skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 'beware' sure, but I'm not sure if the reasoning is correct here especially the bit about the 'rich kid' getting into Congress. There's an incredible amount of 'good opinion' being had from armchair experts, the question really is how to sort through it.

Very few are actually 'prepared' for Congress, and frankly, it's always been an elitist affair, and ironically when it's not, i.e. the 'Restaurant Server' gets elected, for some reason we tout that as positive?

JFK was not a lazy entitled 'rich kid'. From among an overly entitled class, he was probably the most deserving - he was very bright, educated, definitely had a vision for what public service should be. He was incredibly curious and intellectual. He was chronically ill with certain ailments but didn't let it affect him, he had most of the qualities we would want for that kind of office.

When JFK and Jackie were dating, he would have Jackie translate entire books on cutting edge French philosophy just so he could read them. Just fathom that again: 'Sweetheart, I really want to read Lyotard's latest book on Postmodernism, can you go ahead and translate an entire book for me just so I can read it'? And she did. Imagine what that says about the intellectual foundation of both of them.

In 2020 we have enough transparency to recognize that the foundations of many of the 'Sciences' and certainly private and public institutions are definitely frayed. 'Casual Polymaths' can provide a lot of ideation, insight, a kind of 'oversight', even sometimes facts about a particular subject that really can't be ignored.

COVID is a good example - it's fairly obvious from intently watching the various governing agencies public displays of knowledge (i.e. Dr. Henry in BC, Dr. Tam at Canada Federal level, the Swedish Minister etc. ) that there is an incredible amount of disagreement about various aspects of it, and that they are not always paying attention to one another. Especially where the science crosses public policy, economics etc. there's a lot of fodder for discussion. Dr. Henry, in BC, whom I admire, has not once in 6 months even hinted at the economic impact or social/health impact of any of the Province's policies, as if 'people's means of subsistence' didn't matter at all in light of the pandemic. It's probably exemplary of the worldview of an MD/Epidemiologist/Bureaucrat who thinks in other terms - which is fine, but it needs public voicing.

Particularly in the area of Social Sciences wherein the science is really difficult to shake out - and - individuals can have tremendous life experience that speaks to human behaviour - discussion should be had.
You had a reasonable point, till you veered off into fantasy land that renters aren't just as much in the game if not more so. If anything landowners are generally the problem and renters are the majority population.
Your phone you could show your gps location at the time.
Should the press secretary’s Twitter account get special treatment?
0 for 20 on the most popular and recognizable video game music, like the Super Mario Bros theme song. Seems to only work with top 100 yearly tracks with lyrics.
I think this is one reason service workers haven't caught on. Offline-first is nice, but it has an obvious shelf life given the progression of technology.
If anyone has been citing no examples, imo, it's you. I have elaborated & elaborated & elaborated, & you have said nothing to contend with other than 'it's easy'. I disagree. I've tried to talk to that at length. You've left everything but your one happy easy path to modifying a cert untouched, not commenting on a single one of the difficulties I've raised.

I think TLS was mis-designed for an in-appropriate & indecent form of security that does not give permissions to the most important actor.

Leaving the CA store on the hard drive, free to be modified by the user & sys-ops in a judicious careful manner was respectful of systems agency, giving a wide range of respect to different ways systems might need to be operated. Now, there are very few permissible ways to modify behavior. The system has closed down, locked down, become less programmable, less configurable. This advancement of the unmalleable is, imo, notable, prominent, progressing (on a wide variety of fronts), & obviously bad.
Makes me think of O.S.Card's book where a society's OCD-like religious experience turns out to be a curable issue. It's definitely one for both philosophical discussion and shallow memes (the next trolley problem?).
This is like saying that investing in asphalt is pointless when horses can walk on dirt or cobble. The fact of the matter is that building new public transport is monumentally expensive, but roads themselves already exist. Installing new sensors and beacons would certainly not be a cheap task, but the bulk of the work is already done and there's no reason why these new systems couldn't integrate with existing roads that humans drive on. You can imagine for example a speed limit sign with a QR code containing information for the car to read, or a stop light using a radio transmitter to indicate its state. This infrastructure has to be upgraded anyways; why not make it friendlier for computers to use it? The costs pay themselves when crashes and traffic jams go away.
The eBay ratings - despite being numerically the most egregious - are probably the most helpful. 99.6% ostensibly says that there's a 0.4% chance of you having a bad experience. Star ratings don't really convey any meaning.

I'd definitely adjust my baseline "acceptable percentage" based on what I'm buying. If I'm getting a pack of USB cables for $0.05 each, I'm not going to be too fussy about the rating. I'll take a 2% chance per cable of them not working, that's what I'm paying for. If I'm buying a new GPU, I'm going to be a lot pickier about it.
Is there a way to scrape reviews and build an accurate database of all reviews over time that is verifiable by some blockchain type of encoding so you know if they were modified or deleted and can do a check against the current site.

This would yield far more insight than taking their word on their proprietary algorithm flagging reviews. This would also be awesome to use against Yelp that I have first hand experience trying to be extorted by their sales teams affecting a family small business I host a website for and yelp page.
Something something the cost of doing business.
Show HN: Simple Kubernetes test cluster with Docker registry and ingress
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The rise of AV testbed cities

https://www.axios.com/autonomous-vehicles-japan-china-testbe...
If someone wants to help with more COBOL code analysis adding[1] it's support in GitHub Semantic would be awesome. The first step would be to finish the Tree-Sitter parser[2] for it. Then it would require to add support in Haskell bindings [3].

[1] https://github.com/github/semantic/issues/452

[2] https://github.com/Neppord/tree-sitter-cobol

[3] https://github.com/tree-sitter/haskell-tree-sitter
> The collective set of communication platforms that people use are, in concert, important, but it'd still be a stretch to say even that combination was "essential"

Yes, I am concerned about the collective of privatized communication mediums. More and more private, personal communication runs over these platforms. Facebook is not just your timeline, it also is whatsapp. Twitter has DMs too. Those get filtered too. This is unlike telephone or face-to-face communication.

Their continued existence is not essential to life, I agree. But they shape communication which is essential to society as a whole. If we can't do anything about the network effect then having a disinterested network should be preferable.

> This proposal would make it nearly impossible to simultaneously have user-posted content and moderation.

I already mentioned this in another post, but let the userbase collectively handle the moderation of what would now be considered "community guidelines", let the platform provider handle moderation of illegal content. This may require much better tooling and different ways content is amplified (or not) than social media platforms currently offer but it doesn't seem as impossible as you say.
Giumarra testing pilot-free air shipments of produce
I think Luhmann's Zettelkasten implementation reflects the limitations of available technology at the time, just pen and paper. But his ideas were simple. Each idea in its own card and a flat structure, so that ideas can be composed in many ways. People tend to overthink how to implement this, and forget about the basics.

In my case, I just use one Org file per card. I don't use internal links. I prefer search (ripgrep) and index files, where I list sequences and entry points to topics. This also allows restructuring my Zettelkasten more easily once new ideas emerge, or once I realize my old ideas were wrong.

In other words, I am trying to go one step further by decoupling cards (ideas) from links (relationships).

I do use external links, and in particular DOI links to publications. But I keep these in footnotes. Hence, my zettels look really spartan. It's just plain text plus footnotes.

Aside from Org and Markdown, TiddlyWiki is pretty neat. It's pretty good for transclusion. That can also be achieved in single-file Org Zettelkastens / wikis.
That is a false dichotomy, they can clearly moderate without a political bias on what they claim to be a public utility. Yes I am claiming a site such as Twitter, that provides a public forum that anyone can join, has a moral duty to act like a public utility.
Yes, yes - I would add - many 'software' people have to become successful in their own disciplines - and then also develop insights into the domains relevant to the problems they solve. For example, I'll bet HFT finance devs. know quite a lot about that kind of trading, probably more than most people with financial backgrounds who are not involved in trading at all.
This is more likely caused by people videoconferencing with computer speakers, than by network delay.
>Did the Panama Papers expose a crime?

Yes, here is the first google result.[1]

>Who decides whether a crime has occurred?

This is complicated and why there is a preference for whistleblowing to occur through official channels rather than through journalists. However sometimes there is a level of corruption that can't be dealt with any other way besides going public with it. In those instances, it is up to the whistleblower and journalists initially before eventually the court decides. Snowden was good in this regarding by trying to limit what was leaked. Manning did a poor job here.

>I would say that Snowden exposed a crime (perjury) by James Clapper. Manning (IMO) exposed war crimes.

No disagreement here. Snowden and Manning fit a clear definition of whistleblowers. Assange is the one who is not on the same moral footing as those two.

>Similarly, I think that it was in the interest of the public to report when it was discovered that Trump only paid $750 in taxes (despite not committing a technical crime!) or that Hillary Clinton received some debate questions in advance (again, not a crime!).

Trump's taxes likely did reveal numerous potential crimes. He reported different numbers to the government and lenders which would likely indicate he committed fraud.[2] He both employed his daughter and paid her as an external consultant which isn't allowed[3]. He regularly claimed things as business expenses in questionable ways.[4] I'm sure there are many others too, those were just the first three I remembered.

[1] - https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/first-us-t...

[2] - https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-b...

[3] - https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/ivanka-trump-donald-...

[4] - https://theintercept.com/2020/09/28/donald-trump-taxes/
Anyway I need to buy some games from Oculus Store so I should provide real information. So I believe that fake information account isn't an option.
What crime was committed? The agreement in the article shows that the computer in question became property of the repair shop after 90 days (https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Comput...)
I agree Glassdoor is in an unusually difficult niche, but rating systems are all over the place.

Steam reviews are interesting because I have started watching someone’s YouTube lets play instead. Even bad ones are mildly interesting and they quickly tell you a lot more about the game than what I get from random reviews.

The best online review system for me is Rotten Tomatoes which shows both what the general public thinks and what the critics do. Looking at say https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_rise_of_skywa... I appreciate many of the viewers liked it, but it’s the critics that I find actually agree with. Yep, worse than the prequels, but not quite walk out of the movie theater bad. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_episode_i_the_pha..., https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_episode_ii_attack..., or https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_episode_iii_reven...
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That was my intent. Snowden and Manning are whistleblowers. Assange is very much not a whistleblower.
I think the best way to sum up the discussion is. void in c has no values. But the most straightforward way of modeling void mathematically is a type with one value.
Xbox Series X hands-on preview: Microsoft's best console ever
I hummed "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "My little armalite" which aren't too recent or popular and it got both.
Trump's tax returns were hacked, in that the disclosure was not authorised, yet they were shared freely on twitter.

It smells very much like "rules for thee but not for me", which is why people have a problem with it.
I understand your point , but surely you would agree that A) Any Russian disruption is dwarfed by the inside dynamics in the country. B) Many people in power use the Russian-scare to promote a narrative that may help them to maintain or obtain power. This is nothing new. McCarthy did the same.
I find it weird you specifically called out Arbys since it seems like the closer you are to Richmond the better it becomes, with Richmond Arbys seemingly from a different planet compared to the rest of the country. There's rotisserie chickens, they seem free to experiment with the menu, some locations have beer, and it easily still competes and is often times better than the rise of "fast casual" places like five guys.

I was genuinely surprised when I went to college further up the east coast and found out the hate on tv shows was a real opinion. It definitely wasn't as good up north but not that bad. I'd heard the further from the east coast, and for some reason Richmond, the worse it gets, with California friends despising it.
Luck has nothing to do with it.
That's what people do, when they're losing money. We were making money, so we let it keep spending.
Teachers still complain they have to pay for school supplies from their pockets [0] [1], and if the money is not going to them I wouldn't really call it educational funding

[0] https://amp.reddit.com/r/teaching/comments/528u9w/teachers_o...

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/longform/teaching-in-a...
The thing Git has going over BitKeeper is that people are allowed to use Git. Larry revoked the license of some key developers, and if he hadn't done that, Git wouldn't probably even exist.
It would be interesting to integrate[1][2] ReactOS inside QubesOS so it can run proprietary Windows software in proper isolation.

[1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2809

[2] https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16480
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Nothing to worry about for the foreseeable future.
Yes the ad platform has gotten more and more poorly managed and the relationship between media buyers and Facebook Ads more and more antagonistic. In the early days it was great.
Our company uses a Slack bot thing called "donut" that schedules these random meetups for you.
Can you explain that? I do not understand.
> Cameras lack depth perception,

Cameras lack any perception; perception is a function of brains.

But a single camera with appropriate processing can provide a wide array of depth cues (stereoscopy adds more.)

> Many people report that they become susceptible to tripping, falling, hitting objects, or just straight up walking into trees with NVGs, in part because the loss of depth perception takes such a toll on their brain that they can't adapt in time.

While loss of depth cues plays some role here, a much bigger factor, AIUI, is the narrow field of view. “Panoramic” NVGs have around 100° horizontal and 40° vertical field of view (non-panoramic NVGs often have around a 40° horizontal FoV), people have around (with eye but not head movement) a 210° horizontal and 120° vertical field of view. Looking directly ahead with even panoramic NVGs as you normally would without them, you literally cannot see lots of things, especially tripping hazards, and objects to your sides that you might laterally move into to avoid the things you can see in front of you.
This is a very bad article.

This discusses a report that amongst a group of Covid patients who voluntarily self-described symptoms via app (this has an obvious bias toward over-reporting, as the healthiest/least scared people will be less inclined to participate), 10% remain "unwell" (symptoms undescribed) for "up to three weeks", with 5% who "may continue to be sick for months" (again, symptoms undescribed). It is unclear how they determine these time cutoffs.

Then they discuss a 14-member focus group, and based on that Q&A alone, speculate that symptoms of "ongoing Covid" are "fluctuating in severity and moving around the body".

In other words, non-specific, irregular symptoms, self-reported by a group of people who self-identified as having an illness, and further self-selected as willing to participate in medical research.

Covid-19 may very well affect people in long-term ways -- in fact, we see this in many other common viruses -- but without well-controlled data on which symptoms, how often they occur, how severe they are, and how sick the participants were before getting Covid, this is just further speculation.
My fave is the intro: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
After half a year now let me ask if you are aware of ivermectin being ~100% successful curing COVID19 if treated EARLY?

I hear your comments:

No, its not just in vitro.
No, dosage is not too high.
No, the FDA site does not cover anything really important on ivermectin.

Yes it works as prophylaxis, early and late as well.
Yes there are many ongoing studies.
Yes, many have results with outstanding numbers. Yes, we have peer-reviewed study as well (google ICON ivermectin).
Yes, it is almost totally overlooked in the western countries.
Yes, the animal version seems to be safe and working as well, in Peru they used the animal version officially.
Yes, it is very suspicious the govs and health officials dont pick it up.
Yes it has some minor side-effects, but its generally safe, cheap, widely available.
Yes, it has contraindications: lactating/pregnant woman, warfarin, blood brain barrier problem, weight under 15kg, maybe some steroids, and NO alcohol before taking it and after taking it for 48 hours.

Check /r/ivermectin or the Fb group “ivermectin and coronavirus” for more info.
This post is obviously wrong, in that you cannot hack the same quality out of a smaller cheaper lighter sensor. There's a lot that will remain out of reach. Yet still, there's a lot that can be done to bring the appeal of one to the other.
Beware of the pretentious snobs preaching the supposed virtue of academic, dis-integrated vertically siloed hyperspecialization.
Hey, I agree I'm sure plenty of entrepreneurs can relate. I'm in my mid 30's also, but I still find myself pivoting frequently. I think it may be a balance issue in my case. Meaning, working a full time job and having family that need my time and attention. In this case, I try to find something that sticks, and if not, I move on. But maybe that approach is flawed. Maybe the overall vision of becoming financially free is the wrong approach. Maybe it's a matter of focusing on something you really enjoy. Not enjoy as in for a few months but find something you love and has meaning. Maybe that's more fulfilling and will lead to financial reward?? I really no have clue, it's such a hard landscape to maintain, cut, water, weed etc.
I'm glad you found enjoyment in what you do! I'm happy for you even though I don't know you. Good luck with the rest of your journey!!!
I think it's like trying to prove P = NP. Maybe it's technically possible, but no one in their right mind thinks it's going to happen.
This was 10+ years ago but the process is roughly as follows: Requirements of loads and flight envelopes are first provided to us (I was employed in a stress analysis group). The parts that I worked on weren't "new" per se, these were modifications to existing parts to comply to new loads or new materials, fasteners etc.

Once envelopes + safety factors are set, we literally sketch out basic FBD (free body diagrams) along with shear-moment diagrams depending on the type of the part. You know the kind of diagrams you had to do in Statics class in University. Most of us knew the appendix formulas and many other empirical results by heart, and some of the guys at work were total nerds. They knew every possible cross sectional moment of inertia formulas, etc. It was really humbling. You'd think that aircraft industry some slow moving folks, but it couldn't be more false. The discipline was astounding. Then we consult existing parts directory, fastener books and materials for conceptual design. During the first conceptual design review (CDR), Principal engineers (depending on how critical this part is) get involved and provide us feedback.

Post CDR, we send out parts to our FEA dept (mostly part time workers, some of them even commercial pilots) that get the models from the drafting department (Catia V4 at the time) and run some discretization scripts, they are pretty versed on how fine the mesh should be, but everything must be documented. Sensitivity study against mesh size needs to be proven. Converged models are sent back to us, we test it against intuition, and theoretical predictions (but not always).

Detail design: Flange thickeness to thread pitch is set in stone, about 1800 fastener choices are narrowed down to a few, cost implications are non-existent, so most of the times weight is king. Coatings if any are specified. Prototypes are made by our supplier, GD&T red marks are fixed. Goodman diagram is consulted for fatigue studies, and sometimes even simulated in the FEA model. Same with creep and crack propagation studies. Detail Design review takes place and we are blessed by principal engineer. If it is an external part with any sort of interaction with the airflow, flutter dynamics to CFD guys are called, I honestly never worked on any farrings or anything affecting flight dynamics.

Then comes the guaging (where to put rosette and stress gauges) and ground test certification process. Prototypes are tested against real world conditions and failures. Depending on the part, various tensile strength tests are conducted and sometimes with simulated internal cabin pressure. Not all parts were tested though. All in all, it takes forever to make a part in an airplane. My memory is fading so I can't recall everything. It was a lot of paperwork and documentation. We took that seriously.

Having designed parts in an airplane, I just can't take 3D printing seriously. You wouldn't believe the kind of work that goes into designing parts from composites - that was a new thing at the time when I was in the industry.