skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every day or two I see something new about facebook on hackernews front page, and pretty much all the discussion boils down to "how awful facebook is", "oh, I quit it five years ago, I don't understand those people who still use it; oh, they sell our data to generate so much profit". Facebook has more than a billion active users, and is probably the most used social network in the world.

I wish hackernews users stop repeating how awful facebook is and rather provide some constructive criticism.
The Jaguar I-PACE deal envisioned designing a custom version of the I-PACE so that the sensors and computing hardware could be installed at the factory. I haven't seen specifics on the Pacifica deal but it seems likely they'd take the same approach.
Does anyone have a link to the actual decision?
I'm not saying that every for-profit company will abide by the law, but that they may have an inclination to do so because penalties would reduce their profits. So the comparison you are trying to make is not quite the same since there's a condition where a for-profit company might still do something ethically wrong (but legal) to make money, but avoid illegal behavior that would also make money (but cost them more if caught). For a recent example of this: facebook.
It's beyond naive to think that conflict doesn't exist or that tiny fluctuations cant kick-start global warfare. It is very easy to take it for granted when you have never experienced conflict yourself. Perhaps try talking to the families of those who paid in blood to give you the freedom to post these thoughts, and see exactly how many places like the US actually exist in the world.
If you're worried that law enforcement will knock on your door because somebody used your exit node for illegal internet activity, a VPN service (that does not log traffic) will give you additional protection by exposing their IP address, not yours.
Equal number of people doesn't solve the problem. It has to be the SAME people, working in exactly the same way to make decisions for themselves. IE, you just recreated a market.

An equivalent system would have to have the same people, in control of their own resources.

If you just replace the people who are currently making decisions about themselves, with DIFFERENT people, them the principle agent is no longer making decisions for themselves. A different person is making thise decisions for OTHER people, which is the principle agent problem.

Surveys and computer generated questions sounds an aweful lot like other people making decisions over other people's utility functions and resources. IE, they are not the principle agent.

You'd have to prove that surveys or whatever are better at deciding what a person wants than the person themself.

Even if you have more resources, it is still different resources. It is still different people making decisions for what other people want.
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Unless I have missed something they are getting the cars over several years. A modified car (presumably during the manufacturing process), over several years, is very much reasonable. Radar and camera is part of the production of the modified car, LiDAR and compute system snaps into modified body. Waymo keeps control on their most important hardware. Seems very doable over several years.
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> provide some constructive criticism instead

Call your Congressman, Senator and State Attorney General and advocate for Facebook being broken up under antitrust law.
"The Art of Money Getting" by P.T. Barnum

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8581

(audio book) https://archive.org/details/art_of_money_getting_librivox

> In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not
at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this
comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so
many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who
is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable
occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.

> Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set
their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to
any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily
done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt
many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the
world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says,
"as plain as the road to the mill." It consists simply in expending less
than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Micawber,
one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a
strong light when he says that to have annual income of twenty pounds
per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most
miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and
spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals.
Many of my readers may say, "we understand this: this is economy, and we
know economy is wealth; we know we can't eat our cake and keep it also."
Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes
on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they
understand economy when they really do not.
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> Everyone has a million dollar idea but not a million seconds to make it a reality. That’s why all these million dollar ideas fail. Only a very few of them becomes successful.

Don't agree, there are no million dollar ideas. I adhere to the execution is everything, "ideas are free" line of thought.
Or it'll incentivise people to post like bots and submit everything possible.

The old guideline (don't post so much that you dominate the page) feels a bit out of date.
Rather famously, back when “su” was still part of GNU coreutils (in 2007 it was removed from default installations, and in 2012 the code was removed from the package, since other implementations existed in other packages), GNU su did not, contrary to Unix traditional behavior, restrict the usage of “su” to members of the wheel group:

(Written by Richard Stallman in the manual for GNU “su”)

“Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)

However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.

I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first. ”

https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/coreutils-4.5.4/html_nod...
OEM configs have never been enough to implement everything they need in Tor Browser. They eventually started their uplift effort [1], to upstream all the patches and features they've added to it, so that they can possibly just use OEM configs.

Project Fusion is a superset of that effort.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
> my phone is literally blowing up

I suppose emphasis can turn into exaggeration, then literally is indeed a bad fit. But it can be emphasizing something without exaggeration too.

I.e. "literally days ago". Which indeed can mean a few days ago, but it's emphasizing it. I don't think it's a wrong usage.
Did you even read what I said?

> means that the best funded candidate tends to dominate. Not always, but it's a huge uphill battle and makes it nearly impossible to be an unfunded candidate taking on the two main parties of the US.

Yes Clinton lost despite outspending Trump, but Obama outspent Romney, and lots and lots of other races go in the favor of the candidate who spent the most.

Two high profile exceptions don't prove the rule false.
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While skimming the web looking for interest in Mach Effect physics and related gravinertial technology investment, I came upon your web site here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17096175

Though I'm thrilled that anyone associated with YCombinator would own such an interest, the level of comprehension of the related issues seemed somewhat uninformed.

If I can aid anyone at YCombinator in understanding how ME physics works, what theoretical and empirical support is to be found, and why investors should take this breakthrough in science seriously, I would like to be of help.

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> I tend to treat stop signs and red lights as yield signs

Actually sensible, and legal in Idaho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
I said this in my last comment, this is only a discussion about whether people in the United States live in third world conditions. They do.

Addressing what you consider equivalent examples, there is a fundamental difference between choosing to live "off the grid", and having no choice economically. The development of colonias is deeply tied to the industrialization of the border, predatory developer practices, and physical isolation, which makes escaping the economic bubble of colonias even harder (something that public services are specially meant to address). When you grow up in what is essentially a third world country, with a third world public education, can you not see how escaping that environment would be incredibly difficult?

The idea that everyone in a "free society" is inherently equally free is, to be perfectly honest, absurd. It takes a lot of work from society to make this true.

To expand a bit on my anecdote, having to dig a well and put in a septic tank didn't affect my neighbors that much... Because their home is a multimillion dollar custom built home. They chose to build their house where they did, but that took certain financial freedoms that not everyone in the United States has, which is exactly the point.

Also, just to expand on your last paragraph, we as a society already enforce many requirements on land developers. Colonias developed in areas specifically where enforcement of a lot of these regulations was weak (or at a time prior to regulation), in many cases the was done purposefully by developers and not by the people that went on to live there.

To be clear, I'm not proposing a clear alternative here. I am however asking that you acknowledge the fact that your libertarian approach is equivalent to accepting millions of people living in slums in the United States, and living in economic conditions that severely limits their ability to escape. This is exactly the state that many in third world countries find themselves in.
1 million dead in 15 years seems a lot higher than any other number I have seen. Do you have a citation for this?
https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/...
That's sound great, it shouldn't be too much work I guess, because the chrome API usage here is pretty minimal
Hmm, curious too. Are the numbers down?

I quit facebook because they kept showing peoples links I didnt care about.

It just happened to be around the same time as all of the drama.

I just dont like it anymore. Bring me back to when friends had statuses rather than links.
Tesla has driver-assist, it's like comparing a bicycle to a motorcycle. Tesla autopilot is doing a lot of harm to its brand and self-driving industry by using half-baked driver-assist on a production car and implying that it's self-driving. Your Tesla won't stop in front of a brick wall if your life depended on it.
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The real reason they opted to do this, is make mobile firewalling more of a pain. If each application talked to the specific (types of) google services they needed, firewalling would be easier.

Instead, users cannot have a global rule to block .1e100.net across their devices, due to this choice. In my case, this results in having literally dozens of rules - really one per application, in order to ensure that applications that are granted upstream internet access, are not granted .1e100.net access unless I explicitly feel that they need access to Google Services.
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I checked in Firefox Quantum 61.0b and it doesn't disable the back button, so this potentially only affects the stable version.
I think we should rename it to anything else which starts with the letter 'J' and ends with 'Script', or can be initialised as 'JS'. Anything else is a non-starter, because we're not going to rename countless millions of .js files.
The best candidates might come to an immediate decision if pressured that way.
For utilty functions?

Why not?

IE, if a person is only 1$ poorer than the efficient solution, that's not a big deal.
I'd actually love to see this work at the router level so it can filter stuff from my iPad
Isn't this why you're supposed to be able to do the old hand-imprinted manual transactions? If they can't process the transaction, shouldn't they fall back to the manual option?
> If the only genuine charity is invisible, how can we maintain a society with a culture of genuine charity?

Why would you want to maintain a society that extols charity, 'genuine' or not? Wouldn't you rather live in a society that doesn't have a need to 'do good' as a cleanup procedure for the 'bad done.'

Before you say that's a strawman argument, consider that charity exists because things that should be considered human rights are often tossed aside as impractical to implement due to the fundamental poverty of the governance structure.

Here's some interesting tables of numbers of 'charitable giving' that will reveal your assumptions and biases:

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm

https://cdn.vcapps.org/sites/default/files/upload/VCEP%20-%2...

https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/docs/Fidelity-Charitable-...
Google should run a server on 1e100.net and redirect it to this answer. Some click tracking domains do this, and it helps non-technical people feel less worried when they punch the domain into their web browser and it goes somewhere with an explanation.
I can relate to this a bit and can suggest a couple of things:

First, get him to talk less -- at least until he's more familiar with the people around.

Second, make him aware that people see him as peculiar. This is probably a 2nd order effect of what makes him so technically brilliant, but he can prepare his partners in conversation by saying that he is "very technically minded" like Spock". People will generally be much more comfortable interacting with him having this expectation set early on.
I have a hunch you'd get better policy results if people were paid to consciously abstain from voting – so that the least-informed, now making their decisions based on last-minute TV ads or mass-mailers with crude messages, voluntarily opt-out – delegating the choice to others.
I understand that, but I think there are good reasons why we shouldn't always act in the narrowest sense of our self interest (provided we have enough financial wiggle room).

A search monopoly is not good for website owners. It makes us very dependent on the whims of that monopolist.

If you block all crawlers that don't already have a large market share and send back a lot of traffic, you're killing any possibility for new competitors to get a foot in the door.

Also, you're killing any chance for something unexpected to happen, such as someone having a great idea based on crawled data that could change all our lives for the better without ever sending traffic to your site.

Now, I'm not telling you what you can and cannot afford. If crawlers cost me a ton of money that I don't have I would certainly act exactly like you suggested.
Are Atlantic readers so self conscious about this stuff? I can't imagine being so unsure of myself that a mere electric scooter would be a major hit to my ego.
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