skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once again I gotta say the negativity is astounding.

How do you figure what they did should be something that is considered a positive? They are raising the price of the base car that was supposed to be for the masses. Now granted to a degree it was a bait and switch anyway given that most people interested in the car want the bells and whistles that they don't get on the base model anyway. Raising the base price to me seems to be something that should be considered a negative no matter the auto maker.

>astounded to see people constantly saying Autonomy is a decade+ away.

Because in all likelihood it is. What they've done in the last 6 years is impressive but wasn't impossible. Even if 95% of their miles can be done autonomously the other 5% is not to be snuffed at as being just as easy. I look at it as 80/20. They've done the 'easy' 80% of it, but the problem is now you're stuck with all the difficult next steps (ie one off situations, roads with no markers, construction, user driving mistakes, ect) as well as the potentials for legal liabilities if they go fully autonomous.
I'll just leave this here

https://web.archive.org/web/20190412171819/https:/twitter.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/ValdikSS
Off topic - but your username and the vast majority of your commenting history is primarily on salaries. Curious - is there some backstory to it? Feel you got severely underpaid?

To each and his own, but bay area engineers pissing about making ONLY 300K has always come off as being a bunch of spoilt brats - especially considering the vast majority just gem/npm/pip install this and that and glue all the code together. Of course the market deserves to pay accordingly but I think it's just a big bubble that's going to crash soon - since there is a huge mismatch between demand and supply of CRUD glue programmers (which most programmers are).

My guess is that once Lambda School, Make School, ISAs all become mainstream and the pool of CRUD glue programmers matches the demand all salaries will come crashing down. I think overall it's a good thing for society in general (and especially the tech towns).

ps: Pardon my tone. I work in the space industry. Maybe I have an axe to grind ;)
Right but you're already paying out the money it sounds like, in terms of burnout and churn in employees. 20% could be cheaper.

And I guess people are grateful for training, but not if they're effectively paying 17% of their pay for that training indefinitely. They'd be idiots to take that deal.
Should large sites try their best effort at removing this content? Absolutely. Should there be a law saying that if you fail to do so (within a ridiculously short time-frame), you will be forced to give us money or completely blocked? Absolutely not.

There's a huge difference between those two. One is open to nuance and to the reality of how hard content moderation is; the other is a blind hammer that does more harm than good.
I don’t believe your assertion. A quick check on the latest system-taxing application (aka a game), confirms the exact opposite. Even a cross-platform game, compiled natively for both OSes, runs faster on Windows in most cases. How do you square these observations with your assertion.
How do you square your interpretation with the comment I linked to above?
Most of it. Base salary caps out at $160k except for NY/SF where it caps out at $180k. Once you get into the higher levels most of your comp is stock, which historically has worked out very well for Amazon employees.
When you only have two real choices, each with their own significant set of distinct problems, I think the term "love" can be substituted for "hate the least". Android, which everyone has come to know and hate the least. Well, not everyone, but my point is the same regardless.
I suspect this goes with the territory of the U.S. giving up control of the internet to international bodies. Disclaimer: I don't claim to have a deep understanding of any of these issues. But I will point out no other great power, the E.U. included, has the same level of freedom of speech guarantees in their constitutions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-to-rel...
wccrawford could be correct. I have seen companies come close to parody...
Congrats! Freedom isn’t free.
> That way MSWin relies on the underlying OS to do things MSWin has proven to be just not very good at

Could you expand on what some of these things are?
I totally agree this is shitty. But I mean come on. Glass house much...? :-)
You can't refute a "feeling" anyway as it is subjective.

I saw the headline and thought I'd verify my suspicion here in the comments (Confirmation Bias!) before spending my time on the article.
This is true, but most if not all of these tasks don't require Deep Work. Cal Newport is an academic. It takes a lot of thought and a distraction free environment to write papers about CS Theory.

Most people in these environments usually know how to write software. Most of the software written isn't too complicated and doesn't require Deep Work. The design of these systems requires more thought, but the implementation should be fairly straightforward once you have a plan.
Biased HN downvoting my comments, what a surprise.

This site is pure garbage.
TDS experiencing voice phone outage nationwide
That's great for urban folks, but doesn't really help people living off the grid.
It was from a credible news source in (and about) Australia, but I can't find the news programmes data source.

I did however find data to the contrary for America, https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...

So I am probably wrong in regards to US fatalities.

There were articles from insurance companies saying that distracted driving is more likely to cause an accident (fatal or non) than drink driving. I assume they were using their own data for that so I am not sure how credible it is:
https://www.thezebra.com/texting-and-driving-statistics/
If that's the case for you, I don't think you'll get much utility out of Beatnik. It's intended for people whose friends don't all use the same service. Mobile support is also not quite at the place I'd like it to be, but it's definitely on the roadmap!
Funding is not everything in our industry and good VCs offer lot more than money. Think broadly about these things.
> Ppl riding their bikes in the city are doing it for fun/thrill/whatever, its an optional activity for 90% of the ppl doing it.

Riding a bike for your transportation is exactly as optional as driving is. Most cities have multiple choices for transportation.
OpenStack Stein: A new cool drink of open-source cloud
You need a screenshot in the readme, point blank.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19646040 and marked it off-topic.
tl;dr: Good question, it's not answered anywhere in the family of repositories that Zircon touches.
Is it a bad thing to make all new platforms have the ability to remove violating content as a base part of the platform? It means more investment in developing the tool, but I'd love to discuss more on why we think its okay that a "hot new" platform should be supported purely because it violates laws that the community deems important.

ex. Lyft + Uber are an example I can think of where violation of existing laws was the only way to create innovation.

Would love to hear more thoughts on how this might work with content/video companies
I never said any such thing. They'll still get takedown notices after 6 months, and they'll have to fight them as appropriate. It's just they won't be inviting abuse by people wanting to use them as a free CDN in the way they do right now.
As an anecdote I have left Apple Music after it had been suggesting to me at least 3 heavy metal playlists for 30 days. And this is the one genre I do not listen to.

I had been clicking 'I don't like it' buttons hoping the AI will get it but no luck. So after 30 days I had enough and moved on back to Spotify.

So much for human feedback.
How can someone become a CTO without having any clue about tech?
When the United States implemented corporate average fuel economy standards in 1975 - requiring all cars a manufacturer sold to average to a minimum fuel efficiency by 1978 - in response to the 73-74 oil embargo, they basically did just that. Little to no warning or time to prepare.

The end result? The US auto industry had to retool their factories and kill or redesign many of their products in order to meet the new standards (and many just paid the fines as long as they could). It was the largest change in the industry since WWII, and it destroyed almost all of their competitive advantage - outside of trucks which had relaxed standards - and resulted in decades of poor build quality that American cars are still disparaged for to this day. The Japanese and European automakers who operated mostly in markets that already demanded small cars weren't forced to retool and American car companies have been playing catchup ever since, without time to wind down their existing product lines and get the public used to small fuel efficient cars.

The fuel efficiency standards had to happen but the way in which they were implemented nearly brought down an entire industry, one that proved invaluable for national security during WWII when the allies needed to manufacture mountains of munitions and tanks. Governments can't implement huge policy changes without giving everyone time to adapt without causing massive unforeseen problems, ones which can only make the problem we're trying to solve a lot harder.
> Youtube is so capricious with demonetizing user content that it's become a meme,

Yeah, and this meme is absurd. In what other ad business are advertisers obligated to pay you? Normally when you are trying to sell ads, you have to have a sales team to try to get advertisers to pay you, and it's a constant effort. Creators do not have a right to monetization. If they want monetization, nothing is stopping them from finding their own advertisers and striking their own deals (many creators do exactly this).
For a daily driver... it's hard to imagine the conditions where that would be better than using X. Maybe if one's stuck with a machine so old (like 90's old) where even light window managers lag, then maybe. You normally wouldn't install X on servers or raspberry-pi's or other purpose built machines like routers, but you also wouldn't use them as a daily driver. I imagine even people that need to work on those extensively would rather log-in via ssh from their real daily-driver.
I would argue that most musicians should be salaried employees making 80-150k. The label would then handle everything else. The musicians only need to focus on creation and performing. I have always been interested in the problem Spotify is trying to solve for. However, I think they've only solved half the problem. The other half of the problem is solved by putting long tail musicians on a salary and then they can graduate out of that once they achieve a certain level of commercial success.

(Why is this being downvoted?) It is on topic and is not at all hostile.
I always had the feeling there are two ways to solve this: either you go full centralized and have ONE hub were everything important is stored and archived, or you store it right with the work (e.g. github issues, per project wiki, or in a folder directly in the project).

What doesn't work is a in-between-solution where you have >5 places each with its own outdated fragments of nothingness. This means whenever you decide on something you just will have to bite the bullet and use a meaningful amount of time to get everything into the new system. When the new system works, it people are more likely to honor it than contributing into something they feel is broken and somehow meaningless.
> For the record, those weren't "false" reports, they were false reports.

The BBC has always had this very aggressive quoting style, and they're not wrong. They're reporting that the Archive believes the reports to be false. The word is quoted because the archive is the one making the assertion, not the BBC. The phrase "terrorist propaganda" is also quoted because it's the claim made by the other side, also being presented without judgment of truth from the BBC.
I haven’t read the source, but some other examples could be clothing and water.
> I suspect you do not have children

The absolute worst genre of HN comments is "single childless guy criticizes others about their parenting". You've got some examples in the replies to this comment.

I will say you're probably doing fine.
Anything you do at work that is not a regular part of your job is on your resume. If you get called out on it being bullshit, then you remove it.
> They were meaning US cities

Even just considering US cities, that statement is not true. Some cities are very dangerous for bikes, but many are not.
Blog from Archive was two days ago (was even discussed on HN, before, see below)[0, 1]. I guess the BBC is running out of stuff to distract people with?

[0] - https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-fal...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627885
When I was out deep in the wilderness on mountains in the middle of Asia far far far off the grid and away from even roads, there was no petroleum to be found, but the inns I stayed in always had electricity (either via local hydro, solar, or both).
> Should large sites try their best effort at removing this content

"This content" being... what? Hateful posts? Falsehoods? The sites are incapable of discerning what is hateful or false.

Don't blend in "the site banned User A threatening to murder Politician B" with "the site banned User A for saying hateful things". One of them is objective, the other is subjective.
Combine Twitter and RSS for a Beautiful Timeline
I used to think this too -- but Tesla has killed half-a-dozen or so of their customers with no apparent brand repercussions, let alone an impact on the broader AV space!
> if cyclists blasted through red lights without looking we would all get hit by cars within a few intersections

It is left up to the drivers and pedestrians to get out of the bicyclists' way and avoid collisions.

> of course cars have come close to hitting you

Not in my personal experience. One example is what happens when there is a red light and I have the cross signal. If I see only cars I will begin crossing, because the cars typically have already started to slow down well before the light so I know they will stop. If I see a bike I will typically wait for it to pass. And sure enough, most of the time the bike will continue through the red light.

Another example is when the light is green, and there is traffic taking a left turn into a crosswalk which has the cross signal. Cars go so slow to the point that they stop several times before completing the turn. Bikes just make the turn at full or maybe half speed, and sometimes ring their bell. Scenarios like this are what have caused most of my near-collisions. There's no chance of seeing them coming.

> It is always jarring to hear what I anecdotally believe to be a minority of pedestrians who actually believe that cyclists are in any way, shape, or form more of a threat to their safety than motor vehicles.

It does seem that both sides of this issue believe the other side is living in a bubble. All I can say is what I see. Look around any intersection in NYC where there are red lights and stopped cars. If there are any bicyclists around, they will be the fastest moving objects you can see.

From what you wrote it sounds like you've heard this more than once. So have I!
I think a lot of people just don't realize that Machine Learning can be as simple as a linear regression with 2 variables. The hype and myth around ML are such that some employers just assume that they need to hire rockstar data scientists to do ML but in reality, a junior level data analyst or even a non-technical employee can do simple ML model in Excel spreadsheet assuming he/she has some background in Stats 101.
Aren't hitch balls normally optional? (Don't know, never bought a truck, never driven a new truck. Always used—and for those my dad was always having to install hitch balls himself)
Very few things will work in the presence of incompetent and/or destructive management. This approach can fail that way? Yeah, so can almost everything else. That doesn't actually tell us much about the viability of this approach.
> If a person can't work because of a pending question, it usually means they don't have their work organised sufficiently.

This is an overly harsh assumption. There are plenty of compelling real-world examples of organized, effective people being blocked by some small but urgent thing that's not their fault and requires a few minutes of attention from someone else.

If a dev just started on my project but the DB credentials I gave him aren't working (or whatever), that's on me. If my boss's boss jogs over to our office area asking who here knows Thing_X the best, I'm going to deign to remove my noise-cancelling headphones and accept the deep-work disruption.
There's a bit of cherry picking going on choosing a year where Eminem and Jay-Z were at their peak. 2000 was probably one of the top three years in the last 20 or so for hip hop.

Scheduling Eminem for radio play while he is arguably the biggest artist on the planet is not really going out on a limb.
I've found that when picking up a new IF game, it's harder to start getting into it than it is with most other games, but that once you get over that hump, the immersion I feel is greater than I feel with other games. The last one I played was Anchorhead and I had a great time.
Any content creator takes certain risks when they choose to be a sharecropper on someone else's platform.

Websites being banned in Country X have no impact on my ability to spin up a home web server and publish whatever I want. If I reach a certain volume of users, and let the site become host to people fomenting hate or violence, there's a chance someone might look to take the site down. Depending on the type of website you run, that may be the cost of doing business.

If you think you might be a target for that kind of action, your game plan needs to have fallbacks:

- take personal cheques, gift cards or crypto instead of Patreon/Paypal/Stripe.

- Spend ~2 hours of your time learning how to setup a home server w/ a Raspberry Pi or an old laptop.

- Start transitioning your users towards the decentralized P2P web (Beaker Browser being an example)
I am guessing that most standard and reliable (i.e. you know the answer and it's not going to change) questions are vulnerable to discovery by a halfway determined attacker. That said, there are probably questions/answers that historically would have required at least some degree of serious investigation to uncover that are now often trivially discoverable.
That's a pretty unusual belief. I'm under the impression that nearly no-one in Europe views the 2nd Amendment as rational. Out of curiosity, do you actively support the entire Bill of Rights, or are you just asserting that it would be better on balance, warts included?
Literally any driver that has a piece that runs in interrupt context has to have (in part) a kernel mode driver under Linux.

On top of that, GPUs generally have to have a kernel component, even under systems that put as much as possible under user mode like sel4, because they have their own MMUs that can subvert kernel integrity.
Hip-hop has been on the mainstream radar for about 30 years, dude. If Spotify had come out in '90 (that's a "Wonders of the World Wide Web" video begging to be made), you'd have a point. But as it is, for a while in tge early 2000s the Billboard 100 was consistently topped by R&B acts, or as Chris Rock liked to call it, "singing over rap beats".

Where Spotify comes into play is granting exposure to artists who are still trying to make it, or whom mainstream radio won't play. But that's cross-genre and diesn't affect the mainstream viability of hip-hop itself.
The description of how SMPS works in thei article is shockingly inaccurate!

> To simplify, an SMPS essentially
> takes the AC input and turns it on
> and off very quickly (between 10,000
> and 20,000 times per second), with
> the output voltage being determined
> by the duty cycle - the amount of
> time it is on for each flipflop. The
> shorter it is on, the lower the
> voltage. This is fed into regulators
> and capacitors to produce a stable
> AC voltage, which is then converted
> into DC.

Literally no part of that is accurate. SMPSs generally rectify first,then PWM, then smooth
That would be HER maiden name, not her mothers.
What I have personally experienced is that since I had an awesome mentor, I've been willing to follow them along anywhere they go and which in turn helps the mentor to get into a leadership role since over time they are effectively leading a group of mentees.
Have you given notion a try? It sort of feels like one of those tools that are so general they can actually compete with spreadsheets and emails and simple lists. And pretty user-friendly to boot. I have started using it for more and more simple lists and other personal stuff.
If you want to compile it from source I can't imagine disabling this would be all that difficult: https://github.com/noise-lab/iot-inspector-client/blob/c5b0f...
>> even if you stopped driving TODAY, like leave the car right where it's parked, forever ... it wouldn't be enough

rdiddly -
have you got a citation for that?
more importantly - did you ride your bike today?
I have thought for a while that the old 'what is your porn name?' joke of combining first pet's name and mother's maiden name was probably originally invented by con artists looking to gather info.
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You could do a reference source-type thing, where it isn't open source and using your source is prohibited, but people can browse it for specified purposes, such as auditing security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative#Restr...

Copyleft open source licenses only help you so much, people can still clone your company as long as their version is also open source. There's no way to prohibit corporate use of your code and still have an OSI-approved license.

The spot that kinda falls between those two classes is if you want people to be able to fork or self-host for personal/non-commercial use, and there's a few also not open source license examples out there for that too. There's a couple of that sort listed under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software (Commons Clause or Mega Limited Code Review sound fairly similar to what you might want.)
Even if your claim that running windows in a VM on hardware that have no Linux support, only windows support, is somehow feasible and faster... That kinda misses the point? Freebsd and windows have Linux binary support. I don't see why having a project catering to one of those would be "the wrong approach"? There's been some pretty successful efforts in helping games run under wine, as a "reverse" example.
> America is a net evil force in the world

I never claimed they weren't. But it would be naive to think that Russia is much better. But for some reason, WikiLeaks has nothing to say about them, even if it's clear that they are doing pretty dodgy stuff (IRA, poisoning, etc). That to me shows that Wikileaks is not about transparency, but rather has a very strong bias about exposing a very specific target.