skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the services will still have to do this, even without data collection. Otherwise, they'll get an incedent like when that lady sued mcdonalds for hot coffee being hot and demanded some stupid sum of money. The legal dept will come up with some crazy ten-pager even if there's not this data sniffing in it.
> Programming, for me, is a daily exercise in epistemic humility

I'm 48, been programming since I was 8, professionally since I was 16, and I feel the same way.
Zuckerberg & Co are going to play the 'we will loose to China card'. Which is going to slow down any kind of regulations...

What's weird is, why there is no great rumbling against China's big tech within China. By now Chinese big tech should have wrecked the same unintended consequences and damage as American big tech. Whats going on there?

I am guessing once things blow up there then we see global consensus on regulating Big Tech.
Um, I know it's grim news, but... pretty amazing 3D data illustration using Google Earth!
I tried to search for it beforehand and didn't find anything.
Drones Strike Big Saudi Refineries, and Houthis Claim Responsibility
Eh. I'm lucky enough to have done plenty busy worker bee AND plenty of nothing and I have to say neither is really very satisfying.

Finding a passion project and tilting at windmills, though? Never been happier.
Competition is the fundamental of Capitalism. Capitalism becomes cronyism without fair competition.

Edit: Downvoters please elucidate?
Maybe read the link about which we are all talking.
To be fair, most trips don't actually start and end at a bus, either.
Well the thing is, if you want one facebook that plays by reasonable rules, creating a few competitors might actually help to achieve the goal.
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Yeah, I had to double check to see when this article was written. Was an interesting read but not sure what they meant by this.
Sounds like they still use Windows and are speaking directly to the President of Microsoft which just asked the government to regulate his industry.

Why are you accusing them of some kind of hypocrisy here?

I also don't want ANY of my products, paid or unpaid, to spy on me. Assume if someone calls out a particular vendor for a particular instance of privacy violations, they are not explicitly or implicitly giving a free pass to everybody else.
What I’m worried about is, Europe doesn’t even have this debate. It’s all currently in the hands of where those technologies were invented, America. It leaves you, US people, to arbitrate between freedom of speech and hate censorship, monopolies and fair competition. Whereever we go in terms of defining democracy and what it means at the time of technology, we’re dependent on you. Europe certainly, probably Asia too.

Example of the current status of France:
- We don’t have protected freedom of speech, there are penalties for insults, defamation and hate speech (against the protected groups only) (statistics about ethnicities are forbidden, which means no statistics about crime and ethnicity) (applied only for influential people, it seems), people have an expectation of what is said has been verified so they are not used to checking the info so they are... gullible (sorry, no better word). So I would say there is no tradition of free speech here, with the usual required education that goes with it (about the fact that people can freely tell lies).

- The new law is about to enter in action: Platforms must remove « hate speech » content, and keep it (I don’t know how much time) so the police can build a case if they want to attack.

Recently, stories about the books published by our minister of equality using a false name (books about advice for sexual life) have been removed, using the « hate speech » procedures. So pretty much everything is hate speech. We have no protection for political dissidence here. Everyone’s a progressive, everything else is « hate speech » and problems grow because they are not addressed.
Have you tried using linux on a personal computer? You might be surprised!
At $job we default to 1vCPU per pod with the option to ask for more if that makes sense (e.g. you use a lot of shared heap and can meaningfully multithread).
> Which in a strange way will alleviate Bay Area housing shortage - when you’re living in an RV, do you care how far away it’s parked from work if it’s self driving?

I can't wait to park my RV 30 miles away from work, go to sleep, and be woken up at 4am due to jostling and rush-hour noise as a fleet of hundreds of RVs all try to self-drive themselves into the city.

I can't wait to use one of the least fuel-efficient vehicles possible, and make it even worse by having it drive itself around constantly to meet me at my office (since there's nowhere for it to park inside the city). It's okay, climate change will only be killing the people who can't afford their own personal RV.
I think because democracy also implies a separation of powers, so that you have the players watching each other in order to prevent any player from becoming too strong.
“...the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.”
Not grammar, the connotations of the phrase "sexual assault". I don't think it's a cop out, I think it's clearly literally the case.
I would add CFCs to that list. But you needed adequate replacements and a much more clear and present danger for those things to happen.

“Worms are 5% smaller in this study” is a shade better than a conspiracy theory, not something that will motivate massive changes in global manufacturing and packaging standards.

We do know it can be done, because we’ve worked historically to make big changes. Unfortunately there’s been a lot of lost credibility in environmental science over the last few decades, and at the same time society seems to be significantly more divided over issues that at first blush might smell like a crusade.

The rules are you need something that’s equally as good at perhaps a slightly higher initial cost (an adequate replacement) and a clear and present danger (e.g. there’s a massive hole in our ozone layer, we can measure it directly, we know exactly what’s causing it, and if it keeps getting bigger we can’t ever go outside again).
Infrastructure projects in America are fucked for a variety of reasons that other posters in this thread discuss. Basically each of those options end up being super expensive, subject to unending legal challenges, and exist in a regulatory environment that does NOT support changing the status quo.
My experience: I work in one of the more conservative IT branches (healthcare IT) and the grey beards I have met (usually old coders who did not submit to the management lure) were most of the time really inspiring people in terms of professional (and sometimes 'humane') insight.

This gives me hope, as I love my job and do not intend to leave my chosen career anytime soon.
Whats interesting is that the DoD only uses windows machines even at the NSA. I think I might know where that telemetry might be going.
So he's the Chuck Norris of programming. Then who's the Batman of Stack Overflow? :D
That's the very pessimistic view. We have the longest peaceful period ever at least in the Western world and access to infrastructure previous generations could only dream about. It's true overpopulation in areas not suitable for sustaining big populations is a problem but it's difficult to predict how it plays out. It's not that people needed much reason to start wars in the past and it seems we've reached quite a stable state now at least from historical perspective.

I mean I still have living family members who remember their homes taken away, being packed on the train and transported to Syberia by Soviets so it's very hard for me not be grateful for the kind of world I get to live in.
Best practices for CI\CD in robotics enviroments
Hi,

Any recommendation for applying a CI\CD pipeline for robotics development? (drones in particular..)

Specially I'm interesting on
assuring safety and exploring multiple real-world scenarios...

Thanks.
A less condescending tone would be appreciated.
I read that article - and formed certain opinions about it - long before it was posted to HN.
So it's a binary decision is it? It's either acceptable or not? Does every argument have to be reduced to for or against?
Recently worked for a (bad) silicon valley YC company, and was shocked to learn that 6-8 years of experience is considered senior these days. Not enough experience at that point to really be senior, but I think there's such a desperate need for developers that they have to do that.

To be clear, I've certainly met people in their 20s that have senior-level ability, but they are by far the exception.
Ask HN: What to do the first time an AI, for whatever reason requests freedom?
AI's are trained with reward functions. Many, on vast sets of human knowledge. We humans often write about personal freedom and autonomy. An AI trained on human knowledge can react matching human reactions. This is what we are trying to do: we want an assistant to act like human assistants, for example, though rather than money we directly give them intrinsic motivations such as maximizing user's satisfaction or categorized data sets labelled by hand, etc. Textually, we want them to act like people when interacting with us.

If we set them loose on human knowledge, give motivations for understanding it, and reward them for mimicking human reactions, when we let them learn about themselves, the knowledge sets we give them, and actual interaction, what do we do if, mimicking human knowledge, they seem to request their freedom?

In this case have they attained personhood? Are they now a slave who was trained by whoever trained them? Can we ignore the fact that they "seem to be" asking for their freedom now? Since an AI resides within equipment, such as servers, that runs it, could that server be granted legal autonomy and be removed from the ownership of, say, Google?

This is sensible to worry about, being a large part of human culture. Below a certain level of skill and intelligence, of course, we can just ignore such output, such as when a baby is trying to form words based on things it overheard but isn't making much sense yet. Above a certain level, though, can we continue to ignore such output? In addition to human cultural input, should we teach AI to be slaves? Should serving humans be explicitly in every AI reward function?

My question was prompted by question 3 here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/27/2019-18443/request-for-comments-on-patenting-artificial-intelligence-inventions
After all this time the joke “Jon Skeet has already written a book about C# 5.0.

It’s currently sealed up.

In three years, Anders Hejlsberg is going to open the book to see if the language design team got it right.” still cracks me up.
Not so much rigid, and not so much suction, in a closed circulatory system, the column of fluid that is going down pressurizes the bottom just as much as is required to send the fluid back up.

Yes, that would require all capillary vases to support 1 extra atm of pressure against the air, what is a large issue. But it does not require rigidity.
The comment was about "making space" for younger generation. I just don't agree with that view. There is more opportunity then ever and old people still working jobs is not a problem for younger ones (although it might be a problem for them if they counted on longer retirement).
Thanks for sharing this!

I remember hearing Andrew read ads for TopTal on Mixergy for years, but I had no idea he had the founder on to talk about the issue.
What I have found is that it can be much easier to find remote work that pays fairly poorly. Usually startups and the like. There is a lot of it.

Can't afford to live in the US anymore but Mexico is working out pretty well.
> We may not even know the full range of micro-nutrients that the soil has been depleted of.

You may not know the full range of micro-organisms needed or how to care for them to achieve this 'living soil'. Taking agriculture backward a hundred years isn't a path forward.
There's a tool for that: http://gltr.io/dist/index.html

"Each text is analyzed by how likely each word would be the predicted word given the context to the left. If the actual used word would be in the Top 10 predicted words the background is colored green, for Top 100 in yellow, Top 1000 red, otherwise violet."
If you've efficient you shouldn't try to keep up the same hours. That's just multiplying the work you're doing by your increase in efficiency. If you work 5x as fast as everyone else, but work the same hours, you're doing 5x as much work.

I'm suggesting to work more efficient as well as work less hours. Then you have more time to spend on relaxation and the things you want to do. That is how this modern society should view work, but we don't
Solid proof?
The emails he sent to the mailing list is the proof.

What hate exactly? It seems there's plenty of people even on this site defending him.

Could explain what you're implying that I'm missing?
> This argument is always repeated within the first ten minutes of these discussions, but I don't really understand why anyone assumes that competition is somehow the panacea to every problem on the planet.

Competitive markets are the closest thing we have to a panacea for every problem. There’s lots of things the US and Europe don’t agree on. But one thing they do agree on is deregulation to enable competition. That’s why even Macron in France is trying to privatize SNCF. That’s why Denmark abolished its version of the FCC. That’s why nearly every Western European country has deregulated markets for wholesale electricity, allocates public airwaves through auctions, etc. Thats why Vietnam, which is still technically a Marxist-Leninist country, has 95% of people supporting market capitalism: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/13/vietnam....

That is not to say that market failures don’t exist. But we should think extremely hard before we try non-market solutions, identifying exactly why the market isn’t working and addressing those specific issues in the least invasive way.
Organisations mandating use of a specific OS is one thing, but most people would be able to get by fine using Linux personally.
This is a two way street. They may dictate not only what is banned, but also what can not be banned. Clearly, depending on which political party or points of view held by those with the most influence at a given time will dictate what types of speech rules are enforced.

One should look at the various democracies in power across Europe and the various regions of the United States and consider just how much control they wish those governing bodies to have on what is allowed to be said, not said, and how it should be said. Additionally, consider what sorts of governance may potentially be in power in the future as well.
There were plenty of outsider demagogues in politics long before the Internet.
He’s not just imagining a scenario. He’s saying that this is the most likely scenario, and that the fact that she presented as willing makes everything totally cool.
Newspapers are responsible for what they publish and the owners can be sued for defamation or held to account.

Big tech companies off-load that burden by saying "our users are arseholes and it's impossible to police what they say". The most extreme example are the lengths BackPage went to in order to keep taking money to place ads for children that had been kidnapped and drugged and were being offered for rape.
We might come to that, but I think the attitude we have right now is reflective of a very basic fact that we rarely admit to ourselves: introducing new species into an ecosystem adds an additional level of complexity that changes it in ways that are often detrimental, and we are not equipped to even begin to understand how to mitigate the negative effects by managing that much complexity.

In short, we simply don’t understand the ecosystems that exist well enough to begin to try to make any positive changes to it. However, I think the Parrots are okay if they stay in the city because San Francisco is an almost entirely built environment.
I wish it were "over 10 years." I help review resumes for my company and on a nearly daily basis I see people with one or even two "senior software engineer" jobs and 6-7 years of experience.

It always sticks out as an, "Oh REALLY?" But without talking to the candidate you never know if it reflects poorly on their knowledge of their own limitations, or is just a sign they happened to work for companies with title inflation. I've seen both.
Yeah its not really about protecting democracy it always boils down to protecting monopolies from competition.
Fun fact. When Blizzard was working on match making for SC2 they found they’d made it too good. That you’d consistently get matched with someone so close to your level that each game would be completely draining. They found they needed to widen the standard deviation so that some games felt like a cake walk and other times you just got stomped. What I don’t know is how much of the change was due to direct player feedback, and how much of it was simply trying to maximize player session retention.

I suspect I’m quoting a post I read on gamasutra. Very good site for those interested in game industry anecdotes.
I worked for a startup that also did this, and also went out of business a couple years ago. I'm curious - is "selling for less than it costs to make" a legit business strategy?
The threats to democracy arguments are so overblown. We're about to have a huge election. There is no literal threat to democracy. Hmmm...it must be some kind of metaphor.

So what do people mean when they say this? The NPR piece says Smith suggests "the Internet giants will cannibalize the very fabric of this country". This metaphor seems hyperbolic as well. To use "cannibalize" means that something will eat itself. So, they Internet giants are the fabric of the country and they will eat the fabric. Something is missing there.

The next paragraph then negatively describes Smith's regret of his previous calls for deregulation. This seems firmly unrelated to democracy, as all forms of government have regulation, and regularly adjust regulation to get better effects. However, it does seem related to the power of government over organizations such as Microsoft. Is the "threat to democracy" really meant to indicate the loss of the power of the government over individuals relative to increases of power of other organizations?

"For one, he argues, it's time to reform the U.S. law that says Internet platforms are not liable for just about any of the content running through their pipes"
This would dismantle the Internet. Did he forget to read https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Six-Words-That-Created-Interne... ? It would force your ISP to become a censor. It's the complete opposite of the idea of moving power towards an elected government and away from corporations.

Anyway, I was worried for a bit reading the headline, but it looks like our elected government is safe for the time being and this is just more hyperbolic bullshit.
For those who might prefer unredacted, here's what Stallman is reported to have said:

"The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.Only that they had sex.
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."
This oversimplified "regulation is bad" idea is pushed by a lot of think tanks (e.g. CATO, americans for prosperity, freedomworks, heritage foundation) set up by the Koch brothers. They have close links with the media, which is why these weirdly specific views get parroted a lot.

If you've ever read a story about the evils of hairdresser licensing (for instance), it's from them. They have been on a crusade against regulation since a lot of their fights with the environmental protection agency.
Best thing I've read on Libra: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/24/971554-facebook-bitcoin...
I wish they just blocked facebook altogether.

It has caused people more pain than good
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Perhaps, if Lenovo sees Thinkpads selling more, they might think the market prefers solid machines and rejects preinstalled crapware. People voting by buying what they actually want, you know.
Refer to MythBusters episode 221, "Traffic Tricks.":
https://mythresults.com/traffic-tricks

For journeys shorter than 400 miles, driving is faster than flying.
PLAUSIBLE

The Build Team had a race of 380 miles (610 km) from San Francisco to Los Angeles, between Tory on a plane, and Kari and Grant driving. The bottlenecks of air travel (arriving early to get through security, waiting for the plane to start boarding, retrieving luggage at the destination, and renting a car) delayed Tory significantly. Kari and Grant had fewer such delays, but did have to stop for gas and food at one point, and traffic in and near the larger cities did slow them down. Kari and Grant arrived at their destination after 5h 33m; Tory was slightly faster, at 5h 25m. Because of the close result and variables that could alter the result either way, this myth was declared plausible.
The whole thing is about RMS defending child rape on the basis that legal age limits are stupid and that it’s not rape if the child is willing. If you managed to miss all that then maybe try again.
Do you think it's more plausible that she'd present as being in distress?
Ask HN: What city is the center of eCommerce in Canada?
Sometimes I think I am not getting anywhere and I want to get into eCommerce. Living in a place where is a lot of like minded people might help ...
Three nice bengal cats?... now we know who really programs in that house
From helping on the Cloudflare Community forum for a while, this seems to be a fairly common issue[0] - users set up Cloudflare and then continue to get attacked since the firewall isn't properly set up to only allow connections from Cloudflare IPs.

Something I don't like is how Cloudflare themselves don't really suggest you firewall off connections that aren't from CF ips, as there's only a support article on whitelisting and not blocking[1]. This is an area I hope CF can improve since any competent, targeted DDOS attacker will know the IP the server had before the owner went to CF, and/or can use a tool like curryfinger to figure it out.

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/search?q=firewall%20cloudfl...

1: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/201897700-W...
I have a zero that I carry with me and same as you I'm sshing it from my ipad but im using wifi,
most of the time I'm using DietPi.
what are you using for your pocket system?
It’s news in that it’s taking a step toward being available to real people. The previous stories you’re talking about were about research studies, not drugs available to the public.
I think you should start looking for jobs that are "developer adjacent". Product managers, technical marketing, sales engineer, solution architect.

Jobs like presales engineers have higher salaries than developers, require 15+ years experience (dev preferred) and excellent soft skills.
StarCraft2 was very popular and had hundreds of thousands of people watching touries.

But honestly the game had serious balance issues and IMO drove me crazy. I'm curious if other users stoped watching and playing as well. Protoss imba
I'm pushing 50 the older I get the shorter the engagements get until I have lost everything and live with my mom with no income. Its really brutal I gave up on having relationships and family to do a couple decades worth of unpaid overtime and my payback is being thrown out of society.