skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> thisISAlmostLikeaPassword

Why not just add real HTTP authentication to the site instead?

One should always be wary of password-like mechanisms like secret paths, secret ports, etc. since none of these things are made to be secret, and could be disclosed by something unforeseen. (Paths, for instance, are saved in your browser history/cache, your HTTP caching proxy, if any, and also in the server’s access logs.)
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Then there would be unfilled jobs for firemen, which would increase the wages for firemen, which would prompt more people to move into a career as a firefighter, which would increase the supply of firemen until the jobs willing to pay the new prevailing wage were mostly filled, approximately.

That's exactly how pricing signals work. "Firemen" is not a fixed set of people.
The next extension might as well be to February 31st.
It is not necessary to be able to deal with unanticipated situations, only to be able to recognise them as such. For self driving taxis, a remote human operator could then intervene.
Pace Fredkin.
Africa doesn't rely so much on international agreements as much as corporate paramilitary and colonial military forces to enforce foreign interests.
> Step 1: Rich people lobby to lower taxes

There are more poor people than rich people so the poor people had to vote for those that lowered the taxes at the expense of the firefighting services, which in turn means that it cannot be that clear cut.
IMAP has two ways of numbering messages. It is important to be clear whether you are discussing message sequence numbers (which are dense, and compacted on EXPUNGE) or unique IDs (which are not compacted). GP was complaining about MSNs, your reply is about UIDs.
Only if the said lawyers were doing those for the benefit of the people. Many of those lawyers would kiss Zucks ass for a million. Hearings are just theaters until we get money out of politics.
At some point they should give the UK an indefinite extension so the UK can just remain in the process of leaving for the next several decades.

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution...
Flagged as off topic. And probable rubbish comment thread.
Oldest known temple discovered to date. Oddly enough the conjecture is that we were still hunter gatherers while building these temples which defies belief. No one takes extensive breaks from hunting to go build a temple. You need agricultural surplus to build common areas.
To me it's far more complex than this - the vote was a) extremely tight and b) fought on the basis of outright lies (on both sides, as I recall). Not only this but the original question was simply whether to leave the EU - with no consideration given to the fact there's a near-infinite number of ways that can be done (no deal, deal, Norway-style, etc).

I believe these are the reasons that the government + parliament have found it so hard/failed to come to a conclusion. It's also the reason I don't think this whole saga is anywhere near done.

Personally I'd like to see a second ref on specific options, but that seems unlikely now.
This on the same day Waymo cars seem to be roaming around entirely with nobody in or around them on public streets[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1YLHW65M8
When you have time and money to pursue a hobby, its amazing what kind of cool things one can collect. The guy who created Powerpoint retired in the early 80's and devoted a lot of time to the history of the concertina.
Right, but should you really be blaming the people who hire the extra private policemen, or the people who decide not to hire more public ones? It seems as though it's more effective to push for more public policemen. The same applies to firemen: it's more productive to push for more public firemen than to blame the people who hire private ones due to a shortage thereof.
@webwielder2 "This is what dystopia looks like."

Its so hilarious that you were getting downvoted/flagged for pointing it out. (In case you were wondering how we will get there, just imagine the average HN reader for your answer).
Very designed. I'm just glad I don't have to read that font on a regular basis. One of those sad cases where “design” is the diametrical opposite of usability.
Step 6: Blame the poor people, then threaten to take away any federal aid for not voting for the GOP.
They won't need any for a while after this.
I can think of two examples.

In LA there are busways that are built on former train paths. When they need to divert for whatever reason (road repairs, special event routes, etc) they can just make a turn and act like any other bus. Something like the Hyperloop car carrier could work here or at the very least an expansion of bus ways could provide train like access with a lower infrastructure cost.

Amtrak will also let a certain number of vehicles onto some of their train lines. I don’t know how well that works, but it seems like for a well run popular route you could have a ferry like experience.
Don’t you have the cart before horse; isn’t the acronym derived from this defintion?
I get the same message about 6 times in the console as well, but in the end it seems to start playing anyway.
Burying the power lines underground does make sense to me, but I live in a quiet inland forest in an area that hasn't seen large earthquakes in recorded history, and I don't know anything about the area affected in this particular case.

Could it be that they anticipate that future earth quakes could cause such devastation that repairs to underground cables would be too difficult/time consuming?
Is there really a shortage of firefighters? Or is there a shortage of firefighters willing to work for the rates public service offers? How high are those rates anyway? Because given how much public servants are typically paid worldwide, I can easily imagine that the private firefighting company isn't competing with public firefighting jobs, but with all the other jobs a would-be firefighter can get that pay better than fighting fires.
If you have enough training data cars encountering “new” situations should be very rare. I don’t think it’s a deal breaker for level 5 autonomy.
We find that the near-miss group naturally received significantly less NIH funding in the first five years following treatment, averaging $0.29 million less per person (Fig. 2d, t-test p-value < 0.05, Cohen’s d = 0.28), which is consistent with prior studies. Yet the funding difference between the two groups disappeared in the second five-year period (Fig. 2d, t-test p-value > 0.1, Cohen’s d = 0.02).

From the paper [0]. This does not look like the rejects found similar opportunities in more suitable places.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12189-3
It appears that CA power line vegetation management is woefully lacking. Given the fire risks, the right of way for high tension power lines should be essentially bare of vegetation.

PG&E is less than one-third done with its 2019 tree-trimming work

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-is-less-th...
A: "You have selected Amazon's Prime Fire service"

A: "A fire-engine will be dispatched within 20 minutes"

--- In another part of the country ---

A: "We're sorry we don't provide Prime fire service for your location, please direct your query to the local authorities"

Local fire department: "We will try and answer your call as soon as possible, but due to budget cuts from a reduced corporate tax income we have had to reduce our services in the area."
I was just enjoying that our clocks have changed back to UTC for the winter. I do some activities where times are in UTC all year. How can I struggle with adding or removing an hour?

> It amazes me...

Exactly this!
I'm not sure what you think people voted so clearly on. No vote has ever been very clear about what the people wanted concerning Brexit. There has never been a public vote on a hard Brexit, merely on an intention to leave the EU, without any plan or specification about how. Many people campaigning for the Leave vote argued that the UK would stay in the common market, so you could easily argue that the people voted to stay in the common market.

It's true that what the people want is getting ignored by the political class; polls show a majority of the public wants to stay in the EU, now that is has become clear what leaving means, but the government keeps insisting on the hardest possible Brexit, against both common sense and the will of the people.
I suppose it remains to be seen if someone can make a PoC. I'm skeptical but ultimately I do not know enough to decide either way.

> it should not be difficult to ...

Famous last words.
Not being sarcastic but cars can go “on” trains.... checkout EuroTunnel for example
And what if the connection is down?
Private firefighting dates back to ancient Rome.

> The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. He took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the fire fighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire, if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Rome
And in a representative democracy, there is an ability for the public to remove said lawyer. We need to do that.

Private Corporation there is no such method.
Would you have been making the same argument if the situation was reversed?

I.e. the elected leaders held a position you strongly disagreed with, and there had been a referendum on the question in which the opposition to that idea had won?
What do you think the typical delay would be between identifying an unknown situation, and a remote operator assessing the situation and taking positive control of the vehicle?

If your answer is more than a small fraction of a second, I have some concerns.
Searching Jira tickets with Alfred
I guess it's cheaper than paying out the insurance.
The entire video loads but Firefox does block it from playing. Am on version 70 and have disabled autoplay as well. But I've come across other sites that are somehow able to play a video even with autoplay blocked.
I am fully aware of what he's trying to say, but it's wrong. We're talking about communication of ideas between humans and computers. The claim that GUIs have enabled music production is nonsense given the vast amount of music produced without it. Same for desktop publishing. I can use beautiful fonts and images using TeX, for example.

A command-line interface is no more a "magic incantation" than pointing and clicking in the right places is. In fact, I would argue that language is less magic than pointing and clicking because the rules of language are available for anyone to learn, while the rules of pointing and clicking are designed and only understood by the application developer.

Damn me for having a different opinion, though.
Or more likely slowly taking high resolution photos of foreign satellites and/or trying to sniff any RF coming off of them.
Hm, "self-driving car roads"-exclusive roads or lanes don't seem like a bad idea, [edit] they could really help in adoption of self-driving cars, and cars supporting automatic chaining into a "train"-like construct[/edit]. Except maybe that roads are expensive and require plenty of space; after all, cars are a highly inefficient mode of transportation :(
> Personally, I'd love to simply find a way to make "mass transit" more workable.

It's very workable already. Give it priority and separate lanes where possible, consider giving them exclusive use of roads in some areas, prioritise frequency over speed, maintain the vehicles regularly and replace them eventually. Finally, provide dedicated on-demand transport for people with special needs. The end. It works.
At no point would there have been a 2/3 majority to join the EU in the first place, though.
What happened to the ditch Boris Was going to dig?
Honestly, the Yandex self driving experiments seem much more credible than what Waymo is doing.

Waymo is testing its cars in a situation without any snow, rain, mostly without street parking, without pedestrians, in a city so hostile to pedestrians no one’s walking around.

99% of the work isn’t in getting the self driving to work in perfectly controlled sunshine conditions as Waymo has it working right now, 99% of the work is in getting all those edge cases working.

It’s gonna be decades before waymo cars can handle small mixed use streets with children playing on them, pedestrians, cyclists, and street vendors in a european city.

What they’re doing is amazing given the tech they have — but it’s not enough to reach actual level 5. It’s the same issue why most self-driving solutions only work on highways.
Isn't this the "the poor [in America] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" phenomenon?
Similar to the LA example -- the O-Bahn in Adelaide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway
Problem is that it is not very good pr if somebody dies or hurts badly every time cars encounter a "new" situation.
like some sort of train that a car could drive onto and be transported?

This has existed for years.
My take is that product managers care mostly about what functionalities were delivered and if the requirements are met. If the development teams deliver a quick and dirty solution and it meets some requirements then they check the requirement as delivered, and that's it.

When this happens then the devteam's negotiating position changes completely, because they are no longer arguing about how to allocate resources to deliver a functionality and instead they are asking to waste time rewriting something that was was already delivered and is supposed to be up and running.
Die in
It was only an advisory referendum, not a binding one. (It would actually have been declared non-binding had it been binding, due to the Leave campaign breaking the law.)

It's not the referendum that's to blame here, it's the government that's using the referendum as an excuse to push through their own ideas.
I have and it a tremendous story. I tried a couple of times to read it and couldnt get into it until I got the audiobooks.

I think Patrick Rothfuss is a similar situation?
In my country the burying has already been done in dense areas decades ago and is progressing in the countryside.

Granted, it's about the least earthquake prone area in the world. Also differences in grid architecture between USA and Europe might make burying more expensive in USA. https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/north-american-ver...
Pull off and top, same as would happen if the car suffered a mechanical failure.
Both are to blame. I'm not much of a statist, but if there's something that clearly must be assured by the government by means of taxation it is the police force and the firemen. If there's not enough police or firefighters, taxes must be raised or diverted from elsewhere.

Morally, I think that the people who push for private security and firefighters are doing a net damage to society.
Bike and scooter racks on a train. Rental kiosks at stations. This is a solved problem, it just requires investment.
Perhaps, but one of the most important things about biology and medicine is that there is often a cheaper, lower tech solution to the problem you are trying to address. Often, chasing tech and trying to deploy it for humanitarian purposes works poorly. Look at how long it takes billionaires to understand that mosquito netting makes more sense than mosquito lasers.
I think that firefighers may have technically privatised before hand for resource extraction applications just because they don't like to burn money and the infastructure is generally further away. And well naval damage control is technically a subset of firefighting as well. Of course that isn't quite comparable as it is the opposite of dystopian - simply doing what is neccessary when help is far away.
Also the remote human operator doesn’t have the same incentives to avoid an accident.
Peter Strzok, Lisa Page?
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“Very rare” doesn’t cut it for modern safety standards.
It’s gonna be decades before...

Citation needed.

We can very accurately identify children, pedestrians, cyclists, and street vendors with machine vision. And with the LIDAR that Waymo is using, very accurately tell where they are and more importantly where they're going. Stopping for those things is pretty low on the "problems that need more work for Level 5" agenda.
I have similar admiration of hardware hacks.

My current favorite is the one that dumped the SecureROM out of the iPhone 6 via PCI-e: http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmedma, http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie

I'm partly impressed by the tooling used; most of the coolness (to me) is the author's self-confidence in his hunch that the SoC _didn't_ have its MMU set up properly, and the way he followed his nose in determining that he was probably right.

I still wonder exactly how much was sunk into the project, before it was possible to determine that the MMU was indeed broken. Heh.
I agree his answers about why political ads shouldn't be fact checked weren't good, but I found some of these "zinger" clips on Twitter really silly.

> Mr. Zuckerberg, what year and month did you personally first become aware of Cambridge Analytica?”

Unless I missed that the hearing was highly related to this, why would he remember this exact date offhand?

You'd be better declining to answer this question than guess and get it wrong which seems like what he did. Asking if he became aware of them before or after a specific event would have been much more reasonable. There's tons of important events in my life where I don't know the month it happened because it's not important to remember.

I think he's right to say "I don't know" when he can't be completely sure. That's not a zinger.

Likewise, it's not a zinger when you ask a really long question that contains several factual claims that you require clarification on, or try to force a yes/no answer to a loaded question (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_question#Complex_quest...).
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Here’s one i’m really proud of, i crafted it when learning js a while back. Its a one liner that flattens arbitrarily nested array. Its recursive though, so i guess it has its limits. I remember commenting something along the lines of “dark magic functional prog” (thats how i found it a second ago in GH actually):

const flatten = arr => ((flat = [].concat(...arr)) => flat.some(Array.isArray) ? flatten(flat) : flat)()

Its simple, but i was - and still am - way to proud of it ;p
Terrible article, perfuse with one terrible, fatal misconception: Systems openness is essential to confidence. Concealing breaches or even vulnerabilities does orders of magnitude more damage to public confidence than disclosing them and remediating them. The cover-up mentality is why the constitutional heroine Reality Winner is imprisoned & gagged.
> Sure, if you want to introduce inherent DoS vulnerabilities into your IPC subsystem, not to mention slow down IPC so much that it's practically unusable.

This is nonsense. There could be DoS vulnerabilities in implementations, but they are not inherent to async message passing.
The level 5 of autonomy is defined by the fact that the car can handle those new and extreme situations. I think that what you mention would match level 4 autonomy.

For example, definitions from https://www.techrepublic.com/article/autonomous-driving-leve...:

> Level 4: This is what is meant by "fully autonomous." Level 4 vehicles are "designed to perform all safety-critical driving functions and monitor roadway conditions for an entire trip." However, it's important to note that this is limited to the "operational design domain (ODD)" of the vehicle--meaning it does not cover every driving scenario.

> Level 5: This refers to a fully-autonomous system that expects the vehicle's performance to equal that of a human driver, in every driving scenario--including extreme environments like dirt roads that are unlikely to be navigated by driverless vehicles in the near future.
2 * (1..12).reduce(&:+)

You could also use the closed summation formula: (n^2 + n) / 2. In our case that shortens to just 12*13=156.
Your metric is only applicable within the context of the problem domain. In 3-d graphics, the inverse square root (1 divided by the square root of x) is an extremely common operation (such as for normalizing vectors), but the inverse cube root pretty much isn't used, so it's safe to assume you will not need to extend it to arbitrary powers.

As the designer of the code, you would understand that the inverse square root is a standalone problem.
This number:

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This is a 1811-digit illegal prime number, which when unpacked into binary, becomes a compressed ELF executable which will decrypt DVDs. This was one of many ways used to enable people who had legally purchased a DVD with copy protection to play it on Linux. Here's the story behind finding the prime: https://web.archive.org/web/20070223075434/http://asdf.org/~...

Aside from that, the qrpff perl scripts that became t-shirts (https://web.archive.org/web/20011221024307/http://www.copyle...) were another fun and illegal way to point out the stupidity of the DMCA. But they aren't so pretty ;)
Here's the article on Star Control II by the same author (Jimmy Maher) as the OP:

https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/star-control-ii/

Although I love Maher's "Digital Antiquarian", I feel his opinion on SC2 is a tad unfair.

He basically criticizes the game for having a living, evolving game world where you can lose simply by taking too long. That's one of the things that originally blew my mind about SC2 back in 1992: it truly feels like a universe that's not artificially made for the player. You're just one ship trying to understand great forces that are in motion on their own, and will eventually crush you.
I expected another extension. There have been so many extensions already, I feel conditioned to expect they'll just keep doing it. It feels like noone on either side actually wants Brexit to happen, but they've politicked each other into a corner, and they're all too proud to back down. It will be a shock when a deadline hits and they finally don't extend it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_European_C...

Yes: 67.23%