skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not many folk have enough data to make a fair judgement on what took place here, although plenty have already felt comfortable to do so.

It seems not to be in dispute that Timnit offered an ultimatum with a series of demands that needed to be met for her not to resign. It seems not to be in dispute that Google decided that it wasn't in the business' interest for this paper to be published (for whatever reason). The rest is either cloudy (why did Google choose to part ways with her) or moot (was her ultimatum technically a resignation or not).

Some folk clearly fall into the category of #BelieveBlackWomen, which seems to be a surprisingly non-curious attitude to take. (Does being black or female automatically make an account more credible? Don't both sides have plenty to gain by putting a positive spin on their version of events?)

A plausible alternate explanation of events is that Timnit had become a liability to Google. We have to speculate a little here, but we do know that she got into a very public spat with Facebook's Chief AI Scientist, leading to him quitting Twitter; that she sent a broad mail to ERG groups that undermined the leadership's messaging and goals around diversity; and that she admits she "hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google". It's quite possible that her ultimatum was the final straw for Google leadership, both because capitulating would set a precedent for others to hold the company ransom, and because her employment had become a net negative.

But we don't know. Google is unlikely to share its side of events for reasons of liability. In general, company executives have more at stake from a bald-faced lie, but it's not possible to be sure. So it we're left with the choice of "believe her unequivocally" or "reserve judgement".

Those who fall into the latter category are far less likely to speak out. I'm a Googler, but it's ironic that it feels career-limiting to not vocally dissent from the petition, such that I'm using an anonymized account for the first time. But I suspect there is a silent but significant constituency at Google who are skeptical of her claims, as well as many others who would love nothing more than for less political activism in the workplace.
Hardware that forwards packets usually forwards IP packets, it doesn't care about TCP checksums and doesn't recalculate them. TCP stack in your OS is the one that does that.

It has to be a special kind of hardware that does much deeper packet inspection (DPI) to recalculate TCP checksums, usually used for spying, throttling, censorship, injecting ads, injecting exploits, etc., but not merely routing/forwarding packets.
That they sometimes are.
> Everything works as it would on a Windows machine

A fresh install came with ads, tracking, and forced updates?
It's okay, most of them don't walk the walk. They're all about it right up to the point that you suggest that poor people deserve decent jobs with a decent commute. Then they go straight to frothing at the mouth and incoherent shouting.

What I'm saying is turn it around on them.
I see no errors running the same script from another host that doesn't go through at&t.
For what it is worth, this isn't only a problem in the US. It is just that the US only knows what's up in the US and the US news is seen by most other western countries. There's also an argument to be made that US news highlights the worst people and not the average person.
As someone who has never gone out their way to pick up plastic straws anywhere, but is generally and vaguely aware of the damage they cause, I too would support a general ban on single use plastics.
I saw cellphone videos taken inside the ship when this happened. The kids were highspirited and jovial for the circumstances. It was really creepy to watch
I imagine our next president may be sympathetic to this issue.
We need to codify a right to self defense against the police. Too many situations like this exist where the police place others in mortal danger. In a situation like this were the armed party not police it would be unquestionably legal for the victim to respond with deadly force. Police no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt and they deserve no special legal protections when they run around assaulting people with deadly weapons.
I was bringing the debate back to what it was about, not "spewing vitriol" at you.
> That's horrible. And should be grounds for firing the cop.

A common misunderstanding. The police in the USA are regarded as above the law; rules don't apply to them.

You'll never find a prosecutor willing to address criminal behavior like this by police.

If you want to fix this, do a five whys on that, not some idiot cop waving his gun around at children.
As noted in the article, the EPA estimated this rule change would have saved 12,000 lives per year.

For reference, 30,000 people are killed by drivers every year. 50,000 people die from suicide. So changing this rule is equivalent to reducing suicide rates by 25% or auto fatalities by over 30%.
I can’t understand whether you agree with the author’s stance or not, but I am flagging because name-calling is inappropriate in civil discourse.
> Banning blatant aimbots is just a pure statistics thing.

So you have two choices here. You either ban the best players or the aim bots just behave with a success rate close to the best players.
For a semi-goofy take (CGPGrey) on hexagons:

https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY
Maybe he was hoping for that, and didn't want to be among the ranks of the removed.
> The depiction of police (allegedly) escalating the situation with threat of deadly force, especially with kids present [...]

Not "allegedly". There is video: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665
I think the CEH exam would disagree with unauthorized access being ethical. What was her important action directly linked to this?
Follow your instinct like a child would? Every child I know would just freeze and cry for mom.
If you've got AT&T fiber via Sonic, give them a call and ask them to escalate the issue. The people on the phone know about the issue, take you seriously, and the more people complaining the more pressure they'll put on AT&T, I expect.
Game companies do take a similar approach to what you're describing, but still feel the need to run anticheat. If you ban aimbots based purely on statistics, you'll just encourage cheat developers to change the statistical properties of their aimbots. Cheats are a fairly big business — even detecting them with anticheat software in ring 0 doesn't seem to be a surefire guard against cheating.
Game of Life – Hexagonal Version
I'll be honest, I thought this was really silly at first from scrolling through the linked blog post but when working in a significantly different timezones as I have in the past (12 hours), this could be pretty convincing. It might be hard to sell my team on something called "weet" but I'm going look through the privacy policy and I might actually give this a try...
> I think the thing is if you remembered to bring your own straws you would just bring your own drink.

Unless getting the drink was the point (e.g. going out for a milkshake or Starbucks). Or you didn't want to haul a big ol' drink around.
>Is there that much of a difference between owning a car and renting a car or using Zip or having a chauffer (Lyft, Uber, taxis) tote you around? I'd get rid of my car too if I could afford to have Uber haul me everywhere.

It's a difference in frequency of use. In Seattle, a lot of my friends don't have cars, but use Rideshare/rentals when they need it. If you are using it a couple times a week, pretty easy to stay under the cost of car ownership when you factor in insurance/parking/maintenance etc.
Not to make me feel better, but because I'd like to see actual feminism flourish.

I don't see why you're so angry with me either.
The point is that it's unknown what will happen in the future. In 1889, the US patent office commissioner had said that we should close it, as "everything that can be invented has been invented."
Would that work for lag? I assume there is some predictive aspects to a fluent gameplay these days. Also for the server to decide which e.g. player someone can see or not, seems quite intense.

This seems inadequate to prevent aim assistance too.

I mean it's a moot point anyway, since it's probably not too long until bots can play all games better, without additional information or help.
> A situation that could be minimal risk to everyone (because let's not pretend that people shooting at cops entering a home is a usual thing), is now high risk (and traumatic in all cases) for the citizen.

Well, if you are arresting a person, perhaps there's things that can be done, like waiting outside. How is it supposed to be handled when you have to get evidence?

> I would sure be less freaked out in Europe

I'm sure this is an oversimplification but AFAIK states in Europe either have more restrictions on gun ownership or a culture/mediascape/welfare-state that doesn't encourage the desperation/antagonism you see in the US.
YugabyteDB https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-does-the-raft-consensus-based-...

And CockroachDB both use raft consensus https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/repli...
I think you’re taking the phrasing too literally. It is meant to confer the money should be spent on programs that directly contribute to more people’s lives than just those who work on the specific program.

Your same argument can be used for the defense contractors as well and people will still line up to argue it’s not the best use of tax dollars
How much does it increase the TCO?
The Electric Vehicle Tax Credit and the ITC (solar tax credit) were passed by Democrats. Tesla benefited greatly from both. Tesla also received a massive loan from Obama's DOE during the great recession, without which it may not have survived. Meanwhile Trump has been doing everything in his power to prop up the dying coal industry, reduce vehicle efficiency requirements, and expand oil and gas drilling. All of these efforts indirectly harm Tesla by benefiting Tesla's competitors.
Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite
Clean code
Inb4 arch linuxers add systemd in PKGBUILDS as dependencies all the time, but truth is they're not needed and systemd is cancer
To be fair, the vast majority of technical support calls likely require only customer service rather than technical skills. Anyone with technical chops probably wouldn't last long in that environment.
Diesel exhaust smells like ice cream to me. I assume it's an association from diesel ice cream vans as a kid.
I think if you check now you'll see it. I was trying to keep the temperature low to reduce the instances of this.
The COVID situation is negatively affecting their revenue streams, which puts pressure on them to cut losses fast. You made the right choice indeed.
TV commercials? Radio? Are these bridge words to communicate with older people? :)

I remember feeling old when I ... decades ago ... was talking about CDs and the person I was talking to had never owned one.

And now I suspect you can add "analog OTA transmission of music and videos" to that.
Aren't the requirements for being a judge basically just (1) be a lawyer (2) get elected? I'd hazard a guess that the bar in terms of technical sophistication for a Tallahassee judge is not that high and that it wouldn't be inconceivable for police to sell them a story about a scary hacker stealing people's medical data.
Came to the comments just for this link
Just stop go on it
I haven't used youtube for 4 years now and i am fine :)
I've never seen one installed in a house, so that's a new one to me. At the same time, this page (https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-systems/absorpt...) makes it sound that they're mostly available for industrial applications, and that residential gas heat pumps are hard to find (actually says "under development".) Also notes that "absorption coolers and heat pumps usually only make sense in homes without an electricity source."
At the very least, Sonic did their own roll out back in 2015 in the Sunset. Saw the trucks and was a very happy customer. https://twitter.com/sonic/status/748371538265649153?lang=en
There seems to be a weird attitude in the US that the police are some sort of independent entity, and the most the state can do is reduce its tribute to them. This is a really odd approach, and doesn’t really have a parallel elsewhere; successful police reform had generally involved changes of leadership, independent misconduct commissions, and increased consequences.
> If they were truly on "basically the same exact subject", there can't really be a scientific explanation for some to be publishable and others not, can there

Or, your theories are flawed in some manner and don't actually capture the truth. I'm asking you how previous behavior would fit into the theories that you yourself believe.
You can see lots of videos filmed by Tesla car owners (not by Tesla) showcasing exactly how the Tesla full self driving beta is doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IQFb3JeEo

It's not perfect, but it keeps better with every release. They are ahead of everyone else by a long shot.
> systemd is cancer

Can you expand on this claim?
Could be crappy/buggy middle boxes. Especially if they’re inspecting packets or messing with SSL.

My ATT modem (Arris bgw-210-700) may have gotten a firmware upgrade recently as I found some settings I shut off got re-enabled. I use it for VDSL but the same model family is used for ATT fiber.
Proton is the best. Heavy user here - there's very little it can't play and it basically made me wipe my Windows partition as it was no longer needed.
This hasn't been my experience fwiw as someone who moved from a non-gun country to the US. To be honest where I live (Montana) guns really aren't a problem. At least not the kind of problem that makes it a win to require Democrat candidates to support additional gun control measures. I think it's not unrealistic to imagine that we could completely dispense with the crazy Republicans if only democrats would drop gun control, it's such a wedge issue. Imagine that: Trump would never have happened, in exchange for not pursuing gun laws that probably wouldn't have achieved anything.
Why not have officers pull them over and fine them?

We have fines for littering and broken tail lights. Egregious pollution could be included.
I though NYC is a very difficult place to own and conceal a handgun (legally).
Yes…but even in that class, they sell a teeny, tiny percentage as diesels.

https://www.dieselforum.org/vehiclesales/u-s-vehicle-sales-d...

And though I cannot find a citation, I swear I have heard the best-selling F-150 engine is the turbocharged gasoline V6.
Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer hardware upgrades?
Or, if you reject the premise, then “why does it seem like every software company I’ve worked for has been stingy with hardware upgrades?”

A new laptop every year would be in the low single digit percentage of the fully loaded cost of an average US developer, even assuming a one-year-old laptop can’t be sold, traded in, or repurposed. It seems like it would be a win if it improved productivity and/or retention even a tiny little bit.

But pretty much everywhere I’ve worked has had a “every three years” or “every four years” hardware upgrade policy.

Is there some accounting quirk that makes this kind of spending especially bad? Am I weird in that I’d probably take a new laptop (that, to be clear, the company would still own) over an equivalent raise?
Here in Japan, there's full of pole except a few tourist spot, recovery after car accident, earthquake or heavy rain is done immediately.
> There's no supported way to use DirectX (or Direct 2D or DXGI or ...) from .NET

Wow, they’re still treating .NET as a second class citizen?? That’s one of the biggest reasons I jumped off the MS boat.

At least Apple is going all-in on Swift and actually using their latest tech in core parts of their OSes (unlike MS and things like WPF etc.)
With a pulled over car you can see the driver, and part of US driver's ed is to keep your hands visible to the officer.

When you break down a door, you can't know what's waiting on the other side.
I still don't use them :)
> SpaceX didn't launch this service as a practical or sensible business model for them, they already get paid to launch other telecommunications equipment into space, they are doing this to keep on the government, the public's tit.

This is pretty much nonsense. Spend 10min actually researching the market and you would know it is nonsense.

Rocket launches are tiny part of the space market, even if SpaceX had a monopoly it would not be that much money. Also, the most valuable launches are trying up and there are not nearly enough of them for SpaceX to continue to grow.

Telecommunications however is a much bigger market, and that is why SpaceX is going into it. There is a gigantic market to be captured and SpaceX with cheap launch and amazing sat technology have a chance to do it. This is also a global play, the idea that this was done just to get access to US subsidies is nonsensical.

They have been planning for this for many, many, many years long before it was even clear if they could get access to this FCC subsidy at all, something that was disputed until just a couple months ago. They didn't invest multiple billion into this project to hopefully get less then 1 billion back in the next 10 years.

As to why SpaceX takes advantage of this, why should they not? SpaceX would do the same thing without these funds, but why not take advantage of it if the government offers it?
Checksums are often calculated in hardware on the NIC. I have personally seen a network card send packets with corrupted data (corrupted by the network card itself) and valid TCP checksums, computed on the corrupted data.
wasn't this story about the police being polite, and then later entering... cautiously?
Sweden already is part of the EU.
He was a co-developer on the Lisp variant that HN is written in, but as far as I know the HN codebase was PG doing a POC that said Lisp variant could write software (and given he was more concerned with Lisp then and Reddit, then a company YC had investments in, had just rewritten from Lisp to Python, maybe making the case that Lisp could be used)
Sweet! I love Truchet Tiles. (Did you know Truchet was a priest in the 18th century?[0]) I see that Apple's Motion has a Truchet tile generator[1], too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sébastien_Truchet
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-afri/guide/motion/motn5d6778a0/...
>reduced launch cost by an order of magnitude

Which specific launches are you referring to? Some of the Space Force launch costs have gotten quite bloated for SpaceX as well
SF is walkable because its tiny, yet each area feels very different because of the elevation changing your scenery in every nook. Ive been walking around the city for the past months now daily, and have not once encountered something unpleasant, unsafe, or smelly.

Now of course I avoid the tenderloin etc. area, but thats how its designed currently. All the homeless are in one place.
The US federal government makes tons of military investments all over the country - I worked for one of them for years and it was not in CA. There was something specific about Silicon Valley. I think Stanford has a lot to do with it personally.
Law overrides contract, so if distributing those changes is prohibited, then not distributing those changes to code is not a violation of the open source licence, the relevant clauses of the licence contract can not be legally binding.

So you'd just [be required to] keep a non-open fork of that code even if the license (e.g. AGPL) would prohibit that.
Oops 404
What a great story and what a shame that people try to ruin it. I wold have been glad for the finder if he had managed to stay anonymous.
> This is the idealistic view.

You work with the reality you live in, but you do strive for idealism. If you don't, you stagnate as the society rots.

The reality today is that in some democracies the balance of power has shifted from the people to the corporates. And that's unacceptable. Thinking that this is what's the best achievable in your democracy is just nihilistic and pessimistic attitude. Sitting silent is not an option. Regulation is one of the tools through which the government restores the balance between the corporates and the people. And it is possible to strike the right balance between the greed of the corporates and the need of the people.
An indentation way to Lisp(based on Cirru)
Power of Intentions
> I'm evidentially missing something here.

Yes what you're missing is the hypothetical scenario of using 3 full blown CSS frameworks that apparently share the exact same HTML structure for all their components, which we all know is a farce.

Jared here is just trying to make up bunk reasons for why he feels his superiority complex about CSS is best way.
> it is entirely possible to live without null, and languages like Rust do.

It seems as though there is this common misconception that Rust does not have a concept of null. Rust does have null pointers [1]! The reason many people do not see null often is because working with and dereferencing raw pointers is an unsafe operation

1: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/fn.null.html
Do you run two gpus? Or can you handoff to the VM when it boots and back when you shut down? Mind sharing your libvirt xml or qemu script? I've been meaning to give this a try!
I think it speaks volumes that you perceive that comment as being angry with you.

But I think this has also gone way off tangent and I regret interacting.

It's a complex issue that has existed for countless generations. We won't get far tonight.
For European folks, currently the test flight is scheduled for:

2020-12-08 14:00 UTC (earlier time was 12:00 UTC)
Show HN: Always-on team video connection with a sense of privacy
Gnulib helps you avoid integer overflow vulnerabilities
Playing with Gravity to Learn CUDA: A Fundamental Force
I’m not angry. I just disagree. I think what you are doing is morally wrong, but it’s not a big deal. I’m sure you have some rationalization. As long as you can feel proud of what you do, that’s all that matters.
One, I think this cop will argue he was following basic gun safety, that he was authorized to use deadly force against anyone or anything in the house. I don't think this cop was incompetent nor would his replacements be; I think he was doing what he was trained to do, and they'll train his replacements the same. You've got to make his actions fireable, first. You can't just wish they were.

Second, we won't fire the cops who don't follow basic gun safety - we will at most fire the ones who get caught on video as part of a story of national importance. This cop isn't the one bad-trigger-discipline cop in that department, let alone the country. Fire him without figuring out how to systemically fire them all, and cops will dismiss it as politically-motivated persecution, have some protests about #BackTheBlue or maybe even a work stoppage, and then go back to business as usual, with the same trigger discipline.

And the fired cop will get a job in another department.

I agree you can have both. I just think you can't have one without the other.
Production usable contextual bandit library for Python
Another solution that's been around for a lot longer - and with more features, but less catchy name - is Abine Blur - https://www.abine.com
Disclosure: I was one of the co-founders
In general, there is a tradeoff between the anti-fraud and the privacy requirements in payment processing, and pseudo-anonymous onetime cards are a good solution.
In our case: 1) slow and long transpilation times, 2) although not that common these days but missing typings used to cause some head scratch 3) overly permissive/overly restrictive type definitions 4) wrongly configured sourcemaps 5) unreadable type definitions/declarations... The list is long but these are off the top of my head
Oh true, I thought the parent comment was talking about this DOH event specifically.
This is surprising.