skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that surprised me, too. Cliff detection isn't that hard. They seem to have cameras in the nose area that are positioned to see whether there's a walkable surface ahead. The basic vision system is cameras with IR projection of a pattern, like the original Kinect. How can they do foot placement on stairs while unable to detect cliffs?

There's an optional LIDAR vaguely mentioned in the instructions. No specs on field of view or range, though.

"Spot’s joints can pinch fingers and other body parts and entangle loose clothing, long hair, and jewelry. Only handle Spot when the motors are locked out or robot power is off. Fingers may break or get amputated if caught in joints while Spot’s motors are active." Were pinch points not considered during design?

Jogging/trotting is only available in "demo mode", and is listed as "less stable".

Boston Dynamics can do better than this. I was expecting full Big Dog capability in a smaller package. Maybe this is just the minimum viable product for a market test. If someone finds a use case for this robot, the next model should have those problems fixed.
I didn’t understand the first bit, why did they think people confused the black man with his white colleague, and how could that possibly be “racist”?
Vulnerability Analysis of 2500 Docker Hub Images
It's pretty harmful if you're a woman who likes driving and you keep getting excluded from driving related groups and discussions because the men in these groups assume your interest is not genuine.
> Apple approves tens/hundreds of millions of changes each year.

> They are going to make mistakes and there are going to be inconsistencies in how they approach certain apps. Especially since the policies have evolved over the last decade or so.

Apple's the one who made it a walled-garden. They're the ones that made the rules. They're the ones that made the escalation procedures. They're the ones who have managed to not be consistent.

If you make literally all the rules and the rules ABOUT the rules and you still have bad outcomes there's nobody to blame but you. Which is exactly what people are complaining about.

Nobody put a gun to Apple's head for any of these things. One might argue that with YouTube the whole ContentID fiasco wasn't really their idea insofar as YouTube was going to get sued into oblivion by the music/movie industry if they didn't provide some tools.

This is categorically Apple's domain and they're the ones who made all the problems. People's expectations aren't unreasonable in my opinion. It's pretty common to want rules to be enforced fairly and impartially.
I have the Hay app and an account, there is no references anywhere in the app to signing up, paying or billing. Both before and after signing in.

If works exactly the same as other subscription services that only offer a subscription outside of the app.

There is no manufactured controversy here, they have not purposely done something to violate the rules just to get coverage. Their other app, Basecamp, works exactly the same.
Got the same here. Something is up on mobile.
Sorry, yes, I should have said "EFI" rather than "UEFI".
While I agree that Apple's app store extortion policies are abhorrent, I don't know if I agree that legal action is the answer. Isn't it Apple's right to set whatever policies they want on their own platform? Isn't the answer to this problem just to stop using Apple products and move to platforms that are more open and not as hostile to consumers and developers? By using iPhones and Macs you're implicitly agreeing to and giving financial credence to Apple's practices. There are plenty of alternatives to Apple out there, and if Apple somehow provides enough value to you to make them more appealing despite their App Store strangleholds and anti-consumer policies, then haven't they earned that right?
> I've noticed that some of the most pathological people are the most into 'self-improvement' as an idea.

I've noticed that some of the people who spend the most time paying attention to their blood sugar are diabetic.
The super early Java prototype of Kubernetes lived for about a week or two and never saw a public repository. It's kind of misleading to say it "started out in Java".
I don't think it's such a small subset...
Scite?
I think on hiring threads freelancers are looking for paid gigs. I'm just offering a free redesign for projects that cant afford to spend money on that (eg. open source projects with limited budgets)
Counterargument: stopping lynchings. Perhaps the problem is bigger than "what the public thinks at a given time" and that public opinion can be correct or incorrect given external circumstances?
> That estimate wasn't particularly well-received

Of course not, any estimate of this number is going to be controversial because it implies that someone messed up. The "reception" from one side in an ongoing debate means precisely nothing to me.

> An antibody survey in late April found a prevalence of about 25% in New York City, which, assuming it's accurate (huge assumption, obviously)

Yes, fairly big assumption. I wonder if the seropositive numbers have changed since then?

> NYC has...

NYC has/had a lot of uncommon things that you don't mention:

- Filthy subway system with horrible ventilation that is used by almost everyone many times a week.

- Large proportion of residents living in apartment buildings with shared HVAC.

- Public health protocols which were extremely quick to hospitalize and then intubate patients (even those without positive PCR tests).

- A directive from the state government which forced nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients.
It is stereotyping but not neccesarily racism. I've made the same mistake at a car shop, I thought the small lady on my side of the counter was a customer, i ignored her and talked to the guy behind the counter, but turns out she was the boss+worker and the guy was helping out. I did feel embarrassed, but I know it's not because I think less of women, you just don't see women in those roles a lot. Maybe associative generalization is a better term?

Why would the person on the victim end of this feel humiliated? I suspect,at least in part the body language offense and humiliation contributes to the awkwardness. Now, if they insist on treating the guy with less melanin as the boss even after being corrected...yeah, who wouldn't be pissed.
IE11 support is still common. Almost nobody is supporting anything lower than that. I expect that will be gone in a couple of years.
So good! It's a more immersive version of radio.garden that popped up this week on HN.
I'm not sure what you expected. With the exception of Ian Lance Taylor, the Go team has expressed skepticism (and, in the case of Rob Pike, outright disdain) about generics since day one.

To anyone who has followed the Go development process at all, this proposal will not be a surprise. The previous proposal was also extremely conservative. Personally, I don't see any other way. Going full-blown generics in the style of Rust/Haskell/OCaml, for example, would drastically alter the language.

This is closer in scope to, say, Modula-3.
> the simple phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ is seen as a political dog whistle, rather than a desperate cry to bring attention to a dire situation that many people choose not to see.”

A little off-topic, but I notice a lot of the "All Lives Matter" people are mistaking the term "Black Lives Matter" as valuing black lives over others. I wonder if "Black Lives Matter Too" would convey its message better.
Looks like NBCNews got this story wrong.

Google is saying they never demonetized the sites, but instead worked with them to address issues in their comment sections

https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1272997425821540352

https://boingboing.net/2020/06/16/google-bans-the-federalist...

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-blocks-ad-revenue-zer...
Looks like the developer in question took action to correct the situation the same day they became aware of it. That at least is good.

If the data was never secured in the first place can you call it a breach?

They found this, great, was there any indication it was accessed directly before that? Is that something that can even be investigated?

You find a door to the data unlocked. You open the door. Can you tell if someone else had opened the door before you? Did you prevent 845 GB of data being found by a black hat or did you find that data because of a black hat?
As simple as possible, but no simpler.

I sometimes use the analogy of haiku versus short story.

You can pack a lot of meaning into a haiku, but few will be able to unpack it in the manner intended. A short story can get you to the point without filling a whole book to do so. And a lot more people can write a reasonable short story.
Amazon does not pay the apple fee for physical goods in the app version of their store, and it sounds like they have a special deal with apple for the video app: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-...
Other pretty big ones looks like AV1 encoding (4.2 had decoding) and hardware acceleration for VP9.
How much for the head? Looks like it's missing.
> "the researchers warn that a motivated hacker could have used the photos and other miscellaneous information available to identify many users"

FaceBook has probably done it as a part of their regular business of stalking everyone on the planet. Isn't that more alarming than what "a motivated hacker" might be able to do?
Exposing sensitive information this stupidly should be criminally negligent. People use these platforms under an implicit trust arrangement.

I suspect if I made myself look like a successful trader and told people I was a trader then they would expect I'm a trader and I can be invested with. When I lose them money I'd be charged with some serious crimes for pretending to be a trader.
Make sure you stay hydrated, alcohol can dehydrate you.
i’d trust RetractionWatch here, which also has good coverage.
I work at an insurance company, where it's extremely important that we have a way of persisting (1) what happened when [transaction history], and (2) how our opinions of what happened when changed over time [valid history]. Basically, you can think of (2) as a materialized view of (1). But it all lives in one database.

There is much business value to be extracted out of this idea, because most companies (1) do not have the ability to cheaply (i.e. ad-hoc) introspect this way (2) would gain a lot of value from this ability. My hunch is that most companies out there are interested in answering that set of questions (referred to as bitemporal data, in the literature).

This is the space that TimescaleDB seems to be competing in, although we don't use them (we use our own extension of Postgres, that's only a few hundred lines of PL-pgSQL, plus some helper libraries in Go/Python).

In my perspective, I think git-style semantics would be very powerful as a layer above an existing bitemporal system. We've implemented similar systems, where records get a semver-style version in their bitemporal key, so we can see how different producer logic versions minted different records over time. It's be really cool to have branching versions, and to be able to rebase them -- this is something our system doesn't currently support.

Anyways, hope our data point is useful for you all. Happy to share more if you have questions about anything.
This comment is specifically off-topic, per the rules. I don't, however, see jokes in comments mentioned.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the reason. One of my mentors was part of this effort; the Canadians were riddled with Soviet agents.

EDIT: downvoted for facts. Here's a reference:

But until then his assignment was to become Soboloff so convincingly that nobody would ever suspect he was a Soviet spy. Eventually, he was given responsibility for managing five recruited agents, including a Communist Party of Canada member from Toronto who worked for the company developing the Avro Arrow and provided its engineering schematics to the KGB.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-bo...
Call your Congressperson. Without laws that create incentives to treat this data more carefully (think GDPR), nothing changes.
Then why would Disney pile money into an acrobatic robot? I think there must be a use case there somewhere
Everyone is flawed. That comes with being human. It would be nice to live in a society that allows for people to make mistakes without burning them at the stake. This is not the world we live in, sadly. We have to change that by being forgiving and not piling on.

Apologies, in 2020 USA, just put a giant target on your head and don’t seem to be making much of a positive impact. Change that, you change the game.

People like their scalps too much right now.
Yes, that's why I said to inspect the router's traffic
Seconded! I had the pleasure of taking Guy Belloch's parallel programming class at CMU as a sophomore. A large majority of the homework assignments involved leveraging the segmented scan operator to solve all sorts of classical parallel programming problems.

Really eye opening stuff! I am still impressed that prefix sum (generalized over all associative operators, not just +) can be done in O(log n) span. And the algorithm is not too complicated either, I was able to get the gist of it even as an undergrad.
"oxidation"
We can rename all the things but it buries the truth. Genetics matter! Ending racism requires solving genetics. Racism cannot be solved by policy just as policy cannot change gravity. Leland Stanford was not wrong unless you believe genetics does not matter--a really dumb position. The idea that all branches of the evolutionary tree are equal in all dimensions is risible and goes against all evidence.

The difference between Stanford and SV leaders now is that the latter don't say what they believe.

"You can measure the level of intolerance in a society by whether you can say that there are things that are true, but that you can't say"

The good news is many SV leaders quietly work now on solving genetics, the real way to end racism.
Great idea! I think you can you can add driving on the highways to the list, it looks quite nice when combined with a radio. Here's an example of something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39JXpMMmAp4
With logic like that, who needs dialogue?
I posted an update to the above, there is a reference to signing up on the Help Me page (it's visible in the linked MacRumors story).

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/16/apple-threatens-to-remo...

Not a fan of this policy I just thought it was odd that they applied it this way. I think there are a lot of legitimate services which Apple is excluding this way.
Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash (10 ms 3000K)
Do you have any quantitative evidence that "people on HN, who are typically super data driven"?
The zealots won't care.
My advice: If you want to be an entrepreneur, then be an entrepreneur. Don’t “switch careers”, just be an entrepreneur.

Find and talk to people that have a problem, and come up with the simplest way possible of offering a solution in exchange for money. Ideally the v1 solution doesn’t involve creating any software.

Regardless of what you do you need to be able to cover food, rent etc. Whether that is living with your parents, working as a software dev etc you need some way to survive as you work on your business. Make sure you have that covered.

Find mentors for the areas you are lacking, get their feedback if you can, and learn as you go.

Optimise and prioritise your life for spending as much time as you can on your business. Only work as much as you need to survive, cut out Netflix and other less important things (yes even if it means limiting socialising), and work on your business. Don’t worry about automation or scale until you’ve started making money in your business.

Make progress every day no matter how small, and if you’re serious make adjustments when you need to but never give up.

Good luck!
But what is the exchange rate when you use those cards? The Cucuta, the Dolar today, Dolar BCV?? with the multiple exchange rates you can get killed.
Might as well pick another language for your project if the current one has such shit standard libraries and you're "learning it on the job".
It says in TFA: capital controls and fixed exchange prices, the tools of every country that is going under massive hyperinflation.

This leads to great disparities between official rates and secondary market rates. So if you are the one accepting credit cards, either you had to have different cash/card price tags (usually not acceptable for the card companies) or you simply don't accept card payments.
Merchants receive VES, processing fee are exactly the same as processing a VES card.

Bolivars are not worthless when you getting the full exchange value of it, they render worhtless when you put them in a savings account for 1 full year, at this moment, the rate of usd/ves has kept around 1:200k for around 2 months, this kinda gets some time for people to maneuver their VES, it changes hands really quick

Central bank rate is pretty much similar as "black market one" since 1 year ago. Sometimes is even better.

As of today, 1 USD from an USD credit card in venezuela exchanges to 203.639,64 [1] while 1 usd exchanged in the "black market" gives you 205.310.06 [2]

[1] http://www.bcv.org.ve/

[2] https://dolartoday.com/
That's because trading, unlike the running of a large software service, is regulated.
I disagree completely. Red team tools and techniques are different and gimmicky for a reason, their goal is to demonstrate lack of or effectiveness of security controls and processes. While bad guys have more time and more precise target. For example, 0days and disruptive actions are mostly prohibited for red teamers
I doubt they have sufficient logging if they didn't have any security on their data.
> Saying it’s not harmful is your privilege showing.

No, it's my experience showing. I grew up being basically ostracized (and also bullied) for being a geek. Little did I know it would turn out to be an extremely lucrative career. Simply, while other boys were out playing sports, or indoors playing computer games, I was programming. Because I was interested.

Having said that, I think it's also the case that some people are discouraged from doing what they want, because parents/society. I don't think I'm doing that though. If anything, I'd be more curious about someone doing something unusual (not even in an anti-stereotypical way, but like, generally - such as archery, or spear fishing, or (until recently) bread-making).

> How about just not making any assumptions at all and ask and support people

I definitely support people doing pretty much whatever. But experience shows that it's often better to e.g. lead conversations into interesting topics, rather than play a questions & answers game to find a common interest. The more you're able to do that, based on quick inferences, the better conversationalist you are (on average).
Apparently they don't:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastmail-email-calendar/id9313...
That's incredibly convenient, don't you think? If I was a human being who happened to be black, and made the same criticism, would you have a different response?

You think that my response epitomized the thing I was complaining about. You are welcome to that opinion.

I think that your comment epitomizes the problem I was talking about, which is that this philosophy espouses that every thought in my head or word from my mouth is impossible to separate from my ethnicity. My ideas are beholden to and a product of my group identity in this worldview. I find that to be dangerous and regressive.

I should also add that "White Fragility" didn't "instantly" make me uncomfortable. I purchased and read the entire book. I was open minded about it, until the complete lack of scientific rigor and opinionated, essay-type qualities became clear.
> Which kind of Asians are being under-promoted? Satya, Sundar, Arvind?

This rather specious argument comes up so often I am going to start calling it the "Satya-Sundar fallacy" (sorry Arvind!). Do you also dismiss the concerns of women not being promoted into management roles by citing the examples of Mary Barra and Marissa Meyer?

The US as a whole is very different from Silicon Valley. If the number of people making cow worship jokes at various jobs (here in the middle US) I have heard is any indication, I have a hard time believing they are also simultaneously giving Asians a fair shake at promotion.

Regarding your points – I do believe that East Asians are likely underpromoted relative to their number in tech. One question that's not covered in there is language – of my friends who are first-generation immigrants, the South Asian ones generally have better English than the East/South-East Asian ones.

> there are plenty of Asians in tech.

I...wasn't arguing otherwise. My point was about not being promoted as fast as their counterparts, and into management roles.

> Yet no asian parents are lamenting that their kids didn't get an audition are they?

I don't know about parents, but plenty of South Asian actors have had problems getting auditions. Read about how Kalpen Suresh Modi's auditions skyrocketed when he Anglicized his name to Kal Penn [1], and how Aziz Ansari has had trouble with roles where he's required to fake an accent [2]. East Asians have had a hard time with getting roles in movies that are about East Asians, which was why Crazy Rich Asians was such a landmark (in that it actually had an Asian cast). [3]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/obama/articles/2009/04/08/10-thi...

[2] https://ew.com/article/2015/10/25/aziz-ansari-transformers-a...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/movies/crazy-rich-asians-...
slightly off-topic, while every Alex I know personally is a guy for the generation that plays Minecraft 'Alex' is considered female.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/28/minecraft...
I mean the situation is similar, but I don’t really feel strongly because:

1. I don’t game

2. consequently games seem less important to quality-of-life than phones do to me

3. The ecosystem of “things i can play a game on” is pretty diverse. Xbox and ps are big players but pc gaming is WIDE open and then there’s mobile gaming as well.
With 67 and 68 you also often want 69 there, the Trivial FTP content to boot strap (and don't forget 4011 if you're going full on PXE boot!).

See also pairs of channels as in 20 FTP data, 21 FTP control, or SNMP 161 and 162, or versions of channels such as 109 POP2 and 110 POP3.

Or greedy designs, like NetBIOS with 137, 138, and 139, which folks later realized could be done on a single port like 445. :-)
No links to technical information about the design/specification of the feature --> trash bin.
So are Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, but I'd argue most would call them LA.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.010126...
Does anyone know what kind of motor/drive Spot uses? How do they get that precision/torque/speed? Brushless motors + planetary gears + high res optical/magnetic encoders + software for backlash compensation?
But surely it can be harmful? Perhaps women aren't encouraged to get into racing sports and get potentially lucrative careers out of it. Imagine the same sentence with computers - or programming! - replacing driving. Many a heated discussion has been had on these forums about a certain man and his memo.
50% of the US has below 100 IQ. There is literally nothing you can do if some people can’t understand the meaning that “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean “Only
Black Lives Matter”. I think it’s a small but loud percentage of the people believe this.