skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use that argument to rationalize just about any degree of regulation. Governments are in the business of balancing human death and suffering against the economic, technological and political benefits of policies, and the needle is almost never found pinned to one side.

Personally I think the FAA is doing OK here. Drones need to scale up in capacity/reliability/safety and right now it's incredibly expensive to do that for a specific application because the industry is building for RC and hobby use. It's going to have to happen iteratively, but it does need to progress some for it to work at all.
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Good point.

And it could have both problems. There's no reason I can think of to assume mutual exclusion.

>act like a human driver

Anything AI making this or a similar claim is automatically suspect to me.

>looking for tiny signals that might warn of unexpected behaviour

I suppose this is progress, except that it sort of implies that the AI wasn't already doing that. Which to me says the programmers are still having to anticipate too many possible scenarios.
I'm surprised it couldnt be migrated to a new version of foxpro with minimal work.
When I read the headline it was a mix of WHYYYYYYYY and NOOOOOOO

Really, can't we just leave COM in the 90's?
I'm kind of torn on this.

On one hand it seems ridiculous to me when I read that the FDA is investing Juul for advertising to minors citing the fact that their ads included "bright colors" and young adult models as evidence of that. That's very clearly bullshit, and we wouldn't hold anyone else to that insane standard.

On the other hand, it also seems insane that the tobacco industry knew their product was both addictive and killing people, and that they lied about that for decades even spending massive amounts of money trying to intentionally mislead people into thinking otherwise, but instead of jailing executives and breaking up companies like Philip Morris/Altria we just let them continue to go on killing people for profit with barely a slap on the wrist.

I'd say that given their actions, the tobacco industry doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, that everything they do should be considered first in the worst possible light, and that we'd be crazy not to question their motives at every opportunity.

I just can't bring myself to be sympathetic to the industry now even when I can see how people are overreacting. I realize there are new players in the game today, and entire secondary industries are getting caught up in the whole vaping thing too, but at the same time, anyone working anywhere near the tobacco industry should expect it. If we'd gone after them properly instead of letting them off the hook for 40 years of lies and countless deaths maybe I'd feel differently, but here we are.
Re you edit: No, it's not.
Makes you think about what we think today that will be seen likewise by future people.
And not just any beer, but those amazing abbey ales.
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I know this is a big task, but could someone give/link me an overview of the state of self-driving cars and the issues they currently face? I know its a hard problem but very bright minds have been doing this for a while, so I'd like to know what is the issue, since we've been told for a very long time that the technology is right on the horizon.
Oh the same irs that is undefunded to persue billionaire tax avoidance but seems to be quite capable of attempting to tax all cryptocurrency use for us citizens.... yeah this seems like complete bullshit.
I use email all the time and have never even remotely encountered a point where I would need something like this. Why wouldn't you simply refer to a subject line? And why would someone say "Did you see email E2YKW3" I can't imagine a single person saying that frankly.
I don't actually have a big problem with this. The issue with punishing people for their tweets or comments about Hong Kong is that you are taking action against them for an opinion they have. In this case, they are just preventing people from expressing their opinion in a privately owned place. Now I would prefer that the fans not be ejected, but I also think it isn't that terrible to prevent people from putting up political banners in a televised arena. It also depends how consistently this is applied - would they also eject someone for holding a sign supporting Trump?
Do you not do design docs? This seems pretty common across the industry. Write a doc, send it out to the team, have everyone comment and review, schedule a meeting.
I love c4. The author writes very readable and simple code. I recommend trying out swieros as well “a tiny Unix like kernel”: https://github.com/rswier/swieros
Asking general HN audience:
Are you willing to do this?

I don't travel often, but this looks like a good option to have... although I don't really do any finicky stuff with machines/phones/etc that I use regularly. if I were using a RPI3 as a phone then I'd 100% do something like this (hope you understand the analogy).
I'm a taxpayer.

If they've produced technology that can revolutionize our lives, they have a responsibility to tell us about it. (We paid for it, after all!)

And if they're hoaxing, they have no right to spend taxpayer money on hoaxes, or to file false patents. (And there's no active war going on that would give them the legal right to make stuff up to confuse an enemy state.)
Not in CA :D
Under "Non-features that won't be added" it says

> No validation of inputs or helpful error messages - study the examples, read the docs.

I agree that validation is probably redundant, but why would you promote not having helpful error messages? Seems a bit elitist...
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You're making a strawman argument about morals, which is not in the same vein as what I said. My point was this piece was sensationalized.
American imperialism has never been about traditional colonialism, so I'm not sure what you mean.

As you asked originally, I find neither the US nor China to be moral, but I can't understand the outrage over China's acts while ignoring and trying to justify US acts.
I would say the only good option is to try only travel to countries that respect privacy and realise scanning phones is security theatre. Because if you go to a country and they want access to your phone these kind of tricks will prevent them from opening it but ultimately I imagine you would be sent back to where you came from.
Long time Overwatch player. Removing mei would be... interesting. It would probably raise awareness of the PR nightmare overall, certainly not be received well, and most likely have a bad outcome for both China and Blizzard. The _irony_ is that Mei's kit is, in a sense, built around "stopping" people from playing and she is frequently referred to as "the devil". Lastly, the game is competitive and very balance sensitive to the point that small changes in single characters can turn them from "never pick" to "must pick every game". The impact is, despite the relatively large number of characters, they are all mentally accounted for in most players minds and not easily removed. Just some thoughts.
Rent dedicated server from OVH, install ESXi, hire a sysadmin. You will save huge amount of money.
Cloud can be great, but sometime it looks like people forget there are other solutions.
If the gas chambers were privately owned, does that change your opinion of the Holocaust?
Thanks to South Park. I really credit them with changing minds.
> of course, statistics might be reflective of underreporting instead of actual occurrence of a crime

There you go. Almost all of my female friends who I am close enough to hear about that have been assaulted in their past and they have not reported it (and blame themselves for it of course).

On this map, most countries you will see who are below 5.0 probably have some serious under-reporting.
> I would argue that the examples you gave are just image recognition, etc. What is your brain doing if not image recognition and obstacle avoidance

Planning, anticipation, reading body language, etc? Is that person looking like he’s going to jaywalk? That’s not image recognition. Yes, once he steps into the road the self driving car will respond quicker. But the human driver might already be slowing down and watching for hints of initiating movement. Image recognition is just one tiny piece of it.
Ask HN: What Is 'Digital Twin'?
Marketing materials say a digital twin is a digital representation of a thing or process.

What does that mean in practical terms? What are the practical uses? How is this different from an asset management system? Is it some novel concept or just meaningless marketing hype?
It's interesting to see the zeitgeist of this evolve. Just 6 months ago much of the public was very blasé about China, but experts in many realms were sounding alarm bells. A few months later, now look at it.
The part where it:

* Lets you easily explore a new business offering

* Without investing a large amount of engineering time

As soon as they realized they had significant demand and horrible unit economics, they should have revised their cost structure/app architecture.

Which is exactly what this post is about.
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> The politically and economically safe option in the workplace is always to discard people who fall under scrutiny that exposes an employer to liability.

What leads you to believe this? You are aware, I assume, of the existence of "wrongful termination" lawsuits, many of which have cost companies millions of dollars?

> Can you think of a crackable-length passphrase that would make a normal, level-headed person suspicious

"rape Karen fun"

> fired in the worst way possible

What about this sounds to you like the worst way possible to get fired? Here are some ways to get fired that sound way worse to me:

"several frightening, anonymous calls that came into his work phone. One caller told him that [...] he wouldn’t live to see the weekend. Another said that the “fancy blue tie” he was wearing that day might wind up turning red. [...] an effort by the [company's] attorney to discredit him by falsely claiming he’d had a romantic relationship with [coworker he was standing up for]. Shortly afterward, [his employer] fired him."

"only two weeks after her hire, while she was in the passenger’s seat of [male employee]'s car returning from a business meeting, he exited the 101 freeway, stopped his car on a side street, and pulled his erect penis from his trousers. With the doors and windows locked from the driver’s side, he reached over “and pushed her head on his erect penis in an attempt to force her to orally copulate with him,” according to her complaint. He then ejaculated.

[her] horrifying depiction of sexual assault went on for pages. There was the ride back to the office after a client visit two days later, when [male employee] again tried to force her to touch his penis and “almost careened into a commercial eighteen-wheel vehicle.” Another time in the car, this time in standstill traffic, he took his erect penis out of his trousers and shoved her left hand back and forth on it, again ejaculating. In the complaint, she says she tried to free her hand but “was unable to overcome his strength.” In another incident, he called her into his office, locked the door behind her, and tried to force her to have sex. That time, the complaint says, she “managed to escape his grasp.”

A month after that frightening incident, [she] was fired by [him], purportedly for “an attitude problem, aversion to directions, resistance and resentfulness.” She told the office supervisor about [his] assaults and suggested that the “attitude problem” [he] had referred to was her resistance to his assaults. The supervisor told her that sort of workplace conduct was considered “normal”"

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/metoo-wall-street-sexual...
I don't think avoiding the USA is a realistic option for a lot of HN readers.
Why did you opt out?
It doesn't let you fall asleep. It needs force on the wheel to prevent disabling itself, and just a weight attached isn't enough. It needs a change in force.

Honestly, if your only critiques are based on hearsay then maybe you shouldn't critique.
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And we grew out of it. Japan did not. I wish we stopped giving Japan a pass for the things it does wrong. In terms of gender equality, minorities inclusiveness, gay rights, it lags far behind.
Tesla still reliably runs into stationary objects and fails to brake for (dummy) children, so take all that with a grain of salt.
No, the answer is I don’t approve of silly hyperbole that only exists because you don’t like the current head of state. Where were you when the last administration was doing the exact same thing? You didn’t care then, because you liked that administration. If you were intellectually honest you’d have protested then rather than waiting for your handlers to tell you it was time to make noise.
It’s true and you know it. You just don’t want to believe it.
Sure, but that explains nothing about how the tmux integration ends up running a local command. How is this doing anything more than confusing the terminal about buffers?
it's certainly an improvement on their usual "lol everything is stupid, only lames care about things" take
I couldn't read the first sentence because I wanted to zoom in a little.
Unlikely. Messing with Apple means the potential (probable?) loss of what, 1/2 million jobs?

The Chinese value stability, and that big of a dislocation would have a negative impact on their stability.

I’m sure they can pressure them, but extreme measures would be reserved for cases where a company has crossed a line that cannot be in-crossed.
It's been a long time, but I once wrote code to parse and rewrite ['rotate'] the matrices at a previous job.

The "Matrix Structure" is in the 'mvhd' atom.

See:

* https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Qu...

* https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Qu...

[Some of the best documentation for MP4 that I've seen on the web is from Apple, since it grew out of QuickTime.]
> It's interesting to see the zeitgeist of this evolve

This is how systems exhibiting punctuated equilibria evolve.

The physical analogy is a pile of sand, accruing by one grain at a time. It will eventually collapse, that is known. And it will do so suddenly, anyone who made sandcastles knows this. But knowing when it will collapse is strikingly tough.

With sand, the correlation comes from friction between grains. With people, the correlation comes from social pressure. Once the friction is overcome, the social pressure breached, the system changes rapidly.
How do you determine if the market price is tending toward the labor value of a good if there is no clean way to map from labour-hours to prices?
Conversely, I’ve found the GCP console extremely confusing to navigate.
certainly didn't mean it to come off that way.

i might make a devmode version that has some of this in the far future. but it's not a priority before API stabilization, perf optimization, code golfing, tests, docs, examples and v1.

if anyone wants to contribute this, i would certainly entertain a PR, but no one is paying me to write extra code (or any code, really).
That’s a straw man. Humans routinely drive in inclement weather. In Atlanta during the summer I85 will maintain 50 mph in rain so hard that you can’t see the lines on the road. Expecting self driving cars to handle those conditions isn’t setting a higher standard.
Oh hmm, I didn't realize the notation was so unnecessarily verbose :) Of course it's a pawn moving from q2 to q2, that's the only thing there at the beginning of the game!
No, I'm saying, you can crack open the binary and see what it's capable of doing. If Signal wanted, it could obfuscate itself in various ways to make that hard, but (1) you'd notice that pretty quickly (that the code was hinky) and (2) Signal does not in fact want to do that.

You personally might not be able to do that (but then, you personally might not be able to spot a defective authenticated key exchange either), but people can. Once someone spots the "Signal Backdoor", that's it for Signal. There's a lot of incentive to do that legwork.

In contrast, G Suite could be comprehensively backdoored, and you'd have no way of knowing, no matter what your level of systems programming competence. I'm not saying they are backdoored; I rather doubt that they are, and I myself trust G Suite more than most other applications I use. But the point is, the trust you have to have in G Suite is different and more demanding than the trust you have to have in Signal.
Lol I‘m familiar with chess notation but was so confused by this that I was googling to see what chess move uses a “Z” :(
Sounds very much like stock market crashes.
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Measuring Hong Kong's importance for China by its GDP is as useful as measuring your eyes' importance to you by their weight.
well consensus is at 97%
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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The communist is using profit to control the capitalist, the irony is painful.
I heard a cute phrase a long time ago. "We will hang the capitalist with the rope he sells us"
Especially with blank caps; securing keys through obscuring keys.
It's scary how effective the US and China are at propaganda warfare. It seems like only yesterday everyone was on friendly terms, now we hate each other.

As someone with family all across Asia and the West I really hope the US and China can resolve their disputes soon. This is really not a nice position for us to be in.
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Fortunately, for people like us (i.e readers of HN) there is a possibility of meaningful and deeply rewarding work. I try to create those environments for myself and others to work on. That doesn’t give the opportunity to everyone, but you do what you can.
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two decades late and a gazillion dollars short...
This may be a contribution to the number of fatalities and major injuries as a result of auto accidents.

I think the future of self driving vehicles will just be inclement weather delays like we have with flying.
I wish Apple would introduce a "Border crossing mode". Not gonna happen.
One of the surprising things to me is how much China seems to have played their hand too early (and too strongly). People have been sounding alarms about China for a while but if they had played it cool everything likely would’ve ticked along as it was. Everyone would still ignore the human rights abuses, and IP theft, and creeping influence in our institutions around the world, etc. Instead China has managed to really put it right in front of every average persons face and now there’s a real chance things could shift away from China. And what for? Ego? On the one hand I think the CCP bought a dud with Chairman Xi. But maybe that’s good for the rest of us.
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City leaderships have nothing to lose and can virtue signal all they want.
In our engineering school the password hash used to be publicly accessible. Someone had devised a johntheripper binary to look like seti@home and made it run on several machines with the admins' benediction.

We had a meagre limited amount of quota on these shared systems (between 1 and 10 MB) but teachers had 1 GB. We stored the Quake binary on one teacher's account, Starcraft 1 on another and start kicking.

Good times...
What if any do you feel Trumps role was/is in any of this?
WARNING about the crime scene photos of the serial killers murders in that link. Would have preferred to have not seen them right before bed.
Sometimes it takes that sort of character to point out how crazy the situation is. Even if 99% of the time no one cares, they were the right at the right moment.
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I think ctrl-alt-delete generates a hardware interrupt.
Sorry to hear about an unpleasant situation. However, I think it's safe to assume this is unrelated to the story about the dude's password and HR issues.
There's a chance that it could have been; none of the engineers still at the company knew anything about Foxpro and none of us really wanted to learn it; typically I (or anyone else suckered into fixing stuff) learned the very minimum required to find a bug.

However, until we finally got sign-off to do it in a VM it was a pretty big pain to log into the DOS boxes and fix stuff, so we were even less incentivized to become competent.

Even we had ported it over to Visual Foxpro or something, it was discontinued in 2007, meaning it would probably still have problems now...more even, since I'm reasonably certain that I could have gotten DosBox to work given enough time, which would at least effectively allow permanent free "operating system" updates.
That's not it either. Eternal return is a actually a mental model to prepare yourself for all decision making: make the choice that you would be willing to live with choosing again and again for eternity. It's about removing yourself from cultural and political expectations and struggling through the only path that is uniquely you, because any less would be to lose yourself.

Someone suggested in another comment that you wouldn't know which life this is currently. This is also missing the point. Neitzchean eternal return is more like a Hell: relieving all your mistakes over and over for all time. Destined to make the same choices while woke to their failings.

The idea was to assert a non-humility and non-christian model of morality (a morality of self-realization)
I think this might need a 2013 tag?
It's trying to center in an extremely large lane. An easy fix would be to not have a huge concrete wall jutting into the middle of the freeway without lane markers.

I feel like people forget human drivers hit those same barriers with alarming frequency.
Hopefully, the west doesn't budge until China stops commuting human rights violations (won't happen but would be nice)
There are 300M+ urban Chinese that now have a standard of living comparable those of their Western counterparts.
There are 800M+ Chinese people living in relative poverty in rural areas that bring the average and median quality of life metrics down.
Only if you can know he didn't actually go in. Even now, do you believe he never liked at a single private file?
Hindsight 20/20? Xi has only been a leader for 7 years. The trajectory that China was on previously was markedly different - more openness, more freedoms. Xi's turnaround hasn't been immediate either. The fact that businesses went into China a decade ago shouldn't be taken for shortsightedness — the future did look very different back then.
Thanks for your read on it. Okay, now -- later you sell those Crypto N coins. What is your cost basis? You also sell the M coins, whats the cost basis there?

[FWIW, I think the way you're reading it has fewer absurd effects, I'm just struggling to convince myself that they actually meant what you're describing.]
What to do, what to do. Privacy, morality and good intentions on the internet
It’s not a bad thing that American citizens are heavily armed. If everyone in HK owned a firearm I think the situation would be far different - or at least give the government a second thought before acting.