skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scientists knew and understood the risks of radiation. A few had already died from accidents during the making of the bomb. The government considered it a calculated risk - as they did with the soldiers sent to the bombed cities after the war. In war you have to send people into harms way, its not much different from making men land on a beach with machine guns trained on them.

One thing is pretty clear though, they didn't want to publicize the radiation effects on humans. Those they sent to Hiroshima were there to study the victims not to help and many didn't know the health effects they would soon personally suffer.
In Atlanta people are coped to that situation, but in places like Los Angeles people come to a crawl in a drizzle with otherwise zero traffic. In places with snowstorms, people still regularly loose traction and spin off the roads or start sliding backwards down a hill.

I remember a picture a couple years ago from a snowstorm that hit the south, could have been Georgia even, that looked like a scene from an apocalyptic movie complete with a flipped over car burning in the distance.

Some people crash, some people do fine with skill. Will a self driving car be able to counter steer an ice induced drift into safely regaining traction like an experienced human car driver could? All up in the air right now.
> Because its lower taxes

Lower taxes is irrelevant unless all your operations are in Delaware. It's a great trick for IP holding "companies" that are just a couple lawyers in Wilmington, but otherwise you are paying taxes to whatever states you actually generate revenue in anyway.
Couldn't you have just looked into a little bit instead of saying you know nothing about it? It's a distro with functional package management.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
mIRC was probably as easy as slack. but you didn't have to force everyone to use mIRC.

Same for aim, icq... greedy killed all of those, not the ability to create better open clients. Namely msn and gtalk (not the jabber offering, which was a joke attempt of making federated icq for corporations, enterprisey java codebase and all)
Look it up, with the last president, Correa, Ecuador was significantly backing away from the West and being more friendly with China and Russia, but this new president is pro-West. A month after they trade Assange, somehow Ecuador secures a 6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, while previously no one bat an eye. The current regime is definitely a puppet government
My problem with slack or discord is that once you join a group, there are just too many channels and sub channels to follow.
Ridiculous Marxist propaganda.
GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
I don't mean in terms of the binary, but in terms of the whole system.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/langley-aerodrome-creat...

I assume this is 3D-printed from some 3D printing tech beyond what I've experienced buying some small 3D printed items that are temperature sensitive and kinda flexy?
To be clear, I'm not say you personally. I don't know you, or anything about your work so I'm speaking in purely a general sense about a position that you were representing.

I don't think all upstream contributions are in bad faith. I'm just saying there tends to be competing priorities which leads to some instances of hostility.

As for the Docker example, I don't know what the right answer is without digging deeper. My naive thought is to write a SLE/RHEL shim/plugin style component to allow functionality that's missing. This allows keeping the upstream vanilla, while not having to fork into something without the brand recognition. If that doesn't work, forking as `rhel-docker` or `sle-docker` doesn't seem that bad to me. Ubuntu does this with all the bcc-tools.

This is of course predicated on having tried all previous solutions first (paying an upstream developer, work with upstream with a good back-and-forth to incorporate a patch, etc). In the end, if the project decides something against their philosophical viewpoint, they're perfectly entitled to not accept patches. It's at that point, I think it's not the best solution to fork, downstream patch, and release as if it's the vanilla upstream.
Oh yeah, also, start small! Pick like 3 things and set small goals (e.g For 7 days, I will do this, this, and this). You build confidence through accomplishments. So set small goals, accomplish, and then set a slightly bigger goal and start again! This is a life long journey, you will fail, we all do, get back up, dust off, and fight.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not even talking about the full-self-driving pipe dream. In general, despite real technological shortcomings, the iPhone approach to software beat out approaches of Nokia, Motorola, et al. It's easy to see how a software-focused company--maybe Tesla, maybe not--could do the same with the existing car companies.

For a tiny example of how I'm thinking: Apple introduced CarPlay, and it took years for car companies to be ready on their end. Super-long lead times seem like a good idea when you're talking about airline safety, but for bluetooth audio? For touch-screen user interface stuff? Think about how much iOS and Android have changed just in the last five years, and think about having everything delayed by five years because "we're a car company, not a computer company."

I don't just mean everything that happened in 2012 happens in 2017 instead, I mean that the first release is delayed by five years, which means that it isn't until that release hits the market that developers can see what direction to go in based on user feedback, and then there's another five years before that hits the market, and then competitors are also doing things, but it's another five years before that has any effect, and so on.

I'm as terrified as anyone ought to be about the idea that Tesla can over-the-air release a regression that drives someone into a concrete barrier it used to navigate properly, but the details of Tesla aside, the whole idea of focusing on software seems like a good move, and I think the car industry will (much more slowly) follow the phone industry overall pattern.
I certainly don't disagree but I'd be interested in discussing the nature of the licensing.
I totally agree with you, having also had to deal with rental cars with batshit crazy touchscreens that barely functioned, lagged like crazy, and were obviously not fit for the purpose for which they were built.

My last car was a 2006 G35 with no screens as all, and a nice analog clock. I loved that about it so much.

I never understood why manufacturers tried to reinvent the wheel and not just use the phone for all things entertainment and navigation. I would never want GPS in my car, because they all were so horrifically bad.

Until I got the Model 3.

It take less than 1 second, literally two taps in almost exactly the same location on the screen, to activate GPS to my ‘Work’ or ‘Home’ presents. And if I do need to dial in an address it has a full keyboard, full POIs, and autocomplete which is as fast as Google Maps on my iPhone X. Traffic aware navigation which appears to use the same feed as Google Maps (estimates and routes seem to always match). The GPS on Model 3 is a joy to use, actually, truly.

The best part is that it implements very good interpolation when GPS drops out using compass and velocity, so going through tunnels tracks almost perfectly compared to Google Maps on iPhone which gets hopelessly stuck.

The interface is very reminiscent of an iPad, just as quick and responsive, and has a bunch of cool touches.

For example you can drag the media player to be hidden, to be just showing key info, or to nearly full screen, based on the level of interaction you need in it. The drag is a quick flick of the finger and doesn’t require precise targeting at all. It’s amazingly natural to navigate. While driving all the media control you need (volume and skip) is on the steering wheel. You get free Slacker and free LTE and I’ve really enjoyed the streaming music and have actually been introduced to some new artists I didn’t know before.

I never wanted a touchscreen in my car. Full stop. Until now. The fact that it’s all touch with consistent OTA upgrades give me confidence that it has staying power to remain functional, relevant, and looking elegant.

Particularly with the way Tesla designs their cars, I would be surprised if Model 3 wasn’t essentially the same interior design 10 years from now. I know they designed 3 in particular to have as little as possible that might look “dated” in the future.
In regards to your last point about being patient, both the US and China know that waiting an additional 20-30 years will be at the detriment of China as they cannot compete with US population replacement levels. Compare the following graphs: US projected population: https://i.imgur.com/0UN8eNy.jpg, China projected population: https://i.imgur.com/yDsLnnb.jpg.
No one is interested in, really? Citation needed.
> Linux (the larger operating system environment) exists only because of its monolithic approach to kernel-space development. Far from suffering from it, it made it all possible when the utopia of the GNU kernel flat-lined.

Linux-the-kernel was largely just in the right place at the right time, but to the extent that it had development advantages they were an openness to contributions and the absence of an imposed top-down design.

> Open source has succeeded because it was easy to improve and replace things piecemeal. But deciding that the individual pieces must begin and end at the process level is blinkered. You can perform "piecemeal improvements" to the scheduling component in systemd just as easily as you can to, say, cron.

You can submit changes and improvements to a given cron implementation. But if there's a really hard tradeoff or a disagreement, you can also fork off your own cron implementation, and in fact there are three or four different cron implementations in common use on linux. This is really important and not just in the cases where a fork actually occurs: the possibility of a fork encourages maintainers to be reasonable and come to a consensus.

Systemd's tightly coupled design makes that impossible - it's not about process boundaries but about having any kind of boundary where there's a stable interface between different components. E.g. reasonable people can disagree over whether the advantages of a binary logging format outweigh the disadvantages. But the systemd maintainers have taken a particular position, and, crucially, people who disagree can't just fork the logging component and swap it out for their piece, because there's no stable interface between that and the rest of the system.
Thanks, good read. :)
Assuming that it is, can they do something about it ?
Or you could just play Na5 instead of Nxd5?

It difficult to make as comparison to the star craft cannon rush because chess is a game of perfect information and the cannon rush in star craft relies on incomplete information to work effectively
Also, they only compared those who scored very low to those that scored very high. The study says nothing about the predictive power of IQ for those who are within 'normal' ranges. All you can really conclude is that 13-year-olds with a WISC score above 130 tend to do better in life than kids with a WISC score below 85. It says nothing about if we can extrapolate that to conclude the kids scoring 115 do better than kids scoring 95.
Yeah, that makes sense, because the rate of the contract should only depend on the content of the job. And contractors should be able to compete for those jobs. That's certainly the case for Lyft/Uber.
> My car has a touch screen interface and I am puzzled why car manufacturers even bother.

IMHO, touch screen controls should be banned from cars, no matter how good. Tactile physical control based interfaces allow drivers to keep their eyes on the road. Touch screens inevitably take driver's eyes off the road and distract them, since they need to use those same eyes to figure out where on the screen they need to touch.
> 2% to 10%

That’s just accusations that make it to court, too - the numbers that are settled behind closed doors are surely far higher.
That's not true for any high-end processor from the last 15 years or so. You just can't predict how instructions will interleave and how much parallelism the processor decoder will be able to extract at run-time.
The drivers are offered a certain rate. They refuse, implicitly asking for a higher rate. This repeats until the drivers get a rate they can accept, or they give up and go home.

On the other side, passengers are offered a certain rate. They can accept it, or they can refuse and implicitly ask for a lower rate.
That used to be the story. I used to offer a Mibbit gateway to my IRC community that got a lot of use 10 years ago.

But today, it's a hard sell. IRCCloud doesn't compete on features against alternatives services, it's strictly worse since it has less to work with.

When a user adds your community, it gets added to a list of all their other servers on Slack/Discord. The question has become "so why are you making us use this instead of setting up a Slack/Discord/etc server like everyone else?"

And I think you'll be hard pressed to answer them in a satisfying way. And for no real gain.
Not sure what you're talking about in terms of Apple's 2007 problems. They were highly profitable, had successfully migrated their computers to Intel chips (an incredibly thorny technical platform hurdle) and the iPod was a global cultural phenomenon that never faced a true competitor. All of their products were arguably best of breed. Apple stores were already the centerpiece of most upscale American malls. They were firing on all cylinders.
I watched this a few weeks ago as well, and it is a very good, even-handed overview of systemd. He talks about the history and other tools that came before, like Apple's `launchd` and Ubuntu's `upstart`. He also talks about the actual problems with it, rather than the FUD hysteria (and also explains why some of them are FUD).

He's from the BSD world, so his POV is as an (mostly) outsider.
Nice. That's a lot simpler than CA. Here there's paperwork, more complicated taxes and $800/yr for a single-member LLC.
Are you saying Ecuador was a puppet of China and Russia?
Right but then the UK should have his belongings not the USA.
this use case is specifically addressed by "labeled statements" (e.g., https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se12/html/jls-14.ht...)
70% of human body is water. guess where do we know this from?

"... under the American occupation the members of Unit 731 and other experimental units were allowed to go free."

"Shiro Ishii, as the chief of the unit, was granted war crime immunity from the US occupation authorities, because of his provision of human experimentation research materials to the US."
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ah, here we go

fast forward 25 years and we'll need a government approved license to open dev tools in a browser.

I hope I am wrong.
The problem seems to be people are unlikely to pay large subscription fees, but they also generally play at the same time of day so you can’t get a large multiple between hardware and subscriptions. Worse, people still need hardware at home to connect to these services.

~130x as many people bought PlayStation 4 than subscribe to PlayStation now at just 20$ per month. While they might be extremely profitable for Sony, AAA games require huge customer bases.
That's an interesting insight. Thanks!
almost every single irc server since 94 or so have some sort of logger. if not, it's an intentional design choice for that one community.
> In this case Uber offered you $x. You agreed to $x.

The value of x was established under different circumstances. What's wrong with bumping that to 1.5x as soon as you have the power to do so?

When the cab industry was "the system", Uber and Lyft beat the system and made money. Now the drivers are beating the Uber/Lyft system and making money.

Viva disruption.

EDIT: Actually Uber/Lyft beat the cab system and lost money, but that's another kettle of fish.
Is anyone keeping statistics on YC applications?

What happens to people who don't get funded (by YC or otherwise)? What happens to those who do get funded but then fail? What proportion succeed, for various definitions of success?
It would be cool to remove the original stock Google Layout and replace with microG without wiping the phone and installing a custom ROM
What's the recommended way for someone to learn systemd properly? Is there a readable manual somewhere that documents everything?

That's the only thing I find scary about such big systems, the lack of comprehensive docs and a "starting point for learning them" from 0 to hero. Like, with Git there's tons of nice tutorials like "learn kit bottom up by reinventing it in way X" etc. plus a good "default book".

What's the equivalent of https://git-scm.com/book for systemd?
But it made for a better fund raising story than "we need to cover our operational losses for the next 10 months".
In those sorts of hobbies, you see a great number of eBay listings containing a caveat along the lines of "estate sale lot, sold as seen". It's great (if somewhat ghoulish) for younger enthusiasts, because you can build a collection quite inexpensively.

I do worry about the loss of provenance. Knowing where an object came from is often more valuable than the object itself; that knowledge is often lost when a child or grandchild just wants to clear out the old man's junk.
I didn't downvote you, but as a small-scale seller on Amazon, I received absolutely terrible support when they froze my account over a 12-cent fee that was added retroactively and therefore "past due" before I ever heard about it. They were going to pretty much keep my money and my merchandise and ignore me until I got an AWS rep to get involved.

As a customer, on the other hand, Amazon has among the best service I've ever received.
In general no, but if you're only using two instructions, subtract and branch, it's feasible. There's only one register involved, so each subtract is always waiting on the previous one and they cannot run in parallel.
Yes.

Plenty of people will offer things you can do, but really they're only things that will treat your feeling of helplessness and not things that have any significant chance of improving these scenarios.
I'm not sure systemd had every container feature available when docker was released. If I'm not mistaken, systemd-nspawn (systemd alternative to docker) is much more recent.
I Was Apathetic of Programming Until I Met My Best Mentor
Right, but the fact that Tesla is not an established company is precisely why some people think they might fail.
Given this bit - "allowing engineers to change the wings, the fuselage, and other sections quite rapidly.", then it probably is, at least in comparison to having to produce lots of different aircraft.
I don't know how they'd proceed after exfil, but I'm sure we can come up with lots of interesting ways to hide the origin of tech/IP.

Snowden mentioned more on NSA industrial espionage in an interview with German state-owned TV, but they didn't provide a lot of details. There was also quite a bit on NSA operations spying on all French companies that are active in IT/telecommunications, energy/power, natural resources, logistics, health care/biotech etc, so pretty much anything but how to make baguettes.
Of course technology transfer is good for the transferee. I would like a pony too.

What the article is talking about is the forced joint-ventures. Do you want to open up a factory to make your product in China? In many industries, that is not legal. You have to find a Chinese partner to do a joint venture with. You can't just pick any company to do the joint venture with either. Practically it needs to be one that has politically connected owners, so that you don't have endless problems with permits and inspections.

Even though the law states that technology transfer is not a condition of the JV, any politically connected JV partner is going to do what politicians ask of them, which is demand technology transfer. Therefore to do business in China, you're forced to transfer your tech.

Meanwhile in the U.S. if you want to start a business, you fire up Stripe Atlas and you're done in ten minutes.
"And suddenly Uber/Lyft are like any other Taxi company just with a massive valuation." . . . which valuation would be rapidly evaporating.

I suspect this will happen one way or the other, as something that cannot be sustained will not be -- something's got to give, either rates will go up, costs will go down, or the companies will fold.

Rates probably have some room to rise. My limited experience is mostly airport rides, where they are cheaper than limo's taxis. But I'd still pay the same as the competing services, since Lyft has always been more reliable and pleasant. The main competition is parking.

Lower costs? I don't think so, short of automation. The drivers' costs & compensation have already evidently been pushed to the limit, as they are starting to strike.

Will they sort out either? I'm not buying either stock, even at the discount prices...
That's 11. I don't think the miscarriage counts, and the unborn won't be a kid until it's born.
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Is that illegal? They can always claim it's not collusion because anyone can join uber and set another price - They are not stopping anyone from doing that. (also it seems almost trivial to fix this with a change in algorithm)
I don't know if I would call it fraud, but I can see where they are coming form. Drivers aren't individually deciding to turn off the app, but they are doing it collectively to manipulate the app into surge pricing.
Also Naughty Dogs of Jak & Dexter and Crash Bandicoot fame - mostly due to Andy Gavin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin
Also, mortgages are implicitly backed by the home itself. In the worst case scenario the bank can claim the property back and sell it to recoup their losses.
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Well not today, but soon it will be GNU/Windows+Linux -- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18534687/microsoft-windows...
WSL 2.0 contains a full Linux kernel.
Interesting thought, but in this case, simplistically put, the water, a limited resource, is the food for the cells. The population will grow until no more food is present and will reach balance in the eco-system. And the cells that die recycle back into the system
So...write a bug, lose your software license? Sounds like fun.
It varies by person; I use them all the time and that's why I gave up on using LineageOS to forego Google. I couldn't listen to my Pandora stations, I couldn't get Slack notifications from work, I couldn't check my bank account. I once had to return some headphones because they required an app and it wouldn't work. My phone basically became nothing but a web browser and... a phone.

The choice is basically:

1. Privacy

2. Freedom of customization

3. Full participation in modern society

Pick two.

I had 1 and 2, and ended up resigning myself to 1 and 3 and getting an iPhone.
Ah, you may be right, that's what I get for trying to remember a talk without double-checking. I thought I remembered that systemd was a port of launchd here [1]. My mistake!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo&t=2178s
Systemd is the worst init system except for all the others that have been developed from time to time.

Some of the trade-offs it makes, and its expansionist attitudes, are really grating. But it introduced a higher level of consistency in the Linux world for userland developers, which is almost invariably a good thing from a commercial perspective.
So false accusations ruining things for managers means we need more women managers, instead of...you know, selecting managers based on competence and technical ability first and foremost? Maybe instead of doubling down on the type of rhetoric and leftist nonsense that caused this problem in the first place we should strive for a more meritocratic society in general.
What was imposed on them and when?