skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has WHO lost some credibility through a combination of poor decisions, poor communications, and rapidly changing scientific understanding? For sure. Suggesting that WHO has no credibility left is hyperbolic and unhelpful.
> The worst have either only been concerned with their personal advancement, or would just make the team basically fend for itself.

It's those worst ones who end up in upper management precisely for those reasons.
> With 10C water you can only be down there for at most half an hour (especially not wearing a wet/dry suit)

He worked up to spending as long as 2 hours in the water on good days[0]:

"[I]f I've had a bad day or I haven't slept well or I've had an injury, I go in the water and it's very difficult for me to thermoregulate. If I've had a great day, I've slept well, I'm feeling strong, I can stay in for a very long time, up to two hours. But if I'm compromised mentally, I can sometimes be cold within 20 minutes."

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923915545/filmmaker-finds-an-...
Shouldnt you avoid malloc and free (after the startup phase of your application) completely in long running applications?
> Say you have two english teachers, one grew up in the suburbs of NYC and one grew up in the Virginia panhandle. Who do you think has better odds of being able to knock a lesson about authoritarianism out of the park?

I honestly have no idea. I’m not really familiar with the difference between New York and Virginia. Anything on the far eastern edge of the USA is hard to distinguish in my mind since I’ve never been there and don’t know anyone from there.
This reads like big co marketspeak of "go suck eggs twice"
Yes. There is nothing fundamental to nim's ARC working with nim's async. There are attempts on make nim's async cycle free.
Eh, maybe, but even so there are more ethical and less ethical companies, and I would sleep easier at night if I ran one of the former.
I don't see those things part of a progression closer to the singularity.
In the US, the FCC has mandated[0] implementation of STIR/SHAKEN[1] by all the major telecoms by 30 June 2021.

That should take care of most spam/scam calls, as it requires the telecoms to verify that the callerID data matches the source of the call.

This won't eliminate such calls, but it will make it much harder for spammers/scammers to run their robocalling projects effectively.

One of the issues we have in the US is that telecoms charge the recipient for these calls, not the originator. In some (many? most?) other countries that's reversed and such activities are much less prevalent.

I imagine that once STIR/SHAKEN is fully implemented, a variety of actors will step in to capitalize on the opportunity to provide blocking/tagging spam/scam calls as well.

As with most things, there isn't a simple, singular solution.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
> The problem is that the social media architecture as it is, is optimizing for engagement by any means necessary

The problem with the problem is that seems to be what people actually want by definition
Show HN: Apischema – JSON (de)serialization and JSON-schema with Python typing
Fair enough. But you also are careful when they trashed their last ex.
>Monsanto has already sued farmers that own land next to their farms because their patented pesticides drift into the other property

I addressed this in an earlier thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24761841
Your explanation is very clear. Thanks.
I got mine from war, having survived mortar round blasts as a child on several occasions from as near as 3 meters (for example, one shell exploded right above our living room window while I was playing cards with my cousin, another exploded killing a woman and injuring several others while I was lying down behind an apple tree, having heard the sound made when a mortar shell is launched). I highly doubt that this would work on me, but I wouldn't mind trying it out.
Did you forget how miserable the rest of the country is to live year round? The Bay Area supplies the excellent weather and we demand it.
But other companies, individuals may want to go in different direction taking current code as base. This is not a good reason to hire original author.
TFW you realize that you still have some of those custom ringtones baked in your memory
That makes sense. I haven't tried Zig, but it's still pretty early in its history. That means a lot of syntax change, similar to Rust which is settling down, or Swift. Nim's been around long enough that it's settled it's syntax a while back.

Before I started really digging into Nim, it seemed like it was always changing the language a lot (feature churn). However, most of those changes have been compiler support for different GC's and other backend languages, which don't generally break existing code. I've tried Nim code from 4 years ago, and its almost the exact same syntax. Sometimes stdlib names changed. I think syntax change is the part that gets people a lot in terms of daily "complexity".

It actually reminds me of the feel of Python 2, before Python 3 that seems to add new syntax & language complexity every release. Well Python 2 but with a more solid language theory (e.g. everything can be a statement, etc). The trickiest part of day to day Nim are: var vs no-var, object vs ref object, and some iterator annoyances.
Thanks for being open. Let's assume you have the right products to make it easier. Have you considered finding the right audience for your work?

You failures so far might just be that the right audience for your work has not yet been found?

This article https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-the-who-you... might help you.
And when people say "Facebook" the really could (and maybe should) be using "Mark Zuckerburg" instead. He has complete control of Facebook and no one can remove him from that position. Mark Zuckerburg is responsible for what Facebook does more than almost any other CEO of a public company, I would think.
I think people who are born into it will be fine with it. You probably get inside elevators without second thoughts. If you are of the age of the typical HN reader, they've been L4 autonomous since you were born, so you don't think about it.

With planes I think most people realize that the trained pilot is a better pilot than they are, so they feel more at ease giving up control to someone that is better than them. People just need to see that similarly, software drives cars better than humans.
I have a Subaru with Eyesight, not a Toyota. But my point was more so that one of the most popular car manufacturers is giving away a system that is probably 70% as good as OpenPilot.

Those videos didn't really change my mind. I'm not convinced at all that it's really that much better on the highway. It's definitely better for non-highway driving, but it also had a few disengagements that he had to intervene for.

Look, if it was $1000 for Level 5 autonomy I would be the first in line to purchase it. But it's clearly not anywhere close to that yet.
That's not what I would call a "normal" discussion on HN, but it does happen from time to time. A seemingly normal user that has interacted fairly normally for a while (enough to get a fair number of points) gets set off by something here, or has something else going on, or some combination thereof, and goes completely against the norms here.

The user in question made ~16 replies, 4 of them top level, and the majority of them (including some top level ones) one word or one sentence (and generally disparaging). When someone that has enough points here to indicate they've assimilated at least somewhat posts "lol" and "there is no spoon" as top level comments in addition to other ones and other disrespectful comments, my guess is there's something else going on and this is just an outlet for it. In that respect, I don't think it's indicative of HN, as I think it could have happened anywhere.
> and it's generally not worth it to wear a mask to go on a walk.

Some countries make this mandatory, e.g. Italy
Market alone is almost never the solution. I know an angel investor living in a rent controlled apartment in the most desirable neighbourhood in SF. Put a cap on income for rent control. Allow market to function.

Any property that follows planning rules, is in the right zone and follows rules for low income/below market rate housing, allow it to be built without delay.

Fix stupid zoning laws that make building anything over two stories illegal in a huge swath of the city.

(An example is using tradeable floor space index to regulate zones instead of fixed height based codes)

You can do all of this and build public transit options to keep the quality of life stable. It’s possible. It requires will to execute and a multi year or even multi decade plan.
"Don't like how shitty people can be? I don't care" - that is how this kind of comment reads. But let's move on.

Interesting idea for a license.

Everyone can use and modify it, but if a large company with a market cap above $100m or a company wholly funded or owned by such company decides to utilize this project as a for-profit service, then said large company must hire me at for no less than $175,000 in 2020 value.
Yes. People have done this.
You are talking about human telemetry, unless I’m mistaken. I don’t disagree with you. We’re gonna collect telemetry, but some of it helps us without hurting others.
I've often wondered why sometimes it's worse than others. It's always there. I always hear the ringing, but most times I can ignore it, but there are other times it just seems so much louder.

I would like to know what all those triggers are so I can try to avoid them. Some are obvious - real loud noises, heavy exercise, etc, but others not so much.
It is common among the general population to believe that: "When developers build new things it makes my home value and property taxes go up."

It is VERY difficult to get them to understand that they have the cause-and-effect reversed : In fact, it was the increase in value that triggered the new development.
Unless you're in California where it's legal to knowingly give someone HIV without telling them.
Nix is also integrating with the Software Heritage:

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-18-software-heritage/
Nice! Another option is to create a ~/.XCompose¹, which only activates manually — you add your own custom abbreviations there, and they’re only expanded when you prefix them by tapping Compose².

¹https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose

²You can make this quite convenient with xcape:

setxkbmap -option compose:sclk && xcape -e "Shift_L=Multi_key"

will make tapping (but not holding) left shift act as tapping Compose
Fantastic. Bookmarked, and about to share w execs at my current consulting gig. (I've been doing web-related work since 1998, with more than half my working days remote, and this is among the best resources I've encountered.)
Thanks for the link on microcontrollers. Embedded writeups and microcontrollers are super fascinating.
Winter, humidity and rain may be unappealing, but you know what's even worse: months on end of choking smoke & ash. If that's the new normal due to climate change, I think you'll see a lot of permanent displacement.
I thought it already was, and the media, politicians, and general public were simply evidencing typical cluelessness.

The last time I can recall reading a credible 'we can stop this' message was around February; Stat news IIRC.
Even agreed-upon contracts can be predatory. Maybe there should be a license that says "free and clear for everyone but trillion-dollar companies, because they should really compensate developers for value".

I personally think it would be a great look for Amazon if they made it a policy to compensate developers from whom they derive significant economic value. Because they can, and because the developers deserve it.
The Infrastructure Triumvirate
MSG_MORE comes in useful for these examples, where you can't use writev() alone, but do control the sending syscalls:

- HTTP (unencrypted) serving static files or cache files, to combine sendmsg() for the headers followed by sendfile() for the body. You can't batch using writev() in that case, if you want the benefit of sendfile().

- Transmitting a stream of data that is being forwarded or generated. For example a HTTPS reverse proxy which forwards incoming unencrypted data and formats it into TLS progressively. It can't buffer the whole response as that would add too much delay, so it can send using sendmsg() with MSG_MORE until it reaches the end of the forwarded data.
Detroit is flipping miserable to live in and the Bay Area has a natural air conditioner in the Pacific Ocean. Why do people keep overlooking this? I lived in a boom and bust steel and auto town in the midwest, people left because the only thing keeping us there was a paycheck and family. The Bay has much more to offer than Detroit. Not even comparable.
> If the official body represents the will of the people

As anyone who speaks French can tell you, the official body's prescriptions often have no relationship to the will of the people regarding how they actually use the language.

There's quite something to the polysynthetic view where modern French has a verb system with extensive clitics, but such an analysis devoid of appropriate genuflection to Latin gives les grammairiens anciens fits.
90% of the ICO's funding comes from companies paying the Data Protection Fee. Accusing them of being beholden to government is a hollow and unsubstantiated cheap-shot.
> this normally wouldn't be that big of a deal if people were aware of it and alternatives existed

I would disagree with this. What makes it so dangerous is using big data and algorithmically driven “improvements” in time on site and engagement is exploiting subconscious weaknesses in our brains to do this.

You can design an optical illusion to trick our visual perceptions to the point that even with we know for a fact what is happening, we can’t “fix” our perception in our brain. Imagine if you built an entire interactive space of optical illusions that were iterated and improved millions of times over so that a person was physically incapable of determining accurate visual data about the world around them.

This is what is happening in our digital spaces. It is becoming physically harder and harder to disengage from those digital spaces, not because of individual moral failings, but because our reward centers are being continually bombarded by illusions that warp our perception.
If I recall correctly no car with standard harness openpilot support use an intercept configuration, only community supported cars.
> How is it fair to expect other parties to meet your secret expectations?

> What did AWS do wrong here? Were they supposed to know this guy's unwritten expectations?

I suspect you're either autistic or a lawyer being obstinate. Human society is full of unwritten expectations, we learn these quickly as a child or face social consequences. No where in the law is it written that you must say 'please' and 'thank you' but it's also expected and people are less likely to do things for you again if you don't.

So consider this situation now:

_A person (the dev) did something nice for someone else (a trillion dollar company) and they didn't bother to say thank you._
Retreat Guru is hiring a DevOps engineer
Well-written, and a fascinating anecdote about the clams, but it lost me when it hoisted silicon valley up onto the same level as the wonders of nature itself. Really demonstrates the delusional sense of self-importance that the region is steeped in.
Here in HN I sometimes end up writing several simple sentences instead of a single complex one, because I'm not sure about the grammar, but sometimes that looks awkward.
Building Neural Networks with PyTorch in Google Colab
This is a legitimate criticism. I can't for the life of me, figure out why manufacturers are still artificially segmenting their products with software. Some cars have had fairly capable lane tracing since the 2019 MY, and others still don't for the 2021 MY.
> This was in 2019 - I'm assuming that the emails are backed up somewhere.

Where? The laptop was lost in 2019, but the emails are from 2015. At some point they were on his company's mail servers, though whether they're still there would depend on their mail retention policy, which in my experience is often as short as 2 years. Even if they do still have it, going from campaign to Hunter Biden to ??? to IT personnel can take awhile.

> Who gave them this role? I certainly didn't and I will donate to anyone who supports taking this role from them.

I mean, if you're on Facebook/Twitter/etc, you are giving them this role, it's just a tradeoff you find acceptable for convenience.
I have so many little nim scripts all over the place.
This is what people don't get when arguing against GPL: "oh, it's such a restrictive license! so viral, blah blah blah". In this case, it would've probable not changed the outcome, but could give the author some leverage for either compensation or mention. IANAL, but my understanding is that GPL would require you to keep the same terms and mention explicitly the original source.
I agree, there is a certain potential danger associated with it, however, it seems like there are quite a few cases where it worked out great.

A specific example that comes to mind, one of the main core developers of Webpack (Sean) got hired by Microsoft to essentially just work on Webpack on MSFT paycheck (I think now he branched out a tiny bit into other adjacent areas as well, but he is still one of the main Webpack contributors). I think it worked out great partially because he was not the sole creator, but just one of the few, and he was the only one who went to MSFT, so the other core devs still had some level of control they could exercise on their own without anyone being able to tell them otherwise.
One of the things that always puzzled me about human anatomy is why the heck are there nerves inside the teeth?
Sex banned indoors for Tier 2 couples living apart, Number 10 confirms (UK)
Better question is "Why are they gating all this crap here like that? What is the presumed set of expected outcomes?".
This code is bordering somewhere on the line between sabotage and incompetence and it smells really bad.
If you invent a new mousetrap you get to profit from it on your own terms, and everyone else is welcome to buy in or use the old mousetrap. Replace "a mousetrap" with "an organism" and the same law and logic still apply.

Nothing is taken away from anyone, the old mousetrap is still there.
Anecdotally, Discord is down and unresponsive far more than Slack ever has been. I would never run Discord as the main method of communication at a large company. It might be fine for when I game, but it's unreliable for anything serious.

Here's some data to back it up:

Slack's uptime is 99.95% from August to October[1]

Discord's uptime is 99.85% from August to October[2]

[1] https://status.slack.com/calendar
[2] https://discordstatus.com/uptime?page=1
I think you have expressed my sentiments better than I did.
The author seems to be a good writer but it getting old hearing people wax poetic about their opinions on the valley - anyone got facts to support anything?
Maybe 1.5 or 2 out of 3, but

> unionizing workers

does not sound like SV today. You're also missing the main reason, superior products from Japan and Germany. We don't really see that as of now. China and EU have a handful of competitive companies.
Insightful interview with Kim Stanley Robinson about plausible utopias
A note to the "I'm seeing a lot of comments here" crowd, i.e. people saying "shame on you!" to commenters who point out that the author's expectations of how consumers should use his code are at variance with the license terms he released the code under:

I'm seeing a lot of comments here that are attempting to brow beat or bully people for having a view you disagree with. "The author should have used a different license." This is an opinion, we can disagree about it. There's no need to tell people to be ashamed for disagreeing with you, or to make baseless ad hominem attacks such as 'I bet none of you have ever written anything substantial.'

This is a discussion forum. FS/OSS licensing is an extremely contentious subject as everyone in the OS community probably already knows. People are going to disagree. Let's keep this a clean fight where we discuss the merits of different arguments and attack arguments rather than attacking people, shall we?

Trying to "shame" people who disagree with you or talk about how "disappointed" you are in them or maligning their professional work is not argumentation, it's bullying.

EDIT: while writing this comment, someone called me "autistic" in another sub-thread here. Gave me a chuckle... anyway add that to the ad-hom pile.
I have a 2019 Subaru with Eyesight. The system isn't half as good as you think it is. The comma system is seriously so far ahead in regards to LKAS (lane centering, cornering, etc) than Subaru's eyesight system.
Certifications for Web Developers
How does he find the time? I thought maybe it was very surface evaluation given the number of parts but I scrolled down to the part I have recent experience with (STM32MP1) and his summary was spot on.

Bookmarked!
> At what time do we decide we have reached the "TRUTH" and decide to stop giving ideas a chance?

OK, so I see you've decided to ignore the context of my comment, pretend I was referring to some absolute "TRUTH" then strawman it.

Yet everything you've listed, being scientific and therefore part of a framework in which those ideas could be proven or disproven, are part of what I mentioned at the end of my article, which I will quote verbatim for you: cases where legitimate scientific or political ideas which run afoul of the status quo and public acceptance need protection in a free market of ideas and thus explicitly not germane to my point.

How do I suppose we handle science? Science. But then nothing I listed was actually science, nor is there any valid controversy around any of them, as science has invalidated practically all of it already. There is no universe in which it turns out Hitler was right all along if only we'd listened.

So let me flip the script on you - how long do you believe we should let ideas like white supremacy, anti-semitism, lunatic conspiracy theories like QAnon, anti-vaxx etc remain in the marketplace?

Or even keeping it within the bounds of science - do you believe we should still be arguing the merits of the luminiferous aether and miasma theory, or "teaching the controversy" around creationism?
My initial target market was small bike/ski hire shops but I’ve had a lot of enquiries from individuals wanting to hire out their gym kit, so this is something I’m also exploring
>> Have I noticed all these things? You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want.

The problem with the position that "everything is fine" is that it doesn't resonate at all with the observable reality experienced by 99% of people (outside of HN). Maybe it's hard for you to believe but for most people, the premise of the article could not be more obvious. It's like trying to convince homeless people who are sleeping outside the gates of a mansion that they are actually wealthy because they own a sleeping bag...
But that doesn't mean you're gonna have a great economy forever.

That means property will be expensive forever, because there will always be rich people looking to move or retire there, but will that turn into innovative or well-paying jobs for people?
I can think of one case where it works, the Octoprint software for managing 3D printers. The main developer Gina Häußge is fully financed by the Patreon. Though of course this is Germany, I think getting US developer salaries would be much less likely.

You probably need to be in the right niche for this model to work, I'd suspect it is quite hard to pull this off. But that goes for most ways to get paid for open source.
> It's mandated by regulation in all cars after..2002?

I don't think the port is the surprising part, it's the ability to articulate brakes and steering wheel!