skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So: Uber put a car on the road that was not designed to detect pedestrians except in a few limited conditions. Someone died because of their gung-ho approach to safety. How is that even remotely acceptable? Really hope we see people being held responsible for this...
Slightly off topic but I love Adrian Coyler’s blog. Since I never pursued graduate studies in CS I never really got into reading research papers but would love to start reading some on my commute to work.

Does anyone have any recommendations for finding interesting papers? Do I need to buy subscriptions? Is there a list of “recommended” papers to read like we have with programming literature e.g. The Pragmatic Programmer?
its quite easy to enter it on foot - unless you mean "unintentionally" then I agree with you.
I’m reluctant to take it, but then I wonder if a few of my close relatives have already taken it, isn’t the horse mostly out of the barn already?
These people need to stop finding faults with the airplanes I fly on regularly! /s

Its getting to the point that I'm actually nervous about flying Boeing now. I took 6-8 flights on the 737-Max each year 2016-2019 and now I've taken 4 flights on the 787-Dreamliner since March.

I know that it is still statistically improbable that one of these flights to have an issue, but it still raises my blood pressure since I fly predominantly on Boeing aircraft.
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You don't seem to be getting the point. Vim is for code. Typora is for documents. They are different tools tailored specifically for different jobs. You wouldn't use microsoft word to write code, would you?

If you like vim and want to use it for markdown, that's great. I personally like a more specialized tool. Then again, I'm also a writer and spend more time in that mode than most programmers. If you spend all your time programming and only occasionally need to write a markdown document, then I can see the appeal of the setup you're describing.
It's still terribly verbose. C++17 barely started to get templates under control. Look at how many characters you need to say "if" and "true"
I build a Windows Service which reports to a SaaS. As-is, I have to uninstall the app and use a lot of specific tooling if I want to test a larger change and not go through a bunch of joops. I don't think I'm a good use case for VS web beside maybe fixing a typo in my repo while I'm on the go.

Years ago, I'd have called myself a dying breed, but I don't think thats true,
And that reason is? I have very good reason to think it will, as do the plasma physicists who work on magnetic confinement.
The machine learning part could have gone better: it didn't expect a pedestrian and jumped between vehicle, other, bicylce and unknown. But that would have been good enough, the failure is in the code around that. When your classification is unstable or low confidence you can't trust it, which in a safety critical system would mean falling back to something else. That could be using a different classifier (e.g. linear interpolation of the object's position to find out if we come anywhere close to it) or just giving up and stopping the vehicle. Just continuing as if the fluctuating results were reliable wouldn't be acceptable in any industry.
When the 2nd Boeing crashed and the whole Boeing saga started, I came across this (boldly named and maybe a bit exaggerated in the form) website:

https://www.thelastboeinginspector.com/the-last-inspectors-c...

(the navigation is on top of the page, you need JS enabled to see it)

It seems there's a lot of people inside Boeing who can say "interesting" things. The guy who created the above website was terminated in 2006.
I find extremely hard to believe it wasn't top of mind for the Uber engineers. I think it's more likely they just fucked it up or deliberately ignored it and are letting the NTSB think it was negligence because it's a less harmful outcome for them.
So, self-driving BRT? Probably will only happen when self-driving cars do in general.
> I don't know a single renter or home owner in NYC who actually wants Airbnb guests in their building.

If your opinion is based on this personal knowledge then it's obviously flawed. Because for sure the owners (and even renters) selling on AirBNB obviously want guests in
their building. I emphasize their, because it's their building also.

There are lots of businesses that we, the masses, hate, yet continue to operate and do quite well thank you very much. AirBNB isn't a monopoly but they do have the platform network effect going for them, so anything maximizing revenue (even at the cost of public opinion) is arguably a good thing.
I bet the doctors’ lobby will deny that payments will have any impact on their behavior. The same way they deny that working 24 hour shifts and being sleep deprived has no impact on their performance.
Certainly better than hot piss.
Generating wealth from employees, has nothing to do with generating wealth from customer data.

If what is of value is customer data, customers can and should own and control the entity generating the monetary value from their own data.
I mean with regards to Facebook in particular, bad settings can cause genocide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45449938
At least some US states don't have a legal concept of "right of way", specifically to avoid the tacit implication that the person who has right of way is under no responsibility to avoid a collision if someone in their path doesn't.

e.g., where I live, the traffic laws are defined in terms of who has the responsibility to yield, and undergirded by a catch-all requirement that everybody who is able to act to avoid a collision must do so.
right but the person I was responding to isn't using typescript, they were just considering it. For a non typescript user lodash get would be fine.
What do you mean by "embedded database libraries"? Libraries like SQLite or RocksDB? What kind of issue are you thinking of?
One can only claim ignorance for so long. They know what they’re programming.

But yes, managers and the like involved should also be going to jail. This cavalier, negligent attitude needs to be dealt with yesterday.
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According to Sophie Wilson, one of the reasons Acorn decided to go ahead with their own CPU design was the fact that in 1983 the 68000 and other contemporary CPUs were bottle-necked on memory access.
That would be the best solution. It wasn't even a problem before a political camp made it one. I hope the US finds a solution, because other countries are just not capable to do so.
Openwrt 19.07 Rc1
You can recognize something as being bad even before you have a solution.
I'm aware :) the person I was responding to is not using typescript
Reviewing their social media.
Wow.. that's quite long.
>On January 1, 1983, in what is known as a "flag day", NCP was officially rendered obsolete when the ARPANET changed its core networking protocols from NCP to the more flexible and powerful TCP/IP protocol suite, marking the start of the modern Internet.

It's a bit of a shame this sort of thing is impossible now. There's so many billions of devices on the Internet now that there's no way to have a flag day for stuff like IPv4.
It could, and I thought of mentioning it, but I haven't seen it in the wild anywhere. Probably it would just add clutter and look confusing when the list is sorted by something else. The triple-click UI seems to be a fairly established way to do it.
My email is not valuable enough for the US or the EU to put pressure on them. If you are so worried you have to encrypt your email anyway. A Russian hoster likely would not bend. Be advised that a Russian IP address does not help you to pass Spam filters...
Yes, that is the big tech talking point.

However, the reality is big tech needs customer data, customer data does not need big tech.
It would allow the government to do what governments do with utilities (say electric utilities or oil pipelines). Prices could be regulated so facebooks profit margin goes from 30-40% to a “just and reasonable” 10%. Moderation of illegal content could stay, but there would be enforceable “non-discrimination” requirements so Republicans could sue Facebook for alleged discrimination. The government could impose GPDR type protections without legislation.
It has absolutely nothing to do with "colonialism" as an intersectional buzzword. People take credit for other people's discoveries all the time(Edison for instance), and in this article this isn't even the case. The person who actually identified the virus "ebola" isn't the black guy that took blood samples of infected patients. Saying otherwise is rewriting history to fit an intersectional narrative, which is no better than what you call colonial mentality.

Should teams get credit for discoveries instead of individuals? Sure and both people should get recognition. But let's not be hyperbolic here or claim this is the result of "colonialism", whatever it means in the mouth of people who use that word out of context.

I'm baffled as to how some people always fall for that old intersectional shtick of claiming there is racism,sexism,colonialism everywhere and in everything, just because someone says so. It completely weakens the meaning of these words and turn them into insignificant weasel words because after all they apply to anything...
In my opinion, the solution is simple:

If any “platform” censors beyond removing illegal or copyrighted content or spam, they should have their “platform” status revoked, and they should be considered a publisher.

This prevents such companies from using “platform” status as a cost saving mechanism to help them become large monopolies. Companies like Facebook would not have been able to take over so much of the market if they had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on curating content to prevent lawsuits, etc.

I also don’t think of this as some kind of punishment. It’s perfectly reasonable to want to set up some kind of publishing company that has user-generated content; it’s just not reasonable to expect such a company to grow to such a global scale as Twitter or Facebook.

Edit: added “spam” to reasons
I would like to try this but don’t have an account.

Years ago, a company had a very good Haskell web IDE, that I liked very much, but they phased out support for it.

Internally at Google, they also have a fantastic all web dev environment.

It is possible, and having a lot of cloud “muscle” for fast builds and tests makes up for some inconvenience.
It is. It’s based on DirectX. I think version 9.
Most of the suggestions here is suggesting ways of restarting services when they go down, which is a good start, but that doesn't actually solve the issue I hit last night...

My system integrates with an external system and what happened is this external system started sending me unexpected data, which my system wasn't able to handle, because I didn't expect it so never thought to test for it -- the issue was that I was trying to insert IDs into a uuid database field, but this new data had non-uuid IDs. Because the original IDs were always generated by me, I was able to guarantee that the data was correct, but this new data was not generated by me. Of course, sufficient defensive programming would have avoided this as this database error shouldn't have prevented other stuff from working, but my point is that mistakes get made (we're humans after all) and things do get overlooked.

The problem is, restarting my service doesn't prevent this external data from getting received again, so it would simply break again as soon as more is sent and the system would be in this endless reboot loop until a human fixes the root cause.

That's a problem that I worry about, no matter how hard I try to make my system auto-healing and resilient (I don't know of any way to fix it other than putting great care into programming defensively), but again, we're human, so something will always slip through eventually...

Some people are suggesting to out-source an on-call person. That seems to me like the only way around this particular case. (The other suggestions can still be used to reduce the amount of times this person gets paged, though)
And that will solve what exactly
So you’re saying it wasn’t just the generics, but the name-brand drugs, too?
Provisionally the A320neo's replacement is expected to be a clean-sheet redesign, despite the basic design being two decades newer. Of course, we'll see whether even a common type rating (not type certificate) is sufficient for airlines to not baulk at the idea.
Just last week i heard a story from an older friend about a fighter jet crash investigation he was involved in, where the cause basically was that an engineer wired down some bolts (as required) but trimmed the ends of the wires without recovering the trimmed part. That little piece eventually found its way into the main stick mechanics, causing enough resistance at the wrong moment, preventing the pilot from recovering from a tight dive and killing him.
> A bit like sticking a magnet on an engine block and getting loads more horsepower !

Typical motors used in electric cars are a lot more powerful and efficient than their internal combustion engine counterparts ;)
Same way it works right now - John Doe forms a company, gets it on Kickstarter, YC, whatever, gobs VC money, then sells his company to CompanyA. Everyone gets profit.

What's not to like and where are patents in this picture?
It's astonishing to me that emergency brakes were off. The investigation report clearly shows that the pedestrian was classified incorrectly, alternating multiple times between wrong classifications, and the path prediction was off. Despite all of those failures, it was still correctly determined that a crash was imminent 1.2 seconds before impact, and a second later realized that avoidance had failed - at some point around 1.2 seconds before the crash, AEB should have engaged.

Instead, as the report says:

> The vehicle was factory-equipped by Volvo with several advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), including forward collision warning (FCW) system and automatic emergency braking (AEB) system. However, Volvo collision avoidance ADAS were not active at the time of the crash; the interaction of the Volvo ADAS and ATG ADS is further explored in section 1.9.

It was apparently disabled by Uber because it was difficult to run the Volvo systems alongside their own, which strikes me as highly irresponsible. Autonomous driving software relies on multiple redundancy, and AEB is the last-resort system for when everything else, from automatic maneuvers to alerting the driver, has already failed.
A solution can be worse than the problem it allegedly solved.
The volumetric power density of fusion reactors is inherently lower than fission reactors, because of the square cube law and the need for the fusion reactor to radiate it's output through the wall of the reactor. This means th e nuclear core of the fusion reactor will be both much larger and much more complex than a fission reactor.
The Swiss method, unlike Mutually Assured Destruction, does not induce fear, and it it not intended to - it is intended to induce caution and self-interest in potential invaders.
Yeah. It was a very good start but as usual MS abandoned it before it could get really good.
The idea of “junk” dna has been invalid for about a decade
~ $2000 for whole genome sequencing (WGS). Whole exome sequencing is cheaper but much less precise, ~$700.
Economic detriment from unfair and unbalanced cloud computing contracts
Shields.io: Quality metadata badges for open source projects
I think a broker or marketmaker has in the order of minutes to bust a trade that is "clearly erroneous" and it has to be immediately reported. The exact time period varies by exchange but for example for nasdaq it's 30mins for some trades and 60mins for others https://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=ClearlyErroneous For the exchanges I'm more familiar with (in Europe) it's less.

The criteria for clearly erroneous trades are incorrect price, size or security though so I don't think this would qualify.

Most likely scenario here is that there is an investigation into fraud and that any gains here get forfeit but users are still required to make good any losses. Separately I would expect RobinHood gets a hefty fine as well.
Looks like model number 06/66 or better in cpuinfo. Both AWS and Gcloud standard vm instances appear to be Skylake ;(

Honestly, base64 has always been pretty fast for me, even large bitmaps >100kb. Compared to net latency it may be imperceptible to end user. But it still makes a terrific reference paper!
Maybe works for Uber and GM, but in Europe jaywalking doesn't exist. If they want to sell cars here they will have to deal with being responsible for almost every pedestrian they hit, because that's the standard we already set for human drivers.
> Most airlines typically try to purchase their fleet all from the same manufacturer if they can.

Most of the big ones have a mix of Boeing and Airbus (plus smaller Canadair/Embraer etc. ones for their regionals). Some of the budget airlines are notable for having a single aircrat or single manufacturer fleet - Ryan Air, Southwest, Jet Blue.
> What will happen to New York Times when its running sexually explicit, beheading, animal torture, etc? They will get sued.

The NYT isn't a public utility nor a public broadcaster. I'm curious what you think would happen to the New York Times if they were to get sued in your imaginary hypothetical?
not impossible, but it would require something like a world/cold war to force.
All progress involves a certain amount of irreducible risk and I'm sure that any self driving car program, even if well run, will at some point end up killing someone by mistake - though hopefully after far more than the normal number of miles driven per fatality average.

But in this case it looks like Uber was really cutting corners that they shouldn't have cut and I think that Uber does deserve sanction for that.
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A thing that keeps me up at night
For one thing, it removes opportunities for more efficient content-aware compression elsewhere in the data path.
Do you think the pilot had any idea what happened or did he simply die never knowing?
Yeah agreed. I remember trying around 15 different dedicated editors and Typora was the first one to really grab my attention. I've been using it ever since. I don't usually buy much software, but would be happy to buy Typora if it was a one time payment.
Whether it will be neat depends on the reactor design. MIT's for example 3D-prints the inner core and replaces it annually; it's surrounded by molten salt with a lot of lithium, and everything around that hinges so it can be opened up easily. Regardless, the waste won't need long-term containment.

The economics of fusion reactors will also depend on the design. Some look economically feasible, others not so much. But it's clear that fusion is possible, contrary to the comment above.
I don't need to make a throwaway account to tell the parent that they probably don't want to live in Texas.
So long as everything works perfectly, sure. But there's nobody in place to hit the brakes in an emergency scenario. Releasing a button as an emergency measure seems a bit unreliable, since humans tend to clench their muscles when there's an emergency.
The source code isn't on Github. The VSCode source code is, this Visual Studio Online is not. The docs repo isn't the source code.
Yes, the Golden State Killer never submitted his DNA. He was matched from his relatives' DNA.
Some of the comments are suggesting totally different technologies. Don’t do that. You can stay on AWS and achieve the reliability you need. This isn’t the sort of problem that should lead you to rebuild your whole stack.

The question you should be asking is, how can I make my service automatically recover from this problem. It depends why exactly it crashed. If a simple restart fixes the problem, there are different ways you can automate this process, like Kubernetes or just writing scripts.

I’m happy to give more detailed advice if you would like, my email is in my profile.
> Mainly, I want to be able to easily copy-paste between the editor and other programs. This is hard with vim because yank doesn't pull into the system clipboard by default. In my 11 years of working with vim, I've only found a reliable way to configure that behaviour twice, but it stopped working.

If you run Vim with +clipboard support then you can yank things directly to and from your system clipboard by setting `set clipboard=unnamedplus`.

Then Vim copy / pasting will work seamlessly like any other program on your system.

You can also have it seamlessly work with tmux too and even with WSL if you're using terminal Vim in Windows through WSL.

Here's a video that demos how it all works and also has a link to my dotfiles: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/getting-copy-paste-to-work-in...
ACM subscription helps, since their "Digital Library" has pretty good coverage of the CS literature. This is something that your employer might want to sponsor.

A strategy to find interesting papers that are worth reading as a novice in the field, is to pick any current paper that is interesting to you and look for heavily cited references.
The following websites have citation data for papers:

[1] SemanticScholar.com

[2] GoogleScholar.com

[3] citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
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I'm not arguing against them.

They exist in the US, so there must be a reason why they aren't as popular. I was outlining my reasons. Preferences are simply preferences.
> So the point is that it wasn't something she sought out.

I never claimed it was. It remains something she chose of her own free will. No one forced her or bullied her; they simply described the pros and cons and let her choose. You've still refused to answer my question, so I have to assume you agree that she would have denied that choice to others.

That makes her a hypocrite. That's all I'm saying.

It does no credit to Objectivist philosophy to refuse to face facts.
It comes with several disadvantages. Like no air circulation (except air condition, what is probably a must in such a house), mold problems etc. ...
Just remember that besides beefy bare metal server, dedicated specialized network cards, they are also using DPDK, which is user space network stack.
It's an interesting idea, but for a whole bunch of biological reasons, I suspect it would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible.

First, we don't actually have the ability (as far as I'm aware) to use a particular genetic sequence to activate some drug that would work systemically. Second, we don't have the ability (as far as I'm aware) to recognize an identifying sequence, then do DNA damage elsewhere in a life-sustaining gene. Lastly, it takes so long to identify the output of a gene (protein, siRNA, rRNA, or whatever) and make a drug targeting that output that even if you were able to target a coding region, it would be far faster to kill them by more traditional means.
I think the story of how we are becoming of how we are becoming resistance is a false narrative. Doctors giving antibiotics to freely is an issue but the fact that they are allowed to use antibiotics in our animal feed is probably more likely the cause why this problem exists and whole classes of antibiotics are not prescribed anymore. If this is your first time ever using antibiotics penicillin should work.. but they need to jump to amoxicillin.

I know why they add it in our animal feed and I see the benefits but it also creates these issues.