skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to address this because in spite of Elon (whether punching down with Twitter or COVIDiocy, etc) burning up a lot of the goodwill he had accumulated in the past, these things remain:

The reason people think Elon may do level 5 autonomy is because his companies have accomplished several things that industry experts said were either infeasible or impossible. Fast charging, large-battery electric cars that are faster than almost all conventional cars.

Remember, pre-Tesla, electric cars were looked at as pathetic toys, like golf carts or, AT BEST, green bling like Priuses which are pretty slow and kinda ugly.

And not only has Tesla ramped up to mass production of these desirable vehicles, but they’ve also done it during the ending of EV credits (which almost all their competitors still have access to!) AND crazy low gas prices. And every time, the media plays up this or that “Tesla killer” that never ends up living up to the name and often completely tanks. Every time media or experts say Tesla will fail and they don’t reinforces the view in many that Tesla is somehow special.

And even SpaceX’s early successes like Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon Cargo were unprecedented for a private company and at those extremely low costs (at the time, Aerospace was a money pit for cost-inflating defense contractors, not nimble rocket startups). Then when they proposed propulsive landing, some NASA experts in the field thought it’d fail. I know one NASA GNC guy who said droneship landing is impossible. Clearly not, as we see now that it’s routine! Then Falcon Heavy, And now Dragon Crew... beating out Boeing, who had long been favored by old guard experts to beat SpaceX to ISS. Similar experts were certain SpaceX would be beat by OneWeb to launching the initial constellation... and we know how that has turns out (OneWeb went bankrupt). Then experts said that SpaceX had no Starlink terminals... until of course pictures emerged of sites they’ve had user terminals testing for months already.

So while I share the skepticism for level 5 autonomy, you should keep in mind That Musk’s companies keep accomplishing what many folks (who should know what they’re talking about) said couldn’t be done. And the more those experts say it’s impossible, the greater that Musk’s reputation soars after the task is completed nonetheless.
I wish more people stuck with templating yaml would just issue a toJson instead of fiddling with indentation levels
> Back in the day you would be open to attacks left and right.

If you wrote your simple HTTP server well, then not really.

> you can take that tiny webserver and put it in a VM, and voila, now it doesn't matter if anyone breaks in.

1. It might still matter.

2. The virtualized/containerized version could well have its own security issues.

3. The virtualized/containerized version is heavy and expensive (relatively).

4. Why did you move away from IRC? Come back... :-(
Trump started out with 100's of millions. Musk started off significantly lower on the ladder.
I have 3 cups on though days, aim to do only 1 per day. I had a couple weeks without coffee, just tea and somedays nothing. I felt it was not worth it.
It's not food companies' fault that the English word “fat” has multiple meanings and is the normal word for several of them.
The misconception is the idea that anyone can easily implement a compliant HTTP 1.1 server, or even client. The protocol may appear simple on paper but parsing it correctly and securely is quite tricky. IMO, one of the benefits of HTTP 2 and 3 is they force people to use libraries and remove the illusion that interacting with HTTP bytes on the wire is a reasonable thing to do.
Hello from a developing country

I envy all of you.

Where I live, short (usually less than 5 minutes) power outages are common throughout the day. Half a dozen such cuts every single day.

And everytime after a cut and the power comes back, there was a 60 second delay for the internet to reconnect, and about 20 seconds more for VPN to reconnect. Annoying especially when working in teams.

It is unusual not to have a power outage during a 24 hour period.

Here's my current setup to stay ahead of the game:

* Solar panels, with automatic switching between the mains and solar when either of them goes down

* Voltage stabilizers

* Surge protectors

On top of all that I'm currently contemplating getting a UPS for my computer specifically, because there was this one time when the solar failed and it couldn't switch to mains because it was a power outage.

One thing I miss from my student days in the US is always-on electricity. During my 3 year period there, there was only 1 power outage, and that lasted less than a minute.
My dream house includes a kitchen with enough dishwashers that they function as the cupboards for the dishes as well. then when the dishes are down they're already away.
The law is against fraudulent advertisement.

The channel used to perform the advertisement and how expensive that channel is are completely irrelevant.

For example, if Tesla claims in their website that their cars can drive themselves and they can't, that's false advertising and illegal in Germany. If Tesla organizes a concert in some city somewhere, and the singer states that Tesla's cars can drive themselves and they can't, that's false advertisement.

If Tesla distributes stickers to their car owners that claim that Tesla's can drive themselves, and their car owners stick them in public bathrooms where people can see them, that is, as well, illegal advertisement, even if Tesla did not stick those stickers themselves.

The law basically requires all companies selling products in Germany to be honest about what their products can and cannot do. This is good for consumers, and good for companies doing business there, because everybody is forced to play by the same rules.

The definition of being honest and what communication means etc. are all super loose, so most companies don't risk lying about their products. There are dozens of consumer protection organizations that'll sue a company for you due to false advertisement. The main consequences for the sued company are usually damages if there are any, and mainly the fines designed to discourage false advertisement. Most of the money ends up on the tax payers accounts, so consumers are really encouraged to report these times of crimes.
Take a gap year and receive $100k to start a company
Of course, just as many tailors back in the day were likely to make clothing worse than Old Navy makes today. We fetishize the top 1% of masters as if the average quality is anywhere near that.

Again, it reminds me of a carpenter friend who hates Ikea. Yeah, I get it, Ikea is really bad compared to custom built furniture. No one who buys it expects anything else.

This story is older than the industrial revolution. Craftsman being replaced by technology. We even instinctually know this is going to happen to knowledge workers but we seem blind to it when it happens to us.
Pigz is backward compatible — it breaks the input into 128K chunks, compresses each in parallel, and concatenates them. Gzip supports naive concatenation of compressed files so the result can be decompressed by standard gzip.

Pigz does not implement parallel decompression, but pigz-compressed files could, in principle, be decompressed in parallel. I assume there's not much urgency for this because gzip decompression is fast enough: >3x faster than compression and >10x faster than bzip2 decompression on default settings. (See: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ )
To be clear, it's not like there are any HTTP/2-only servers in the world. HTTP/2 is something a client connection upgrades to. One might think of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 not precisely as versions of HTTP, but rather as variants—HTTP/2 is "optimized binary HTTP, fixed-station profile" and HTTP/3 is "optimized binary HTTP, mobile-station profile."

(Mind you, they are versions relative to each-other, because HTTP/3 is strictly better at doing what HTTP/2 does than HTTP/2 is, so there's no reason to use HTTP/2 if you have HTTP/3.)

But as I was saying: nobody forces mobile devices to use HTTP/2; and by-and-large, they don't. HTTP/1.1 still has its use-cases; neither HTTP/2 nor HTTP/3 was designed to obviate HTTP/1.1's entire set of use-cases.

You know how SSH has sub-protocols, e.g. SFTP? HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are to HTTP/1.1, as SFTP is to SSH. It's a mode you can put the connection into, that will optimize it for a certain profile of use-cases. No more, no less.

(You know what else is a mode you can put HTTP/1.1 into? Websockets! Again, a complementary use-case.)

> So, instead of optimising for file transfer, a control layer, and a communication/serialisation layer, they came up with a horrid mush that is http3. (or the googlenet)

If you think you're so smart, write an RFC (or even just, build a reference server) that's competitive in production performance for its use-cases over similar links.

There comes a point when explicit OSI-style encapsulating layering becomes an active hindrance; and for the use-case of "a server serving a million concurrent requests"—the FAANG-scale problem—they passed that point long ago.

Yes, we mere mortal client users and backend developers might not find such use-cases relevant; but take the perspective of e.g. an internet backbone ops engineer. By volume, most of the traffic going around the Internet goes to these sites. Optimizing just the traffic going to these sites—with a special protocol clients only use when speaking to these sites—makes the whole Internet faster, by reducing in size the huge blob of bandwidth-contention the requests to these few sites create.

Also, a design hint, if you actually want to try to build something competitive to HTTP/3: most of the problem being solved by HTTP/3 is that certain things are known to be optimal, but despite that, nobody can just force their corporate overlords to mandate a switch to those things right away. So HTTP/3 needs to be optimized for the case where you do the most fundamentally-performant things (e.g. using zero-copy binary serialization protocols like Capn Proto from a process with direct userland Ethernet access); and also for the cases where you do less fundamentally-performant things (like generating and streaming a JSONL or CSV stream line-by-line as the output rows gets computed by an in-process dataflow engine.) One might call HTTP/3 an arbitrary custom protocol, that happens to have semantics such that it can be downgraded to HTTP/1.1 by a link-to-link proxy. And that is a hard constraint to optimize under.
It sounds like you don't believe in the concept of false advertising at all. Telling the truth after you buy the thing doesn't absolve you of the initial fraud. To my mind it exacerbates it, because it demonstrates that you know that your advertising is fraudulent.
I thought the Editor who was fired never read the op-ed he rubber stamped. That to me, is the fireable offense, not the posting of it.
Just spotted it's $10 now, so not a painless thing to try if you're on the fence. FWIW it's worked well for me, decent quality and the latency is not an issue at all for screen sharing, not immediate obviously, but for whiteboarding etc. definitely not an impediment (YMMV dependent on your local network).

Also while it isn't a 'universal' app with an iPad specific interface, the interface is just the button to start broadcasting the screen so other than looking a little awkward on launch, again it's not an issue in terms of the output, you'll still get the full screen.
Yes, but only a limited UDIMM variant which makes it much harder to source memory for. It's gotten a little easier over the last year, but these new Pro variants will have support for RDIMM, LRDIMM, etc. DIMMs which will make it much easier to find memory at a reasonable price.
Good. Not that it will stop Tesla from the next round of hype, from the most recent news we can expect level 5 autonomous driving soon. Maybe they'll call it 'autopilot'? Who will they blame when it doesn't work?
It's fascinating to me how the author describes this as a wondrous and curious experience. I feel like that's something that many people, me included, would imagine in a nightmare. Being awake but not in control, cognizant of your own self and body. That's something straight out of philosophical horror stories.
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Well, yes, that's a huge part of this story.

I don't see anyone in this thread (or the article) claiming that they're "only conservative", do you?

FTA:

>As the map indicates, there are considerably more conservative-leaning sites than liberal-leaning sites. Only 24 of the 445 sites we’ve identified so far are liberal-leaning.

It's 95% conservative sites. Do you dispute that? I think GP was dead-on in their assessment, skimming or not.
it is back on today (house connection, only, no mobile)
I'm all for transition assistance and a safety net to mitigate the harms, but halting human ingenuity seems like it would put far greater numbers of people at risk of misery and untimely deaths.

Lamplighters are especially useful to consider here.

How many lives has electricity saved? How many ICUs can operate continual machines because of it? How many people at risk of heat stroke can run AC in summer because of it? How many transplants and temperature controlled medicines got delivered because of it? What about its role in food safety? What about timely communications of life saving information, like those lost at sea asking for help, or severe weather alerts advising others to shelter? That's just the beginning, it seems incalculable really.

That lamplighter should have had a society willing to catch them during the transition. But imagine if it solved this problem by holding that one person's job sacred at the cost of millions of other lives instead.

It's absolutely good and relevant to worry about individual cases, but it seems like society is better off if we allow jobs to adjust to the actual current needs of humanity, rather than holding them fixed. Then we just also try to do our best to take care of as many of those who fall through the cracks as we can.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832978
I haven't played "Papers, Please" but I believe it has players consider equally hard problems in the vein of "This War of Mine" as well. If I recall correctly, you're given different criteria of things to look for every day, and something there's forgeries coming through and sometimes there's just honest mistakes. I think you're also timed and how many correctly documented people are let through ties to how much money you make, so you can starve to death waffling over whether someone is in compliance.
All transactions are rounded. It's just that paying by card is rounded to the nearest cent instead of the nearest 5 cents.
Tesla’s own website mentions Autopilot and full self-driving capabilities on the same page. Just go and configure a car and see if anyone could ever misunderstand Autopilot in that context.

Add a bunch of cool YouTube videos of people presumably sleeping on the wheel.

Add a CEO who claims "car can run nightly errands soon" and "level 5 very soon" (by redefining level 5) and you easily have the currenct perception.
What firefighting taught me for my job as an engineering manager
I think this is true, and i agree. However, institutions of (higher) learning have transformed into giant scams and money sucking administrative monsters, whose function is gatekeeping rather than education. As a response to this trend, online education is an excellent antidote for a fraction of the cost.
No, a hostile work environment does not require discrimination. A workplace that is entirely non-discriminatory but does nothing when one co-worker relentlessly bullies and harasses another co-worker is still a hostile workplace. You seem to be misled by the fact that anti-discrimination laws prohibit hostile workplaces, and that hostile workplaces are considered a form of discrimination, but there's no requirement that the hostility be discriminatory in nature. A co-worker harassing another co-worker without any particular discrimination is still harassment.

I can call a co-worker an idiot and a worthless human being relentlessly, all day long. That's not discriminatory in nature. I'm not referring to a protected class like gender, race, or religion. Does it follow that it isn't creating a hostile workplace?

https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment
Off the top of my head: Gerrit, Bazel, Go, gRPC, Kubernetes.
> What's "hyper-conservative"

Judging by the strange bedfellows of the conservative movement, maybe Richard Spencer.
Oh man, this is me right now! I had some minor but constant back pain and got an MRI. They found a bulging disc which had shrunk (a good thing) since the last MRI 5 years ago (when I presumably injured the disc, though there's no way to even know that for sure).
I CANNOT stop worrying about it. Ever since the doctor labeled it, even though she says it's not cause for concern, I cannot stop worrying about it and imagining the worst; it bursting and leaving me in agony for the rest of my life. Fun times.... The best part, bulges are not even necessarily abnormal, I know all this and yet, cannot let it go.
They are indeed anecdotes, as are the Harper’s letter signatories and many, many others. Anyway, the issue for the Nth time is not about “criticism” but “harassment”. It’s not a good faith argument to conflate these things when it has been stated over and over that this is about people targeting individuals’ employment status. This isn’t “criticism”.

The fact that it hasn’t stifled prominent, powerful people such as the Harper’s signatories is not evidence that cancel culture doesn’t exist or that it is a weak force; it means that less powerful people are effectively suppressed. You don’t hear about what you don’t hear about. Survivorship bias.
Genuinely curious about the fuse indicate you mention. On one hand it seems very useful! On the other hand, wouldn't this:
a) pass a small amount of current in what would otherwise be a 'fault' condition? a few mA or so to light the globe/led
b) depend on the load you have? a resistive load would allow the few mA to pass, but what about a regular led lightbulb (with a driver inside)?
That's a good point, though I think it's unlikely that 5% of the sites and 95% of the sites both make up ~50% of impressions each.

But to your point, we don't know unless we know, and my assumption could be totally wrong.
You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
Sleep paralysis is quite useful for lucid dreaming, as once you're in that state, you can transition to a lucid dream easily.
I don't love fighting over these sorts of things, especially on Hacker News. So I am not trying to fight at all. But I am genuinely and honestly asking, where do I find research to say that not "only women have cervices"?

After Googling for a few minutes I have found quite a bit of research on how cervical health of a female sexual partner can affect the male partner. I have found how male sexual partner health related to HPV can effect the female cervix. I have found information on how trans-men need to continue to have their cervix tested for medical issues. I haven't found any information on if chromosomal issues can cause cervices to be present in men.

Or is your point that trans-men have cervices and so not "only women have cervices"? If that is the argument you are making, that is fine. Though then I am not sure what you are arguing. But I will just accept your opinion if that is what it is.
He is talking in absolutes (Kubernetes being the worst piece of software, etc) and trying to convince reader that "megacorporations" are the faceless evil enemy and they are making everything worse for everybody. Either you are with him or against him (servant of the evil megacorps' interest), there is no middle ground.

This person is not looking for a conversation, but looking for a fight. He seems to be angry and cannot direct his anger to "make good art" (Neil Gaiman - Make Good Art), instead trying to insult people and pushing them to a place where their emotions takes control and can be dragged into the mud.
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China has 300-500 additional coal plants currently in construction or planned over the next ten years.
> they fully believe Elon will solve world hunger and invent FTL space travel

Well, maybe not fully believe, but certainly believe that Elon will move the needle materially in the right direction. I'd much rather spend my money on a product that supports a billionaire who is determined to save the world (Elon) than I would spend my money on a product that supports a billionaire who seems determined to take it over at any cost (Page, Brin, etc)
A lot of excellent discussion here. A few years back at CES, I saw the concept of an appliance that will automatically fold your laundry. It was amazing to see (yet IMO a hoax). I maintain a robust and cheap solution to make the bed or fold laundry could be a game changer.
"Who do you want running your country/state when a pandemic hits" is a different axis than most voters have historically decided on. We're finding out that competence matters, not just ideology.
By my understanding, Popper didn’t mean the “paradox of tolerance” in quite the way you think. It wasn’t meant to be used preemptively. It basically meant: when some group starts resorting to actual, literal violence, actual, literal violence is justified to stop them. The classic example of this are the Nazis, who engaged in actual armed violence for about a decade before ever taking power.
To this point, Bari Weiss, to my knowledge, never committed violence, never harassed coworkers, never formed an angry mob to harass coworkers—she merely stated opinions that people didn’t like. What people are doing is defining anything they strongly disagree with as “intolerance” in order to justify their own intolerance against it. The cosmic joke is on them because they are gradually radicalizing themselves into the very people the paradox of tolerance is meant to protect us from.

Here’s what Popper actually had to say:

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

To me, it sounds like the people Popper is describing are exactly the people who misuse his ideas to justify censorship and violence. He isn’t talking about actually becoming the side that “denounces all argument”. He’s addressing people who are focused on peaceful discourse as their mode of resolving disagreements and reminding them—some people will escalate to violence and if you are unwilling to defend yourself, your values will become extinct. None of this justifies being the first side to take up arms against someone who hasn’t done so themselves.
This is a bad argument for a few reasons, but I'll cover my main gripe: the sorites wormhole.

Is making fun of white straight men OK? Ok good. What about white women? What about white gay women? Black republican gay men? Mexican scientologists? What group takes precedence? Your race? Your religion? Your sexual orientation? Your eye color? Your hair color? It's probably OK to make fun of Christians in the US, but it's not OK to make fun of them in China, right? They're still being persecuted over there, so that makes it not OK. What about content that's shared all over the internet? What about a persecuted Chinese Christian that reads /r/atheism?

Your "group standing" theory is clearly not tractable, as you are now stuck in an N-dimensional sorites paradox[1].

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/