skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After all, when there's a market crash, did millions of machines in factories fall apart...

In 2008, the crash happened because suddenly Wyle E. Coyote realized there was gravity when he ran off the cliff. Mortgages were actually defaulting on a very high rate, but people put blindfolds on and didn't want to see. It wasn't just a "psychological overreaction" but real fear and panic as those same investors were trying to squeeze through the same exit door as everyone else.

There is still some reasonable fear in 2019 that large financial institutions will choose to make money at the expense of the economy.
Chromium ad blocker engine and rules format is similar to Bromite's one
How often are bolders in the road?

As software engineers, we can understand the hidden costs in complexity and bugs when implementing features that don't need to be implemented. I could imagine that false positives for bolder avoidance causing more harm than false negatives.

Obviously it should be smart enough to detect any and every obstruction, but I'd rather the 99% use case get ironed out first.
I disagree because we're comparing what this individual driver would have done without a feature advertised as Autopilot.

I'm a partner in an auto insurance company, and most of our no-accident records will stay that way, statistically speaking.

If this driver had a one in a billion miles chance of crashing and Autopilot (with an inattentve driver, as they all tend to be) had a one in a million miles chance, then Autopilot is decreasing safety.

At a certain level of safety, Autopilot would make everyone safer, but it's definitely not there yet.
I am skeptical that it's a big problem.

I'm not a fan of cannabis, but I'm living in a state where it is legal. I'm really not seeing any worse effects, I think. It's just as available to me as it has ever been... I've never not been able to find it and that's pretty common among the people I know.

Unlike cannabis, most folks I know who don't have a lot of other pathologies will quit doing psychedelics. That's purely anecdotal, but I know quite a lot of people who've worked with both these drugs.

Also, it's not the kind of stuff that markets well. It's incredibly cheap to produce... in the case of mushrooms they are easy to grow. The market is more or less already saturated, because the folks who really want that experience just go find it.

I guess my main thought is this: tripping is often quite scary, and most people who do it a lot eventually give it up for that reason. At the same time, of the literal thousands of people I know personally who've used psychedelics, none have had their lives ruined over a single, first trip.

So I'm skeptical that even if it were marketed like weed, it would actually result in a problem.
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In that case, cell phones would be banned long before marijuana.
For starters, you have a leaderboard. Any sort of number metric or gamification is enough to keep me off a platform.

Edit: I just realized the irony of the above as I type this on Hacker News.
The rules are covered here: https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-bulletins/investor-...

LULD is the one that applies to single stocks. It only results in a five minute halt, as I said.

The market-wide circuit breaker can halt the entire market for a full day, but only in response to a 20% move in S&P500, not a single stock.
Bitcoin is what information warfare looks like.
This is despicable.
> IMO LEGO thrives thanks to their relentless focus on product quality.

I'm sure that doesn't hurt, but these days LEGO thrives because of their relentless promotional brand tie-ins. It's not just LEGO anymore. It's LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman, LEGO Harry Potter, LEGO Disney's Frozen, LEGO Toy Story 4, and so on.
Professional cryptographers will definitely look at it. Doing design research first.
Netscape even had a JS debugger in '97 [0].

[0] http://www.rdwarf.com/lerickson/jscript/jsd.pdf
Anything to read on that DRM? Google doesn't give much.
Identity politics is such made up right-wing bullshit. It's clear that you have to belong to a certain group to discuss anything to do with them, unless you are telling minorities what's best for them because you know better.

People are not getting their views strawmanned leading to their characters and careers being destroyed and being inundated with death threats unless they deserve it, clearly.
Disclaimer: I am neither for nor against big government, either foreign or domestic. I think that a better title for this video should be "When, where and how a Bureaucracy fails, compared to free markets, especially in customer service, with a concrete example of the PA DMV."

The example of the PA DMV starts at around 24:30.

Excerpt:

"Imagine that you have to buy a screwdriver, and you go to Home Depot, and you say 'Hello I'd like to buy a screwdriver', and they say to you, 'Well, you'll need to fill out from DL-60A / DL-60R or obtain form DL-143'..."
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Streaming definitely isn't renting, though. For an analog, it'd be like a video rental shop saying 'rent all you want for $11 per month'. Streaming services have released physical copies of their series. I doubt they've done it for lesser properties, but the main ones are out there.

But as for DRM, I view it in the same way we didn't technically own DVDs [1]. We purchased access to the film, but not the film itself -- except now its done with far more complex methods that change every few years.

> When consumers buy a DVD or Blu-ray disc, they are not purchasing the motion picture itself, rather they are purchasing access to the motion picture which affords only the right to access the work according to the format’s particular specifications (i.e., through the use of a DVD player), or the Blu-ray Disc format specifications (i.e., through the use of a Blu-ray format player). Consumers are able to purchase the copy at its retail price because it is distributed on a specific medium that will play back on only a licensed player. In prior exemption proceedings, the Register and Librarian have recognized that there is no unqualified right to access a work on a particular device. (pg 4 - 5)

The benefit of physical media is that you'll pretty much always have access to it so long as you have a method to consume it.

I agree that DRM isn't good, but I don't see this problem as anything new -- just the next step for the content manager's control over their owned content. Sadly, it's the consumer that loses.. but that's also not new. The only difference between the license for DVDs and bluray vs DRM is that DRM is enforceable, typically by time.

None of this speaks to DRM in gaming. Of all forms of entertainment, I think the DRM there has the greatest consequence to the consumer -- but I'm also not as familiar with that market.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%20...
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It doesn't help that automotive latency for touch screens is incredibly bad. It it had smartphone level response maybe it would be a better starting point for comparison.

I'd love to see something like this, even in a Tesla. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbuk3jizGM
If it were a straight drop of 99% - say it is trading at $100 at tick_1 and at tick_2, it is trading at $1, trading will be halted at point which happens to be after a 99% drop. In reality, stocks gap downwards in a series of shallow steps which are unlikely to be 99% in one tick.

More info on the 10% trading halt rule: https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts
That depends on the vehicle. If it's an ICE with a manual transmission, and you can get it moving fast enough, you can pop the clutch to start it. Back in the day, with a ~dead battery, I'd park on a hill. Even without a hill, 2-3 people can generally just push.
Yeah, Sabine's sounding not-so-solid these days. Her recent videos are also a little, well, crackpotted. It's frustrating -- she has a point with her criticisms of string theory, and it's only with the relatively recent rise of "swampland" thinking that the crazier stuff is getting correctly marked as such, but her anti-computer bias is getting to be a bit too much.
I can't speak for others, but while this is true in aggregate, I'm not personally willing to stake my life on a system that can, on a 1-in-a-million event and with no warning, accelerate into a fatal collision. An otherwise 100% accident-free driving record matters not when I'm dead.

The failure modes of these systems need to be much more gentle: when I'm confronted with an uncertainty while driving, I slow down and pay more attention. I don't speed up until I'm confident that a higher speed is reasonable. This is far far more sophisticated than simply "can I see something in front of me" -- I'm evaluating the probability that I need to stop based on the events I can see happening. If I see a car in front of me slow down and swerve out of the way of something, that means something much more than "obstacle detected" -> "obstacle removed".
- Mow my lawn. (Done, kind of expensive)

- Weed the garden. (Done, or at least in progress)

- Keep mice out of my garage (Not done, seems like an obvious application)

- Clean my gutters (Likewise -- this alone is worth hundreds of dollars a year)

- Keep my driveway free of leaves and debris (does anybody make a "Broomba"?)

These are all applications that I'd pay for, and/or am already paying humans to do. I don't think generalized pest control via robotics is going to be workable, but certain specific pest problems like rodents seem like they would be easy to tackle.
* watch lists

* red flag laws

* no fly lists

All well intentioned. All ripe for abuse. All unconstitutional. All rights require due process before they can be be removed.
On Beijing’s third ring road one time, I saw a lady being stopped by a cop for some reason (rare, cops never pull over anybody there), she got into her car and promptly rammed into the police car directly in front of her (on accident I assume). I think she was having a bad day or something.
I have a feeling this is the nail in the coffin for CircleCI. Github Actions are the way forward.
Wow, one might have expected Edge to take a little break, given recent news.

https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2004

https://www.edge.org/conversation/lawrence_m_krauss-the-ener...
>A century after Germany's monarchy was abolished, some of its blue-blooded descendants are riding back into battle to reclaim what they see as their royal birthright.

How come everybody want to keep it like the kaiser?

(sorry)

What’s missing here and other land claims around the world is that the Kaiser didn’t sue anyone or plead in international court for the right to have those properties.

The monarchs kept those lands through the strength of their armies, and I don’t think that world of might can just transition over to the new world of law
Dr. Floyd's papers provided a very clear exposition of the ideas, making them very accessible to undergrads with minimal CS education. I would strongly recommend them to anyone with an interest in the topics.
This is a typical startup contraction. Remember when the "PC bubble burst" and dozens of companies went bust, all with similar but slightly different business plans. It turned out that being able to execute efficiently was the winning strategy, not features, not fancy graphics, not custom cases. Just ruthless efficiency.

A couple of years ago I went to UAV expo in Las Vegas and even then it was clear that a lot of drone companies were technology looking for a use case. And there were demonstrations of drones that did things much better (like mapping a traffic accident scene) than existing technology that saved both time and got the highways re-opened faster.

Racing them with PoV cameras continues to be a lot of fun, it just isn't the multi-billion dollar sport yet, give it time.
This specific case simply doesn't compile:

if num > limit {}
^^^^^ expected i32, found usize

The whole trick isn't really translatable to idiomatic Rust, because `malloc` is not used beyond specific C interoperability needs. If you want to store `num` elements, you use `Vec::with_capacity(num)` or such, instead of allocating the hard way.
https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/team2280.pdf Is my favorite paper on the subject. Section 8.3 describes a generator.
> the UK is withdrawing from a body where unelected people write laws

They are elected.

"A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_to_the_European_Parl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliam...

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/be-heard/el...

> not making a xenophobic statement, despite people's attempts to frame it that way.

Please explain why you think Joe Cox was murdered. Please explain why you think so many UKIP members are outed racists[0][1][2][3][4] (Notably, even Farage left UKIP because of the extremism). Please explain what you think the British National Front stands for.

0: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/01/henry-bolto...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/26/ukip-a...

2: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/henry-bolton-ukip-racis...

3: https://www.itv.com/news/2018-12-04/former-ukip-leader-nigel...

4: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-choking-racism-i...
Citation please. There are multiple standards that implement PFS in the FIPS specs.
On the other hand, people know who’s been saved by an ambulance. We’ll never know who was saved by the existence autonomous vehicles.

I’m just pointing out there’s a PR problem that may prove tough to manage.
> If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index, including stocks with low trading volumes.

Index funds generally aren't super rigidly defined in terms of 1% Company A to 1 % Company B to 3% Company C, etc. which grants them leeway to precisely not have to sell off their assets in precise ratios to maintain a certain portfolio composition.

Index funds do not seek to perfectly replicate whatever sector/market they're seeking to index, but rather they are trying to approximately track the overall change. You can ignore portions of the market while still tracking it to a very close degree (i.e. sampling a distribution).
Maybe going up a hill? They did mention they were driving a truck, it’s easy to have vastly different climbing speeds in that case.

Also, I would often go less than 20 down a pass during the winter because I didn’t have snow tires or chains, and was passed by plenty of locals doing 60+ because they were equipped for it.
> Why's it hard?

That humans get distracted and often make mistakes is no surprise, it should also be obvious that the amount of risky behavior is correlated to the amount of _perceived_ risk in any given situation, which is probably why so many are "a simple crash."

It is, however, somewhat scary that a machine that has nothing else to do other than to drive the car as safely as possible still makes these "dumb" mistakes.
Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft
How do you reconcile this with the claims in the accident report that the hands-off alert intervals are measured in minutes for the accident scenario? Quoted here with link to full source:

https://twitter.com/vogon/status/1169358625220882432

Visual indicator after 2 minutes of no detected driver-applied torque to the steering wheel (apparently because they only detect torque - i.e. turning/steering motions - and not pressure?)
https://keepme.io/#/u?k=VTJGc2RHVmtYMS8zbXpNaityWW05Wll2aG9k...
It’s a little bit ridiculous to hear that scientists are now so often acting as politicians and clergy, as in, defending their ideas as ‘proven’. A scientific theory is tautologically impossible to prove. It can only be disproven, and scientists should be trying to disprove theories rather than advocating for them.
The FAA's licensing requirements for even toy craft killed this sector.

Good news though, it's going incredibly strong overseas such as in Yemen where they've bought Chinese made drones and rapidly upgraded them into a domestic high tech military drone manufacturing capability... with 1000 mile ranges and bomb carrying capability.

So drone fans might not be able to do their thing in the US, and the US might thus not have anyone locally that has a passion for drones, or is able to advance US drone technology, but the tech advances ... elsewhere.
This is the case in India as well. You can keep your number and still change the network provider. People tend to keep the same number.
I can’t speak to their vehicle, but we run the latest software revisions on both of ours (both 2018 builds, Autopilot hardware version 2.5), and nag delay has never been more than 10-15 seconds apart if I’m not applying sufficient torque. I have not experienced nags taking a minute to be realized (even in rush hour traffic with no curves and slow speeds).

The safety system is robust IMHO. If I push the accelerator pedal while autopilot is running, immediate nag. Running at 89 mph (max speed before Autopilot locks you out for the duration of the drive due to too high of a speed)? Nags every 5-10 seconds.

It’s not perfect by any means, but it also expects a responsible, aware driver behind the wheel.
Also if your toy robot costs $300, your market isn't kids, it's geek parents who are well off enough to buy a toy robot. At which point you're better off charging Aibo prices because your sales volumes are going to be tiny.

Anki recently learned the same lesson. People might pay $300 for a game console but they won't pay it for a single game. Even if your toy robot has half a dozen modes, it still only plays one game: 'toy robot'.
If you don’t care about cold starts, there is always Aurora Serverless with the Data API. I don’t believe it requires either a NAT or for the lambda to be attached to your VPC.
I really look forward to taking my son and two daughters to our local store. All three kids are really different but they always find something that interests them. I love helping them put the sets together too.
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This sounds insane.
The ability to spot pedestrians on tracks is something you want to avoid.

First you cannot break it anyway that fast.
Second, rolling over suicidal pedestrians has a high psychotherapy cost. Driver-less trains not.
The Heritage Foundation is the flagship conservative think tank, Republican and conservative are synonymous in popular usage, so yeah I think it's safe to call their proposals Republican proposals despite the fact the party can't actually enact all of them.

And if we skip ahead 4 years to 1993, a Republican Senator introduced, a bill with 20 Republican co-sponsors including Bob Dole, Orrin Hatch, and Charles Grassley called the HEART bill.

That bill included an individual mandate, vouchers for low income individuals, and protection for prexisting conditions.

Not all Republicans supported this plan, but almost half of the Republican Senators including most of the leadership supported it. I'd call that a Republican plan--a plan based squarely on the proposal from the heritage foundation.
Aircraft on most kinds autopilots crash into mountains without any intervention. They are mostly completely blind.
I got the Airpods, and I kinda don't care if there's a headphone jack or not as much anymore... Then there's other styles of wireless headphones too. I love no wire when sitting at my desk on the computer too, so freeing... Also no worry about tangling up the wire if you put them in your pocket, and the case charges it too while on the go.

Was worried about the charging time, but if I get up to go to the bathroom or grab a snack I let them charge up some, and they charge up pretty fast too... So if on the computer all day not a huge issue but if they do need recharged for listening to music, videos, etc not too long... but I have heard people who do a lot of conference calls will switch to one ear at a time to let the other charge which sounds annoying... Also worried about them falling out, so mindful of that if going on a walk outside.

Then after a year or two if heavy using it, the batteries in them are bad and need replaced too I've seen stories of. So another downside, but so do other electronics have batteries that ware, but I assume since Airpods are much smaller it might be more noticable... Just imagine how much of a feat of engineering to make something to tiny.

Also I noticed on my Mac it uses a different codec apparently when using the microphone and it jumps to crappy telephone quality but on my iPhone it seems the same quality as music if talking... But maybe it depends on how new the Mac is and it's bluetooth chip.

Pros and cons I guess, but wireless is the future and things should keep improving I'd hope... and Apple isn't the only option for wireless, Bose and many others. I know Bose has some over the ear noise canceling ones that people recommend for airplanes. Then there's also some earphones that people say is good for outdoor activities as it doesn't cover your ear but is next to it. So maybe some people might own a few different pairs for different uses, right now I only have the Airpods but there's other wireless ones that interest to me for different uses. Not sure if obsessive or not if ever doing that, but then again people own more than one pair of shoes... Gym shoes, flip flops, dress shoes, water shoes, etc...
The hack depends on numeric overflow in the caller that flips negative number into positive, so malloc can't possibly know it got the wrong size.

It's even funnier that signed overflow is Undefined Behavior in C, so the compiler is allowed to assume it can never happen (and thus let it happen, and even remove non-kosher overflow checks).
I really hope this gets more coverage. This is Civil Rights 101.
Churchill is absolutely worth reading and reading about. I recently finished “Churchill: Walking with Destiny” and highly encourage you to pick it up!

In other news: does anyone have a history reading list, akin to the one Churchill references, for getting “up to speed” on “major” topics? (In quotes because obviously “history” is an almost unfathomably broad topic).
how to build your knowledge? assuming this is a project for recreation, just build it, it doesn't really matter what you use. both are viable for low traffic sites. the valuable thing is that you're gonna learn the ins and outs of one or the other, especially if/when it starts to get some decent traffic. without knowing the specifics of the forum it's tough to recommend one vs the other, but honestly you should optimize for just getting it done.
I hope they put him in the same cell as the (possibly apocryphal) guy who was jailed for four years for three poppy seeds from a bagel.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/43648/did-dubai...
One reading of GP would be "Online anonymity allows honesty, so basically everyone is against drug prohibition."
I remember my entry card to Singapore contained something in big letters saying drug trafficking can result in death.
> Our approach had three strengths that set it apart from most of the previous work on the topic. First, we had three waves of data for many of our respondents over a period of two years.

I don’t honestly think that 2 years is a meaningful time span to measure how a tech changes people’s lives. It is certainly better than a single snapshot, but some effects take time to manifest - it’s simple behaviourism. More changes require more repetitions.

Edit:

> Second, we had objective measures of Facebook use, pulled directly from participants’ Facebook accounts, rather than measures based on a person’s self-report.

What about twitter, Instagram, and whatever else people use?

This study design also cannot show causation, just correlation. The control group is self selecting
Those aren’t usually gas, but rather a nitromethane mix, runs off glow plugs (saves all the issues of timing, spark plus, distributors...)