skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea but if you look around you and everyone seems to be antisocial to each other (removing yourself from the picture) you might be in the wrong place. If you can travel somewhere else and immediately people treat you differently than it's not you, it's the place.
Locally, where I serve as an election officer, we

- check in

- fill out a bubble sheet

- scan it

- declare vict'ry

Complex schemes are great intellectual exercises.

Just understand that perfection is unattainable.

We need enough automation for speedy reporting, without losing the secret ballot.

But the temptation to fetish technology past the point of diminishing returns, too, is a bugaboo.

KISS.
On the subject of tracking, does anybody know of any current -on-the-market- security cameras that also do passive air / radio sniffing on things like WiFi and Bluetooth?

Imagine an appliance brick and mortar shop that gives users free WiFi. In the middle of the night, masked intruders burgle the place and steal $50,000 worth of goods. In addition to logging the (fairly useless) footage of masked people stealing stuff in the dark, the system also recorded some Bluetooth / WiFi beacons. If sufficient "fingerprinting" information can be collected from this data, it could become possible to look backwards for clues to who these users were in earlier collected data (say for example, when the assailants had previously scouted the store during the daytime making a plan).
It’s not the same image, but the color choices (palette) seem remarkably similar.

If someone take a famous photograph of El Capitan and I go over and try to figure out the exact time of day and spot it was taken from and hope for the same weather and lo I’m lucky... I don’t believe I’d be infringing.... but who knows... cuz if I draw a mouse and it looks eerily like Mickey...
The main problem with ML is that they don't have enough apps, that could practically be usable with AR technology. They marketed with Whale and GoT app, which is nothing compared to the spatial awareness and real world tracking they could have presented.
Do you think it might be worth it to prod a moderator to change the URL of this submission to https://towardsdatascience.com/ultimate-setup-for-your-next-...?
Most large infrastructure projects have a large number of trades for a short amount of time
Contractors have people,experience and equipment that would be cost prohibitive to maintain full time but can be relatively inexpensive when hired for just their needed duration.

The kinds of work that you describe fall more under maintenance and basic repair, which most public agencies have full time employees that perform that roles. For instance the NYC subway has signaling workers for a constant stream of signal work, track workers to maintain track and sign workers for endless lifecycle replacement of signs. New construction work, like tunnels and stations is done by contractors.
> But no company does this at all.

CastAR/Tilt5 all demos. We also allowed the press to film through our hardware.
I don't care why they didn't pass. They didn't pass so they are irrelevant to my question.
The shape of the cloud, though not pixel-perfect identical, is almost identical.

I wonder where that page is at. I can't find it.
Avery Pennarun is one of the founders (aka apenwarr.ca). Avery’s one of the most knowledgeable folks about TCP I know and has been building virtual networks of all kinds 20+ years.

Congrats on the launch!
I doubt that's what they want at least in the short term. The economic effects would be disastrous.
Irrelevant, hasn't passed.
It seems to be significantly worse than the Lenovo AR toy lightsaber thing that clips onto your phone (similar to Meta’s design).
Thanks dang! I specifically used the TechCrunch article for that reason and am glad you were able to get a hole cut in the paywall.
FAA Proposes $3.9M Penalty Against Boeing for Using Defective Plane Parts
>> MJIT will slow Rails down instead of speeding it up.

>> That’s a pretty significant footnote.

> Oops.

FWIW / from what I remember, generating high-performance native code for Rails was hard (or at least significantly different from optimizing standard benchmark type code). The OMR JIT for Ruby had similar challenges, with at least a few 'at least we didn't make it worse' moments.

I was only tangentially involved, but I vaguely recall Rails needing (or at least appearing to need) a lot more inlining and string manipulation optimizations to fly.
OK doomer
Generally bid that is not "technically complete" .i.e. does not demonstrate a real ability to undertake and complete the project can be rejected. There is some engineering discretion to this.
I’m trying to do it but it’s a work laptop. Which mean work has to get me a replacement first, then I need to transfer everything over, and then transfer everything back...I think I’m going to be living that external keyboard life for a while :/
Damn, I haven’t gotten around to fully reading Pluribus yet, and now there’s more? Congrats on the results! What’s next?
SEC Rejects NYSE Plan to Expand Direct Listings
The coolest thing about this presentation is that it was created using LaTeX and Beamer.

On macOS you can open it using Preview.app and then select View -> Slideshow.
From the article:

"Reactors that could power the hydrogen extraction are small enough to be transported by truck and would occupy a building one-10th the size of a nuclear power station."

They are talking about a specific type of small nuclear reactor tightly coupled with the synthetic fuel generation.

Just speculating, but the waste heat from the nuclear reactor itself could be fed into the fuel synthesis process, making it a sort of combined cycle system. That could be more efficient than trying to use renewables, which generate very little in the way of waste heat.
Sounds like that's the same way Google Glass got funded, too. I wonder what Sergey Brin thought of the nepotism at Magic Leap that he funded, documented in the sexual discrimination lawsuit?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/meet-the-google-founders-mistres...

>Since Google Glass launched to our awe and horror, the company's co-founder, Sergey Brin, hasn't been spotted without a pair. He's placed himself atop the privacy-eroding project, publicly, and inside Google's secret labs. Maybe it's because he's fucking the Glass marketing manager, Amanda Rosenberg.

>According to a startling report by AllThingsD's Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher, Brin and his wife of six years, Anne Wojcicki, are no more, now that he's found himself a PR girlfriend at Google. AllThingsD also reported this girlfriend was recently attached to another (totally coincidentally departing) top Googler, Hugo Barra, to make Brin's relationship with the recent San Francisco transplant behind the backs of his wife and children all that much worse.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>"Eric Akerman, vice president of IT, is a high school buddy of Abovitz. He is a loud and outspoken and several misogynistic comments have emanated from his department and from him."

>"Vice president of IT Akerman, on Nov. 8, 2016, told a large group of people who asked why he voted for Trump that it was 'because Melania is hot.'"
Does attention has any correlation to IQ? I mean is it possible to have an IQ of 180, but perform with IQ 120 because of lack of attention?
the European Union (EU) enacted a copyright directive this year, this directive has to be implemented in national law by the EU member states. Part of this copyright directive is that platforms are liable for copyright infringement of their users unless they take measures to prevent those. they are also provisions in the directive which were supposed to keep user's right in check.

Now the French government put forward a bill in the French Parliament to implement this directive. It seems to be a bill which favors the rightsholders above else, which was to be expected because France was one of the biggest proponents of this part of the directive.
OKR = Objectives and Key Results.

I had it look it up: ""collaborative goal-setting tool used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results"" -- among other definitions and graphs.

Is this management speak about vanity metrics? What do these measurements even mean?
The Great Cold
I wonder if they plan to support nested inline types, such as arrays inside objects, or arrays in arrays. Every time I try to design a layout something like that I end up having to compute values to initialize various offsets with. Arrays may have a length prefix, or objects may need some metadata in the header. Tagged unions may need to initialize tags.
This is in fact what I do. I'm agreeing with janpot that a richer model would be pleasant.

(In practice, when I've wanted this sort of thing it's been good enough to either install all the functions the client might want to use whenever it makes a connection, or else to use CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION every time it's going to run a query needing that function. But I can imagine cases where neither of those would be efficient enough and I'd end up having the client track what it's already loaded. Some help from the server would be good there.)
I've used Vultr for a few years now and am overall very happy. I just wish they'd bring their block storage offering to Sydney too.
Safari is not WebKit.
Combined with other data points like usage patterns (how the user behaves on the site, which features they use, etc), IP address I'd be confident the resulting fingerprint can be unique.
Horrible article. It had me glued to the screen in rapt interest and I ended up losing track of time, causing me to be late for a meeting.

Actually, I have been biting at the bit to get into reverse engineering after discovering some of Chris Domas' [0]. However, my hand has been stayed simply by a lack of somebody to learn from and nerd out with on the topic. Would you be able to share any communities you are aware of in this regard?

Really though, awesome article. Thank you for taking the time to write and share it!

[0]:https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole
Prasad's Law of Spending
I agree with everything you're saying. All I'm saying is you won't find much sympathy. People really like honking, and it's probably not politically tenable to legislate that away.
> do volunteer teaching at an off hours coding program

This is really great advice!
The world would be a lot better off if people settled their differences with a mutual apology and handshake rather than attempting mutual destruction.
Funnily enough this one isn't built on TCP. This overlay network uses WireGuard which moves packets over UDP.

I guess Avery has had enough TCP for a while. :)

(Tailscale cofounder here.)
Out of curiosity, what are you using for your databases?
In practice they can't even be bothered to enforce it on EU and US companies so this is a lost cause.
Do you mean to tell us that our personalities are not based on the location of the moon in relation to arbitrary chosen stars while we were born?
https://library.gv.com/how-google-sets-goals-okrs-a1f69b0b72...
That’s kind of a wash. How much do you bill an hour as a developer, at least $100? If it takes an hour to cook a meal, I doubt you saved $100 in cost.

Now obviously the number of hours you can bill in a day and be sane has a limit...
Going the Sith route, eh?
But seriously, parts of the Patriot Act are still in use and enforceable, and so far neither party has seriously taken any attempts to do away with it.

Is that "right" or "just" or "fair"? Hell no. But nobody ever said this life is fair.
Peppermint oil for cough.

I skeptical of essential oils in general, but my wife is not.

Daughter(16) up half the night with a bad cough, wife put a little oil on upper lip. She immediately stopped coughing and went to sleep.
A Tesla short-seller was at the court tweeting about it, he thought this is an easy win before it started, but then correctly predicted that Musk will walk. He thought that Unsworth's attorney was terrible.
Every time you steal media, you defund the creators.
My Winnebago motorhome gets about 7mpg or about 33L/100km and has a 80 gallon tank, but its 32ft long and I tow my Jeep behind it. 14.7 mpg would be amazing.
How did you get to that role, is it a management position? I’m in a junior dev role but constantly find myself focused on the bigger idea and vision that solves people experience everyday.
I think I was fasting too often. I was literally fasting every other day, zero calories only water and black coffee. I probably was slowly losing total body electrolytes.

But I didnt mention this to deter people from fasting, just to be careful. If that fiasco didnt happen to me I'd still be fasting as I felt amazing while fasting. My dad is still doing it for more than a year after I recommended it to him
This volume is, in many ways, much more approachable. Definitely more fun. It is basically a puzzle book. Highly recommended!
Are there any penalties for rightsholders filing completely spurious DMCA takedown notices in the US? I'm not asking rhetorically, I'm curious and don't recall if the long-standing US law has any kind of recourse here. (Anecdotally, I haven't heard of any party ever being punished for DMCA takedown notices, and I've definitely heard of spurious notices.)
Clean energy seems wildly impractical for airplanes. There is no battery tech approaching kerosene for power density, and unlike fuel, the battery doesn't get lighter as it's used up.
>Trying to downplay sexual assaults as a small percentage is a way of trying to dismiss that it happens

Why?
I think people's freedoms and rights are going to live on through social and legal regulation, not banning or countering surveillance technology itself.

E.g. with an existing technology known as firearms, it's not socially 'OK' or legal to just go up and randomly shoot someone with such technology, but technically you could do it, if you really wanted. There's consequences to it though.

So we need consequences for violating people's privacy or using their information in a way that is abusive or unfair to their human rights.

Radical transparency of disclosure such as what insurance companies know about you that they feed into their business will have to be legally mandated. (How about an open-source algorithm too?) We will need new frameworks by which data collected on you and used against you MUST be disclosed, because otherwise it could be total abuse and fake. We know China is already in that territory.

The world of deepfakes is going to make 'deniability' a major opposing force of surveillance as well.

We have an interesting future ahead of us.
That was always the problem with google.

Look at chrome os fiasco. They had it for 6,7 years? They didn’t realized it until Microsoft did put effort to make their OS developer friendly that they should make chromeos developer friendly. Imagine how good chromeos was today if they have started to make it developer friendly in 2010 instead of 2017.
Yes there are. Note however that e.g. most YouTube "takedowns" aren't DMCA takedowns though, they are YouTube's own copyright controls.
A Philosophical Treatise on Meaning in a Complex System of Moral-Agents
Rolls Royce, maker of nuclear reactors and jet engines, apparently wants to offer a package deal.
I completely understand that dilemma. Outsourcing allows you to tap economies of scale and line up the tasks with contractors experience and capabilities. But you pay for that with another layer of management.

I suspect that there isn't a magic set of incentives that replaces appropriate levels of funding, good faith and sufficient oversight.
Can't +1 this enough!
Brave is supposed to be privacy preserving - neither the site, nor Brave should know which sites you are supporting if I recall correctly.
> In physics we have a dozen different models of gravity

We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation. Also, there is a difference between "different" models of gravity that gives the same results/predictions given the same input and different climate models that give different results/predictions given the same input.

> yet we're still pretty sure that if you jump out of a building you're going to fall downward.

If I drop a ball from the window, every valid model of gravity gives the same time for when the ball will hit the ground. If the models of gravity were like the climate models, we'd have dozen different times for when the ball hits the ground. We'd have 1s, 5s, 3s... Hell one result would claim the ball will float up and never hit the ground.

If the gravity models were like climate models, we would not be able to fly planes.

This is why climate change advocates are so disappointing. The complete lack of understanding of science and yet that ignorance makes them pretend they are an authority on science.
Explainer: Demeter and Persephone
from the article:

> The plants, costing 1.8 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) apiece, would feed the national grid and come online from the 2030s, with all complete by 2050.
Vehicle manufacturers care about battery chemistry because they have to manufacture batteries. They also have to manufacture electric motors and the power electronics to manage charging and vehicle operation.

Vehicle manufacturers currently manufacture the internal combustion engines, transmissions and major powertrain components. It accounts for a large part of their capital investment, technology base, and value add to the end product. If they don't manufacture the comparable parts of the electric vehicle, they become much smaller companies reduced to assembling vehicles from parts made by others.
Purity is always a spectrum - Haskell allows non-terminating "functions", for example. Choosing to treat certain kinds of failures as valid function evaluations that can be reasoned about under the normal rules of the language is a step in the direction of purity. More to the point, it's the aspect of purity that's salient when we're talking about whether it makes sense to regard these particular constructs as monads.
The difference is that conventional food delivery is a restaurant hiring teenagers to deliver and pays them cash. There's basically zero initial investment involved other than a couple of bikes and the owner makes a profit off every delivery.

Doordash & co have raised millions of investor money which not only do they have to pay back but also provide unrealistic returns, which isn't really possible with such a physical service where expenses and profits scale mostly linearly (see WeWork which promised tech-company-style returns despite being a physical business and how it all ended).
Self-promotion here, but my app, Supercoco, is far better for serious learners (Spanish only, iOS only). Focuses on speaking and listening rather than reading and writing, and is based on a large quantity of high quality content (about 300 conversations) that most apps just don’t have. https://supercocoapp.com
The feature where you get paid to see ads is a side feature. It wasn't in the initial release, and it is opt-in. The main purpose of the BAT token is to be like Flattr or Cointip, but for the whole internet.
>After a quarter of a century of growing biotech crops in North and South America, Asia and parts of Africa, the evidence is now clear: they have caused no human or animal illness, and have huge environmental benefit, such as greatly reduced pesticide use, less ploughing, lower greenhouse gas emissions, less land required to grow a given quantity of crop, lower costs and higher yields.

Good heavens... I hope nobody actually believes this stuff. How many uncited pro-GMO talking points can you spot above?

This article brought to you by Syngenta's PR department.
This result and about half of the comments here are depressing. How is it possible that so many presumably smart people don't understand the massive difference between an insult ("he looks like a pedo") and defamation ("he is a pedo, I've actually looked into it")?
The straw man would be if taking all the knowledge that humans have generated in the world today, is the AI able to synthesize a novel result and explain how it came to that result, why that result is true, etc. Expanding upon that, can the AGI identify a high-level gap in the knowledge available and communicate what data would be needed to fill that gap (e.g. provide an experiment design that would allow it to answer a question).
There couldn't be any limit on the number of votes/receipt for each person. If you could get a maximum of N receipts, then you could be paid to deliver all N receipts so they can be sure you haven't snuck in any additional votes.
I disagree: they should just dump the whole ecosystem. Kotlin is a shabby bandaid, not because the language isn’t good (no comments there) but because the substrate is a mess of bloated, terrible, OO Java nonsense. Android development is just awful no matter the language.
The final straw for me was when I had it turned off and the latest chromium released turned it back on.
There is no activation function. It's linear regression.
You don't understand the difference between an insult and defamation.
Operators: Kelly Wright (Sales at Tableau from $0 to $1b ARR)
Absolutely. 90% of HN readers do it everyday.
A paintbrush is simply a tool that enables a painter to bring a dream to reality.

A piano is simply a tool that enables a pianist to bring a dream to reality.

A programming language is simply a tool that enables a programmer to bring a dream to reality.

Ask yourself this:

“Am I a dreamer and a doer...or have I just been doing?”
I'd assume so given that a large part of how IQ tests derive your score is based on how long it takes you.
Strictly, this isn't right either. For example,

(defun Foo (x) ...

That is not calling a function x. Similarly,

(let ((x 4))...

Also not calling a function.

It is just that, in lisp, you start a list of data with paren. In other languages, you activate a different part of the parser. It so happens that the default thing the evaluator does to a list is to apply it to a function given in the first spot.
I'm seriously not astrotrufing (for once!) but isn't Android itself shitty all round? Really complex OS that does a million things and all wrong. I have a phone where no fb is installed but fb services that cannot be stopped are running in the background.

I'm waiting for a Linux phone
> Yes there are.

What are they?
This is the Android Dev blog. Flutter is completely separate competing team
The Virtual Boy was VR, not AR. VR is suffering a “hype hangover” of its own these days, sure, but I’d say not to the same degree as AR. The tech works much better (it’s just a screen with a fancy lens in front), it has at least one solid use case (games; mostly played at home, so less worry about the social awkwardness of wearing something on your head), and millions of VR headsets have been sold.
I'm sure they have software interlocks to make sure nothing bad happens with the energy levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Whats sadder is they could invest resources into Kotlin Native and then build a Kotlin Native SDK (maybe built on top of NDK).
The article suggests compressed hydrogen. Although that has obvious problems (at some point there is probably a tradeoff between increased density and the weight of the storage tank required to safely hold that density, which directly related to energy density) and probably more subtle problems, it would be clean-burning.

Edit: Random wikipedia page[1] gives energy density of "jet fuel" as 35 MJ/L and liquid (i.e., about as compressed as you're going to get) hydrogen as ... 8.5 MJ/L. Yeah, that's not even close, nevermind. LNG gets you to 22 MJ/L, which is still 2/3 of the density and requires storage at -160°C, which costs more energy, etc, and isn't clean-burning (but maybe slightly better than kerosene).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Some neural nets could be useful here, just indexing would take a while.

VGG19 measure of perceptual loss has been useful for me.