skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the quote in the tweet itself the proceedings are accessible to them and all other members of the media over a live link.

Amnesty really needs to explain why this is not adequate, and if it genuinely is not adequate why the deserve this special access over and above any other party with a strong interest in reporting this case.
> it is not possible for humans to not loose attention when nothing is happening for long time.

I really don't understand this assertion.

Having to babysit auto-driving cars in their development phase is well within the realm of what humans are capable of.

The driver booted Netflix, navigated to an episode, and watched in on their phone for the same reason anyone would do it at work: not because they were driven to a boredom so intense that it was the only way to get a grip but because they simply thought "what harm could it do?"

These replies acting like a slightly boring job is doomed to this outcome remind me of those ridiculous articles that stereotype millennials as 30yo-children so spoiled that they're unwilling to do the simplest of jobs. "Millennials refuse to be trash collectors and don't understand how someone could do it. 'Humans aren't made to pick up trash,' John, 32 years old, told our newscaster. 'Else we would have tongs for hands! I don't even think it's possible.'"
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Looking at that user's history, I can't find a single living comment. In just the first few pages are these standout examples of why:

"Endless babel from that region of the US we care the least about: NY"

"The feminazi apparati found you."

This article may be totally reasonable, but your example of an unfairly silenced user doesn't appear to be.
How do we reduce corporatocracy and regulatory capture?

There are elections coming up in November. You'll have at least 2 federal races on the ballot. Figure out where the candidates stand with regards to corporatocracy and regulatory capture and vote accordingly.

If you don't like where any of the candidates stand, there will be another election in 2 years. In the mean time, let the candidates know how you feel. Donate to, or volunteer for the candidates who you want to win.
Who would have thought that after decades of privatization and corporate lobbying, the FAA would no longer be functional enough to prevent this kind of disaster?

This same story is repeating throughout all the American regulatory bodies and it is only going to get worse.
For the book - I don't think there really is a high expectation of knowledge, except maybe just general web development from a high level. The hope for the informational part is to get anyone acquainted with it

For the tutorials - the expectation is familiarity with Javascript and probably React, given the examples are React, though I walk through each steps with the code changes
Imagine the marketable aspect of this "openess". You watch a football (aka soccer) game, the score is 1-1, the game is in its first 20mins (70 left to play) and you see that team A has an average heartrate of 100, and team B has an average heartrate of 130. You can then place your (live) bet accordingly having this stress/fatigue/stamina factor (or whatever other metrics may be available).
>We still see the echos of it to this day as PC based gaming is confined to the closed platform of Microsoft DirectX as they managed to squeeze out and nearly kill off OpenGL. To this day no alternative has threatened this monopoly as Linux and OSX gaming has been utterly subdued by Windows and never took a foothold.

There's lots of 3D graphics in the majority of my Steam library that I can play on my MacBook.
but they did afaik? there's Excel online.
there are already out of country workers being paid pennies to pick fruit - why add the cost of robotics?
Man, I still just use a simple batch file. These build systems (and dependencies they are built to handle) are insane.
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How much of a cut do they give to the gym?
This is the toxic "American Dream" mentality coming home to roost.
Pure Storage to Acquire Portworx
Sounds like GW Bush.
Understanding Signals. It’s not that complicated
Only a certain vocal rich segment of American society.
First full at-home Covid-19 test
:o where are you seeing that, on the homepage? it's loading for me
How to Make Friends as an Adult
Just like how you can live in a castle in middle America that costs $250K.

It's just part and parcel of living where everyone else wants to live.
After digging into Bazel a bit recently, I really hope they invest significant energy into the IDE story next. That is a huge, gaping hole that is being not-really solved in all the language/IDE ecosystems and is a _massive_ roadblock to adoption.

IDE integration would remove 90% of my hesitation to push it at my company.
Isn't they because your parents refuse to grow up? A roommate wouldn't tolerate that.
Ask HN: Is there a book about the basics of IT?
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224

yeah, I know I should have created a user profile tonyabbot before submitting.

My favorite dessert is Tiramisù.
>> What do we do so the backup driver does not watch his phone?

You make the human drive the car. The robot can jump in and slam the brakes when the human makes a mistake. That is the safe option.

But it just won't sell. Nobody here would buy a car that prevents the driver from making mistakes. Autodrive car that obeys speed limits while allowing driver facebook on phone: acceptable. Car that doesn't allow the human driver to speed or run red lights: market kryptonite.
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Extremely rich people who are more or less retired from whatever it is that made them extremely rich in the first place often spend their twilight years focused on "philanthropy." So in general, I don't think Bill Gates should get some sort of special recognition for that.

However, what I think he does deserve some level special recognition for is what he is devoting his philanthropic efforts toward, which is making a tangible difference for the worlds poorest and worst off people. It can be credibly argued that the efforts of the Gates foundations have saved many millions of lives and alleviated a huge amount of suffering.

I also disagree with the argument that a public organization would be more effective. If by "public" you mean government-run then such an organization would almost certainly be focused on helping relatively wealthy (by global standards) middle and working class Americans. It seems unlikely that they would focus their efforts on something like eradicating polio in the developing world.

Public institutions are good and American should have more of a social safety net but I think it's probably a good thing that individual American billionaires are focusing their philanthropy on things that would be politically awkward because the people who benefit directly don't get to vote in US elections.
> Then, if the bullshitter gets to the end of the sprint and says they didn't complete a 1-2 day task in 10 days, you can start asking why. They do this consistently across 2-3 sprints, you know something is up. Assume they're more junior than their job title and try giving them easier tasks. Still not getting much done? They're a bullshitter. Fire them / raise with their manager.

Another contributing cause of this can be that they have gotten into the habit of accepting other people's bullshit.

Example:

Bob says "I don't think I understand enough about X to do task T well".

Sue, (partly worried what people would think of her if she negotiated similar time for learning) feels great discomfort hearing Bob's self-deprecating* statement. Motivated to escape this discomfort, she 'helpfully' tells him that he is just suffering from impostor syndrome.

(Bullshit: It might be true, but the function to produce the statement did not take real-world evidence as a parameter)

Bob mostly-believes this and doesn't feel confident that it is wise to allocate his time to learn X. He should 'just get it done'.

Bob starts working on task T and feels frustrated and confused. Bob starts asking questions on slack that anyone with a solid understanding of X would know are irrelevant. He does not get helpful answers.

Bob, hearing that he's trying to 'understand the universe' doesn't see a way forward but to put more time into task T. He stays up late working on it ineffectively.

Bob goes into standup having accomplished very little and gained little understanding. Bob's duty to his team and his health is to confidently state this truth. Bob is sleep-deprived and ashamed of his lack of progress. He feels motivated to escape this discomfort. He says the task will be done by standup tomorrow.

(Bullshit: It might be true, but the function to produce the statement did not take real-world evidence as a parameter)

Bob stays up late again. Bob accomplishes little. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLBO7L5G2DQ

10 days later, Bob still does not really understand how to make progress on his task.

----------------

Bob gets fired shortly thereafter. He has multiple hypotheses for what he should have done better, but none he is confident in. At his next job, he is on hyper-vigilant alert for a similar situation. When he encounters it, the memory of getting fired and the uncertainty of what to do makes him feel deeply uncomfortable. Discomfort-avoidance leads him to get on hackernews rather than focus on his work.

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* "I have gaps in my skills and am capable of learning" is a healthy problem to have. "I am unqualified to judge when I need more understanding of something to move forward" is an unhealthy problem.

Thus, we should exercise a duty of care to the truth when telling people that they have Impostor Syndrome.
K&R 2 represents the bulk of the modern language. You can't be very productive knowing just Ada83.
"2004" means a build of Windows 10 originally built in April 2020.
Single use plastics are a tiny fraction of our carbon footprint. They are also very convenient and make users’ lives better. It would be a strange place to start with severe regulation.
> Running a tar pit is a bit like installing a trap on a bike in order to teach bike thieves a lesson.

It's more like approaching a thief and persuading him to steal some bike "just around the corner", then guiding him around endlessly. While he's following you, he's also not stealing anything from anyone, his attention (which is naturally finite) gets drained - even just a little bit - to the benefit of the community as a whole. It's not necessarily about vengeance.
Are people in the Middle/South getting jobs?
A totally fair point, Uber needs to be held to account for their systemic failings.

That doesn't mean that an employee being clearly negligent doesn't also need to be held accountable.

Them being held accountable is one part of a good system.
> Somehow a lot of people choose to believe interpretation #2 is true, and spend a lot of time debating whether this or that company is a "monopoly" as if it is somehow more important than the substantive issues

Not to accuse anyone here of this, but intentionally doing what you describe is an disingenuous but effective way of shaping the conversation to discourage scrutiny of more general kinds of anti-competitive behavior. I'm sure it's part of any monopolist's PR strategy (or large business engaged in anti-competitive behavior, to be more precise).
What Happens to Your Body When You’re Burnt Out
Where I live, most property agents will do a credit and income check, and would turn you away for not meeting the "minimum income level" for renting those places.

Even if you feel you can afford spending 50% of your income, it doesn't follow that you can easily find a landlord who allows it.

If you have a bad credit rating, as many people do these days, it will be even more difficult as more landlords check that than income.

In my case, where I am currently living, I had insufficient income at the time I moved in to qualify, and was only allowed to rent on the condition that I paid 12 months rent up front. And then I had to do it again the following year. Obviously that's only available to people with decent savings.
This is more challenging now with the pandemic in full swing, but it's certainly something I need to work on. At 45 I've got a handful of friends, but when I look around me I see a ton of people my age, particularly men, that don't have many friends. It isn't clear to me that they see this as problematic or not. I believe it is for me.
Agreed. I flirted with it a couple times in the past and just couldn't get understand through the docs. This last time I ended up binging the bazelcon videos and things mostly clicked. The main thing to understand is the WORKSPACE/BUILD distinction and then you can mostly get there I think.
Monopolies are a well-defined theoretical concept, but in practice it's about market power. When one entity has overwhelming market power it's afforded with options that harm consumer welfare.

Anti-trust isn't about defeating theoretical monopolies. It's about protecting consumers, new businesses, the market from abuses through overwhelming market power.

So your first possibility seems right on the money and appropriate.
Everybody with a drivers license is supposedly qualified to operate a motor vehicle. That usually entails not killing random people.
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> If you spent $1,000 on servers and your website made $10,000, then you’ll only pay taxes on the $9,000 in profit.

I wonder if this is correct. Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them.

Sounds like this article is conflating the legalities of setting up a business with the accounting of operating one, two different things.
> These things continue to be sold well after initial release.

They should be forced to put the EOL date on the packaging and on the hardware. I'm sure the average buyer is not even aware of it.
It's okay self-driving cars aren't yet single seater.
when is this material crap gonna die? There are gaps everywhere who wants more gaps in their DE?
Exactly.

If you have the opportunity take it.

In other parts of the planet there isn't this weird pride that means the only way to assert independence is by having your own place.

Most parents are happy that you just keep the area clean and chip in for groceries and rent.

What's so bad about that?

I guess it's only a bummer when you wanna get laid, but there's probably ways around that.
After having dealt with major burn out over the last couple years, I can really relate to this article so I thought I would share.
Ssclib is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It is a fork of JSch from JCraft. Pull requests welcome!
Watch the video, slides are just one part.

Part of "Determine the difficulty and learning curve for others".
Should have bought some Bitcoin (2011)
Especially death. Death is a HORRIBLE way to live. /s
It certainly is free. The standards are generally backwards compatible and the changes are simple. You do not even need to be aware about the differences between C89 and C11 to contribute to a C11 project.

> or because the toolchain they use elsewhere (personal projects, embedded comes to mind, or work) hasn't updated to the new standard.

gcc and clang both support it.
If basic R&D is underfunded by the public, allowing monopolies to overcharge consumers and pass some of that money on to their proprietary research departments isn't a great solution.

We should guard against monopolies and increase public funding of researchers.
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Are you saying this was the case here? Are you you familiar with the protocols used at the time or are you speculating?

I see e.g. cruise and waymo SDVs around SF with only one person on board. What of those?

My very layperson protocol would be "watch the road while the car is in motion, only use tablet when car is safely parked". My understanding is that SDVs store all the data it collects, so I see no reason to require operating a tablet while the vehicle is in motion. Correct me if I'm wrong.
XFCE here, for the same reason - I've been trying out Gnome since the early 2000s and it's always been a bug-ridden, bloated pig. Meanwhile XFCE is simple, lightweight and it just works.
I agree with you that abolishing malaria is probably a better place to put our resources, but I disagree that ending ageing would only make a few thousand rich people immortal. There's nothing to say that the treatments would be that expensive. It's possible we find cheap therapeutics, or expensive ones that we can make cheap and accessible. Ageing related deaths are higher than malaria deaths, and ageing places a huge burden on all our systems.
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Are you talking about a B.V.?
I feel like we as a culture are losing sight of the reality that there is always risk.

346 people in the first year is a horrible. It is also an outlier. In general, flying is extremely safe, and new planes are safe.

If we freak out about everything that ever goes wrong and try to create a system with zero deaths ever no matter what, we risk not being able to do anything new because it is paralyzed by regulation.
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It's interesting that your comment and xyzzy_plugh's comment make opposite points!

But you're right, in some cases the breaking changes won't break you. In any case, I do think it's worth having a dead-easy way to fix the imports, rather than having to fuss about with grep.

(And what if you could actually ship rules to transform code to the upgraded version? That would be cool...)
I don't think it's necessarily an accepted business practice, but a known failure mode of our regulatory model.
Appreciate engagement, much more complicated story than can be told here, but short version for both (IMO, of course) is:

1. Decision making is much more of a "Thinking Fast And Slow" behavioral model than a monolithic intellectual logical process (the Slow part of Thinking Fast and Slow).

2. The small messaging nudges have a huge and impossible-to-prevent impact on the Fast part, which drives the majority of micro decision making.

3. Rationalization (how the Slow part retroactively justifies Fast micro decision making) plus authority dynamics (Trump enshrining bullying behavior at the leadership level) mean:

Beliefs may not have changed but behavior contradicts beliefs.

This is especially critical- and tragic- when that behavior is self-destructive, and beliefs/denial are an obstacle to using communication for harm reduction.

Hope that makes sense.

Best wishes.
>Does anyone even use gnome online services?

I do have two google accounts and one MS enabled in GOA.
"I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring, and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing what's underneath."

I have this at work, with engineering drawings. With mobile equipment often were not dealing with engineering companies per se, and they won't or don't know how to get us CAD models of their equipment. And we often don't have the equipment on have at the time we need to make drawings.

But if you have a PDF with vector drawings, often a manual, and one or two good dimensions you can make a reasonably accurate model. AutoCAD even makes this easy with the PDFIMPORT function.

More often than I would expect, there's a whole other drawing view either covered by a white box or off-page. Once it looked like it had been drawn over with a white paintbrush tool, and if course the path of that too was also visible.
Walkthrough of a D2C rebrand
I operate a small digital studio that focuses on branding, design and dev for direct-to-consumer brands. This was our first effort managing all of the pieces end-to-end, so thought I'd share what that process looks like.
Furthermore, I doubt that the lack of ‘transparency’ was entirely accidental. At least since Enron, the management of large enterprises has become adept at encouraging or subtly
coercing its employees to do what it takes to get the desired results, while they remain nominally unaware of what is being done.
This is a tweet. It is, by itself, misleading. It is about a legal matter. The thread of tweets it begins is not an analysis of the legal context of the decision returned to Amnesty International by the judge.

Amnesty International has not been "denied access" to the extradition hearing. The judge has declined to provide them with special status and guaranteed access by an AI observer within the courtroom itself. The proceedings will be broadcast live to members of he press in auxiliary room, where AI is apparently welcome.

Other comments speculate about various extralegal shenanigans that could occur in such a situation. Information about that might make up a good article, an informative article, that I might be glad to read on HN. However I already have a place where I can indulge in soapboxing in response to tweets, it is called Twitter, and I am not sure that providing redundancy for this activity is a good use of HN.
Why was no one prosecuted for publishing or receiving the Snowden leaks then? I remember the Guardian and the NYT both receiving leaked information from Snowden. Can you give a single example where the courts backed them up? Even the prosecution in this Assange case seems to be agreeing that there has never been a successful prosecution.
It seems to go to as many characters as you can fit in the URL. Each new character after /bot-dungeon/ is a new level.

Pretty clever!
Depends on where I start. If I can buy machines from china I can ramp up much faster than if I have to design and make the machines myself. I also need to develop supply chains.

Note too that I have no expertise in either building a business or designing mask making machines, so I'll need to hire people as experts in both of those which will take time. Probably my mask making machine experts will be experts in designing machines (engineers), but not masks and so they will have to learn what works and doesn't.
>It's terrible and it's also the only phone I've been truly excited about, well ever.

The IKEA effect.[1]
>"The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created"

>without resorting to the command line

I want a command line only DE for PinePhone.

• On screen keyboard (Although hardware keyboard case is coming soon to PP).

• A section for realtime interrupts like calls, messages and notifications.

• Rest of the screen for native shell to do everything else, browsing? Lynx.

Advantage of this kind of DE is that it can allow us to create phones out of low power hardware like RPi zero as well.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
I'm surprised they even considered Rust in any capacity as they couldn't use it as there are no certifications for it. Speaks quite a bit for rust that they considered it a "major alternative" as per their slides.
This really does do a good job of explaining it, I feel the same way, you just said it better than me.
RNA-based Covid-19 vaccine BNT162b2 selected for a pivotal efficacy study [pdf]
Direct sales for SaaS startups – our experience and tips
Try online therapy?
I've used telnet as the client wait in the distant pass. Those were the days.
Exactly. It's society that puts a premium on success = more material goods and your own living.

The only time I think it's a real bummer is when you want to get laid. But even in other cultures you work that out.

But, really, being part of a community and sharing resources is supposed to be a good thing.
Don't worry, nobody actually trust the FAA anymore. It will take decades to undo the damage.