skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tiktok is a potential golden goose for China. They aren't slaughter it just so they can show propaganda for a couple weeks before it inevitably gets shut down. It's the same principle of "don't shit where you eat." If China wants to spread propaganda, they is no shortage of ways to do it on American social media companies.
Unit files are great. SystemD should have stayed there. But then it handles networking(including configuring network interfaces), and time synchronization, and name resolution, and the kitchen sink.
Wikipedia says Pashto is an Iranian language, not Turkic.
> Critical thinking skills

A lot of people stay at the dunning-Kruger peak on that for a very long time and over-evaluate their (i for sure did for several years at least).

> independent research

Those who have the time to do this for half the semi-important issues in the world are lucky(like most of of on HN i think). And i started 2 month ago informing myself about climate change and what does it mean to stop using oil, i did not have any time for myself between that and work until recently. Research takes a long, long time if you wnat to do it well. I'm still not certain about anything.

> open dialogue
Yes if it mean what i think, this is very helpful. Paper journal used to offer opportunities for that.
I would assume it would be for racing, not consumers. They didn't mention cost, but looking at the process, time and materials involved I'd bet you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars. I don't see consumers going for that, but GT racing clubs? Oh yeah!
The equivalent for a programmer I guess would be 100 hours without a single LOC. Whole still getting code to production.
There are a plethora of reasons to be concerned and wary about Chinese companies that have nothing to do with race or nationality. There is an intense ideological divide and, as the article mentions, the Chinese government freely uses every power available to them to both suppress the influence of liberal democracies in their own country as well as propagate their own ideology to the rest of the world.

To quote from the article,

> A leaked internal party directive from 2013 describes “the very real threat of Western anti-China forces and their attempt at carrying out westernization” within China. The directive describes the [Chinese Communist] party as being in the midst of an “intense, ideological struggle” for survival. According to the directive, the ideas that threaten China with “major disorder” include concepts such as “separation of powers,” “independent judiciaries,” “universal human rights,” “Western freedom,” “civil society,” “economic liberalism,” “total privatization,” “freedom of the press,” and “free flow of information on the internet.”
Requirement to buy has nothing to do with it.

The page you linked has a video that says:

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself"

They also sell a package literally named "Full Self-Driving Capability"

Yes, they qualify it in smaller print, in the manual, on the website, etc. But the number of Youtube videos of people showing their car "driving itself" shows that there's definitely an implication that the car can almost drive itself and is constantly learning and getting better, reinforced by things said by Elon over the years.

It's not blatantly incorrect, but it does all combine to create a picture than can be misleading for someone who doesn't dig into the details. And misleading marketing is what is being discussed by the court.
I retract "debatable loyalty to Google". I meant something more along the lines of "debatably attributable to Google's engineering", i.e. a statement directly in support of my main argument.
>The compression scheme in HTTP/2 is so shitty that the "compression table" in RFC 7541 [appendex a] is just a list of the 61 most popular headers from Google properties.

I thought this was moderately-funny cheeky banter, but I wanted to see what implementation decision they were making fun of with this silly misrepresentain. Quote RFC 7541: "The static table was created from the most frequent header fields used by popular web sites." Oh.
Some of us have explained many times how his quotes get taken out of context and twisted into being “promises” and “lies” but the haters have the upper hand at the moment. Believe what you want to but at least look at his statements yourself, with care, and in context, and notice when he prefaces things with “I think” and “I believe” etc.

The bending over backwards is being done by the haters, not by his supporters. If anything his supporters are pretty quiet and just vote with their money.
In the Kubernetes and Ansible/Salt world it's frequently templatized, and then you need to worry about indentation that you place or your template engine places. Every day I pray that Helm will incorporate support for jsonnet so I never need to touch YAML again.
> The main Autopilot marketing page shows a video of a Tesla driving itself, says the Driver is there for legal purposes only

This alone feels like lawsuit-bait.

I'm surprised it took this long for the courts to get involved.
When I read these anti-kubernetes articles, of which there is one every couple of months, I think of an analogy with tailors. I mean, a made-to-measure garment is strictly superior to what you can buy from Old Navy. If you take a tailor into Old Navy you would probably get a similar rant about how badly made the clothing there is. I also recognize that everything that Kubernetes/Docker is doing could be replicated more simply and with greater craftsmanship.

I think the unnoticed problem is that the tailors (old school system administrators and dev ops) are being asked to become the managers of Old Navy (kubernetes cluster administrators). Their entire skill set is opposed to this new role. I can't really blame them for being frustrated.

To keep stretching my already thin analogy, there are still tailors in this world. However, most people buy their clothes at outlets like Old Navy. Whining about the quality of the clothes and the crummy manufacturing process at Old Navy won't change that.
Brief’s mobile news app aims to tackle information overload and media bias
I'm going to recommend at this point, you take a breather from your invective, cool off for a bit, and return when you have something valuable to contribute. You're going to have to do better when commenting on Hacker News: you're just attacking stuff because you don't like it, rather than making technical explanations.
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> Professor Kahan was last seen ranting about benchmarks.

Incorrect. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find works dated 2016:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/
Cruise control just maintains speed, not direction. It'll happily plow you into an obstacle without human intervention.
My guess is that the age demographic of the moderators may be more tuned to earlier CS community contributors. I often recognise the names from references in university lectures, but don't have much of a connection to them. Grant on the other hand is someone who I grew up with on my TV, inspiring me to make things.
Fair enough. I went to school in a predominantly evangelical suburb in San Diego county. The same parents who staged a national day of prayer on public elementary school grounds were also in a group that sued the district over their morning yoga for children program [0].

Why was it important for you to verify my experience and the details of it and relay an anecdote that was counter to my own anecdote if not to implicitly refute my experience?

https://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168613461/promoting-hinduism-...
For those in the EU/UK, it's worth noting that the GDPR isn't just about controlling how personal data is used. It also imposes obligations on data processors to take care of that data properly.

The usual issues arise about enforceability as long as this is only European law, and about ambiguity in the way the GDPR itself is written.

However, it seems likely that arbitrary deletion of personal data like this could fall foul of the requirements for integrity and availability, particularly given the GP was a paying customer.
I love this comment so much! :D

I did once ask my accountant if I could get away with using a boat as my office and claiming back against tax. He, cough somewhat poo-pooed the idea.

Apparently the taxman would require proof that I was only using the boat strictly as an office and should in no way enjoy the experience. Spoil sports.
I feel like a lot of the attraction of the early micro BASICs was: 1) Flip on power switch 2) Computer shows "READY" 0.5s later.

With a modern Windows PC a 7 yro has to learn to use the mouse, to click, press icons, the concept of windows, etc. Which, she somehow picked up in about 1 month time frame and is now able to launch games and play PC Minecraft. But anyway...
I bought one in spite of Musk, simply put the technology of the car and that it brought back memories as a kid of all the cool concept cars that never got built sold me. That is performs so well it just a bonus. I feel like I am driving the future day in and day out.

However I think that only does Musk misrepresent what the technology is capable of and the timeline I think that many quality of life features are missing simply because if he does not want it no one wants it; my bugaboo has been the poor support for bluetooth music from phones. It was only recently that a Tesla owner could select what track within a play list to play; they still cannot select the playlist, artist, and more, which are features common in every day cars and for many years.

I have no plans on giving up my Tesla soon, I am looking forward to the Audi BEV TT so I can put convertible and EV together. That is 2023 at the earliest. At least Tesla is forcing the hands of other automakers

PS: I would go so far as to state I believe the 8k cost they apply to full self driving is to convince people it really does what he claims. As in, it can only be so expensive because it must work. That 8k is also why I won't consider a new Telsa, originally I figured a Y would be nice

PPS: I am sure besides myself many of us have posted here and elsewhere that the name "Autopilot" implied far too much. Glad some court stepped in and said stop it

PPPS: Kind of fun a German court upheld this, considering all the years their own auto industry was committing outright fraud
No, that just keeps the car moving. Not in any particular direction.
The Resume is Dead. And Content Killed It.
Highly used? So what? Might does not make right. They're definitely not cost efficient. Google's standard play is throwing tens of millions of dollars at a problem, which is not good engineering, even if it works.

Edit: you changed your comment out from under me and I fail to rouse the enthusiasm to reply to your new comment.
The key part of the title is left out, making this clickbait.
I'll second your recommendation to not buy these glasses. However, you don't need a miracle or replacement eyeballs. Gene therapy has already been shown to work to cure color blindness. Dr. William Hauswirth at the University of Washington did that in monkeys back in 2009, and currently has a grant to trial a gene therapy to cure achromatopsia in humans, though I have no idea how that is going. I'd guess color blindness will be curable in my lifetime.
Even better: use the contact link on the bottom of the page. dang was always prompt with a reply the few times I sent an email.
Unfortunately local authorities here (Catalonia in Spain) disagree and enforce the mask even when not close to other people :(
Kaepernick and Dixie Chicks are obvious examples of "cancel culture" coming from the right, and many people on the left are more than happy to practice this in the other direction, in spite of recognizing how wrong it was in those cases.
Thanks, interesting! I will recover ;)
BTW were you aboard the Iwo in 2005? I was a Marine deployed w/ SPMAGTF Katrina down there and we got “evacuated” on the Iwo Jima when another hurricane was bearing down on the area. It was a Marine battalion along with a lot of civilians. Don’t remember how long I was aboard but a few days certainly, before disembarking in norfolk or somewhere thereabouts.
I am sure they were able to do it without it, but others can interfer. Triangulation was already a thing in the courts.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/victory-supreme-court-... It's in Carpenter vs US, for deducting he robbed a store from just the cell phone signals.
If you are using Streamlabs for the alerts then why not use it for streaming too? And it's available on Mac aswell https://blog.streamlabs.com/streamlabs-is-live-on-mac-ff543b... or https://github.com/stream-labs/streamlabs-obs/

Personally I like it more than OBS because all the integrated stuff inside the client, it's just a better fork really.
the "right software" is nowhere to be found though
Can you do all your customers a favor and fix the process so that "I posted on HN/Twitter/whatever" is not a desirable means of escalation?
> Your arguments lack context. India isn't ruling out Muslims from citizenship. While the CAA is a very bad step forward, and has several problems, it is about what criteria satisfying refugees are available for quick citizenship, and doesn't apply to citizens of the country. India is certainly not running anything close to the camps China is running for Uyighurs.

I could argue the same, the so-called reeducation camps only applies to xinjiang province, and for those could only get education from religion maniacs, rather than a normal school. And there were numbers of attack events were caused by it. Keep in mind Uyighurs are not only living in xinjiang, there are uyighurs living in rest parts of China and doing well.

> India is actively trying to fix disparities caused by the caste system. It took the US 200 years to get civil rights, India had affirmative action from day one, and one of the biggest examples of affirmative action at that. The caste system is horrendous, but social change can never be brought so quickly ( atleast in a democratic way, we certainly don't want Stalin or Mao style quick changes)

Aye aye, it took 200 years for the US to have civil rights for all (still problematic), and Inida takes 70+ years still working on the caste problems, when it reaches China, which was founded after India, we are suddenly asking for all equal society. Yes, unwillingly education is bad, but keeping them blank and poor is evil. Learning skills to fit into a society, even it doesn't fit into your propaganda, is not wrong.

> The caste system, while bad, isn't in any way worse than color discrimination in the US. To quote just one example, India has very strong laws against caste based violence.

US also has strong anti hate crime law, and is one of countries offers most assistance for anti-discrimination, law doesn't help unless vast majority are educated to do so, and vast majority has economy power to do so.
Why the appeal to authority? There are plenty of senators who don't believe in evolution and other basic principles of science. Publishing an anti-science op-ed from any of them would be just as harmful as Tom Cotton's incitement to violence.
I wonder why the fear of socialism always cropped up in American media. Is it an early strawman? If socialism "doesn't work" why fear it? Or if capitalism is better why fear socialism?
>When it gets there, regulatory approval will absolutely be a bottleneck to deployment. They don't say it is a current blocker.

Elon regularly states that the chief blocker for Tesla is regulatory approval. Meanwhile Teslas still drive straight into overturned trucks.
...and this is why it is so vulnerable to foreign influence. An army of bots (human or programmed) can sway Twitter incredibly easily and drive outrage, which now seems will shape the US media narrative.

It's like they are intentionally steering the ship towards the rocks. I wonder who might be helping this effort... hmm... /s
They are putting their business in the hands of a vendor they pay for a service.

When you pay a professional for a service, you should be able to expect that the service is provided.
Just so you know how distant Microsoft is keeping this acquisition, Github employees don't show up on the default lookup tool (Who).

I'm sure they're pedalling Azure, but other than that Github is still very much independent.
This seems to be evidence of the theory that herd immunity is lower than expected due to cross-reactive T-cells lowering the susceptible pool. If I recall correctly, the last serology study of NYC showed ~25% infection rate, which is right where those postulating this theory expect the virus to burn out at.

While this isn't the only ingredient, and physical distancing and awareness play a role, it is good to see more and more locations exhibit the same burn-out pattern. I do not think that there is a single location thus far that does _not_ show this pattern (including Sweden!). The biggest potential outlier is Iran. However, Iran has some similarities to the United States in that a majority of the population lives within dispersed population centers. As such, we should look at each _region_ (as opposed to the country as a whole), when considering the theory above. Much as we must do with the United States. Miami is on it's first wave, as is Houston etc.

What I am really looking for is any evidence of a true second wave, and thus far there hasn't been any. And NYC would be ripe for one. Due to its density, even with the best of intentions, there will be close contact and opportunity to spread the virus.

Long story short, this is very, very, very good news.

EDIT: I want to add, that the refusal many people to see the United States as as collection of different outbreaks as opposed to a single, massive outbreak is very frustrating. We can't have an honest conversation regarding the best response to this virus when everyone is trying to score nation-state points over the fact that the US still has cases. Yes, the first region is _not_ seeing a resurgence. The outbreaks in the South are _new_. They sprang up in the past few weeks. This is fundamentally different than what we saw in the EU, as each country had their outbreaks at around the same time. If you want to compare, compare NY state to others. We can't make progress if continue to be either smug/defensive. This isn't a game.

Additional Reading:

Swedish T-Cell study:
https://news.ki.se/immunity-to-covid-19-is-probably-higher-t...

NYC Serology: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/preliminary-antibodies-...

Study from Levitt et. al.: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140814v...

Study in Cell on T-Cells: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...
Just back up the data somewhere else. No matter what you use, there's a possibility that your stuff will just vanish one day. Your own hard drives could die, your building could burn to the ground. Don't put your data into something that you can't get it back out of later. Off site backups are like sysadmin 101. You even need to back up your cloud infrastructure, it's not unheard of for any of the cloud providers to lose a whole bunch of VMs, storage, etc all at once. It's rare, but it does happen, just like an account lock-out.
Yeah this is what I did but the law was just changed.. Here in Catalonia, Spain there was an uptick in some towns far away from here and they decided to enforce masks all the time in all their communities, and have already stated this will be the case until the crisis is over, which could be years.
The other reason gliders stop at the cloud base is that it's illegal to fly close to the clouds in most airspace. Because it makes it very hard to avoid collisions.
The features intended to make it easy to use, in the end lead to surprising behavior, often with values having non-string types where you expected strings. There are some examples in https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html.
The Mistakes That Will Haunt Our Legacy
"That sizable minority are the only ones who have anything to lose from the looting and property destruction."

And they deserve to have their opinions hear too, no?
They can also go home. They can tackle other work. The fact that they don't is a reflection of the work culture. You're right, I judge that.
The episode -- linked below -- with Tim Poole, Jack Dorsey, and Vijaya Gadde (who manages Twitter policy) was mostly just Rogan sitting back and watching Poole go back and forth with Dorsey and Gadde, mainly only stepping in to deescalate when things started getting heated or to ask a question about which he was curious. I don't recall if it was in that episode (or a previous interview just with Tim Poole) that they debated Twitter's place in electoral politics given that all candidates are conducting direct-to-voters communication via the media and whether it would run afoul of Federal Election law to ban, limit, or even censure in any way the tweets of a candidate for office. I thought that was a pretty intense debate and one that has significant importance give it's election year.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
I think there's a confusion of goals that has become so embedded in our thinking (after almost 200 years of public schools) that we have a hard time imagining alternatives. Unschooling at its core seeks to teach children how to learn on their own, which is more valuable over a person's lifetime than any subject or class they might take in school. Unfortunately self-directed learning, curiosity, and critical thinking interfere with the program of formal compulsory schooling, and we can see the results all around us, every day.

As a parent of three I viewed my main responsibilities as making sure they survived into adulthood, and grew into self-sufficient productive adults. Part of self-sufficiency is taking responsibility for yourself, not relying on parents or schools or government to decide everything for you and solve all of your problems. Taking responsibility for yourself also means having the confidence and skill to learn something on your own, which may involve tutors, mentors, classes, practice, but the key skill is the ability to learn something on your own rather than believing formal schooling is the only way to learn something.

The goal of public school comes down mainly to enforcing conformity. That happens through standardized curriculum, regimented classrooms sorted by age, rigid rules, clocks, tests, grades. That process may also educate children but that's almost more of a side-effect. We've all had standout teachers who actually engaged us and taught us something, but they stand out in our memories because they are the exceptions. Imagine having access to many more adults and older children who could give that experience. That's what unschooling is about.

Homeschooling can and does fail for some kids. As a long-time participant in the "homeschooling community" I saw the failures mainly resulting from parents trying to brainwash their kids or actively keep them away from ("safe" from) the "real world," often for religious reasons. Public schools also can and often do fail, both in terms of providing a useful education and in terms of enforcing conformity and obedience. Nothing is perfect, but it doesn't make sense to limit your choices, or your child's opportunities, out of a misplaced loyalty or blind belief in public schools, their mission, their competency, on the off-chance your child will get nothing but great teachers.