skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I'll tone it down. This topic is one I have to be very careful not to lose my temper over and I really didn't manage that here.
"Stop Murdering Our Children"

This political campaign in the Netherlands transformed society in the 1970s. It is a model for political reform in the US

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/02/20/the-origins-of-hollan...
"Red danger" does indeed seem to be the narrative that western politicians, the US in particular, are pushing today.

There always has to be some fear-based narrative involving the boogeyman de jour - the Russians, the Chinese, Islamic extremists, cyberwar whatever. Any one will do, anything to deflect from real problems at home.

God I detest the politics of today :(
Looking through the discussion here I am thrilled that it is conducted in such a civilized & positive way. No one shouting others down as Nazis. I am inordinately pleased to see that people want to learn and are open-minded enough to realize that distant cultures can have lessons to learn from. I usually lurk in HN but this time I feel obliged to at least say that I appreciate the company around here. Thanks all!
> Have you actually tried it or did you just read it off some anti-tesla rant on the Internet?

I have.

> They are failing to implement these features that Tesla's already have in great quality on the mass-market

> Go actually test a Tesla autopilot, on a long drive

You keep buying into Tesla's marketing.

Here's a riddle for you: every time a Tesla fails and kills a person, Tesla quickly blames the driver. They say that the driver has to always keep watch and grab the wheel at the first sign of trouble.

Here's an official statement by Tesla in such an accident: "We also ask our customers to exercise safe behavior when using our vehicles, including following the car’s instructions for remaining alert and present when using Autopilot and to be prepared to take control at all times" [1]

Why is that, do you think?

Other companies are just less careless about human lives. They don't pretend it's a full autopilot. They don't pretend that the system can handle 100% of situations. They don't pretend that you can safely fall asleep behind the wheel, and nothing will happen. They call it what it is and introduce the features gradually because they are fully aware of the current capabilities of autonomous systems.

Tesla is fully aware of that as well, but their marketing is willfully engaged in deception tactics.

> What part of it is "unrealistic" when it already exists?

The part where it doesn't exist. In all cases it requires the driver to be fully engaged and alert at all times.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/teslas-autopilot-blamed-driver-acc...
The CIA constantly says “we have prevented X terrorist attacks in the last Y years“ and nobody believes them
This is in large part due to BNSF, UP and other US railways spinning off or closing all the unprofitable short rail lines that used to go to local warehouses, industrial and commercial districts, resulting in many decrepit, barely usable rail lines.

Trucks are the only option when your local rail operator shuts down or doesn't have the capacity to service your business. This chronic underinvestment in vital infrastructure is hurting the economies of smaller towns, making any business that needs cheap transport to thrive less competitive.
Buy into the dream deeper: lose as many wires as possible. Of course some things just need to be connected, but plenty of other devices sync or operate OTA.
I always have the underlining on so i wouldn’t be able to see it anymore. Seriously the underlining of links just makes sense.
I think it's more likely that he wants to be able to have more input on projects outside of Apple and Apple aren't happy with design consultancy being part of their business. So the obvious resolution is to let him be independent, safe in the knowledge that Apple will always have enough cash to pay whatever it takes to get him to work on their projects.
Great photos. It's so appropriate that they come out swinging with Alice Bag - the Bags were just the best.
I must have seen 50 shows at the Hong Kong - not so many at Madame Wongs, but I did see the 1st B52's LA show there (B52's would be Wongs prototypical band - more "new wave" than punk).
But EVERYBODY who was real played at the HK. You would get these fantastic lineups, like the Germs, Bags, Fear and Crowd all on the same bill. Early on, the GoGo's were more aligned with pure punk than pop, and so they played at the HK instead of MW's.
Won't get into everybody I saw at the HK (which would be, you know, everybody) but I did see Lydia Lunch and James White there - both from New York.
How am I framing it?

What you quoted supports what I said.

Economic benefits negligible.

Poor people suffer.
My favorite example that I use every day is the LG ultrafine monitor, which both receives video from and sends power to my MBP with one cable.
This is not very relevant.

Snowdon is not in 'hiding' - if the Russians wanted to hide him, they probably could. But they are not, ergo, the US knows anything they want to know about him.
> This is not a valid argument to support your speculations though

This was not speculation, it was a claim. Though I'd agree he did not provide links to support his claim.

> With the same logic, almost every politician is questionable

True, if every politician was indeed "a literal unknown 6 months before the election". But at least in the west this is rather unusual, so I can't accept your claim.
It's kinda sad though
To drop another n=4 anecdote, yes, all places I worked in were more-less like that.

(One reason why I dislike the terms like "professional software $something" or "industry standard" is because while they connote quality, they're defined by "as done by people who are paid to do this" and "the popular thing among people who get paid for this work", respectively. The two viewpoints - quality vs. what professionals do - are almost completely opposite in practice, given the shit show our industry is.)
Dude, I'm pretty sure the only people that have all this "best practice CI mumbojumbo" are people on HN.

Also, they use it not because they know that it saves them time, but because they're afraid other HN people like you will shame them if they don't.
If you are trying to reduce emissions then burning wood is the worse thing you could do.
2 out of 393 is roughly 0.5%
> Nor should it be acceptable to just flip the switch and reboot the server. Mainframe systems have safeguards against such practices. And mainframes rarely, if ever, need to be restarted because the system is hung or because of a software glitch.

This is the opposite philosophy to Chaos Monkey or failover drills, where you kill your instances/servers/racks/zones/dcs/continents at random and fix whatever broke. Cattle vs pets.
Well, it's "Sick" with an aspirated "k", which is what the "kh" is for. "Seek" is just mangled pronunciation like "goo-roo" for "guru".
it's a ML joke...
Two things I can add to this.

Routes and service varies a lot from one fleet to another and route to another. That effects the type of bus you want. Maybe you have a school bus in San Diego. Drives flat and a couple of hours day. Or maybe it's bus in the Sierras and has to climb 2500 feet up a steep grade in 100 degree weather at 7000 feet.

The other thing I think is routes are currently designed around diesel buses. Natively replacing them with electric is likely to be sub optimal.
I agree with this sentiment when using a paperwhite tablet (glowing screens with stuff formatted for paper is painful). Serial reading, ebooks are fine.

There are a few cases where a PDF/djvu textbook with strategic bookmarks can also be used. When I'm on the road I have a decent reference library in a rooted Kobo H2O running koreader. Not an ideal solution; something with an 8x12 screen would be much closer to it, but nobody makes these any more, and if I need to look something up in Golub, it can be done.

FWIIW the only thing that makes this doable is koreader does reflow on columnated text.
I see no "notch and no chin" device in that picture. If anything, S10's "chin" looks smaller than iPhone X's "no chin".
Obvoiusly the best is to not use the energy in the first place, but what renewable ("regrowable") would be better than biomass if heat is what you want?
The news has reported that the NSA gets court orders to install their black box hardware in datacenters and taps fiber cables. What reason is there to believe they've stopped their dragnet operations?
I'm here, and struggle to follow many of the threads on HN. As a father, I don't really see how I can effectively prepare my kids for a surveillance internet.
A node is the process a chip is built on. Smaller process = smaller circuits in your chips that use less power/run faster.
> If so, who is going to fund it?

Considering the difficulty outlined in the article is in optimising the more 'cutting-edge' approaches (i.e. those without manually optimised kernels), there are numerous AI research centres (in industry and academia) that would be quite keen to reduce the compute cost of exploring new approaches / architectures.

The vast majority of companies applying ML are unlikely to step outside of the "mainstream" in terms of model architecture (at least currently), and thus the conclusions aren't particularly relevant to them.
I use Emacs for email (and most of my other tasks). The problems that he presents, I have long ago solved. The reason is programmability. I can mold Emacs and its wide assortment of email clients into my exact requirements. If my requirements change, _my_ Emacs evolves and adapts. The Lisp Machine rapid-feedback-loop paradigm makes that possible.

Once you lock onto that way of working, everything else seems substandard. That of course includes yet another centralized “service” that I have no control over.
Are there no serial port? He seems to use a logical analyzer for some probing of something so some touching is involved.

Writing the data to serial or tape would be so much easier than image recognition.
True. But then I feel it’s just a website. Which is odd. Because even web apps don’t have underlined links
I wasn't aware, and seemed quite ridiculous that there was not enough torque to rotate the screw, but looking at it, the angel of the helical threading is pretty steep.

https://www.netairspace.com/photos/N37474/United_Airlines/Bo...

And it turns out this can/happens even with the electronic motorized way, and there is a maneuver to work around the load. But it got removed from the manual...

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/619326-boeing-advice-aerodyn...
Objectively is a hard claim when it comes to an integration of software and hardware. What is the integration of hardware and software worth to any particular person? What is Apple doubling down on privacy worth to another one?

Current MBP hardware is nothing exciting to me. But my previous MBP was lasted me 2009 to 2016 I believe, with a few upgrades. And I like the OS.

I don't mind working in Linux or Windows but I prefer a lot of things about the Mac.

A lot of conveniences, and things that I feel have better execution. Rather predictably decent performance and good integration between software and hardware. That sort of thing.

I was OK with USB-C as it matches my Android phone and the iPad Pro. I'm down to a single charger for travel. It has drawbacks but makes a bit of sense. Not a fan of the new keyboards, really don't like the Touchbar. But overall I'm still fairly happy.

So that's why I, personally, bother. I care about whether they improve it because in spite of the Mac as a platform not hitting the sweets sports as well as previously for me it is still worth the premium they charge. To me.

I consider Macs expensive, I'm not sure that I consider them overpriced. Under-featured I'd dismiss out of hand, I'm sure they could be to some but it really depends on what you are looking at.
I cannot stop to examine the Gravity Wells[1], again.

[1] https://xkcd.com/681/
Frequency – Can I turn Radio waves into light?
I've done a little searching and can't find anything that confirms details. It was some years ago. I have no idea if it still goes on.

I've really enjoyed your comments in this discussion. Thank you for your contribution here.
China can train chip designers just like Israel does, but they are on a path to end up in Intel's predicament, where they don't have the ability to fabricate competitive chips as their foundries are one to two generations outdated.
10.31.2007 – Single nanotube makes world's smallest radio
I think the microaggression is not explicitly stating that those negative experiences exist while making that broad statement ("contributing to OSS is a good way to get started"), and thereby disregarding/minimizing/ignoring the people who had those experiences, harming them.
GitHub: Code for the new asyncio book “asyncio recipes”
Loyal. Savvy. Influential. And a userbase that speaks out to get a better product; I'd prefer a loyal userbase that provides feedback about what they care about than a fickle one that doesn't.

I've used since v0.4.
An interesting embedded language for probabilistic programming and meta-programming implement in Clojure from the same organization: https://github.com/probcomp/metaprob

The MIT Probabilistic Computing Project has a free public notebook service with big server to play with their libraries: https://github.com/probcomp/developer#hosted-service, the server spec is:

96 CPU cores, 360GB of RAM

10GB persistent disk

One hour browser-based inactivity timeout

10 max concurrent instances
Ding ding ding ding, Google's way of killing the other browsers in the market for good, kill off the adblockers manifest, literally become the entity which monitors the internet as much as the NSA...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/libload...
As the original article mentioned, some of those ads actually includes malware. I wouldn't feel safe using an extension that actually clicks on every single one of them (even if on the background and dismissing the response).
I have a bad habit of mumbling to myself what I am typing, when there is nobody around, sometimes I will even read aloud what I just typed back to make sure it makes sense.

If I was to use a Typewriter, you could probably put a recording device inside it and work out what I was writing about that way.
I see it's been fixed by releasing 6.9.2.

Does this mean you can now "brick" people's projects by sneaking npm@6.9.1 into their package.json?
Probably relevant-

This week's Node.js weekly [1] mentions:
"Last week we mentioned the long awaited status of npm 6.9.1 and the possible ‘strike’ [2] in ongoing community work on the project, but npm’s Isaac Z. Schlueter has stepped up, got a release out"

[1] https://nodeweekly.com/issues/294

[2] https://gist.github.com/aeschright/8ed09cbc2a4aee00fcb4ad350...
In Boeing's eyes that tolerance is above 300 deaths for about a year of flying a single model, obviously. So for about $20B profit each year, that's about 15 dead men, woman and children for every billion in profit. That's probably how Boeing execs calculate it, if they even care.
The GP didn't say this is exclusive to blue collar worker; they only used blue collar as an example. It is shockingly easy to convince any kind of workers to go against their own best interest, whether it comes to unions or employment regulations.

E.g., I know plenty of white-collar workers in my country who believe they're being robbed by their country because their employers have to also pay for their socialized health insurance, naively assuming that if that was not the case, they could actually pocket that money.
Well, he is arguing it’s not. I imagine you’ve seen a photocopier. You don’t need the copy to be the same print quality, size, or even bound at all.

In fact copying entire books was done daily where I went to university and took no longer than 15m, at something like five bucks each. You’d bring that stack of A4 home, and maybe hand it down if it survived the semester.
Ouch. How long did it take you to figure out what happened, and how high was your bill? How many people abused it, do you think (just one?) and any idea for what?
> Please stop.

Stop expecting transparent and accountable politics? Yeh, sure. It's India.
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Remind me again when the CIA used Chemical Weapons (a war crime -Skripal Style ) on Russian and Dutch soil
A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robbery spree
No its explicitly legal now a days.
Certainly seems possible... Looks like I probably won't be installing anything with npm until they unpublish it.
So if I live in Russia and but a US company's shares, I can sue the US company under Russian law? Or the same for China? Or Saudi Arabia? Cool!
Assuming the work you're doing is worth while, burnout and stress are due to having (or perceiving to have) responsibility but insufficient power or authority to actually meet it. Working hard does not lead to burnout. Working hard but being unable to achieve expected results does. Taking time off rarely helps, because that impossible to meet responsibility is still hanging over you.

Classic example is school teachers in US public schools. They have enormous responsibility with the children, but rarely have power or authority. Instead, they are essentially drones in a big machine.
Interestingly, the text messages Uber and Lyft sent are factually accurate in that being made an employee will limit the ability of drivers to choose their own working hours. What they dont tell them is that they will also have better entitlements and cost the company more.
If you have GSuite, it seems you can whitelist existing applications. I've done that with SMS Backup+, so it should keep working for me. At least that's my understanding.

I suppose that people on the consumer side probably don't have that option, and it's probably not enough to get people to start paying.
There are journalists meeting him in Russia every now and then. You can hide the precise location from someone when you put them into a car, blindfold and drive them around. You can't hide it any more when you have to ship the journalist to a different continent and back in a matter of hours/minutes. Sure you can put the car into an airplane etc but those can be easily tracked. And I doubt they wouldn't spill the secret if they were aware.

Also of course the USA tracks everything that can be tracked using satellites. Everything. The CIA in fact had collected tons of satellite images of the arctic and antarctic and contributed them to the science community to study climate change.
That's fascinating, I had no idea.

I commend them on their willingness to see this design decision through, yet I wonder if it is actually good design.

The article already mentions it makes the phone more expensive and I do wonder, if it does not make the phone also harder to use? At least on my android, I already find the chin on the smaller side and with big hands it gets harder to grasp the phone at a part where I don't accidentally trigger something on the display. I would guess it would also strain my thumb even more when trying to tap stuff at the bottom of the screen. From looks alone, more display is always gorgeous, but from a usability standpoint, I am not so sure.
Since when are companies forbidden from letting workers choose their working hours?
If uber and lyft drivers are employees, what about people who post on youtube or twitter, since they are creating revenue for the company and being paid?
> If they do something truly terrible like kill civilians or disrupt the natural society of a country I'd have to take a hard look.

I can't tell whether the "they" in this sentence is referring to your government or the foreign one.
I'm still amazed that there are companies that actually test diligently (I work at one now -- I sometimes complain about our tests, but in general they are pretty darn good). Literally only 20 years ago there were a lot of places you'd be laughed out of if you suggested writing automated tests for all of your code (or even any of your code ;-) ). The first time I did TDD seriously, I thought, "I'd better hang on to this job. I'll never get another one like it". But, it seems that there are groups that are doing it, and even people who think you aren't professional unless you are doing it. It's down right amazing!
Westerners dislike Chinese because they challenge us in our perceived superiority.

This goes for all aspect of society. From how we raise our children to how big ecological challenges are met.

Plus right now in the US. There is the upcoming election where I think Trump has figured out he can win by being tough on China and the slew articles you are seeing is a part of a political campaign.
Different countries obviously have very different founding myths about this.

Here in the UK it took the Public Libriaries Act to start them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Libraries_Act_1850 - Andrew Carnagie would have been 15 years old at that point, having only recently migrated to the US with his parents, due to grinding poverty back home.
Whenever I use Waze to try to get San francisco from the east bay / north of golden gate bridge, I am routinely routed through San Jose. Luckily, I use Waze on my wife's phone and it routes me correctly.
There are lots of ways to provide free access to information to everyone. How do you expect other people to grow without giving them enough information to understand?
Peace depends on the freedom
Why didn't he do this a few decades ago?
They would very much love to not do that, but obviously trying to stop that is very hard when you have to have support of both sides of politics. They have currently frozen their budgets though.
Apple manufactures bluetooth headphones also [0] .. do the math. The really popular Beats headphones for example are made by Apple indirectly. By cutting off the headphone connection, they are encouraging people to buy new products instead of using old and proven technologies.

Apple has done this all the time during their history, eg. look at the whole adapter situation where you just have to buy extra hardware to connect your new device to anything.

[0] "Beats Electronics LLC is a subsidiary of Apple Inc." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_Electronics)
That was actually just the headline of the article he was linking to.
To add some anecdotal evidence for America: I've always stuck to a hard 10-6 and I have a great career. Any company that doesn't let you trade talent against time is a company that doesn't respect you as a worker or even an adult. Granted, I work in the single American industry that likely respects its workers the most, but I have friends in other industries who believed that working sane hours was impossible until they... Tried it.

Obviously working more means you get more done (assuming you don't burn yourself out), so the cost of working less to your career is nonzero, but this is practically tautological, and the stronger claim made here that it affects your reputation beyond its actual impact on productivity is not as universal in the US as people like to complain.
"if what you do at work provides real value"

My company makes things that are, I'd argue, a net good to the world (we help make stuff more secure) - but honestly I find myself struggling more and more to care about anything that isn't addressing the climate or democratic breakdown the world faces.

Not rhetorical - genuine question: Does anyone else sit at their desk and think "but guys the ship is sinking, maybe we should worry about fixing the holes before we repaint the tennis court? guys? GUYS????"

This is my problem really, not the company's, but I'm not sure what to do.
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That is not a validly deducted argument and not the topic.

There is a lot of info about crimes comitted by the CIA, but this isn't about any naughtyness competition.
Researchers develop “rectenna” to convert radio waves to electricity (2011)