skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How has this not gotten flagged? It's total nonsense. The title is "how we institutionalized incompetence" and then is just a list of cherry-picked examples, nonsensical bolding and italicization, and oh yeah a note about the author's book at the end.

What a joke.
Meh, if you're not ok with someone forking your project, don't release it under a license that allows forking.

Yes, a nod back is nice, but its not a requirement and we shouldn't use public opinion to try to put extra obligations on the reusers beyond what the license requires. Especially if its beyond what would probably be considered a valid osi approved license.
> One that comes to mind is "How it works?".

I've never heard that phrase before, so I guess it does qualify as wierd, but it's clearly following the same grammatical construction as [looks at hamburger] "Hamburger?", ie asking "X?" as a offer or request for X.
High tech pen and notebook will help you to write your notes with less hand work
I think the scariest thing about MDMA is that it's not really the pill that can do that, the pill is just a shortcut to the type of high-intensity scenario in your brain which can lead to that sort of change. There are plenty of both good and bad other scenarios that could lead to a similar result. Falling in love, meditation, near-death experiences. Where does your brain go when you take the bumpers off?

I think the biggest problem with how many people see MDMA and psychedelics is uncritically accepting the first things that come to mind after taking them, that feel oh-so-true, or that they "give" you insight. It's still you, you're not God, you just have a whole lot more feelings for a bit. (But, depending on what walls you have up intellectually or emotionally, having those feelings take them down for a bit can be very productive.)
Dunno. Not having to type types is a must have feature for a hacker's choice language. I'm no educator, but I think the case could be made that in a statically typed language, you'd want beginners to think about types.
> or a company wholly funded or owned by such company

^^ Written as if you've been burnt before...
Actual title: "Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans"
Interesting:

“3.3 Use Limitation. The Work and any derivative works thereof only may be used or intended for use with the web services, computing platforms or applications provided by Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, including Amazon Web Services, Inc.” from https://github.com/awslabs/pgbouncer-rr-patch/blob/master/LI...

Is this a one off activity, or does Amazon do this regularly as part of their moat?
I don't have any citations beyond what is in that medium post which should be enough to indicate it is level 4. Level 3 requires a driver to be available to take immediate control of the vehicle. The simple act of sending a car out on a road without a driver shows the car is level 4 (or the company is wildly irresponsible to try it and the state is wildly irresponsible for granting the permit, but hopefully we can rule these out).
Pat Buchanan is generally regarded as a political extremist. And yes, I'm very familiar with him based on his own speech and writing, not someone else's characterization of it.
I'm not sure about that. You have to have a relatively recent vehicle for this to work, because steer-by-wire only became common place in the last few years as manufacturers started adding ADAS systems. This wont work on any car with hydraulic steering, which rules out a lot of cars.
It actually does because in Detroit the only reason to be there no longer exists in a meaningful capacity whereas The Bay Area will for the foreseeable future.
It certainly can go that way, yes.
Great comment thanks for putting it out here. I'm excited too. :)
Idk, a pony sounds cheaper than a single day of work for one dev at a FAANG company. I'd have to at least consider the pony option.
Elon changes Model S price to $69,420
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
>malloc for the Internet.

I actually thought this was what the article was going to be. Someone could probably hack up a malloc implementation quickly that mounts shm files over nfs.

But, wasm is cool too.
I really enjoyed the history of Detroit but;

> Eventually Silicon Valley will end up like Detroit, with abandoned 4-over-1 condo complexes and empty office parks where the software industry once stood.

This implies that there's a glut of housing that's been created to home Silicon Valley technologists, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Individual-Investing Boom Fuels Trading in Low-Price Stocks
We use video at GitLab. Lots of it embedded in our remote management course through Coursera, for example: https://www.coursera.org/learn/remote-team-management

We also have GitLab Unfiltered, where you'll find some tutorials, recordings of sync meetings, etc. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kq7QUX-Ux5f...

We have an Efficiency sub-value called 'Write Things Down' which helps to explain this: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#write-things-down

Video has some pros (extra visual context, more engaging, more human) and cons (longer to consume, harder to search, typically creates double work having to record + document textually). Each company will likely view mediums slightly differently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi
I wonder if I could lick a 9 volt battery and play back some high frequency tones through my headphones to get a similar effect?
Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop might only carry fraction of the passengers promised
One of the issues with the lowest bidder approach is that the organization writing the bid must completely understand its needs before writing the actual bid.

For physical infrastructure that's often the case but with software you get 2-3x cost overruns simply because the project is effectively re-done 3 times. Because often what the buyer is asking for is simply not what he needs. Of course, bidding laws makes it illegal to contact the bid writer and if you try to anticipate anything not explicitly written, you'll end up with a more expensive proposition than your competitor.

The IBM Phenix payroll system is a prime example of that, but there are many more.
Additionally, around when Fairchild et al were created, California was a great place to live. High wages with average cost of living, cheap housing, great weather etc made the place a paradise for regular people to move into. It was not in any way resembling what it is right now.
> Eventually Silicon Valley will end up like Detroit, with abandoned 4-over-1 condo complexes and empty office parks where the software industry once stood.

I'm certain this will never happen simply due to the superiority of California's climate.
Several shots, planned out carefully so it could be edited to look like one shot.

Russian Ark (2002) (Russian: Русский ковчег) is a single 96-minute steadicam shot, and it has over 2,000 actors and three orchestras in it. It was recorded directly to a hard drive carried behind the camera operator, which could hold 100 minutes.
So true. Switching from one vendor to another is a huge deal. Documentation, code bases, tool chains, etc. require a huge investment in time. It's easy to do a quickie hobby project on a new micro but for a product you really want to internalize the details.

The fact that almost everything is ARM now makes it a lot easier but the on-chip peripherals and tools are usually still very idiosyncratic.
How was this discovered?

Did someone lick the terminals of a 9V battery and realize their tinnitus changed for the better?
Are you on the West coast of North America? I wonder if the black was from wild fire smoke/ash.
I won’t argue that both take mental prowess. But there’s a difference between overcoming physical hardship and mental tedium.
Re: a virtual midi device - I don't know the specifics of WebMIDI, but I'd think it should be rather trivial to code on top of any pitch detector, including mine. In terms of licensing - the code is already BSD-2.

Re: the another note - yes, indeed. I too realized this, because mis-detected notes are usually off by a full octave.

As a side note, after going reading through various papers on the subject, it would seem that an ultimate note detector should really be based on a Const-Q spectrum analyzer feeding into an NN. Training the net, even from scratch, can be as simple as sitting in front of a piano and then repeatedly playing each note in all possible ways. Then, throw this detector in a group with waveform-based detectors, get a weighted consensus and that should, in theory, be pretty damn accurate.
XOR is just a Boolean "not equal to"; if I had to express that with > and <, I would crib from BASIC and use <>.
However, now that I have the adaptive cruise control, I get anxious that I might get into an accident when I think it's enabled while it isn't. Another concern is that it won't be able to apply braking hard enough when a collision is imminent - in such situation it flashes a red warning on the display and sounds an alarm prompting me to brake, but because I haven't been actively adjusting speed with my foot, it might increase my reaction time.

So perhaps having more of those "half way there" self driving features could lead to more of such anxiety, I'm not sure. And I don't know who I would trust more, a car manufacturer, or someone like Comma AI, with my safety. Leaning towards car manufacturers to be honest.
FYI, typo: you wrote "insulation" instead of "insulin".
I'd suppose it's a development similar to (or exactly) gentrification.

First a few pioneers come for the cheap housing, they make it cool, a few more people come for the coolness and eventually, if a critical mass is reached, it'll become an established desirable area (of course this can reverse as well).

Since people tend to accumulate I suppose that once the prices in Bend get too high people will indeed spread out, bit one of the nearby towns will win the "trendy" people.
At the moment we are going through a pandemic caused by a first contact with the virus. This is not an endemic state.

Once this is over, if the virus remains in some sort of steady state in a given area, i.e. person to person transmission never stops so that a least a few cases always exist, then it will have become endemic in that area.

Globally it might become endemic, or it might not, or a large-scale vaccination program might kill it off anyway. We don't know.
Yeah, and then you recycle the IP back into the pool for the next guy to work with. An operation I know of was getting 6+ million SERPs a day, budget for proxies was hundreds of thousands a year.
"while it's deadlier than the flu, it's not that much deadlier"

From just a week ago: "Covid deaths three times higher than flu and pneumonia"[1]

And that's taking in to account all the lockdown, mask-wearing, and social distancing measures. Without those it'd be even worse.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54463511
> it's not about the letter of the licensing, it's about the spirit

If it's not in black and white then it's not part of the license. Spirit isn't defined.

To paraphrase Theo de Raadt, if you're not happy for your code to be used in a puppy mulching machine then don't license it under a permissive license.
Well that's depressing to contemplate.
There is plenty of evidence to support the idea that as it becomes endemic, it will evolve toward yet-another-cold. There is no evidence in all of history for an endemic coronavirus that is not yet-another-cold.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361674/#!po=0....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC136581/
Scala.js 1.3.0
The government is forced to honour the Constitution unlike private corporations.

As courts set precedents, the process will become more streamlined. Ultimately becoming codified into law by congress.
Google Duplex is getting smarter and making life a little easier
AirbnBaller
IPv6 is just not widely used, so when you do use it, you stick out like a sore thumb. Think like a bayesian: for Google, it's easy to just block whole /32s of IPv6 space.
It's more like three languages worth of dismembered corpus parts from at least a dozen different sources held together by said trench coat and copious amounts of duct tape.
God I feel like an idiot for questioning this, but is it really true not B implies not A in that situation? It seems like it depends on what you mean by "implies."

E.g., you could have A -> B, and A -> C, and B != C. Then C is not B, but implies A just as much as B might (in the very least it doesn't imply not A per se, as A might be true). It seems like there's some implicit assumptions going on.
No it’s not. It’s just a license. I will never bet against the tragedy of the commons because it’s easy money.
AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
For me the 11th top level comment was about GPT3.
In a nutshell, ethics is a bit more pragmatic than morals. Ethos and moralis, the customs and "of the customs".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090717023402/https://zedshaw.c...

The answer you're looking for this guy wrote up 10+ years ago: If you don't like the way people are using your work, release your next work under a different license that more closely matches what you want. Learn from the mistake & don't make it again.

Maybe I'm autistic (the diagnostic criteria are very fuzzy around the edges) but I'm not sure what that has to do with my argument.
I disagree, he posted a rant on twitter complaining about amazons behaviour. Even if he admits that its not technically required, he is still generatig negative press for someone legitamently exercising their rights under the open source license he used.

In my opinion he is violating the spirit of the open source license since he is using extra-legal means to interefere with amazon exercising their rights under the apache license. This is unethical in my opinion
Wow. May I ask which battle zone this was?
According to JE Gordon in “ Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down,” the answer is surprisingly simple: everything was massively, tremendously overbuilt.

Also, often builders would start with scale models, and then exaggerate proportions - that doesn’t require sophisticated math. Just do the modeling “analog”!
Backstory was published in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/electric-shocks-tong...
You have the right to free speech, not to the broadcast thereof. When is the last time you saw a cigarette ad?
Cloudflare will respect the "Expires" HTTP header: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-U...

It looks like the edge cache max TTL is a month: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-long-cloudflare-keeps...
A few terminals, despite having Bracketed Paste Mode, are vulnerable to escape injection. That's when the end-paste escape sequence is included in the paste content, and the terminal lets it pass through, causing the shell to think the paste ended.

Urxvt is one such terminal with that vulnerability, but it can be fixed with a small perl extension, like the one I provided here:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/39118/how-can-i...

That answer also includes a table checking other terminals for that vulnerability.

The second example on the following page can be used to test a terminal for that variation of the attack:

https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1, 2020
Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
The only manufacturer who is doing better than Comma is Tesla. Every single manufacturer (including Audi and Cadillac) are years behind Comma in terms of performance.
Right, especially with the huge variability by age. Telling 25 year olds that they shouldn't socialize because they might infect someone who might infect someone who might infect someone who might infect a nursing home is nowhere near as persuasive as "if you get infected there's a significant chance it will kill you".
My experience using a few similar competing platforms as a renter is that none of the management company employees using it ever seem to actually know how to operate it.

I've seen it a few times, but one case really stands out–A few years ago my apartment building went under a new management company. The system they used automatically applied a one month's rent "move in fee" when they created our account, despite the fact that I'd lived there for three years. I told them to remove it, but it took them so long to do it that the system had automatically applied a late fee. Then the late fee started automatically compounding on some kind of schedule, so the management company was always like $25 behind trying to fix it. This went on for months. A total farce.

The gross thing is that I'm sure they're now selling a profile on me, which I cannot access, that makes it look like I'm a super delinquent renter with months of unpaid late fees.
Wondering how the decision in Oracle v. Google might affect Amazon's practices in this regard.
Related, another a sound therapy that's been around for 50+ years called Berard AIT - Auditory Integration Training - that uses modulation/oscillation that helps treat many things including tinnitus; a book called "Hearing Equals Behaviour: Updated and Expanded" is on Amazon.

I definitely want to dive deeper into Lenire to see how or if it differs.
main problem: if you are planning to open up a healthcare center in the united states you must prove that you will not compete with any others. thank government regulation
Quoting from elsethread:

> Since you want all the satellites to orbit with the exact same period, they all end up at the same altitude
Rough order of magnitude estimates suggest that corona will kill ten or so times as many people as a typical flu season by the spring of 2021. We have however spent hundreds of times as much on coronavirus mitigation than we ever did on flu mitigation in one year. This would imply that society places well over ten times the value on a life lost to covid than on a life lost to influenza.
I really like this answer, because it has a spark that isn't in the groupthink.

What if conditioning is designed to shape someone in a society or circumstances which no longer exist, or if someone realizes that they would like to be part of a different society than they were conditioned for?

There are quite a few ways conditioning can go very wrong, and leave someone frozen in an exceptionally painful state, wedged halfway through a door so to speak, which is good for nobody. It seems like a tool to get them unstuck could be pretty valuable.
The license does not require that.
"It does!" at some extent that is far from being adequate for native UI needs.

Consider that you need add <word>...</word> element that will implement natively MS Word editing area. This will allow you to define MS Word editing chrome in HTML/CSS but keep core editing functionality native and effective.

Consider implementation of <tabs> native element/behavior: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/include/be...

This is a demo of how native code can extend DOM - adding native "drivers" of app specific DOM elements. Yet there are other examples of native behaviors: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/include/be...

Essentially native behavior can do anything that built-in elements can do, even drawing on the same surface that the rest of DOM is using.

Good luck with achieving anything like that in browsers, or in Electron, or with WebAsm or whatever.
I believe that HIV is still considered an epidemic, and in fact a pandemic, which is not the same as being endemic.

Edit: This comment is being downvoted for some mysterious reason so I'll add a reference: "HIV/AIDS is considered by some authors a global pandemic. However, the WHO currently uses the term 'global epidemic' to describe HIV." [1]. There may some confusion as to what 'endemic' means by some commenters here...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS
There is already a disaster in being forced to go into the office for some of us. For those of with social anxiety issues, being forced to come into the office every day is incredibly stressful. I haven't had a single panic attack since we went remote for Covid. My mental outlook changed from struggling to get through the day to enjoying life.
> The problem right now is a lack of investment into fixing bridges- not that the money we're pouring in is wasted.

I can't really agree with this. If you look closely, ridiculous budgets for infrastructure disappearing into black holes are rampant in the US. A great example is the southern California High Speed Rail project. As other commenters have also stated, US infrastructure development costs are out of proportion with the rest of the developing world and seem to be absurdly expensive simply because they can be [1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-07...
Hackernews School of Medicine taught me to doubt the efficacy of anything except fasting, rolfing, and Wim Hof breathing. In particular, drugs, except for psychedelics, are not to be trusted.
Wow, that's a textbook example of post-hoc hypothesizing, about the biggest statistical no-no in the book.
For what its worth, I'm not from the US but I have travelled a fair bit round the US and Colorado and Boulder were some of the few places that really appealed to me.
It was my impression that morality regards the beliefs of one person/entity (here, Amazon) while ethics refers to a different/opposing group.

So clearly Amazon has no moral scruples about doing what they did, but to us (or others) it's ethically ambiguous.
Of the ~200 common colds, 4 are known coronaviruses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_human...
Modern farmers in rich countries will pull 16+ hour days 7 days a week during harvest. Admittedly they're in tractor cabs listening to the radio rather than running around with a scythe, but the hours are long and the work's boring.
Many of the cool gadgets are premised, directly or indirectly, on vastly greater energy access.

Prime movers activate transports, lifts, and pumps. Energy and process controls yield more and more uniform or tuned materials. R&D is a phenomenally expensive, but cumulative, process yielding large returns with time.

Precision measurement, coordination, communication, logistics, mamagement, modelling, quality control, and other advances are all based on that initial bolus of energy provided when we realised we could dig and pump up ancient burnable biomass.

Ancient technology was very often no less innovative, only vastly more constrained.
I have a couple contractors I bring in part time when I need some heavy lifting on the embedded or web side.

I have back-ported somethings, but really a large chunk of the products had terrible technical decisions before I started. I spent the first couple years just dragging the company back from the technical and financial brink. I'm slowly eliminating old products from our sales sheet in favor of ones I engineered. So it will eventually be ok.
Pretending the problem doesn’t exist isn’t solving the problem.

Maybe fixing the crime and poverty is more important than calling it racist.

> There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved ~ Jesse Jackson
Well I'm no OS dev, so I will happily defer. But I was under the impression that this would not change the fact that a host audio app is running under user-space and can be pre-empted anytime? The way most pro-audio apps work is they have a callback they run once per audio vector size to fill a buffer of samples for the next buffer to pass to the audio subsystem. So if this gets knocked down the priority list, you get problems. Man I'd love to see any developments to improve that though, on an OS level we've been stalled for 20 FREAKING YEARS now. :-/
Example: the computer in a CNC machine.
The Tyranny of Openness [Paper]