skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From wikipedia: "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle."

The important bit, which is apparently not understood by the public is that it's only used as an aid in controlling the vehicle. You still have to monitor it and be prepared to take over if it doesn't behave properly. I once flew an airplane, set the autopilot and the airplane decided to go into a rapid climb unexpectedly. That's exactly equivalent to the lane assist failing to keep the car in the lane.

That said, it's clear that because the public doesn't understand what it means to be an autopilot it's a bad choice of name. Or at least Tesla should be spending a _lot_ more time educating people on what it means before they use it.
> How many vulnerabilities have existed in Electron apps, sandboxing and all?

Significantly fewer than you'd find in a comparable C++ application, probably, and with much less effort put into securing things like "if I index into this array am I allowing for an arbitrary write primitive" and "can I safety use this object without giving an attacker code execution". Electron bugs tend to be of the sort like "oops, we can load a file from the filesystem because we forgot a string check", and C++ bugs are "that, but with the other things I just mentioned".
The obvious counterpoint is that then you'd have to rewrite every single tool in every language people used.

I don't care about extending most of my tooling, I just want it to work. I'm not going to spend years rewriting Terraform in Rust just because I don't use Go in my company.
Although one would not expect UI components in the privileged service component.
What does the rootkit even achieve? People can easily have a second laptop available.
Looking at the articles I find a large percentage of them to be trivia.

If you just want the most significant news, reading Le Monde diplomatique (english edition) will do it.
> The Porsche Taycan for example made a lot of Tesla owners switch to Porsche.

They must be walking then.

The Taycan has had a lot of deposits put down, but we are way off significant numbers of deliveries. The factory isn't debugged yet. I would be surprised to see a Taycan in the wild on the streets any time this year, even in Knightsbridge or the Silverstone car park.

Tesla cars are quite common (if still unusual and therefore noteworthy) even in provincial towns.
Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers Vulnerable to CVE-2020-0688
>These questions are framed in the wrong way. The filter isn't cost, it's getting in, and people from middle class and poor families are at a disadvantage in terms of accomplishments.

Yes and no. In that there is correlation but probably not direct causality. For example, Asian middle and poor families seem to do fairly well in getting their kids to have the right achievements.
Good on ya!

I hope you have something like cloudflare behind it -- or at least static HTML. That sucker is "going viral", no pun intended.
There are a lot of things in the future. Antivirals show promise of working in a few months - but we don't actually know they will work (or for that matter that the virus won't evolve a new unique resistance to them). It will take time to figure out what works best for treatment.
I'm just curious why my comment regarding patent was deleted ? Yes we developed a device that implements this same idea of sharing GPS data over mesh (868 ISM) network and patented it in 2014. The patent is still valid and supported. If someone is interested in further development of this idea, please contact me, we would be happy to sell this patent along with schematics and source codes for fair price.
ESR was not banned for having the wrong opinion – many others expressed similar opinions both before and after his messages. But ESR, over the course of a few days where he returned to the mailing list, was increasingly unable to express those opinions in a professional manner.

While the moderators never stated their rationale, an unfortunate combination of off-list and on-list replies leaked one of ESR's blocked emails[1] although there were possibly others. Given the context of the discussion, ESR is not only deeply unprofessional here, but also making personal attacks against Coraline Ada Ehmke. Disagreement is OK, attacks are not.

And as Gil notes in that email, how ESR is promoting his cause is actually hurting and undermining open source, not rescuing it. I'd add that such attacks are even more unacceptable when they come from an ex-President or Cofounder.

If I had been the moderator to make that call, I'd even have considered banning ESR without any particular evidence. That guy isn't new to the scene but has a long history of troublesome behavior. Even his first message upon return did not provide anything new to the discussion, so there was no reason to believe that keeping him around would provide any value to anyone. When his messages were largely brushed off (because they contributed no novel points aside from BeInG wRiTtEn By ThE cOfOuNdEr) that only seemed to encourage him to get more extreme, thus running straight into a ban. If not after that message, surely after the next.

[1]: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....
Shortage of crucial chemicals creates new obstacle to U.S. coronavirus testing
> COVID-19 currently stands at 3.4-3.6%.

Not according to other studies that covered people with no obvious symptoms.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/30...

0.6%
The power of small breaks when debugging
Thank you for the great overview!
Gutenberg Hub Introduces the Library of 100 Block Templates
The manifesto is not blaming people, it's blaming governments for not doing enough. It's calling on people to take care of themselves.

That said, in the US with its tradition of completely ignoring all needs of employees, there are a lot of people for who this advice would amount to quitting their job, and it's pretty obvious a lot of people can't afford that.

Employers should definitely do their part by encouraging people to work from home, and paying sick people to stay home so they don't infect their co-workers. I honestly don't understand what kind of employers would want an epidemic to spread in their offices.

Reading about American employers is baffling compared to my own. Everybody is encouraged to work from home. In face, every week half of the company is required to work from home. If anyone in your household has a cold, you have to work from home for two weeks.

It may be a slight overreaction, but that's vastly better than just ignoring the problem. From everything I hear, I seriously fear COVID-19 is going to wreak havoc in the US. They seem to have fine-tuned their country to be as vulnerable as possible to this: Many people with no or poor health insurance, no sick days, who are very easy to fire, will feel forced to go to work no matter how sick they are. Then there's Trump firing the pandemic crisis team, a dramatic shortage of tests, and nobody seems to be in charge over this thing, or even know anything at all.
That won't be the US though which is already quietly quarantining things. Conferences are being postponed. Companies are stopping all non-emergency travel. Nursing homes are not allowing visitors.
Leaked Emails: Norwegian Pressures Sales Team to Lie About Coronavirus
Test, test, test. South Korea has tested 100.000 people. In Europe? Nobody is doing anything. You can't respond to something when you have zero idea what the scale is. We're literally seeing Europe stick its head in the sand.somebody comes in with flu-like symptoms, you fucking test. Psychosomatic doesn't matter, either you have the symptoms or you don't. And if you do, you test, test, fucking test. Not tell people to go home, you obviously can't have coronavirus.

The diagnostic is dead simple. Look at any health ministry of any country. It doesn't take a medical degree to understand that if you have flu-like symptoms, you need to be tested for the flu. And if you don't have any of the flu strains making the rounds, test for Coronavirus. You know, exactly what SK is able to do but somehow Europe isn't.
Honest question, once stores start using this, what's to stop people from walking out with unpaid merchandise?
>We should charge the man with the duty of looking up the purpose of the fence in the archive

A fine sentiment, but still falls short of preserving & benefiting from the wisdom of the yore.

In the eternal battle of the new & better versus the old & tried & tested, the old & tried & tested may have been well reasoned, formulated, and described in the past.

But then again it might have never been reasoned through; instead it might have evolved, might have undergone a process of natural selection, might have won long term battle of ideas without being understood. The reasons might not have been explicitly known at any point in the past.

A good idea doesn't necessarily appear good, even on closer examination. There are some counter-intuitively good ideas; for example using random, stochastic processes[1] can yield better results than strict plans in face of partial information. For another example, we humans are pretty bad at understanding exponential and other non-linear processes (cue the present Coronavirus worries), and any reasoning based on estimation of several interacting non-linear effects tends to diverge wildly from reality. Not only our human ability to rationalize is limited, at times we aren't even aware that our ideas were suboptimal, and that there are whole classes of possible better solutions. Conversely, there are several XIX and XX century ideologies, programs, projects etc. that were well grounded in reasoning, but turned out to have led to such terrible results that we decided to never try them again.

There is a slow- but constantly-running natural selection of ideas, customs, traditions, organizational schemas, cultural trends, etc. The better ones tend to become more successful, and establish themselves as part of the culture. Some of the selected ideas won't be fully reasoned through or even understood at that time, and that is fine. Just like we make technical & business decisions with imperfect, partial information, we need to be able to handle the past customs, ideas etc., with partial, or even missing, reasoning behind them. Having been successful in the longer term is also a pretty good indicator of their qualities.

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[1] in context of a hunter-gatherer society, using supernatural divination for making hunting plans has no rational basis, but in certain natural settings yields optimal results due to essentially random nature of the divination
Then you find out java.time copies posix. Or is it convergence?
Excellent read
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
(Disclaimer: I'm German, but not a lawyer).

One part of it is that we don't have the legal infrastructure in place. For example, the federal government has no power to outlaw gatherings and assemblies because of health concerns. Only the municipal health authorities can do that if they so choose.
Passing awaited tasks
Yes, but it also means that this is not implemented because of "low-effort JS developers".
A simple tweet got me 24x more YouTube subscribers
> This is like putting a 2 meter wide thermal exhaust port on your death star.

Except it's probably more like the second Death Star because it's unfinished and there's a gaping hole in the side of it that you can just fly in.
KeePassXC with a cloud storage (Nextcloud server and mobile\desktop client), it's encrypted and usable offline and syncable online.

Now I'm a spoiled child without it, got used too much to this worryless passwords management
Astrologically it happens with Saturn / Pluto conjunctions which are the two malefic planets. That happened in the middle of January this year, it also happened when HIV was discovered in 1983, and in 1914 it happened again, also in January 1820 for the Cholera pandemic, and in 1713, and 1616. So the next big one is 2053...
In the US they do. The US has a long history of censoring this and a couple of other words.
I don't have the will power or motivation. I can't just lie down in the sofa and watch TV at the office. Everyone sees my screen and that's what makes me work. Again, this is a forced WFH.
Computer, Just Better
I believe all scripts that are in extant use today are complete; if not, the missing extant scripts are down to the scripts with very few literate people (thousands or fewer).

Many of the additions today, barring emoji, are covering historical usage. This includes things like Medieval scribal annotations, a different set of numbers for the Ottomans, and the Mayan script. It will still be over a decade for the historical work to be complete, since there is often a lot of actual research that needs to be done to understand how an ancient writing system works, which has to come before you can even put together a coherent proposal for a new script.
Some countries have far more rigid rules with less interpretation flexibility, which allows less flexibility for favouring some companies over others.

Other countries are just bad at getting anything done, for local or foreign companies.
The Quest for Privacy in Cryptocurrency
Well you jest maybe, but the vast majority of new characters are not emojis. The Creative Commons symbol, for example. And 200 glyphs from the vintage Apple II, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Amiga computers. There are "only" 55 new emojis. FWIW I love new emojis and can't wait for WhatsApp/Android to add the new ones :-)
A 32-bit key and 32-bit value are some serious constraints. The whole point of hash tables is usually that you have variable length keys or values.

If you have more than 32GB of RAM (which is not rare nowadays) you can directly map all 32-bit values into a 32GB chunk of memory and be probably faster than this GPU solution on regular CPUs.
Know your audience. Illustrations can certainly be helpful to a general audience but they won’t save poorly organized content. The written content should flow well enough to stand on its own.

If you are writing a blog where corporate branding is associated then commandeer a graphic designer from your employer. They are going to be more in tune with the company’s legally approved branding guide and likely to produce better quality visual products in less time.
I like the idea, but I think the reason it didn't stick were related to the bell curve of engineering competence in the wild. And probably the tendency of companies where IT isn't the main game but an enabler not wanting to expose the wild stuff going on to sustain the facade.

If every company blogged about how the magic happens then you'd get a couple of side effects.
1. It'd be a coup for the open source security researchers.
2. Companies would lie, or only blog about there flagship stuff.
3. Companies who are honest would probably scare away engineers with blog posts like, How we support our 30 year old credit card system running on Mainframe hardware we source from ebay.
4. Companies would use this to value signal to each other to open a new front of competitive advantage to the detriment of everyone else. Remember when K8 was just for large web scale companies.
Radio amateurs might be some suitable beta testers for you. It being an open source radio system fits right into the mission and spirit of amateur radio.

However, I'll take the cynical route and say mesh radios, for the general public, are still not very popular. Gotenna and Beartooth, among others appear to be common and popular, and highly reviewed, but in my hikes and ski trips, I haven't seen or heard from a single one. I've seen FAR more basic FRS radios, and SPOT satellite messengers.
China's netizens get creative to share censored article on whistleblower
No less secure than some random desktop application that does the same thing
Apple clearly says it's not an option because of a legal dispute. If everyone else is at the negotiating table, but Apple says absolutely NO, how is that decision not driven by Apple?
What Is Netlify and Why Should You Care?
How to survive a marketing budget cut (amidst a looming recession)
Not currywurst, but they have a veggie dog now https://www.ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/sustainable-everyday...
JavaScript is the only thing that you can really run on any semi-modern device. TVs, phones, laptops, desktops, servers, the only thing you can expect to execute on all of them is JavaScript. If you write your core libraries in JavaScript, you'll have that much less to worry about re-implementing and maintaining in something else. You'll have flexibility to potentially execute the same code on either client or server, phone or desktop. There are situations where that's pretty useful.

More than that, at least last time I checked, V8 is really fast. It is many times faster than the usable Python implementations, or practically any other memory-managed runtime. Only luajit seemed to sit in the same ballpark when I pulled up the shoot-out a couple years back.

I personally hate all of these facts, but sometimes, they really do mean that prioritizing JavaScript, or at least something that compiles down to JavaScript, is the best choice.
Only when order matters. For the given example of stating a lot of files it wouldn't.
If one of the devs wants the device to port PostmarketOS to it, I got a spare one (its a K1 ie. the remake of the orig. Nvidia Shield Tablet. Not that they differ much).
Tests are not free, not 100% accurate, and not 100% available. The doctor you called stupid is in control of exactly 0 of those factors, and has no effect on europes policy.
Improbable Struggling to Keep Game Developers
sciter ships with their own TIscript engine, which it's a small subset of JavaScript mostly for interop with the application and manipulation of the sciter HTML renderer.

Seems the original thread is a javascript interpreter for sandboxing and analysing JavaScript in-engine.

UI process doesn't run as system either since there is no gui on that space. you'll find the sciter code in the user processes (tray and app).
My understanding is that pcie devices incur a very high latency for getting data to and from them, due to the pcie device itself and setting up a dma descriptor. Sadly this article doesn't look into that.

Can someone comment on what sort of latency would be involved in something like this? For example, latency to send to pcie device, latency to react to and manipulate the data in a warp(Nvidia?), and latency to send the data back to the host system?
I mean, if the nfc event is triggered, this code

for (i=0, i<10, i++)
writer.write(i)

does it write ten times the tag? overwriting every number?
Debian was the most vulnerable OS in 2018
Andrea Ricciardi, Professor of Hygiene and adviser to the Ministry of Health: "The most frightening point is the pitted figures on how much the virus can spread. the curves of the graphs elaborated by the epidemiologists and not only in Italy: according to the models, it could strike until 60% of the population, which means that according to the mortality rates there could be a million deaths only in Italy."

Feel happy now about the ad-hominem?
I don't think that follows. I think the idea was that you should write all of your in-house tools in your main programming language, not necessarily third-party tools.
Andrea Ricciardi, Professor of Hygiene and adviser to the Ministry of Health: "The most frightening point is the pitted figures on how much the virus can spread. the curves of the graphs elaborated by the epidemiologists and not only in Italy: according to the models, it could strike until 60% of the population, which means that according to the mortality rates there could be a million deaths only in Italy."
It's mostly training classes that are equally valuable some remotely, plus some "forced fun" events and playing with the campus toys. It might be healthier to miss it and avoid getting the misleading summer college experience of (dis)orientation.
Here in Belgium you also see a lot of Tesla's. 4 colleagues own a model 3 and 2 friends own a model S... I live in a quiet neighbourhood, where most people have at least 2 cars, and you see quite a few driveways with the model3/S + luxury SUV combo (BMW/Merc/Audi/...). Very few model X's though...

You have to take into account that Tesla's are relatively expensive cars, and you see them mostly where there's quite a bit of money and you see a lot of luxury vehicles in general. Cars with a 100k+ price tag are pretty damn common here (Porsches and high-end BMW/Audi/Merc SUV's), and cars in the 50-60k range are even more common. The Model S was for a long time competing in the latter segment due to fiscal benefits, which are now disappearing, but now Tesla has the Model 3 to compete in this segment...
I never really understood the point of view that depressed people somehow are more realistic, seeing things as they “really are”, while non-depressed people are overly optimistic. Maybe it’s true in the limited setting of a study, but depressed people tend to behave in ways that are basically irrational and counterproductive: staying in bed, passively ruminating about the future, procrastinating and avoiding useful/enjoyable activities, etc. These are not the actions of a rational person, and many (perhaps not all) depressed people would feel somewhat better if they didn’t engage in these types of activities. It’s definitely hard to change this type of behavior, and change is not a magic cure, but it is a useful component.

The reason why I believe the “depressed people are just seeing the world as it really is” line of thinking is harmful is that it encourages people to believe that their depression is simply the result of their accurate world view, and that trying to change things in order to feel better would mean they have to fool themselves.
Why are you comparing the median cost of a car sold in the US with the average Australian wage? If you want to make that comparison, go find the median cost of a car sold in Australia. Start making valid comparisons.

Anyway, yes, it's true, EVs are not yet as cheap as the cheapest gasoline-powered cars. They're a lot closer over their lifetime in fuel and maintenance, but the up-front purchase cost is more for now. And yet they're selling like gangbusters, because people clearly want them, and the more they sell the more they can benefit from economies of scale and go further downmarket. Remember, the first Tesla targeted the expensive luxury market, and they've now managed to bring the price down by more than half. Just wait.
Possibly the most important addition is this:

> Symbols added in this release (which aren't implemented as emojis) include a Creative Commons symbol, as well as other related glyphs for non-commercial licences, or to indicate where attribution is required.

So you can now indicate license requirements, such as attribution, share-alike, or non-commercial use only. Those can apply to a vast number of works, so does nice to have easily-accessed standard symbols for it.

It also adds symbols for some older machines, which will make discussing them easier.

And yes, it has new emojis. But it is worth noting that the total number of emojis is a very small portion of the Unicode characters.
Good thing we’re not inducing this emotional behavior at scale.

Surely it would be insanity to drum into people’s heads “profits before species!”

I’m sure this is an isolated incident.
And Europe's policy needs to change. Nobody is saying dealing with this epidemic is going to be free.

Yet the doctor is one of many who are dismissing the likelihood of somebody having coronavirus just because they haven't been to Italy. So yes, stupid.
Understanding id_token, access_token and refresh_token – ONCE and FOR ALL
Yes, I'm speaking for myself and all other people who simply can't be productive working from home. No idea why that's so hard to believe or why you need to be so borderline about it. Great that it works for some but that doesn't mean it's the right thing for everyone.