skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cant have it both ways. Either youtube is relevant and important in the public discourse and you agree with them there is a risk that vast portions of the population will be misled by those videos , or Youtube is an incosequential player so it does not matter what publishes. If you agree with the second point you should not care what it is published there, the same reason you dont care about the contents of the "monthly bulletin of the crypto-anarchist Fidjian association"
Nobody complains when the most blatant kooks get disappeared (Alex Jones), but it's absolutely affecting more mainstream content creators, who can't even produce opinion pieces reporting on related news without their videos getting deleted or forced into Private.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4cPAm7QkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g_pIVUGpQ&t=814s
Retail flour is the issue. You can get a 50 lb bag pretty easily, and honestly if you are going to use more than a few supermarket bags of flour, you could throw half away and still be ahead financially.
i find it hard to believe that restaurants pay more than retail for the same goods.
You're missing the application part.

Employers may not discriminate based on these things. They can let you go for what you say. It's called employment at will and I should have the right to remove someone from my private company who is toxic to our culture. If someone is acting unprofessional, I can see no way to force the company to retain them.

This is completely separate from private publishers and platforms. Should a magazine or news paper be forced to publish anything? Does YouTube not charging you for producing content somehow change their relationship?
My anecdotal evidence is exactly opposite to the paper. I would expect the title of the paper to appear as a headline trotted out in some mass media publication with the article written by a journo that dabbled in BASIC in high school and decided that programming and software development wasn't for him. Maybe I've forgotten what it is like to not be able to program, in the same way I don't understand how to not swim, or how to not ride a bike, or how to not read and write, but learning a new language, learning it well, to be facile in the language and the standard APIs that come with the language (ignoring the tens of thousands of obscure little npm packages in javascript for instance) is not a huge amount of work.
Apple Watch detecting coronary ischaemia during chest pain episodes
America no longer wants cheap oil; it crowds out the natively produced stuff. Gasoline is currently < $1/gal in many states due to the production glut and pandemic, and the president is currently talking about how to increase the cost of oil.

I don't think that everyone has fully grasped how America being energy independent changes the game.
I'm sorry, but "freedom of speech," as in the first amendment protects the right to express opinions. It does not protect misstatements of fact.

Not all people are rational animals that objectively acquire and then review all the information in front of them to weigh the merits of "5g versus virus." Sometimes, when you see a guy gaining a following by telling others that vaccines have secret microchips in them and that humanity has to fight 5g in order to survive, you tell him to go to hell and host his vile videos somewhere else.
> Home bakers and factories are both using the same basic ingredients, so why can’t supply chain’s easily swap?

Because the commercial bakery wants the flour in a 100 lb bag, but the retail store needs 100 1 lb bags. And the commercial packaging lines can't easily swap to packing their product into 1 lb bags.
What a lot of these types of articles seems to miss out on (other than just being out of date, not including equity, flexibility on CoL) is upside potential.

Senior engineers should be making $250-450K including equity in the Bay Area. As long as you’re somewhere in the middle of that, which isn’t that hard, you should be doing pretty great. And if you’re really good, $600K+ is possible, or $1M+ if you take the management route.
The problem is who decides what's a "bad idea"? Every group has its own list, whether it's Scientology, the CCP, NAMBLA, PITA, etc. What group do you trust with defining your list of "bad ideas"? Historically the "bad idea" list has been generated by whoever rules/controls you. Why do you think it's different this time?
Restaurants and factories use much bigger (and plainer-looking) bags of flour than end-consumers, so retooling probably requires changes to the "paper bag" supply chain...
it looks less conspiratorial. if you see a warning, but you have the freedom to view it, you won't get emotionally triggered to think that you're being attacked. it's like banning books, vs putting a warning out about it, but continue to allow it to be sold and read.
The parallax explanation for the gofast video seems less believable when you view the video and consider the beginning of the footage, when the camera seems near-fixed and the object is flying quickly by it, and the operator has to actively track and lock-on to the moving object.
So, so far I haven't seen anyone on here take the strong free speech absolutist position -- that nothing should be censored ever, including calls to violence. I've seen several comments that basically say "don't censor in general, but do remove calls to violence," so that seems like it's not a controversial opinion at least in this discussion.

Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic (whether it's that it is a hoax, that it is not transmissible, or that you can cure it by drinking bleach) is okay?

It seems to me that, if you're saying calls to violence can be censored because they will inspire people to act badly, then you've crossed the line into saying people can't be trusted to act appropriately.

Why ban that, but not misinformation about the pandemic?
This is a great piece and one that I have forwarded to many when they think we will all be jobless at one point by software and machines.
I remember quite well when the US administration was displaying a parade of outright lies for months and months whose only purpose was to justify a war.

He was a warmonger. His aides and his vice president stood to make tons of money out of that war.
From what I can tell they are providing a lot of data via partnerships to other apps and clients. At least that is what Wikipedia states.
Its part of the charm if you accept that every Kojima game will be flawed in the same way forever from now on. Its like the George Lucas syndrome, the more Kojima gets his way the less focused his productions are. Creators benefit also when listening a little to their critics.

I also think tone matters a lot in games. MGS1 lives in this kind of comic book, science fiction tone and is perfect in that regard. But something like mgs5 feels like a caricature in every way as it tries to be like a comics and realistic at the same time. It just does not work.
Just imagine traveling back in time and trying to convince your grandmother of this.

"We just can't know if the polio vaccine will work, because it's just fundamentally impossible to decide what is true and false."

"What about the trials the scientists did?"

"No, grandma, believing the scientists would be picking a side."

The only reason that anybody thinks deciding the truth is impossible is because we're currently living with the greatest amount of free speech in history. It's a slippery slope but in the exact opposite direction than everybody thinks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23063265

> We have a myriad of evidence that societies that suppress the truth for "the public good" don't go in a desirable direction or end well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23063531

> Are you saying that the truth is "Covid-19 is caused by 5-g towers"?
I'm not confusing anything, I am saying "proper journalism" is not something that is done in the mainstream press now, at least not in the quantities worth talking about. It's an exception rather than the rule. Pretty much nothing in most of the press is optimized for it. So I don't see why anything we do should be optimized for the needs of the press. Privacy is important, but not because the press is special and they need it. It's because we, regular shmoes, need it. If it also helps the press, well, they are people too. But no more people than the rest of us.
Did you even try to understand the paper? They rightfully point out the uncertainty in estimating even the order of magnitude in the Drake equation, then build a model on uncertain, if not completely speculative facts including the Kardashev civilization model, and the validity of the "Fermi observation," which is in fact being debated in this very thread.
YouTube isn't the internet
There’s no “bread” in bread, so the commercial bakeries are always going bankrupt, consolidating and squeezing every penny possible out of the business.

The average American has no access to good bread at retail, with some frozen stuff at a supermarket bakery probably being the best available.
True, though even those outlets grow and bubble over into the mainstream in various manifestations.
And Python is supported as a first class citizen in Visual Studio.
You could have applied those arguments to all social progressive movements of the 20th century. Gay rights? Those were considered fundamentally abhorrent perversions, suitable for prison & physical elimination. The 'welfare of society'? We define that as much after the fact as anything else. At one point, that was down to censoring anti-slavery positions. How can you possibly consistently make that determination without censoring, at various points, everything good we've worked for? If you're pro abortion, are you 'converting to the cause' of nihilistic extremism, or are you making reasonable arguments? Who determines that, government censors? Private corporations with effective monopolies on communication channels? That only sounds good if they're run by the people you agree with. They will not always be run by people you agree with.
When flat Earthers start protesting quarantines during a pandemic, try to intimidate elected officials with guns, try to destroy 5g towers, and threaten employees of a private company, yeah we can talk about taking them off youtube. I don't understand how you think these channels aren't echo chambers already. They are... Them being on youtube doesn't change that. It only allows them to easily reach millions of people who they otherwise wouldn't reach.
Those ideas were originated by careful peer review of ideas— they were put into practice by unrestricted discussion proliferating throughout the populous.
I agree that abstraction is a useful tool in tackling complexity, but in my experience it is often the only tool people reach for, which can lead to a continuous rat chase of refactoring after refactoring, because somehow the ugly can never quite be fully hidden.

This is exactly what the text talks about: shuffling of the complexity around, trying to hide it, and the end result can often be that you just don't know where it ended up. Personally I think a lot of this is due to the way software engineering ideas like "don't repeat yourself" or "design patterns" can attain an almost cult-like following, and people just blindly apply transformations instead of deeply looking at what the actual problem is.

As others mentioned in the rest of this thread, complexity must be addressed, and only from a perspective of understanding what your problem is, where the traps are, what all of its complexities are, can you then come up with abstractions that will be any good.
Galileo didn't deliver spittle-flecked rants either. He carefully gathered evidence and wrote it up, and his ideas gained acceptance by peer review.
You're completely ignoring the fact that corporations are comprised of people, and as such have First Amendment rights of free speech and self-expression of their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
$5 billion is $5 billion less that Zuckerberg will have to put up more NO TRESPASSING SIGNS on what his fantasizes is his Hawaii beachfront and to hire guys in black suits with Raybans and earbuds to police what is by State law a PUBLIC beachfront.
But it is, assuming you are in the US. That is how the legal framework is laid out. It is extremely difficult and near impossible to restrict speech in public forms.
These exist! They're not cheap and probably ripe for disruption.
Are any black swans going to be black swans in hindsight?

Did anyone anticipate it enough to put their money where their mouth was? A fortune, and a major service to humanity, could have been made by a private individuals stockpiling PPE in vast quantities.

You say anyone with half a brain anticipated it. I didn't. Did you buy 500k N95 masks and put them in a warehouse?

Knowing someone will happen is easy. I know for sure that a large meatorite will hit the earth and cause mass deaths and crop failure, but I have no idea in how many 100s, 1000s or millions of year it will happen. If it happens tomorrow it would be a black Swan *

* an example only, we would get plenty of advanced warning.
Rearrangements like this come from the top down. They are systematic, and done using the same planogramming techniques as most large scale retailers.
Tell us more about the product, market, and clients.
Yeah but almost all business (when starting out) must make decisions based on assumptions. If you didn't you would never get everything done, double and triple checking every single thing. You have to trust your gut. The older I get the more I believe that.

I'm sorry to hear you were not successful, that REALLY sucks to spend all that time and not feel good about it.

It sounds like maybe you waited too long to attempt to sell anything? That's what MVPs are for, to give you feedback to see which of your early assumptions were correct. Ditch the incorrect ones, focus on the correct ones and get better at making assumptions and grow your business organically, based on a positive feedback loop.
udev was the biggest step towards "dynamic systems". Or should i say "hotplug" was, since it is more or less the same thing. I completely agree that the init should be an event based system. I'm not arguing that. I never argued that. I did not in fact argue much other then the statement that nobody should say their opinion about anything.

You say i left out stuff. I did. A lot more stuff then you wrote here. It would be a looooooong list of things, all of them simple (including "networking" and encrypted filesystems). I mentioned udev as an example of something slightly more complex, but even it is not.

> .. much better model than SysV init ..

You talk as a user, as in an admin. I talk as someone who was once interested in how all these stuff actually work. What i played with (read about, coded, and researched in general) includes init, udev, network hardware management (how ip and iw actually do stuff, excluding wpa), and more. What have i learned ? That almost all of it is done by the kernel. SystemD is not the only.. program that responds to events and goes over a graph and such. In fact, it is not even that hard to do what it does. Remember how i asked why udev doesn't have a generic event.. protocol ? You can scrap udev if you don't use systemD. And why ? For better integration ? The kernel tells udev when a device appears. So why doesn't udev just send a message of some sort ? It could even have a "mode" where it doesn't do anything unless it receives a message telling it to. So why not ? Oh, i don't think it's malice.

> The Debian community had a deep examination of the alternatives and picked systemd because it made sense, not because Red Hat has some brainwashing program.

The debian debate was a clusterfuck of grand proportions. There was one (1!) post on the whole debate that addressed the technical aspects. In the end the conclusion was that it is easier to just use systemD as stuff depends on it more and more (GNOME, notably, funny). RH is a huge company, they are not altruistic in their goals. I wouldn't say malice, but i wouldn't say innocence either.

And again, nothing of substance was said. Just fancy words and feelings. Brainwashing..

PS Fun fact: Xorg depends on udev to send it events over dbus when you plug something related to it. It still works without it, until you re-plug your mouse.
I came at this article from the angle that "salt" referred to the cryptographic type, but it's actually some configuration management framework thingie. So there is not a cryptographic vulnerability in CT, but rather one particular log was compromised because of the software they use to run their servers. Very confusing.
My FAANG total comp was >150k (2015, new grad, major US metro area), and that was just the regular offer they made to everyone if you didn't try to negotiate.

You can definitely go higher, at least once the current coronavirus hiring freezes get lifted.
You can create an account on most of the restaurant supply services and place pre-paid orders. You would be shocked at the pricing ( there would be a minimum order value as well )
Electric Car Killed the Electric Car
Not sure what you're trying to imply. Reinsurers do in fact reinsure against their own risk. It's turtles all the way down.
The field of view of the camera is only 1.5x1.5 degrees[1], roughly 3x the size of the moon viewed from the ground.

[1] "NAR" in the upper left, and https://forums.vrsimulations.com/support/index.php/A/A_Forwa...
There is no competitor because there was no problem. For most of use cases SysV, rc.d worked. Just like ifconfig.

Arch Linux switched to systemd earlier than Debian. And I have not noticed. Arch community accepts breaking changes. Debian? I believe they value stability.

Systemd should have matured, proved its citizenship and qualities. And it would have been accepted. Instead it usurped. People had no choice but to abandon their platforms. Decade of angry forum thread shows that there is a problem. Just like with python3, it's better to learn. And it is especially painful that there was PulseAudio just before. Same pointless change. Removed it and never looked back. ALSA works for me, still.
"Some automation is good" is not a statement compatible with (here I paraphrase) "tools that run a consistent set of shell commands on an arbitrary set of machines are the same as tools that install resident agents on those machines". It's OK if you didn't know how Salt (or Ansible, maybe) worked, but you should just acknowledge that and move on rather than doubling down.
I think it's a silly analogy because sunlight won't do squat for many infections. There are clearly better disinfectants out there.

But in terms of speech, a better quote is: the best response to bad speech is good speech.
Agreed. On the beloved GNU/Linux distros, when you "$ python" and it's not installed, Package Kit will recommend you to install it through the native package manager (like apt or dnf). This is literally the same thing. Windows Store is the package manager for Windows.
I wish they had git or something built into KiCad, specially to update parts and be able to find libraries, instead having to search for them online and downloading and extracting and adding to two places in the software.
> you left out networking and authentication, network service dependencies, filesystems, volume encryption, etc. – not to mention automatic restarts, conditional behavior based on the network or other devices (stuff needs to happen when I leave the office), and the various edge cases which I’ve seen in three decades running Unix systems.

I’ve been running Unix systems for 25 years. All of the things you mentioned were already solved adequately in the Linux 0.9 days, and the BSD’s still use old fashioned shell based inits, and work fine in my experience.

In fact, the only time I’ve had issues with any of this stuff has been in the last ten years, and only on systemd-based distros.

The genius of init systems is that they factor all this stuff out, and just handle starting and stopping daemons.
I read that you're supposed to work on / research / carefully understand the problem that needs solving and stay away from a solution for a long as possible. The problem has to pass a number of tests before going the next step of how you will reach people and get them to pay for a solution (often called the "go to market" strategy). Only after you've nailed this are you supposed to consider how to implement a solution.
That's an idealistic statement but a false one. Bullshit is much easier to produce than truth, and is inherently much more appealing, because it isn't constrained by having to be true.

For example, the "good speech" counterpart of David Icke is a number of real experts who are taking to Twitter and blogs. I've seen a few. They usually have single digit reach. In five minutes, Icke can reach a larger audience than all of them combined throughout their entire lives.
I know a SWE joining a small startup whose base salary is 120k. This person is a new grad and doesn't have a CS degree.

So, yeah... 120k is on the low side. I imagine they're averaging a bunch of different jobs together that aren't actually all software engineers.
I don't believe racism "stems from ignorance," and I'm curious why you think so. What makes you say that? Is there some evidence of it, or are you arguing that from hypotheticals or first principles?
I also find this baffling, restaurants keep a very close eye on ingredient cost.
Great project, thanks!

Is Pupper in any way related to this quadraped robot here [1] — or do they just have a similar looking physical architecture?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnEtJSkUFDk
> Luckily, Bay Area and LA residents travel to China a lot, so we already had substantial herd immunity by February 1.

Ummn, what? This sounds like an entirely made up factoid, and certainly isn't supported by the dashboard. The estimates of how many people in a population have to have had COVID-19 are very high. Even if you buy the Stanford study, which is itself controversial, the estimated numbers for how many have been exposed to the virus are still an order of magnitude below what you'd need for herd immunity.
I'm a developer who's never had to ship serious production systems with Python, but I have had to modify the occasional library or open source package. i.e. I know just enough to get myself into trouble...

I develop on a Mac where in theory everything should be easier:

* Comes with Python out of the box

* Platform has ubiquitous and wonderful package manager (Homewbrew)

And yet, 90% of my interactions with Python via the CLI involve it crashing because the version that the current thing I'm trying to compile or execute wants isn't the one the OS happens to be vending for it.

Some OSS projects suggest using things like pyenv to help. I don't know, it just seems to make things even worse for me because now even 'which python' doesn't tell me anything because it directs to some shell script shims that I can't parse or understand.

Python the language is wonderful, as are the libraries that exist for it.

Python the runtime/execution environment is actively hostile to users, and it's honestly keeping me from actually building anything real with it from the ground up.

I'm not surprised that Microsoft went with this approach to TRY to help it's users.

I'm also not surprised that Python devs are pissed because I've also been in those shoes where FINALLY everything is working, and you think you have that one version of python 2 and one version of python 3 both running and coexisting and everything you need to run runs, and then something small changes and WHAM the whole house of cards collapses.

But I wouldn't be angry at Microsoft, I'd be angry at the Python community for letting things get so bad.
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