skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the solution some sort of collision avoidance system that is used in airplanes? Or perhaps as a stop gap, some sort of add-on (passive?) device for operators of vehicles that are frequently stopped can use to signal to autopilot vehicles that they are an obstruction to be avoided? It's a hack, but perhaps a necessary one?
>They're all just assistive driving systems
The big problem is marketing for Tesla named it autopilot and not drive assistant.
Same experience here. Previously I maintained a Merak/IceWarp mail server. The "idea" was great, they provided a nice interface for a small organization (15ish people). But, it became an uphill battle very quickly.
smtp will eventually give up retrying, and if you're not willing to "always" respond within a few hours, you're going to lose emails.
If it supports 1000tps on a blockchain, then there must be some centralization nodes, in which case, it is just another Dash equivalent.

Centralization defeats the purpose of crypto in my opinion.
I am reasonably sure that most Americans you'd talk you somewhere like HN are aware.

Even if they pretend they aren't.
You misunderstand. I'm saying that a situation such as:

dist(AB): 3km

dist(AC): 1km

dist(CB): 1km

is impossible even if those are road distances rather than Euclidean distances. If the road distance of traveling A->C->B is 2km then dist(AB) should not be greater than 2km.
Sure. A house is not an ad. What I don't want is a malt liquor billboard in orbit.
Is it "not sensible" or is it just something you wouldn't like? If iMessage, WhatsApp, and SMS used escrowed encryption, they'd be in some way fundamentally insecure --- although still safer to use to send your bank account to your accountant than many "secure" encrypted messengers. You might respond by installing Signal (I sure would). They might not care; as long as the default enables investigations, they can probably make most of their cases.
I don't follow your logic. I feel like it could be interpreted as misandristic. Could you expand upon your view? Why do you think men will become obsolete?
I said "the car in front of the car in front of you". That car is not visible either since the car in front of you is blocking it. Subaru has commercials indicating this scenario is addressed as far as I can tell.
>AI stuff has a tendency to get nearly good enough quite quickly, and then improve very little more for decades afterwards.

What tends to happen is that some approach, deep learning in the current case, turns out to be very effective for a class of problems. But it turns out that it only gets you, say, 90 percent of the way there to being truly useful in the real world. And there isn't an obvious way to get you the other 10 percent.
It's entirely anecdotal of course but my wife bought a one-of-a-kind dress (trunk show sample) and it was stolen out of our mailbox. We found the packaging for another dress that came separately but couldn't find her $1,000 dress.

That was three or four years ago and I've had a PO Box ever since. So I thought my neighbors on nextdoor were exaggerating and then I was forced to have a package delivered because Google uses FedEx Ground for their slowest and cheapest option.

It was less than an hour between email notification of package delivery and my checking to find it gone. So add some buffer time in case the driver was slow to update the package status but still I'd say an hour to an an hour and a half was rotten luck or people are actively searching for packages. Probably both to be honest. I'm sure there's lots of confirmation bias there.
Thanks. I had thought there was some way to format quotes, but after looking at the HN formatting doc [1] I see I was mistaken and I used the styling intended for code formatting.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I think when you setup that whole stuff yourself you are better prepared to fix any problems that might arise. I mean those are 'tutorials', sound like teaching ;-)
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I keep hearing this. How exactly common is it that you can't use C++ for technical, as opposed to human, reasons? gcc is by far the most talked about compiler in this space (at least from what I hear) and obviously it's a C++ compiler as well.

My guess is that in most (not all) cases C++ is usable instead of C, but the culture of such development is to prefer C. It's a real pity, because for someone with a moderate amount of judgement (i.e. not going off the deep end on unnecessarily complicated C++), it only takes a moderate amount of C++ knowledge to be able to write more maintainable and correct code that performs equally well.
The fun was even better in the old days, where each UNIX had a different concept of what a shared object should be.

AIX used to implement shared objects just like on Windows, using an export definitions file and import libraries, for example.
Not to mention, regardless of time there's little chance you could do it as good as FastMail.
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^this. While there is an objective and subjective truth, in this case it's just about negotiation.

If I were you, I would follow up on your thoughts with something like:

"I don't think it's appropriate for us to make remote or in-office location related to salary. You're hiring me to get things done. I incur higher costs by maintaining a higher office. What recompense do you offer for costs of running a remote office since your office costs are deferred?"

Or maybe softer, but that should take the idea off the table for them.
Given the impact cell phones have had on auto accidents (someone using their phone in the car is about as dangerous as a drunk driver, statistically), I'd say overall, society is less safe due to cell phones.

And, as I pointed out downthread... when's the last time someone actually had to reach you via cell phone for an actual emergency? Particularly when it's something you need to act on rather than just be informed? Virtually all the use of our cell phones falls into "urgent but not important"... the notifications alerting us that Someone Is Wrong On The Internet.
What would have happened in WWII without nationalist, strong states of USA and USRR?

If there were no strong states then you get warlords and constant conflict, which is preferable?
Also as a pinch-of-a-salt in the whole sugary environment of HN where every new feature is cool by definition. For example, what are the shortcomings of Kafka compared to Redis Streams?
Nobody forces you to use them. You can continue to manage manually your hundreds of JS files in your index.html if you prefer.
Though I use it for the same reason you mention ... I always am paranoid when I have cruise control engaged for very long distances. Have no idea how likely this would be, but the fear that creeps and stays in the back of my head is that I'll get comfortable, reposition my feet as I adjust for comfort, and then miss the brakes in the event of an emergency
I brought up the same point in a previous post. There is a line somewhere, and it seems that Google has blown past it miles ago. Is it a lack of HR resources? HR indifference? Failure to define policies?

I'm not sure which is worse, that there are people at Google who (and I know the lawsuit is using extreme examples) have these extreme left-wing views who are in positions to force their views on a large unsuspecting populous, or Google for not fixing the problem.
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The forces that make Kesser Syndrome an issue in high orbits work in reverse in low orbits. Two objects in an otherwise fairly stable orbit that collide with each other in LEO will break into pieces, each of which will far more rapidly encounter atmospheric drag (much more surface area / volume on the fragments) and deorbit than the original objects would have. Instead of a chain reaction mess, you get a self-cleaning mess.

I have to say "otherwise fairly stable" because technically, there is no stable low Earth orbit because atmospheric drag will drag down any orbiting object within a human timespan.
Part II of this article series does a real-world application.

http://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/kotlin-for-lin...
Especially with the Marxist / feminist view that everything is politics.

I was discussing space exploration (you’d think this would be a pretty safe topic) at work and suddenly it turned into how space exploration was ruining everything because then people thought they could escape global warming instead of doing something about it.

The conversation ended when I asked the guy how many kids he had he said none cuz global warming, I said that was too bad cuz I was teaching my kids to 4x4 and their superior 4x4ing genes would out breed his inferior genes that convinced him not to have kids and that my kids were going to 4x4 on mars once we had finished ruining this planet.

Guy basically had an aneurism right there on the spot, one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever witnessed at work. I figured it was too much of a troll to actually work but he went fully ballistic
Is there any possibility that China could try to limit Apple product's availability to citizens there?
All are good points. Thank you.
There's no possible way this is the brightest thing in the night sky - it's simply not that big, and most of the light that hits it will not be going towards you because of the facets.

The only number I've seen puts it at 4.0 magnitude when flashing. That's hard to see with the naked eye from a US city, and there are about 500 stars brighter than that.
Sure, updated. Thanks.
> Road signs are huge.

As big as a fire truck, and in the middle of the street, at the same level as your car!?

> Also the problem is a road sign or overpass over a crest of a hill. It's stationary directly in front of you, the road simply curves away.

Isn't the autopilot aware of where the street is, and knows that you are not going to hit it?

I'm not convinced.

Of course, I know there are a lot of much-smarter-than-me people working on this for years, but I still don't get it.
My only problem is that to use an Apple device, you have to give them your name and physical address to sign up for an Apple ID.

I understand that privacy != anonymity, but I prefer the Google way, where they don't ask for all that information (of course I bet they already know with their all powerful location tracking).
The home key is in a terrible, terrible place on the keyboard and missing in many laptop keyboards. Ctrl-A is much easier to reach while touch typing, especially after remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl.
He's right, but I don't like that he's the person saying this. Our society has a serious problem with giving too much weight to the opinions of rich people and celebrities. Soros is not an expert on anything except investing. No one should care about what he thinks. I hate the fact that George Soros saying this is news but all the real experts are largely ignored by the press.

I see the same thing with pretty much everything Elon Musk says. He's very rich, so whenever he makes some asinine comment about transportation or AI or tunnel boring every news agency is all over it.
No, NSAIDs are actually supposed increase the risk of heart attacks. See the second source in my other post:

"It is generally accepted that oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239642

Why would you tell someone that?
backwoods?
That SSCG function is pretty astonishing:

> SSCG(3) is not only larger than TREE(3), it is much, much larger than TREE(TREE(…TREE(3)…)) where the total nesting depth of the formula is TREE(3) levels of the TREE function.

notwithstanding that TREE(3) is pretty crazy in itself:

> an extremely weak lower bound for TREE(3), is A(A(...A(1)...)), where the number of A's is A(187196), and A() is a version of Ackermann's function. Graham's number, for example, is approximately A^64(4)
I've been running my own mail servers since the mid-90s, and always only a single server. SMTP keeps retrying, so you can be offline. The transport layer was designed to deliver mail to servers even if those servers only dialled in to one of the "internets" once per day, so it's fine to have some downtime.

It's totally up to you how you prioritise getting a server back up again, and frankly if the message can't handle at least a few hours delay then email probably isn't the right medium for it.
As the GP (now GGP), I’ll settle this argument for you! :) I was being both cynical and matter of fact.

I agree that in some sense this is what politicians are meant to do. However I was commenting in the context of the GGGP comment asking what purpose this serves. The cynical tone was referencing the fact that it could indeed be more effective for the mayor to “Ron Swanson” the committee, yet he chose a more self-serving alternative that is more akin to paying lip-service to his constituents’ preferences than it is to practically serving them.
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This is what diversity looks like. Diversity of political and social ideals.
This might sound good, but the result of such is tyranny and loss of free speech.

Politics easily being a fuzzy term which can be adapted to fit a very wide range of ideas gives those few in power who set the rules the ability to silence whatever they wish.

It would better if there were more initiatives to improve intellectual discourse so people could like actually talk to one another.

The less we talk, the further apart we will grow
It's not too big to comprehend. It's a number, which if you could keep all digits in your mind, would cause your head to collapse into a black hole several times larger than observable universe.
I've done this before. It's a pain in the ass. You have to run several different programs each with hundreds of configuration options, make sure the different programs can communicate with each other properly, make sure your email doesn't get flagged as spam, and be your own sysadmin. All for marginal benefit.

It would be great if someone wrote a program handling all of this that could be deployed as a single binary with secure defaults and limited configurability, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Email providers are good enough for almost everyone and the people who are good enough programmers to make sense of all the different protocols they'll have to deal with and get everything to interoperate nicely probably have other things to work on that people will actually pay for.

Edit: That said, this guide does look like a great resource for someone who is interested in doing this. It's interesting to learn how email works and if I had this guide when I started out I'd have saved a ton of time.
I think the simple line that could be drawn is the separate politics and policies. I think[0] it could be fine to discuses a heavy handed immigration policy while not discussing the politician behind it. One has a chance to yield a good discussion, while the other does not.

[0] If everyone involved has an implicit mutual respect for the other person, which seems unlikely.
Those served an actual purpose though. They weren't just shoved into space just to say, "hey look at what we did". That's the point they're making. Don't pollute space just because you can.

EDIT: typos
Right, I did go with a variant on option 3.

If it matters, I've only worked on site for one job. I've always been remote otherwise. I probably should have mentioned it in my OP, but really was wondering more about the general perspective on remote.
I think I could live w having to “quote” ^Z to suspend a job, but worry I’m going to have ^Z baked-into my muscle memory and end up accidentally suspending jobs on non-tmux sessions.
One would hope you would automatically support such a claim with some proof?
I am not saying the article is saying that. I am simply wondering why it's been tied to the election then.

If the CIA and NSA were aware of this going on, unless they are outright incompetent and Obama didn't care then they must have known all along that they were being broken into.
Fastmail is great until their support hands your account over to some random person that just happened to ask.
DNS is designed for adversity. Assuming you don't care much about how long it takes to resolve, most recursive resolvers will try pretty hard to resolve your names -- all the authoritative severs will be tried, so you just need to make sure one is working. I use free secondaries for my personal domains (now using he.net), which helps a lot.
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> Meanwhile, inside Google, the diversity advocates say some employees have “weaponized human resources” by goading them into inflammatory statements, which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men.

> Engineer Colin McMillen says the tactics have unnerved diversity advocates and chilled internal discussion. “Now it’s like basically anything you say about yourself may end up getting leaked to score political points in a lawsuit,” he says. “I have to be very careful about choosing my words because of the low-grade threat of doxing. But let’s face it, I’m not visibly queer or trans or non-white and a lot of these people are keying off their own white supremacy.”

I don't understand this mentality at all. Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men, and I have never heard of anyone within Google being a white supremacist. Do many of these people think that anyone not pro-affirmative action is a sign of their white supremacist thoughts or something?
Every time a thread about running your own email server comes up I think "Oh yeah, I was going to set up FastMail for my domain"

The current pricing[0] seems to let you have 100 domains plus 600 aliases[1] for $5/mo.

I've got this thought that I will create aliases for every different thing I sign up for and use them to track who's selling my email address to who. I think that a domain plus aliases will do the trick and I think that what I want to do will fit in their limits.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html
> It's very hard, probably impossible, to come up with a specific list. The list will either be incomplete (the trolls are cunning) or overly broad and spark anti-authoritarian feelings.

They should put up a big banner of the question the employees should be asking themselves about their work activities: "Is this good for the company?"

And I'm not being totally unserious.
> For years, Painter was responsible for America's cyber policy. He resigned last August. "We'd never expected that the Russians would do this, attacking our vital infrastructure and undermining our democracy."

Is he just lying in the worst attempt to cover ass, or is he actually just that bad at his job?
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"There are things happening today that are more dangerous than the Cold War. You just don't know about them yet."

That is not a defense for the scientists moving the clock. That's not what the scientists were claiming. They claim they're moving the clock for North Korea and Climate Change, not biological warfare (with or without a soupcon of genetic engineering), the immanent victory of the New World Order, the immantization of the eschaton, or whatever else you're referring to. The stated reasons are showboating, compared even to the known dangers of the Cold War.
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The issue at hand is that the software filters out stationary objects. The case you describe only happens if the tesla is tracking the two cars in front of it and the further one breaks.
I never took computer science or programming in school. So I ended up learning a lot of programming without understanding a lot of the basics and I really struggled with a few things that seem easy now. You can do a surprising amount of things without really knowing but it also depends on what you want to do.

Learning about my computers filesystem and how files are stored was pretty helpful. The way stdin,stdout,stderror and other files worked eluded me for a while so I always had trouble parsing or writing to files.

I found learning about how memory worked and understanding the difference between compile time and run time and stack and heap memory became important when I worked more with compiled languages.

And this may be counter intuitive to what you read but I found I learned a lot more about everything switching to a static typed compiled language instead of a dynamic one. That was when I really began to learn. I realized how much i'd just been doing things without really understanding what I was doing. Having to learn different types and use them when appropriate as well as building typea with structs really taught me a lot more about how my computer actually processes the code I write.
Either do your homework, or if you did, stop pulling things out of context as if you don't know any better:

> Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government's Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding.

> Tivadar not only saved his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and George would later write that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Hiding with a pretend-collaborator who saved many Jews is not "working with the Nazis"

On top of that, it is crass and naive at best to compare the current xenophobia of nationalists, to having to survive a fascist dictatorship whose officials can kill you any time they feel like it simply because you have a certain ethnicity. In practice it comes across more like a bully trying to paint himself as the victim.
Does AMD's PSP have the same security vulnerability?
I run my own mail server, for several years now. A Mac Mini on Mac OS Server on a static IP address. It's been great, literally zero maintenance, but it completely hides everything about the underlying architecture.
> Politics is not natural part of the Chinese conversational diet in much the same way that bread is not a natural part of their nutritional diet.

What do you mean by natural? Because I hear Chinese people talk about politics all the time. It's an extremely popular topic and they love to get into the intricacies of it and compare how current leaders act compared to historical leaders.

I definitely hear them talk about how society and philosophy influence current day politics. For example, how different would this political leader be if he followed the Mozi [1] school of thought.

Of course, I understand Chinese so perhaps that's why? I know that many Chinese people dislike talking about politics with foreigners. Especially if they can't speak/understand Chinese.

Also, not to be nit-picky, but mantou [2] and shaobing [3] are both a natural part of Northern Chinese diets. Of course I guess some people might not consider them true breads.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantou

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaobing
Are there even a Graham's Number of things we could count in the observable universe?
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That sucks. I am in the suburbs of a fairly small city along the gulf coast, we mainly have issues with package theft in November/December. People just follow the UPS truck.
> Or you know, not talk about politics in the work place.

Depends if diversity is considered "politics". There are lots of diversity measures inside all companies and to say don't discuss these is a bit weird. Perhaps only certain HR professionals can be "allowed" to discuss diversity initiatives?