skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a great point
It would be nice if there was a sign post for "auto drive failure ahead". You could put that a minute up the road, the car could see it, ping at the driver until he take over, cross the grid and then re-engage.

This seems to be the correct solution for 99% of these Edge cases...
A service worker could send it after the tab is closed.
Thanks, I haven't heard of this.
The value created by a new chat application is approximately zero.

This is a problem solved since late 1990s and is now well into extracting the diminishing returns phase. The market for chat applications is nearly zero sum game for a while.

In case of Slack, its continued losses every year is a good indicator of its zero value.
> Comments like yours, here on HN, would lead me to the conclusion that Trump is the most dangerous leader to come along since the bad old days of the 20th century. And I just don't see it.

He just incited followers to do a coup. How come don't you see that as him being the most dangerous leader of the modern era?
Everything is worth as much as someone else is willing to give up for it.
These aren't allowed by the usb standard, so it's a case of cheap manufacturers not respecting standards and messing things up.
As long as your site only works for English and is only intended to work for English this is fine. If it needs to work for other languages too, even common ones, then this isn't fine.

Getting plurals to work correctly for multiple languages is hard so an alternative (that often works well) is to have locale specific strings with holes in them.
Sounds cool. This could be a way to put older devices to use for some of the things (certainly not all) that a Raspberry Pi is used for. The lack of any physical ports for expansion is a big drawback, but the processors are a lot more capable than typical SBCs (single board computers).
Clubhouse now has 1M active users
It was just announced at the townhall there are a million active users per day and 1000 concurrent rooms.
Great idea. Bug report: Some of the tooltips - on the left side of the screen - are outside of the screen idea.
Ofcom explicitly can't take pre-emptive action around content issues - the offending content must be actually broadcast before they can do anything.

They can decide that a person is not "fit and proper" to hold a broadcast license, but that's a fairly large hurdle to overcome (and it is, of course, judicially reviewable).

To be honest, this is how it should be. A presumption in favour of broadcasting, but with the ability to shut a broadcast down for repeated and/or egregious violations.
Ovens are smaller here typically and you’ll more often than not find the oven and hob (stove) as separate appliances.
"You and I".

I say sexrobots.
> requiring the engineering staff to do a Socratic-like process to pull tangible requirements out

If you've got good business analysts, this is what they're supposed to be doing.

I think if you have great product people, great business analysts, and great developers, the system of PO-Analyst-Developer can work. The problem is that BAs and product people aren't generally making a ton of money, so the great ones will move on to more lucrative positions, and great developers get bored quickly if they're just given a list of JIRA tickets. So pretty soon, one of the three things breaks down then all hell breaks loose. The product folks don't have a clear business vision. The analysts are soft technically and don't know what questions to ask. The developers are either building a space shuttle when they need a bike, or they don't know how to build the bike in the first place.
I'm talking about all libraries and books written since it's development up until the early 10s; and of all those teams, libraries, and code which are legacy.

Haskell has never had a decades-long history of 'compiler-oriented programming', ie., excessive declarations, and so on.

The idea that C++ has a haskellish culture is patently absurd, even if the vanguard regard itself as presenting tending toward that direction.
Keep in mind that “previous buyers” is a very small sample size, and there are a huge number of contributing variables. It is certainly not guaranteed to work out, but given the value of really nailing a leap in the space, the price does not seem like an unreasonable gamble
yeah, on ios whatsapp backs up the data to icloud
> both winter and summer

OP not a comment on long-term climate change, but a statement on how grossly inaccurate short-term forecasts are common (10-20cm of snow is most often 2-5cm, etc).
Hey. You said you do off grid. I have a question. I own a 5 kW on grid setup for net metering. Works fine but now I want to use backups. I have two options,
either lithium 100ah 48v which is expensive or 12v 200ah x 4 to make 48v. Cheaper but limited life because the home load would be on it entirely.

I dont know. The calculation of kWh checks out to be 100ah x 48v = 4800wh. And for lead acid 200ah x 12v x 2= 4800wh.

What do you suggest or is there something I am thinking incorrectly... space is not an issue BTW.
I don’t get it, this claim should be fairly easy to prove by reverse engineering the app.
Even GPT-3 knows nothing about the real world; it's merely trained to repeat the words that most often followed the prompt in its training data. That's obviously not useful for news...if a fact is in the training data, it's not news. It's not useful for "hard facts about how your pension fund is performing" unless you want to know how it performed a long time ago.

But I agree there are some applications it is useful for, like education.
Running graphical desktop environments also appears to be possible: https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/22/linux-with-wayl...
Describe the problem with downvoting that particular genuine question.
Irix was my first Unix, I used it in a lab at school. It was wonderful and much better, at least from a visual point of view, than the other Unix flavors at the time. I learned X-Windows programming on it and really loved using it.
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This is a sale price, so the value is 'money value' and thus a financial issue. The 'philosophy' behind what determines it is quite clear:

What's the balance sheet of the company? What's its profit? What's its potential for growth and rise in profit? How desperate are the current owners?
Love Fabien write-ups!

> badly fragmented connector world made of

Dont forget SCSI. USB killed external SCSI.

>Up to that point in time, it was a good tech stack.

USB 0.9 was 1995, USB 1.0 1996. Two years later we had Bill Gates getting embarrassed by Windows 98 BSOD on stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84. By ~2002 we ended up with 6 separate incompatible proprietary variations on micro USB. Pretty much every second Camera vendor had its won "standard".

>USB-3.X cables features 8 wires .... and the other six carry data

Sadly just adding even more confusion to the mix. 24 pins, up to 13 signals, 4 pairs (8 wires) dedicated to USB 3.2 alone.

>Thanks to DP 1.4, the bandwidth requirement can be lowered via DSP lossless compression

oh its very much lossy, Display Stream Compression (DSC) is "visually lossless" :--------) it works similar to Texture Compression, but works on blocks of lines instead of rectangles, still it does destroy information by cutting off color accuracy.

At the end of the day USB is still trivial compared to Bluetooh.
I wonder if these could coexist with solar farms in deserts and the concrete blocks are simply filled with sand and made there as a part of levelling the field required to install solar panels. A rough analogy would be the cut and fill process that is adopted while making roads. Similarly when a new plant is sited the sand is removed and used to create a storage system. The main idea is that it would reduce transportation costs and will share the transmission lines that exist for the giant solar farms which will be installed.
In a world made around human bodies, hardly.
Yes. I would like a mode for HN and Reddit where only top-level comment are visible and threads must be expanded explicitly, with the same true recursively.

If I'm not interested in a comment, then I'm not interested in its replies either. I've never understood why comments are treated differently from posts in this regard. The front page isn't presented with all comments expanded.
Having spider legs could be more versatile, but who would want giant robot spiders hanging around..
As with most things in development, it looks trivial. In an MVP it is trivial (as your code demonstrates).

Now try it in an internationalized app. It's a matter of handling up to 6 plural forms (http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/e... - see Arabic). That's a lot more effort than just having 1 translated line of text for "messages".
In Sweden FAANG (and MS) are more desirable as their salaries tend to be higher and include more profitable stocks and bonuses. Other than that the technology and work conditions are more or less comparable to local companies.

The only problem is that the local branches tend to be small, probably due to higher costs of salaries, real estate and operations.
If you don't fear as a binary then threat assessment and mitigation cost may be a factor. Could be a closet ios user.
> France is also making a transition to renewable energy but they are not giving up on nuclear

Unfortunately there is very strong support on dropping nuclear power in France in favor of renewable energy, across almost all the political spectrum. Nuclear share of electricity production is already planned to be lowered from 70% to 50%.
In pondering about this question one should keep in mind that economic value is not the same thing as financial value.
So the question is whether “most“ of long term robotics applications are on a simple flat surface or not. I truly do not know, but presumably they have some ideas in mind
In his release Barr misrepresented the contents of the report and you are spreading their lies further and further.

I encourage you to actually read the report.
If someone believes a lie, is it a lie?

We are in a situation where all sides of the argument are essentially lies (to someone) because of how we have had events framed for us. Is the media responsible? Depends on who you don’t like. Is Pizzagate or Russiagate real? Conspiracies have flown in all directions.

Lie itself is a term that is more persuasive than falsehood. When i hear someone call something a lie i tend to ignore everything that person says.

Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. Lie or falsehood? If you don’t give them the benefit of the doubt, call it a lie. I think using the term lie itself is a self-contained conspiracy theory. One is assuming that what they are hearing is not just wrong, but not worth investigating because the person saying it doesn’t actual believe it.
It's good point. Now that the dems have the exec, house and senate, who are they going to blame for everything?
So you’re doing this right now. The entirety of Trumps voters were lying? Anytime we want voter reform it’s disenfranchisement right? The complaints still have not been heard. If the left keeps this up they will do nothing but push the divide more.
It does have it's uses. e.g. uploading old pics to FB I appreciated the ability to let it figure out when they were taken on its own
All roads lead to banks.
Older phones definitely beat Raspberry Pis on both price and features. For barely the same price as a Pi + a decent SD card you get the equivalent of a Pi + a touchscreen, internal NAND, mobile networking, GPS, sound (speaker & mic), a battery backup with built-in charging circuitry and accelerometer/gyroscope sensors.
I guess, maybe it isn't that weird, maybe that's just how people are. There is very little diversity of thought or ability to see multiple dimensions in the general public, so why should I expect it in journalism (well, it's supposed to be their job, but that's obviously old fashioned).

> Why would it be weird? Is there an alternate perspective where the nation's capitol wasn't ransacked by a hostile mob? What other interpretations are you imagining would be reported?

This is an example of the above. You see this event as: "The nation's capitol was ransacked by a hostile mob."

There is so much more to this story, so many obvious (to me) questions, and even other details in the coordinated narrative running in the media. Yet here you are, rhetorically representing that a "mob" "ransacking the capital" is all there is to it. And it's not just you, this sort of obvious(?) distortion of reality is becoming extremely common in culture war threads. I point it out regularly, and I've never had a single person touch the topic. Either they will reply but completely dodge the question as if they didn't see it, or they will say asking such questions are absurd or inappropriate, or simply not reply. To me, this mass change in the ~"collective consciousness" of the population is completely fascinating.
Just like Kathy Griffin posed for a photo with a beheaded Trump mask?
That won't last long. Everyone else wants that role gone. Crypto, RMB, ...
Mary Barra got her MBA in 1990 from Stanford. Having an engineering degree doesn't mean you're not an MBA.
I know its easy to forget during a pandemic, but the world is mostly outdoors.
I suppose Apple "fixed" whatever made this possible in later phones?
Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen on Science's Slowdown (2018)
As a German, it's Erdgeschoß for ground floor, then first, second, third, etc. for the floors above ground.
Hahah, I love the feigned confusion technique.
Error correction and ease of duplication of the entire manuscript can be make or break.
this microblogging platform is clearly crap, it has a vomiting bird as its logo, and follows the trend of those who then arrive at the shit-storm, which is not only illegal, but a clear manifestation of inhumanity; I personally despise any use of the Internet as if it were a defecator or similar, and I hope this platform will fail, for the little good that exists
It blows my mind that Hyundai was actually able to buy BD at a fair price in current environment. I don’t think it would surprise anyone even if they paid $5B for BD.
GNOME team seems to be busy for years on the goal of baking out some weird hybrid of macOS, iOS and own solutions that tries to be so far away from classic desktop paradigm as much it's possible so I'm not surprised at all that this issue is still not resolved.

At least they managed to tame their DE to be not a resources hungry hog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(computer_memory)
We have the responsibility to protect free speech rights, that is people's right to express their opinion publicly. The internet equivalent of this is to ensure that everybody (who has not lost this right at court) should not be denied access to the internet and setting up a webpage to express their opinion.

Net neutrality could cover the above.

It is not our responsibility to ensure that every lunatic, child abuser or whatever can have their content promoted via content platforms.
Writing a letter to your future self – an experiment
Content When Tested Against Helmer's 7 Power Law Theory
Depends on the compiler. In my very limited experience I've found that Clang is far superior to GCC in this matter (but rustc is better still, apart from iterator errors)
The issue is that some malware installed itself with the name QR scanner, not that Android does or doesn't have a QR scanner. Most Android camera apps (each phone comes with its own) will recognise QR codes fine, although the UI is sometimes annoying.
Surely leverage via stock

(Edit: this story was Dec 11th, so clearly not.)
Ummm... no. If this is like a week's worth of work, you're looking at $250k annualized income, $125k after overhead.

In practice, you're not finding a bug like this every week.

The bug bounty programs were originally intended to give a white hat market alternative to the black hat and gray hat markets. They don't do that. If I find a bug, and I want profit, I'm much better off selling to my government than to Google.

One can only imagine the number of exploits the US, China, Russia, North Korea, etc. have in their cyber-warfare vaults.

Exploits compound. Often, two minor exploits make a major exploit.
Wasn't the previous owner Japanese anyway (SoftBank)?
Where I am in Europe, solar panels produce around 15% in December of what they do in June. I'm not even that far north. We don't have that much wind (even on the coast), and the country is very flat so hydro isn't an option.

To use 100% green power we would need a combination of long term energy storage, and HVDC transmission across Europe.
Alright then. That's a lot.
Fixing the Most Elusive Habit
Yes. China also relies heavily upon imported coal, hence the further push for alternatives (nuclear, solar, wind, etc).

When China recently banned all coal imports from Australia, the country suffered widespread electricity blackouts.
There's plenty of use cases for an app to use EXIF.

Like if I'm using a gallery app, I want to be able to filter by location.

Or people that post online might want to tag their location.
That’s a cool idea, how so?
Upload into many clouds is free. You could set up a bunch of instances on Azure to download data to a data store and shutdown when finished, unless I’m missing something.
I can't help but read this with a negative tone.

To put a more positive spin on it: for roughly 1/26th the cost of another chat client we could have twice the scary robots.

There are a lot of similar things that we spend a relatively large amount of time talking about but don't actually cost that much in the grand scheme of things (fundamental science, alternative energy, and presidential elections, to name a few).

Just to give some numbers:

- SpaceX in 2019: 46 billion

- ITER: 22-65 billion

- LHC: around 20 billion

- ISS: 150 billion

(with the caveat that numbers for publicly funded projects are very difficult to pin down given the diversity of funding)

Basically all the projects that are slowly pushing us toward the future we read read about in science fiction are on the order of the cost of a chat client (the ISS being the outlier as one of the most expensive public projects in history). To me that's cause for optimism.
How is it not a counterexample? TPB has user registration, submissions and comments, and a search function. Conceptually, this isn't too different to the function of Parler.

Also, the introduction of magnet links (or more generally, the DHT which those rely on) was a broadly positive move for the BitTorrent community, reducing reliance on centralized tracker servers.
Same here...
Apple Horse > Apple Car
Headline should say Parler, not Parlor (which is a different (and still available) app).

Since there are (presumably) a lot of photos on Parler relating to the Capitol insurrection, how do investigating agencies get access to them, now that AWS shut them down?
Parler*
There is lots of evidence of fraud but people wouldn’t know about it as it’s censored on big tech and mainstream news.
I get your point, but

a) Slack has 5x as many employees, global market share, consumer ubiquity, etc. It’s simply a bigger entity (in the same way that Home Depot is a more ‘boring’ business than slack but 15x larger in valuation)

b) Boston Dynamics is in many ways a research lab rather than a for-profit company. In research and the arts, things might be nominally inexpensive but their real value is priceless.
> because it's a language with strict evaluation

But that is not the only reason. Haskell does much more aggressive optimisations than Java (and Scala, OCaml, F#). A large part of Haskell's space-usage reasoning issues come from the combination of lazy evaluation and these aggressive optimisations. Java and Scala code can contain plenty of deferred evaluation too, for example iterators, but the compilers simply don't do (and cannot do) such aggressive optimisations. Of course, this also means that much pure functional Scala/Java code can be poorly performing.
This article was posted almost a month back ~ Dec 11th 2020. I wonder why no media captured this!
It seems like many people disagree. But it's true.

Microsoft used to pay 20k for exploit primitives that could potentially lead privilege escalation. These days the bounty program seem to require a demonstration (read: working exploit).

Zerodium offers up to 80k for a working local privilege escalation exploit. Depending on the workings, if that exploit can be used to break out of a browser sandbox you might earn a bonus.

The whitehat bounties are not market rate, if you only look at the monetary rewards.
Indeed, I have two of them. They don't always work correctly. Meaning they don't always charge depending on the device and cable you plug into them.
Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction
I hate the word “alignment” with a passion.

It never means “let’s do things in a coordinated and mutually beneficial way”. It always means “you will do the thing that I want you to do, or the way I want you to do it”.

Weasel word, if ever there was one.
No they can’t because they can’t get parts. Even things like patch kits were hard to find for a big chunk of the year.
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If you want to look at it that way then an aerated cold beverage is worth 219 times Boston Dynamics.
This reminds me why I decided to use KDE years ago. KDE3 had image previews, GNOME didn't.
No it isn't, it's a simple matter of fact statement that running code on runtime A appeared to be cheaper in terms of hardware costs than runtime B.

The "overlooking" part you filled in yourself in bad faith and bad reading comprehension, as the author actually does acknowledge that the observed hardware savings are small compared to the cost of hiring programmers.
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Honestly there are no compelling arguments for picking Haskell over other languages in the same domain.

Limited open-source to leverage, incredibly limited and costly hiring opportunities, not that great tooling and integrations.

Any upside you can sell from a pure programming point of view (there are some very valid ones) pale in comparison to the negatives it brings to your overall business.
I doubt AWS deleted the disk images.
HN thread Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics [1] from one month ago. The article [2] from The RobotReport states:

> In early November, Bloomberg first reported that Hyundai was in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from Tokyo-based SoftBank Group. The Japanese conglomerate is selling off non-core business assets after it was hit hard by a series of soured bets, including WeWork and Uber. In September 2020, Softbank sold Arm to NVIDIA for $40 billion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25363981

[2] https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynam...
Akonadi supports at least four DB engines. To combat bloat, select the SQLite dependency instead of MariaDB/MySQL.

I wish there was the option of not installing Akonadi, but apparently it's not possible any more to run sticky notes and feed reader without it.
SolarWinds hackers linked to known Russian spying tools, investigators say
Does Rebekah Mercer have an account?
Is Hyundai trying to make a major move here? This now makes a lot of sense coupled with their pending partnership with Apple.
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