skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who in a past life worked at a telco..... its insane how common those are. A HUGE part of my job was getting people to use the dang website!

They work REALLY REALLY hard to get people to use the website.

It's mostly older generations, they refuse to use a website for many of those basic things. A lot of it is an issue of trust, they just don't trust websites.
Neither was publishing it an endorsement. Nor was it an endorsement when they published an editorial from an ISIS leader or going back some ways, Hitler. It’s important to know what politicians think.

He could have easily Had it published in the Federalist or Breitbart, but the average nytimes reader would never have had the opportunity to read it. Filter bubbles are a big problem, and getting Cotton on record in the paper of record is a valuable service.
Wow, just wow. Grant’s dead at a young age of a tragic event. He inspired a lot of people and probably didn’t push anyone out of a technical field in the process. I know how he was in the show was how he was personally, too. I just think this isn’t the time to over analyze. If anything your comment is the sort of comment that makes science and technical fields lose people.
TikTok users flooded the Trump rally with fake ticket requests.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/tiktok-campaigns-ensure-hundre...

The plausible deniability is easy. No one will ever find out if it was specially promoted. They could just throw up their hands and say that it all happened all by itself. The algorithm is a mystery and a trade secret!

U.S Teens are making "I Love China" videos on TikTok.

https://www.recruitmentnewsuk.co.uk/2020/05/28/why-us-teens-...

The algorithm could interfere to remove any pro-Trump or anti-China TikToks and noone would be the wiser. There is zero transparency.

The Chinese government can lend these institutions billions forever and undercut rivals and overpay programmers if it buys them political influence.

Speaking of a free market in ideas. 90% of the U.S media is owned by 5 companies. I think a good idea would be to reverse the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed for massive TV and Radio consolidation. Local radio was actually good in the late 80s and early 90s and new music styles were discovered and promoted by disk jockeys on local stations. After 96, the conglomerates bought up all the radio stations and IMHO, popular music more or less froze in place with just the names of the bands rotating.
You accused the person of contemplating flagging the submission without reading the article. Where do they say they didn't read it first?
How long have you been listening to JRE?

This reads like someone who discovered it because Elon Musk showed up along with a bunch of other celebrities in the last 2 years.

Give it some more time and you'll get over this savant view of Rogan. If anything I'd recommend going back to watching some episodes when it was filmed in his living room, not his millionaire's playground shop
I hope you really don't think it's a good comparison. The level of effort and safety engineering that went into ILS Cat IIIb and Autoland is above and beyond what any automotive company is doing. Autoland is mandatory in certain conditions.
it's packaged for void, though I'm not sure what that entails. will say it works well enough I didn't find out about the snap mess until I tried to install it on another distro later
Because it is being sold to customers in a different context. Autopilot for planes does not need to take into account other planes (flight paths are separated) to the same degree as cars do (where other "obstacles" constantly zip next to you).
To give you guys a glimpse of the future - here is #coding and #startup on TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coding

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/startup
Your coworkers and people on Twitter making fun of you isn't comparable to McCarthyism.
If you want to self host, use a Tiddlywiki (the Node server). I advise starting by grabbing someone else's plugins. My setup is here: https://lesser.occult.institute/an-opinionated-approach-to-t...

If you like the convenience of not self hosting, Notion is good!

That said, you probably want your wiki and zettelkasten to be the same thing.
How tedious to have to constantly refute FUD when it's easy to find the answers with Google.

Anyone involved in Kubernetes, near CoreOS at the time, or really anywhere in the space at the time (instead of looking back at it with anger), knows this all to be false. CoreOS was setting direction for etcd, and understandably adding features for one of its bigger users (and in fact, some of those features are used by things of larger scale than k8s).

Kubernetes itself was started by Googlers, many of whom are still there or left to go... do Kubernetes at Red Hat (IBM) or as a startup, or at Microsoft. But to act like it was an outside project started by people who had previously quit, or are somehow unqualified to work on an orchestrator, is just an an angry untruth. Every major committer to Kubernetes besides a handful of RH folks were at Google when Kubernetes 1.0 came out. I'm happy to be corrected but I know it's hip af to hate k8s (just like two days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23807556)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_matrix

"The Hilbert matrices are canonical examples of ill-conditioned matrices, being notoriously difficult to use in numerical computation."
Instead of downvoting, we need to understand each other better. So many centrists and right-wing views are shunned. I don't agree with them and if they're obviously racist/flamebait, we shouldn't feed it, but if someone has a dissenting view about liberal/progressive stances, we should listen to them. Ask them why they think that way. That's so much more interesting to me.
If by critical you mean reporting what he does and what he says, then yes. That's probably around 97%.

Why you think the above is somehow editorialized, I don't know. I think most mainstream news outlets do an incredible job maintaining their calm while reporting truly absurd and dangerously ignorant actions of the current US President.
Neither of those are counter examples. Both had issues that have nothing to do with trying to live in a commune within the US, something that many groups have done successfully.
Ask HN: Change of Career for an IB Quant
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone had any piece of advice or would know of any opportunity for a quant working for a major investment bank in London.

In terms of technology, I can program in C++, C#, Python. In terms of background, I have a PhD in applied maths (stochastic calculus, probability, PDE). I have coded a series of standard (for our industry) numerical techniques (FDM, MonteCarlo) and applied them to various well established models and I have recently explored deep learning techniques. I have implemented in C++ and used Neural Networks for empirical analysis on financial time series.

Sorry for the long background. Is anyone able to suggest a direction I could take that 1) would provide some intellectual stimulus and 2) some purpose and that 3) would keep on paying the mortgage?

Thanks
Interesting idea, but the devil is in the details. Especially two concurrent moves of partially overlapping ranges of characters is a tricky case to handle, and it is not obvious to me how your scheme would deal with this.

Another fun case is two concurrent range moves in which the destination of the first move falls within the second move's source range, and the destination of the second move falls within the first move's source range. How do you handle this?

I expect that any algorithm solving this problem will need a formal proof of correctness, because it's very easy to miss edge cases when using informal reasoning.
I agree with you.

Besides "FB would have bought it," social media doesn't generally do "replacement." Nuanced differences in product lead to different products, because the "social" aspect is made of culture.

Any replacement for tiktok wouldn't be a replacement. It'd be a different product in the social media space. One way or another, a tiktok ban benefits FB, whether they build a competitor, buy it, or their existing products pick up tiktok's market share.

We are totally ill equipped to deal with modern monopolies. We weren't great at dealing with the old, monopolies. Now though, the laws, norms and political MOs are nearly irrelevant.

One trite example is prices. The default way to "prove" the effect of monopolies historically has been price. Prices don't exist in social media.

A deeper difference is the microeconomics. When Bell was being broken up, one big problem was creating viable component companies. If the courts screwed up and created failing child companies then telecommunications would be broken. This is a hard problem for a court, well outside their comfort zone. With social media the microeconomics is totally different. Even if FB disappeared, consumers would not lack for social media. The market is capable of replacing FB easily, all that's needed is for facebook to move aside. Commercial/profitability considerations are barely an issue.
As a hypothetical, imagine a leader who was consistently right. To be fair and balanced, what % of press coverage should be negative?

What if the idea that a fair and balanced press should split equally pro and con is itself a disconnect?
Here's a good article that I saw on HN a few months ago:
https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/index.htm...

Also: https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/

Personally I avoided it for a while because of the hate, but haven't really had issues with it since using it.
I wonder why Tesla even needed to go that far to make the product sell. It is already a damn good car, a leader in its space. Also, Waymo which was closest at that time to Level 5 autonomy was far off from a product.
> because HN is filled with liberal SS thugs like you.

As someone generally critical of radical left-wing politics (in fact, any radical politics), you are not doing yourself (or anyone) any favours by using ad hominem arguments like this. Please just stop.
??

I don’t recall Tesla trying to silence talk about autonomous driving.

I mean, that’s the definition of Streisand Effect.
Exactly! One time I had an issue with my iCloud account, and after two long, frustrating calls with extremely undertrained support members, someone finally fixed my issue by simply clicking a “Repair Account” button on some internal support dashboard. Why on earth isn’t that button available to users?
But autopilot in a plane doesn't require the pilot to take over in a split second. Keeping you level, at the right speed, in the right direction, etc. is enough to keep the plane safe. Pilots have tens of seconds to reorient themselves to avert any disaster.

In contrast, Telsa "autopilot" requires constant vigilance since you might have to take over without any warning.
I like stuff like Townsends (cooking and build stuff in the old days) but repair stuff big NO for me, but learn howto solder big YES. It really depends.
Only five days ago Elon Musk claimed that "we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year." (yeah..!)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53349313
> Can't anyone there see past the current insanity and think?

The bitter lesson of the 20th century is that the answer to this question is "no". Read Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer": in this book, Hoffer looks into how mass movements compel masses of people to forego independent judgement for a sense of belonging and righteousness. He wrote the book 70 years ago, but it's as relevant as ever.
The content ignores context of the discussion. Lies by omission are still lies, and trying to ignore them is bad faith to those who recognize them.
Weiss is a master of attracting attention for herself, I see a future in politics.
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Actually I think the name "Autopilot" is the least troublesome part of the marketing.

Other car makers call their systems CoPilot, ProPilot, SuperCruise, whatever and I think the name matters less than the communication and details of using the system.

The main Autopilot marketing page shows a video of a Tesla driving itself, says the Driver is there for legal purposes only, and provides no other disclaimers about the limitations, or that the demonstration is of internal test software and not reproducible with consumer vehicles.

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

Actually using the car, the system is fairly clear about the need to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel, but it allows you to engage Autosteer in areas the manual says you should not (ie city streets) and does not clearly indicate what areas are good or not good for using Autosteer. SuperCruise only works on specifically listed highway segments, which limits its usefulness but also prevents these issues.

Also Tesla relies on the steering wheel torque sensor to determine driver presence. This leads to false negatives (my hands are on the wheel but not providing a turning force so the car gives an alert) and is easily bypassed (there are third party products that clip on to the steering wheel and provide enough weight to fool the system).

Competing systems (SuperCruise, BMW) use driver monitor cameras or capacitive wheel sensors to provide a better indication of driver attentiveness.
It's possible that many people (like me) had been trying to solve a similar non-business problem for years, including rolling our own solutions and the like, and when an open source option widely backed emerged and looked like a possible standard, we accept some warts in exchange for a broad, general purpose, flexible, automatable, and well-thought out (yes) solution.

Of course K8s is not perfect, and it's overkill for small to medium apps (I think hype train convinced a lot of people they would need to scale to massive cloud levels when really they didn't), but if you have ever needed K8s (especially for a complex microservice system at big enterprise level) then you know the value and you remember the proprietary vendor-locked era of sadness before K8s emerged.
yadayada, you're all robots, artificial humans, walking calculators. tell me what those low income workers will do when you take away their jobs?
I read sneak's comment as being about wars, which are mostly foreign. What domestic events were you thinking of that fit that description?
Did you read that wall of text?

I can’t find the part where she tries to get anyone “fired”. Just claims that she criticized Muslim scholars, and arguing that is automatically racist.

I had a hard time finding direct quotes of the bad things she said, mostly just quotes from others saying how bad she is and how much they don’t like her.
I think back to some of the working men in my life. Even at an early age, I was intimidated by their workbenches.

Ingenious little tools they'd cobbled together with scrap material. Probably some insanely specific purpose... but the time it saved was immeasurable. Or perhaps some little design to test a theory out, kept as a memento. Even if it was disorganized, everything had a place. If you asked for something, they knew where it was.

The hours of creative thought and domain knowledge, that spark of creativity, all gone. Just bits of scrap now. It's tragic, but in a strangely bittersweet way.

I think though... when you invest in people? That's something that will last much longer. Both Grant (and your father) invested in people. That's something that is much harder to forget.
Print-style control is not done in Word, it's done in Publisher.

In typical office use, you'd want to enforce a firm-wide stylesheet, but Word makes that difficult by leaving too much control too easy to access: people continue to use font and paragraph ribbon groups outside creating new styles.

The things that make Word valuable, compared to plain text, are in the “Review” (track changes, comments, compare), and “Insert” tabs. “References” and “Mailings” are nice if you need them, but can ultimately be handled in easier ways.
That just sounds like bluster and emotion to me though.

Why is truth not a process of collective discovery?

Is this implying that truth used to be this and now is not?

What exactly does "collective discovery" mean in the context of a newspaper?

What evidence is there that this used to be the case and now is not?

What is the new "orthodoxy"?

Are you able to describe this orthodoxy in specific terms and not just labels?

Who are these "enlightened few"?

What do you mean by "whose job it is"?

When have these "few" "informed everyone else", specifically?

I do not mean to imply there are no answers to these questions, or that the answers will fall one way or the other. I just fail to see why I should take those statements seriously as "a very key point" without a lot more explanation and evidence. She starts to explain a few things before these statements that sound interesting, but then immediately starts ranting about Twitter instead.
I've grown to think its a very vocal minority that objects simply ideological reasons, then finds techincal reason to back that up

Even https://nosystemd.org/ mostly just lists bugs

After moving all my services from varius init systems to systemd, I'd never go back
That's because by default ALL containers in LXD are unprivileged. They use the term unprivileged because the term rootless wasn't around that far back ;)

LXD uses various mechanisms to map the uid-in-container to a uid-on-host. So root-in-container is not root on host. There are a lot of details to work through to make that work neatly, and there is still kernel work being done to map this nicely into the filesystem, but it works, and it's the default, and the FAQ recommends strongly not to grant real-root to your containers, for a good reason.
I was an adult by the time I was shown that his rhymes actually work, and the plays are well constructed and actually funny satires of society.

What the fuck, high school. Why? Why?
Several NYT employees have come out with stories of Bari trying to get them fired for disagreeing with her and she has publicly joined or led campaigns to get people fired from other organizations. Here's a good overview of her involvement in censorship campaigns: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
You mean Columbia?
The editor was fired
Being barred from employment in your industry due to your non-work-related political opinion and affiliations is literally McCarthyism though.
The left: Jews are white, not oppressed
The right: Jews aren’t white, not oppressed
And you wonder why we generally are moderates.
Git being decentralized or not has no bearing on GitHub/Microsoft having a de-facto monopoly here. If you want to bring a counter argument that should at least include the name GitLab.
Remember when the government went around arresting and undermining anything and anyone that was even slightly left-wing? People in power being called out by groups on Twitter is definitely the exact same thing and absolutely not a false equivalence.
If you contradict yourself, provide an image that you along with the experts are figuring out the truth, then you could possibly do more to damage your credibility than if you had instead just endlessly projected strength until your successor forcibly took you down in their own endless display of indomitable leadership.

When uncertainty and fear strikes people want strong leadership, not one that is still doing research to figure out what's next (even if that's a strong move).
Deceptive healthcare ads aren’t allowed in Europe either. Consumer protection standards are much higher.
Another vector is takeover requests via their name squatting policy (that's how I got my username). But those requests shouldn't be approved unless the old account really is inactive. Might have been approved by mistake.

Another vector is the as of yet unfixed GitHub "ghost" bug, which I discovered and detailed here: https://github.com/git-rest/spooky

Note how you can read that repo, but the account https://github.com/git-rest doesn't exist.
And for that there are still people that try to paint him as alt right. (Because he has had some alt right people interviewed on there)

He's still going because he has had an independent publishing platform and he's not dependent on a media network to survive. If someone else were to do the same thing.. they couldn't survive.
You are talking about Word, not the entirety of Office. Excel does not have similar alternatives.
58% of Americans supported sending in the military to stop looting and property destruction, including 37% of African Americans (a sizable minority). I would assume they wanted to prevent the city being burnt down rather than stop non-violent protests.

https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-support-calling-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/02/58-o...

When the protests are peaceful, you don't need to send in military. When the city is burning, it could be a solution. I don't agree with sending them in, but a strong majority of Americans did.
I think the difference you're getting at has a lot to do with the approach of US vs European regulators. The US is far more "check the box" focused whereas Europe tends to look to the spirit of compliance and the underlying goals of the regulation(s).
I don't think it's dangerous, necessarily, unless you ignore people's personal responsibility in the situation as well. As currently designed, "Autopilot" requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel, provide rotational counter-weight on it, and you have to agree to safety and attention disclaimers before you can even enable the features.

Yes, there are absolutely misconceptions that may happen with the general public who think that "Autopilot" is completely autonomous but anyone who actually owns the vehicle and has the ability to drive with it would have to be willingly negligent in order to consider it "dangerous" or "deceptive". As an example, someone posted a link as a comment to the OP stating that Elon has been marketing Teslas as FSD when, in reality, the blog post in question just says that every Tesla has the hardware that makes it capable of it and that's absolutely true.

You're right that the general public auto-translates "Autopilot" to "Fully Self-Driving" but that's just as much a media and reporting problem as it is a Tesla or Elon problem.
How do we determine that though?

I say it is way too easy to BELIEVE that the motives of people who do things we don't like ... are wrong / they're pushing a POV.

I see these types of accusations thrown around a lot, even on HN, "oh this writer doesn't like Tesla" and I very rarely see anything but what appears to be an emotional appeal to others who don't like that news story.

It's just so easy to think someone else must have some ulterior motive, otherwise they wouldn't logically have come to that conclusion...
In the mid-90s, I probably spent > 50 hours on my ISP’s support. Would call most days after school.

Turned out to be a UART issue: the 8250 would error on 9/10 packets and we needed to get a 16550 serial card. Took a very long time to get someone to determine that.

They probably lost money for a couple years on our account.
Also, you're completely wrong about Fox. I don't generally watch mainstream news period, but one day it was on in a hotel, and like you, I expected neutral to positive coverage on Trump.

It was just the opposite, like 20 minutes straight of "Russia Gate," just endlessly hyping up and trying to validate the scandal. If Fox is a friend of Trump's, he doesn't need enemies.
A normal business insurance policy covers losses to your business due to your own accidental actions, or an employee's willful illegal action, but generally does not cover a loss due to a contracted service not performing properly. So the cloud-service company might have it covered for their own losses, but not for their customers.

And a company the size of Amazon or Google probably doesn't actually buy business insurance; they are larger than many insurance companies and will find it cheaper to just accept most losses in their current regulatory regime.