skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a note, one of the largest iron ore mining operations in the world has been runing autonomous supervised Trucks and trains since ~2015:

> Autonomous trucks [1]

> We run more than 130 autonomous trucks, part of our Autonomous Haulage System, across our Iron Ore operations. The trucks are operated by a supervisory system and a central controller, rather than a driver. The system uses pre-defined GPS courses to automatically navigate haul roads and intersections and knows actual locations, speeds and directions of all vehicles at all times.

> In 2018, each truck was estimated to have operated on average 700 hours more than conventional haul trucks, with 15% lower costs – delivering clear productivity benefits. They also take truck operators out of harm’s way, reducing the risks associated with working around heavy machinery.

In Australia though .. starting from sheep shearing robots in the early 1980s

[1] https://www.riotinto.com/en/about/innovation/automation
There are tons and tons of attack vectors that are not deterred by NAT. And with so many routers around that are vulnerable and not updatable, or that still have their default admin passphrases, you shouldn't consider your NAT network a safe place.
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My mother talked me out of going to school for programming, and a decade after I graduated high school that’s what I ended up doing anyway, realizing it was going to lead to better prospects.
More that self-driving is not coming anytime soon and when it comes it will be commodity technology. So you are better off just buying it from someone else.
Wow that guy on issue 16 has my dream studio. A small modular, a few pedals and a guitar, all going in in Ableton.
I wish Canada would make DST permanent year round.
Nice. This is one of the cases where “the rule of thumb” can be understood (almost) literally.
You need multiple LUT for different profiles black 100% with Fogra39 will come out differently than black 100% on a desktop inkjet.

And this collection of look up tables to make color reproduction more predictable, that's precisely what Pantone licenses... So that's probably why Adobe wasn't allowed to add it for free.
Wholehearted agreement, but that leaves two interesting questions:

1) Is the report substantially correct?

2) Why do the Republicans think that this message will help them politically?

Bonus points to anyone who gets through that minefield insulting the intelligence of their political opposition.
Duck DNS is able to do the same thing. Pretty neat not needing to specify the IP.
The people who prefer Apple's or Window's font rendering are able to observe it so that's much more subjective preference compared to people who are literally unable to hear e.g. an x570 chipset fan and claim their system is silent
> For short distances in cities, we have buses, trams, bikes

Although I agree, as an urban dweller, I am quite anticipating a possible future with the total proliferation of self driving cars. If self driving cars reach a large majority of the road, I can anticipate local and state governments outlawing the manually-driven kind on urban streets. I personally would really like this, because human drivers are an absolute nuisance to urban life in many ways.

You can't use laws to make humans drive 25 on that road where everyone routinely goes 40. It just doesn't work, and the people whose houses are on that road suffer the noise and danger that results. You can, however, use laws to make algorithms respect the speed limit, because big companies will otherwise face big fines. That's why I want to see self driving cars.
I wonder if that is considered a copyright violation. The customer is giving you X and you are giving back Y. But Y is not copyright. It could be considered a derivative work, but what if you change Y, so it's a couple of degrees off on the HSV scale?
"Fired" has such a negative connotation in this context. Given their hefty bonuses, I highly doubt the top executives were all that unwilling or unhappy.

Ex CEO Parag Agrawal alone will receive an estimated $42 million. [1]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-ceo-set-receive-4...
Exactly that lookup table is the entirety of Pantone's business. They've got a list of colors (which are just indices into this table) mapping these color names to a specific CMYK combination as well as chemical formulas for exactly that color in printing, plastic, in all kinds of materials.

That ensures that any two people naming the same pantone color will always know exactly which color is meant.

And this lookup table is what's copyrighted under database rights.
> What happened to Hu Jintao?

The same thing that I'm sure happened to many Chinese people when he was in power.
Randomly watched this yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0&ab_channel=LexFr... where Roger Penrose argues that we're missing something fundamental about consciousness and his best bet is a structure called the microtubules. This talk reminded me of my own research into "AI" back in the 00's and that it's almost impossible to talk about AI since everybody has a different idea as to whay AI is, yes i know there's a pretty good classification ANI, AGI, ASI but most people don't know about this and think of AI as a machine that thinks like conscious human. I'd argue that we've solved or at least partly solved the part of AI that has to do with neural nets. We're still some way off utilizing the full potential of neural nets since our hardware hasn't quite reached the capability of emulating even the simplest of complex animals. The thing is that Neural nets are probably only part of intelligence and creating bigger and more complex neural nets probably wont result in what most people consider AI but i guess there's still a chance it might. We might have to wait several years to find out since moors law is plateauing and neural chips are still in it's infancy. My best guess is that we'll solve "Intelligence" long before we solve consciousness and i think we're actually quite far along here. The best theory of intelligence i've read so far is Jeff Hawkins 1000 Brain Theory and i'm really looking forward to see how far it can go. The problem with this theory is that it's still missing the most critical component which is the illusive mechanism that binds all the "Intelligent" stuff together and i guess that might be hidden in the quantum nature of the microtubules but to solve that we kind of need a new component to our theory of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Effects.

Sorry if i went a bit off topic, but just needed to get my thoughts since yesterday out my head.
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It would help to replace pointers by integer offsets, and keep the base in only one location. Using offsets is also useful if you move your code to GPU.
Switzerland too - I was there for the first time for a couple of weeks last month. Didn't even think of hiring a car, using Uber or anything - the public transport is just too damn good. Even though I had a pretty good idea what to expect, I was still amazed.
Which ones have disavowed this (very real) reports findings? As far as I've seen, there is a false dichotomy between the first spreading event being source and lab being source. Angela Rasmussen for instance is well known for her detailed studies around the live animal market but it doesn't make sense to proclaim that because it spread there that it precludes coming there via a lab worker over a game hunter.
Eudora.
AFAIK there are only isolated airport shuttles that run fully automated.

There are several fully-automated rail systems worldwide. Paris M14 and the Copenhagen Metro among others are fully automated; things like the DLR in London are level 3 (driverless with a staff member on board).
That niche is filled pretty nicely by Heidelberg. Their printers come with their own color correction and matching system. Plus they ship ICC profiles for accurate screen preview.
It's exactly this mapping which is what pantone owns and licenses, reproducing it is very likely going to be illegal.
AI-assisted, but not "generated" imo.

This topic is something I will write many more blog posts about. I have lots of notes on various topics, but they aren't in a publishable state. If I were in a better financial position, I would hire a ghost writer to help me work out the drafts. But, I'm not, so GPT-3 helps me with that.
One person's red tag is another's red tape solution.
PCs usually aren't completely silent under load anyway (at least none that I've owned). No fan is silent at nominal voltage (and unmodulated) but when slowed down to a low enough RPM they can easily be less audible than GPU coils, many monitors, powered on speakers, room lighting, ... (and "more silent" than a powerful PC's static parts under load).
It seems to me that democracy relies on there being a degree of respect/safety for diverging viewpoints. Therefore, for democracy to work there has to be some restriction on behavior that doesn't follow those norms. That could be in the form of educational enculturation into those norms, social consequences for breaking them, or censorship.
> "So, they will replace the question about cookies with question about localStorage. Then about indexed db. Then about storing data in service workers."

It doesn't matter how they're technically implemented, pop-ups seeking consent for tracking cookies (or their functional equivalent) should be banned.

> "Again. Even when you sign up for something, for some of the data consent isn't required. And for other data consent is required."

We seem to be agreeing on this, not disagreeing! The ban I'm proposing would apply to user tracking data, and would not affect whether or not consent is required for other data.

The fundamental point is that the simple act of visiting a website should not require consent.
Spot electricity prices have been low in Scandinavia, too, so the markets are, at least weakly, linked.
Note that not all Pantone colors can be matched exactly in a 4-color CMYK process.
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My guess is that the call was recorded and the agent was required by security to always ask the 5 questions, and he was probably thinking "There's no point in asking those five questions since the answer is the same, but I'm not paid enough to risk being reprimanded just to save 10 seconds for the customer."
Use of block quotes is rare anyway. It's just very practical, easy to adjust, its output fairly well matches your expectation. It covers 99% of your everyday needs.
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Flying cars aren't and won't ever be viable because of fuel consumption. We're already worried about ordinary cars in this regard.
> There are innumerable ways vulnerabilities can be exercised that do not involve having to “hack” NAT.

Any examples? Suppose we have a Windows computer connected to a NAT with an access to an Internets, but the computer doesn't download anything. I am not a sysadmin but from my understanding this is almost safe.
At which point of building a car separate parts become a car? And during maintenance (lets say engine replacement) is a car still a car? I'd say it is if meant to be used as a car again.
This is really neat! In general I think there are some interesting niches for non-standard linkers. One example I considered (but did not start) when I was on the Chromium project was going to be a debug-only linker for Windows with a focus exclusively on iteration speed (but also debug symbols), as the linker being used for that platform at the time was tremendously slow.
You’re a monoculture
I just hope you get the money transferred to your bank account and not in Apple product vouchers.
> This makes a niche for a more open, non-commercial color-matching system for print.

Wikipedia tells me Pantone has been around since 1950, TL;DR if open non-commercial was going to happen, it would have happened already.

As you say, few incentives. Its harder than it looks, its not just a case of someone randomly declaring FOO 123=CMYK XYZ. Further, the whole supply chain is already well established with Pantone.
At least happens here in Delhi. I can't remember if it happened before the 26th November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but that might have been the instigating factor.
I was on a trip to Switzerland last month - across a couple of dozen train, tram, trolley-bus and regular bus rides, I had just a handful that were delayed - three to four minutes late (mostly on intercity trains that I'm going for an hour or so journey on, so it was basically nothing). But mostly they were bang on time. It's ridiculous, they're absolutely nailing punctuality, cleanliness, frequency, interchanges, mode changes etc.
When I first learned of this stew, I was pretty excited to learn that not only did my home state Virginia have a famous recipe (that wasn't just ham or peanuts) but that I also could use up left over pulled pork for something that was a sandwich or tacos.

But when I made it, it was just overly sweet. I prefer my barbecue sauce sweet and smoky, but it just wasn't enjoyable in a stew. The version I made was far superior to any of the versions I subsequently bought, so I'm guessing it just isn't for me.
Laser prints liquid metal circuits on assorted objects (fabrics, plastic, fruit)
Google has criteria for domain hostage situations, so I'd say it depends on whether an employee used company funds to register it on behalf of the org.

It seems like a simple matter of providing internal communication about the domain that includes the approval to purchase to prove ownership.

If that doesn't exist, OP needs to mend some bridges, ask very nicely for a transfer, and be prepared to offer to buy the domain off its "owner".
And efficient trains can't exist in multi cultural societies ? Is that what you're trying to say ?
What period of time could a less severe variant(s) have escaped into the wild before the more severe 'Alpha' variant gained traction? AFAIK, China, & others, were treating non-influenza, flu-like cases months before they cancelled Chinese New Year 2020. The timeline may not have been as short as a Stephen King novel and, perhaps, it was even prior to Oct/Nov 2019. My question is this: Are there any frequent/infrequent travelers to China familiar with non-asian visitors getting severe influenza(or other) infections when they 1st visit? I know one such traveler who spent 3 months in a "ghost room"(1) suffering from a lung infection back in early 2019.

(1) Hospice; he reported it as called the 'ghost room' as the rest of the occupants were terminal cancer patients.
You are doing it wrong. What they really wanted from you was a bribe, not a stack of papers.

Nobody will ever openly admit they want a bribe. They will just drown you in bureaucracy until you get the idea.
Signatures are basically the same as credit card numbers. Not secure, but everyone keeps pretending they are, so insurance and legal make sure they are.
Not all Pantone colors can be expressed in CMYK colorspace.
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OTOH Arabic got its numerals from indic systems, and indic scripts are generally LTR, which points to big median being “more natural”. It also matches the spelling of positional numerals in most languages, and does make sense from a convenience point of view: when talking it’s easier to round off by just stopping as you go than to figure out what rounding you should apply beforehand.

If you spell out numbers in little-endian, once you start you’re committed to spelling it out in full, whereas big endian lets you stop at basically any point you feel like.
Pantone colors are not RGB but CMYK, plus there is a number of non-CMYK paints and printing inks for spot colors which use Pantone color names.
"That fuzz in the dryer lint trap is your clothes disintegrating slowly."

Right. Always impatient, I have worn out far too many clothes in the dryer instead of waiting for air drying (dryers are a conspiracy by manufacturers to sell more clothes). ;-)
In Europe, the bird will fly by our EU rules
If you look into the deployment guides (.. I was a little bored during lunch, lol. Also high scale tech is cool.) they preload content based on where the device is going to be deployed before shipping them out.

From there they have a "fill" window each day during the ISP's low traffic period where Netflix pushes new content to it.

> Each Open Connect Appliance (OCA) stores a portion of the Netflix catalog, which in general is less than the complete content library for a given region. Popularity changes, new titles that are added to the service, re-encoded movies, and routine software enhancements are all part of the nightly updates, or fill, that each appliance must download to remain current.

-- https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/deployment-guide/

I mean honestly in 2022 their catalogue might fit entirely ( :P ) but yeah looks like it's just a portion, comprised of whatever's popular in the region
The correct RGB values heavily depend on your printing process. And your ICC profile. So conversion is not trivial. You could license it, though, because that's precisely what Pantone has been selling for 20 years.
And yet, nothing
Or how about those that basically predicted Apple would cease to exist as a company for removing the headphone port, not having exchangeable batteries, or using a non-standard data/charging port on the iPhone.
I agree that suppression isn't good. But there still needed to be thorough investigations. It being "obvious" isn't enough.

That being said, the corporate media and the politicians (mostly Democrats) who called this theory "preposterous" and a conspiracy deserve to be thrown out on their asses. Because those were talking points that had nothing to back them up. But when you're dealing with the "pandemic", what else is new?
Genes can leap from snakes to frogs in Madagascar
If you're trying to beat match 2 tracks, and they're playing together for more than a few seconds, this becomes frustrating. A test I do is play 2 copies of the same record simultaneously and see how long it takes to noticeably go out of sync, given all other variables matched as closely as possible.
> The big thing for me is that Markdown is not just quick to touch-type but also is easy to read in plain text documents. I can easily infer what the formatting means when reading Markdown even without learning it.

And this is the whole point of markdown. It’s for the source version to accurately represent what the output document would show. So emphasis isn’t just a tag. It’s represented by surrounding text with *s, which shows emphasis even in the source document.

A URL is easy once you understand that you read the stuff in the [] and mentally ignore the stuff in ().

The point of markdown is not to transform it into HTML. The point of Markdown is to be able to write a plain text document which is sufficient on its own. The fact that it can be transformed into an HTML output is a bonus (although a planned one).

In a sense this idea is conveyed in the name itself. It’s the opposite of markup, in that the markup symbols aren’t intended to be separate from the content but are part of the content itself.
> folks involved all likely have engineering degrees which taught and challenged them

This is part of the wheel :) people dont challenge things enough, for example
the keyboards we use, the most accessible area is around the thumbs, and we have one giant button there, instead of 4-5 super nice buttons, this leads to carpal syndrome and all kinds of issues, and yet, now in every school they teach computer classes and touch typing to 10-13 year old kids, who cant reach backspace without twisting their wrist 45 degrees, and in the same time on windows ctrl+h just does not work in 99% of the apps. So those kids will grow up and rarely think about using a different keyboard.

It is not that easy to break out of the "dont reinvent the wheel", as "the wheel" is beaten into you since you were 5 years old.
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What exactly is your point? This seems like a bizarre take on a massive city having good transit and it’s not like it’s some global oddity without parallel. Cars don’t scale and they have massive negative impacts for cities (health & safety, pollution, noise, inefficient use of space, etc.), and it’s not like there’s some unique trait which makes people recognize that.
> But Y is not copyright.

In a similar vein, phonebooks. The answer... is complicated. There is a thing called "database rights", which as you might guess is a mess. The US argues that there is no right as you've simply compiled information (see Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., and that's why I used phonebooks as an analogy) while Europe (not just EU, even UK and Russia) do recognize database rights.

Even skipping about it, Pantone named them, which could give them copyright protection in the US (and other countries without specific database rights).

Wikipedia about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
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The cost for evaluating solutions is quite high in energy and time. Plus, we will end up pushing this vendor to all our clients, so it has to be absolutely stainless and work with everyone, and everywhere.

Airbyte, looks "okay by the cover". If I want to go any further I would need to see what happens when I need to extract data from an esoteric, unsupported, undocumented, Java-based ERP that is no longer sold by its own developer. Unfortunately, I don't have the time nor the skills to do it. So, in the end, we let our clients write their own ETLs on their own stuff and match their datasets to our data model.

Unless I make the happy uncounter with a tool that focus on these forgotten ERP and CRM and don't completely break down when it encounters a weird FTP server serving "encrypted zip files", I'll just let it go.

Having a "Facebook ads" connector is not enough, and not where problems lies.
Actually, I found sql is unnecessarily complicated for these jobs. A simple BtreeMap is enough.
Ya, that would make long distance Highway trips more bearable. For city driving, public transit is probably the better option. Although FSD can be a great way to optimize limited city road resources, I don’t expect to see that in the USA anytime soon, but it could happen in China where the traffic is much worse.
Ehhh there's "Markdown" and there's "markdown". Slack definitely has markdown, and any argument to the contrary is a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. I personally use hyperlink text, bullet lists, tt/bold/italics, quote blocks, pre blocks.
What does "clod" mean in this comment?
> Don’t forget Tim Cook also brought you crummy gambling ads next to gambling addiction recovery apps on your $1500 phone.

This was obviously an oversight and the ads were halted when this came to light. Apple has never been good at dealing with ads, which is probably good since we don’t need a single company to takeover all markets.
> - basic constructs like the arg array are broken once you have special chars and spaces and want to pass those args to other commands. and UNICODE? Ha.

Any example with this? The following works reasonably well for me.

args=(-a --b 'arg with space' "一 二 三")
someprog "${args[@]}"
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I am a fan of the Singapore anti-corruption method of paying bureaucrats a lot of money. That way they don't have to have corruption side hustles and you can attract good talent to these positions. Somehow this is more unpopular than widespread political corruption.
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I should have clarified, the worst legal human driver, I thought that was a given. I saw old people driving way worse than any AI. Distracted people. Plain dumb people. There are a lot of varieties of really bad drivers. And the best machine is better than them.
It sounds like you have at least an undergraduate CS degree. Go ahead and recreate Twitter and share your GitHub repo for us to review. No need to rush. I'm happy to wait several decades for you to complete the project.
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