skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuts and bolts are becoming commodotized by the day, as they do in any other industry frankly. EVs are a huge accelerator of this process because they are a fraction of the complexity of an IC drivetrain.

The supply chains in automotive are also becoming more dominant and most of the stuff in your car is sourced from Aptive or Bosch or Continental or whoever.

So it's not just a commodity yet, but it will be - especially towards the lower third echelon of the market - in a decade or two (a decade is not long in auto industry terms; it's merely two product cycles).
You forgot the kicker to the definition of a cartel: "restricting competition".

The events in the article do not indicate that they are somehow prohibiting other drivers from accessing the platform. While it's certainly possible they're strong arming the drivers at the airport, overall they're not restricting someone from signing up to become a Lyft or Uber driver.
I struggled with self-esteem and shyness in my 20's and therapy changed my life. Even if you have a supportive circle of friends, a good therapist can be a wonderful, transformative presence in your life. They can give you refreshingly honest perspectives (in both the positive and constructively critical senses) that you simply cannot get anywhere else. They can help you dig in and examine beliefs that are very difficult to unpack any other way. I'd highly recommend seeing one if you have the resources - just talking to someone once a week for a few months can change how you see the world.
"The themes app for example, wants access to my contacts. Why?"

To reskin the contacts list. Anything dealing with the contacts list needs permission to do so, even reskinning appearance.
I always thought the pandas were a sort of friendly good will gesture that didn't cost them much, seems like an odd olive branch to withdraw that I guess might play well in China, but it's not like it would change many opinions in the US. Seems like a silly thing to withdraw.

If anything this seems like the sort of no cost good will thing you LEAN ON in tough times.
Their main problem will be finding card stock. When compiling, the binary object is output on punched cards. They will need lots of blank Hollerith cards for compiling and testing. Not a lot of places make punched cards anymore.

Also, need card punches for input: IBM 029, Univac 1701. Will also need ribbon for printing readable characters at top of card.

Card readers are high-maintenance equipment. The cards are fed at high speed with a picker knife that needs precise adjustment. The card stock is sensitive to humidity. If it swells, it doesn't go through the card reader.

I wrote Assembler in the 70's on Univac 9300 and 9400's, 360 clones.

I see small lots of cards on eBay for astronomical prices. They probably wouldn't even work because of swelling.
Hi HN - I built this to satisfy a personal itch and learn more about chrome extensions. I always felt like I would set and forget bookmarks so I wanted a way to be reminded of them daily.

That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!
Im not a fan of Trump, but this phenomenon of beurocrats using deceptive math in public policy data is not unique to him.
First, see a therapist. People have varying reasons why they have low self-esteem, so what worked for other people might not work for you. Sometimes the only way we can help ourselves is to understand ourselves better.

Second, most people tend to value themselves in comparison to others. Who are some people you look up to, and why? Is it a fair metric? Maybe you wish you had those same qualities, but are they really the qualities that a person's worth should be defined by?

Third, as a kind of stop-gap measure, evaluate your physical health. Do you go outside often (ideally near trees/greenery), get enough sun? Are you physically fit? How's your diet? Are you getting enough sleep? These things cumulatively affect your mood and state of mind.

Fourth, investigate whether there are any parts of your life you would like to improve, and if so, make a basic plan and start it. As you go, revisit and modify the plan. This can include anything, like learning new languages, moving to a better neighborhood, building new relationships, getting different clothes, cooking new cuisines, etc. I found that as I tried to improve myself, it really just became learning about and experiencing more of the world, and this in turn made me feel more confident moving through the world.

Five: are you a perfectionist? We all have flaws, in every single aspect of our lives. They're always there, and you can never be rid of them all. Accept that you have flaws, and that everyone else does too, and that this is a natural part of life. If you want to change the flaws, make a plan, and start it. But either way, try to accept the flaw not as a bad thing, but as another beautiful part of a unique, individual whole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
Great point.

I happen to use row-format mixed (default on RDS), so that can make it OK. Also, often I have some other related stuff to cleanup, so the pattern is more like: SELECT id, stuff FROM table WHERE expired LIMIT 1000; do cleanup; if all successful: DELETE FROM table WHERE id IN (id, id, ...); so the delete is deterministic for statement-based replication.
It will be interesting to see if Elon can push electricity and batteries in time to get over the momentum petroleum has.

I actually see hemp and bio diesel being easier to push because it could leverage the huge existing infrastructure.
I think it is very tempting for software guys to think that software will indeed eat the world.

Fundamentally, until we reach actual self-driving cars (which I believe to be far enough away that it does not merit much discussion of the current car market), cars need to drive first, software second. Given the shit show that is software updates on my workstation, I'm pretty sure I don't ever want my car to be that focused on software. There is something to be said for being careful -- I think the legacy manufacturers ought to embrace over-the-air updates because that just makes sense, but I hope they think more like aviation (but not Boeing ;-)) than silicon valley when they plan their release schedule.
> I'd put the onus of proof on you for this one, what makes you think that they do not? Governments spend tens of millions of dollars in prime-time advertising with the sole intention of sway opinions of citizens. This seems beyond ridiculous to me that you would want to make that point.

Look, your point is that the government lies to people and that this influences they way they vote. I’m sure that has some marginal effect. But here you are completely unaffected by these lies. So what’s the difference between you and somebody who votes differently? Is it that they are a hopeless rube who has been taken in? You seem to think so. But you have not demonstrated at all that it isn’t an alternative hypothesis which explains their different voting record. And the alternative hypothesis that I would put forward is that their different political leanings account for most of their different voting record. And that their lack of concern about the veracity of the information put out by the government is a result of these different political leanings, not its cause.
I'd agree that everyone on HN knows what they are getting into, but we're not an accurate cross section of humanity to be fair.
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Starlink will require a phased array antenna that is pizzabox-sized and also not cheap (in fact, making them cheap enough to make the business case worthwhile is a major challenge). Using 3G, LTE or 5G seems like the vastly cheaper and easier option.
Isn't that exactly what you get to do with contractors? One of your criteria in picking a contractor is showing up. Kind of a problem, I'm told, with housing contractors.

And as with housing contractors, the best way to get them to show up is to offer more money than their other offers.
debian is not a trustworthy source of software if you expect it to be close to the upstream version.

They will change things around completely (MySQL/MariaDB), cause terrible bugs (OpenSSL), create crazy/renamed/weird versions (apache httpd -> apache2), etc etc.

Frankly you are lucky to get something this close to real java and not a shell script wrapping GCJ or whatever.
You might be right that not everything in those fields is bad, but most is. Nevertheless, what is so terrible is that all the money is put into research (gene mutation causing cancer) even though it has been proven wrong many years ago. That becomes very clear after reading Thomas Seyfried's work (cell fermentation causing cancer).

Sadly, academics have the incentives to publish papers in prestigious journals that make them sound smart and not to find a simple cure. Likewise, the free market does not have the incentive to easily and cheaply cure people but to maximze profits. Hence, so much research is absolutely abysmal, wrong, misleading and harmful. Sadly the human mind is constructed in such a way that we self-deceive to gain advantages. That is why there is no need for a conspiracy but just the wrong kind of incentive structure.
I was thinking of the case of "moving back to the parents".
I frequently think that the China is not actually the bad guy here. To me, tech transfer sounds like a good business practice. If I were going to spend billions of dollars buying something, I would seriously consider demanding the IP and know-how to make more of it myself in the future. That way I would have some assurance that my purchase wouldn’t become unsupported and this worthless and that I won’t get price-gauged once I’m locked in. Cough, Oracle, cough. And having one’s major purchases translate to economic growth seems entirely reasonable.

It seems to me that people mostly have problems with tech transfer because it appears to be the government mandating it. Maybe the right solution is for everyone else to start doing tech transfer, too.

Tech transfer to a limited extent for drugs in particular sound like a pretty good idea.
This story is somewhat true actually if you correct for the literary license taken.

James Clear reached out to the authors of Art& Fear and this is his footnote: (Link:https://jamesclear.com/repetitions)

This story comes from page 29 of Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. In an email conversation with Orland on October 18, 2016, he explained the origins of the story. “Yes, the ‘ceramics story’ in ‘Art & Fear’ is indeed true, allowing for some literary license in the retelling. Its real-world origin was as a gambit employed by photographer Jerry Uelsmann to motivate his Beginning Photography students at the University of Florida. As retold in ‘Art & Fear’ it faithfully captures the scene as Jerry told it to me—except I replaced photography with ceramics as the medium being explored. Admittedly, it would’ve been easier to retain photography as the art medium being discussed, but David Bayles (co-author) & I are both photographers ourselves, and at the time we were consciously trying to broaden the range of media being referenced in the text. The intriguing thing to me is that it hardly matters what art form was invoked—the moral of the story appears to hold equally true straight across the whole art spectrum (and even outside the arts, for that matter).” Later in that same email, Orland said, “You have our permission to reprint the any or all of the ‘ceramics’ passage in your forthcoming book.” In the end, I settled on publishing an adapted version, which combines their telling of the ceramics story with facts from the original source of Uelsmann’s photography students. David Bayles and Ted Orland, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (Santa Cruz, CA: Image Continuum Press, 1993), 29.
What was not commoditized in automobiles in the seventies that is now?
Correct me if I’m wrong but if you get an Apple phone you’ll be spied on by no one. Relatively speaking, of course.
The U.S. effectively is trying to cripple a few major corporations from China... their response is "I'm going to take my Panda back"

I don't really see China's negotiating position here, but if that's what they can do - then the U.S. definitely has the leverage.
Is the use case something like taking screenshots?

I don't think $20 is bad here, I don't need it so $20 seems like a lot to me, for someone taking a lot of screen shots maybe $20 is no different than $2?

If I'm expensing something for say work, nobody cares if it is $2 or $20. In fact someone might look at me weird for expesning $2 rather than $20. The breakpoints are far higher than that as far as approvals.
> Apple had all sorts of problems in 2007

However, Apple was profitable in 2007, which is a pretty significant difference...
What's the rational for percentage based fees? The technology cost for a 4 mile ride is the same for a 50 mile ride.
One of the benefits of Lisp based languages is that they usually come with powerful macro based meta-programming facilities.

I've use macro systems quite often in more or less complicated ways: as a professional assembly language programmer, in school when studying Lisp DSLs, when using my favorite editor Emacs and its elisp, in systems I've built similar to Moores TRAC programming language, M4, my extensive use of TeX and LaTeX for decades, C++ STL, sendmail configurations, etc.

Over the years, I've lost my enthusiasm for powerful meta-programming facilities like Lisp macros. The underlying languages are Turing complete and don't strictly need meta-programming, and most modern languages aren't lacking in abstraction mechanisms available to programming without meta-linguistic alterations.

Like operator overloading, sophisticated macro systems change the semantics of program source code in ways that are not obvious. They allow new variants of the programming language to be created willy nilly placing demands on me the reader, maintainer, or user of a programming language package to fully understand the implementation of the meta-linguistic features. Powerful macro systems encourage a thick frosting of magic to be applied on the implementation of complex systems.

Some systems, like Lisp or Scheme or TeX, would be difficult to use without macro extensions, but it seems to me that identifying a good set of built-in abstractions for writing programs and building the language around them is a better approach. I am so grateful for the TicZ graphics package for LaTeX, it's all built out of TeX's crazy flexible macro system, but I'm even more grateful that I've never had to touch the source for it. Take a peek at: [1].

[1] https://github.com/pgf-tikz
Had the same issue, this book changed my life: The Charisma Myth.

Be warned though, the book has lots of exercises and if you really want to improve/change, then you need to do them and work hard at it. It will take a lot of effort and time. You can see the effects very quickly, but to really do things automatically without thinking about them, it might take years.

A lot of the stuff in the book is based on mindfulness. You basically first need to be very aware of your emotions, then get comfortable with them in any situation. Once you are comfortable with your emotions, dealing with everything else becomes a lot easier and fluid.

Also, this tedx talk has some great advice about seeing self-confidence as a skill you can develop through practice and positive reinforcement: https://youtu.be/w-HYZv6HzAs
John Costella shared code to unblur images : http://johncostella.com/unblur/
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It removes much of the incentive to build new tech if you have to turn it over and let someone steal it.

I wouldn’t go into China with any proprietary tech as a foreigner.
Perhaps publish or parish applies to journalism as well. Factchecking costs money and not everyone has ssc’s budget.
They didn't really have an option: the same organisation controls GNOME and systemd, so they introduced systemd as a hard dependency of GNOME to force distros to adopt systemd. And you can't have a distro out there without GNOME, so...

Those distros that can run without systemd have to make their own patches to "fix" GNOME, which is very costly. Even Gentoo struggles with that, as it takes them a long time to release new versions of GNOME because they have to write the patches to strip out systemd first.
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Based on my layman knowledge of the relevant scientific fields here, it certainly seems plausible. He's not claiming anything that extraordinary. The stakes are also incredibly low, it's not like he's lying about his achievement to get some kind of grant.
I have a model 3 and the Blutooth seems about average. All the rest of the software seems way better than any other car I've ever been in though. Wonder what your complaints are?
I get no end of bemusement from open source advocates that think it makes any kind of rational sense to campaign against an open source project. THIS IS ALL OPEN SOURCE. Freedom and choice is the whole point, isn't it?

If you prefer an alternative or forebear to systemd, that is great. Use it. Advocate for the system you prefer. Convince people that the choice you have made is better.

Meanwhile the vast majority of distributions have voluntarily chosen systemd. Perhaps if its critics reflect on the reality of that shift, they could look at ways to improve the alternative to address its perceived deficiencies—just as GCC started doing now that LLVM has taken a bite out of their dominance.
This is wrong, in every country there is national data protection authority who you should contact.

"EU countries have set up national bodies responsible for protecting personal data in accordance with Article 8(3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU."
Source:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
> software will eat this part of the world too.

Hardware, specifically batteries and electric motors, seem just as fundamental to motor cars.
> SystemD definitely spurred some controversies years ago but is it that bad in 2019?

The reasons for the controversies have not really changed (lennart, the idea that it's not "unixy", a takeover of many subsystems by various systemd components, …) so people who didn't like systemd years ago probably still don't.

As somebody who's not really involved, I found Benno Rice's The Tragedy of Systemd[0] interesting and enlightening.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
One of the better videos on this subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AeWu1fZ7bY

BSDCan 2018—Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd

"systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. Depending on who you ask it's either a complete violation of the UNIX philosophy, a bloated pile of bugs, a complete violation of the elegant simplicity it replaced or, it most cases, some or all of the above. So why have so many Linux distributions taken to it? Is it as bad as people say?
In the benefits of Alpine, you have put that the sound is great. Out of curiosity, what makes it better than other Linux distros?
I don't know how mkreis could tell but I did notice that in one of the photos you can distinctly see the Puma logo[1] and I thought it was curious. I guess this explains it.

[1] https://ibms360.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSC_0062-10...
So then I’m the only one who did this in elementary school, then?

Soil from the yard, a couple of plant clippings, water... and seal it. I find it kind of surprising how excited the comments here are when 7 year olds around the world have done this same experiment.
Note that by not foregoing that opportunity cost the poor person can save up enough of a safety net for his children to take a risk.

Generations are important. A poor person with a family is best not taking risks. However they can bring up enough of a safety net for their children.
And if 3G, LTE, or 5G is not an option? (It isn't to most of the world.)
At least in the U.S., TP is one of the few things that's differentiated--they have 3-5 different ones, each a clone of a different brand like Charmin Ultra or Quilted Northern or Angel Soft. There's a little thing in the corner of the packaging that says "Compare to Cottonelle" or whatever. I took a photo of the one we like so I know which to get next time :)
I get that not everybody likes systemd, but a lot of the criticisms seem misguided and looking at sysvinit with role-colored glasses.

For example, people are complaining about logind being included, but forget that consolekit was unmaintained before that. Yes, there's parts to systemd that not everyone will use, like container support, but in that case you can pretty safely ignore that use case.

For me, systemd has provided a much more consistent way of managing services. There's a tightly defined service definition format that allows one to comfortably modify any 3rd party service as well, (unlike random, variable-quality shell scripts), relatively small amount of commands to learn that work consistently across services, mounts, timers etc. There's also much better handling of modern hardware, hotplugging & the like.

I can't say I miss sysvinit. Also, stuff like [1] from the anti-systemd camp doesn't inspire confidence.

1 - https://lwn.net/Articles/786593
It seems the systemd hate mostly comes from a philosophical position these days than anything grounded in real user impact. You either agree or disagree with what systemd does, or do not care because you are not aware of it (which I would argue is a good thing).

Personally I think it is great. Sysvinit scripts were terrible to write and frequently had bugs because the scripts were usually afterthoughts "Oh yea... I guess we need one of those things". The nice integrations between systemd and journald is well worth it in my mind as well.
The boring company could provide the tech to build tunnels on Mars. And with the minimal atmosphere you'll have a Hyperloop. Hardly a coincidence.
This is an age old hack. I'm not sure why this is being reported as new.

They did this since the early days of Surge Pricing.
> An education? Might very well be $50k in debt.

You can get a perfectly decent degree from your community college for very affordable prices. Likewise you may not be able to live in downtown manhattan, but you can probably live anywhere in a whole bunch of the square states on $1k a month.
Currently, but the US has already chastised South Korea for not spending enough on its defense as it relates to the US. South Korea capitulated I believe, but there remains the possibility that in South Korea's goal of being on agreeable terms with North Korea, it could have negative ramifications on the US/SK relationship.

I don't think it is highly likely it'll play out like that, but if I'm Samsung, I'm either throwing resources into Tizen or forking AOSP into a tailored version of the OS.
Guix is missing, which uses GNU Sheperd, which is in Scheme:

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/

That said, to me systemd has been a large improvement. Maybe it has its problems, but at least there is consistency in handling services and logs between Linux distributions, which is a big improvement over a bunch of homegrown sysvinit derivatives, Upstart, and homegrown non-sysvinit scripts.
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I also wonder what the consensus definition of "start-up" is. Does it only mean a tech product with high scalability and potential to raise b/millions? What about the landscaper, mechanic, or plumber who is able to scale up a trade, get repeat customers and hire employees? Or do they even factor in a discussion like this
I wish they would consider using cacheline sized B+ trees instead of dumb RB trees.
The latter are not making proper use of pipelined superscalar processors (AKA any modern CPU that can run at over 1 GHz).
Consoles are cheap, bit they still sell them at a loss. This let's them amortize the cost of the console across several users and get way better utilization.