skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a bad faith comment I don't know where to begin.

Of course no reasonable person is saying that you have to compare against the worst thing, that's stupid- I was simply stating that I've seen things that have easily quantifiable returns.

I'm comparing it against the 'nothing' that I would otherwise have.

If you're comparing something then that's yours to compare, and this is a tool for doing that.

if you're not running github or gitlab, what are you running?

Maybe SVN+jira? or gogs? or gitea? what about teamcity?

I'm not going to break down the cost savings and expenses of each of those, I'm just saying we're all already using services that have saved us many hours a week compared to those services not existing in any form.

Its up to you to debate the 'many forms' a service takes, and remember that server hosting and human time is not free, so something self-hosted that requires some hours of time to maintain needs to be cost controlled for.
Because climate change isn't going to make the Canadian Shield, and muskeg, any more valuable than it is now.

To put another way, if muskeg were worth using, it would have been used a century ago.
I don’t think so. Most mainstream media (I’ve come to hate that term) skews a bit towards the left politically, but not nearly as much as the far right thinks they do. President Bush got better coverage - certainly not 50/50, but not 97% against either. The difference here is that Trump, by virtually any measure, is just that awful.
Just like any gem. You can create models without inheriting from ActiveRecord.
Good. These statements are lies. The company should face punishment in the US for saying that full self-driving is blocked by “regulatory approval” when they’re still an unknown number of years away from even being able to demo something they plan to ship.

They still don’t know if full self-driving is even possible at the required level of reliability with their current hardware suite. They could well be wrong and sitting on a scandal that will eclipse Theranos.
My naive question is how is Tiktok bad and all other American social media platforms - FB/Insta/Snap good?
> "both sides"

There's more than two sides here. Classical liberals and centrists who question or disagree with aspects of progressive beliefs are also being threatened with "consequences". That is a problem and it's time for the silent majority to start imposing some "consequences" of their own.
Right, the parents complaint is essentially Spiderman_pointing_at_Spiderman.jpg

If the original complaint is a "dog whistle" then people will also respond the same way.

Otherwise know as debating
Ask HN: How do you backup your independent projects from platforms like GitHub?
I was just reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832437 and keep seeing this every once in a while. What flow do you follow to backup years or your projects from such platforms?
The nature of PPP seemed to be "just get it out there" by leveraging the banks but it didn't occur to government how big the influx of applicants would be and smaller business got shafted since they don't have the same resources as bigger businesses.

So, you have situations where mom&pop sized businesses are constantly on the phone trying to get into PPP while trying to keep their business afloat by last minute transitioning to pick-up/delivery models. Meanwhile, bigger institutions can sic a dedicated team to PPP. By the time m&p get the PPP (if ever) it's already been exhausted or the amount was trivial.

What a mess.
Reparations is not interference. Debt forgiveness is not interference. An IMF loan that's granted if certain "reforms" are introduced is though.
Also, splunk is considerably more difficult to use (no CLI, loses jobs, etc) and less powerful (no joins, incomplete results) than a farm of Linux log servers and some ssh tooling, such as cluster ssh, or whatever.

There’s also the question of whether the splunk log agents are more or less of a pain to administer than whatever log management they replace.

Finally, there’s the question of how the resulting reports shape people’s behavior and productivity.

If you add that all up, learning it is a waste of time for people that can code up a join in perl from muscle memory, but it saves training time for people that can’t.

In the end, every one less productive than they would be with some other tool.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/315041/new-york-times-co...
I found Detroit: Become Human to be quite thought-provoking.
I believe part of it has to do with:

1) Helping to make sure business (specifically bars and restaurants) don't keep closing

2) Getting people off unemployment

And just telling restaurants to stay on to go orders doesn't pay the bills. Most of these also sell alcohol. So revenue alone from to go may not pay the rent, not to mention you don't have the same amount of staff on either.

Schools aren't going to close if we keep kids out of them longer, and in theory teachers can still be paid because it comes from property tax money. Unless of course people can't pay their taxes anymore because they're unemployed/broke.

So I think they're two separate problems. The issue with school at this point is most likely a societal one which consists of:

- Parents who will have to go back to work at some point, have to have a place to send their children during the day (this is a whole other WFH conversation where appropriate).

- Parents who do WFH but have no time to do learning during the day with their kids (or being unwilling for whatever reason).

- Parents aren't teachers, so learning/development will probably suffer anyway.

- Not all districts were setup to work like this. Think about underfunded urban schools or rural ones where technology might be a problem.
HN is NOT a support channel for Github, Apple, Microsoft, Paypal, Google and a 100 other services out there that have piss-poor customer support. If the only way to get a rise out of these companies is to abuse HN then that should be indication enough whether or not you should route a critical part of your business through them.
I agree, I believe this is one area where Apple made the right decision. A computer should either be used like an actual computer, or used as a mobile device. It takes more than just a touchscreen to make it the latter. So it doesn’t make sense to add it arbitrarily. Now adding a keyboard to a mobile device, however, does offer some nice flexibility without compromising on the mobile aspect of it.
This is not an accurate account of her actions. The tweet which Greenwald embeds in his article as evidence against her is here https://twitter.com/saeen90_/status/971562600315215872. Watch the video underneath where she explains what her problem was with Professor Massad. In class, Massad referred to the Jenin massacre, a student raised her hand and pointed out the UN had dismissed the claims that the Battle of Jenin was a massacre, the professor kicked her out of class. A left-wing student from Israel asked him a question at a lecture. Massad noticed the student's accent then asked him if he was Israeli then asked him if he served in the IDF. He then demanded the student tell the group how many Palestinians he had killed. This is a little different from getting anyone who "didn't exist on the far-right on Israel/Palestine" fired as you put it. This documents the professor's views on Israel/Palestine[0]. I don't think you can characterise anything other then these views as being far right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Massad#On_Israel_and_Zi...
Everyone uses an electronic POS system and it will round however the manufacturer told it to round (which will be correctly). The only people you have to worry about cheating you out of 3-4 cents in a world without pennies (the maximum you can be cheated) would be people without electronic systems. Which is to say, no one.
> I'm sure the fact that BMW/Daimler/VW have completely botched their EV/Autonomous vehicle strategy and the automotive industry is Germany's cash cow has nothing at all to do with the court's decision.

What are you implying? That the German Court felt pressured by the Auto Lobby to take this decision? That the judges were biased? Bribed? Vague statements like this are very unhelpful, because you can't argue against them but they try to make a point anyway.
Or maybe the idea is to put it far enough out that no one actually has to start replacing equipment until the US has a new administration and they can see where that administration stands on China.

If Trump gets reelected this year that will be his second term which is the limit, and so there will be a new administration in January 2025. If he doesn't get reelected there will be a new administration on January 2021.
Interesting to see how the toxic usage of emojis at Slack is a part of the letter. In past, these sort of details in communication (reactions of others) would be instantaneous and people would not remember them. Now, the emojis stay there as a part of the written history.
Obviously the design is not perfect, but I think this is a step in the right direction, as in, a robot does not have to be a bipedal humanoid to be useful.
Ah, the future.
How is it bad ? The 125117 number is including people were admitted to hospital for other than covid but happen to test positive for covid.
Could you not re-use the same lecture though?
But with 5G i can watch Netflix faster /s

5g is just another white rabbit big Multinational are chasing to justify/force infrastructure replacement.
No one is asking you to be naive and all-accepting. Simply to not be dismissive.
A support agents time was saved because every annoying step like that causes x% of people to just give up.
"When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect"

I agree. That follows.

He may not have been a founding member of a computer based community, software, or protocol, but he certainly inspired many of us.
Literally the second paragraph

> And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.

Was contradicted weeks later [0] and again by the bipartisan senate intelligence committee [1] this year.

Stay for reporting on Stone, which also aged poorly though I can’t blame them for not predicting the future.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber-russia...

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/senate-intel-report...
I think a lot of people would prefer a non-conscious entity to do their cleaning, who has no ability to judge them in any way.
I agree that 'co-pilot' would also be a very misleading name.

I think they should avoid these sort of airplane analogies entirely and just describe features as they are. E.g. call lane assist "lane assist", call adaptive cruise control "adaptive cruise control." These are terms that reasonably convey what the systems do, without exploiting the public's general ignorance of how airplanes work.
You can't see how superficial that is?
Maybe someone had a netflix or international TV account and they somehow shared a stream of it playing live or something.
Now I'm kind of wondering how one would deploy such a thing for 80K clients though.
We have this incredibly long history of taking short term gain at the cost of long term loss that far outweighs it, and yet we continue to make the same mistakes time and time again.

The countries that spent the most and locked down the hardest took the smallest hit because they were able to mitigate most of the damage, which is much more expensive.

People have to stop pretending countries are people economically, the cost of locking down is something developed countries can bear, and should.

Of course, this is all a microcosm of the same problem we face with climate change. It'd be really nice if we could finally learn the lesson and start paying the price now, rather than waiting and paying far more down the line.
""Anime was a mistake"

--Hayao Miyazaki"

--4chan
The 'other side' is irrelevant. If you run a service oriented organization and are gateway to a substantial fraction of the open source projects out there you should have your customer support house in order to the point where fora such as this one are not seen as a means of last resort.
This is exactly correct. Journalism is a serious profession, and I have mad respect for folks who dedicate their lives to it. It’s one of the pillars of democracy. And yet, that profession is vilified to no end in a forum that I count as reasonable.

Which makes it clear that even smart people can be so easily duped into an alternate reality... quite depressing.
Mein Kampf.
The people who have spent decades trying to keep the airwaves "clean," "family friendly," "anti-communist," etc, are suddenly shocked that they don't get to set the rules anymore, and that they're on the wrong side of some of them.

Context is everything for this discussion, because if you truly don't want there to be such censorship, you have to be aware of the motivations of the people pushing for change at the top now.

Otherwise you just get them running the show again, and you've just rolled back the clock a few decades to a world with a more violent state and a more cheerleading media.
Announcing features to be delivered later is common. Charging up front for those features with no delivery date is a bit less common.

In any case, should it not be made clear what the current capabilities of the car and system are as part of the advertising and purchase process?

That seems to be the issue that the court is discussing, not the premise that Tesla is pre-selling future autonomous capabilities that have not yet been delivered.
How is democracy working out in Arab spring countries or Eastern European countries? Most westerners have it wrong where they think Democracy --> Economic prosperity, where in fact it's quite the opposite. Economic prosperity --> Strong government --> Democracy. If you don't have a strong state, Democracy (or any political system) just leads to widespread corruption.

If you're interested in learning more about how China, America, UK, etc were able to rise to power, I recommend checking out this paper: https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2015/2015-00...
You're assuming a false dichotomy in which one obscurely defined group is subjectively deemed to be marginally better than the other excuses the synergistic absurdity of both
Convalescence in hospitalized patients (about 20 % of patients will end up in hospital) is extremely protracted. You will end up with a torrent of people unable to work for months if not years if the disease continues to spread. The recent JAMA paper from Italy (this one: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351) is frankly terrifying.
FWIW, I learned a little bit about how to check for supported features in x86_64 from the linked code (I added the comments):

TEXT ·hasPOPCNT(SB),NOSPLIT,$0
XORQ AX, AX ; AX <- 0
INCL AX ; AX <- 1
CPUID ; check cpu caps
SHRQ $23, CX ; shift bit 23 to bit 0 (bit 23 => POPCNT support)
ANDQ $1, CX ; examine bit 0
MOVB CX, ret+0(FP) ; return 1 iff POPCNT instruction supported
RET

It seems Intel CPU's have such a bloated and varied instruction set you have to query to see what flavor of CPU you have to create portable code. Writing compilers for this must be a real pain.

Full disclosure : I work for Intel
People here are debating whether Weiss is a good person or not and whether they like her opinions or not. I think we're missing the key point in this letter, which is that she's saying that she experienced workplace harassment at the Times. That's unacceptable.

My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.
Playing "This War of Mine" was one of the most powerful and emotionally stirring experiences that I have ever had with a video game. It really is a beautiful work of art. Highly recommend playing it.
Twice recently I had to go on treasure hunts to find old, obscure software that is no longer distributed. The first was for my wife's embroidery machine; I was lucky enough to find a copy of the installer in her old NT machine's temporary internet files. The second was a Motorola radio programmer from the late 90s; I snagged a copy from a shady Russian filehost.

It's nice to see projects like this keeping old software available, you never know what will be useful to someone even decades after it stopped being popular.
I agree, as someone who is concerned about "cancel culture" broadly, and found Weiss's resignation later interesting and noteworthy, that her credibility as a witness is a relevant consideration in this situation, since she is asking us to believe her accounts of the internal politics at the New York Times. She isn't just making an argument based on publicly available facts.

I would appreciate a better source for the claim that Weiss tried to get a professor at Columbia fired than that article by Glenn Greenwald. I dug through it (admittedly a bit quickly, so maybe I missed something), and could only find evidence that she was harshly critical of a Columbia professor, but not that she attempted to get him fired. It's also noteworthy that some or all of her criticism of that professor concerned not his expressed opinions, but the way he (allegedly) berated Israeli students in his classroom.

Ironically, I haven't generally found Greenwald himself to be the most reliable narrator, but that discussion would take us far afield.
I still subscribe to the definition of the words "debit" and "credit" that I learned in my 100-level accounting class: A debit is an entry in the left column of the journal, a credit is an entry in the right column. The meanings "gain" and "loss" only related to debit and credit when you're talking about the "normal balance" of a specific type of an account (an example: a debit to a revenue account represents realized revenue). Without the context of a specific type of account the words debit and credit only refer to the placement of the transaction in a journal.
I think readers here think that you are engaging in an "Ad hominem" attack on Weiss but since she herself is the subject of discussion I don't see why you wouldn't include her historical contradictory actions in a response.
I don't understand why she's such a polarizing figure. In particular, the criticisms I've heard from her and other free-speech advocates amount to "anyone who supports free speech but also exercises their own free speech rights to criticize others is a hypocrite". I understand that it's confusing to distinguish between "criticism" and "suppression of speech" (e.g., campaigning to get someone fired from their job), but the distinction is real and thus there is no hypocrisy.

In Bari's case, she can be simultaneously in favor of free speech but not want to work someplace where she is incessantly criticized or where she lends her credibility to an institution that is ultimately morally corrupt. There's no contradiction here. Specifically, I don't see anything that supports "she wants her detractors silenced by the law". She asks for company policy with respect to social media harassment to apply to those who harass her as it applies to other cases in which she's not the subject of the harassment. This seems like a pretty reasonable policy and one which isn't especially at odds with free speech ideals. I grant that there's a fine line between "harassing" and "criticizing with appropriate respect", and while I think axe emojis and consistent references to her Jewish identity make this pretty clearly a case of harassment, my opinion doesn't matter--what matters is whether the NYT's own standard for harassment. For example, would the NYT consider it harassment if the target were a black progressive instead of a Jewish liberal?
Sexism and harassment in the games industry isn't just about big names
Generalizations don’t help with anything, as I’ve pointed out in my original comment.
> This was probably the most brilliant advertising scheme of all times. Tesla is not just an electric car, it's the self driving car brand - even if it doesn't actually do that.

Acting with total disregard for the safety of your users and violating laws around false advertising is not "brilliant." It wasn't "brilliant" when Bill Gates browbeat manufacturers to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows, even if he made a lot of money. It wasn't "brilliant" when Mark Zuckerberg broke the law to snoop on users phones and sell their data to advertisers, even if he used some of that money to buy a private island.

And if I distract my opponent and steal their bishop, I don't become a brilliant chess player if I win the match. Like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Gates, I would just be a massive jerk.
There’s probably a long and very amusing German word that means something like “the public outing of a company’s moral failures via the route of a holy resignation letter.“
The woke-left isn't going around arresting people, nor do they have much (if any) influence in high levels of government.
Sick and tired of the 'both sides' argument to shut down discussion. The simple fact that this is seen as a reasonable way to get the attention of the company involved speaks volumes. The best ones are the ones where they can't tell you anything about your own account for policy reasons that are not spelled out because it may help the spammers/criminals/bogeyman du jour.
You nailed the problem, this needs to stop.
> the conclusion is a bit on the negative side.

It was to highlight that this really isn't the "do everything" robot that it's being advertised as that some are assuming it will be.

> The Roomba or any of the autonomous grass mowing robots

> can't do any of the things you mention either, and yet

> they are commercially successful in the consumer world.

No, but they are significantly cheaper single purpose robots that do their intended tasks well. This is aiming to be a more generic robot that does everything badly, at a much higher cost.

> there is a lot of potential here despite of the

> limitations

Well, the problem for researchers beforehand wasn't a lack of nice robot platforms to use. Some robotic arm controlled by a laptop on some wheels will already get you quite a lot of this functionality.

Really what a lot of researchers want is a nice framework that already offers a bunch of functionality they don't want to program themselves, so they can work on the more exciting cutting edge stuff. It needs to be robust enough to allow them to hack on random research hardware.

The Pepper robot falls slightly short on this for example, as many places have purchased one hoping it could be a robotic PoS/mobile FAQ - in reality it was just a mostly buggy experience for consumers.

I had a look at the code, it seems to run ROS, offer some possibilities, but I couldn't see at a quick glance some high level functionality they could hack on top of (although I could have missed it).
> Some can land in some conditions.

So... a bit like a Tesla parking itself in some conditions?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Grant Imahara warrant a black bar?
"When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect"

Because of his inspiration and outreach and attitude I'd think he'd be a great fit for the honor.
NSF’s handful of foreign influence cases may be due to how it investigates them