skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with all current "AI"-driven systems be it facial recognition, voice recognition, translating, fraud detection, navigation, whatever, is that they are not 100% right, and when they're wrong, they're hilariously devastatingly super-wrong in a way that humans are not wrong.

But since the success modes are good and human-like, we assume that the failures are going to be human-like as well, but the failure-modes of these system are usually bizarre and alien. 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.
Privacy settings on Instagram – answering some FAQs
This theoretically makes it usable in a smaller space, since you don't need a hallway to run around the entire ring.
I once saw a science education state standard, that required teaching both 'atoms are conserved in chemical reactions', and 'atoms are electrically neutral; when changed, they're no longer atoms, but ions'. Two historical threads of definition, left for students to reconcile.

Terminology in primary-school science education can have a twilight zone feel, kind-of sort-of resembling science terminology, but as seen from a skewed alternate reality, disconnected from actual science community and practice.

So it's not just cs learning material.
I have been aware for about 20 years that on technology trends, all the car companies will release electric cars somewhere near 2020. And that once they do the agenda of manufacturers and car dealers will be at odds. Manufacturers will want to sell electric because that is the future, and car dealers will want to push gas cars to capture the future maintenance revenue. With the result that manufacturers will find that actually selling those electric cars is an uphill battle.

The fact that "near 2020" is now "this year or next" doesn't change the rest of the prediction. I would therefore be willing to take a bet that most traditional car companies will be out of the car business in not very many years. This means that there is a giant market share to be captured by new car brands.

Tesla is the best known here. But I would also suggest keeping an eye on the many Chinese brands. I consider, for example, SAIC more of a competitive threat to Telsla than Porsche.
I have an idea.
How about creating a website that tracks timeline of an important news event. Like for example Impeachment.
Often times, readers get confused with ongoing stories without context.
Often times, cases lose their media coverage and don't know if justice was done.
Some thing that represents in a timeline way hilighting important events and links to (news) sources.
Users can follow and platform would deliver notification upon updates.
I work at GitLab. Support Engineering Managers were briefed about this a few days ago.

From inside GitLab Slack:

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Scott Williamson We are not adding Pendo or Snowplow JS snippets to self hosted versions yet. That will likely come in a second phase of the project, and we will figure out opt in/opt out for those scenarios before launching. The reason we are communicating to those customers about it now is so we don't have to do the privacy policy change twice. So for now it's just .com customers. I will let @Tim Hey respond on where he would like discussion on this to go.

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Support Engineer Thank you @Scott Williamson, I was hesitant to ping you as I know your time is valuable, but I'm glad that I did. :thank_you::thx::thankyou:

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Tim Hey Hi @Support Engineer Looks like @Scott Williamson just beat me to the it. :sweat_smile:

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Support Engineer You both are amazing and I can't thank you enough.

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Tim Hey Also if you are interested in the being part of the discussion when we build out the opt in for scenarios like this I'd love to include you. I believe Lee was interested.

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Support Engineer I'd love to be involved! If there's an opt-in or opt-out, it invalidates all the concerns I voiced here. Knowing this, I fully support the decision to add telemetry to self-managed and understand that it would be incredibly valuable for growth.

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Support Engineer @Scott Williamson @Tim Hey @supportmanagers We have a lot of upset customers thinking that GitLab self-managed telemetry will be mandatory for Self-Managed GitLab moving forward (no opt-out/opt-in) . We need an official response and Zendesk template to help manage the influx
I feel like the lesson here is really, "if you're organizing a big group to hurt some other party, do it where they're not watching". Want to hold a meeting to talk about how you and 300 other people are unhappy with working conditions at Google? Why are you organizing it in Google Calendar in the first place? Why are you doing it on your work computer?
>Boeing is going to be the case study of what happens when you let 'business people' take over an engineering company. A bunch of MBAs deciding to move numbers around on paper and losing sight of the bigger picture.

>The 737 MAX and all the issues with the 787 isn't what happens when engineers are in charge

engineers are culpable in the 737 max too - i'm pretty sure many engineers and test pilots, like that Forkner who was saying one thing to FAA while the other to his colleagues, knew about that ugly situation and the risks entailed, yet didn't blow the whistle even anonymously. Those aspects remind the VW dieselgate.
> *By clicking the button below, you are agreeing to all of our terms of service, our eula, our privacy policy, and all kinds of other shit.

On mobile safari the button is above this text.
You found a way to completely miss the point, be offended, and do the very same deflecting and blaming that you accuse younger people of.

Just because you’re closed minded and ignorant of the next generation’s challenges doesn’t mean they don’t exist. This is nothing more than wanting to feel special for something as stupid as your age. Congrats, you’re the subject of this research.
Mueller clarified in his final hearing that he misspoke when answering Lieu's earlier question and stated that the OLC policy you describe was not a deciding factor. Video is embedded in the below PBS link.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-mueller-clarifie...

Regarding indictments -- staff indictments were for unrelated crimes, and the indicted foreign entities were found to be unconnected to the campaign. The legal system cares about deductive logic, not inductive.
Word documents work well in version control. In case you're not aware, you can store word documents and do a diff between any 2 versions over git/svn on windows, it opens the diff view in Word.
Not at all. You'd just have to get buy-in for commit changes. There is no editorial selection, the whole point of wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. I am not arguing that Wikipedia as-is is ready for deployment as a legislative corpus, but that no technical barrier exists to the creation of something built along similar lines.
Yes, all domestic buildings in the US have their own earth ground, and this is and has been required by the NEC (National Electrical Code).

Often this is a thick, 8-foot long copper rod pounded into the ground not far from the electrical panel, connected to the panel by a ~1cm diameter copper cable. (There are other allowed methods, including using a similar copper electrode encased in concrete or in the building foundation.)

It looks like this (which shows a galvanized-steel rod rather than the more canonical copper, and shows a further connection to a second ground rod, which is not required everywhere):

http://www.wireyourownhouse.com/panel/images/grndrodexample....

Also, certain sub panels (e.g., in garages) will need their own separate earth ground, made the same way.

This "grounding electrode" is in addition to a connection ("bond") to the domestic cold-water pipe, usually done where the pipe enters the building. (That pipe itself may be a hunk of copper buried in the ground.) The electrical bond to the water service is not a substitute for the dedicated grounding electrode mentioned above, it's to ensure that the plumbing does not become electrically charged.
Ah, I see. The crossover market is huge in Asia so that should go well for them...
Here's my standpoint: I don't want a system where any binary can just read/write all my user files. Prompting me is the most straightforward way to implement this.

Most users already know this behavior from their phones, they aren't all so dumb and reckless. They reject permissions all the time, which we know from statistics. They don't just mindlessly say "YES" to everything, but even if they did, why put everyone at risk, just because most people aren't diligent?
WeWork plans to lay off 4k staff – FT
It's an engineered system. Nothing in the real world will be 100% perfect, ever.
Usually, when I have a "good" idea, I set myself a big milestone and work extremely hard and focused towards it.

Its usually new tech or in a new domain so I do all the research and get the workflow from beginning to end working.

The problem is, this milestone is usually 85% of a prototype and 20% of a product. And at this point all the fun and motivation is gone and "launching" was never so interesting to me as "getting this finally to work".

So usually I commit my code at this point, push it and go do something else. :)

Honestly it only ever worked once for me and that was when I showed the prototype to an audience and they kept me motivated to keep going but I have a feeling this is not the best way to go about it.
That makes sense - the limits are designed to stop you guiding a missile with one, not guiding a jet plane.
Here's the thing, we're never likely to find a place that allows everything. I think most people understand that.

But to find a provider of public access to archives more expansive than YouTube's, well, that's improvement.
The pre-Cortana version of the speech service ran on Midori, too, with safer code:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3t50xg/more_in...

They admit it wasn't quite full-GC stuff. It was close to the C++. It did use the language safety and parallelism to its advantage on top of the Midori OS. They ended up improving performance over the original.

Still worth mentioning even if not fully-GC. I mean, they could've always used a real-time GC if that was important. There's already commercial and academic ones. For some reason, these projects never try to do that. I think even those developing GC'd systems might not know about RT designs.
I wonder, how are all the "change this text in this other paragraph" laws carried out then? Wouldn't at least the courts need a "current" version of all laws with all modifications applied?
Not necessarily pursuit of money. Work. The world is built on work. If we stop working we go back to living in wilderness - literally and figuratively. Hobbies are fun, but they aren’t work. Work provides a different kind of satisfaction.
Thing is, you don't want regular polling every 15s! It's 5760 requests per day! For EVERY SOURCE! Trust me, your device battery won't like it. Won't like it at all.

> although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message ... and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether

If you want to exchange messages avoiding email or proprietary chats, you have a wide variety of open chat protocols and free and open source chat applications to choose from. XMPP, Matrix, IRC, mastodon, rocketchat, mattermost, ... dozens of them!
You should use verbose mode
For about $80 million my city of 2 million people got fiber on every main street, not digging open holes but drilling 6 inch tubes with lots of dark fiber for rent too. We have Gigabit Internet for $10/month in 80% of the city. Europe, no ISP lobby.
The bullet points I listed were quick summaries of a larger internal wiki that we are building and working directly with data providers to implement. We'll definitely slim it down to a nice guide for developers to reference when beginning the journey of building one of these APIs.

> On webhooks, how does the caller (like Shopify) care if the transaction is completed without errors?

Most services have rules for the number of times they will attempt to execute any single request before stopping. Further, they typically have rules for how many times they
will execute _any_ request before finally unregistering the webhook. Some will queue the events up and try for days, others will unregister the webhook after 5 failed attempts in a window.
Archive.is has constantly faced harassment from people filing DMCA claims and having domain names taken away for bullshit copyright claims.

I'm sure if they started doing this the Twitter outrage warriors wouldn't be happy about it and add to the difficulty of their job.
I am not sure it is a good idea to post internal slack conversations to a thread like this on HN.
You're welcome on SourceHut! Our business model is designed to incentivize us towards the users needs, so adding anti-features to push up a valuation or raise funds from VCs isn't in the cards.
There's a reason why second timezone watches are called "GMT": the original one (Rolex GMT-Master) was designed in partnership with Pan-Am Airlines:

* https://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/watch-review/everyone...
Most existing tools are written by coders for coders; they have diff engines and UIs built for plain-text source code, not human-readable rich text.

Word's "track changes" feature is good enough that an MVP for such a VCS product would need to have a very good UI.

(Source: talking about version control with a lawyer in the family.)
Google
I am trying to do a search and when I put in exactly what I want no matter what Google puts in something that's not even a word as far as I KNOW. I was asking if min number had toatvh phone number. People when searched yesterday I think said from porting a number. This is lg alcatel or something like that. Pay as you go and no number was ported if anyone can help with these 2 things thank you very much.
I kinda wish they'd rebase the repository to put that stuff in so git blame would still give you the original authors.
Considering this entire discussion is about the censorship/moderation of content with the intent to suppress political speech, I think it is important to be clear. Also, most people don't use the term "censorship" when they talk about moderating forums. It is as radical as saying "taxation = theft".
At first I was excited about DOH, until I realized that you are simply switching data collection from ISP to whomever you choose as your trusted resolve in DOH (most likely Google or Cloudflare). So ideally we need another machine that does DOH requests and then sends you the results, but at this point you might as well setup a full VPN.

DOH might be a good alternative in places like China, because Cloudflare knowing about your browsing history is a lot less dangerous than Chinese goverment knowing about it. Unless DOH providers will sell that data to China. Which they probably will.
Nice tool! Could also be used for data science ;)

https://dokomaps.com is a more human and user friendly alternative were locals create their own map, add comment and categories and share them.
I asked Scott, VP of Product, if he was okay with it. He was. In earnest, it should have been on an issue, so I could have linked to it directly.
Google tells me that "European people history" is all black people. What an advanced and amazing technology.
Bet there are always multiple headlines and they're A/B tested for the most views.
Some workplaces are really open and support their employees. I know cynics will say that can't be trusted, but as someone who has worked for FAANG companies, I did see a lot of employees venting anything and everything without fear of management.
Does anyone else think Snowden is full of it?
I'm not sure why, but I don't find Snowden to be very credible. I've been following his story for years, and I don't doubt the the authenticity of the documents that he released, but I what I doubt is his ability. I don't feel like based on the way he describes his experience that he has the technical skills / ability to do what he claims he did. I feel like he exaggerates his contribution. After all he has was basically a sharepoint admin.
i do not think “reflection” when i think “text me JSON events”
Because it's a protected right to discuss working conditions with your coworkers, and you might not have their personal email.

Nevertheless I agree-- I expect there would be better outcomes for these dissenters if they did the legwork to meet more clandestinely.
> so there is no plausible reason for you to infer that I was talking about Heartbleed.

Except that Heartbleed is the only OpenSSL bug I've heard of :) Also, I don't know who Kurt Roeckx is.

> there's a lot of evidence from software project metrics that the cost of modifying software can easily exceed the cost of rewriting it

But we're not talking about arbitrary modification, but about, at worst, fixing undefined behavior, which requires only local modifications (or Rust wouldn't be able to prevent that either). As an ultimate reduction, you could choose to rewrite the software in C and still use sound static analysis to show lack of undefined behavior.

> which means that the cost of reproducing its existing behavior in well-understood code is unbounded.

Yes, but that still doesn't mean that a rewrite is cheaper. Also, while your conclusion is correct, your statement of Rice's theorem is inaccurate: it's impossible to always tell what ever piece of software would do. It's certainly possible to tell what some software would do, at least in some cases, or writing software would be impossible to begin with.

BTW, if you're interested in the theory of software correctness, you might be interested in this blog post of mine, that lists relevant results: https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
Adblockers are a symptom of poor ethics on the part of web site owners and advertisers.

Given how obnoxious a lot of ads can be and how various site owners deploy them, I'm of the opinion that advertisers should be demanding basic standards of conduct. Quickly. Or risk completely losing any credibility. Trust has to be re-established. Your web site's continued existence is not part of the journey towards re-establishing that trust. Don't bother: you and your industry have committed unethical behaviour. You don't get to quote declining earnings now. You've caused massive trust issues and your declining advertising revenues are just a symptom.

Ever been to a download site and seen ads with big fake download buttons? Especially near the actual download link? That's unethical behaviour. Its also why I feel completely at ease if I simply block all ads from that page in the name of basic security. Nothing anyone can say would convince me to re-enable ads on that page. I am allowed to know which button is real. Simple as that. Its a real shame the site owner tolerates such ads. Their unethical behaviour means I must now defend against a deliberate attack. They could easily not put fake download links on there. But they didn't. Do you see the problem now? Advertisements are now associated with bad and/or deceptive behaviour.

What does all this mean? Simply put, I can now justifiably treat ads on websites with a basic level of suspicion. They are privacy nightmares and cannot be trusted to be benign. They aren't just "show this ad to eyeballs for awareness and generate leads for sales". They are now actively designed with fingerprinting, targeting, logging, tracking, identification. Some of them have defences to reestablish tracking in the face of adblocking such that fingerprinting involves more than cookies or other straightforward means. They are intended to follow site visitors around the internet like some creepy stalker. The extent to which this tracking goes simply demonstrates how desperate the need is to associate, track and identify every little aspect. This is the opposite of benign.

I'm now at the stage of almost considering ads as a form of malware. That is how bad the advertising companies have let things go. This is advertisers fault. Don't complain about losing revenue when even one straightforward example is so pointlessly deceptive to be indefensible. There are plenty of other examples I'm sure.

It's a pity you can't just put ads on websites. But, no, you have to make it as creepy as possible. The distance between creepy and criminal isn't that far. People are noticing and they don't like what they find. You think it's bad now but wait until it really takes off. Adblocking may well become the least of your worries.
The fire in crowded theatre comment is kind of a tell that you dont actually know what the history of is and limits are on free speech in the US. It was a comment from the 1920s prior to the dismantling of restrictions on free speech over the next 90 years of court rulings. Plus it may actually be protected speech.
Tesla delivered 1,800 more cars in Q3 versus Q2, and somehow delivered $551MM more net income.
I have a Garmin Fenix watch and the long battery life is why I chose it - it's much better than most smart watches. I charge it every week and have over 50% battery life by the next week.
Almost any GNSS receiver is by design power hungry. Modern mostly SDR constructions have faster time to (reasonable) fix, but still it involves large amounts of essentially opportunistic computantion to acquire and track the CDMA downlinks. This is one of the arguments why Spy-Fi style inconspicuous and globally accurate and useful trackers are nonsense. The whole process of associating with 2G GSM network and sending one MO-SM message is incredibly energy expensive, but getting reasonable GNSS fix is in completely different barpark.
I disagree that the argument against a legal right holds any water. Just because the text says it is incoherent, doesn't make it incoherent. The argument the text makes to claim it is incoherent is that you are legally required to pay taxes.

The problem with that as the argument is that taxes are on income. Income has many forms, but is usually understood as wages paid for goods or services. The wages must be paid to you first, then taxes deducted. The exchange of money for value (as goods or services) is made first. At that point the money is yours. The exchange has completed. Therefore the taxation on income is taxing money that is already yours, irrespective of your obligation to pay a portion of it to the state.

Taxation occurs by rule of law, therefore taxation most certainly is not theft. Use of the term "theft" is dramatic rhetoric.

This argument attempts to construe taxation as something other than "taking", though, and that simply is not true.

The moral stance put forth by the article is literally "you don't deserve the income you get, therefore the state is obligated to take it".
It was clear while Dell ended its exclusivity with Intel, it was still an Intel shop. They continue to push Intel machines across all front, offering AMD merely as a checkbox to avoid any anti competitive or legal problems.

HPE on the other hand tends to be a little more supportive.

And I could only guess there are lots of push from Intel to ask their customer not to offer any AMD machines.
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Which is exactly why government should have nothing to do with internet standards.
There are other ad networks.
"Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause..."

It's not even take it or leave it, one has to agree first in order to leave.

It seems whoever approved this, forgot why people arrived to GitLab from GitHub.
Yup, listen to this guy. I have the top of the line MacBookPro and Luminar is not even barely usable even with nothing else running on it.
The features are ok, but it's basically an unusable product.
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?