skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are a lot of similar failure modes in humans.

there are lot of similar failure modes in individual
humans. The difference is individual driver errors are not correlated, a bad reflection tricks a few humans at once instead of tens of thousands of cars running the same model. There is significantly more brittleness in a fleet of cars than in a population of humans, because the human population has diversity in judgement and experience.

This is not simple to fix because this uniformity is actually a feature of automated systems, it makes them explainable, produces expected results and conform and cheap, training a human for 20 years is more expensive than training all the cars once. However it also makes them collectively vulnerable, which is why heavy machines tend to be locked away on factory floors.
>What we're arguing is that these platforms ought to value free speech as a principle and act impartially. [...] But they should have the integrity not to.

But you're ignoring the fact that the corporations' value system consists of maximizing profit.

Anything that isn't pushing in that direction is both a distraction and a hindrance to the stated goals of the corporation -- making money.

Valuing free speech or having integrity are laudable ideals. I do my best to prioritize both. Sometimes I fail. But I do the best I can.

But my (or your) goals as an individual aren't relevant in this context.

Changing the incentives for these corporations to do whatever it takes to maximize profit would be a good thing.

That will entail the willingness of a majority of us to vote with our feet/wallet, likely aided with smart regulation.

But until we change those incentives/priorities, the status quo is what we'll get.
Not OP, but it sounds like mailbox.org
Who are “they”? Some instances have open governance, and other don't. There is no central power to dictate how things are done.
Many things have been corroborated, nothing has been disproven.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospective

The idea that it was/is fake is a lie direct from Trump's mouth.
I would say that content of my tax return is much more private information than my home address.
The VC firm in question is trivial to figure out. Just look for a firm that had a board seat that is no longer listed on the site and that does not list Circlecup on their site.
How exactly did you hum this so it was detected? How many tries did it take? That is incredible it worked thanks for sharing
In the physical world, the analog here is "you are standing on a box in front of the courthouse, shouting today's particular theory on some regressive tax, and nobody is listening (but nobody is pulling you down and shoving a sock in your mouth either)"

The online equivalent of the image I have painted above is, "You go on Twitter and you post something, and nobody is interested and it just gets ignored."

Twitter removing it is the same as someone pulling you off the box and shoving a sock in your mouth.

Until that actual public square exists online, Twitter, while they may have the legal right to silence you, have an ethical responsibility not to - because THEY chose to provide the platform that they knew everyone would use.

If they want ideological filtering they should make it part of the signup requirements.
All: don't miss (if it's the kind of thing you want more of) that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. To reach them, click the More link at the bottom of each page, or like this:

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A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island. You couldn't just rely on predictable "safe states" won by voters going straight-party on ballots. As it is, there's barely any reason for a Democratic presidential nominee to show up in reliability red states, let alone offer them anything in a platform.

Switching to a popular vote could lessen the current extremism.
It's not. It's that lurid tabloids sometimes break important stories. This comment expresses it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784836.

(I'm not saying this one is an important story.)
Unless the IRS was hacked, this comparison is invalid.
The world of silicon valley-style startups and tech entrepreneurship is so full of drama and intrigue. The entrepreneurship ecosystem is full of narcissists, blowhards, and self-important people who believe that since they are managing other people's money they therefore have more wisdom and insight than anyone else. Board members who feel that their role as board member grants them instant authority and credibility on all topics. CEOs who believe that their title means they deserve respect. And a range of hangers-on and wantrepreneurs who want to be part of the scene but have no real idea or knowledge on how to build a business.

Some startups are built to grow. Some are built to flip. Some will never go anywhere but fill people's pockets and egos. But many many more just fail.

There is little relationship between the alternate reality that is the startup world and the more mundane, sedate, and less interesting traditional business world.

Tweet storms and email chains like these read like the startup version of Jersey Shore or Housewives of OC.
>Is there some reason that these would not qualify?

I believe excerpts of pictures or emails taken for news reporting qualifies as fair use. It's not like they showed the whole picture, they just cropped his face with the crack pipe in his mouth. Likewise, the full emails where they discuss illegally peddling influence and pay for play with all the headers wasn't published. Just select emails with enough metadata to give context.

Copyright doesn't supersede the first amendment right of free press. At worst, the NYPost is on the hook for $150,000 per violation. They can probably make that much and then some on the scoop. It may be worth it to them, even if they lose on a fair use argument. It's a huge scoop in October of an election year.
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I don't know about IBM but Microsoft could probably do it now they own GitHub.
I hate having to press the ‘play’ button every time. Is there a solve for that?
Same here! Been injury free for 10+ years now. I'm a trail runner and long ago I ditched "more stability" shoes due to knee, hip and foot pain. For a while I ran in the Vibram Five-fingers and yes it does take some training to get your calves into shape!. They are super cool in that you are able to feel what you're standing on, rocks, mud, leaves or snow! You even find your toes curling to grip on the surface to help provide traction! but I kept kicking rocks and hurting my toes.

So I then switched to New Balance Minimus which are sort of like the five-fingers but with a toe box and thus a bit more protection. These are great and I still have a pair that I sometimes run in. However, I'd periodically bruise the bottom of my foot landing on a sharp rock (looking at you, the Radical Road in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh early one summer morning!).

For the last 5-8 years I have been running in Altra Superiors: a low stack height, zero-drop (between heel and toes) and mostly because they have a rock guard that protects the bottom of your feet. Excellent shoes, I go through about 2 pairs a year and I love them!

Overall, I can highly recommend the "minimal" shoe approach (although maybe not the five-fingers). Go with Altra or Topo something that has zero-drop so you're not heel striking. You don't need/want arch support; the arches are supposed to be strong, support themselves and most importantly (for your knees) act as a primary shock absorber.

BTW: If you're interested in this and "humans as endurance runners", Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is a great read!
seems data centers have 2k exabytes https://www.statista.com/statistics/638593/worldwide-data-ce...
Hopefully this reply doesn't get me in trouble on HN...

But I strongly disagree with you.

Collaborative Fund led the Series C round. Jay Kim was a fairly fresh venture investor at the time; the model and operation of NXC/Nexon's investment arm was quite different to the traditional VC. Based off the timings, it's highly likely this is the VC who the e-mail refers to.
Even if I sell you my hard drive it does not mean that I grant you access to my data. If that was the case we would just have to get some EOL hard drives from Apple/Microsoft/Google etc and get access to their IP.
Agreed. But if the alternatives (maybe a size/reach threshold above which the laws change?) were to fail, I would rather see every online community become 4chan, than actual violent war. Hopefully things turn out better than either extreme case.
To add: Medium used to have a custom domain option but has since disabled new blogs from using it - although just recently they said they're working on bringing it back.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003053487-Custo...
Their policy didn’t stop them from allowing millions of tweets related to unverified Trump taxes, debunked pee dossier and other Democratic talking points. This is straight up election interference.
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In my local newspapers growing up, the "letters to the editor" section was always populated by the local nutjobs writing inflammatory screeds. Hypothetically, the letters had stirred a lot of discussion, and my local paper decided to print them in bold type on the front page. Then the letter-writer got so popular, he was elected mayor of the town. But then the newspaper noticed it was having some negative impact on local politics, and the garbage collection for the print shop was suffering, so they decided to entirely stop publishing the nutjob. The writer cried out that it was a violation of their freedom of speech.

But none of it has anything to do with freedom of speech because they don't . I'd 100% support the newspapers' decision to stop publishing them (while also criticizing them, since it was their choices that created the issue in the first place). I'd also applaud anyone who felt strongly enough to cancel their newspaper subscription, or even start their own local competing paper!
It could easily be that the radiation is well below the noise floor for background radiation or cosmic rays. The experiment doesn’t allow for selecting the type of radiation, and if the fusion is different from normal then the signature could be strange.

Detecting elements can be done for incredibly small amounts, but instead the problem is avoiding contamination.
Why would that be a crime? The driver is ultimately responsible, not the car.
What is IQ in the end, except performance on IQ tests? Or more general problem solving ability. Stimulants definitely improve problem-solving capability:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880463/

This would be true even if the mechanism was "merely" an increase in focus. It turns out ADHD meds do more than that though, as they also improve working memory and mental stamina.
Yes. Flashing lights at the correct frequency and intensity can cause a noticeable fraction of the population to immediately seize. Emergency vehicles are a known trigger.

Less glibly, yes. There are particular arrangements of roads which are known to get people killed by cars. For example, an intersection at a particular angle with particular speed limits cause cars to stay hidden in each others' a-pillars as they approach the intersection. There are bits of highway that are known to cause human drivers to drift; this is why many stretches of highway now have textured strips down the side to notify drivers that they've moved out of their lane.
I think you are underestimating how popular Soundhound was (or overestimating how popular Google's version is). I bought my first smartphone just because I was blown away by Soundhound app. I was going to upgrade a year later but apps like SoundHound sealed the deal for me
I'm confused by this comment. The op explicitly said:

> You can't force anyone to do it

And your mind immediately went to:

> Forcibly changing a person's mind

Mind elaborating a bit?
What I hear: "Congress should further subsidize the technology industries"
> This is straight up election interference.

How is a domestic firm exercising it's Constitutionally-protected free press rights “interference”?
Happy to say that everything you brought up has also been brought up internally prior to release and is on our roadmap.

(1) Promotion - yes, exactly as you described.

(2) Shared app config - kind of already there in the API but not exposed yet.

(3) Inherited settings - little further out, but some concept of module or parent Waypoint config to inherit from is something we'd like to do. We'd also like to be able to allow people to /force/ this by platform, i.e. "ALL K8S apps must have these annotations." And so on.

This is all very possible with Waypoint and I expect everything you mentioned will exist by this time next year.
Email to Former Board Member
You can buy this precise thing from Citrix/VMware (I used it with a password, other people used it with smart cards). It’s extremely common in healthcare.
Modern? George Washington warned about this in his farewell address. 8 years after the United States of America began this was already becoming a problem!

George Washington on “the spirit of party” in his farewell address:

> It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
And now we're at the flip side where the Clinton News Network, The Washington Compost and MSNBSee are all blatantly partition and have gone so far off the rails, they have news anchors who are saying that a protest is peaceful, while buildings and car dealerships are literally burning behind them .. on multiple occasions.
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Why not try testing it for yourself? That way, you'll have a definitive set of results to look at that you can guarantee.
That woman’s job was specifically to monitor the road in case the software did not work. That’s why she’s culpable.
There's zero evidence to corroborate anything, though, including plausible scenarios where publishing this information is either illegal or foreign electoral interference or both. And, as far as it goes, not even the Post's story has any evidence to verify it. Even the emails' authenticity is still in question, which would be trivial to verify if Giuliani and the Post simply released the raw emails instead of image files.
Also, to elaborate on which parts can be 3D-printed. The latest and greatest breakthrough is using EBM (electron beam melting) for 3D printing second stage turbine blades from titanium aluminide in GE9X engine.

Those parts are continuously experiencing mechanical and thermal loads far in excess of forged or machined parts in any airframe. There is no added safety barrier for them unlike for fan blades. If turbine stage flies apart, its parts will go straight through everything in their path, including passengers.
> Most Americans have a positive experience with police and with police protecting them. This is true in minority communities too.

I'm not a minority and I grew up solidly upper middle-class. But even as a child, I knew that it was really dangerous to piss off the police.

Because the police were generally considered to just be the biggest and best armed gang. Because they acted that way.

Things have gotten much better in the ensuing 35-40 years here, but there are still serious, structural problems with police impunity -- especially if you're a minority[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/10/13/nypd-stop-frisk-warrants...
Good stuff, my dad showed this to me as he was working on some home automation and now I'm using it to control the vent fan in my van. I love the ESP8266, it's such a fun little platform and it's very easy to find accessories for them. The little relay board I have was essentially plug and play.
Ask HN: Favourite products/product hacks in obscure niches?
Nowadays search and discovery for high quality products in smaller niches seems to be quite difficult, even for experienced users of sites such as amazon or google shopping, especially when commonly used words are contained in the name.

And there also is the meta problem of knowing the existence of the smaller niches in the first place.

So I figure there may be value in writing down the knowledge of products we’ve found valuable in our life that would otherwise take hours, or days!, of focused effort to discover organically.

I’ll start:

Head massagers - I found one company, ‘Daiwa Felicity’, that makes a multi—prong style vibrating head massager with interchangeable attachments. The metallic parts also feel substantially more robust than the regular dime a dozen massagers. It also seems to be the only one specifically designed to accommodate different head shapes.
They’ll be able to operate at 30 mph, at night, in fog and rain (but not heavy fog, nor heavy rain).

I think they use the 3600 lb Chevrolet Bolt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bolt
This is not less illegal, it turns out.
My opinion is this is due to a reduced level of trust that we place in either each other or large companies/organisations. It is known among the business industry that trust is lower than it was historically. Companies and people are increasingly seeming to engage in shadier and shadier practices, or we're becoming more aware of it. This erodes the level of trust we place in each other, research bodies, governments, policing and science etc.

In addition, where someone with an extremist view might be considered an outgroup, historically their views might have been suppressed among their peers or shutdown. Now they can engage online with thousands if not millions of other people who believe in the same out group ideas, potentially strengthening their view point.

One of the interesting psychological discussions is around people with extremist views such as flat earthers. These individuals are often minorities or outcasts of society and as such, many of those with extremist views form bonds with like minded people and their relationships and well-being are tied to those relationships. What this means is that not only are they less likely to respond pragmatically to opposing viewpoints, but that they would struggle to actually change their ways given that their relationships are tied with this belief. And if they were to believe differently, they would have to say goodbye to those bonds.
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That's my understanding as well, and my claim is that nothing would be fundamentally different from how it is now. Twitter would take on the role of today's ISP, and the moderation services would take on the role of Twitter/Mastodon/etc, and we're back to square one. There would be a couple big ones that people would flock to because of network effects, and some small "free speech" ones that most people avoid because they don't actually want to see spam/porn/propaganda/etc.
May I ask what's wrong with the vacation? There was very, very few cases in China recently, and the 600M Chinese vacation are almost entirely domestic travel.
Psychedelics don't tend to cause permanent shifts in people who already know themselves quite well, especially people who have explored their world view, read philosophy and psychology and so on. It's more likely to have that effect on people who were already in denial, of their belief system, or relationship, or political views, because it often forces you to confront the hidden/denied parts of your psyche. This can be incredibly liberating for some people, scary for others, while for people with latent mental health issues it can be downright dangerous.

For this reason, I would usually recommend mdma as a first drug experience since it has a similar liberating effect for many people but also makes you feel loved and at one with the world.
If you can, set up an entirely different account. Way too many things can go wrong with Google accounts and it’s impossible to get a support request.
I'm not saying we should remove them just for Tesla. There's a hundred other reasons too.
I just flossed my teeth.
Lantern [0] and Pisphon.ca do so, too, since it is an effective anti-censorship deterrent.

Also, industry leaders like NordVPN and ExpressVPN may engage in P2P routing especially to unblock services like Netflix and Disney+ [1].

HolaVPN unapologetically does this too [2].

All of this is discounting the new-age dVPNs like Orchid (not quite the Tor replacement that was promised [3]) and Mysterium [4].

[0] https://archive.is/lDXR4

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9614993

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576457

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14331049
IME psilocybin is far better at catalyzing transformative experiences. LSD is really fun but the experience is more visual and kinesthetic than it is internal-self-reflection oriented, relatively speaking
Was at a friend’s house in like middle school or something. Went to get a big glass of milk from the fridge after playing outside.

Pour into glass, don’t pay close attention, take a big swig and my mouth fills with curdling milk that my friends mom was going to use for baking or whatever you’d use curdled milk for.

Still vividly remember the texture and the taste... so disgusting.
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My thoughts exactly. How ironic that you'd need another VPN to be safe enough for daily use.
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Just like the policy change he made to privilege government-connected after an extended period of letting Trump get away with violating Twitter’s supposed rules. For some reason, the Trumpeters never combined about that retrospective justification.

The Jack giveth, the Jack taketh away...

That's what happens with a free press when you are at first see as a benefit and later a liability to the person who owns a press...
Shouldn't prosecutors prove that it was you and not someone else?
Weight is the implacable enemy in aircraft design. This means the minimum amount of material for each part. This means the strongest / weight materials, and manufacturing methods that reliably achieve it.

For metal parts, this means forgings, which are 3x stronger than castings. The forging process is also pretty reliable compared to castings. Forging is also expensive, the only thing more expensive is a hogout from a billet.

In order to be usable for critical airplane parts, a 3D printed part would have to have the strength and reliability of forgings - and of course be cheaper.

BTW, on my hot rod engine I replaced all the moving parts in it with forgings, and the bell housing is a steel forging, too (stock is cast aluminum), because I like my feet.
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Nokia Composer in 512 Bytes
Looks like big progress has been made!