skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any public research or data regarding the value or predicted delta value of long tail "average person" driving data of this kind versus the kind of data captured by driving around the same small portions of SF or MV? I've looked around but haven't found anything. Granted, Tesla and its competitors don't have an incentive to publish this kind of data...but are they even in a position to be able to calculate it currently?
There was absolutely no need for that cop to shoot that person who got SWAT'd either. The guy was completely surrounded by police with rifles, at a far distance, and he was obviously confused at being told multiple different commands. They are way, way too quick to pull the trigger.

All 911 calls are and should be taken seriously though. Even when you misdial 911 they will sometimes even send a car out to make sure, unless you explain yourself well over the phone.

So these scammer guys will always be able to get a police response, especially as long as phone calls can be spoofed to look like it's coming from "inside" the house. The only variable is how the police handle it and, of course, how many sociopaths there are who can pull it off properly without getting caught.
What is "financial" open source databases?
Btrfs supports compression. A "seed" flag that makes it read-only. If you 'btrfs device add' a rw second device, it can be read-write with all writes directed to the second device, e.g. /dev/zram device for volatile overlay for e.g. a LiveOS boot, or you can add a blank partition and then remove the seed which causes the seed data to be replicated to the rw partition. Plus all metadata and data are checksummed.

zstd support since linux 4.14, and a mount time option for compression level since linux 5.1. So you could get very good compression ratios equivalent to squashfs, but squashfs will still come out slightly ahead because it also compresses its own metadata, where Btrfs doesn't.

My best guess is squashfs is a sufficiently successful project that it's allowed most distributions who depend on it (quite a few) to sit on its laurels.
Here in Germany you can anonymously call the police (using a pay phone or whatever), but it's not an issue because the police use the door bell and politely take a look instead of busting the door open and storming the place with drawn guns.

I understand police in the US has to adapt to the assumption that everyone has a gun, but even when you suspect a hostage situation what's the problem with politely knocking and waiting if you get a friendly response?
The reward and risk of social media for academics
The point is classic distributions which support their product for a long time (Debian, Ubuntu,RHEL,Centos) are easier to use for basic users you can meet on street. With Arch or Gentoo, you are right that there is a package manager which makes installation of software easier, but the system is not easy to use for BFUs. When problems with installation/upgrades arise (which is more likely for Arch/Gentoo), you are expected to spend some time becoming proficient GNU/Linux user who resolves things in command line.
True, but seems doxing fits better conceptually into "harassment" than "violence".
Every time I see a hit piece on "big tech" from an established journalism entity like a newspaper or magazine I just consider who used to be the main ad-delivery mechanism and who the main one is now.
I don't care what you call it. If that's what "doxing" means, then I don't know why Krebs would ever be obligated not to "dox". What I see here is a motte and bailey argument where the argument people seem to want to make is that everyone in the world is obliged to honor message board norms that say the real identities of pseudonymous people can't ever be revealed, but when that's challenged, they retreat to the banal argument that the personal addresses and phone numbers of journalists shouldn't be circulated on sites that encourage SWATting.

I'm not talking about personal addresses and phone numbers. I'm talking about names and public LinkedIn profiles.
Can you restart execution at the point of the fault using SEH? A brief skim of the documentation doesn't seem to suggest it's possible as a general matter. If I wanted to implement a dynamically growable stack structure in a way that let me resume at the point of the fault, preserving program state, how would I do that?

I ask because I think sometimes people conflate POSIX signals offering poor semantics (i.e. reentrancy issues) with POSIX signals being too low-level. I can imagine how I might implement SEH using POSIX signals (though a per-thread handler would be really nice), but not vice-versa (though maybe it is possible).

As I understand it, there's a long history behind signals relating to interrupt vs polling software system models. Signals as they exist in Unix were a very early implementation of the interrupt driven model in the context of a kernel<->user space interface. But Unix's process and I/O concepts were perhaps too convenient so the value-add of the signals model was minimal; Unix ended up evolving in directions that didn't require the interrupt abstraction (at least, not until decades later). This history explains why POSIX signals are so low-level and the lack of comprehensive runtime treatment.

Note that they're only low-level by today's standards. At the time they were very high-level--a signal interrupt magically preserved your process state (stack and program counter) and would magically resume the process when returning from the handler, which could be a simple C function. Even better, this could occur recursively! And it's worth mentioning that all kernel interfaces were and remain async-signal safe (e.g. dup2 is atomic even from the perspective of an async signal).[1] The lack of consistent and convenient treatment by the runtime comes from the fact that much of the runtime we're most familiar with came later; threads came way later. When they came about people had already moved away from signals, perhaps because they saw that it was too much work to make the interrupt driven model work well at a high-level.

[1] In classic Unix style it did all this with the most minimal of kernel and user space code, pushing process state onto the user space stack and relying on an in-process trampoline to restore program state (which is how recursion could be supported without any complexity in kernel space).
Which makes me imagine a crazy marketing video where they demonstrate their system is driving the right path and the human crashes.

In huge black font, then they just show the statistics of how often that happens.
Great!

Its a huge mystery thats sitting there right infront of and behind our eyes every minute of the day. I'm comfortable with not knowing the answer but I'm also fascinated by it all and I like to debate. Particularly as a displacement activity when I really need to be doing something else.
>The opportunity cost of owning it has been huge while the rest of the market ripped up

Still doesn't make any sense. The S&P is up over 50% over five years. Outperforming TSLA by almost 3x (including the after-market change it is 5x).
It really depends on his theology. I'd agree if he succumbed to a prescribed framework of dogma. But for those freethinkers seeking inner truth there are no shortcuts.

I think it's invalid to say he casts it in the "too hard basket" because he chooses theology. On the contrary, I think you cast it into the too hard basket because you're so steadfast on believing in the rational.
In 1900 the population of New York City was a fraction of its population today and probably more importantly, cars were not widespread as the Model T had not even hit the market yet. It's bizarre to try to compare different eras.
A better example would be what if Google gave out 'I Voted!' awards that, upon proof that you voted, gave you access to special Google features.
That’s a great point. UIs are similar to APIs in that respect; if you can provide features that are really simple and fast and composable, users can be incredibly creative about finding new ways to plug them together.

We too often worry about ticking off a checklist of use cases, and not enough about providing a flexible toolkit that can handle unanticipated use cases.
I think the question one has to answer first is what "intention" is in itself, at least some informal definition to work with is necessary. how you define it will shape the answer to the rock intention.
I was stating his opinion, but I'll just quote him directly:

> We'll start with the bitter truth. The "shadow driver that just sits there in the computer comparing notes and sending discrepancies and interesting events to Tesla" is a myth. I used to think people just misunderstood Elon, but now I believe Tesla lies about it on purpose

I really did not mean for my comment to be inflammatory (hence the disclaimer and including a source), but considering how quickly it was downvoted I guess people do not approve.
ugh! the amount of supervised training data that would generate is staggering.
Archeologists confirm near-legendary tale of crusaders’ siege of Jerusalem
> You can't prove even that.

Of course you can. You know it to be true that you posses consciousness because you experience it directly. What is impossible (empirically) is knowing that about anyone or anything else.
>> It's "fun" and "cool" and "hip" because they're in it, and since they are the writers they get to determine the reality of those things.

The fashion industry. Youtube. Influencers. Fyre Festival. The definition of what is or isn't cool/hot has always been at the hands of the media darlings. While those darlings cannot stop talking about how great the party is, the absolutely last thing they want is for the general public to be allowed in.
Metaverse project connecting Minecraft servers, latest version of Doom
This is true, though for awhile in the past few years, the Far Left was catching up, though the Far Right surged ahead in this year. However, in terms of numbers of events of violence, intimidation, and minor assault, the Far Left has been quite busy. The left leaning media just shows an extreme bias in discussing these events.

All of that stuff is bad, and bad for us.
> the only meaningful "non-physical" hypothesis is one that allows an interface with the physical.

I don't think that's meaningful, it sounds to me like a contradiction of terms. If it is non-physical but it can interact with physical objects as if it were physical, what is the label "non-physical" actually describing? In a world where there are physical entities but also non-physical entities with physical interactions, how is the non-physical entity distinct from the physical one in terms of observable reality?
Hottest days ever recorded in half of Europe, but no reason to panic, right?

I assume everyone realises that we're going to die, and we're too stupid to spend 5% of GDP on fixing it, which is why the world's gone a bit crazy.
You should make one, and then you can make it free for me to use...

OMG that’d be so epic; I hate paying to use closed-source software!

If I leave you my contact info, can you get in touch with me when it’s ready?
Looking around me it seems to be stand in the street, hold a sign, block traffic and mess up everyone’s day...

Or we could continue to be agile and innovate like humanity and technology has always done.
Point is valid, but that's not the real reason in "the vast majority of cases."

The context here is that of the desktop software and the vast majority of desktop software is still not networked at its core. It is slow exactly because programmers used extra blubber layers to simplify their life, not because of the network API latency.
Long story short: unions.
Laravel Vapor introduces AWS serverless infrastructure management to framework
It's just the Earth's immune system finally kicking in. We need to stop fighting against nature and start working along with it. We cannot sustain ourselves without this planet and we're not going to find a replacement anytime soon.

The intelligence that makes a seed grow into a flower is the same intelligence that will protect the Earth from these insane beings who live on its surface.
> It must be remembered, also, that labor-saving devices, and indeed inventions of all kinds, often absolutely lessen demand instead of increasing it. Suppose, for example, that the many attempts at producing a satisfactory traction engine should result in success; is it not evident that the number of horses in use would be greatly diminished? This would similarly reduce the demand for horseshoes, horseshoe nails, currycombs, and harness of all sorts, every one of which now forms the centre of extensive manufacturing interests, employing many men.

Also prescient, John Froelich got such a tractor working 14 years later!
This report is bad news for Tesla, but I think it disproves the "demand problem" narrative. Tesla delivered more cars than they could produce this quarter. Both delivery and production numbers were at record highs. The average sale price of the Model 3 remained stable. Meanwhile they are nearing production of the Model Y which is likely depressing demand of both the Model 3 and Model X. Once the Model Y is available, people expect it to have more ongoing demand than any of their current vehicles. Tesla has a lot of problems, but people not wanting their cars doesn't appear to be one of them.
Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75
What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)
> So a lot of the argument about how "right wing commenters" are unfairly, well, whatevered, is based on some very serious anecdotes. And you know what we say to those - not today.

For what I meant by right-wing, I meant the popular definition that is used today: Anything right of extreme left.

> not today

Lol. Good luck with trying to suppress others based on their beliefs or opinions.
The PS3 should be bored out of its mind running a shop front consisting of a few text labels and images. It is a kind of machine where one would think that it takes deliberate effort to write a simple UI that is actually slow.
Korolev is also rumored to have died due to hospital error:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev#Death
The modern turkish state has been suppressing various kinds of intellectuals since its foundations via forced secularism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_Turkey

what has happened is a shift in who is being suppressed, rather than the ab-initio creation of suppression. This is hinted at but not actually elucidated in the article:

This measure was both practical and symbolic:
The decaying Ottoman Empire had given way to a
rebellious new nation that required statesmen (like
himself) who were dedicated to secularism, modernity
and nationalism.

AKA required actually means required here, not just 'required in some sort of abstract sense of fitting in with the zeitgeist'

the omission is unsurprising, since previous suppression fits secularist editorial bias of NYT, whereas current suppression does not.

this is neither to say that I am in favor of either, nor that there was/was not intellectual freedom under ottoman times.
A big part of the problem might be xz decompression, that's been my discovery anyway.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717728
Well, you know 150 people, convince them to do the same. Get local politicians to be more proactive.
Thanks for that! Hadn’t come across this. Seems like the perfect way to refresh the knowledge I once had (bachelor degree 1986).
People who've never lived in Europe think everything's better in Europe.
I had to observe this during the meeting, someone was giving a presentation:

oh yeah just remember to mention this thing, let me open my mail quick, ...
Gmail loading... and the whole room fills with malaise.
IndianGamer Says Get This Rabbit
Paying the going rate is one thing, but shoving business expenses (fully or partially) on your "contractor" is another thing - and also a central point in the new "side hustle" economy.
Overview of Smart Home Startups
Panic's tools are native and have real macOS UIs. This is a very well-trodden path for small companies to make money selling tools in fields that are typically not huge moneymakers because of free competition.
Implementing a bignum calculator (Rob Pike, 2014)
You re about to enter an endless discussion about the semantics of words which will end nowhere.
Doubt the model will coverage as the actions are from human drivers, not generated by the model.
I think this is very correct. I asked some friends who are Indian and currently in India, and they replied with:

“On this I would say that it will be expensive for the maximum population of India as the Percentage of working class people earning good is not on the positive side. Many people still fall under BPL and I as an Indian citizen can absolutely tell you about this thing that we people totally browse it of the web and find things for free even the Netflix originals.
This is something not good or praiseworthy but yes most people do that.”
Its a philosopher writing in a psychological venue.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/sharon-hewitt-raw...
Try to block free trade agreements that aren’t in line with the paris goals.
He's not criticizing 'the institutions' so much as their ideas and modernism itself which, funny enough, is one of the 14 handy 'heuristics' for identifing nascent facism that Eco listed in 1995 [1].

It's a good list. At the risk of courting Godwin I'd suggest that 'concentration camps' would be a good 15th point but I guess it's covered more generally.

[1] https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism
If you’re using Safari, Reader View can bypass the NYT paywall.
> why do clients still send passwords to a server? Doesn't it make more sense to hash the username and password together with some sort of nonce/salt that's sent to the server for validation?

You must ALWAYS hash the password (as a salted iterated cryptographic hash) on the server. You can in ADDITION also hash the password on the client end, but by itself that's not enough.

The issue, as usual, comes down to "what is the attack you're trying to thwart"? If you hash on the client and not the server, then when (not if) the attacker manages to download the hashed password set, the attacker can create a modified client & send those hashes directly. If you don't hash on the server, it's exactly the same as storing passwords as clear text, because you're storing the data that an attacker can directly use to log in.

You can also hash the password on the client IN ADDITION to the server. In that case, you're hiding from the server the actual password you type in. That's an improvement if you're sharing a single password across many services; in this case the attack you're trying to thwart is to prevent an attacker from actively capturing the password & trying to reuse the password on other systems. However, a much better idea is to not share a single password anyway, so it's not such a great thing.
I really don't get the argument about fibre to the home being good for business.

For working from home, VDSL is pretty much good enough for most working needs (from what I have seen).

Fibre really shines for the consumer - especially video.

We have fibre to the home in New Zealand, and it doesn't make us an IT nation, or meet any of the gushing political waffle about our IT future.

It suspect the costs have a reasonable timeframe for payback as a tax payer: the government "invested" about 500€ per household to cover 80% of the population (1000€ if only 40% of households use it). I would be interested to see numbers to justify it, but is smells ok on the surface.
In the past 18 months I've noticed Google Maps' navigation prompts being announced just slightly too late for comfort; e.g. I'm often nearly into an intersection at 30-40 mph when my phone tells me to turn onto the cross street. In that same 18 month timeframe I've moved to a new city so I'm acutely aware of this lag.

I chalk this up to Google Maps' overall bloat and sluggishness on my 2-year-old phone.
> I understand police in the US has to adapt to the assumption that everyone has a gun

That might be a big part of the 'root cause' of this issue.
"how not to fail"

Don't do this to yourself. You cannot guarantee immediate success when starting out especially when you have no prior experience running a business. The first thing to keep in mind is that failures don't matter as most likely you will fail at a few things anyway. The important thing is to learn from failures and keep moving forward. This is not a motivational speech but the facts of business. So if you keep a defensive attitude, you will be disappointed.

Mindset is hard to change but you need to work on it. Don't think about failures but only look at how you can keep working towards your goal of a business. Not my quote but for every 3 pointer that Michael Jordan scored, he missed 100s others which no one will remember. So it is ok to fail but use the failure as another step towards success if you believe and work towards it.

Ok now some more practical advice :)

- Learn to Sell. If you cannot learn how to sell, you cannot run a business. Forget about everything else. To learn how to sell, learn how to listen to people's problems and issues and see if you have a solution for that. Start with anyone you know. Selling is not just making money but convincing someone.

- Do you really want to quit your job or can you start this on the side ? I personally would favor going all in but only when you are ready to an extent. Are you really ready for going cold turkey ? Perhaps not yet. Can you start on the side ?

- So you have a few ideas. Ok that is a start. But ideas need execution. And to execute, you need to identify your target market/customers. It may take a lot of trial and error to understand your specific target market. You need to start looking into validating the idea by starting small and executing the hell of out it.

- Start with a niche. Very focussed. If you try to sell to everyone, you will sell to no one (and no, amazon did not start that way. it took years before they become the amazon of today).

- Are you willing to risk it all at some point ? Are you scared of failing ? If yes, you may want to reconsider being in business.

I hope this helps you.
As a long-time Mac user (long enough to remember OpenDoc!) I massively dislike it. It’s becoming difficult to open a document without accidentally making some trivial change, which is then auto-saved. If the doc happens to be in Dropbox, you see the change notification and wonder, what did I do?? I just wanted to look at it!
> I don't know where or when this became norm

I assume people who aren't as driven in their careers wouldn't want to mess with something that gives them hour-long breaks "waiting" on queries. I know I wouldn't :)
You're right. Thanks. I misunderstood what "Commissioner" meant.
That's downplaying it a bit.

FB allowed the exporting of all sorts of data, from your relationship status, demographic and contact information, information on employers, interpersonal relationship graph to companies who used it to mine information on you without your explicit knowledge (you could refuse them access, but as soon as one of your friends allowed it, your refusal became moot).

Then it built a whole bunch of tooling and ecosystem around this industry. Then it made a lot of money from it.

Then it played dumb. "We didn't know", "We don't allow it, even though we built tools for no other purpose than to facilitate it", and so on.

A little more nefarious than "your friends can tell someone you listen to this band".
Pretending that the US could solve it single-handedly, and it were dispersed among every US citizen, what would that look like? Is that just about buying carbon offsets from non-profits that plant trees?

I'm tired of "we gotta do something", I want to know what to do and what the math implies in terms of personal responsibility. Carbon neutral or carbon positive behavior.