skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>downloaded more than 14,000 files containing critical information about Google’s autonomous-vehicle research before leaving the company in 2016

Just generally as the act has been described it sounds like the information downloaded was pretty massive and wide ranging.

It seems unlikely he always "played the primary role in developing" all of it. And really you can debate what that quoted phrase means and what the legal ramifications of that are if you were to presume that he could take the things.
A serious and legitimate gripe with windows is how messy it is to automate things. It's hard to look at the command prompt the same way I look at bash. I resort to almost anything other than batch when I can.
Some people are tired of an OS that by default phones home about actions you do on it, include advertisement in your start area, and regularly push updates to add new features that also break existing software.
I know it sounds crazy, but so does the truth so far. You don't know what's true, I don't know what's true, none of us do.

When the most important prisoner of the century so far suffers an untimely death in a facility which hasn't had a successful suicide for forty years, after a cascade of serious institutional failures, and that prisoner has had continuous access to extremely gifted scientists and medical practitioners for decades...

I think it's likely that he's dead, but the alternatives are within the realm of reality. It may be a conspiracy theory, but you know... sometimes people conspire don't they?

People theorize about all sorts of other things on this platform; things far more unimaginable than this.
What kind of penetration do you have in the institutions that use your platform? i.e. Are they using it for scheduling all courses within the university, or only certain colleges, certain departments etc.
All pretty pale in comparison to a faked $75 billion buyout tweeted out during market trading hours. Or the blatant self-dealing and faked product unveil used to push through the SolarCity bailout.
Just spit-balling here... I think a proposal like this can benefit from making some assumptions about tooling, the database of functions and their metadata would logically be tightly integrated into your editor. The official name of the function could simply be a hash of its contents, the serialized ast then hashed could be another option for matching exactly-syntactically equivalent code. Then human friendly names could be automatically searchable and tacked on in the code via tooling which presents the metadata in-line but does not become part of the source.
Their mirrors are forcing my mobile browser to open the video file instead of downloading it. That's not very helpful. I'm surprised they didn't offer a torrent for the video, that would actually help me (and help them on costs/mirroring).

EDIT: Another user provided the solution: press-and-hold/long-tap the video in the new tab to get an option to download.
There are a number of challenges with using Server as a desktop OS. Sometimes utilities I want to use are $20-40 for a desktop PC, and $1000+ to install on a server OS, even though they are the same software. Sometimes apps just won't work because they are checking what OS you are using and don't like it.

Recently I tried setting up a Windows Server 2019 install... to use as a home server... on my Intel NUC, only to discover that the Ethernet driver on the NUC has been intentionally omitted from Windows Server compatibility, because Intel wants you to use enterprise class hardware with Windows Servers. (If you plug in a USB to Ethernet dongle that uses a Realtek chip, Windows Server works fine on the NUC, but this is hilarious. There are also bad-hack ways to modify the Intel network driver so it installs on the Server OS.)
If you’ve got 300 engineers and performance problems then that’s a great idea.

If you have 3 engineers and a little seed funding then building Go microservices to serve a web app is probably just pissing away VC money.

Just because people do it doesn’t make it a good idea.
Suggestion 3 is particularly terrible, since the concrete skeleton of a parking garage is really poorly suited for conversion to housing. Utilities will require raised floors and drop ceilings even for arterial needs. The size of the building footprint is unreasonable for general residential division - leaving either large interior space vacuums (which can cause safety issues especially when lacking natural light) or units with no external wall (causing a different set of health issues and probably massive fire code violations). The material to be built on will be contaminated oil soaked concrete (the sort of material they truck out of former gas stations before any other kind of construction can commence). And, lastly, parking garages aren't structured to allow a structural wall free perimeter which means that temperature control within such a building would have to be entirely artificially done - so A/C and heat 24/7.

It is much more cost effective and environmentally friendly to tear down parking garages and replace them with new construction.

For 1 - sure yea, I sorta doubt developers are going to voluntarily go below 1 space/unit in any sort of world because the value of the property takes a steep dive - but removing any commercial unit parking requirements or higher requirements for larger residential units makes sense.
I think 2 is great - assuming exceptions are made to support park & ride demand.
4... Eh, EV is going to need to solve this through market forces so I think we can entirely ignore this (though I would love to see a lot more EVs I think this is point is entirely tangential to the main discussion)
Lastly for 5 - nope. Every building ever has managed to sort this out naturally without regulation... leave this up to the market.
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I'm pretty sure people criticize Elon for more than just a few Tweets.
>If he stopped taking shortcuts he'd probably be the next Jobs or Musk.

Didn't these ended up where they are by taking all kinds of shortcuts?
I used to go back to my university and speak at the ethics class in my recruiting trips. I stopped after people’s questions changed to “Uber, Airbnb, etc all succeeded because they broke the law. Why are ethics important?” and I had no real answer.
OP, please Google "promise chaining", it will make your life so much better.
It's hard to look at Bash the same way as I look at PowerShell. I resort to almost anything other than Bash when I can.
The response to (2) is likely to be more proxying of requests. Websites will still want to outsource and they can send data server-side, via rpc.

The current way of doing things via client-side requests is transparent to any web developer who can use the network panel in a debugger, though not to end users. Do it all server-side and nobody will be able to see what's going on. It will be more like how credit card data is shared.
From a feature standpoint, Windows has definitely improved in the last few years, however, I don't see much improvement in terms of UX. To me, Windows development was always about "let's get this feature in so we can claim that we do X" but Microsoft has never proven themselves in terms of providing a cohesive experience in terms of inter-app behaviors or just UI/UX streamlining. This is extremely apparent when you look at their office apps (Outlook, Word, etc).
If you are using batch scripts on Windows in 2019 you are most definitely Doing It Wrong. PowerShell (which for my money is better than bash) is the "official" scripting environment on contemporary Windows and batch file support is only included for backward compatibility with legacy scripts. Don't use it, ever.
Yeah, Musk never stole competitor IP, so the comparison is a bit banal.

If anything, Musk's undoing will be how he has handled Tesla, such as his nepotist SolarCity acquisition.
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Good luck convincing people not to buy ludicrous vehicles as status symbols, or to keep up with the Joneses, meanwhile they're paying 12 or 15 or 20% interest for these cars over 6 years because of financial ignorance.

I work in a hospital office building, the parking lot is a circus of wasteful consumerism. The sheer amount of shiny, ridiculously huge F150s and luxury vehicles and the obscene number of SUVs tells me people dont get a simple, cheap A to B vehicle. They dont rideshare or bicycle or public transit. People pay top dollar for comfort, status, and care nothing for finances or climate.
I'm sure there are some programmers capable of doing good work while keeping up a steady stream of banter, but many of us are quiet and don't want to have cameras peeking over our shoulders or staring in our faces.

Besides, turning my profession into a sharecropping existence on Twitch/YouTube/Patreon, choosing to either be a living ad banner or a mendicant, holds absolutely no appeal for me.
Oh man, I'll tell you—Windows 8 was a beast of its own. I think that is how people remember Windows, and assume that Windows 10 is the same. But god, don't remind me of that awful full-screen server start menu..............I remember that's when we actively started to try and go full headless with Windows Server, but it was also half-baked back then.
I'm cool with that, maybe they'll learn not to buy a car anyway.

I do think that 1 would need to be tempered with some handicap minimum though.
> I don't want to downplay Elm's accomplishments here

Then refrain, eh?

How is 71% size reduction not a meaningful difference? You don't pay for bandwidth?
Did I say otherwise? That is exactly my point. The keys - bought by the enterprises - can be used many times, on their machines. However, people find those keys and sell them on eBay.
There are a lot more problems with Musk's conduct than a few tweets. Just yesterday there was a post on the front page of HN effectively accusing him of nepotism and saving his family's dying business and merging it with Tesla. There is still a lot of controversy over the marketing/state of Autopilot. There are whistle blowers claiming unsafe working conditions at Tesla and Musk censoring/firing anyone who is pro union. The list goes on.

I'm not saying Musk hasn't created some impressive companies or that he is bound to fail - but he is not without controversy.
It's not a right to live in the most desirable area of the country. If you can't afford to live somewhere you desire, your options are: A: Suck it up. B: Increase the amount of money you take in in order to afford the luxury you desire.
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Nubank recently raised $400M at a $10B valuation and they depend on Datomic [1] heavily for their core systems [2].

The RDF database marketplace is very established [3], and the likes of MarkLogic, DB2, and Oracle have clearly encountered profitable reasons to add RDF support. I believe RDF has good traction in knowledge-intensive industry domains such as clinical research and life sciences.

Disclosure: I work on Crux [4] which adds bitemporal versioning and eviction to a document->triplestore model running on top of Kafka.

[1] https://www.datomic.com/customers.html

[2] https://www.datomic.com/nubanks-story.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_triplestores

[4] https://github.com/juxt/crux
I agree with many of the critical points they make in this Japanese review. There should be higher standards for nutritional research.

The main idea seems to be that in Japan because there are some positive patterns observed regarding all causes of death and high cholesterol levels and because other studies showing high cholesterol is bad were all flawed, therefore it is warranted to recommend eating more cholesterol.

Well, the notion that eating cholesterol effects your cholesterol level goes against your first comment.

Then the sentiment that you can throw the baby out with the bath water seems extreme, if you can find a flaw in studies that disagree with you then your studies that agree with you prove the point. I mean, I agree that when there is no un-flawed data it is hard to draw conclusions, but are their studies all really as so unblemished. A main criticism of theirs is studies citing rates of death for certain diseases without mentioning the rate for all causes of death, but a lot of their cited studies do the exact same, only some of them reported rates for all causes of death.

Finally, and I know you're surprised, I am not persuaded by them that eating cholesterol or having high/"normal" cholesterol levels is neutral or positive in affecting your health. I agree with them that we need much better data. I understand that in Japan they observed lower rates of date from all causes. But the only question I really have is what should I eat to avoid dying as an American, and this article just doesn't really cover that one way or another. I'm very grateful for sharing it, there are a lot of good insights in there.
Yes, there are antagonists in the novel Jurassic Park who are scientists, just as there are in State of Fear.

It hardly generalizes to everything Michael Crichton has written though.
As Joel Spolsky put:

> What are the cultural differences between Unix and Windows programmers? There are many details and subtleties, but for the most part it comes down to one thing: Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers.

See https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/12/14/biculturalism.
I'm not a real power user - so my only real grudge with Windows 10 at that moment is the fact that control panel is a bifurcated mess - I really just want to get back to the classic window control, but I have to fight through the windows 10 UI until I get there.
Except... people will? I've reduced the number of cars in my life, increased the biking and public transit. My kid gets dropped off at school on the back of a cargo bike, and I'll often walk to get groceries.

I use stuff like car2go, lime, lyft, etc. when I need a car or bike in short order.
I've been using LTSC/LTSB for years. What's wrong with it?
I've been on Windows since forever and could not be happier. It's a great OS and apart from 10 minutes of customization it works fine. If I was on Linus I'd spend all my time on configurations and customization instead of more important things.
"Good artists copy, Great artists steal" or something along those lines.
> As a pragmatist, one of my favorite phrases I say quite often: "The difference between theory and reality is that in theory there is no difference."

Hmm, I prefer the phrasing:

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is a difference.
I did. Thank you for taking the charitable interpretation, as the principle of charity has long been buried.
I was a windows guy, then did the "I got a mac and never looked back" and now I'm back on windows 10 and, yes I'm pissed off, but this comment is pretty well realistic.
People have a tendency to say "never" when you really shouldn't say never.
I had a good experience with "tronscript" found here on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/ It removes a lot of the crap that ships with windows 10 along with disabling telemetry. It was a decent place to start with a new windows computer.

github: https://github.com/bmrf/tron
Frntier #001: Enterprise Software and Services
I'm involved with my local library, and if you could see the trend line on how many people are checking out books...you'd realize that every library will eventually become a community center.

It's important to not let our personal nostalgia for the past hold back the next generation from getting the resources they need from local government.

This is clearly a well-thought evolution of what a library of the future should be.
> It is not uncommon for tech companies, which fiercely guard their intellectual property, to sue former employees or the firms they join after they leave.

Is it really that common?

I feel like most software engineers don't really take intellectual property all that seriously. Most will not think twice about backing up emails when leaving the company which might contain code diffs, design docs, etc.

Friends from different companies usually talk about internal system designs and technical problems pretty freely. One of the circles I hang out with even backup and share the interview question database from every company they've been at.

So while it's probably crossing a line, it's still not something I expect they will ever get sued for, let alone criminally charged. (This is in contrast with friends from the finance industry who are a lot more tightlipped about everything and you do hear stories about regular employees getting sued)
I don't know, I think resolution is very important to get as many facial expressions as possible over via video. Those things that make in-person conversations smooth, but makes video feel stilted.
A few months back, a team reported that they'd found room-temperature superconduction in gold/silver nanoparticles. Unfortunately, there has been no more news about it since.
Why do we need anything at all?
I suspect a lot of work has gone into creating this, but there are more than a few challenges that need to be overcome.

1) one of the great benefits of the existing rideshare services is the lack of needing cash. Payments are going digital, but bitcoin isn't there yet so many of us rely on credit/cash cards. This new service does not accept credit card payments and they tout this as a feature. I'm not so sure.

2) If the app is free for drivers and riders, how is the high cost of operations going to be managed? There are servers that need to be paid for, lots of geo-lookups at scale, which isn't free, etc etc.

3) Anyone can drive any car. No quality assurance, no background checks. Is there even a revue system?

4) Negotiable pricing?? I don't know about you, but I don't want to haggle on the price of a ride. When Lyft or Uber say the price is "x", I accept it, or decide to take another form of transportation. Often, it's the latter.

5) Network effects. How are they going to get drivers & riders. That is the biggest question. How will they manage routing, availability, etc. etc.
Does this also affect Europe? I remember that there was free or very inexpensive shipping from China to Spain.
My point is that one of them is using a chainsaw, but some people insist on crying “both sides”
Wouldn't a conviction open him up to a more costly civil suit? Harder to defend a civil suit if you're guilty in a related criminal charge.
I have had a few issues like that with software over the years, but nothing that there weren’t alternatives for. Never on hardware though. But you’re right, it can be a challenge.
Sure that's you. One anecdotal example. As a data driven counter example, take the number of card on the road in Los Angeles at a given time. I live in LA, and there is a zero percent chance I expose my child to typhus on the train.

You are a very distinct minority.
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It's a myth that LA can't build high rises due to earth quakes. Also things like low rise apartment buildings and fourplexes could still be blanket legalized across LA and create significantly more density if that myth was true.
Having worked at the USPS, I can say definitively it will lose money anyway, and it is not taxpayer supported except by special request (USPS can ask congress for funding for special needs, which they can deny)

So, despite all the people complaining here about "muh dollars subsidizing", that isn't correct. See the USPS FAQ for more info.

The UPU situation was not great, but it has a limited impact on taxpayers.
Happy to be a privacy fundamentalist and I'd also be happy to see the entire infrastructure that pays for the internet grind to a halt in favor of pervasive privacy.
I'm not arguing about that and not trying to call it a success. I'm just stating that taking away roads does in fact make cars less convenient.
For one you could easily ask "what is the relationship between Bob and John?" --> Knows, which you can't without text manipulation in the KV format.

Sounds contrived, but can be handy in many uses cases.

Triple relationships like the above are the kind of queries a Prolog engine can answer well (and far more).

Semantic Web's RDF is also like this.
Mason bee homes are super easy to put up! I highly recommend it.
I see no reason Intellectual Property shouldn't exist, it however shouldn't extend indefinitely, problem is - it basically now extends well beyond the time it should, and casts a huge net over stuff that has little to no commercial value, and no obvious ownership.
> Attaining superconductivity requires the diamond anvil cell to exerts pressures of up to 200GPa, two million times that of the Earth’s atmosphere.
I'm a Finn but been living in SF for the last few years. Went to Oodi couple of weeks ago was impressed by the facilities and the building. In addition to books, there were workstations, 3D printers, large format printers, sewing machines, video games, board games, kids play area, restaurant, and a cafe. Our startup also worked there for one day. There is free Wifi, a lot of chairs and places to sit and even meeting rooms you can book. Noise levels are also quite low that you can read or work, much better than in a regular cafe even in the large open spaces. They have seemed to have worked a lot on the acoustics.

There are also books you can read, borrow and return. The book selection seemed more recent/popular, not a lot of old books (still it has 100k books). To those that comment on the how little books there are: There are several other libraries in Helsinki that house old and vast amounts of books. Helsinki has nearly 40 public libraries and numerous scholarly libraries: https://www.myhelsinki.fi/en/see-and-do/sights/helsinki%E2%8...

Overall it feels like a great place for people to go outside of their home or office to read, meet with people, take their kids to, and for free.

I uploaded a few mobile photos and videos if anyone is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z7ez8rhisktpaac/AAD7xd6xsCESP6LhJ...
Sure, it's Windows 10 without any of the cruft—but also, none of the good bits. Believe it or not, but the Windows Store is great; managed updates of everything from Slack to Spotify, without individual updater components. Photos app, with support for HEIC files and so on, built in. These things are actually useful!
What shortcuts did they take? Maybe the key is knowing which shortcuts.
Aren't mail-in ballots too easy to falsify? You take a database of voters and send mail under their names.
Because many drugs have side effects, especially when taken in the long term. Aspirin alone isn't without its issues (ulcers, etc), not to mention the statins, etc.

This advice may make sense on the aggregate, but for a truly healthy individual with otherwise low risk factors, this has the potential to do more harm than good.

I do agree that overall this makes sense for most people though - and that a combination of both approaches sounds like really good advice.

Edit: Clarified opinion.
>We need to 1) further strengthen an awareness of the "free product means you pay with your data

Why? It's a horseshit platitude. Plenty of things I pay for also surveil, advertise to me and sell my data.
That works too, but encourages them to make sure you don't realize you are watching a sponsored segment until it is too late.