skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, with G+ I always held back on posting since no one was on it anyway (and everyone's on FB anyway!).

I'm guessing the "Harvard only"-ness made it cool - and at a certain point, essential - to join, lest you be left out of the "Harvard scene". And it went from there...

If Google had made G+ big for some set of people, others migh've been clambering to join. I guess it did become the social media account to have for people with a voice in tech, but that meant only "nerds" were on it.

Imagine if they got Hollywood stars to use it first. But I guess that's what's happened to Twitter.
What data shows this? Has there been a public release of sufficient amount of data to support your claim?

Tesla Autopilot has driven in total 1.6 billion miles on highways, in clear conditions, in modern high-crash-safety cars. There have been 3 fatalities.

The equivalent number for 1.6 billion miles across all road types, all weather conditions and all types of vehicles would be 22 deaths in the US. But in the UK that number would only be 8, illustrating that safety is tightly linked with road conditions and vehicle demographics.

As the Autopilot is only used in the easiest conditions and safest cars, there is simply not enough statistics to say whether they are safer or not.

You would have to collect data on a single version of the system for half a decade before you could say anything certain.
> This felt exactly like using Linux in the early 2000s.

In my experience (I have personal machines running all three OSes), macOS has certainly declined over the last few years, but I would say it just feels like Windows now. Windows has always had the occasional nonsensical problems you had to find an incantation online to solve. Fortunately, the platform (and its pitfalls) are consistent enough across different platforms and users' experiences that it's generally not super hard to find the right fix. The same is usually true for Macs.

The thing with Linux, even in 2019, is that most of its problems are sensical in isolation, there are just more of them. If you really know your system you actually have hope of solving them on your own, whereas you're going to have a much harder time finding a magic fix from someone else who had your exact issue, because there's a good chance nobody else has had your exact issue.

Pick your poison.
This sounds like a hackers dream: mandatory documented centralized backdoors literally everywhere.
Thought: you guys ought to email one another. I find that private conversations tend to fare better than public ones, which can easily become "pissing matches".
Profits reinvested into successful growth is still profit.
Anthropomophising is cute, but not a great argument. How about "Plants try to kill us with poisons, toxins, by clogging our drains with their roots and uprooting our foundations. They are vicious, antagonistic life forms. Torture, kill them at your leisure!"

Not as cute, but just as valid.
> Even if you're a well meaning company, a competitor who doesn't mind China's policies will go there, make a lot more money than you, and buy you out.

China is not turning out to be a land of milk and honey for western corporations. The best business decision for a Western business with regard to China may be to give up on it, because the PRC wants your local competitor to succeed, not you.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-losing-the-chinese-s...

> The shift signals a possible end of an era. For years, it was customary for Western executives to tout their plans for dominating China—a market they felt they had to win as markets elsewhere matured. But foreign consumer brands now hold a smaller market share in the categories tracked by McKinsey & Co. than at any time since the global financial crisis, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of research from the U.S. consulting firm, incorporating data from Euromonitor and IHS Markit. Market share losses were particularly evident in categories such as pet food, passenger cars, videogames, smartphones and appliances.

> ...

> Some Western companies, including Carrefour SA, Amazon Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., have decided China is too complex or costly to win for some of their major businesses, and have closed or sold them off after facing powerful local rivals who were able to largely control the market. Ford Motor Co. , Apple Inc. and others remain committed, but are struggling to meet expectations. Amazon said it continues to serve Chinese consumers through its cross-border e-commerce business and remains committed to China. Uber didn’t respond to requests to comment. Ford didn’t comment. Carrefour provided no further comment beyond its press release detailing the transaction.
You'll be waiting a long time. The systems simply do not operate at this level of awareness or reasoning, and likely never will.
ABC News: Inside the city caught between a British past and a Chinese future (with pretty pictures, videos & maps)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-13/hong-kong-protests-br...

Vox: 9 questions about the Hong Kong protests you were too embarrassed to ask

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-prote...

These two articles were written in late Aug/mid Sep and do not contain the most recent developments.
A few years ago I tried to get to the bottom of how Quarantine (made in Canada) ended up with a soundtrack of independent Aussie bands. Great bands, but bands that had a niche following, even in Australia, at the time.

I only got silence and a couple of shrugs in response to my emails though.
Also use your own domain. Even if your email provider shuts down or shuts you out, you'll still have access to your domain.
And your dollars. The Big Vote.
> To get to the point where an automated car will kill fewer people than human drivers, the car must have an understanding of its environment.

Are you sure about that?

> Machine learning isn't going to get us there

Do you mean ANNs aren't going to get us there?
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https://imgur.com/YpuZwkE
The commenter above has done a real dis-service to Tutanota if they've really quoted it at 30 times the price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Except for the fact it wasn't a paper ticket, it was an electronic ticket which likely has all sorts of records and metadata connected to it as well as being verifiable via a server - which would be needed anyway otherwise they have likely a huge electronically generated counterfeit or an accounting problem.

I'm guessing if the police wanted to check an alibi of an individual claiming to have taken the train at some point that the records of that electronic ticket would be dug up.
California is more likely to split into multiple states than it is to succeed.
I think it's been too long now to get concrete answers. Many people support independence because it become an identity, because they have socialized on it during their mid twenties or so.

As an example, I have had some discussions with independence supporters where they have denied me, categorically and multiple times, that at the beginning of the mediatization of the conflict, one of the most important arguments and that was debated with intensity in the television and internet gatherings was that Catalonia contributed much more money than it received, and that such a thing was unfair.

So many people simply want to become independent, regardless of the arguments against and in favour, and of any cost-benefit analysis.
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> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

That's not a Linux problem, it's a window manager problem. Setting keyboard shortcuts is a piece of cake in StumpWM.

> * searching for help usually yields results that are half a decade or more old, and it's very difficult to figure out if it's current advice or not

That's a search engine problem, and it affects a lot of stuff besides Linux.

> * brew isn't the best, but on linux I need to use both brew _and_ apt because you can't reliably get anything approaching up-to-date software with apt

That depends on your distro. Lots of systems use Apt, and they all have their own package servers. I've used Debian testing for years, and it's always been reasonably up to date.
So as long as I'm using NewPipe without Gapps on my phone, I'm fine.
> Worse yet, it's now happened to me twice where I've set up a distro, spent the time to get it mostly working, and then, after using it for a few weeks, there's some annoyance or hardware issue that I can't resolve that is resolved in another distro

A problem should only be unfixable without distro hopping if it requires a newer kernel or some other updated software. Even then, you can usually opt into a newer kernel and fix it in whatever distro you were running. So a rolling release is unlikely to face this issue, or if you check your hardware compatibility before installing.

Generally though, Linux is Linux, and troubleshooting would solve these problems.
> >countless people

> We've got very accurate counts.

Pointless rebuttal, the exact number isn't relevant, nor easily quoted as the number of deaths per day, month, year is fluid, evident as you've made no attempt to quantify an "accurate count" yourself.

> Everyone assumes ML / AI will be better drivers than humans, but I think that's just blind hope at this point.

You call someone out for non precision then follow up with a baseless supposition that you think people who believe autonomous drivers are safer then human drivers are hopelessly blind.

You can include the NHTSA and the U.S. Department of Transportation in your blind hopefuls who are keen on moving towards an automated driving future:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...
My humble advice for anyone who comes across this thread:

- Delete your Google account (if you can);

- Install NewPipe [0] on Android;

- Install gtk-youtube-viewer [1] on your computer;

- Install mpsyt [2] if you'd like a terminal client.

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[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

[1] https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer

[2] https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
I just wanted to point out that it is not just Barr. Various LEOs pine for a way to get a legal way to just 'press a button to decrypt'. Comey advocated for it. So did Holder. So yeah, it did not happen yet, but given the steady push, eventually, it will. It is only a matter of time.

As to the terrorist score, you are right. That would be too simple to target.

Instead, we have amalgam of various private entities collecting information and selling it to highest bidder. At best, the score is distributed.
> The CEOs 14 year old son is a straw boy.

Tee Hee
Please remember that only part of the Catalan population participated in the referendum - mainly the ones that wanted to secede. The result was a huge majority according to Catalan authorities but turnout was merely 40-something percent. It's widely understood that voters that wanted to remain didn't participate.

It is highly questionable whether the independence movement has even 50 percent support. Indications are that the support hovers around 40-something percent. It was highest in 2013, where it reached 55 percent. Please notice that this is not close to the super majority which is normally required for constitutional changes in most democracies.
Presumably everything at the top of the list: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...
I thought the topic was AutoPilot crashes, not all car crashes. Is AutoPilot crashing enough to be cost prohibitive?
There's plenty of X-rated content out there, but there's nothing like Leisure Suit Larry.

You've got to give it to Al Lowe[1]: the game was a masterpiece in the best of Sierra's traditions - with a lot of humor, interesting puzzles, and a great soundtrack - and yes, great graphics.

I still remember the theme that you heard when you were in the hotel hallways (AdLib-compatible MIDI rendition on my ES1868 FM soundcard).

Some of the humor in LSL has not aged well, but a lot did.

And there's not anything like LSL today - or even back then. The sort of light-hearted, but high quality art that has some sort of nakedness/"adult" themes (let's be honest, the people who enjoyed LSL the most were teens) seems to comprise solely of LSL series.

[1]http://allowe.com/
It seems like there is a lot of opportunity for technology, in this case GPS Asset tracking, to be of real use here.

These are really crimes of opportunity, and time is of the essence for criminals in these cases. Sweeping a load for GPS trackers that are now so inexpensive and small seems to be prohibitive and could easily start to help to diagram out the networks that are part of these thefts.
I wonder if this will create a market for software that's inscrutable to anyone other than the creator, so it can't easily be adapted or modified. "Of course, here is my unencrypted source code. It's written in a homotopy type theory DSL I implemented in the C preprocessor, and completely verified with dependent types so any change will cause a type error. I haven't got around to implementing compile-time type checking, however, or error messages, so type errors will cause it to coredump at runtime."
Of course there are, and you're absolutely correct in your example - fighting against war is a noble cause.

But this is not a war in any way - there's already options in place to save lives - better policing, stricter speed limits, safer vehicles/roads/crossings. Allowing new technology on the road without the proper safeguards, (and the in my opinion abhorent justification that a few unlucky people might just get run over for the greater good) is not one of these options.

The "dangerous self driving cars on the road" option is only helping the pockets of Tesla's investors, not the public.
Pretty much what I was trying to get at
While strictly speaking you aren't forced to use Gmail, the reason i gave up trying to run my own VPS and mail server was all the little issues that caused people with Gmail to not ever receive (or receive, but in their spam folder) mail sent by me.
Wait until Windows containerization gets in full swing. Between WSL, Docker for Windows and Windows Core they're inching every closer to having real embedded Windows in a container. They will do that, I think they have to. Right now to run docker they literally have Linux in a VM, and the same for WSL2. Even the new Microsoft can't handle doing that forever.
Armed resistance escalates the conflict. This can be a win for the resistance because the opponent may not be willing to bring artillery, or to deny the opponent unsullied spoils.
The problem is how effective they are at killing spam. I'm sure most of us (I still use Gmail) would jump ship in a second if there was a decent alternative that doesn't force the user to spend time training a local antispam system. Admittedly, Google is really good at that.
I just don't understand why Amazon isn't held liable for the products they sell. If Walmart sold fake products that put people at risk or worse, lawyers would have a field day.
> Ultimately, Parker’s bigger contribution to stopping nut theft had little to do with ­police work: in the wake of the Crain theft, he ­began training Tehama County nut processors in basic security precautions, and there have been no fictitious pickups there since 2013, despite increased problems elsewhere in the state.

The big takeaway. Make yourself a little harder to steal from, and nobody will bother, because everyone else is still terrible.
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Public schools in the US are almost universally cash-strapped. Regardless, my point stands: no school should be spending a half million in tax money on corporate video games.

There are plenty of cheap/free games that could serve the purpose just fine, if indeed there is any educational merit whatsoever to this initiative (which I highly doubt).
"What part"?

You wrote

> Of the books that I explored, Baby Rudin came the closest to this ideal. While many of the individual chapters contains long runs of mostly linear development, the interdependence of the chapters is complex, and apparently very carefully considered.

and I removed what was "complex".

Many students hear bad things about Baby Rudin and don't try it. Of students who do try it, too many don't finish well. Of the students who do finish, only a small fraction take a second pass where they will get some of the clarity I typed in for you.

For my Ph.D., there were five qualifying exams. I did the best on four of them, and one of those was Analysis and fairly close to Baby Rudin. The department didn't offer a course to help students prepare for the Analysis exam. So, I was likely the only student who had taken two passes through Baby Rudin; the first pass was in a course; I did okay; the second pass was on my own and slowly; it was fun! The second pass is the main reason I did the best on that exam. The next year the department tried teaching a course from Baby Rudin: They did that for only one year; I can believe that few or none of the students did well with the course. A friend from another department wanted to learn Baby Rudin, took the course, had a hard time, and dropped it. He went away unhappy, and that was sad and not really necessary.

So, my experience with Baby Rudin suggests (i) take a formal course, (ii) use advice such as I gave here to see during the course some clarity in what is going on, how, and why; (iii) also study or glance at one or two other competitive or similar books, e.g., Spivak, Calculus on Manifolds, Fleming, Functions of Several Variables, Kolmogorov and Fomin, Apostol, and more, and (iv) take a second pass through Baby Rudin.

Net, Baby Rudin has discouraged a lot of students, too many. To many students, Baby Rudin looks forbiddingly severe and abstract; students can't figure out what the heck is going on, how, or why. E.g., your view was "complex" -- it can be "simple". With some help, e.g., as I typed in here for you, Baby Rudin can be okay.
In the Round 18 Plaintext results that the OP linked to [1], you can see a pretty clear convergence at ~7 million requests per second, which I've screen captured in [2].

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

[2] https://www.techempower.com/images/misc/converge.png
While I want to sympathize with the author here he hasn't given any examples. If he/she has come up with blanket statements like "does not work with external monitors" or "hardware support is a pain" he should substantiate his claims by telling us what he did and how many monitors he tried.

He also does not mention why having one channel to install software is a bad thing. I am sure he saw issues but presenting use cases will help his argument. I do have an issue with the software installation source. On the whole I see it as a good thing. Linux in 2000 had a problem (one that isn't resolved even now), there is no one channel that gets you all you want, you are inevitably forced to go and find software and install from source which doesn't recognize that dependencies are already solved and will simply install copies again which will fuck up your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and nothing works. Macs on the other hand for the most part don't have that problem. If the app store does not meet your needs, you are most likely a developer and so you would go through home-brew.
That's a pretty self-serving argument. Resorting to the 'silent majority' to justify disregarding democracy is not very...democratic.

The way Catalan folk showed what they think on this subject, was by voting. That's pretty fundamental.
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Stay far away from Gnome3; it's a performance, usability and accessibility dumpster fire.

MATE, XFCE, LXDE and KDE are all better choices.
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Krita is great (and I happen to be one of your 3%!).

Given that macOS has a reputation, deserved or not, of being the de facto OS for graphic designers, why do you think you have so relatively few Mac users?
> I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac.

Have you tried Magnet? It’s a macOS app that supplies the window snap/tile features that Windows has. It’s one of the first things I install on a new system (along with Display Menu and f.lux).
This is something that has boggled my mind since 2010 when I first looked at crypto. Why the hell would anyone waste CPU cycles computing some arbitrary hash value that is then ejected as "waste" rather than having the computational workload itself run scientifically important problem and the result of that computation is rewarded with a token? why the hell is everyone using all of this computational power for... nothing of value really?

The main currency in crypto is NOT the tokens/coins you get. It is the CPU cycles. So why the hell are we not putting those to good use? it´s freaking beyond me. Imagine if F@H (or something like it) had the bitcoin network´s power, we could potentially help solve cancer.

Maybe someone can help shed some light on this topic if there is something I´ve missed!
A perpetual treaty isn't much of a treaty at all. An expired treaty carries about as much weight as a "perpetual" one.
Use Fedora! It's a significantly better user-experience and has better support for hi-DPI screens.
I love trains but for some stupid reason >$200 million per mile is the average cost for urban rail. We already sank a huge upfront investment into the interstate highway system, so we'll have to settle for a private enterprise solution with semi-autonomous vehicles. At least, until the US Congress becomes less dysfunctional...
> they wouldn't exist anymore nowadays if it wasn't for that original sharing

Exactly, more often than not the people who own the rights to things can't be trusted to maintain them.

See the same thing happen with movies, the version available in stores from the rights owner is a bad transfer, likely with a crop with hardcoded subtitles. Yet the version online, compiled by a passionate individual because they care for the material has a rip from a laserdisc for best uncropped picture, sound from another cut and softcoded subtitles.
Just about any sensor you can think of can be used for spying. Are the logistics of recovering camera film from spy satellites something you think about every time you use the digital camera in your smartphone though?
That’s fine that it gets idealistic fast. It’s been shown again and again we buy products and services that we think help us be our ideal self. Improving ours situation is an innate motivator.

It’s a fools errand to keep slicing this up into finer grained stats like we seem keen to do.

A simple question: does my ideal self involve being a material consumer of disposable shit to prop up the gambling habits of others or is there another way for me?

That’s about all it takes.

Assuming we’re inventing long lasting discoveries for the future of humanity by iterating on smartphone design, and web apps is contemporary social vanity.

Like the piousness wars of old, we’re battling each other for more attention of those higher up the ladder. Forgetting they’re only in charge because we allow it.

If the environment is on the brink, and they continue to refuse to negotiate a better deal in good faith, it’ll be up to the public to take control of the political discourse via government again.

I wonder if that’s why they spend so much time indoctrinating is against that.
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