make spelling mistakes aren't necessarily bad writers. And vice versa, there may be great speller who can't write for shit. But by and large the people who spell poorly also tend to write poorly. Easily detectable grammatical issues, like misplaced modifiers, subject verb disagreement, or inconsistent tense, are also correlated indicators.

A very simple metric is essay length. Especially if its a timed exam. Good writers tend to have verbal fluidity, with words easily flowing to paper. They don't struggle converting thoughts too sentences. So they tend to end up with the most words written down within a fixed time period. By and large the longer a timed essay is, the more likely that its actual quality is high.

Grading bots basically rely on these statistical relationships. They're not measuring anything intrinsic to good writing. But at the end of the day, their student rankings are usually pretty close to that of a typical human grader. In some cases the bot will have a closer ranking to a random human grader, than two random human graders will have to each other.

The biggest flaw here is Goodwin's law. When the test takers become aware of the kludges that the bots use, they can exploit it. For example just dump a bunch of verbal diarrhea with as many correctly spelled words as possible. But even then it doesn't really hurt the bot's ranking accuracy too much. Because the kids who do the most test-prep and learn all the tips and tricks, are usually high-achievers who do well on essays anyway.
What goes into making a web application?
Perhaps it would behoove security-sensitive users to use such devices, but they make up a tiny fraction of all iOS devices in the field. 90% of deployed iOS devices in the USA lack the A12 CPU and the number is higher abroad. Obsolete 32-bit CPUs are more common than CPUs with PAC.
Off topic: what kind of watch?
> Utah has been using AI as the primary scorer on its standardized tests for several years. “It was a major cost to our state to hand score, in addition to very time consuming,” said Cydnee Carter, the state’s assessment development coordinator. The automated process also allowed the state to give immediate feedback to students and teachers, she said.

Yes, education takes time and costs money. Yes, not educating is both cheaper and faster. Note how the rationalizing ignores the needs of the students and the quality of the education.

I live in Utah and my children have been subjected to this automated essay scoring here. One night I came home from work and my son and wife were both in tears, frustrated with each other and frustrated with the essay scoring which refused to give a high enough score to meet what the teacher said was required, no matter how good the essay was. My wife wrote versions herself from scratch and couldn’t get the required score. When I got involved, I did the same with the same results.

Turns out the instructions said the essay would be scored on verbal efficiency; getting the point across clearly with the fewest words. I started playing around and realized that the more words I added, the higher the score, whether they were relevant or grammatical or not. Random unrelated sentences pasted in the middle would increase the score. We found a letter of petition online for banning automated scoring for the purposes of grades or student evaluation of any kind. It was very long, so it got a perfect score. I encouraged my son to submit it, and he did. Later I visited his teacher to explain and to urge her to not use automated scoring. She listened and then told me about how much time it saves and how fast students get feedback. :/
Yes, I don't get that either. My comment got smacked down also. It was an absurd claim. People don't want to carry around bricks, when a tiny pen will do. That's part of why juul's are popular with adults. You can save the pocket space and don't have to announce to everyone, look at me, I'm vaping!
No, the first amendment only applies to government actions. But both the first amendment and anti-SLAPP statutes exist to protect free speech.

(Although in a very real way, every lawsuit is a government action.)