skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probably isn't the place for it, but here's my anecdote to give background to why I think this is a step in a more humane direction than most.

Once upon a time, I chopped up a bag of dry mushrooms and mixed them with some general tso chicken. I really love my general tso.

This particular meal occurred during a point in my life where I was near my lowest. I was depressed, burned out, reeling from failure.

For about an hour, the world remained as it always had. Then, I started periodically feeling something akin to an electric shock pass through my body. Electricity is only a useful explanation in so far as how long the pulses lasted. On and off in an instant.

The shocks were like momentary flashes of comfort. In the time between seconds when those flashes occurred, the chair I was sitting on was softer, my clothes were more comfortable and I felt a glow of appreciation for the people in the room with me.

I decided to set a watch and eat more general tso on the hour.

Eventually the pulses blurred from spikes to rolling hills. I realized they happened when I was stimulated by something beautiful. The mundane became beautiful. The contrast and saturation of my vision increased. My brain streamed my visual frame buffer through a pixel shader that made everything photogenic, perfectly tone mapped. It was like HDR for the eyes.

Beauty is something I had never had a refined eye for. Stuff looked "neat". This felt like a visual sense that perhaps existed normally in other people, but for me I was only borrowing.

Then my alarm went off. Time for more chicken!

While I was eating, we started watching dune. I was stunned by how colorful David Lynch's dune is. Vibrant purple and green matte backgrounds. I would have told you the movie was all desert tone yesterday.

I shut off my alarm until the movie was done.

I ate one more scoop of general tso after that. Then, I laid down in the dark. I was able to visualize incredibly complicated 3d shapes. I could persist those shapes, rotate, scale and modify them while keeping the image at the forefront. This capability was clearly an enhancement. I got up, opened blender and "printed" some of the things created entirely mentally.

After I laid back down, I thought about my childhood. I thought about frayed relationships and trauma I had experienced. Every negative experience I could come up with bounced off simple epiphany after simple epiphany.

Prior to this, I was under a crushing amount of stress. I felt like I was being hunted, under attack in a world devoid of merit. I was misanthropic.

I thought about the situation I was in, and determined I was fine. Everything is going to be okay. We're all bouncing amidst a manifold, influenced by each other. The whole of humanity, even the crabs pulling at our feet, is beautiful. Quite a few people try to pierce the manifold to transcend the chaos. Maybe we'll never do it? It's valuable to try regardless.

The evil in my life became re-framed as force that might send me towards the boundary. Approaching the boundary is the goal.

Even if I fail at everything, I'm better for trying, even after death.
"What if everyone became a passive investor" is like worrying "What if the entire ecology became defenseless herbivores?"

It just won't happen, because there's a negative feedback loop against it, leading to a kind of homeostasis.

> At some point, no one is left to figure out which cookies are tasty vs meh, so the price of all cookies converge to a single price.

Five minutes later someone says: "Holy shit, I can make a ton of money by buying loads of cookies, sorting them, and re-selling them -- except with the definitely-tasty ones at a higher price."
> It's super difficult to determine these things, especially when the people who have had things taken from them are dead and maybe several generations back.

Doesn't seem to apply here. The comment above yours points out:

> It is easy to brush these away as long past history, but for example these properties were confiscated from the hands of the current prince's father.
At that level of consumption it would make a lot more sense to step up to concentrates both logistically (higher THC/volume and has less odor) and better for his lungs.
IMO, looking for a high tech solution to a low tech problem is a dead end (possibly in the literal sense!)

This is a human behavior problem. Consume less; ie growth at all costs is not a long term strategy for the planet. Don't define your happiness with things.

I was reviewing the US tariff lists and was thinking, what if all these items were just completely unavailable forever? I couldn't find any examples in the list of products I absolutely must have to thrive. Think of all the carbon saved (and landfill, and ocean plastic, etc) in producing all this stuff.

Maybe algae in the Sahara will be a silver bullet, but I'm not holding my breath.

I would instead spend resources educating and supporting farmers on sustainable agro, support a transition from a consumer-driven economy to one that is sustainable (also probably education). Promote/support sustainable, local plant-based diets. Etc. I'm happy to invest in scalable solutions in these areas!
y'all
Bill Maher, Uncivilized
Well, I never had an FB account. But I have friends who I know have contact search enabled on their phones, so they probably have my phone and maybe first name.
heh. You know it's a pre-programmed computer on wheels. It has no self.
How is it different from any other crash?

Or, for that matter, a bank run?
I may have read it wrong (or have a misunderstanding of how it all works) but I also took away that since passive investment is allocated evenly across the market that investors are not properly pricing risk. I take that to mean, if all investors are diligent then the allocation of capital shouldn’t be equal. Since there is so much capital now in passive it sort of distorts the market for investment dollars (of which public companies are consumers). It’s as though instead of having subprime homebuyers with easy access to capital we now have subprime companies with easy access to capital. Again my understanding of how this all works may be flawed but this is how I interpreted it.
There's also a chain of unofficial Lego-only stores, with new and used items, called "Bricks and Minifigs":

https://bricksandminifigs.com/

Noticed their Concord, CA (east Bay area) store from the highway a while back, and while I haven't been inside yet, was surprised to see they've got 20+ locations in the US and Canada.
Any content that can be sped up [by 8x] without loss is not worth listening to in the first place.

"That's just, like, your opinion, man."

Obviously the people who are getting something out of it, otherwise they wouldn't do it?

"Don't yuck my yum."
The primary way you negotiate a higher salary at your current place of employment is to either go work someplace else or threaten to go work someplace else. Actually going to work somewhere else is the far more likely method for most people. Either way you are no longer working at the place where they didn't value your work enough.
>they just make decisions towards the most amount of change, even if it isn't good change.

How is seeking the maximum amount of possible change, regardless of its nature and to no specific end not a "need for chaos?"

Someone who doesn't know what they want, other than to spite the system, basically describes the Joker.
I also noted several remarkable claims while reading this article. Actual facts? Not so much.
There's likely a feedback loop involved. Commentators who happen to talk about trending topics become popular; their popular platform can bring those topics to a broader audience; that broader audience stokes the hype around the trend and builds the audience further through (social media-amplified) word of mouth.
Not legally. Has Autopilot got a driver’s license?

The fact that software was in control at the time is no more relevant than the guy who asks his twelve year old son in the passenger seat to reach over and steer while the driver rifles through stuff on the back seat.

Responsibility for an accident doesn’t ever rest with whatever entity is steering the car, it rests with the licensed driver. (Which could be software, when it gets good enough.) Anything else is madness.
You can totally hook into the linting system to index all usages of unsafe, even (and especially) in dependencies.
As I got to that point I started laughing and then explained it to a non-programmer that was with me.

My fumbled metaphor of "Find in page across a lot of pages" didn't really land...
IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800k devices
Airplanes are 10km up when cruising. Almost any error a pilot makes has minutes of time to be corrected. Contrast with 1 second while driving. Take off and landing are far more involved and take 15 minutes each (approx).
If you're on a Mac, Moom (https://manytricks.com/moom/) can do this.
I'm building that! After a decade in the adtech business, PhotoStructure is an act of penance to let your richest metadata source, your photos and videos, stay yours and yours alone. I'd love to have you try it out and hear your feedback.

https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
As someone who's spent a lot of time answering questions both on stackoverflow and in similar environments, often you really do need to get more context on what the person is actually trying to do in order to give the best answer.

I try hard to avoid turning it into an interrogation, but answering the question as asked is often either impossible or a disservice to the person asking.
Burry's point is not that a lot of indexed stocks are relatively illiquid and thus index funds would have a hard time getting out of them in a serious downturn.

His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all; they trade derivatives like futures and CDO's that mimic the movement of the stocks in leveraged fashion, and the more people who dump their money into index funds without doing their own research, the more leveraged the funds become.

He's warning that in the next serious downturn, over-leverage may cause cascading collapse of index funds and the economy with them, like it did in the mortgage finance crisis.
True. And most rec. states (at least CO) still ban the use of cannabis in their state parks but anyone in Boulder can tell you that there one of the few 'public' places you can easily consume cannabis even if it's technically 'more' illegal (federal vs local regulation).
Anything declared in Elm is immutable so types on constants become way less relevant.
Not sure I buy the argument, but that's an excellent comment.
I wish I could provide references... I recall a tutor stating that human speech can be encoded at a very similar rate. This was in 1985 I think.
Conflating the patent-protected status of medicines plus the spectacularly expensive FDA approval process, with a “market”, does not a powerful argument make...

Don’t get me wrong. There may or may not be a bunch of things wrong with the highly regulated (read: lobbiest controlled) and inefficient (almost insurmountable barriers to entry) medical industry — but using that as an argument against “markets” in general?

Weak.
Thank you for sharing that, was super interesting.
Doesn't appear to be earth shattering changes. In fact it looks pretty boilerplate.

As someone who maintains an Elasticsearch plugin, you often have to do A LOT of research into how Elastic themselves have dealt with their undocumented, constantly evolving APIs to figure out how to adapt your own code. Stuff like this happens all the time where some boilerplate code changes, you copy in the way Elastic themselves did it. Given how the code is now a mix of Elastic and Apache code, now you can create a host of legal liability by accidentally taking the wrong piece of boilerplate.

Potential legal liability on top the headaches of maintaining an open source project in my spare time with almost no support. Oh joy.
Relevant post on HN 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15442636
it is an apples-to-oranges comparison because AP is only used on highways where traffic incidents are already far less common per mile driven.

True, and that kind of flawed argument bugs me. However, there is also data that showed that accident rates went down significantly on the same cars after Tesla first enabled autopilot via a software update. This is much more compelling to me; if the same people driving the same cars in the same areas became less likely to get into an accident as soon as autopilot became available, then I don't see how you can really argue that the feature is not beneficial to safety.
Heavier fuels (kerosen, a/k/a jet fuel, diesel) have equivalent energy density to petrol, but are far less flamable. You might get a small fire, but not an explosion. And there are a lot of RC aircraft already.

They are noisy, however. Drone buzz now is simply from spinning fans. Adding a reciprocating motor to the mix is all the louder.

The alternative is lighter airframes and solar power. For quads / octos, probably not viable, but for a prop-driven fixed-wing craft, a very small amount of thrust to counter gravity could be quite effective. Expanded polystyrene or similarly light body, solar cells over all horizontal surfaces, and an ultra-lightweighted controls and imaging payload. That would allow for long-duration flights at least in daylight.

The low-energy use would also make battery-powered night flights more viable, certainly beyond 15 minutes.

The principle cost is loss of hover capabilities.
A similar thing happened to me.

But social media ≠ Facebook. I never really used Facebook, and all my friends are (also) on other, smaller, even tiny networks, and some are just in email and video calls.

Through these tiny networks, I actually found new friends.
When those vehicles rename "cruise control" to "autopilot" we can probably have a discussion.

Tesla did this to themselves. They had a million options on what to call the feature and they chose one that describes it as driving itself. It's as bad or worse than ISPs with "unlimited" plans that are limited. Words have meaning, and tossing them around like they don't is dangerous.
This report is about determining what features are inherently dangerous. It is very relevant that autopilot can't detect vehicles.
It only highlights how incredibly dumb these autopilots are. They’re incredibly diligent but completely fail at the necessary skill of understanding.

What is the point of any of this if the car with all of its sensors knowingly plows into a stationary red 30-ton obstacle. It’s something that a 4 year old human would understand instantly as an object to be avoided at all cost.

I really think folks don’t realize how critical all of our human understanding is to driving.
Show HN: Kubernetes operator to deploy gRPC or HTTP applications
They take shifts.
Or perhaps by fighting such a man, you end up fulfilling their desires.
It reminds me of optimal philanthropy. For example one of the most effective ways to donate money towards mitigating climate change is to give to The Humane League for sheer outreach & promotional materials on becoming a vegetarian (even if animal welfare itself is not important to you).

Super boring low-tech thing like sending out flyers & sharing videos of animal welfare in industrial farming turns out to be hugely efficient in terms of CO2 reduction per dollar.

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-human...

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/top-animal-charitie...
Watch trains. Be alone. (Hey, I'm an introvert.)

And there's some kind of orchards, though they aren't very big.
Half of the problem is programmers putting their head in the sand. Half of the problem is lack of real leadership from people that know better.

Computers are not securable. Not from these types of attacks, anyway. State intelligence agencies are working overtime trying to stop the fires from spreading, but at the end of the day we've had Petya, NotPetya, and WannaCry. We have Schneier with a book called "Click Here to Kill Everyone" and we still have computers running everything.

Ok fine. But one day we're going to get an event and people are going to say: "Oh the humanity, how did this happen? How could we have known?!" I don't know what it is going to be, but I know it's going to be just like 2008 all over again. Industry insiders know the score. If it does happen, my deepest hope is that it ends up being strictly financial, but my gut says that it will probably be cyberphysical. The financial sector has had decades to harden their systems.
All of the license-encumbered code lives in a separate directory, with a clear warning that it's licensed, and builds result in license-encumbered code being an entirely separate artifact from the purely Apache 2 licensed code. Besides that, anything that goes into package managers is also fully clean Apache 2 licensed code.

Literally the only way to "mix this up" is to not read anything, ignore package managers and build from source, then somehow decide to use 'x-pack' over 'elasticsearch'.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) was technically a US citizen being tried by a military tribunal: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/542/507/
On Linux malloc doesn't crash if you give it a too large size. The cash only happens later once you're accessing a memory page that the kernel cannot allocate.
I don't have time to do the legal research at the moment, but I haven't seen this argument used successfully in any cases to mitigate damages for a copyright infringement case. It's not like an ordinary tort where the plaintiff has such a duty. Do you have any cases to cite, or are you just guessing?
The GW170817 neutron star merger (that LIGO detected, and was confirmed by telescopes) is such a blatant contradiction of the articles claims, this entire article is garbage.
Look for genuine, verified success marketing stories for people in similar positions and follow similar strategies.

I've personally never heard of a success story for what you describe that involves paying google. But maybe they exist and they're just keeping it quiet?
> UK and related systems (Ireland, Hong Kong, Channel Islands) second worst.

How do you even come to this. My experience with UK banks is pretty much second to none. Instant transfers with upfront confirmation with amounts well over 10k. Easy ability to split bills with URL, ability to freeze cards (even outside Monzo, etc), easy instant exchange currencies including overseas (yes a transfer into the UK from another country is instant), icons around my expenses. Account numbers are short and IBAN compatible too. Best of all the typical current account is free.
>The size of the “global middle class” will increase from 1.8 billion in 2009 to 3.2 billion by 2020 and 4.9 billion by 2030. The bulk of this growth will come from Asia: by 2030 Asia will represent 66% of the global middle-class population and 59% of middle-class consumption, compared to 28% and 23%, respectively in 2009, according to the figure below

http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3681/An_emerg...

How realistic do you think it is that people that have just escaped poverty will give up their new lifestyle? Technology is the only solution. It really baffles me that HN is a place where people think technology is the answer to all problems... except for climate change.
People have used fuel-powered drones extensively before Li-Po batteries got good (including me). My take on why they haven't taken off as much as the modern quadcopters: they are quite a bit scarier.

The main two types of flier before quadcopters were fixed-wing model airplanes, and helicopters. They are both riskier to use than quadcopters: fixed wings can't be stationary and need a large area to fly around, while helicopters have large dangerous blades. This is why either of these are less attractive to the mass market.

On the flip-side, I think converting a quadcopter to use an engine is expensive because controlling 4 blades at once is not as simple as with 4 electric motors. Either they need to have 4 gas engines (expensive, not as responsive as electrics) or they need to have a variable pitch mechanism (now you need an intricate/expensive mechanical system of levers and servos to transfer the control).
Handling Syntactic Divergence in Low-Resource Machine Translation
I listen to youtube videos at 200%

What do i win???
A common marketing trick is to steal a word by naming your product it. Suddenly you have Autopilot when it's really "Autopilot". Or better "Tesla Autopilot".
So, having read the court case (rather quickly, also thanks to 'Pyxl101 for uploading it to PACER - see https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.347725...), my non-lawyer-but-software-engineer opinion is this shows vague signs of being an Oracle v. Google-ish case. Some of the examples of copied code look quite possibly like code where there's only one obvious way to implement them. The functions just use and connect some interfaces in a consistent way, and it might be the sort of thing like rangeCheck where the nature of the problem implies one correct implementation.

There is one suspicious part where there are five strings in a comment in Search Guard that are copied from five strings in X-Pack before X-Pack was open sourced. But that doesn't necessarily imply a decompiler / an attempt to copy X-Pack's implementation: they could have run a tool like 'strings' or even just monitored what APIs are called by X-Pack or something. And the strings in question appear to be API names, i.e., functional elements. I suspect it's possible that floragunn could say they legally reverse engineered X-Pack for the purpose of interoperability instead of decompiling it. On the one hand, if I were them I would stay away from X-Pack with a ten foot pole just so I wouldn't have to worry about it, but on the other hand, in my professional life I do run things like strings and strace and even gdb on closed-source binaries that we don't have a source license to, for the purpose of making them work / seeing why they're failing / etc., and I would be shocked if making use of what I learned from that counts as commercial copyright infringement.

Remember that floragunn's goal here is to produce a plugin that works with Elasticsearch, not a competitor to Elasticsearch as a whole, so it's unsurprising that they'd end up with similarly-shaped functions. And again while I would personally stay away from the product I'm trying to clone, doing so is not legally required - see e.g. Sony v. Connectix, where it was ruled legal for Connectix to copy and even disassemble the PlayStation BIOS for the purpose of producing a compatible reimplementation.

I'd like to see floragunn's defense. I agree it seems difficult for them to have a good one, but it's not impossible, so I'm curious to hear the story in their telling. And I'm also worried about the precedent here, in that there's a world in which Elastic wins the case, morally should have won the case, but also the court phrases it in a way that makes running gdb on proprietary code illegal.
My experience with autopilot isn't that I lose focus as much as I focus on something else. Instead of focusing on keeping in my lane, not going too fast, and if the car ahead of me is braking, I'm focusing on the road ahead -- is there construction coming up? Is there debris in the road? Is there a wall ahead that gets too close to the road? Is there anything weird up ahead that needs attention? You learn what AP can and can't handle and you keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary, which on long road trips is significantly less fatiguing and probably safer.
“or when the vehicle battery dies. That last scenario was the one my family and I found ourselves in, though we did not know it at the time.”
You could play the predecessor, Narbacular Drop