skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kept a secret because "humanity isn't ready." ... This premise is absurd

Not really. Mass panic, even if unlikely, should not be dismissed out of hand. People are freaking out over a mere pandemic.

> a nation that recently failed to land a robot on the moon

Are you emphasizing the fact they're advanced enough to try, or unlucky enough to need a second shot?

> Especially since he's trying to sell a book.

As someone else mentioned, he was the head of the agency. Money probably isn't an issue for him.

I think that writing him off would be premature.
I agree but painting the CDPR tream as "having a tantrum" without context is disingenuous.
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Stuxnet is a simple low to no risk sabotage op it’s in no way parallels this fantasy.
I ride bikes off-road and come across stuck or broken down vehicles occasionally. Always surprises me how precarious driving a 4x4 can be on fairly mild terrain. You need two tracks whilst a bike only needs one. You need vertical clearance between the wheels in both directions. And there is no way to just get off and push a few metres. Trying to navigate between obstructions and zombies on a deteriorating road surface would be challenging. Although I don't fancy changing an inner tube in that world.
Or, you will not go to space today.
I don't believe in experts. They have no power to change my mind about any social issue whatsoever. So them saying "this is racist" means nothing to me. There is no cognitive dissonance. You're projecting it into me because you think I think like you, that I care about what experts have to say, when I don't.
1800 people signed the petition. Google employs more than 100,000 people.
My apologies, I had a brain fart.
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IMHO being the only one with self-driving car technology would be a much better moat than having 'a network'

London has Uber, Bolt, Kapten, Ola, Viavan, Hailo, Wheely, Xoox and that's just a single city - so the ride-hailing-app tech isn't a moat. A self-driving-car business doesn't need any drivers on board, so driver recruitment isn't a moat. And Google already have Google Maps on a big fraction of phones, so app installation is scarcely a moat.

Of course Google will have plenty of opportunities to shoot themselves in the feet, so it's certainly not a done deal.
I think the increased telemetry ("3000 channels" per the Falcon 9 AMOS-6 explosion; who knows what Starship will have) and the ease nowadays with which one could store the data on an SD card tucked inside every multiply-redundant avionics box, makes it much more likely you'll be able to pinpoint the cause of an error even after a catastrophic explosion. Hence enabling SpaceX to fail-fast with confidence that they will be able to find the problem from the data and fix it.

Plus apparently they're relatively cheap to build, that just makes the test even cheaper.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacex-with-a-manife...
They’ve done just that over and over just two weeks prior to this they’ve killed al-Masri in Teheran by shooting up his car.

You still need just as many operatives in country for this fantasy, but you also need to be able to smuggle high end equipment and set it up and test it, this are additional complications that increase the risk of failure and capture nor reduce it.
For some reason there is a subculture within Google where employees act antagonistic towards their employer and go all Pikachu-faced when they're then terminated. Then they speak out and claim they were retaliated against, whereas people who worked for conventional companies would think, "well, what did you expect?"

It is part of Google's culture to not blindly agree with leadership on every issue and you're encouraged to voice differing opinions, but I guess some take this too far in the other direction and assume that every kind of negative feedback is appreciated and "protected".
> In that case an employee gave a resignation date of 11/15. Employer cut off the employment two weeks early and court ruled that it shouldn't be considered a resignation, but instead a termination by employer.

> What's the parallel between those facts and the dispute here?

That it's, at best for Google, the exact same thing, except that Google gave Gebru, in writing, an explicit, non-resignation reason for the early separation, making it even less disputable that it was a firing and not merely accepting the (disputed) resignation? Paraphrased most favorably to the Google management narrative, Gebru said “do X or I will conduct discussions around setting a date on which I will resign” and Google management said “we accept your resignation and, further, based on an internal group e-mail you sent after this dispute started which we find unacceptable, we are ending your employment immediately.”
I wonder if publicizing this was a good idea. Now whoever was blackmailing can simply stop, or will find other means.

It's like setting up a trap for smugglers or whoever and hanging a big blinking "TRAP HERE" sign on it.
Speaking from experience: they're not even managing to service paying customers well.
The Ninja section is priceless.
> Maybe they can relax the work/life balance now

Surely SpaceX employees are there by choice. How many of their employees have no better work/life balance employment choices? I would guess a rare few.
Which will end up at SCOTUS and we will see the Chevron doctrine overturned
Has worked well ages for games that had replay and spectating capabilities. MMOs are usually slower paced than fps games so in those server-side checks alone are enough. (Most asian mmos are lazy though and just trust the client and hope their shitty anti-cheat keeps cheaters away, of course it doesnt)

Games for some reason today want single central server, instead of dedicated servers with user maintained communities is part of the problem. (E.g. cs:go vs older cs)
For context, this is the scientist that the GOP administration in Florida fired because she wouldn't fudge their Covid numbers. Since being fired, she's been independently attempting to report and track Covid spread in Florida much to the chagrin off the administration there.
When reading this, it feels like the goal of those projects have derived?

For me, the "goal" of mainline GNU/Linux smartphones is that we get like PCs. I prefer fedora, you prefer Debian, they prefer Slackware, all is well, we are all free to choose whatever we want for our computer.

Here I'm reading it's all fragmented? And if it's fragmented, I guess it means it doesn't rely enough on Linux drivers, so long term support won't be there?

Is someone "wrong"? Like Librem is saying they are going mainline but actually aren't? Or is it Pinephone? Or I'm misrepreaentating what mainline should mean?
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Why do you look at the history of telecommunication companies rather than the history of SpaceX?

They received subsidies for electric cars and delivered electric cars.

They received subsidies for space travel and they delivered both cargo and humans to the space station.

Now they receive subsidies on for telecommunication, given the two previous deliveries, what makes you think this third one will suddenly go the grift route?
Are you concerned that lack of progress could lead to a sort of "self-driving winter," like the AI winters experienced in the past?
Palo Alto has its own municipal fiber program: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/utl/business/progra...

Wonder if someone should take them up on it.
If they don’t want it on Linux it’s up to them. I’m just providing the tools to do it if they decide to be on that platform.
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"If you use Windows only for gaming then just buy a console, it is cheaper."

It's cheaper to spend money on a console, controllers, games, and a yearly online subscription than to use my existing pc? I find that hard to believe. Especially with games routinely going on sale and overall costing less on pc. Even on my Switch, games are more expensive on average.

I game as much as I can on linux (debian bullseye) but dualbooting to windows for specific games is rather easy. Unrelated, but I would not recommend debian for gaming purposes. Steam didn't even start correctly due to some static dependencies until about a month ago.
Yes SF is apparently wildly corrupt. There's an ongoing FBI probe which seems to show that a wide swath of top level city public works employees have been involved in some sort of corruption scandal. The latest revelation is about the former mayor Ed Lee who died last year. Follow the links in the article for all the tentacles in this farce.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Forme...
If 99% of your users are not paying, then you have a problem. Travis cannot compete with Microsoft when it comes to deep pockets. I think it is too late to get regulators to reverse the GitHub acquisition..
Author here: I think this reply and the reply by AnthonyMouse in another sub-thread [1] nail it.

I'd also add that just because you don't want to buy Chinese products != Buy USA made products. There are a vast number of other countries that would jump at the notion of becoming your supply chain, and don't necessarily have all the ethical grievances of supporting China.

I actually think my main objection though had nothing to do with "buying Chinese goods" vs. "not buying Chinese goods." Mainly: why would you buy a $2k smartphone that is grossly overpriced and isn't really providing much more than the base model? As the above comment here says, it should really be closer to "few screws inserted in USA" than "Made in USA."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339390
Other options:

1) Sprout the streetlamp from the box, add a car charging port.

2) Hire an artist to paint the box with artwork (property owner gets to pick from option set). Consider it to be city owned art installations.
To my delight - it works!
I am convinced that it takes another 100 to 200 years before we really have smart self driving cars. Maybe it will never happen as I think it will be much more likely that we have self flying drones before long before. Airspace being regulated heavily and thus much more predictable for a machine.
Well they defeated prop 16, which every dem and their grandma campaigned and donated for.

Maybe there is hope? Not likely but who knows
I had almost the same story in my school, with librarians backing me up similarly. Thanks for sharing it!
Sure, in those other languages you could just define a single-field class to wrap the reference to the next node, since you can only pass objects by reference and references themselves are (usually) not objects. Unfortunately this adds a lot of overhead, both in lines of code and runtime. Instead you would probably just use the less efficient algorithm with more special cases to work around the lack of indirect references.
Yes, and there was a large group of volunteers pushing for exactly this.
That sounds like an absolutely terrible experience. I think you dodged a bullet! :)
It’s certainly a relief to have an apparent explanation for the weirdness I’ve been experiencing! I thought it was my home router or WiFi or something, but then I experienced the same problems at my partner’s house, so I thought maybe it’s just a problem with some websites I frequent or some common internet infrastructure. But we both have AT&T internet, so this must be it!

For me, the problem has mostly manifested as web pages failing to load or appearing to be loading forever. Generally when I refresh the page would load quickly as expected.
I still have a large amount of node server code that is a permission system for phone numbers. If you ever get serious about the idea and want to reach me, email is in profile.
> I want to know my credit score.

Several banks and credit cards offer FICO score information. The information is likely there for you, but you may have to accept some data sharing terms and conditions in order to access it.

https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/chase-credit-jou...

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/features-ben...

https://www.wellsfargo.com/goals-credit/smarter-credit/credi...

https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit-cards/free-fico-credit-...
This story is insanely misleading though. Everyone here is talking about why the tech elite are leaving due to the quality of life when Keith Rabois specifically has like 3-4 IPOs he was an early investor in going public right now and makes no sense to stay in California in 2021 and pay state capital gains taxes on those sales.

Same with Elon Musk and Tesla’s absurd stock price. And probably a lot of other people given the hot IPO market.

Point is it’s so disingenuous for these people to say it’s because of SF or California when it has everything to do with taxes and not much else.

To blast the Bay Area and state which made them rich and then flee before they owe a penny is gross.
I made this site to see if people are interested in finding people to talk to. Right now, it seems like most engineers are preparing for interviews in their own little silo. It would be nice to match people with others in a similar situation, and open up a communication channel. Curious to know what folks on HN think about this.
And yet, who could be more credible? As long as all we've got is someone's word, he seems nearly as good as it gets.
> What I never understand is what happens when a new situation that the system did not previously train for happen?

This happens to human drivers all the time, and humans are really bad drivers even in situations that have happened before.

I fully expect AI drivers to be safer than human drivers.
I moved out to Silicon Valley in 2009. Downturns are the best years. They flush out all the folks who are hoping to get rich fast by peddling snake oil, and leave behind the folks who are building, who are inventing, who are a little bit weird, or who just love the beautiful weather. The next tech boom starts when somebody finds a crazy invention useful; that's a lot easier when people are living ordinary lives than when everybody's chasing a hot fad.
> There are solutions to this. Obvious solutions. But it would imply paying more for stuff.

Well, even if you do, you are up to myriad of other issues.

The progressing general business unfriendliness of the West will not go anywhere. If it does not go, the situation will not change even if you put 1000000% tariff on Chinese goods.

I myself been working on setting up a small knock down kit assembly factory 6 years ago in Richmond, Canada. It was a nightmare. We also attempted going across the border to Washington with same results.

If doing even something as simple is that is a guaranteed to fail endeavour, than, what else you think you can do?
Right, but it will in the future.
All states are at-will states but not all employment in an at-will state is at-will (at-will states allow and make default at-will terms, but specific employment contracts may still set other terms.)
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I think having visible pricing differences for made-in-USA phones is good purely because it will make a lot of starry eyed kids starting hardware companies reconsider their assumption that they can make the economics of manufacturing in America work out just because they want it to.

I've seen so many go through that cycle, and if they aren't involved in an industry with strong reasons other than money to manufacture locally it invariably wastes time and talent, and often kills the company.
Elon is waiting on the line 1 with some promises.
I did something slightly different. In the early days of computing, using CP/M, I found WordStar and used it happily for years.

When the IBM-PC came out, there was a version of WordStar for that so I continued using it. Later on, I used Linux which has a 'joe' editor which has an alter-ego called 'jstar'.

Yep. 'jstar' is a WordStar clone, and that's what I still use now, 35 years after I first found WordStar. I even renamed it to 'ws'.
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For financial comparison, New Zealand (similar size/population to Oregon) used a lending model to fund a national fibre rollout in a private-public partnership.

“The Government will [initially] invest up to $1.35 billion [NZD] in the UFB network, which it expects to cost a total of $3.5b [NZD]. That includes $929m which it will invest directly in Chorus in interest-free loans and equity. [The government] will not be entitled to any dividends until 2025 and the loans will not be repaid in full until 2036. The difference between what it will pay and what it will get back will be $600m in today's money” - https://archive.vn/20170807221541/http://www.stuff.co.nz/bus...

84% of NZers can access fibre, and uptake is 64% as per: https://www.mbie.govt.nz/assets/quarterly-connectivity-updat...

Fibre is owned by infrastructure companies that charge standard rates to ISP’s, and the ISP’s compete to provide Internet to consumers.
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This visualization is very good. But the Raft paper itself is also quite understandable (and I say this as someone without any formal CS background who struggles getting through papers). It's main goal, aside from correctness, was understandability after all.

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/raft-atc14

I'd estimate it took me about 2 hours to get through it, but it felt very satisfying because I walked away saying "yup, I see how this works now". Give it a shot!
I agree with you that we should limit both plastic straws and soot pollution.
The parts of SV that haven't buried their power lines (not too pretty to begin with) have gotten significantly uglier since all of the new cable/fiber/DSL infrastructure has gone in. There are in many cases multiple of these things on loads of poles:

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31593060-Equip-What-is-thi...
In this case, the app itself is in fact open source. The problem is that it relies on a non-free Google/Apple service for detecting contacts. However, I agree: Even such a dependency should strictly be avoided by government apps. This includes not limiting an app to the Play Store and also using alternative channels such as F-Droid.
Many people are saying to those of us who _haven't_, for one reason or another, gotten completely off of Travis CI, "the writing was on the wall" or "you can't expect free forever."

And I think they're missing the gravity of the situation—there were (and are still) a _ton_ of OSS projects out there that are configured to use Travis CI for their testing and build pipelines, and it's not free to switch to something else (even though there are many adequate alternatives).

I wish there was another way, like providing a meager amount of build minutes, or just reducing the OSS builds to run on a few dozen servers, even if that means days-long build queues. That's better than just ending service abruptly like they did.

I wrote [1] about my own plans, but I know many devs (especially for tiny side projects) just don't have the time to update them to something else, and we're likely to see a number of smaller projects kind of fall into disrepair from this.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricin...
We will pay of course in due time, but you meant that of course. Complacency has a cost.
Ubuntu 18.04 with GTX1070. Used the drivers that came with the OS and I might go play some Hellblade in a moment
Which is an acceptable risk (and could happen regardless of policies challenging pollution prevention), as long as the temporary executive order (or agency policy) forces industry changes in the interim that can’t or won’t be reversed post SCOTUS decision.

Observe how legacy automakers have dropped their support for EPA efforts to remove California CARB authority, and have gotten onboard with tighter emission standards now that the new administration is onboarding [1] [2]. This is not altruism, but “reading the room.”

Regulation need not stick long term to be effective. Are automakers going to retool back to combustion vehicle production from EV production as we approach deadlines for combustion vehicle bans if those bans evaporate? Coal plants rebuilt? Electric busses scrapped for diesel buses? Unlikely. The capital will have already been committed, and domain expertise retired. The ruling then rings hollow.

This is not to discount the challenges we face with the current SCOTUS composition, but to triage and prioritize climate change efforts until the composition can be improved. “Technical debt”, if you will.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/climate/general-motors-tr...

[2] https://carbuzz.com/news/nissans-bold-decision-was-inspired-...
Very well done movie.

I would rather say it shows how The New York Times and its star reporter Walter Duranty produced tons of lies to cover the Holodomor.

The Pulitzer Prize Board still won't revoke his prize he was awarded for this propaganda, claiming he was just an unwitting dupe. The movie counters that excuse pretty well.
Windows backward compatibility and gaming might not keep it in the game if arm and m1 start to get really big traction. The performance advantage is there.

Arm may be too late for the ps5 gen but is there any question that ps6 gen won't be an arm SOC?

And I wonder if apple will launch m1 as a gaming console.
That seems to stem from the fact they killed off pretty much the entire engineering team after the acquisition (judging by tweets I remember reading shortly afterwards).
Very useful for understanding the protocol including edge cases.
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You definitely can cheat with Stadia, the earliest public Overwatch aimbots were just AutoHotKey scripts that detected pixels on screen and would adjust your aim so as to not make you look like an obvious cheater.
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Perhaps you mean comma.ai and not scale.ai?
No, that's Toh-lay-doh. We're talking about Toh-lee-doh here.
Was Uber leading self driving? I know they were a large player, but why would all the other companies give up now?
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What? 30 years ago we didn't have the internet. 100 years ago there was barely any electricity. Are you insane?
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First off I reject the premise that people investigating the climate cannot perform experiments.

Even assuming what you say is true, if not experiments and attempts at falsifying your ideas, how does one pursue the truth?