skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take self-driving accidents, for example. Pretty much all of them happen in situations that no human would fail in, and that's obvious to most people, but then we're forgetting about all the other mistakes similar "AI" systems make, and don't realize that they're also failures no human would make.

Amen? I've tried to explain precisely this to many brilliant AI/ML folks in lots of variations, with little success. They look at me funny, as if I'm a crank for believing that that probabilities don't capture the whole story. It seems that, to far too many of them, a computer that has half the accident rate of a human is a strictly better replacement, end of story. The notion of just how spectacular the failure mode might be, or the degree of control that a human might have in the process, or any other human factor you can think of besides the accident rate, just seems like a completely nonsensical notion to many of them. For the life of me I have yet to find a way to convey this thought in a compelling manner.
You are from US, right?
Las Vegas police to suspend ICE program
It is. With microsoft it's another problem: too much technologies. All are OK-is, but ultimately deprecated. MFC, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, you name it. But, to be clear, I think Visual Studio has close 2nd place in desktop development experience after Xcode.
Also, IMO, VS is way better IDE that Xcode for generic C++ projects.
> A lot of resources was put to fix it. And when the millennium finally changed, nothing really happened.

Don't you think these two things might be related?

Also: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/14/downs_syndrome_scre...
Nothing to be ashamed of, congrats. But ML is likely to automate this away in less than 10 years.
DIY healthcare
Congrats! This looks really great and will enable many people to shorten the dev cycle and lower the entry barrier for many startups to create their first app.

I coded myself a whole mobile version of our platform[1] using React Native and know the pains! It's fantastic that you could automate this and make it a SaaS company.

[1] https://standups.io
Google Groups should have this, but search in Groups is permanently broken. Search, you know, Googles main domain.
From reading the article obviously.
To me this is more about the lack of internal controls and auditing of those controls at ATT. I know someone who is a supervisor fairly high up with them and I suspect has abused that power to spy on an ex, but she assures me "he can't because of the internal flags"... I figure there are a multitude of ways around that. Events like this don't give me confidence that I am wrong.
For example, they won re-election on Monday.

Or Andrew Scheer is completely out of step with 2019.
Small typo near start:

> Up to C++17, there are four operators the operands of which are unevaluated: typeof, sizeof, decltype, and noexcept.

"typeof" should be "typeid". This confused me a bit as I thought the article was going to talk about a nonstandard predecessor to decltype.

The article was interesting, but its contents didn't really match it's title. It's not about unevaluated operands in general but just their use in SFINAE specifically. For example, sizeof is dismissed as not much use for SFINAE, which is true but it certainly has a lot of other uses! And if you read this article having not seen decltype before, I think you'd get the wrong impression about its range of uses.
Is eBay affected by this, or is an auction site clearly not the seller in this situation?
"The Globe that his co-writer and co-founder and CEO was horrifically abusive and he created a toxic work environment, and the way he responded was just textbook gaslighting"
Not very helpful to throw somebody under the bus for having a bad work partner...
Thanks. Sometimes posts are really confusing. Without context this to me seems like some random person complaining very generically about their employer...

For anyone else wondering: It's about someone that got their moderator rights removed from StackExchange after they were sceptical of CoC changes that involved preferred pronouns and such.
Re safety: I was pointed out that the dangers of hydrogen are often exaggerated. Hydrogen is flammable, not explosive. It is an oxygen-hydrogen mix that is explosive. It is probably slightly safer than fuel due to the fact that while fuel would tend to leak and accumulate on the ground, hydrogen flies into the atmosphere.

The great thing about electrolysis is that it combines really well with intermittent sources like solar panels or wind turbines. When too much energy than necessary is being produce, store it in hydrogen. That's free fuel for you (free as in "marginal cost of zero").

If we had efficient electrolysis capacities and a market for hydrogen, that would make the case for intermittent renewables much, much stronger.
Literally every president since I was born has been fascist in some way or another. The senators aren't the problem here.
The Thruth About Open Offices
Actions to block access to encryption would severely degrade the security and privacy of the general public..

Perhaps that's the point.
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Don't try this in the UK. Separate tickets don't allow allowances for missed connections, and ticket inspectors are very strict and will frequently prosecute you, giving you a criminal record and stopping you visiting the USA or getting a visa.
Absolutely, but as a frequent visitor on this site, this is my first time becoming aware of Garmin's being used this way. I think it's broadly relevant even if it is PR.
Marin is over an hour away by bus from SF, with no train or BART. Basically to work in Marin you have to live in Marin, so any company that moved there wouldn't be taking advantage of the SF/South Bay labor market.
Try it. Most companies don’t mind.

The Google Authenticator app on iOS doesn’t backup its keys so it’s pretty common for people to lose access to that kind of keys.
because with opt-out they can first gather the data and keep it before you can opt-out.
[warning: biased, cynical and opinionated content ahead]

To me this whole debacle feels like a forced error. Gitlab needs to find a way to profitability - fine, I am very much in favour.

But I can't shake the feeling that somewhere, someone, has made the mental association that "more user tracking == more money". It's worked for Google and Facebook, and it looks to be working for -vomit- modern infosec industry, where ever more aggressive end-user surveillance seems to be the easiest way to get two or even three bites of the apple.

And that is why this whole thing feels like a re-enactment of a South Park episode:

1. Get more user data
2. ???
3. Profit!

Because from what I have read so far in this thread and the early linked issue, it does feel like shoehorning invasive user tracking has been a foregone conclusion and figuring out a justification has come second.
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They could at least have locked down the flash and RAM, triggering a flash mass erase when attempting to dump the firmware/RAM contents. Not that this would be 100% secure either, but with these STM32 HW features in place this is already significantly more difficult.
as long as it is out-out, instead of opt-in, it probably won't fly with any corporation.
Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code
This year we (our family) have the expressed goal of renting a cabin far off from major cities (partly) so our daughter will get to see a night sky full of stars.

We live close to an airport, so atm she gets excited by seeing more than 10-ish stars, so I'm looking forward to seeing her reaction :). Also, once seeing and pointing out a satellite was a highlight :).
> Every time you step out of the house there is someone there to remind you you are foreign.

In my 2+ years here, I think I can count these cases on one hand. I think you may be picking out things that aren't actually unique to you being a foreigner, or your body language is just making it look like you're completely oblivious to what is going on in the interaction so they feel the need to make the communication extra clear.
I think Dynalist would tick all the boxes for you apart from in-line images.

you can add images but at the moment you need to hover over the link to view them unfortunately. (although I think somebody made a browser extension that makes the images load in view, but then that won't work on the mobile app version. their web app is fairly useable in a mobile browser though)

I just wrote a spiel about Dynalist in another comment if you want to word search for that
One thing I've noticed lately is that Google Voice numbers are working with fewer and fewer companies. For example, I don't think that they work with Wells Fargo or Chase. Wells Fargo said flat out that the phone number can't be validated.
And then you wonder why our technology is a pile of garbage built on top of a steaming pile of half-composted garbage, always breaking, and why a good chunk of software jobs consist mostly or solely of keeping it from falling apart. What's toxic is being penny-wise, pound-foolish repeatedly, at the scale of the industry.
Aside from the sky glow aspects, I really dislike cool blue lighting. I've just had my office upgraded to warm white LEDs and it's really noticeable every time I walk into a colleague's office with "cool daylight" coloured lighting.
Instagram Bot which works in 2019
https://instacaptain.com/
InstaCaptain is an Android device based Instagram Bot running on cloud.
Just to ensure I am not making any false promises. It is not 100% action block proof but we haven’t seen anyone permanently banned or even anything effected on their own devices.
What do I mean devices?Well,we are using Android devices to run our bot through custom rom.When a user is signs-in,we ask them to enter a proxy & location. We then fake these locations on our android device through GPS to ensure we simulate a real human. Soon we will add changing locations by a small % to make it better.

Other Instagram bots use MPG25 which is web version of Ig. It is easy to detect whether traffic is coming from phone/web & thus block the bots. Earlier we used the same, but we closed all payments for 3 months, provided free usage of the service till then & went into development mode.So far it seems to be working fine with very few issues on which we plan to improve.
We noticed, few times Instagram suspects we are using automation (they detect patterns), but not really,so it only soft blocks us on single devices and not the account itself.
Which means, if we provide a new device to that account, it starts working fine within a minute. We have actually tested this successfully. We yet have to automate this part but soon we will do it (within 2 weeks) so if you are using our Instagram bot 2, you can automatically get a new device within 5 minutes.
We plan to add Machine Learning division which will counter these patterns & make the activity look more human even while following in bulk because an average customer is lazy & doesn’t want to tinker with all the settings himself.

Most other bots are not answering support emails anymore. This wont happen with us. We will face problems for sure but soon we will get better.
We are here to stay, & I really really want to make it work. I just want to ask you guys here to give it a try if possible.
You clearly don’t know gun owning Republicans. They will defend the Republic. Including from totalitarians.

You’re off in the rhubarb hallucinating about “Democratic virtue” which is a meaningless term and unrelated to a Republic based on laws.
Most broadband access providers don't know how to build, operate or scale out compute infrastructure and the systems around it. They've tried, they've failed, they've blown a lot of money in the process. It's not their core competency and most have given up. They've been taken in by vendors (or acquisitions) in the last 10 years selling them solutions "just like the cloud companies" but can't manage to make it work in practice and entice the select set of customers who could take advantage of being in close proximity to users and less network congestion. The conversations I've heard go on with these companies display how they're a cargo cult and they fetishize buying the same hardware that cloud providers use.
Binding arbitration is almost unilaterally bad for consumers.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitra...
Worth noting that this research is about co2 specifically and not methane.

"... the research didn't measure methane, a greenhouse gas about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide that is also released from soil."
Please do revert, Sytse. Look at how governments are fighting Microsoft's urge to track users [0] [1]

We're in the process of taking a 50user Premium (aka self-hosted) GitLab subscription, don't make us reconsider and search alternative means.

[0] https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-r...

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/158892/
The Last Mile to True Continuous Delivery
Every educated AI knows that the best way to spot a criminal is too look for people staring directly at the camera, with a white rectangle below their face.
Implementing an ERP? Avoid These Mistakes
This is also what I would expect the reality of the situation to be, regardless of policy.
That's awesome, maybe I know him!
Despite using gitlab i'll probably report them to my country's organization that handles GDPR violations.
My point was more that these companies offer a solution that is just barely workable so that the IRS does not just create their own usable, free software. I honestly consider them a leech on the economy.
There’s also the impact of Prop M, which caps new office square footage created yearly. Stripe may not be able to find contiguous space big enough for their expected growth even if they wanted to stay in San Francisco.
"was" - so I assume it is now resolved ?

I use it myself, and file is "overwritten" when saved. (as expected)

I have local file that I open in firefox, and edit.
Every so often I commit it to git.

If you open from non-local URL - it can not be "saved" - which is what you may have encountered ?

https://wiki.desipenguin.com/#2019.10.11
Obfuscating Lua
This year I made around 6000€ in profit. I could make more but the limiting factor here is mostly time.

My main goal is to cover my hobby's expenses, which are mostly the electricity bill and acquiring new species.
Totally. I got a link to this post sent to me today by a co-worker, and already in my mind I've blacklisted using Gitlab in an enterprise environment. It's only now that I found this thread on HN that I learned this isn't set in stone yet. But most people don't read HN.
Absurd to see this response flagged so heavily when it is correct on every point...
I would like to introduce you to Colors and Fonts integration in persP
I would like to introduce you to Colors &amp; Fonts integration in persP, a fully working feature.

As the title says, persP users can now import a whole color palette to persP.

A sneak peak of the workflow here.

https://dribbble.com/shots/7792690-Colors-Fonts-integration-in-persP

Have a look to persP here.

persP
Develop while you design, complex responsive layouts, real interactions and external data integrated like never before, on your browser and with real time collaboration.
https://persp.info?ref=caf

I found persP on a resources list for designers and then I contacted them to see If I could put a link to them in my own resources list.

They accepted and after the second email, they were wondering if it was possible for them to let users import a whole color palette from my website.

We are going to talk about more possibilities for their users.

Damn, how proud I am of Colors & Fonts colorsandfonts.com
Yes.

Apple successfully marketed a product which was tested by Nokia engineers and deemed to be inferior.

What part of 'consumers voted with their money' don't you understand?
I guess you didn't hear about the little ice age scare in the 70s?

Take Leonard Nimoy's word for it: https://youtu.be/mOC7ePWCHGk hard to argue with Spock.

It's not surprising that ice loss occurred over the last few decades. Is this unprecedented in geological history? Not at all. The medieval warm period from 950-1250 was as warm as today if not warmer. It was followed by a little ice age that lasted 600 years, followed by the modern warming period which began in 1850, well before internal combustion engines took off.

The loss or gain of ice in the Arctic occurs regularly. It's been happening in spurts since the end of the last glacial period 20,000 years ago. There are natural cycles like the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation that have a huge influence on Arctic ice extent.
This is all theater to give people a warm-fuzzy about the way things are.

Other than cock-blocking ISPs, what's the value in end-to-end encryption when one of those ends is a megacorporation that is A) super-friendly with the state security apparatus, and B) ready, willing, and able to sell you out to the highest bidder? E2E works great against basement-dwelling h4x0rs, not so much against people with actual power.

I know these companies will swear up and down how secure they are--but security of what? Who audits them? Last I checked, no one.
In older houses there is only one tap it is ‘safe’ to drink from. Usually in the kitchen, all others, hot and cold, are fed from the tank in the roof. For some reason it’s OK to brush your teeth with water from the tank but not to actually drink it.
Seems cheap for a business case. Even when I worked in a low-wage EU country, that would easily fit into my training budget.
It appears your tool does not support pipe-delimited data in the "data to table" choice. An example is:

a|1
b|2
c|3

This is a pretty common data format and one which people whom use your tool may appreciate.

HTH
I don't think you completely understand the concept behind the Google Authenticator App, i.e. the standard it implements.

Which keys is it supposed to backup?

Everything else you said is sadly true.
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And that's backfired for Verizon a little bit. Think about it this way. Verizon is now a CDN: they have to get as much peering as they want. Verizon (as701) the big eyeball network has no plans to peer openly. It complicates peering negotiations because edgecast (separate asn) can't give up the access that everyone wants to Verizon. Similar happened when tata (old teleglobe) bought bitgravity cdn and constrained their peering relationships.
NPR is popular among liberals and reviled by conservatives, though its content is pretty neutral. In its attempt to share many sides of stories, NPR is accused by various groups of both liberal and conservative bias and pro- and anti-Israel bias.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR_controversies
How curious to see this here. I got talking to a guy on a train journey the other day and he gave me this book. He said it had changed his life.
Nice tool. I was really hoping though it can help me tabulate messy copied text data from PDF.

For example, from Philips 2018 annual report [0], I copy the income statement, and I get the below when I paste. I found it impossible to get this into Excel or any other table format, without writing a Python program for it. Your tool still made it as one column. If there's a way you can automatically detect the 3 numeric columns below, you can have a large audience of finance folk analyzing PDF documents.

Sales. 17,422 17,780 18,121
Cost of sales (9,484) (9,600) (9,568)
Gross margin 7,939 8,181 8,554
Selling expenses (4,142) (4,398) (4,500)
General and administrative expenses (658) (577) (631)
Research and development expenses (1,669) (1,764) (1,759)
6 Other business income. 17 152 88
6 Other business expenses. (23) (76) (33)
6 Income from operations. 1,464 1,517 1,719
7 Financial income. 65 126 51
7 Financial expenses. (507) (263) (264)
Investments in associates, net of income taxes 11 (4) (2)
Income before taxes 1,034 1,377 1,503
8 Income tax expense. (203) (349) (193)
Income from continuing operations 831 1,028 1,310
3 Discontinued operations, net of income taxes. 660 843 (213)
Net income 1,491 1,870 1,097
Attribution of net income
Net income attributable to Koninklijke Philips N.V. shareholders 1,448 1,657 1,090
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests 43 214 7

[0] https://www.philips.com/c-dam/corporate/about-philips/sustai...
The cost of a phone bundled with a contract bears no relation to the real-world cost. Depending on your monthly payment and length of contract, you could pay $100 or $500 for the same phone.

In some markets, iPhones were bundled with a contract because networks had bidding wars for exclusivity.
Not only that, foreign businesses are less likely to trust anything stored with or touched by US companies. And that's not even getting into regulated industries where it might become illegal to do business.
So if you have a set of documents that are all being negotiated at the same time between parties. How do you show what changed in DocumentA at the same time as the concessions in DocumentB? By comparing timestamps?

It feels like the CVS way of versioning (Every document has a history) rather than the modern way of versioning (A set of documents has a history).

Perhaps this is a smaller problem for these kinds of documents because while my changes are often a dozen changed documents in a set of a hundred thousand documents, these word processor changes are typically across one or two documents in a set of one to ten?
But WHERE IS THE VIDEO?
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eBay actually punishes (most) sellers pretty aggressively. Reason I say most is there’s one large shipping supply company on there that consistently shorts customers and has eBay remove the negative feedback. It’s assumed in the community that they’re large enough that eBay is willing to take the hit to keep them around.
Yep, indeed.

This isn't the place for an extended discussion/debate about this stuff, as I've long learned that it's driven far more by ideology and ego than actual science.

But I've heard it said by a leading proponent of mind-body health hypotheses and practices, that there's a pattern the debate so often seems to follow when discussing this stuff with materialist hardliners:

You start by suggesting that physiological illnesses can be (at last partially) treated with emotion-based therapies, and they scoff, "that's preposterous".

You then carefully explain it using known, established science, to do with factors like cortisol, the fight/flight response, priority resource allocation, etc.

They then respond "well of course, everyone knows that, there's nothing novel about this at all".

Yet after many years of people talking about, actual practice of this kind of treatment is still confined to the fringes and beyond.
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> there are plenty of apps/businesses out there that would not be able to exist were it not for the apple ecosystem

That's not a catch-22. A catch-22 [0] is when you have contradictory requirements that are all needed but eliminate each other [Wiki example: How can I get any experience until I get a job that gives me experience?]. A hard choice or a single choice aren't a catch-22.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)
> Also, don't have your life savings in crypto

Exactly. Cryptocurrency, in my view, are meant to be intermediary currency. Keeping a lot of it is just too risky.

Tech nerds seem to like cryptocurrencies because it's a cool and fancy gadget, but the reality is that normal banks are more secure. If your money gets stolen, banks can trace it, cancel transactions, and there are insurances in place to recover your money. Governments are involved in bank security.

Currencies are not trivial things. Only libertarians and anti-government, anti-federal-reserve people will actually prefer cryptocurrencies to their own risk.

I get that the AT&T employee is guilty, but the victim was asking for it.