skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world isn't black and white. There is quite some way from someone entering an industry on the wrong foot to someone working as a slave trader. By your logic we should hang everyone committing a crime. Don't be silly.
One of my wild guesses could be Apple wants to mine the data. Blaming it on having to comply with court orders could be a useful limited hangout.
Ah, I understand what you're saying. You are right - meaningless is too strong of a statement.

If I could edit my comment, I might say something more accurate, like "trying to evaluate this number without more context is not useful."
World's fastest camera freezes time at 10T frames per second (2018)
The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1970
You can create much higher margins for products and services at the Apple price point. For Autos, people are very price sensitive. Even if Tesla slowly takes over the industry, not sure they can justify this valuation.
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I used to have a Lotus Elise. With cars that low you don’t see much if there is just some grass growing along the road. Makes it really hard to pass other cars or go fast with no visibility.
Paramo. There may a couple other smaller ones too. I haven't looked in a while.
> So, forgive me if I don't have much sympathy for a news organization that refuses to get up to date with how the internet works.

News organizations probably understand "how the internet works" better than you do. (Not too surprising since their livelihood depends on it.)

Lots of research and many many real-world attempts clearly demonstrate that small-scale individual transations do work effectively. The cognitive cost of a user having to choose to buy each small product outweighs the value and adds so much friction that most users simply don't buy it.

Subscriptions have their own challenges, but overall, they have shown to be a much more effective model than microtransactions.

No business is obligated to build an entire transaction system that works the way each particular customer wants it. If you don't want to buy the product the way they choose to sell it to you (in this case, with a subscription) then you can simply choose not to buy it.

You have no moral right to claim "I'm going to take this for free because they didn't sell it to me the way I like."
This should have a (2018) flag on it.
Why Slack is better, and why open communities shouldn't use it (2018)
The last time I was in the Lego store in Bellevue WA the sales clerk was actively encouraging me to buy four or five of a Star Wars item and to sell them on eBay for profit.
Yea... is it just me or are cars just plain ugly these days (yuck).

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/land-rover/range-rover-evoqu...

https://www.diariomotor.com/2010/05/09/el-morris-mini-minor-...

Draconian safety laws for manufacturers mean less visibility with narrow windows on the front, barely back window (backup cams required), and huge a-pillars.

So apparently we get safer cars but can see anything infront of us.

https://www.wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-...

Video of child not being seen by new car (he is unharmed though)
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9p7iH_1570391082
Well that is certainly a valid theory. Although I have a hard time believing that you have lived any long time in Russia recently or followed closely on the developments, because most people that do would not entertain that theory for more than a minute because it's quite clear that the level of incompetency and corruption in the government is insane. Putin sure has a lot of power, but it does not come from technical prowess or IT/infosec departments, it comes from sheer corruption and what is basically a military dictatorship structure of the country, where he is the one that has and is appointing most "friends" in/to the right places.
No-Code and Wysiwyg: A Perfect Match
Not unheard of on enterprise distributed machines. Before I was an engineer all my jobs were like this - two dudes (the only ones not in suits) tucked away in a dark room, changing our passwords for us when we forgot, setting up our email accounts, tweaking an internal firewall (so we couldn't watch nba games at work lol), shit like that. Machines were locked down, we couldn't install anything at all, they had to install it for us.
I have just upgraded to an SUV. Love it! I would not go back to anything smaller!
To me the saddest thing isn't that people sell out. It's how cheap they sell out for. $120k-180k/yr seems to be the going rate.
> Few people vote for the politician who says "I want your house to go down in price"

A fair few might go for one who says "I want your kids to be able to afford a place of their own someday", though.
Noteworthy how everyone who disagrees with you is being downvoted. I get the sense Nuclear proponents tend to get heavily invested in being the smartest people in the room, while also being heavily specialized in their own discipline and a bit dismissive of fields a project of that scale would touch.

A few key things just seem to consistently get overlooked in the pro-nuclear arguments - cost of capital probably being the one I understand best personally, but I suspect there are others that have a similar impact - and because this faction has so much invested in being right, they spend more time attacking people pointing out weaknesses in their argument than reflecting on whether they might have a point.
Seems like he spins up a container on each run, so 'root' is not really 'root'. I'd be worried though, containers are not secure enough to run untrusted code.
Who said anything about hanging everyone for a crime? That's a straw man. And, by and large, yes I do believe that the person should not engage in unethical behavior if the emoployer told them to. I'm using an extreme example, but my point still stands.

I hate it when people say "I'm only doing my job" when asked if they're doing something unethical. You can always take another job.
down the road i see this: "just wait till you hear about our monthly house-subscription-box/house-subscription!"

/s
Food is a liability too. Not all products exist to provide future value. Some provide value right now, like a place to live.
Oh, nice to see this getting attention on HN!

Author here, happy to answer any questions about how this was made, though I'll answer a few things up front:

- It's made in Racket, and as for why there's a whole section about that if you scroll down on on: https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-prototype/

- I showed a playthrough (pre-1.0) as well as how to add new levels and enemies on a live stream I did last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxt2dqqulQc

- "Why?" This is actually a test program for some stuff I'm building for the future of the federated social web (if you are familiar with ActivityPub, I'm one of the authors of that), an ocap-actor-model-framework called Spritely Goblins. More on Spritely here: http://dustycloud.org/blog/spritely/

- (Shameless shill) If you think this is cool, this was actually funded by people who donate to my Patreon account and was a reward. If you donate, you can show up in the credits of the game: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

BTW a newer version of Racket is needed, at least 7.3 (maybe 7.2 is fine). If you play the game, let me know! I'll be adding more stuff soon, including powerups, more levels, a boss, and better balance for level 2 (which is probably a bit too brutal for a second level).
When you sell your privacy you hurt all of us, and regulation is the tool for collective action problems. If you sell data to Walmart that lets them build a psychological profile of a shopper from their purchase history, they can use that to psychologically profile me.
They sure can. In fact, with their experience and flexibility, as well as the cushion of money they made by monetizing massive amounts of personal data collected from the unaware, they can probably be hired well above the sorry schlubs who worked for those more ethical organizations for the entirety of their careers.

I wonder how the career programmers who worked at these organizations and still need the paycheck will feel about a new director or architect from google who is now "giving back".
>The fact that power swings from Republicans, back to Democrats, back to Republicans, and so on, illustrates that there is a very weak majority in this country

That only holds true if you believe that the two political parties accurately represent the views of the people.

Political views are a spectrum of opinions. Boiling them down to one of two parties means you lose the majority of views. In the end you vote with the party that most closely resembles your opinions, but because the US has two choices, the party you choose doesn't end up representing your beliefs in a lot of cases. It just represents your beliefs more frequently than the other one.
Or we could just make tall buildings legal to build again.
I am always amazed when you see an old Mercedes S class on the road. This used to be a generously sized car and now it looks like an average compact.
> Surely you're missing something about having highest paying jobs concentrated in a few cities where lots of people want to move to.

Nothing is missing, what you describe is the scarcity that the parent poster is talking about.
HOWEVER, other car manufactures follow the law* and makes it possible for independant shops to buy replacement parts and sells service manuals. Witch as far as I am aware Tesla still does not do.

*: in the EU:

> Easy and clear access to information on vehicle repair and maintenance (RMI) is key to guaranteeing free competition on the vehicle aftermarket. Manufacturers must ensure that independent operators have easy, restriction-free, and standardised access to information on the repair and maintenance of vehicles. Discrimination with respect to authorised dealers and repair workshops is not allowed.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/technical-har...
In principle yes, though I'd argue those are not the tech jobs discussed here.

So far I haven't heard of anyone who was forced to code the next behavioural analytics platform because they got nothing to eat otherwise.
It might be unfair to call a city “overcrowded” since the defining nature of a city is growth and people.
keep in mind that smalltalk is freaking ancient and like most useful but freaking ancient things in unix, most of the stuff "just works" and doesn't need constant poking.

Also, Smalltalk offers a much more transparent development environment. So, you're not writing code that goes into a black box and produces results. You can see what's going on in the box and make sure its doing it correctly.

also, the Squeak by example book (i think Pharo by example is a fork of this) very quickly starts showing people how to write tests. So the mentality isn't "oh, yeah, i guess i could add tests" it's "oh hey, tests are part of making smalltalk code" so you've got that going for it too.

combine those things with the smaller community, and thus a much more narrowly defined set of "needs" for a web framework and yeah, it doesn't get poked constantly.

but that's ok.
What an amazing professor. THIS is how you instill fascination with a subject, by making it quite approachable.

Thanks for sharing your story! :)
Dear Employee, We Don't Like the Car You Drive
Most languages, distros, large applications, etc have their own packaging system. Some are more laissez-faire than others.

Does someone know a good article from the POV of the maintainer of a packaging system ecosystem that describes the tradeoffs made by different approaches over the past ~30 years?
I'd rather see fiber run anywhere that's electrified than satellite internet.
Thanks for including the specific model number.

While these may address the cement issue (unless they are further encased) I don’t think they addressed any of the other issues I mentioned, such as perceived risks or decentralized control. Having a high energy device bathed in molten lead and under someone else’s control is not what I would consider an ideal situation.
Picosecond-resolution phase-sensitive imaging of transparent objects in one shot
I would disagree. Tesla's Supercharger originated years before the industry settled on the CCS Connectors and well before CCS Combo connectors came about. At it's inception it was technically superior to anything available.

When the EU settled on Combo 2, Tesla started shipping Model 3s with it as well as updating Superchargers.

The US market is a very different environment than Europe and still hasn't adopted a common standard. The 2020 Nissan Leaf ships with J1772 and CHAdeMO options which are incompatible with the CCS Combo 1 other automakers are shipping. That means a charging station needs to have at least 2 different connectors, 3 if it wants to offer the fastest possible charging because while J1772 chargers are compatible with CCS equipped cars, CCS Chargers are not backward compatible with J1772 vehicles.

Tesla owners are not locked into Superchargers and are able to charge at other chargers via adapters. All Teslas in the US come with a J1772 adapter, and you can purchase a CHAdeMO adapter.

Superchargers are also generally located along highways to facilitate long road trips, something most other EVs are incapable of even if the infrastructure existed.

Tesla sold more EVs in the US in 2019 than all other auto manufacturers combined. The next two best selling EVs (Leaf and Bolt) don't even share a common connector. Building out a charging network that's compatible with other EVs would only serve to benefit their competition. As it stands the Supercharger is a nonbinding value add for any Tesla owner.
This is a pretty misaligned argument considering the context. These “kids” have internships that pay better than most other jobs.

Ethics is on everybody. These “kids” are grown adults.
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Oh yeah, great point.
Also, housing is effectively a "free" investment.

You must have a place to live and you are going to be paying for that. Why not own it so that your payments actually accrue capital while you're at it?
Companies that build ethically-challenged products that infringe on privacy, etc. are really, REALLY good at spinning their mission into some “world-changing” spiel that completely absolves them of responsibility (e.g: Facebook). And I’ve met so many people in the industry who are out to make their money first before they start basing decisions on the ethics of tech.

On one hand, it’s good to see ex FB employees speaking out on privacy issues, but it’s also somewhat hollow because many of them made millions on the very technology they’re now speaking out against. Honestly, how much weight does Sean Parker’s criticism of FB really carry? He’s not organizing a movement against FB, he’s doing one interview and then going back to his jet-setting lifestyle.

Ethics will never be a first-class citizen in the minds of all technologists as long as the money worship continues.
Is there a free alternative that has feature parity with GA and isn't very difficult to set up?
Word emulation means to pretend something else, just because most of the time emulating hardware is required doesn't mean that the meaning of the word change.

Since you mentioned Amiga, there was an MacOS emulator called ShapeShifter[1], it didn't emulate CPU since at the time MacOS used the same CPU as Amiga, but it still referred itself as an emulator. Actually I remember that MacOS run even faster on Amiga + ShapeShifter than original Mac with similar hardware.

If you are not convinced, what about FreeBSD capability to emulate Linux[2] ABI allowing to run linux binaries as if they were native. This also doesn't emulate the CPU and other hardware. And I suppose it is even closer to what WINE does.

[1] https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-emulation/free...
So it is bad for others to work at Google but perfectly acceptable to do business with them?
It's all people problems. To be fair, those technical solutions would address the people problems precipitated by the earlier technical solutions that drove people to cities in the first place, which were created to address earlier people problems, and so on....
You really don't need to. The whole reason we have the waste problem now is politics. We could reprocess the waste. the 'old' rods still have 95% of their energy in them. President Carter ended that with a single executive order.
If he could take a job as a slave trader, but didn't need to, he wouldn't.

But if he had to take a job as a slave trader because there was nothing else available and he needed the money to survive...who are we to judge him in this hypothetical world where slavery is once again legal?
That may be. The downside of ambiguous questions. I made my assumption based on the "not being snarky" qualification.

And even then, got downvoted for it ;-). People identify so strongly with their political party.
Nuclear engineer here. As far as this article is concerned, appeals to moderation are fallacious.

It's propaganda.
If paywall is an issue, this also provides information: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-privacy-google/goog...
U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism
Site is currently down; https://web.archive.org/web/20200122181519/https://blogs.qui...

The article mentions the ransom message with the date March 1 2018. This probably means this malware is two years old?
Hi jabedude! I looked at a couple of different approaches to this, and I just fell in love with the simplicity of pledge()/unveil().

The main things I like about it are:

1. The promises are baked into the programs themselves. No need to keep an outside profile in sync whenever something changes.

2. The pledge() and unveil() APIs are so simple that any program can start using them immediately.

Enabling these in userspace programs has been both fun and really interesting so far.

Often you’ll need to start with a wide range of promises, but you can shrink it down by reorganizing code to do more initialization up front, allowing you to drop pledges incrementally.

This actually gives me the same fuzzy feeling as performance work, except instead of trying to make something take less time/space, you’re making it relinquish more capabilities. :)
> Also strongest advantage of owning a house over renting is the stability you get.

From:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3203-Benton-St-Santa-Clar...

Neighborhood home value

95051 home values have fallen 8.3 % over the past 12 months.
One-year prediction

Zillow predicts the home values in 95051 will fall 9% in the next year.

http://www.stock-market-crash.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06...
The Omnibus Model for Custody
Very nice! I especially like that it starts with a discussion of why you would choose to use I2C, as well as why you may not, depending on your application:

>I2C is not appropriate for all applications however: When higher bandwidth is required, SPI may be the right choice and can be found in many NOR-flash chips. MIPI can go even faster, and is often used in displays and cameras.
If reliability is a must, CAN is the bus of choice. It is found in cars and other vehicles.
When a single device is on the bus, UART may work just as well.
I said around! But yeah, I was off by a year.
Not silly? Your response was borderline ridiculous.

It's as if I said I'd have no problem working on tech for military drones, and your reply was "So you'd be fine with just going up to a random person and shooting them in the head?"

Responses like that have no place in serious discourse.
I would choose to starve then.
Time plays a factor in IRR too.
Sounds good, but those student loans still need to get paid.
Mini owner here, often think about this too. There’s an MGB that gets around my area which has been converted to electric.

It’ll be interesting to see if converting classics will become more common. Here’s hoping.
IBMR Partners with Algorand to Launch Microfinance Platform
Mozilla wants young techies to consider ethics in their jobs?

Rich words indeed from the corporation that more than doubled executive pay and then found themselves needing to lay off 70 people to save costs on a restructuring.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/16/mozilla_job_cuts/

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/12175120497160...
Which the Obama Administration then spent 8 years reversing so what's your point?

FYI gay marriage wouldn't be legal without the votes of two conservative supreme court judges.
Civil Engineering
A huge portion of that site’s stories seem to be about animals, and dogs (or dog like things) specifically.
Unintended Tesla app purchases, explored
Container Trust – In-Transit
Which modes of transport are explicitly being outlawed?
The author seems to acknowledge but then ignore how their strict adherence to the speed limit makes roads less safe overall.

The author is doing something that the rest of the drivers don’t expect, which is increasing speed differential by driving at unexpectedly slow speeds. The author is causing more danger by not following accepted cultural behaviors.

The culturally accepted speed is also 5-10 mph above the speed limit and not exactly at it, because that’s the maximum speed you can drive before risking a ticket.

The design of the road itself often dictates the speed at which people feel comfortable:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oP-Ndwv1zw

What the author is doing is not far off from refusing to tip at restaurants because they disagree with the practice in the first place.

The only difference is that there’s no human life risk to your dinner bill.
Yeah, all I could think about was how crap this seems from a customer's perspective. If I'm trying to find lessons, and they promise lessons, why can't I get lessons? Not very customer-friendly, and since they're going to kill it, the people who signed up are just left scratching their heads that nothing happened.
Can't edit now, but of course "didn't" supposed to be "did".
I'm partial to staying at home Monday and Friday. Sometimes you have meetings, sometimes you just want to come in and shoot the shit.
Having worked with OCR products doing table detection for years, simple hand written rules cannot solve the general case. It can work for specific documents, but if you want to be able to handle any document it's just not accurate once you include non-gridded tables.
Written in Racket. Good stuff. I've done demoeffects in the terminal in Gambit.
It's disconcerting. Take a look at the darker bar that gathers everything that adds value to society.

If we could make all that money go to productive ends, society would be just much fairer.
I think a lot of people think "TOR" (myself included) because they think "The Onion Router" and acronyms are capitalized. I'm willing to forgive people for making the mistake of following conventional patterns in English.
I had a very similar experience last month teaching elementary kids Scratch.

I did a group activity building a few games. Then I challenged kids to create there own versions. Some of the older elementary kids really did a great job making their own games. They want me to come back in to teach more.

I have been working on an online course for kids on the side since Summer. They definitely enjoy the creativity aspects.
Are you the original author of the article? The article itself seems to be experiencing issues right now, but from what I recall, the author mentions "extensible roles" and "good free tier" as the features that got him to use Discord. I don't consider these features crucial enough to use non-Free Software. If you are not the original author and have other features in mind, please explain which features of Discord are "so incredibly good".
All current home owners take on debt so they can remodel their houses and become landlords seems like an insane proposition relative to the government just building housing and charging rent pegged to their wages, no?
I don't see enough people talking about this. This applies in special to developers, since we have a real leverage on the market. If unethical companies wouldn't capture all top talent, we wouldn't be in this borderline dystopian situation.