skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a "fleet-wide hack of autonomous vehicles" an oxymoron? They clearly aren't autonomous if they are controlled by an outside force that can be hacked.

Maybe it depends on perspective, with the manufacturer seeing owners as outside forces, from which their vehicles are autonomous? Rolled up with the liability question is the question of who does control the vehicles and who they are autonomous from.
Just watch the show.
I am deeply confused here. I recall a conversation with Scott where he interrupted me after I'd said something like, "Trump isn't as bad as Pence could be," and insisted that Trump was the absolute worst, the pinnacle of violent and brutish realpolitik.

Meanwhile, the Left also-ran a candidate, Bernie, with a published agenda [0] full not of blame, but of infrastructure projects and social safety nets.

Where on the political compass is this sort of opinion supposed to land? I don't understand and I wish that he would be clearer.

[0] https://berniesanders.com/issues/
I've been searching for this for almost a year...
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ers1b0/vimium_for...
Exactly... not all IOUs are created equal. Any bank that is part of the Federal Reserve System can create US Dollars, the most liquid and trusted form of money in the world presently.
The "queer" in the game's name probably means odd, not homosexual. As in the person holding the ball is the odd one, and everyone should try to hit them. That doesn't stop people from misinterpreting it, since queer mostly means homosexual or some other sexual minority. It's slightly more pessimistic to think that the game is teaching our kids to kill homosexuals vs. some undefined oddness.
I would not bet against Elon musk. He has the ability to recruit the best people in the world and has a near unlimited supply of funding.
> Single Letter Variable Names

I saw @axegon_ talking about "Names From Other Languages" and calling it "worst thing that you could ever end up dealing with". But I tell you, a "Single Letter Name" master will turn your mind really quickly.

You open up the code, that's a file of over 2,000 lines, no comment. Everybody inside there were called `a`, `b`, `n`, `i`, `q`. Some functions were a little better, `handle`, `add`, `equal`, `DataClass`, `MainProcessHandler`, `Service`.

Yeah, I rewrite the whole thing because at least I can trust the stupidity of my own.
I don't see how certification solves anything that just not doing OTA updates doesn't also solve.
The first ARM laptops won’t appear for another few months at least, and they’ll be “1.0 Apple products” anyway. You should not buy a 1.0 Apple product. Apart from the traditional quality-control issues of such releases, community and support resources for it won’t be there for some time. Unless you can wait for 2-3 years, if you want a Mac you should probably buy it now.
Based on the other replies to this perfectly reasonable post, I’d say HN is filled with helicopter parents.
LG Revolutionizes Personal Clean Air with Puricare Wearable Air Purifier
Saying this is reinventing BASIC in YAML seems to miss the point here; the programming model here is essentially a finite state machine with optional data flowing between nodes, and AFAIK there isn't really a widespread language that targets this model.

And a restricted model is not there just so that non-programmers can use it. Restricting what you can do in the program means that there are more things you can do with the program. I haven't checked if GCP's Workflows supports everything below, but here are some things you can do in principle:

* You can visualize the entire program as a flowchart, and visualize the state of the program simply by pointing at a node in the flowchart. This is not possible with a general purpose language since there could be arbitrary levels of call frames.

* You can implement retry policies for each step entirely transparently, and possibly other things like authentication. Aspect-oriented programming is more practical when the programming model is restricted.

* You can schedule the steps onto different hosts, possibly in parallel.

* You can suspend and resume the workflow, since its entire state is just which step is being executed, plus a handful of variables (which presumably are always serializable).

Re the problem of extension: the idea seems to be that you put all "smartness" inside HTTP services that are written in real languages and only use this as a dumb glue language.
Yeah. Different people have different values.

In the same way people see "free speech" as being a good thing, "free parenting" is similar, both in concept and result.

Clearly, some people talk shit and some people parent shit. And the results are as per expectation.

But without the mixing pot of variation we wouldn't have the better ways either - and we try as a society to have education(for parents and kids, for speech and parenting) make up the difference.

And worse come to worse, there is the unfortunate need for Child Services, however that works out...
Why does that make more sense than a bomb that just straight up kills a dude? Chemical agents are difficult and dangerous to synthesize, but you can get explosives anywhere there's a mining industry.
I play games with people in their mid-20s and a few have let out "that's gay" as a synonym for something being bad.

I don't think any of them would qualify as homophobic, it's just more a case of hearing something so much that it creeps into your lexicon and comes out by mistake sometimes in a moment of distraction or emotion. It took me a while to unlearn it myself because it was extremely common in the 90s at my school (even among guys who later came out as gay, I guess you have to fit in).
For 6% of the deaths, Covid-19 was the only cause mentioned
Gibson's Slamhounds are here.
Fantastic primer to the art and science of fuzzing
Because doing it one time, or 10 times, or 1,000 times doesn't change anything about how it works. If everybody pays all their debts, it all adds back up to $1,000,000 in cash (plus interest for the bank(s)).
Lol so when I was getting my ass beat in middle school for sounding a bit effeminate during a game of "smear the queer" it was just because I was "odd". That must be why the called me a faggot too.
For starters, it's not just browsing history but all of your activity on pages or in apps that use Facebook's spywa..."ads". This includes activity times, connections to other users, and even proximity to places or other people (Bluetooth beacons etc). This is all on top of the voluntary PII you might have fed directly into a Facebook profile or the shadow profile they helpfully created for you when your friend uploaded their contacts into Facebook.

There's zero oversight of how that data is used or who it's sold to and what those buyers do with it. We've already seen a number of cases where this harvested data was sold to unscrupulous or outright criminal concerns.

So it's not just Facebook using browsing history to sell you boxes of Tide. They're selling dossiers on you to groups literally trying to gaslight and manipulate you, to subconsciously influence you to do things, or to just make you generally feel like shit. Facebook exacerbates this behavior by "advertisers" by using your dossier to stick you in a filter bubble while at the same time showing you content that maximizes "engagement" and nothing else.

The dog wagging and gaslighting are not common knowledge or well understood by most people. Neither are the shadow profiles or the access of data by any organization that drove a dump truck full of money to Menlo Park. They're worse than the old school information brokers and credit reporting agencies because they feed all of your behavior into their graphs rather than just transaction history or public data.
Look at my project temporal.io. It does the same thing using general purpose programming languages. Currently Java and Go are supported with Python, Ruby and C# under development. This is absolutely valid workflow code:

public void execute(String customerId) {
activities.onboardToFreeTrial(customerId);
try {
Workflow.sleep(Duration.ofDays(60));
activities.upgradeFromTrialToPaid(customerId);
while (true) {
Workflow.sleep(Duration.ofDays(30));
activities.chargeMonthlyFee(customerId);
}
} catch (CancellationException e) {
activities.processSubscriptionCancellation(customerId);
}
}
I think there was sort of a formalization of territory when the Colombian cartels controlled the entire chain from production in the jungle to the sale in US streets.

The violence and territorial wars in Mexico since the early 2000s are as I understand it a direct consequence of the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels, with numerous groups trying to fill the power vacuum left.

What you describe often is happening on a local level, but there will always be outbursts of violence somewhere as soon as someone threatens the "peace". Getting drugs into the US is just way too lucrative a business. The fighting will just keep shifting places as long as this is the case.
It's probably just another daily outage at CloudFlare, they are famous for their the most unreliable infrastructure on the entire planet.
It doesn't complicate moisture seals. A gasket is very simple. You can double gaskets as shock-reduction, too, which is impossible with adhesives. There are already about 30 screws in an iPhone 11, I don't think 4 more will make too much a difference, but if you were really trying to save space having two components use the same screw is possible.

This really isn't a total redesign, by the way, and it doesn't just apply to the battery, but helps repairing everything else. In any case, it absolutely isn't a total redesign, and FWIW the iPhones don't even have that much battery compared to more repairable phones of the same size.
It reduces the attack surface to places that have been verified to be following security obligations. Otherwise a physical attack becomes much easier because you just need to work at an auto-shop that doesn't pay much attention to you. The same sort of attack is still possible with certs but it's more difficult because it would require compromising both the shop and the person who vets their practices.
You take your chances, or you walk. We were comfortable enough, and intrigued enough, that we took our chances. It was a gamble that paid off.
Right; the hard limitation on money creation is that banks exist in order to earn profits for shareholders, and there is only a finite pool of profitable lending opportunities at any given time. With no reserve requirement a bank could theoretically create unlimited amounts of money but it would eventually go bankrupt as it would take massive losses on bad loans.
Small armed drones could be the game-changer the AK-47 was. Before the AK-47, revolt against an army with machine guns was almost impossible. "Whatever happens, we have got ... The Maxim gun - and they have not." Post AK-47, the guerillas usually win, or at least can keep the struggle going on indefinitely.

The combination of drones for assassination and Bitcoin for payment could force everyone with money or power into a bunker or armored vehicle for the rest of their life.
I don't think it much matters how the term originated based on my memories as a child—it was certainly internalized as homophobia and caused me a lot of pain growing up.
He might have just been sad that you weren't living your life how he would have - ie you spent a lot of time in front of the computer instead of out socializing, chasing girls, playing sports, etc?
It's the least flexible strategy _because_ it's the simplest - as soon as a customer comes knocking requiring data isolation, you have a hard business decision to make. It's also a lot harder to extract / deal with a business critical "hot" customer in either direction (either a very performance sensitive customer key to revenue, who could really use their own hardware, or a very bad customer with outsized resource consumption).
Hacker News is nothing more than Slashdot in its heyday. This place is a glorious cluster fuck of Internet wisdom.
Because Eurozone M1 doesn't account for the debt that backs some of those balances. That's like suggesting you can increase your net worth by taking out a loan. You can increase the amount of money you have to spend right now by taking a loan, but you're not "creating net worth out of thin air".
Has anyone else done so? Are there any links or prior HN discussions you could include to help me understand what you're talking about?
That model of efficiency (RAM and CPU time) is based on classical computation.

When your underlying model of computation is full quantum computation, it's simpler to just run everything at once. It takes no energy if you run everything without picking out a scenario (but in a kind of "tree falling in a forest" way), and more energy if you select out specific scenarios to look what happened (I/O is expensive). Counter-intuitively, the computation part of quantum systems is free in ways that we consider classical computers expensive to run. It's reversible and doesn't consume any energy.

That may seem like it's avoiding the point, after all what does it take to run the "underlying model of computation".

But what I'm trying to say is that "quantum all the way down" (see also turtles) is as much a valid model as "mechanical computation all the way down", which your picture relies on. Neither of them is more fundamental.

It may seem like quantum-all-the-way-down is a bit artificial, because we can in principle run quantum simulations on classical computers, which seem simpler. But it turns out we can't. There is a fundamental intractability barrier for simulations above an arbitrary tiny size, which means we can only simulate interesting quantum systems using other quantum systems. It really is quantum-all-the-way-down.

If god came up with the quantum-all-the-way-down version, I'd say that's pretty clever, because it's way more efficient than anything you would implement, with your old-school classical RAM and classical CPU.
Errr, i mean, that's basically what shock sites/links were.

It was basically literally blasted right at you and people trolled by getting them to click on it/expose people to it involuntarily whether you were looking for it or not.

I'd name several of with their 'canonical names' off the top of my head if i didn't want to get banned...
CNN is absolutely right. Every day I read news that something goes down at CloudFlare. CloudFlare do much more harm than they "fix" with their services.
The computer is fast and reliable at performing complicated well-defined operations.

Case insensitive comparison is less well defined than you might think. You need to know what language, because the rules are different in different languages. You need to know what version of unicode, because the rules can change. You need to know what to do if the data on disk doesn't conform to the rules. You need to know what to do when copying data from one filesystem to another when the names can't be stored on the destination.

I feel it's often better to train the user on how to use a simple system effectively, than to build a complex system. You have to put the complexity somewhere, and humans are easier to change than software and hardware.
Outsourced vs. in-house software development: which is right for you?
Aren’t Generation 3 reactors with passive cooling much safer than previous generations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor
Not really true. It depends on the restaurant.

Many soba restaurants use vertical text written right to left because it gives a sense of old times. Higher end traditional-style restaurants do this too.

Family restaurants and anything with western food is pretty much always written left to right.

It's also very common to see street signs (notably "construction ahead" and "beware of __" signs) using vertical right to left text.
Drone swarms will definitely be a go-to standard in warfare soon. It has already been in use for a few years over in the ME.
I was recently at a Rainforest Cafe (not my first choice but it’s a good place to bring guests for entertainment value) that had just reopened and they had a simplified one-page menu. I was surprisingly pleased since they normally had pages and pages of items, so many in fact that I usually just chose the burger. And guess what was on the new menu? A burger. Of course.
>Suppose you have $100 in cash...

Now if you realize that that $100 is a mere IOU from the U.S. of A. you may get a feeling you are onto something...
Yeah, it looks like various interests simply lobby for the time convenient to their own industry. Nevada is indeed more into Pacific than Mountain -- in fact, the whole of Nevada and some part of Utah should be within the Pacific if we're looking for the best alignment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692659/ -- and specifically https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692659/figure/... -- provides maps which show the best longitude-based alignment for the timezones, and Nevada is entirely within the Pacific portion.

Isn't the US a bit too wide to have a single timezone? They've tried it in Russia in 2010s, to skip a few "extra" timezones, because 11 total timezones is quite a bunch as-is, but, apparently, the folks weren't all too happy about it, and the change was reverted several years later.
>Look at Fukushima for example.

As others have pointed out, this is a 53 year old design. Not exactly the best example for modern nuclear power.

New reactor designs implement passive cooling that allows for 0 interaction for 72 hours. 72 hours is more than enough time for manual intervention to be possible.

>The design is intended to passively remove heat for 72 hours, after which its gravity drain water tank must be topped up for as long as cooling is required [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
Wait until they learn a jar company makes aerospace parts...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Aerospace_%26_Technolog...
IMO this is a great problem to raise, but is best solved by feature toggles and maintaining a single application codeline. Separate codelines are absolutely brutal to maintain.
> Someone should write a book set in a science fiction dystopia where you have to apply for a specific permit to construct any device or write any software (lest you make a drone or a singularity AI), and where machine tools are carefully controlled and limited to regularly inspected industrial facilities.

Something like RMS' story, The Right to Read?:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
QM is not hand wavy and gives precise results for many practical problems. Your theory is wrong as per one of the simplest quantum experiment - the single electron double slit problem.
Chernobyl (outside of parts of power plant that hosted the uranium core) is only dangerous in the graveyard, and certain apartments/rooms that haven't been opened since the accident.

Radiation is a natural phenomenon, and effects are not as long-term as we were taught.
Shouldn't these drones be pretty easy to signal jam? I mean cartels don't really care about the law anyways.
> If you steal an candy bar, the government can "compel speech" in the form of forcing you to return the stolen property.

This is a great example of a thing that is not remotely 'compelled speech.' Here's the wiki article on the topic[1]. There's a pretty high bar for the government to create exceptions to the First Amendment.

A better example of compelled speech is the FBI trying to require Apple to write software that would give police a backdoor into any iPhone user's phone[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled_speech#United_States

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/what-we-talk-about-whe...
I don't use CloudFlare, so my website has ZERO issues. I'm so glad CloudFlare and their customers are affected so badly. They deserved it.
If anything, Bosch is more of a car component supplier that happens to also make power drills on the side.
Same. In my experience, this "game" was only "played" targeting femme boys (or in my case, "boys"), and never with their consent. But if we'd hide behind a teacher the mob would be all "oh it's just a game" and more often than not the teacher would try to goad the victim into playing. Fuck that
Chemical weapons require some specialized knowledge but within that field it is not an impossible task. It is mostly the acquisition of the raw materials.

If you can do a drug synthesis you could probably synthesize a chemical weapon.
Looks like the IRIX community is still around
Been a while since I've been on the scene but it looks like since nekochan.net met its end that the IRIX community is still chugging along. I found https://irixnet.org pretty quickly, looks to have been founded by ex-members of Nekochan shortly after launch. Been a pretty quiet lurker there for a few months and I can tell they've been putting in a lot of effort in documentation and offering a complete solution.

I better dust off my Octane 2 sooner or later and actually contribute. IRIX was always my favorite UNIX, and it seems like it's a fun time to be part of the hobby, if expensive. Looked up prices for SGIs on ebay and WOW! that's expensive...

Seems a few smaller sites are still around like mood indigo (in German, which I don't speak) and sgi.sh, which seems mildly interesting. I found irixnet first though, and judging from the compendium of documentation it's a better option? The sgidev wiki seems pretty barren.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24325352.
I'd say 20 or 30 menu items is still a far cry from the usual American Chinese restaurant thing of four to six pages full of menu items in 8 point font.
There's already legislation in place requiring that drones over 250g be registered with the FAA.

They're also in the process of drafting legislation that would require drone pilots to sync flights in real time via internet connection. This is controversial however since many drone flights take place outside of internet connected areas (very remote areas, middle of national park, etc). The response from the drone community is that drones themselves should be required to broadcast a wifi network, so nearby planes/helicopters can be alerted when there's a drone nearby. So there's definitely regulation in the works, but the drone community is primarily worried they will be squeezed out in favor of commercial drone interests.

An interesting thing to point out is that the DJI mavic mini only weighs 249g (designed this way on purpose), making it a exempt from these regulations but still extremely capable (have had one for a few months now).
The Opium Wars between China and the British Empire were a result of China's attempt to shut down the opium trade.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars
Oracle is famous for this, and it basically amounts to anything you want to do leads you to another sales rep with an upsell -- everything useful becomes feature-gated.

It might work better with consumers, where such a strategy isn't cost-effective, but I also imagine its a difficult system to tech support -- you get a combinatorial explosion of possible "features" that may be in play. Anyways, it incentivizes bad behavior even consumer side, encouraging results like 200 $1 features and communities/tutorials/discussion becomes strangled
масив? I had a similar experience wondering what this thing is when I first heard this. I wonder what the etymology is.

Python dicts seem to be „асоциативен масив“ but „речник“ is also acceptable, so at least that's understandable.
Thank you for not using electron
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