skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced by this article that because we are able to put a moratorium on evictions and student loan interest during a once-in-a-century crisis that it means it's all bullshit and we don't have to do it.

Loan interest helps cover inflation over time (and makes up for the fact that the government's money could have been used somewhere else that would generate interest). If there's no interest, then the loan becomes a better and better deal for the student over time and worse and worse for the government over time. We want the system to remain solvent, not run out of money.

Now an argument could be made that the interest rates they are charging are too high, but I doubt most people (and the person who wrote this article) have enough information to make a good case for that. I imagine if nothing else there's also administration fees and accommodating for students that either default on their loans or go into forbearance or other situations.

As for no evictions. If people can't be evicted, then there's no incentive to pay rent, besides wrecking your credit, which a lot of people don't have great credit to begin with, and a decent amount of people decide to stop paying even when not in a pandemic until the landlord goes through the (sometimes long, like 90+ days) eviction process.

Maybe we could have some sort of insurance put into place that allows for some hardships like disability, but I think that's one thing disability pay is supposed to be used for anyway, so it already exists. It's not super easy to evict people to begin with in most places, so a landlord might be willing to work with you for a month or two if you can make the case that it is truly a temporary situation.

Of course it's not a temporary situation for most of the people affected right now. We have massive unemployment, and very few companies hiring, so of course people are in trouble, and in trouble long-term. Making millions of families homeless all at once is a recipe for disaster and total civil upheaval, so it makes sense to put a moratorium right now.

Although the government isn't doing enough to keep it going (and GOP has 180'd and decided screw everyone, we're not helping anyone anymore) and looks like we're going to have exactly that horror scenario play out within the next few months, most likely.

But that doesn't mean that evictions are bullshit when we're not in a pandemic scenario.

Also, I don't think the article's premise is bullshit, and I agree with the TSA example mostly, I just think some of its examples are poor, and poorly defended.
Coronavirus: Child psychologists highlight mental health risks of lockdown
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I know there are a lot of problems with how police in Australia treat indigenous Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people), so it is totally unsurprising to hear that Canadian police have similar issues.

On that topic, how do US law enforcement treat Native Americans? In the present debate there seems to be very little attention to that question.
>On the business side, there is an widespread unwillingness to acknowledge that technical people may be better placed to make decisions than businesspeople.

Maybe acknwledging this would mean losing their jobs. Buisness people have mortgages and children and they probably don't like the idea of having their job replaced by a robot. It is important to remember that the admin/money-side people are not playing the game that they tell the operations people they are playing. They want to keep their jobs, accrue power and money, they don't really care about AI or sales, those are just tools for their own game.
Completely agree. While the video is awesome (nice job!), the logistics of pulling something like this off is extremely difficult. It's different from the "you could have said that about landing a rocket", in that there are thousands of different routes taken for different customers per second, and each route has its own issues like portillo said. The minute one stops working, debugging that will be a huge challenge.

The user terminal as a gateway idea is also not practical due to link budget (EIRP and G/T), but also the much lower availability they'll be dealing with.
Ask HN: How do you cope with complexity?
More information than you could consume during a lifetime.

Analysis paralysis from the information age and 'nothing new under the sun'.

Ideas that exceed your current abilities.

The zoo that is software technology.

Every single field of science and philosophy.

Huge complexity of nature at many scales and our limited perception of it.

Complexity of massive institutions. And in the relationships between them.

Limited life span, limited working memory, limited worldview, etc.
And places with no competition. Some times there is a ground network, or at most two (in the US, this tends to be Comcast and AT&T).
It's been that way for a very long time. I get down-voted if I say anything from a conservative perspective here.
I've seen this topic, the gap between philosophy and life, being discussed a lot in Buddhism. The Vietnamese Buddist monks usually talk about "Đạo và Đời" meaning "Religion and Life." The monks explain why they don't get married and laypeople can. If we generalize the concept, it can become "Philosophy and Life."

The answer is practice. It's like math. In order to understand a concept, we need to practice. In the information age, we often assume that we understand some concepts by just reading Wikipedia pages. We all strive to be polymaths. We want to discover the next great philosophy. But we end up being confused. Practice is the key to understanding. Frequent mediation, having quiet time, isolation are forms of practice.
Economist editor to writer: This year, X is on the down slope of hype cycle and no one is talking about it, gimme something ASAP.

Economist editor: opens their "pessimist template"

"X has over-promised and under-delivered, A, and B have not commercialized yet, and may never be. X cannot do C yet. The challenges of X are D, E and F"

Replaces A...F with the most prominent examples they can find, Boom, we have an article.

I read through the article, hoping for a bit of important info. I wish we had a vote in HN: "Isn't worth your time, don't read it"
An extra billion dollars from a stock sale might go a long way in paying off creditors.
A bitcoin for women analogy might be generous; one diamond isn't fungible for another one. There's sentimental value.
What's the best way to help? Is it better to donate to Archive.org, or the EFF?

I know that Brewster Kahle is involved in both, and I imagine that the defence team will be staffed by EFF lawyers. I think both the Internet Archive and EFF are good causes, I just want to know which way will cause less paperwork for them to receive a donation.
I suppose because the certificate changes more often and it’s more reliable/predictable to change the server cert than DNS? If you ARE rotating the SNI public keys I’m assuming you can easily support multiple active at the same time.
> I wonder how many people on HN have experienced being the only person of their race in the room

I have that experience. In my 6th and 7th grade I attended a school in rural Tanzania. It was in the years following Tanzania's independence from colonial rule and there was a certain resentment towards us Europeans harbored by (many) teachers and students, and I was many times harassed and/or ridiculed, and subjected to corporal punishment for the slightest offense (in my own view at least). I have plenty of "charm and charisma" (again in my own view!) but could never get accustomed to the treatment. And indeed felt I shouldn't have to and so was eventually taken out and home schooled instead.

Now, did this break me, make me despondent or not believe in myself? It id not, and the reason is context. Because even if (many) young Tanzanians resented us Europeans, many if not most of the elderly did not. As a 12 year old it was not uncommon for me to be greeted with "shikamoo"(roughly meaning "I kiss the dust off your feet"), a greeting normally reserved for really old people - and people within the colonial administration. I was also treated as someone potentially very rich (not that I was, except relatively only). I still did not come away from the experience completely unscathed but that is another story.

I could go on but in short; being singled out or even maltreated on basis of skin color because people see you as privileged is something quite different than being disrespected because your skin color signals relative under-privilege. Which should give pause I believe. It may take a long while yet until our ethnically related appearances no longer play any role in our relationships.
Also more engines is smoother than fewer engines!
Maybe breakfast is really important for children so they grow? But I stopped eating breakfast many years ago me too (before I knew about IF)
Steganography on Mac OS
cat foo <(printf "\\n") bar

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I'm always disappointed with Google Asistant. When I say "navigate back home" it tries to route me to a company called "Home". Great job. I've included a hint "back". I've never been to a company called "Home". I'm after work. This is a fun example, but I never get good results. I say "weather" and it shows me the weather, just in a different city. FFS. Maybe in the next 5 years I'll be finally able to do something using voice commands. Right now I just want to smash my phone.
I have had all list except the extra languages lists enabled for a couple years now. Online fast food ordering sites (e.g. Chipotle) are the only ones I've noticed get broken.
Yes, I've been protesting with them.
Surely >95% of screens out there right now are running at 60Hz, so 240Hz "pen drawing" is pretty niche and not a priority?
> Other FAANG companies...

Quick correction: Netflix works completely differently.
I think the processing time might be heavily driven by the waveform and how they do the networking. As complexity increases and they move towards a software defined networking schema, the latency goes up. If they're not using ready-made/proven ASICs, the latency goes up. I don't believe any of this is public from them.
The FCC is fairly conservative on what they believe can be delivered and rightly so. However this is the kind of technology that as taxpayers we should be funding. Things that are right at the envelope of possibility. It's not impossible but highly complex and involves a ton of calculations. Sounds exactly the kind of problem that technology is good at solving.
Generally there are four types of internet delay namely propagation delay, processing delay, queueing delay and transmission delay. For satellite link, regardless of Geo or Leo the propagation delay will be dominating the equations.

I believe Starlink's engineers would have figured all the delay situations to claim less than 100ms latency and hopefully they will publish a credible white paper about it to refute FCC's counter claim.

Elon if you're reading this please send email to my username on Gmail for a third party verification of the latency, and of course with a small amount of fee in USD :-)
Except for the part where blogs, templates, the uninformed, and the webdevs trying to CYA add the popups anyways regardless of whether or not they are needed because why run the legal risk?
I mean, there's an argument that this is worse. If a security bug is found in libc, in the "old world," your distro would have an update out in a day, and you'd be completely safe. With flatpak, you also depend on whoever's maintaining the GIMP flatpak (and all your other apps), who may not be motivated to do updates any faster than GIMP's normal release schedule, potentially leaving you vulnerable for much longer.
Looks pretty cool. How does this compare to bitnami? Bitnami's community list of stacks is pretty extensive: https://bitnami.com/stacks. So I'm wondering what the advantages are of layerci over bitnami and their pre-made stacks.
You can do whatever you want if it has no commercial value. Google would not bother asserting their rights because your experiments will not grow into a competitor they would care about.

This is for serious side ventures, like you creating a self driving car company on the side. Use common sense, fault on the side of disclosure, and you'll be alright.
It sounds like the never ending prestige ladder climb in business, finance, or law, you first struggle to get admitted into a top tier university, then either a top tier business school or law school, then a prestigious firm. A career in medicine could potentially be like this as well. But not other types of engineering, as far as I know.

Maybe the path of all top-paying secure white collar professions start resembling each other at some point. Excess competition breeds people gaming the applications process and focusing on it for its own sake to get in, instead of figuring out what they want to do once they’re in- besides get paid high salaries, of course.
While you argue your case, that one has to vocalise if one wants something, well, you are still ignoring the basic want of not having your privacy violated and the fact that you can vocalise something willfully, without it being spied away from you. I'm also extremely suspicious of the suggestion that this is something only power users would want.
Starlink is not going to be for end users most likely. The terminal, by all accounts so far, will be far more expensive than a geo terminal due to the motor and the phased array. I guess if you're willing to pay for it, it will certainly solve that problem, but there aren't enough of those customers to be profitable.
Fair enough. Usually when I use "Navigate to the nearest gas station" or "navigate home" or "set an alarm for 8am on Tuesday" it all works perfectly for me, but I concede I don't use the feature that often so perhaps I've just been using it for well-adjusted commands.
What do Indians think about this topic?

P.S. - Indians were taken slaves to Africa, west indies etc. etc.

my opinion - I don't give a flying hoot. There's no way I am changing my codebase for this BS.
That's actually a smart way of using vimium, thank you! I'm gonna set more bookmarklets for various tasks now.
> > Look ma, I've discovered a program can do nefarious things

> What else is new?

I think that this dismissal (which presents as a quote something that doesn't seem to appear in the original article) is too hasty. Surely exactly the same could be said of any submission involving, say, privilege escalation? Of course every program and means of distribution has security risks, and their existence isn't news; but documenting the specific risks is surely worth it.
I believe you when you say that you notice you get down voted for expressing a conservative view on HN, but I seem to notice the opposite.

HN has a way of defending Trump and quickly down voting direct criticism of conservatives, at least in my own n=1 experience.

edit: ...and this comment was flagged. Case in point.
So Skynet will be insane?
> you're installing drivers for another model of printer

That shouldn't be the OS's decision to make. The user wanted his machine to install something, and the something even worked fine after install.

Are you advocating for the OS deleting files/software that it considers "wrong" without explicitly asking the user?

Besides that, the driver appears to be fully compatible because it works fine once reinstalled. It would be one thing if the driver just stopped working (because the printing driver API changed, which is fair enough for a decades-old printer), but in this case it's not about API incompatibility but a broken update system.
Where are stop signs hexagons?

Am I being a pedantic numpty or am I illustrating a point about the many ways errors creep in, regardless of the natural- or artificial-ness of the intelligence?
Language platforms, especially on the front end, are chosen for the customer base you can deliver to for the most part, not because the language is great or horrible unless its egregiously bad.
>The browser knows that the cookie exists, but it has no way of knowing how the server is going to use it, or what the cookie is actually for.

There was a standard for that, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P. There's no reason why something similar can't be implemented now.
discrimination: bad;
killing: not a problem?

Edit: I'm not being snarky. I truly don't understand this distinction.
Yes, this is huge, and likely one of the least appreciated aspects. Scheduling and queueing delay (not in the switches and routers) can contribute significantly to that 100ms.
We have a Jenkins job that builds our code from github, runs the tests, builds the package and then uploads that to our private JFrog repo. Then we have another job that builds VM images (GCP) by installing the package from JFrog and all its dependencies. One final job starts the rolling upgrade of live machines.

The hardest part is getting all the debian/* files right. Recently, I tried to convert a 3rd party tar.gz into a .deb but failed. The documentation isn't great. I think someone on our team mentioned using fpm, but I've not tried it personally.

I think our command is just 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc $@', but like I said, prepping all the required files for that to just work isn't my area of expertise.
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#224-16-224-128-112-0-240-128-22...
Thanks kind stranger. I am gathering courage to talk to a therapist.
Interesting. Do you mean playing a specific game or just using VR in general?
I honestly don’t know if this is a joke or if there is a bunch of erotic fiction I’ve been missing
This. Aero bars are nice for flats and descents. I wouldn't want to have to do a tough climb without drop bars or at least flat bars. And I definitely wouldn't want to ride in a pack with drop bars with my hands not on them. That sounds like a great way to wreck.
I am an underqualified and generally ignorant data scientist.

I'm really good at understanding technology and talking to people though, so all the true experts who I know enough to talk shop with love me for keeping management off their backs.
The way we do student loans, with the educational institution having no negative effects when the student fails to get a job that pays it back - it's terrible. The students can't expunge the loan in bankruptcy, and colleges have a lot of financial encouragement to make costs such that they go as high as the loans do. These loans actually greatly retard the financial growth of society because the trillions owed mean people delay buying a house, can't spend money on other things. Separate from interest rates, student loans are terrible for the economy. Not in theory, but in clear and easy view.
Well yes, I agree. They should've banned tracking cookies outright, informed consent or not. Alas, they tried to leave space for honest businesses to play with - which is always a bad idea where it comes to the advertising industry.
> from my parents that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Me too, and I've been slightly wondering how they got that idea -- when nowadays I don't eat breakfast and still feel fine

> breakfast cereals industry's ads and sponsored "research"

How interesting, makes sense, maybe the answer
Of course it does. How many billions have the terrestrial ISPs lobbied over the years. They expect results for all that money and they want competitors to be severely discouraged or downright banned.
So Flatpaks also install under /var? That's horrible, I thought it was only Snaps that made that decision :( Does anyone know what the official reasoning for this is?
If you’re doing all of these things I think the reason for not getting hired is because of the pretty negative attitude encapsulated in this comment. I wouldn’t strongly advocate for a candidate who views interviewing as a fabricated system with the deck stacked against them. Nevermind someone who would lie about being exposed to problems they’ve seen before.

Interviews should be a collaborative, albeit stressful, experience. The interviewers would be much happier to hire someone than to say No and have to interview another 10 people or whatever. My advice to any candidate: stay positive, focus on what you can control, and try to have fun with it if possible. Any negativity you bring into an interview will be picked up by interviewers. But the opposite is also true! If you go in with a smile, ready to meet some new people, and ready for a challenge, interviewers will take notice and appreciate it.
> This is the penalty for wilfully screwing it up

It isn't incidental that the penalty for being accused of willfully screwing it up is quite high: having to defend oneself against a 20 million dollar judgement.
Corona, Trump, How do you generally feel about social media in 2020?
More liquids less brrrrrrrrrrr
I agree with your skepticism, while also acknowledging that A.I. in all its incarnations is a powerful tool. But the argument against AI, apart from "this is obviously limited", is much more subtle than what you are claiming in your article. (IMO, it comes down to quantum physics... Hopefully one day this will become obvious to everyone when we all have quantum computers.)
I think they mean wrapping the REST api in a class (aka "data provider" or "repository pattern") this way you've abstracted the HTTP request logic away from your application.

Both the API and the Mock implementation will require the same interface.
Ok im clearly still missing something.

Git uses master on its own for the master branch.

Master has multiple meanings, only one of which is not racist, but insensitive to use.

Bitkeeper, an earlier vcs uses the terminology master/slave branches.

And that some how transfers to git? Because the kernel used to use bitkeeper?

Thats a stretch.

And github starts renaming it because?

Its virtue signaling instead of doing something worthwhile?
I don't know if it counts, but I've noticed the use of Top Chef instead of Master Chef more and more often these days.

On the other hand, you have "old masters" referring to great historical artists or colloquially, their artwork, "Masters" referring to golf tournaments, "mastery" when you get better at something over time, etc. None of these connect to a slave concept.

The word slave, on the other hand, is more problematic since it doesn't have those other contexts, and always means some sort of subservience. We already went through this exact exercise back when multiple hard drives were referred to as a single master and however many slaves. We still call it a Master Boot Record, but any other boot sectors don't get called slaves anymore.

Primary is a perfectly fine word that we're already using in this context nowadays. I'd be perfectly happy if we didn't have a dozen names for the same things. Everything else is secondary.
Intelligence is the amalgamation of many smaller problems working together and building on top of each other.

* Facial recognition/detection

* Facial synthesis (deepfakes)

* Speech synthesis, including mimickry

* Speech recognition

* Natural language processing

* Gait/walking algorithms

* Motion planning

* etc.

Complexity arises from simple units working together in parallel. We're working on the smaller, specialized problems that will, in the next generation, be put together to build more complex and complete systems.

I'm no fan of the 'black box' nature of neural networks but it's clear they're getting results. As they become more accessible to the lay person, we'll see a profusion of use cases that are both anticipated and surprising.

I'm always flabbergasted by the doom prediction. The path we're on seems apparent.