skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when you are asked for a source for your claims, that you see that as confirmation that ...

Not at all. I'm willing to be open to and read any scientific study that says otherwise. Bear in mind, I definitely have a critic's heart for it.

Please remember the context to which I replied:

> The amount of people I know who don't use adblocker/ublock etc is ridiculous. Many are non-technical, but it's not any more difficult than installing an app on your phone. Does anyone know if there is some philosophy to this I don't understand?

@Avicebron clearly stated that they don't understand why people don't use adblockers even though it's "not any more difficult than installing an app". I provided three examples from non-technical family, meaning: I do talk to my family and they did explain why they don't or didn't use adblockers.

I'm trying to say that asking for source perhaps means that you didn't talk to your own friends and family (or other non-technical acquaintances) and ask why they don't use adblockers. Or if you did talk then you didn't listen, you didn't think about it in their perspective.

Perhaps your own people will have different reasons than the ones I presented. Just off the top of my head, a reason that didn't come up would be "work doesn't permit it"; my family aren't encumbered by employers who strictly determine what software is installed.
Further indications that Aaron Swartz didn't die completely in vain...
Great news. Elsevier is a parasite.
I think we are past peak social network. At the plateau of productivity whatever that means for social networks.

I think it’s healthy to question what value if any the network provides. Plus what kind of personal info you give away about yourself. Social network news feeds are designed like slot machines with random awards, so that you login and check it every now and then.
Why is this comment downvoted.
why not create a device like a mask which can encrypt voice before put it to the internet?
Rosa Park took a personal risk. People at IA are risking the archive.
> Libraries should be enabled to digitally lend their physical holdings and not have to rely on these eBook licenses

I've thought about this quite a bit in the past, and I don't think that would really make sense. A well designed digital library system operating under those restrictions would be nearly identical to one which didn't have to adhere to copyright at all. All you'd have to do is build a system which transparently "checks out" materials when the user accesses them and automatically "checks them in" after a minute or two of inactivity, and you'd be able to reduce the number of materials the digital library needs to purchase by a couple orders of magnitude over a traditional library. Add a few more orders of magnitude if they're allowed to tear individual pages out of books or split scenes out of movies and lend those out separately. You could probably put Netflix out of business with only about a hundred physical copies of every popular movie. (Which is practically nothing when you're operating on that scale.)

Publishers could, of course, increase the cost of physical copies of their works by several orders of magnitude to compensate (making them completely unaffordable for consumers in the process), but barring that I think the whole "you can only lend out one digital copy for every physical copy you own" thing would be more of a charade than an actual meaningful restriction over just abolishing copyright.
I understand the need for Cloudflare in this case, I just didn't realize it was being used at first and got rather excited about the prospects of self-hosting. I don't mean to insult, I just got a false impression and wanted to make sure people here knew that the resources aren't really being served by your server, at least in most cases.

I just ran that Pingdom test again, 938ms for the 301 and 3861ms on the 404 on a missed cache. Now that it's in the cache, everything loads in less than 247ms.
Well I find it pleasant.
Not the only time they made a mistake in a promotion, this one was in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
Just checked out the NixOps manual https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/ and it seems able to deploy to NixOS machines on any cloud or LAN platform. But i also do not find any mention of it being able to deploy non-NixOS servers.
at least as a car company

Is their justification justified if they are treated as more than a car company?

Tesla is a car company. Their current products are great. Their upcoming products might be industry changing. The Semi is going to lower the cost of longhaul freight, which has ripple down effects across many industries. The cybertruck is a moonshot granted, but just might hit it big. Allegedly, they have over 500,000 reservations for it which is more than the Model 3 ever had.

Tesla is a car company.

Plus a static energy provider (powerwall, powerpack, megapack).

Plus a solar provider (solar panels + solar tiles)

Plus a large refuel / recharge network provider (superchargers) who has a huge lead on literally everyone.

Plus a software company. Even if you want to joke about AP not being full self driving. Find a car you can buy right now that does all of the things that a Tesla on autopilot can do (in specific, stop lights / signs, smart summon, and navigate on autopilot). Last I checked, the closest was Mercedes's supercruise, which is very good and still doesn't have 1/2 of the functionality of Tesla. The OTA updates really are game changing. When I purchased my Model 3 in November 2018, it lacked an alarm system (Sentry Mode), dashcam (Tesla Cam), etc. I got this and a ton more functionality, for free via OTA updates. Unlike every other automotive company, I didn't have to wait for their next year's model. This is a radical rethink of the industry.

Their current stock price seems a tad low if they're able to execute effectively in all of the markets they're in. So far, it does appear that they are.
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I see that even criminals in Europe have manners. Until we figure how to replace domestic criminals with European ones, I'd prefer to keep 2A.
> you can literally get away with murder

Pepsi killed anyone? That's not what the story says at all. Accidental death is not the same as murder.
Wouldn't surprise me if they had a little piston or something to push off every Xth bottle but there was an off-by-one error so they wound up pushing off every bottle with 348 printed instead, or perhaps they had to restart the line once and no one told the engineer to adjust for it so the place was off after that.
> The goal here is to generate a typed API across a bunch of microservices

You are describing gRPC.
ah good to know! i didn't know there were intermediate tvs that had internet without being "smart"
billions of miles of real-world driving data from a million and growing fleet of vehicles.

Tesla has built their own chip optimized fully for self-driving.

all-in on vision based full self-driving, which seems to be the only way to solve all the edge cases. Even if google accomplishes self driving with lidar, lidar will never be able to compensate for all edge cases. Human vision already compensates for all edge cases, thus the case for vision based self driving.
At a glance it seems more comparable to fabric than Ansible. Ansible is not really about controlling computers, it's about declarative configuration.

One major benefit over ansible is that you only need a posix shell on the remote side, instead of a compatible version of python and possibly some specific libraries. Which is a also a major downside if you want to manage systems that don't have a posix shell.
> It would mean taking the rights to the land away from the Natives and putting it under the purview of the central government.

Not arguing one way or the other here, nor do I know much of the context. But going only from the original comment in this thread, it sounds like this would mean taking the rights to the land away from the current set of tribal elders.

There's an argument to be made that this sort of cultural heritage belongs to the whole tribe; and not only those currently alive, but those who will be part of it in the future; and possibly not only of these particular tribes, but of all Aboriginals in Australia. It may be that those elders have considered that large group in their decision, but it's also quite possible that they have not; or even that they're corrupt and lining their own pockets.

It's also possible that this move is seen as the lesser of two evils to those elders: that they want to keep the sites, but feel they need the money to help support the tribe in other ways. If that's the case, then it's still a case of injustice.

(As an interesting aside: Recognition that "selling your land" might not really be voluntary was recognized so early that in ancient Israel, it was legally impossible to sell your land permanently: Every 50 years, all land went back to the original owners or their heirs, and you could only lease land until the next 50-year "reset".)

While I'm certainly in favor of letting groups decide for themselves what kinds of protection they need or don't need, there are lots of ways in which "tribal elders signed an agreement" could happen while still being "injustice to natives".
Hi Matthias. I'm a guy who recently discovered a love for building things with wood. I don't have any family who are experienced in this area, do you think think this is something that a person can learn to do from home with practice, or is in-person instruction an invaluable component?
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Finally. But several years late on the side of MIT in this case but at last better late than never.
"Realistic"? Shorting a stock is not a pure mathematical bet that a stock will, in the fullness of time, be viewed as overvalued, it's a concrete bet about prices in the near term. :)

Plenty of people called the 90s dot com bubble, shorted tech stocks, then lost everything because the bubble kept going until they ran out of cash to make short bets. Same with the housing market more recently.

If you could magically know that Company X's stock is overvalued, and that it WILL collapse at some point, but you couldn't figure out when, just a vague "sometime in the next 10 years", going long would be a good way to lose money (it will collapse eventually), but going short would also be a good way to lose money. Timing matters just as much as direction.
Given I shave every few weeks blades last me 3-5 years.
I wonder why in the USA people keep saying "worked for inclusion" and then you see that in fact he created a lot of Black only events. I can't understand.
Really not seeing people go in on this, trips aren't free lunch. If not for friends, I would have had a real bad trip at an Amon Tobin concert. Some of us, our brain wants to defend itself against the disintegration and it doesn't get pretty.
Come a long way since Aaron Swartz. Let’s hope the reform continues.
Actually, wasn’t bad when I looked at it. I’ve seen much much x5 worse.

A few font-awesome, testing-library, ES-Lint & react imports. Some of those broader libraries have been broken up so you don’t have to import the whole enchilada.

But ya in a larger project, mixing and matching the versions of some of those components can get tricky. This repo seems reasonable in dependencies, the dependencies of dependencies on the other hand can be crazy in any project these days.
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I think it was a technical blunder and I don't buy into the idea that they're responsible for the actions of individuals in a riot.

If someone upset that they (or more likely someone else) should have won a prize takes actions that lead to the death of another ... I don't believe Pepsi is responsible for that.
I've read that you can get a non-smart and more reliable TV if you call it "digital signage".
I'm not convinced there is a problem specifically with FB either. Personally its great to keep up to date with friends and family globally. I only spend 20 minutes a week though. I spent a lot more time on Twitter and Reddit and those platforms seem much more toxic.
And I forgot, buy a shop vac to collect all that saw dust. :)
I have thought of Personality Vectors similar to this concept but for a completely different purpose.

If we had a Chatbot that would interact with someone hypothetically we could have this kind of distinction between Personality Vectors to mutate its own behavior and to interact with others.

Its sort of the idea I had when I watched the movie Interstellar and TARS is told to decrease his own humor. So if the system would just know who its talking to it would create a preference vector for each person it interacts with.

But you would need some kind of baseline so basically the Personality Vectors would be set to neutral. And each interaction with a Personality vector would be a system that stores a preference vector for each person.

As the system time evolves (which is also in the article) you would basically end up with a set of graphs. There is a notion out there which is called a Dynamic Network analysis [1]. If you also stored the history of that you could then not just be able to rewind the system backwards to a previous checkpoint.

The way you could start learning how to learn a personality vector is a reinforcement learning situation. If you say "bad AI I didn't like that" the system would then look at what it said and mutate the preference vector for that person. Or you could just change the vector manually by a technique that was illustrated above by just saying "reduce humor by 70%".

Then you could have model which would do conditional generation [1] of text based upon interactions with others. It would be basically a reinforcement learning system paired with a generative text model. The reinforcement system would store the Personality and Preference vectors for each person. For each behavior and preference you would need a corpus to bootstrap the system. The reinforcement system would be a retrieval network and it would retrieve a pertained system based on user(s) input and get a generational text network to provide a response. This would be similar to Alpha Go's design. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_network_analysis
[2] https://github.com/salesforce/ctrl
[3] https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/10932/differ...
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The plaintiffs are arguing that IA broke the law and that they as plaintiffs had their rights violated.

If IA shuts down it will technically be the courts fining them, but I have trouble pinning blame on the court or the injured party asking for relief. Nor can IA claim ignorance here.
Ive found just about all my software/UX Design gigs on Linkedin via recruiters.

Also, it's been a way to get my next best deal via job hopping and starting conversations with recruiters telling them how much Im making (which is really how much i want for my next job). Either the conversation continues or I went to high and it doesnt. Now out of 100 times doing this I've landed 5 to 10 jobs over many years. A lot of the times I'm not looking, but interested in what the market will bear for my experience.

Personally, couldn't imagine deleting Linkedin.
A rep from Backblaze gave an estimate on this. $250k/mo, not including probable volume discount.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...
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Don't think this is really that clickbaity - the typo amount accounted to 32B, and the outrage caused by that non-existent 32B lead to riots in which people died, in other words, deadly riots.

sometimes things are legitimately outrageous and worthy of an emotionally charged headline.
It sounds like the bottling factory printing all the other numbers simply missed the memo on not printing 349.
We can be pretty sure there is a limit. We're physical creatures in a (roughly) deterministic world, so ultimately we're bound by Rice's theorem just as computers are.

Can the human brain in principle be simulated by a (deterministic) algorithm? Seems to me the answer is obviously yes, as we are 'merely' extremely complex machines whose operation is governed by deterministic physical laws. If you agree, you are forced to agree that we are bound by Rice's theorem.

Whether it's ever likely to be a practical problem, is another matter.

edit: We already know there are mathematically interesting numbers so enormous they cannot be represented in our universe, let alone computed by humans or our machines. That's not really the kind of practical limit we're interested in, but it still shows a limit of a sort. TREE(3) for instance.
I worked in the Tesla factory making solar panels and I can attest that they are more snazzy and lighter then normal panels I've bought for my home (the wait list was to long for Tesla ones) I'm not sure they're much more durable.

They can take a hit straight on but if anything comes at the wrong angle the top glass layer shatters. It was so common that we had a designated spot to go dump the ones that would frequently break during the manufacturing process.
They’re good for woods that are blotchy when stained with the stains normally available in US hardware stores, namely birch and pine.
I would guess that the paper value market cap of Nikola is an artifact of extremely tight supply of their new stock.
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Couldn’t you apply this same principle to Apple from ~2000 until current? It seems, at least in some pocket markets, there exists an intersection where manufacturing and technology combine to be highly profitable.

Maybe car manufacturing isn’t one of those places, but I feel like that’s more difficult to dismiss as flippantly.
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When it debuted, McDonald's "Monopoly" game was a huge deal and people would eagerly open their tickets to see if they won a big prize. If they won it was usually a small fries or another ticket, but sometimes it was some money and one person won $1M.

After a while the luster wore off and it faded into the background. I'm sure it boosted sales in its first few years quite a bit but now you hardly hear about it. I'm actually surprised it still happens.
> I think the biggest gripe is probably about overpromising autopilot capability years before it's actually production ready.

Very fair! This has been a pretty spectacular overpromise. I firmly believe FSD will get here eventually but the timeframes were ridiculously off.

What I also read is an insane amount of comment on every SpaceX and Tesla post here about how bad it is to have touchscreens in cars or spacecraft, and how huge swathes of HN commenters are absolutely convinced touchscreens are dangerous, regressive, etc. Even when professional pilots chime in about how they're used in aircraft. Even when SpaceX designed their Dragon controls in consultation with the veteran astronauts who use them, HN was convinced this was bad, and don't even mention they dared used Chromium!

(Not really a Tesla specific thing using touchscreens but seems to be a very popular complaint about them here.)
Oh c'mon you know the top influencers on the leaderboards.. The guy with the clever cranium, the lady with all the stories about people she didn't fire who turned out to be awesome. Don't make me spell it out. You know what to do with your idols.
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And if you want to see even more insanity, look at market cap versus profit. Tesla - who has not even made $1 BB of profit in its 15 years despite billions of government money, tax credits, regulatory credits, and untold favours - is now valued at $185 BB. Musk's bonus this year is bigger than all the profit Tesla has ever made.

It is absolute insanity.
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Paul Sellers dimensioned his filming studio to mimic a small garage for a common UK woodworker.
Pepsi didn't kill anyone as far as that story goes.
This is incredible!

While we were trying to build up a corpus of transcription data for our company, I often thought we should build something like this an open-source it. We ended up building a one-off hacked-up thing to do it instead, but I'm really glad this exists for any future people in our shoes.

Annotating speech data is super tedious and anything that improves the process even 10% is a huge, huge win.
To name a few but you're missing the top dogs the ones who can't even squeeze any more connections and give advice on how to gain more connections.
Mobile web apps can be written to give good user experience.
This is great news! Going from prosecuting Swartz to ending a contract with Elsevier.
The details are there. It seems you're complaining about their order as evidence of a conspiracy theory, "to make the victim seem more sympathetic."

The only conspiracy is that people want those who are not typically victims of these injustices to be inclusive in their thinking about who deserves life and who should make that determination.
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I don't know what Asians have to do with it lol (I know it was an autocorrect), but while this is a long term approach, it would definitely be the way to go IMHO. The experience and reflection are key
> so the applications will often use other data points, like zip code, that end up having a correlation to bad credit as well as race. ...often producing the same result.

You realize this too is illegal right? The law doesn't say "you can't use race" - instead it says (paraphrased by the Brookings Institute): "Are people within a protected class being clearly treated differently than those of nonprotected classes, even after accounting for credit risk factors?"[1]

O'Neil points out that math is often used to obfuscate this (whether it be deliberately or not). This is a valid point, and one that people who think of math as a values neutral tool should consider.

I didn't love the book, but it's difficult to make the argument that she is stupid.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/credit-denial-in-the-age-...
Less sophisticated, but free and working:
https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Fair enough, I dislike having the idea of having disparate systems where one type of the same thing is stored on a different system from a second type of the same thing.

IAM is on the AWS repo aswell isn't it? I guess it wouldn't be so bad then.
This is a bit like asking what the Marquis de Sade did that was so painful.

I don't even know where to begin explaining how frustrating Ansible is. Over time they've compounded one bad design decision on top of another, while never adding any actually useful functionality to be able to troubleshoot or iterate on the many random failures. They also don't provide guidance on how "if you use feature X, features a, b, c, d, and e will not work correctly". Finding a working example of core functionality, like an AWS inventory plugin, requires you to dig through all of the code and scour the internet and experiment for a day before you have a simple working configuration. The more features you use, the more fragile and shitty it becomes, to the point that nobody wants to actually change any roles or playbooks because deployments might stop working and it'll take you two days to figure out how to make them work again in Ansible's bass-ackwards design. And of course, it's Python, so you have to teach all your users how to use virtualenvs, freeze deps, and run it with Docker, or you'll constantly hear "it didn't run correctly for me".