skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't; I'm just spitballing the numbers. What really happens is that they'd rather tear down a building after 100 years and build a completely different thing. Even skyscrapers generally get torn down in less than that.

There is some infrastructure (bridges, sewer systems, dams) that are supposed to last longer than that. Bridges are often torn down and replaced, and it's probably more expensive than spending twice as much and having it last five times as long (again, spitballed numbers), but that's what fits in budgets. They don't want to discover that traffic patterns have changed and they need a different bridge, or no bridge at all and have to take it down.

That's becoming a real problem for sewer systems, which in a lot of places are reaching expected lifespan, and it's going to be ludicrously expensive to replace.

Incidentally, there are also reports that the Brutalist buildings are so overbuilt that they're hard to get rid of, even when they're bad (such as having insufficient ventilation). Gigantic piles of concrete will be there in 2,000 years, whether we want them or not.
I would guess the accidents per mile driven could be up also, and if people are really reckless the deaths per mile driven and per accident could have risen
Interesting.

> - Confusing differences between calendar vs module views that differ from class to class depending on where the professor tries to put things

This is actually a feature, not a bug. Courses are wildly different, professors think wildly different. I would not want the software to shoehorn everyone into the same schematic. After all, in-person courses are organized in wildly different ways. You just have learn and communicate.

> Zoom is shunned to its own tab rather than integrated with the calendar, causing students to constantly ask each other for the password for every session

That is a misconfiguration on your uni/prof's part. If they do it right, every calendar entry should a zoom link with the password included, resulting in one-click joining of class.

> Everything (tests, midterms, homework assignments) is called a quiz, and it's often unclear what is going to be graded or what allows multiple submissions until it's too late

Are we using the same software? If you click on any assignment it clearly shows every one of these things at the top. I just checked in student view.

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I completely agree with your comments about notification settings. Also, the email system within Canvas is atrocious.
This is a typical example of a mediocre active manager. All you need to do is take a look at one of his funds.
It has high fees, and lower returns than the S&P over the past 10 years: https://smeadcap.com/smead-value-fund/
Oh God. I'll have to run a fork then. I squarely blame Apple here, cups gets increasingly more and more broken
If etcd blows up, your cluster should stay in the same state it was in before etcd blew up.
The story was independently verified by pretty much all media sources when followed up by their own journalists
What we're seeing is the inevitable consequence of the granting and concentration of power. An idea I've seen proved true more times than I'd like to count is that "if you don't want power abused, don't create it in the first place." Any power granted WILL be misused and usually almost immediately and because the incentive is always to make it not LOOK like it's being abused, people get hilariously creative in how they do it, just making it look even more comic book evil.

I've been around long enough to have a fairly strong sense now that the only way to win is to deny it battle - never concentrate power in the first place. But I think that genie has already escaped and isn't going back in the bottle without a huge amount of suffering and death.
Mac support is implemented using a CoreMediaIO plugin, hinting that they are not updating the camera firmware to speak USB webcam, which prevents driverless use of the device:

/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/ImagingEdgeWebcam.plugin

Could someone with a Sony camera please verify on macOS 10.15 (with ASR enabled) whether this webcam support is usable from within Apple's desktop FaceTime app? What protocol version and speed of USB does it negotiate with the computer, assuming you're using a modern USB cable and not the one it shipped with?

That plugin contains `LjAdapter`, the same name used on both Mac and Win, and specifically `Lja_PTP_USB.dylib/dll` — hinting that they've written a convertor that takes in USB Picture-to-Picture protocol and writes out USB Web Camera protocol.

I get the distinct impression that this is a list of USB device IDs. Those of you who know how to spoof USB manufacturer and device IDs may want to try spoofing any random off-the-shelf USB PTP webcam with one of these and see if you can use this library to speak to it.

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0x0CCC, 0x0C43, 0x0D2B, 0x0D18, 0x0D1C, 0xD9F, 0x0DA3
That french guy with a jetpack started out that way. He did all his testing at high altitude and when he was done, he popped his parachute. It was only later that he took off near the ground.
Note: this has nothing to do with the React web framework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(web_framework)
We went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down
I don't think we should ever take the CEO's official explanation of the reason something happened unless its under oath with clear evidence, otherwise its just PR.
No, that's not what we're doing at all. I agree that "microservices" is mostly useless hype but running applications reliably and efficiently is an ongoing challenge which Kubernetes solves pretty well.

Of course it does shift the complexity into the underlying K8S so installing and operating it can be difficult but there are manys to avoid that as a user. Overall you gain much more in productivity and usability, which is why it's taken off so much.
“Intelligence officials” means “unreliable politically motivated federal apparatchik”, or at absolute best it means “limited hangout”.
In aviation in particular, "drone" used to connotative an armed military UAV. At some point the term morphed, and now it does indeed seem to be entirely synonymous with the literal definition of "UAV".
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201015/11555145508/blata...
Hey Ben. I know you IRL. Let's build something.
Some, like Keith Olbermann are jumping straight to between 6 and 7:

"Olbermann called for a wide range of Trump's "enablers" to be "prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.""

Including 'enablers' like Amy Coney Barrett.

https://popculture.com/trending/news/keith-olbermann-raises-...
everybody who doesn't writes thousands of shell scripts/ansible/puppet whatever stuff to emulate a small version of kubernetes
> I use K3S for deploying an actual production cluster

You mean when you want to run a small cluster of let's say less than 10 nodes (anything in single digits)?

Why doesn't normal k8 work this way? like same tech but just less scale?

(I should probably read more on the side myself as well, new to this K8 world).
[OG] Based on discussion over in another thread, I checked out code.gov. Interesting stuff. Lots of challenges, hassles, etc, but why not try to use or contribute to Gov stuff? May as well use and improve it...
( Edited after being fairly criticized for not contributing to the conversation )

It's problematic to say that scientists have 'proved' anything. Scientist's conclusions are always based on the available data, and at any point new data may come along that disproves their conclusion. Scientists know this of course, which is why reputable ones are never going to step forward and announce "I have proved..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_evidence

> evidence cannot prove a theory correct because other evidence, yet to be discovered, may exist that is inconsistent with the theory
I was looking into it for commuting from Pueblo, CO to Denver. The place I was interviewing was a short walk and bus ride from an air field, and Pueblo is about 20-40% the cost of a similar commutable home in Denver, the flight (which I have done a dozen times in MSFS) is only 55 minutes. So round trip with commuting to and from the airports/fields, doing preflight, and parking, was only 3 hours which is about the time it takes one way by car assuming normal traffic.
Thank you — it’s good to know that. Rust is not my first-choice language; which means that I tend to use it when I need something non-trivial and low-level. The problem, of course, is that it colours the experience, so I’m always curious to listen to other experiences.

> There are also a lot of nice features in Rust other than the pure absolute runtime efficiency.

Certainly! I reread my earlier post and see how it could have been more qualified; what I meant to say was if the burden of the borrow-checker is so high that the user needs to use the ~Rc~ by default /I/ would find it hard to justify Rust for /that/ type of programming over other languages with similar features.
Replace "Hunter Biden" with "Donald Trump Jr".

Under that circumstance, does Twitter & FB censor the story?
More deaths per mile driven.

It means fewer people are on the road and driving less, but the ones that are, are more likely to die.

For example:

You drive tipsy 1x/month after a party and commute every day. Your death rate is X.

During corona, you don’t commute, but still drive tipsy 1x/month. Your death rate is way higher. Maybe even 10X.

Crucially, your death rate per month remains unchanged.

PS: part of the effect is also lack of practice. You think your reflexes and skills are the same as when you drove daily. They are rusty.

This part kills a lot of middle age motorcyclists jumping back on the bike after 20 years.
> I just don't trust Canonical much...

They lost me when I've tried their ubuntu server when I was lazy one day and greeted with their Landscape advertisement in the MOTD display.

Then I installed armbian's ubuntu version because Debian version was not ready and found out that MOTD was downloaded from web every time I log in.

Add analytics (now opt-in), forcing snaps and their silent-ish efforts to monopolize the landscape, I avoid them altogether.
That novel looks amazing, and it's going on my reading list. Thanks!
> If you know who the "review" comes from, you can trust it. Otherwise you cannot. I assume this comes down to "word of mouth", though.

Yes, in the context of a relationship. A "review" from someone one has some kind of relationship is more meaningful. Possibly a weak one, like a fellow HackerNews poster. Which brings back the Internet--helps one form new kinds of relationship.
Nice to see. Always thought that the API server should just be part of the cluster since it's nothing more than a proxy service over the already distributed etcd datastore.
Is “big winners” synonymous with monopoly in need of antitrust enforcement to make room for decentralization?
FCC will move to regulate social media after censorship outcry
Every time a "Google banned my account" thread comes up, I like to point out that my Google Adwords account was banned once. I filed an appeal.

It's been 20 years this month, I'm still waiting for a response.
If the author is reading this: would you consider providing an Atom feed for your blog? I'm sure a lot of people here would love to subscribe.
Since when has any news outlet considered copyright when publishing information of public interest? That is core fair use.
What is the failure rate issue they are having? I haven't seen anything about that. Is this referring to their early satellites being decommissioned? Does that matter as long as their coverage stays the same since those were early prototypes and they are replacing them so quickly?
Pretends that there is some sort of achieved optimum and you can only move to other optimum (at the cost of current gain), while often a different approach can very much both improve speed, quality and price. It's just something nobody explored yet (in the proper way).
I have no idea what happened during the early 2010s. I grew up during the late 90s (born in late 80s) learning about the internet and its philosophies. Allowing Free speech still is the hill I'd like to die on. But the new generation of people, even here on HN and the internet hacker personalities I used to align with have turned so pro-censorship that I don't believe I'm in a proper reality/timeline anymore.
"Is about the Right whining that their hate is not allowed to be amplified, hence they call it censorship."

I kinda anticipated Twitter and FBs actions vs. "hate speak" would come down to this. The extremists were never the target they were just the excuse.
If copyright applied in cases like this, any politician who said or wrote something embarrassing could block reporting it.
I dont know, I think this is some sort of thing to protect twitter honestly, in case someone hacks and posts something from Twitter. How is hacking any different from stealing? Surely news stories with stolen and even classified content are allowed, I don't understand why hacking is so different.
History might not repeat, but it does rhyme.
That's the way it should be IMO. It's idiotic to have to drag oneself to the office to do work which can be done just as well, if not better, without getting out of bed. It's also bad to not be able to get teams together from time to time, to brainstorm, discuss things, and just plain get to know each other. I hope companies find a happy middle ground at some point, and I also hope managers can figure out how to manage people effectively in such circumstances. Currently nobody at the previously "butts in chairs" companies knows how to do that, and my manager friends at places like Google, FB and MS are unsure if they're "holding it right".
This technology already exists. GM already has this technology: GM Onstar.

OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, emergency services, hands-free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, Europe, Brazil, and Argentina
Go take one-two weeks off if you can, seriously. Even if just to stay in your area, maybe do some park/nature walks. The reset truly helps. The need for vacation didn't go away because of quarantine.
...are you suggesting that progressives have more "dirty laundry" than conservatives in general?

Or that conservatives are more likely to dox people?
Out of curiosity, where do you think the line SHOULD be?

No, seriously. You have to draw the line somewhere, right? If your answer is "no, these platforms should be perfectly neutral", then are you okay with child pornography and terrorist beheadings in your feed?

If you say no to this, and the answer is based on the law, what happens if the law is unethical and for example the Trump/Republican administration passes a law saying "Acknowledgement of the gay lifestyle is illegal" (a la Russia).

Regardless of any political division there is a general humanistic "ethical line". It varies from person to person, but if you discount outright nazis and child pornographers generally we can find where that is.

Why should a private corporation not choose where that ethical line is for it?
The most obvious refutation is that according to Jaynes' theory conciseness emerged just a few thousand years ago. Since humans took divergent paths across the globe over a hundred thousand years ago, this raises the question of how all humans developed consciousness independently and simultaneously - unless you think that consciousness is spread in a sort of memetic fashion, in which case you are asserting that aboriginal people did not have a consciousness as we would understand it prior to their contact with European colonialists, which is - to say the least - a weighty assertion to make.
1. We can't censor because of slippery slope

2. Idiots elect clown because of propaganda

3. Hundreds of thousands of people die from preventable catastrophe.

I don't disagree with you but this is not an acceptable answer.
Apple is also moving their energy to renewable sources for all of their facilities, their partners, and I believe their partners' partners.

They are not just pushing renewable sources with the partners and partners' partners, but are also pushing for Carbon neutral.

With that plan meant to hit "zero/negative footprint by 2030" I find myself feeling less and less guilty about buying their products and returning the "not yet old" versions.

And in 2030, I'd be happy to pay Apple the incremental extra $ for the guilt free experience.
How simple do the rules have to be? Just keep giving out penalty cards and keep updating the unstated rule in your head as you go, or is the 'game' itself?
> The remaining 1 time it's because someone knows how to abuse reporting systems to get someone locked out on purpose.

My Twitter account got disabled many months ago due to "suspicious activity". I did not do anything. At the time I talked to someone with whom I disagreed respectfully on a CS-related subject and was not political. Next thing that happens is that it asks me to verify via phone and only then I am able to use my account. I am not going to do that, so yeah.

What I believe happened is that he attempted to login to my account a few times, which triggered their bullshit...
Recently I've seen people invoking the term "slippery slope fallacy" to describe this phenomenon.

It's really frustrating to see this. I think there was some stupid "list of fallacies" infographic popular on Reddit a few months back that spawned this notion that there's no such thing as a "slippery slope" and calling anything a "slippery slope" means you're wrong and your argument can be tossed out.

But... that's exactly how rights are eroded. It is, in the purest sense, a slippery slope of gradual change.

I'm not sure how I feel about this specific instance (the Twitter/Biden thing) but I think the "slippery slope fallacy" fallacy is relevant here.
Oh wow, i get it there are loads of frustrated office workers spewing alt right drama in here...but now child abuse should not be ...”censored”? Dude this forum needs media attention asap.
The "unchecked misinformation" alternative hasn't really been working out so well either, for what it's worth.
N.B. same author, couple months back: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Might help to bring more popularity/attention to this story if "Section 230" could be explained in English in the title....
Problem is, you will be forced by courts to remove some reviews for the usual reasons, making you instantly untrustworthy
I would too love like c# ecosystem for nim but dont think that is possible especially cuz magic macro stuff.
Thing i like about Nim is joy of writing and writing less
and kinda started to love whitespaces, only cons i can see
is there are not like 20 payed people who work full time
for lang
Collisions per mile driven? Autopilot disengages whenever there is something it cannot handle. How is that meaningful?

You could say it is "one example" if this was a human driver running over a pedestrian. If one AI car has a bug all models with same AI have it. There is 0.5M Model 3 and counting.

I just used one example as a point and it is much less important than issue of 3rd party verification. You don't know if manufacturer fixes the bug, when it is done and you never know if it regresses.
Correct. In order to get injunctive relief of having account access restored, you'd have to sue Google in a Superior Court.

The difference between Small Claims and Superior is that in the former you're generally not allowed to bring an attorney, whereas in the latter you may actually be required to bring one.

Does anyone know whether account suspension without a reason is actually something that a pro-se litigant has any chance of suing these big companies for, and winning at all?
But if you had a syntax that allowed inner/embedded functions, exhaustive matching, and the ability to combine a|b..e, you might never ever EVER need fallthrough. The case statement in Ada is the best control flow structure (I'm not very familiar with advanced FP-style pattern matching, but I can read and follow Ada's with almost closed eyes, and they're exhaustive by default you won't compile until you've handled all the cases), and Ada2012 added case- and if-expressions, and now it seems there's some ongoing work on making it a bit more powerful...

This kind of construction makes the power of enumerated types, and restricted range types so much more evident.
How you handle objections more effectively in Sales Conversations
I'm paying for many "freely available" services, like RSS readers, email service, and more. I pay to not be the product.

The reason I do not pay for YouTube is that despite paying, I'm still the product - Google is still collecting every bit of data about me, to spam me on their other channels. Instead, I use YouTube (and every other Google product) logged-out, deleting cookies often[0]. I can't do that if I pay for YouTube.

[0] I used to reject cookies, but Google has become unusable that way -- everything goes back to defaults which are exceptionally bad for me.
That kind of ai is actual ai. No doubt THAT ai has progressed a lot. But the hype ai is just a wet dream for wannabe grahams.
I expect at most companies, people will have a choice to come back into the office they were in previously once it's safe to do so. That said, it won't necessarily be like it was before. For example, there may not be assigned seating and people you work with may choose to and be allowed to come in occasionally or rarely.

But I'm not sure what you want done in the current situation?
I would guess that Quora's algorithm could be gamed pretty easily by having an employee leave a positively-biased answer to a question and then having a bunch of other employees upvote the answer.

The company could even have an employee seed the question, then have other employees answer and upvote in order to bury other questions that have negative responses.

Basically, Quora appears to tolerate quite a bit of spam, which would make it hard for them to be an authoritative source on anything other than "how do I game Quora's algorithm?" (since obviously whoever's answer is highest-rated has won ipso facto).
Toubchbar Tamagotchi
I'm not sure why the YouTube video claims that IDAHO30 is a military aircraft; As far as I know there's no evidence of that, and IDAHO is often used by non-military law enforcement. In particular it's been used by the Riverside PD.

It was probably either a local police department, or feds.

See for example page 2:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/7603178/content/dc...

Page 21:

http://www.sjpd.org/records/pc-13650_library/unit%20guidelin...

https://www.scandiego.com/viewtopic.php?t=1701
Yes, sounds exactly like what McKinsey or Bain are doing.
While I agree with this, I also think this is to a large extent because videoconferencing is currently pretty bad. It used not to be a critical necessity, so companies treated it as such. There's a lot of improvement that could be made to alleviate the disconnect somewhat, but of course not eliminate it.