skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, here's an authority on the matter that also has doubts about the exterior[1]:

> [safety standards] may be something the Tesla Cybertruck needs to put more focus on, according to the head of the Australasian New Car Assessment Program, which is Australia's equivalent of the US-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

> Cybertruck's "exoskeleton" body material caused some alarm as well. ANCAP looks for vehicles to absorb some of the energy in an impact because, if it doesn't, passengers will bear the brunt of the force.

> While this material may be perfect to keep out dents ... it could put passengers at risk.

By the way,

> Having a soft exterior that gives-in is not all there is to car safety...

I totally agree[1]:

> Obviously, the Cybertruck cannot enter production in its current form. It's missing windshield wipers, traditional mirrors that are, right now, required for the US market and the pickup also lacks turn signals. The challenge will be turning this trapezoidal design into something approved for sale in markets around the world

[1] https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-cybertruck-design-s...
Also https://web.archive.org/web/20191123091956/http://www.platfo...
Or bypassing firewalls and IP restrictions.

But yeah, if you’re doing something illegal, obviously don’t use a home VPN, duh.
Reducing OpEx often requires cooperation and pooling of resources that a proprietary vendor can force on their users with little choice, while by default software like Mastodon, Pleroma, etc treat other instances as potentially hostile, replicating data (often) needlessly.

Efforts like https://jortage.com can reduce OpEx quite significantly.
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That one's pretty clearly past the tipping point in usage, so I think we can leave it above.
Arguments that "somebody else is doing it too!" don't usually fly in court.
I guess the idea is that success is the combination of luck and skill. No amount of luck matters if they don't have the skill. Someone can be incredibly skilled, and not have the same impact if they don't get lucky
Yeah, just like Theranos. Companies are always correct and thought about everything.
Nah Zen isn't perfect for laptop but I've seen them in action and they are good options. Of course, Zen 2 APUs will help things there.
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"b) because for engineers, being a manager does not give them status amongst their peer group."

I am so reminded of Brave New World...

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki...I'm so glad I'm a Beta"
They may be "residential IPs" but you can do an nmap scan on the IPs to see if there are any open ports. If there are no open ports then it's likely a residential IP because stateful firewalls on home routers. If there are open ports it's likely not a residential IP since some kind of port forwarding would have to be enabled, which most people don't do, or a DMZ would have to be set up (even less likely). I scanned a few of the IPs returned from the curl test. Granted a small sample size, but they all have open ports. Beyond the scan I didn't try to connect to any of them via browser or otherwise. Here is what I found for the "Delcom" IP he's so worked up about:

```
$ sudo nmap 76.77.25.75
Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-11-29 19:21 EST
Nmap scan report for static-76-77-25-75.networklubbock.net (76.77.25.75)
Host is up (0.097s latency).
Not shown: 992 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp filtered ssh
23/tcp filtered telnet
25/tcp filtered smtp
53/tcp filtered domain
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
5060/tcp open sip
8080/tcp open http-proxy

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 331.02 seconds
```

Maybe I'm missing something here. Of course it could still be malware, but that's far from the first conclusion I'd jump to. This article is just speculation to me and the methodology seems ... bad

edit: sorry if the markdown is broken. Noob here. ;)
Can we examine for a moment how ridiculous the concept of state sanctions are? That they can lock you up for going somewhere and teaching people things, simply because some of the people in the government of that place commit human rights abuses?

That does nothing but punish thousands, or, in this case, millions of people who are themselves suffering under that country’s government.

I’ve been to North Korea. I’ve spoken to the people there and seen directly the fear and suffering in their eyes. The DPRK government is terrible. The people there need all the help, love, information, and compassion we can give them.

The real crime is making it illegal to go there and do that.

Could you imagine other, more civilized countries e.g. in Europe jailing their citizens for coming to the US to peacefully speak or present? After all, we run indefinite detention torture prisons all over the world (or, more specifically, human rights criminals in our government do). We (criminals in our government) tap the phone lines and emails. We (criminals in our government) assassinate citizens without trial. We have had thousands of government officials fail to seek justice against our leaders for war crimes. Nearly every accusation that can be leveled against the DPRK government can be leveled against the US government, if at a smaller scale in most cases. How do we do the mental gymnastics to punish normal people simply traveling and teaching because of criminal acts committed by others they have never met?

I agree that the DPRK government is bad, just that I agree that the US government is bad. But a country is absolutely not its government, and punishing normal, peaceful people by the millions who happen to live with the misfortune to be trapped in such places where the leaders are criminals or tolerate criminals amongst themselves, or punishing people who travel to these places to teach and speak is madness.
Ann Leckie's fantasy novel The Raven Tower is set in a world where such pagan gods are real, and dives right into a description of how human tribes will spend generations training them to respond favorably.
Yeah, why would someone ever consider their moral responsibilities and credibility before endorsing a product they do not understand the technical details of?
> If open source makes little effort to optimize the vast majority of other operational costs at scale, and this is largely the case in my experience

I feel the opposite is true. There are many open source projects that are at least on par with their proprietary counterparts. Postgres is competitive with every SQL DB I've heard of except maybe in some niche use-cases. Redis is open source and incredibly performant. Same with Kafka (if you use it well). Linux sure runs better than Windows in my experience.

There is also a whole class of open-source libraries like React that have taken over. I can't even think of a proprietary frontend framework.

What software are you thinking of when you make these claims?
I agree that if I had to choose I'd rather be lucky than good. However, I can't affect my luck. I can do things that impact how good I am so that I don't need as much luck to be successful. I can also affect how many times I try. Repeated attempts should yield success eventually, possibly not in one lifetime, even if I'm unlucky.
I think it's just more about content density. I think most feel the same way about too much meta-hn conversation. Are we on topic?

Downvotes are just saying that maybe that comment wasn't welcome in this thread not that you aren't in any thread.

It's a much cleaner downvote than those against controversial, but thought out opinions.
Maybe I should have clarified, but leadership will have to be an additional requirement on top of knowing how to develop. If you look at the history of software development in enterprise, software developers have increasingly had to work multiple overlapping roles, the more recent of which, in my experience, is making developers be testers as well. It used be QA was a separate role, but now it has evaporated because there are so many tools surrounding this discipline that require knowing how to code, so exclusive testing roles are not favored as much anymore. I don't how many years from now this is, but I really believe that everyone will have to know how to code to a great extent in order to use the software tools of the discipline.
Totally get that. I told my kids after they knew it was their job to help keep the magic for the kids who still don't. I just used the comment that "you wouldn't want someone to have ruined your magic so don't be that kid and ruin someone else's" etc.

Funny part is my step daughter knew before my daughter, and my step daughter was the one who was a bit bitter and hurt and so we used exactly this to make sure she didn't hurt my daughters feelings by spoiling it. She got into it after a little while and was having a blast helping us do creative things with the elf on the shelf that year before my daughter figured it all out.

All good times, kids are awesome.
> The unexpected and asymmetric competition from the clouds confounds open source companies, who must confront the fact the competitive advantage of knowing their software better than anyone else isn’t the insurmountable moat they had hoped. It is never fun to wake up and discover your product is now just a feature of a broader offering, but this is what is happening with software. Claiming open source is eating the cloud is like coffee bean farmers claiming they’re eating Starbucks: it willfully (or just out of delusion) ignores the vast majority of what the customer is buying.

As always, 'commoditize your complement': https://www.gwern.net/Complement
NCAP crash testing works by placing sensors on test dummies and measuring the impact forces on their "bodies" under various crash scenarios.

In Euro NCAP testing, the Fiat 500 has a 3 star rating[1], and the Smart fortwo has a 4 star rating[2]. So while not among the safest cars on the market, they are certainly not the deathtraps you suggest. The Smart in particular offers very respectable occupant protection for its size.

[1] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/500/26307

[2] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/smart/fortwo/7894
It'll still crumple. There's a difference between a guy hitting the door with a sledgehammer and a vehicle driving full force into the side of the truck.
It certainly seems to be accentuated by the difficulty in obtaining both parts and schematics for a Tesla.
Changing that is a work in progress: https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/2034
> for the lights to turn on (and gradually off) automatically as we move through rooms

How are you doing this? Is it built in motion sensing in the lights, or some other solution?
Sell on their website? They get traffic
No, but I did leave out some important clarifications. It's not that leaders will go away, but that I think leaders will also be required to contribute to some code. Also this isn't in the near future either, but just like many roles (i.e. QA), leadership will slowly become absorbed by developers who will have multiple specializations along with knowing how to code.
That is a lot of speculation and conjecture.
The other side of the coin is, teaching North Korean leadership (an infamously brutal regime) about how to evade international sanctions via cryptocoin technology.

How many millions of people have they "come down on in a way that did not serve justice". Aiding such a brutally repressive regime should absolutely be a crime.

And yes, the world is not perfect, and many nations get away with similar sorts of crimes (although almost universally on a smaller scale), that doesn't make him some sort of good guy.
Assuming a direct business relationship, there's no reason they couldn't hand-pick or filter out the good hosts, and then put the rest in the general pool.
Do an nmap scan on the IP and check for open ports. If there are open ports it's very likely not actually a residence but a business.
I am talking about diving theory, not the actual activity.
https://ew.com/article/2011/03/30/dilbert-scott-adams-femini...

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/11556797972...

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/75939845922...

Also the sockpuppet incident:

https://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/scott_adams_sock_puppetry_s...

There's also the Affirmations thing - the guy believes in his own brand of The Secret, where writing something down over and over again and wanting it bad enough will magic the universe into making it happen.

http://mindhacks.org/scott-adams-affirmations/135

The guy is kind of a mess. At this point he's his own worst enemy, PR wise.
What's the price on the life of a pedestrian?

Some negative externalities can never really be covered by money.
Aeotec and Fibaro Tend to be my go to companies when I want to buy some sort of sensor, anything from door and window sensors to motion sensors. Overall they have been the most solid and well performing in my experience.
Sounds like excluding all other countries is the only solution.

Google does provide a CSV with all the AdWords recognized countries: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/geot...

You should be able to copy the list to the clipboard and paste into the exclusion list.
On average people on HN are contrarians that think they are smarter than everybody else. Thus we get people in this thread saying with a straight face that Franz von Holzhausen has no idea what he is doing.
What have you found to be the best sensor or switch option for presence detection regarding lights turning on/off?
I wonder how google handles vpn users, particularly in countries where vpns are fairly ubiquitous like China or even Iran. If someone in Turkey is clearly identified as a Turkish user despite having a vpn in the United States, I shouldn’t be charged for them right?
You don't need a company to get an ASN, but you do need to show that you intend to get network connections from at least two providers and generally that mean planning which plans are generally required as proof.

There are effectively no more clean IPv4 addresses, you'd have to buy addresses that had previously been used.

Anyone can get IPv6 addresses even those whose ISP sucks via tunnelbroker.net (aka Hurricane Electric) which will provide a single address, also a /64 and/or a /48. Of course they are generally blocked by streaming services since they are a form of VPN and thus the endpoint might be anywhere.
I did say "if I agreed/believed it". But if it were true, that's where I believe the discourse would end up.

But to be fair, PR stunt dynamics are better understood these past two decades compared to the 80s. The last decade alone, you can see the reaction of the public to news instantly, react to it and see the public reaction-reaction instantly, with well formatted analytics. That's the only reason I don't immediately dismiss the idea like it was a flat-earther conspiracy theory. There's plenty of analytics to try making a solid plan to do something like that. At the same time, I have zero proof that it's ever been done intentionally.

There's a book called Weapons of Math-destruction. In it the author talks about Facebook's potential ability of swaying public discourse and increasing the chances of certain votes using their analytics knowledge. While the author said it's a scary thought, it could never happen and there's no evidence it has been done or would be done. This book came out 2016 (books are typically published about 6-12 months after manuscript is accepted, so written roughly 2015). So... yea.
Thanks, I'll look into the studies you mentioned.

Edit:

"CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE:

"Among adults with chronic low back pain, treatment with MBSR or CBT, compared with usual care, resulted in greater improvement in back pain and functional limitations at 26 weeks, with no significant differences in outcomes between MBSR and CBT."

I don't consider this evidence in favor of mindfulness. The claim I make is that mindfulness is merely meditation. The benefits ascribed to it are, I claim, that of relaxation.

One other study compares physical exercise to mindfulness, but this isn't a comparison with non-mindfulness relaxation. Also not great evidence. Same with another. There's also one my IP can't access.

Also, I am aware that transcendental meditation isn't the same.

What would convince me mindfulness meditation may indeed have some unique positive property: Study or even better metaanalysis with good quality and reasonable sample size demonstrating that mindfulness meditation performs significantly better than other forms of relaxation. Costa's comes closest to this but the sample size is not very large. I do suspect there may be a placebo effect at play.
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In popular culture "Curzon" is probably most familiar to StarTrek:DS9 fans as Curzon Dax, the predecessor of the Jadzia Dax.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Curzon_Dax

(The character - a diplomat - was very clearly inspired by Lord Curzon.)
The way they presented it as an exoskeleton design though, implies that the it's much tougher on the outside than other vehicles.
In most of America, the minimum liability insurance is far too low. For example, California only requires $15k per person in liability insurance. If someone is killed or seriously injured, there's easily millions in damages.

This effectively is a subsidy to car driving (and bad drivers). But politically, it seems impossible to fix this. Red states want less government intervention, and blue states don't want to "penalize" poor people.
An explanation that contains circular logic is not an explanation.
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That's reaching. I'd say that traveling or not, teaching people to torture other people should be a crime in any civilized society, from which it follows that at least sometimes it's a crime to travel to teach people things.
No need to eat humble pie at all! it has been my experience thatEngineers And other reprobates like the ones that haunt can use don't know anything about this stuff, but the second it is brought to their attention I pretty uniformly had positive responses along the lines of "hmm, that is an interesting engineering question" and away we go. :-)

It is one of the wonderful things about this place, who gives a crap about the emotion being quadriplegic (I certainly don't) let's just solve the logistical problems! And as far as I'm concerned all of the problems that disability has introduced into my life have solutions that revolve around logistics, which project/process/company/widget do I need to buy/invent/collaborate on to make this thing work. It's great.
That's a popular and oft-repeated conception, but not precisely canon. Tolkien was never able to definitively pin down the origin and nature of his orcs to his own satisfaction, and never reached any final decision, afaik.
Zoom works fine. Check the boxes for 'Send desktop sound' and 'Optimize for fullscreen video' and you're set.
Zuckerberg's luck is what makes him CEO of one of the FANG companies and not just another engineer at any random tech company. We can all point to minor changes in someone's life path that if changed would not put them where they are today.

If Yahoo had purchased Google Larry Page and Serge Brin would also likely just be engineers at some random company and not leaders of one of the largest/richest companies in the world.

Reading Creativity Inc, about Catmull and Pixar there was so much luck. Catmull was president of Pixar and now President of Disney Animation but Pixar would probably never have existed if Lucas had sold them to someone other than Steve Job. It also wouldn't exist if Jobs had been unwilling to lose 70 million on trying to make them a computer company and then giving them a chance to pivot to animation and instead shut it down. Catmull would likely have been a successful engineering manager but he would not likely be in his current top position.

I don't at all agree with the other statements in this thread that suggested people in these positions are top level skilled vs others. People see these people's skills through rose colored glasses of their success.
Because it's legal for a platform to perform page deduplication as long as from the perspective of the program the correct operating model is followed, many operating systems (including Linux) have a "zero page" that is used for _all_ zeroed memory blocks in the system. Writing a non zero value then would replace it with a different page.

This means that writing zero is unlikely to cause a real allocation to occur. Writing a non zero value may be more likely to cause a page allocation.

That said: it can be entirely legal for a platform to do more page deduplication than just special casing the zero page. Linux has some kernel tooling called KSM (kernel same page merging).
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In the chapter The Land of Shadow in The Return of the King the narrator says:

"Neither he nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm, beyond the fumes of the Mountain by the dark sad waters of Lake Núrnen; nor of the great roads that ran away east and south to tributary lands, from which the soldiers of the Tower brought long waggon-trains of goods and booty and fresh slaves. Here in the northward regions were the mines and forges, and the musterings of long-planned war; and here the Dark Power, moving its armies like pieces on the board was gathering them together."
The frame is what I worry about more than the body. I'd be happy to keep repairing my ~15 year old truck, but the frame is getting to the point where I'm not sure how much longer it's going to pass inspection.
Be careful with that “them”; most people living in North Korea are even more threatened by the DPRK government than you are.

I have the belief that most human beings, in all places, are good, peaceful, and decent. Giving the people in North Korea all the help and resources they can will doubtlessly accelerate the downfall of their terrible, criminal leaders. It would be working in the USA except for the similar systems in place here to control easy access to information.

I do not think that peacefully teaching any subject, to any group of people, in any place, should be illegal, as no one is victimized by the act of teaching.
That sucks. Everyone’s different but, some anecdotes from my experience...

The Lexapro that I’m on right now basically did nothing for me at 10mg, but I stuck with it for almost a year. I eventually went to try and get something else, and humoured the psych by trying to go to 15mg first. The change was dramatic and positive.

I started doing the keto diet for strictly weight related reasons, and found that as a side effect it also had a big impact. Took eight weeks or so before I noticed a difference.

Cutting my alcohol consumption has also seemed to have a pretty good effect.

I’ve found beta blockers to be great for any break-through anxiety, but might be placebo effect.
I imagine there's a big difference between a 15 minute commute with a tiny car that doesn't have time to warm up and ends in a crowded parking lot, and an hour in a comfortable roomy Cheverolet Movie-Theater SUV with music playing and heated seats and no family or work or pedestrians and being in the biggest vehicle on the road.

A big SUV is one of the most expensive, most luxurious, nicest things, nicest places to spend time that a lot of people will own - way more overall spent on that seat and its driver-supporting-surroundings than on any Lay-Z-Boy or Aeron chair.
You really want the door to avoid crumpling. If you're hit from the side it doesn't have any space to crumple.
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Url changed from https://maeda.pm/2019/02/09/inside-macintosh-1985/, which points to this.