skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardware is hard.

And robotics is 10X as hard.

Then make it a consumer product that no one needs. And snap, you're dead.
Depends on the natural speed of the speaker, but I listen to most podcasts and YouTube commentary/narrative at 2x. Podcasts sometimes in the 3x range.

Sometimes it's worth slowing down to 1.5x to give myself a bit of time to process the ideas, though slowing below that sometimes hurts comprehension.

Side note: I find that YouTube in Chrome has the best pitch-preserving time stretching filter, and I've neglected all this time to figure out what exactly they use to accomplish that. I'd love to add that to mpv, if it's not already there.
Marvel is down
I need to pick them up myself. I'm decent in SQL, but still have a ways to go and there are a few times a year where they are critical.
Longer flight times are possible, if an engine is used instead (plus servos to change prop pitch). I'm just not sure why it hasn't been pursued much (can't be the noise - electrics aren't exactly silent)...
Index changes don’t happen like that and a drop that large would freeze trading.
It depends on how you use them. I travel full time so I primarily use mine for nature photography. 15 min is usually plenty of time and if not I have a 2nd battery that takes no time to swap. It would be nice to have longer battery life but it's not a deal breaker.

The only cases where needing more time would be a big deal would be for filming something that lasts longer than the battery.
Well, when I buy coffee or tea, I usually can feel how hot it is by touching the cup. My local coffee shop serves it super hot, so I take the lid off and blow on it until it cools down. It simply would not occur to me to sue them if I injured myself with their hot coffee. I prefer it hot in any case, since you can cool down super hot coffee pretty easily. As I said, I’m not commenting on the legal case. The woman could have very well had a viable case. I’m commenting on the culture.
I was interested in hearing what they did to prevent fingerprinting with regards to things like window size, but it seems like they just discourage the user from changing it :( It looks like this isn't going to be improved anytime soon.
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He's saying index funds are invested in companies big enough to be indexed, but too small for the stocks to remain liquid in a market with a lot of sellers.

By this reasoning indexes focussing on small caps would be even worse than the more popular funds.
CreditKarma refuses to delete account data
Below is the email I received from CreditKarma when I asked them to delete all data associated with me.

They say that they "can not remove data".

Do consumers have any recourse around this?

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Hi [redacted],

Thanks for contacting Credit Karma Member Support.

I understand you would like Credit Karma to delete all data associated with your account.
and you are not asking to deactivate or cancel your account at the same time.

Unfortunately we can not remove data, I can cancel your membership for you if you’re not able to access it.

Please let me know if you’d still like to cancel.

Have a great day!
Shouldn't be lobbying. Should be electing representatives based on a platform like a democracy.

The Gerrymander is lethal forcing the lobbying which money then wins. That's a terrible way to govern.
Paste from the email

> We are writing to inform you of a recent security incident that affects your organization.

What happened:

On August 31st, the CircleCI team received an automated email from a third party vendor notifying us that a database had been added as a destination for CircleCI’s site analytics data. Our team had not added such a database, so this notification was quickly followed up by an investigation, revealing that site analytics data on this vendor account from the previous two months was accessed by an unauthorized attacker. The compromised data includes information such as usernames and email addresses associated with GitHub and Bitbucket. The attacker did not access users’ passwords, auth tokens, source code, or any other production data during the incident.

What we are doing to resolve the issue:

On August 31st, upon detecting the unauthorized access to our vendor account, the compromised user account was immediately removed from the tool. Our security team then reached out to the third-party vendor to collaborate further on an investigation and disable the account used by the attacker. CircleCI is continuing to collaborate with the third-party vendor on remediation efforts and we have made it a top priority to prevent this type of event from happening in the future.

What kind of user data was affected?

Based on what we have learned, some user data was exposed, including usernames and email addresses associated with GitHub and Bitbucket, along with user IP addresses and user agent strings. Additional information that was exposed in the incident may include organization name, repository URLs and names, branch names, and repository owners.

We can confirm that absolutely no CircleCI user secrets, build artifacts, source code, or any other production data was accessed or exfiltrated during this incident. We can also confirm that no credit card or financial information was ever accessed by the attacker.

Our investigation has shown that the exfiltrated data is limited to site analytics related to UI experiments and marketing campaigns - we have confirmed that no data on the CircleCI platform, including data used for authentication with CircleCI such as auth tokens or password hashes was compromised.

Where to learn more:

We will update this incident FAQ page with more information as we continue our investigation into this incident.

We take security incredibly seriously at CircleCI. While perfect security is an impossible goal, we promise to do better. We sincerely apologize for this incident, and any distress it may cause you or your team. We plan to use this incident to improve our security and audit standards moving forward, and we hope to earn your continued trust and support.

-The CircleCI Security Team
Yes as I also have several GCam versions on my phone and I'm also a fan of HDR+ and the portrait mode. But we have to admit it has its limits compared against a far bigger sensor with better glass.
I think this really is a case of to each his own. Pure fiction with drawn out descriptions and excess vocabulary drives me to anger.

I think I have a similar thing visually, where above a certain text size, I have a very hard time reading. The optimal text size for me is pretty small, even on a standard resolution display.
I can see it without any sort of login. Thanks!

> Elastic is aware that there are likely third party adopters of floragunn’s infringing Search Guard product. Elastic may seek leave to amend to add those third parties as defendants following discovery from floragunn regarding their identities.

OK, given discussion elsewhere in the thread, they're definitely talking about Amazon, right?
I have a DJI Spark. It's loud when it's close but as soon as it's a few hundred feet away you can barely hear it. I primarily use it in nature and usually use it at 200-400ft elevation. At 200 ft it's quieter than standing next to a running car. At 400 ft you really have to try to hear it.
Flippant - you summarised a whole series of complicated issues in two small paragraphs which demonstrated flippancy conflating very different issues.

Disrespectful - these complicated issues involve people who have been and continue to be disadvantaged by these issues, your flippancy is disrespectful.
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If the ReasonML TodoMVC app was using the same basic approach as the Vanilla JS app, there is no way it would be shipping 5x as much code. ReasonML code compiles pretty much 1-to-1 to JavaScript. It does pull in a bit of a runtime if you use some standard OCaml libraries, most of that should be quite easy to eliminate with a good bundler.
Index funds aren't CDO's though, they are quite well established and their outperformance of active management goes back decades (IIUC).
try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806638
Global Warming or Bad Data?
Does the article establish a causal link?
Elimination, heh.
One factor that this article does not take into account is the signal correlation between detectors. LIGO only counts signals as a detection of an event if the same signal appears in multiple detectors with the appropriate time delays (indicating light speed travel time in a particular direction through the Earth). The same signal in multiple detectors rules out detector errors, and the relative timing rules out terrestrial origin: no signal of terrestrial origin will travel at anywhere close to the speed of light through the Earth (earthquake waves travel orders of magnitude slower).
And like Bernie, another relatively non-establishment candidate that could have given people something actually new to vote for seems to have now been taken care of, once again with some fancy footwork (cherry picking of polls this time) by the DNC.

It's pretty hard to not vote for the same people when anyone that doesn't fit the proper mold isn't handicapped through the nomination process.

I'd post some supporting links, but for every article I could post supporting my thesis someone could easily post one that denies it. Articles and discussions on such topics are rarely substantially based on facts, the whole thing is largely propaganda.

The best commentary I've heard on the subject of nomination shenanigans in both parties has been from Dan Carlin (of Hardcore History fame) on his lesser known podcast "Common Sense with Dan Carlin". He knows a thing or two about history and politics, and he is fairly disgusted with the entire political system in the US.
This has been a major topic of conversation in the psychonaut community. It seems like the community is better prepared to stave off the capitalist take over. The existence of organizations such as MAPS and others already conducting studies and preemptively creating 'prior art' is a good sign.

If you are curious about the topic, I couldn't recommend the Psychedelic Salon podcast enough.
Something is very wrong here. “charged with malicious use of telecommunications services” yet did not make violet threats.
Lithium itself is often mined from salt brines in lakes/rivers, and that will pollute such water sources (though not with lithium, more with dirt and rust and miner garbage) when done incorrectly or too cheaply. But that too is a localized pollution problem and certainly something downstream users want fixed when it happens.

Lithium itself isn't toxic and doesn't produce toxic piles, though. (Solid piles, certainly, but non-toxic, certainly not like lead.)
what would you change to make it easier for the average user ?
> I am not a doctor, nor am I an expert, I have just read some interesting articles and heard from surgeons that they are trying to improve the process to reduce careless mistakes.

Also not a doctor but I've built some checklist software for them. At good hospitals there's a nurse counting every screw, piece of gauze and scalpel passed around in surgery, counting them again on the way out, counting them when the go into the dishwasher and counting them again when they come out of the dishwasher and get preped for the next surgery. Apart from emergencies doctors will have a list of instruments needed for any given operation and there will be a special package of them ready.

This was heavily influence by the aviation industry.
It is, but in this case the compiler will assume it never occurs and generate assembly that will function as the parent describes. Which, from a security perspective, is what matters in this case.
Ok I understand and agree with the spamming recently.

Ive never knew or heard about an astroturf guideline before. Thanks for pointing it out ... i was trying to start a debate as I wasnt sure if my comment was downvoted voraciously because of multiple posts or something else?

As for telling my story and or Jie Qi's similar one in posts that detail other bad behavior from Google I wonder how that isn't relevant? Per the upvotes HN readers must feel it holds relevance? Though you don't think pointing out that Google steals/gets caught stealing IP is relevant to other posts detailing more/other examples of their bad behavior?
Tor's anti-fingerprinting measures are available in Firefox. They're off by default, but you can enable them by going to the about:config page, searching "privacy.resistFingerprinting" and setting to "true"

Interesting discussion from six months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323032
I did my PhD working on LIGO, but haven't been involved in the project for about five years. To me this article sounds like a crackpot hit-piece akin to the 9-11 deniers claiming that jet fuel can't melt steel.

Most of the claims in this article have been refuted elsewhere, and I am sure current LIGO scientists will jump in here to further refute its claims.

The matter of "retractions" is, for example, not a fair criticism. LIGO generates automatic low-latency notifications of potential detections in order to allow optical telescopes and other detectors to aim at the location of the potential event. Upon further analysis -- which takes time and can't be done at low latency -- many of these event notifications are downgraded. These retractions should not diminish your confidence in LIGO. Indeed, the team fine tunes the "false alarm rate" to avoid sending out too many false positives while not missing real events.

The gravitational wave community is _extremely conservative_ in its scientific statements, and you can be assured that every scrutiny has gone into the analysis of detected events and the associated papers. The LIGO detections should not be considered controversial. There is 30+ years of science behind them, and the effort of thousands of professional scientists.
IP addresses and identifiers are considered to be PII under the GDPR. These get sent to the advertisers.
Then why were 9 events for which alerts were sent later “downgraded because they were identified as likely of terrestrial origin”?
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The article screenshots show a redacted Facebook user in the UK.
Looked it up. "Data Hydration" basically means filling an outline of an object. For instance `{ thing, foo }` hydrated might be `{ thing: "hello", foo: "bar" }`.

Not yet a fan of this new buzz word. Might have called it "prop filling" or "struct instantiation" or... I dunno. Surely there's a more inferable way to describe this than "hydration."
In Vietnam, scammers use a few numbers to call the target first, making those number the "most frequent recently", then take over the target phone number. This security model is terrible.
iOS 12 still supports the 5s. If iOS 13 supports up to the 6, then iOS 14 will likely support the 6s.
Moreover, it is through these time delays, and knowledge of the angular "antenna pattern" of the detectors, that it is possible to localize the sky position of a gravitational wave source.
> The US banks are trustworthy like snakes and scorpions, but at least they exist in a regulatory world that is pro-money

Erm, US banking regulations have become quite insistent on knowing customers' identifying information, requesting employment details, and reporting many cash transactions to the government. So the environment can't really be said to be pro-money, at least at the pleb level, as the concept of money implies fungibility.
More and more college bookstores are run by Barnes and Noble. At my last college I wanted to use the edition I had used last year and the bookstore told me they couldn't order that version because there was a new version out. This has happened to a collegue at my current university.
Agree, I feel like aside from the roomba maybe there hasn't really been a consumer bot useful for anything
no fault of yours, but if this is really successful it will be bought by facebook and drowned like a pillow case full of kittens.
Answering that question would take a detailed analysis which I am not aware of. It would be less than the instant load of the Eaton Socon - Wymondley transmission circuit that was struck by lightning.

It is basically a question of providing just enough frequency support, for long enough, for the remainder of the grid to respond to the frequency drop. In other words, let the frequency sag a bit so generators respond but not so much that they disconnect.

I think there's also some control system error implied in the wind farm's drop as I read the article. That perhaps shouldn't have happened at all and was an un-analyzed state that will be corrected.
The S&P reconstitutes itself four times a year. But, imagine that your scenario worked anyways -- the investor would have less than $1000 since the S&P index missed the recovery of Acme Inc. But considering the largest constituent of the S&P (MSFT) is only around 4% of the index total weight, the impact of Acme Inc's price decline would not be great.
ah. bollocks. thank you for the correction.
> With TypeScript you don't need to think half as much

That seems a bit dangerous, to be honest. TypeScript has an unsound type system. If you don't think carefully, you might end up shipping runtime type errors.
I think ( or at least for me, this is the case ) that there is a threshold. A certain amount of casual usage doesn't make me feel bad, and in fact can be gratifying-- sharing nice photos with family & friends. But very regular or constant use is bad.
> But that's not true, because suppose if 99.9% of investors are buying ETFs and only 0.1% are actively managing, there won't be enough funds to bring all these panic dislocated stocks back up for many, many years.

The price change of a stock doesn't always depend on how often a stock is bought. For example, when earnings hit, a stock can easily move 10%. That's not because there was a certain amount of people buying at every price between what it was and +10%. This can happen because earnings are better, and many people base price of an earnings multiple. When new knowledge is put into the system, there's a new price.

If everyone who is trading a stock agrees on a price, that is the price. If people don't agree, it is generally the highest price someone is willing to sell it for (and find a buyer), or the lowest someone is willing to buy it for (and find a seller). If that disconnects a lot, you get a high bid/ask spread, and possibly no shares trade (lack of liquidity). It might only take a few shares or be a very short time to move a stock a lot.
It is always possible for a random signal to appear by coincidence in several detectors simultaneously. LIGO also gathers data from a huge number of "auxiliary channels" that monitor the local environment (seismometers, microphones, radio receivers, etc). Possible detections are heavily scrutinized by ensuring that the detectors were operating normally during the time of detection, and no local disturbances are seen in the auxiliary channels.
That’s not a valid analogy, since it’s pretty obvious when something is very hot or not, which is not the case with poison.
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> Despite the fact that they do less, they don’t cost less.

I realize that Cory doesn't like the idea of capitalism. But consider for a moment: the free market offers you a choice. You can choose to buy a "libre" book, or you can choose to buy a DRM-locked down e-book for the same price.

Why do people buy the DRM-locked e-books? Because they don't care about the DRM-restrictions, and prefer to have the space-savings associated with a digital file.

That's all it comes down to. Cory Doctorow can wax poetic about why old-school books are better (and maybe they are better for many people), but for all e-book buyers out there... e-books are worth the tradeoffs.

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Now, I certainly think there's some market-problems going on in the book world. Amazon and Apple engaged in price fixing a few years back, Microsoft DRM shutdown their Zune service, terminating the songs that many people bought, etc. etc. Plenty of issues abound that should get fixed.

But a lot of this blog post seems to be complaining about choices that other people are freely making, and fails to understand WHY those people are choosing e-books over the alternative.
Personally, I view DRM for streaming different than DRM for purchased content. For streaming, DRM is to prevent the user from essentially archiving the catalog, which its fine by me. But DRM for purchased / non-subscription content isn't something I support.

There have only been a few times when I've purchased a book or audiobook with DRM. Removing that DRM was trivial with the right tools.

Basically, DRM sucks, but I'm willing to forgive it for streaming content, since you're paying for access to a catalog and not a specific product.
Yes–check out this excellent blog series https://dev.to/seif_ghezala/reasonml-for-production-react-ap...
It is certainly okay when the rates at which these things happen is lower than the rates at which non-self driving cars have accidents.

A 0% accident rate is unrealistic and unfair.
True, but it seems to break some sites
As RC vehicles {car|helicopter|plane} get larger they reach a certain mass where liquid fuel - usually a petroleum - is preferable to battery. Why is this not an alternative for drones?
I found the the seventh paragraph quite remarkable. It claims that "one big reason" that the new state of the art weather stations have found no warming in the USA is because the USA has reduced it CO2 emissions through fracking! I haven't looked at the data, but I'm pretty sure that the word "global" in "global warming" refers to the whole planet which hasn't reduced CO2 emissions.

Nevertheless, the article piqued my interest in these new "state of the art" weather stations. I will have to look up some of their data.
Maybe I'm just salty that I didn't figure out you could pick up laser redirectors without breaking the connection until after beating the game, but The Talos Principle always seems out of place in these lists. I've always seen it as a game focused on its story, which by necessity involves puzzle-based gameplay; but I've never thought that the puzzles were that good. In particular, it feels like the game actively discourages you from using 3D spatial reasoning, in favor of the puzzles being about using the tools you have to collect more tools. Most of the puzzles could have just been a 2D top-down perspective.
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It sounds like this was scraped before the GDPR went into effect.
I'd pay $5/month for a private network that is just this. My data is mine, no ads, no tracking. Simple, close friends, no addiction triggers.
Fire truck driver here: People crash into parked fire trucks and ambulances and cop cars all the damn time. That's why we park the Big Red Truck at an angle behind the accident -- so that when the 2-ton car crashes into the 30-ton truck, the car will bounce off and the people behind the truck (us) won't be injured.

I don't disagree that Tesla's software is partly to blame here, but the null experiment also has a lousy track record.