skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was serious abuse I'd 100% agree with you.

One problem we have is the word abuse, based on the modern definition and usage, encompasses a range of activities from things that are only slightly unkind and rather run of the mill to extreme examples of verbal cruelty.

The particular points highlighted in the article don't strike me as being on the cruel side.

My understanding of the world is that the higher you rise, the thicker your skin needs to be.

Of course we shouldn't tolerate gratuitous cruelty.

But anyone who has ever worked with very high level people will know they can be capricious. And for most of us, getting to those high levels is an honor.

Personally in my career I've provided services to successful hard to deal with entrepreneurs. Was it a PITA? Yes. Did I learn a lot? Yes. The most demanding, harsh people are those that test your meddle and forge you in fire. Not the ones that are most pleasant.

The reason elite universities are elite is because they push people to the brink, they are designed to demand as much from a human being as can be demanded. See, my issue with the article has to do with the author wanting to be an elite researcher holding the highest and most elite title (a PHD) in the most elite university in the world (MIT) and not thinking it's going to be a ton of hours a week. IMO, that's how you determine who is elite and committed; by applying stress and seeing who can handle it at the highest level.

I mean, logically the guy who can work 80 hours a week will do more researcher, which will compound, and far outpace the productivity of someone who works 40 hours a week. This seems like a really logical and reasonable basis for how we've set up society and I've yet to meet anyone who is elite in their field who worked only 40 hours a week to get there.

Now, I'll concede: Maybe there was an accusation in that article you consider so gratuitos and bad that it's worth condemning this institution which for better or worse has figured out how to squeeze out human innovation and potential like nothing before in history. I'll also concede I might be jaded and just accepting of things that are changing and should change.

And last, I believe most things should move away from reputation based systems to more meritocratic systems, so if you want to talk about removing the biggest whip that the article mentions (not being able to leave for fear of a bad reference) - I 100% support such efforts.
He already has the top YouTube result for "how to uninstall McAfee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

If he's already doing something, and like you say its a certainty that he'll continue, is that really a risk?
What if we replace them with cheap light signals?
Yep, MC is just polygons. Classic ace of spades was made with a voxel engine (voxlap) from Ken Silverman which is pretty cool.
Gotta say, a link towards the end of this article is really really good:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

Referenced as a reason why CRDTs are a good way to enable this.
If it’s not like ours, how would we know what to look for in the first place ?

I mean we have a definition of life and it’s building blocks, and we don’t consider a rock having a life, even though it does have a lifecycle.
Not sure if it's a "best practice", but you can get a fairly Dropbox'ish experience by running a nextcloud/owncloud instance. It even comes in docker containers, so setup is quite simple.
Do they have parity across all languages or just English?
I enjoy being a battery:
https://www.theonion.com/i-enjoy-being-a-battery-1819583258
_When_ you eat your food has never directly related to weight loss, but by restricting your eating window, it is easier psychologically to not exceed your calorie limits for a given day than trying to stay within the calorie limit, but eating whenever you want.

I am curious if there is a study on if participants that use IF alongside calorie restrictive diet are able lose weight faster than people that don't fast.
No idea, to be honest! I've been digging around from the all-to-easy-to-gain-weight perspective.

It might be interesting for you to check out some of the 'leangains' guy's write-ups. He's a bodybuilder who incorporates fasting into his regimen.
Having driven across the US almost 30k miles on Navigate On Autopilot in our Teslas, I’d argue the former (“Is Tesla close to having a system that can drive without attention, decide it isn't sure what to do and safely request driver attention?”). Attention is given, but intervention is rare, even in construction zones (only done when zones are inactive, not with workers present for obvious reasons). Interstate to interstate transitions, passing of slow vehicles without our intervention (“lane changes without confirmation” feature) is mostly flawless.

Edit: if I didn’t make it clear, Tesla vehicles safely hand over responsibility to the driver when path planning confidence has been lost. If you don’t take over, the vehicle comes to a stop with the hazards on. If you haven’t, I recommend taking a free test drive yourself to better understand the system constraints and UX.
Yeah, just bulldoze some houses and apartment blocks, so easy to build rail lines. Why didn’t anybody else try this?
3 billion per mile for the Downtown Extension in San Francisco.

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/18/17464616/bay-area-subway-tra...
It's perfectly CR to encode a merge conflict as another type of data in the CRDT lattice.

For documents, you might represent this as a merged document, with merge conflict markup inside the merged document - similar to using version control and getting a merge conflict.

Also similar to version control, the merge conflict can be a form of data where a valid CRDT operation is for a user to resolve the conflict. When that resolution is merged with other users, unless there's a conflict in the conflict-resolution, everyone sees the merge conflict go away.

Another valid CRDT operation is when a user modifies their version of the document in the region of the merge conflict prior to seeing the conflict, and broadcasts their edit. Then the merge conflict itself would update to absorb the valid change. In some cases, it might even disappear.

In principle, you can build a whole workflow stack on top of this concept, with sign-offs and reviews, just as with version control. I have no idea how well it would behave in practice.
I'm reminded of what Leslie Lamport (who ironically went on to work for Microsoft) once observed:

"You know you have a distributed system when the crash of a computer you’ve never heard of stops you from getting any work done."
!rt, !imdb, !w, !wde, !g, !gde, !ddgde, !cache, !webarchive

Those are probably my most commonly used ones.
That's a Google / Play Store limitation, not a technical one.
People manage to drive with eyes only - and with a far more restricted perspective than a ring of cameras around the car.

I do think Musk was (in part) wrong about LIDAR - I imagine that it could provide a valuable source of supplemental data to be used in training and classification.
This argument doesn't make sense. The purpose of this site is to discuss articles and other things. A prerequisite to discussing an article is to read more than its title. Sure, "real journalism" is good to have, but given that posts like this are allowed, what fraction of commenters in threads like this will sign up and support non-corporate journalism, and what fraction will clutter up the thread with uninformed comments?
I remember doing some napkin math back in 2017 and coming out with "driverless won't make Uber any more money, why are they spending so much on this?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744074
They are the underdog anyway.

What do you suppose them to do? To somehow magically grab the surveillance capitalism profit with just a search engine?

Without that profit, they'll have to play some silly moves.

For anyone who has even just superficial understanding of the market mechanism behind google, you'll see that there is no space of another search engine, as long as Google still needs a search engine.
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/uber-lyft-are-betting-that-dr...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/19/ubers-sel...
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/01/24/ube...
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-uber-ipo-stock-price-...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-...
https://www.wired.com/story/bet-uber-bet-self-driving/

I think the broadest interpretation is that autonomous driving was one of a few irons Uber has had in the fire to achieve profitability. The other irons include Uber Eats, Jump, and lately, grocery delivery. The miracle hasn't happened yet!
OK, that many-to-many thing may still use rails, which is 100 times easier to implement (autopilot part) than self-driving cars on dedicated lanes.
The FAA report and full audio from the “Jetpack Guy” incident near LAX
Even if you can identify the hand signal, and identify that a construction worker is giving them (establishing authority that the car should follow this signal), the signal contains a lot of implied information.

If the worker indicates you to go into the opposing lane, how long should the car remain there? How do you tell the construction part is done and you should return to normal self-driving logic? Sometimes there are cones, but sometimes not. American workers do often have Slow / Stop signs, giving a clear indication of when to move at least.

If you are going down a street slowly, and someone is wearing a hi-vis vest for their own safety, and they point at something, is your car going to follow that pedestrian's instructions?
I'm pretty sure crowdsourcing subtitles in different languages is the primary use of the feature precisely because machine generated translation of machine generated captions produces gibberish.
I vote for China, as they have the political strength to allow it even at a stage when it's not yet safer than an average driver.

I believe that's not good enough for Singapore or U.S.
Why is no one discussing Google Play's actual policy change?
Google sneaked in a major policy change and nobody is talking about it.

Earlier, it was possible for businesses selling digital stuff that can be consumed outside the app to offer 3rd party payment options. That's gone now.

For e.g., if you were selling music files, you could offer 3rd party payment options because music files can be played outside your app. So, for e.g., Spotify still happily use their own payment mechanism.

Tinder could bypass the Google tax because they offer the same services on their website.

There are dozens of other apps that did this, and it was actually allowed by Google. These apps were not being done a favor outside of the actual policy.

Now that part of the policy is actually gone.

Why is nobody discussing this?
Since space is quantized, this would mean that the infinite nature of Pi is non-physical. A mathematical realist could argue that this makes irrational numbers like Pi a mathematical curiosity that lacks objective reality and that at most a few hundred digits of Pi are "real." (Guesstimating what would be required to circle the universe with a precision down to the Planck length.)

Is there a counterargument to this? Is there a case where the infinite irrational nature of Pi would be physically realized?
People forget these days that technology (i.e. “tech companies”) does not equate to the internet, which is a just small subset. Technology is defined as “the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.”
The article is aimed at distro users to take action and start prodding the distro maintainers about how they make sure safety basics work on their phone. Style is tailored to that.
I think that is reasonable that a company do some tests on folks that don't have much baggage to show for, because in this case they are doing a wild guess and must count a little bit on luck.

But the parent was on his 30-something when he did the interview, and i bet he had a lot in his curriculum to show for, so in this case the company dont have to guess anymore.

I think it says a little bit that the HR is failing somehow. Failing to adapt to different kinds of human beings.

By the way, there are a lot of psychology into this. Sometimes the right kind of people to do some sort of task is the one that are avoiding the whiteboard tests.

In the end it will lead to an unbalanced company with people very similar and optimized for a couple of areas, but lacking in others.
It blows my mind to see people write things like this. We have two companies, Cruise and Waymo, who have built nothing but toy cars, but they are in the lead while Tesla has years of real-world driving data in cars that are in a manufacturing production operation, receive over the air updates, recognize real world objects, can change lanes automatically, but Waymo is ahead?

I’m open to being convinced that I’m not correct here, but it’s really difficult for me to see how Tesla is anything but 1000x ahead of everybody else.

It reminds me of people who build great models on Jupyter Notebook, but have no clue how about the data engineering that goes into serving those models (90% of the work).
Hmm, I wouldn't call them histrionics. It's their marketing. David v Goliath.

You don't use DDG because it's better than Google. You use it because it's not Google. So of course they remind people of that constantly. And... Google can take it.

I do think it's fair to complain that duck.com redirects to google.com if you're DDG. It's also fair for Google to do it anyway! Both sides are playing their part and that's okay. (Google did sell it to DDG, though, so good on them.)

I used to work at Mozilla, and it's crazy how easily a large company can crush you by... just existing. Google can funnel people to Google Search from Android, Chrome, Gmail, etc. Google is the defacto default, and DDG has to fight desperately for anyone to care.
Like Jane in the Ender's Game series. Fascinating stuff.
>Even substantially expanded rail will never solve the problem of "I want to get from point A to point B, as quickly as possible, whenever I'm ready to leave" in a fundamentally different way.

There is nothing ordained about this. If we stopped giving away billions of dollars of the most valuable real estate in the world (in the form of parking mandates and street parking) or stopped ruining neighborhoods with freeways and car-centric development then rail (and transit more generally)_could very well be better by these metrics.
If the system/software to safely hand over control isn't present in the vehicle, what does driving 30k miles demonstrate about how close they are to deploying it?

Much of the distinction between level 2 and level 3 is that the vehicle reliably hands over control. Successfully navigating situations doesn't provide much information about how close that capability might be.
Can you buy better on the market today?

Hoping the AP rewrite closes some of the gap... we will see!
There's an unconfirmed rumor that this outage has taken out 911 services in multiple parts of the US.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nationwide-reports-of-...
In my opinion, this is not actually a good thing. It creates an unhealthy focus on how many ports there are rather than putting the focus on the preservation of games and the quality of the user experience.

Most of these esoteric ports can only be compiled by custom ancient GCC binaries whose original source code is either lost to time or won’t compile on a contemporary compiler or CPU, and nobody actually uses them. I ran analytics on web logs during the month after the ScummVM 2.0 release, and the Dreamcast port you mentioned accounted for 4[0] of 16,068 downloads.

I would, furthermore, argue that this leads to less portable code in the long run since these old ports force the project to be stuck using C++98, so there’s a whole bunch of undefined behaviour, race conditions, and other garbage code in ScummVM which compromises future compatibility and wouldn’t be possible if unsafe coding practices from the bad old days were prohibited.

Source: I was once a major contributor to ScummVM and tried unsuccessfully to fix this.

[0] It’s a little hard to get an exact number since the port is split into several files; the most downloaded Dreamcast file had 16 downloads and the least downloaded 4, after excluding people who were just batch downloading the whole directory of installers. I use the lowest number since there’s no reason to think that someone would only intend to use engines starting with the letters A–G more than they would intend to use engines starting with the letters O–S, especially since the banner release in 2.0 was the SCI32 engine, and that was the one with 4 downloads.
There are still some dumb TVs in the very low price segment, with questionable panels of course, or im the signage segment, very expensive, of course.

I recently bought a 2018 Samsung TV that I fully expected to use with some extra device, but it turns out the software isn't even that obnoxious (closest thing to an unremovable ad is the linear TV guide in the source selection). It has YouTube, Netflix (which can't play 4K on Linux), and can play modern formats reliably and quickly through DLNA/UpnP.

I do have my concerns about its security - maybe it's already part of a bot net. Feature updates are out of the question anyway, so let's see when I'll have to get a secondary device.

I don't know the others, but the Tizen platform seems relatively light weight. While other systems (Android in particular it seems) can take a long time to cold boot this one only needs a couple of seconds.
It could be. At this point Democrats are basically tenured in California. The state has had Republican governors in the past but that was before present levels of polarization.
Perhaps we should say 'reborn' instead of rebooted, 'reincarnated' instead of 'reinstalled'.
All hail the Cloudflare Gods! They are benevolent gods, say I!

And today they have given into us a new, powerful bounty of storage with a delicious API!
Google has recently banned YouTube Competitor "LBRY.tv" From Play Store.

https://www.lacortenews.com/n/google-bans-youtube-competitor...
It is. And it's a nice feature that at least the luxury car makers are iterating on. The problem is that it isn't very interesting for folks who don't want to own a car and/or want a robo-driver to take them door-to-door all the time. A real freeway autopilot feature is still a nice convenience/safety feature but you still need a licensed sober driver for the endpoints of the trip.
Stores aren't marketplaces, at least generally speaking. Consignment shops might count.

At a store (once again, generally speaking), the company buys things and re-sells them. In a marketplace you're buying directly from someone else (and they usually pay the marketplace operator a cut of sales afterwards, or an upfront fee to sell there).
much higher stakes and much less response time. There are plenty of city drivers that get confused and, well, pull over or even just stop. it's irritating, but a sensible thing to do.

On a freeway, that's terrifying.

It _seems_ like lots of parallel systems, each with the capability to reduce speed or stop could cope with city traffic about as well as a tourist. but, uh, I guess $2.5B says otherwise.
Is it still in warranty? Can you roll it back? Crippling a device after it has been purchased ought to be illegal.
I was slightly annoyed and impressed that their 'histrionics' managed to finagle a high-value domain, for zero cost, from Google. When you're a fiesty up-and-comer, you do what you can.

On the other hand, Google seems to be now playing the old Microsoft game of keeping competitors alive so as to keep the regulators at bay.
The major issue with XML is all the garbage built on top of it like SOAP, WS-* and horrors like XMLDSIG.

Used purely as a markup language it's ok but you really don't want to be mucking around with stuff like canonicalization at all if you value your time.
Lol. In all seriousness it was for the best as I met my new advisor who helped me sort it out, whom I remain in contact with 25 years later!
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

Ironically found on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/distrib...

The cloud is the ultimate rent-seeker's dream. The world's computing power in the hands of a few enormous companies... who then sell it to you in tiny pieces and charge for every little thing you use on their services. And when something goes wrong, you are powerless to do anything about it.
Firefox has a similar feature. You can define your own keyword rule, for example, to macro-expand

hn duckduckgo

into

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=duckduckgo

and thus get a shortcut to HN's own site search (Algolia), without involving Google/DDG/etc. To do this, you need simply to bookmark the URL

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%s

and set the bookmark's "keyword" property to "hn". Then "hn" becomes a special operator in the omnibar, which eats the rest of the search string and substitutes it into its bookmark's "%s" parameter.

(This isn't limited to search engine query strings: it's general-purpose template expansion on the URL string).
B is boilerplate. Basically saying "we'll use the money for smart things". Everyone I've ever met seeking capital says this, I'm sure it's been in every S-1 I've read and I said the same words when I was seeking capital.

Oh, and it's non-binding so it's still possible to use the money for dumb things.
Some people and orgs upload videos with subtitles, especially those targeting international viewers.
The risk is that it's impossible to predict what he'll do next. I don't think "Sex with a whale" was on too many people's bingo card.
My understanding is that these ensure merges are well formed. Not that they are semantically coherent. There has to be some other semantic check on top of the document to tell that. Anything with a human involved typically gets kicked to the human. Anything else would still need some authority on not just what is semantically accurate, but which edits should be discarded to get to which semantically valid document. Right?

That is, this only works if you can somehow force well formed to be the same as semantically valid. Those are usually not equal.
You ever hear of BNF[0]?

Ugh. I used to write BNF parsers for a proprietary email system in the early 1980s. I’d rather bang rusty nails through my kneecaps.

It was a fairly complete notation, though.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus–Naur_form
It is relevant if you are against systematic extrajudicial murder and illegal spying or torture, and think the rule of law is worth following.

But if you aren't, then yeah, not relevant.
What is the purpose of the library? Display? Reading material for you? Reference material for cultural standards? Something else?
> I am pretty sure you cannot provide me with evidence of absence of effects of the experiment of that magnitude.

This is not how regulatory policy should work. I'm just going to repeat my first comment:

> It's good that the courts are blocking this in the absence of a specific, credible threat.
I agree with you, especially considering news outlets will take this conclusion and report it in the absence of contextual data, and that it makes an incorrect claim.
At this point I'm starting to be willing to consider it fairly safe when the driver is paying attention. Every press article about an autopilot crash seems to involve somebody who is completely inattentive. I can't recall any published incidents involving a driver using it as an assist, while continuing to pay attention.
> "the HN algo"

In terms of keyword ranking, from what I've observed the only think taking into account things such as keywords with respect to ranking is the readers voting and flagging.