skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another aside, California (with the harshest gun laws) is one of the only states to show declining gun deaths since 1981. I'd like to see the homicide and suicide numbers brought out separately, since (in most states) any decrease in homicides is completely shadowed by the huge increase in suicides. With coastal California having a much lower gun-ownership rate, I assume people committing suicide choose other means (nobody I know who killed themselves in California used a gun, while 2/3 of those I know who killed themselves in the midwest did, the third being a woman, who is much less statistically likely to choose a gun).
Dell XPS or Precision with Ubuntu Mate, am very happy with it.
It isn't, really, because you can at least hope to avoid the slaughterbot. You can't escape that which you can't see. A high-altitude UAV is the nightmare, whether it shoots missiles or bullets. We're just used to them (but not being a target of them), so it doesn't feel so scary as imaginary close combat with a robot.

(To this day I remember this one thing about US drone strikes in Pakistan I read in an article many years ago: the people living there became literally afraid of the blue sky - as the drone strikes tended to happen during good weather. That's terror.)
Oh man that bought back memories. I've done the same thing in Italy! I had to do a ~30 point turn. I couldn't believe Google Maps could be so wrong.
Cool blog post, thx for sharing. Typo in it: "So I road my motorcycle into the jungle"
Glad to hear your partner is doing well. Cancer sucks. Life has been kind to me since I was ill, partially because IT is a good field to be in, and mostly because my family was upper-middle class and able to help financially. I can't imagine how I'd be if I didn't have the help from my parents, or had a job that was more physical. I guess I would have had to declare bankruptcy, with all the costs that entails.
Absolutely, I wholeheartedly support a UBI. But that's not mutually exclusive with wanting to be financially independent now, instead of some indeterminate time in the future, once the political will for UBI becomes strong enough. And if/when a UBI does come to pass, I might be in a better position due to my decade-plus of hodling.
Read farther down, where the article elaborates on the short numbered points such as the one that the person you are replying to quoted.

That particular point gets almost 30 paragraphs of elaboration starting at the heading "Our yearlong journey to Mars".
Not to downplay the seriousness: but "middle of Italy" doesn't really sound that bad. Middle of Russia or Middle of USA... could be deadly. Also middle of Russia way way worse than Middle of USA, as the article indicates.
Keep in mind part of the demographic you are talking to here- (mostly) high salaried tech and the elite. Does this affect them? They will happily ignore these issues as long as they keep on getting their shiny iPhones and Macs.
Kaepernick isn't the issue, his message is. Attacking the messenger is a way to change the subject. What do you think of his message?

Nike doesn't buy and sell slaves. Critics don't need to be perfect - if they do, there can be no critics.
The President's casual tweeting really got to some people too. Weird. Perhaps it's a common and reasonable response to be concerned when an imprecise arrogant messenger amplifies tribalism and grievance politics.
> Your theory is that if other large companies do something, it must be morally acceptable?

Why did your comment single out Amazon and not the practice of 'immorally' tracking customers?
It certainly could, but should it? If that research is into something that's a dead end, should we keep researching it to avoid underemployment of researchers? It does seem to me that underemployment as a loss function by itself is particularly prone to local maximums.
Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism
I think this isn't really a phenomena of we see in "news today", it's a really old problem but tech has made it much easier to have your voice heard. We have proverbial phrases about this, e.g. "One fool may ask more questions than ten wise men can answer." and all the different variations in other languages.
Why I'm not working on vCard validators
Pretty big "bugs" they have in the UK, judging by that drone:hand ratio in the pic.
We have that one too, the keyboard is amazing. I saw the future and paid for 16gb though. Held off on big sur however.
The Fed site has a lot of charts for this. For example, top 1% of households owns 30% of wealth today, while the bottom 50% - only 2%. For liabilities, the chart is almost the reverse of this: top 1% owes 4%, while the bottom 50% owes 30%.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

There must be a similar chart for individuals somewhere.

Edit: Btw, in 2010, the bottom 50% owned the least share of wealth - only 0.4%. This is also when the Fed started to increase the M1 money supply at the rate never seen before.
Caltopo and forest service roads are the best for last mile backcountry driving in my experience. Google maps is indeed really sketchy in those situations.
Researchers Propose a New “Obfuscated” Transistor
I give you an upvote just for getting those symbols to display correctly on my screen.
I'm a bit curious about what that route ended up being. Does it still produce the same route?
That's a problem. People are not terrified of AGM carrying stealth drones, but they should be because they are already here and in use around the world. Nothing can stop it, no tank, aircraft, rocket, armor. Probably the only realistic defense is an iron dome type system to shoot the missile down. The US deployed a hellfire AGM with retractable swords instead of explosives they are so confident they can land it on a single person or vehicle.

Biped cyborg killer is just not a realistic weapon. The slaughterbot attack on Maduro in 2018 shows that technology is not very mature yet.
This is what the Foundation novels and Sagan were describing; assumptions versus validation.

No one at Google validates any of their results. They simply operate on a large data set within the constraints of the machine.

IMO this is the problem with the technology industry; the only correctness that matters is the services are online.

It’s similar to the stock market being completely decoupled from the real economy. Oh yes all those math operations were handled just so, but you drove the lemmings off a cliff.

I’ve adjusted my expectations to society accordingly; lemmings.
The point was not "there are repugnant ideas". The point was "the first thing shown to me, on the front page, are repugnant ideas". Big difference.

Free alternative sites always seem to end up being just, or at least mainly, a place for hosting extremists. call it the voat effect if you will.

And to be clear, I do think that having that kind of content being offered a platform is not, at all, good. But I don't think you need to agree with that to agree with the specific point I was making.
Yes, you can indeed continue to move the goal posts, but acknowledge we're far into the weeds and even further from what the article focused on - Religious Slave Labor Camps in China.

Why aren't inmates paid a "fair" wage? Well, that's up for debate and I think I'd enjoy hearing pros and cons.

Some cons I could think of are:

* These are inmates, serving a sentence as punishment for a crime they were convicted of.

* Most of their living expenses are already provided.

* Alternatives include doing nothing all day instead of a job.

* If inmate labor cost what non-inmate labor costs, why would anyone hire inmates?

* The labor programs are largely voluntary.

* The money earned is used as a reward for participation, good behavior, and showing a willingness to work and get along with other inmates. Misbehave and you don't get to work, and don't earn money.

Now maybe it is time to step up some sort of minimum wage for inmates... but that doesn't distract from atrocities the CCP is committing in present day.
> As it turns out, she truly can visualize everything in her head.

Here I would have told you that I can visualize everything in my head... until I took the test – definite 1. I can visualize everything in some loose sense, but it is encoded differently. Like, to use a poor analogy, a computer can represent an image as binary digits. I can understand 6 in my mind. Perhaps I took the test too literally?
Relevant comparison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575971
I find this illogical and scary:
'Tesla stock is now worth more than the combined valuations of General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Toyota. Yet, Tesla makes just a fraction of the cars of its more established rivals.'
I live in Thailand and they're everywhere here. So far I haven't been brave enough to try them.
> a few million minorities gets shafted, to be crass: the cost was/is negligible

That is the difference between a society of freedom and human rights, and mob rule. Someone else's benefits have nothing to do with the horrors suffered by people in Tibet and Xinjiang. Each one of those people is as important as you or me.
I am scared of this stock. I would not touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I don't want to do the work to understand a field by learning it's basics...I want the knowledge magically transferred into my head.

Next, I want to be a FAANG developer without knowing how computers or programming languages work. Or how to type.
You would hope that. I’ve been in infosec doing application security as a consultant a long time. Developers have often destroyed my hopes :)
I’m pretty sure they’re just plain old Unicode. Thank your font.
Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup
I think you nailed it, it's not about the Uyghurs, it's about not allowing china to continue its economic growth. Never mind that growth has had tremendous positive impact on average chinese citizens Uyghurs included.
How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made (1938)
A lot of these trails pass through towns, or go close enough to them that you can stock up every few days. There are also "trail angels" who wait on the trail to supply food, water, and other essentials to hikers, usually just out of the (abundant) goodness in their hearts.
So Bitcoin? More seriously, if Tesla can ramp up Model SUV tech with 400+ miles they can revamp the whole model. I would buy an electric suburban with 300+ max range with a 15 year lifespan tomorrow.
Had 2 memorable experiences with Google Maps in foreign countries.

1st it took me to the Paris - Castellane it took me to the French Alps. Using a park road. I guess the shortest route between 2 points is up and over the mountain.

2nd time we were in Sicily and at some point we ended up driving through a golf course, and a herd of goats. It was super strange.

There was also a 3rd incidence in Malta. The route was down a walking path. The road got narrower and eventual just wide enough for 2 humans.
At what point in the process of making software does proprietary software become unethical?

If I open a restaurant and sell food, but don’t publish my recipes, that isn’t unethical?

If I make software, and I choose to offer it for money but not offer the source, what is unethical about my behavior?
I had the experience you fear in Germany. The gps directed me into a pedestrian area in the old part of the city. I drove quite a ways before the pedestrians suddenly closed around me and I was unable to move. It was technically legal, but pedestrians have the right of way and the speed limit is 5 km/h. It was very stressful at first, but eventually I resigned myself to the situation. I had to slowly execute a 180 degree turn, moving a little bit at a time, waiting for gaps in the foot traffic. It was quite crowded and no one moved out of my way. One guy chuckled and shook his head sympathetically as he walked by.
Honestly seems like absolute complete madness. Cars, batteries, and solar panels are all basically commodities. There is a certain value to a car brand, of course, but still. The only way this valuation makes any sort of sense is if Tesla manages to pull off 100% self-driving, as that field will have few competitors for a long time.

The guy in the article should definitely sell half his shares and put them into an ACWI index fund or something. Super scary seeing these people apparently not hedging.
The problem is - as a non-local you can't really distinguish between Google knowing what it's doing and not until it's too late. For example I've been taken to the following:

AUSTRALIA - definitely not a "road" more like an unused hiking / herding path with nothing but lazy kangaroos in sight.

CHILE - down an unpaved half-lane road making its way down the side of a cliff, marked "mucho peligroso"

ITALY - completely off road over giant potholes and big rocks. Middle of the night.

ABU DHABI - across a clearly pedestrian plaza.

In all cases it worked out - as it happened to be traversable in my tiny rental car and indeed the way to get where I am going. But that's in retrospect, could have easily been "death by GPS" types of scenarios.

A few things I recommend when driving in places like this:
- refuel religiously. Don't let your tank get below half, as theoretically that should give you enough to backtrack to where you got gas last time. Not always possible of course.
- try to ask yourself - if I had to back out / turn around, could I? And be very leary of locking yourself out of that option (although easier said than done.)
- be mentally prepared to sleep in the car. At some point it is safer to do that and figure things out in the morning, even of there's a chance that your amazing tuscan villa airbnb is just another mile down the washed out road (cuz it may also not be)
- think of it as a fun adventure and don't freak out.
If they repeal 230, do we have to pick our comments from a preapproved list?
Puts then?
Once again, violence isn't a part of living? What world are you living in? Have you ever driven in traffic, seen someone arrested, paid your taxes?

Violence is a part of life. May be shooting a gun isn't a part of life but violence is definitely a part of everyday life.
That's fair. I take automatic backups of the sheet, such that if access to that is eventually lost I can republish via another method.

Discord is used for the simple reason that the current goal is to gain as much traction and participation as possible. The Rocketchat server I host, and the IRC channels I could have used would both acted as barriers of entry to a lot of possible participants.

Perhaps with time I can push for a migration to a solution I host. For the moment I'll stick with these tools, and plan for their failure as best I can.
I'd be happy to report routing problems to Open Street Maps or similar. I'm happy to contribute to open data.

Actually I would also have been happy to report it to Google a few years back but I have to say our relationship seems to have turned adversarial in the interim and I'm fairly sure it wasn't my doing.
Living in Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico I was actually pretty surprised by how well Google Maps has worked. It knows my dirt/gravel roads pretty well.
They can't have both. Production in the US is less efficient (not only for labor reasons), which deprives the entire economy of the wasted resources.
Wave of better built electric cars is coming from all the regular car manufactures. The Ford mach e is the latest one. Better made car. But ford doesn't yet have fast charge network built out.
This is true per "equivalent" unit of generic computing, but some older instance types have gone up in price (presumably to encourage people to migrate their stuff onto newer hardware).

This is completely reasonable - but a pain when you have a box that works perfectly and you have to upgrade the software to cope with a new hypervisor driver/layer.
> But owning shares mean owning a part of a company? Does that mean that when a company’s shares are invalidated, then the company is now worth zero, and anybody can buy it for a penny? Are the owners forced to sell everything for a penny, or they are allowed to choose, when to sell and at what price?

In real life, bankruptcy usually ends up essentially invalidating the shares of a company. Depending on the method of bankruptcy, the company continues to exist, but the owners of the existing shares loose any claim to anything. If "invalidate stock shares" of a public company became some kind of sanction for improper behavior, it would probably be coupled with some kind of process to transfer ownership?

Invalidating all shares in a company without further process to reallocate ownership is an interesting hypothetical. I suppose the organization would become something like abandoned property and escheat to the government.
I don't know if it suggests that poorer people should be robots, but that they should take more care in their purchasing. TV's are absolutely not a necessity nor really a good use of your income in any form (though not really that expensive, what is expensive are subscription plans).

I think it's interesting to describe things like TV's as "very most fundamental creature comforts" when someone has less than 1000$ in savings. If you are that strapped for cash you should recognize that every dollar you do have is extremely valuable and should be used to put you in a better financial situation.

I don't agree with the idea that being poor means having poor character, it's often out of situational issues or ignorance, but the issue arises when we start to defend legitimate misuses of money and say "well people deserve to live comfortably"
The best part is really that Tesla has only competitive disadvantages. There is really nothing in Tesla that sets them apart. Yeah, they made electric cars popular, but other car manufacturers started to catch up and they have immense advantages, like brand lock-in and a long history of adapting and evolving to customer needs. And they were right not to jump into EV too quickly. It's a pretty unpredictable, developing market. Tesla got a head start, but at the end, they really have nothing going for them.

The stock is gonna crash so hard in a couple of years, I am sure someone will make a movie out of it. I might actually buy a good bunch of options against Tesla, if they reach far enough into the future.
Serious question: does the same aspect scare you with most tech startups, which have valuations well beyond the actual value they produce (often losses) at the time of their IPOs?

Tesla is being valued based on its potential future, not present.
The trend is your friend until the end.
Feedlot cattle more than double in weight in under 200 days. Beef cattle are slaughtered at under 24 months. How could 93% of a feedlot animal's diet be grazed grass?
The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
As a trademark holder, you have to make reasonable attempts to protect it, or you risk losing it.
In fact, Michael Burry from the Big Short has been tweeting about this lately. It's actually more valuable the all WORLDWIDE auto makers combined, and sells <1% of global volume.
> And there's a never-ending push to make experiences more photorealistic, to make simulator even better. From that I can only conclude that people want to get as close to the experience of perfoming the prevented act as possible.

I don't think that's a natural conclusion. Video games are a form of entertainment (or art). They are pretty young. There's usually a period where an art form gets super into "realism" because it's still a challenge and a way to communicate "high production values".

Then pretty good realism becomes cheap and widely available - and the art form pivots to more expressive works that go beyond chasing "realism". So why are high budget games trying to get more photorealistic? Because it's currently an effective way to communicate "high quality work of entertainment, worth at least 60 bucks". It has little to do with the actual entertainment value.
You claimed that suicide rates are unaffected. They are not. They have increased.

We don't know why they have increased, we don't even know if the current numbers are accurate.

It may very well be due to lockdown.

Suicide rates may well be higher than has currently been reported.

This report acknowledges that.

You however did not. You pretty much trivialized the severity of the truth behind these horrible numbers.
I think you never read the report and just copied the twitter statement, and are now irritated because you got called on it.

For arguments sake

If I state that medical doctors have the highest suicide rates among all the professions (which is true).

Would you still trivialize the 2020 increase in suicide rates if I could show you that more oncologists took their own lives in 2020 than in 2019?

What if I could show you that the increase comes from unemployed, physically healthy men under the age of 35?

What if there is a steep increase in suicides among the elderly who have sheltered in place since march ?

Context is everything. This report acknowledges that proper context is still missing, and it's preliminary to draw conclusions other than that it looks like the increase was to be expected.

Which in itself is (pardon my french) fucking abysmal and should not go ignored.
The thing I hate is that the tests stop at a stupidly low frequency. I don't care if I still have good hearing at 8khz, my left ear hears up to 16k, and my right ear barely registers at 10, yet no is not testing for you if you're a musician. And ever had an ENT condescendingly tell you "you can still hear about the same as a normal person, what's the problem?" while smugly writing you a free hearing test?

And no one's going to actually figure out treatment, because there's no money in it.
Unfortunately it's likely to turns out to be spoof:
https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/the-argument-again...
The problem is it goes up, it goes down, it goes sideways... but nobody has any clue why or when.

Buy a put, lose money. Buy stock, lose money. Buy options, lose money.

Or gain. Nobody knows; it's the definition of a speculative stock this past year. But to the amazement of all, it just seems to go up and up in the long term.
Does this mean that Rust's Future trait is incorrectly named? Or at least not named according to the academic use of the word?

Of course because Rust's runtime or lack thereof aims to be zero overhead a Future could never be without the poll function.. right? You need a runtime to make regular functions accept these magic opaque future values.
"Tesla stock price is too high imo" - Elon Musk

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184
> Many investors also believe there is strong growth to come from other parts of Tesla's business including its self-driving software

Do they? How is Tesla's self-driving software going to lead to growth?
The value is really in the inept cluelessness of the legacy automakers. If any of them woke up and got a Clue(TM) then, after they build a car that isn't crappy, and a charging network, and self-driving... Then TSLA stock might drop.
Hmm...from a tech porn perspective it’s a cool little gadget. But given the shadow surveillance and police state that was erected post 9/11 and how often “national security” outfits have been caught playing fast and loose with the laws of the land, there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers.

Governments in most western countries have thrown out habeas corpus and have given themselves the right to indefinitely ‘disappear’ anyone they arbitrarily deem a threat to national security. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden come to mind.

I wouldn’t trust governments and intelligence services in the post-democratic west with this technology any more than I’d trust their counterparts in “classic” totalitarian states.
I also don't see a search icon. Android + Chrome.
You're right, Charles's Law was the gas law about temperature and pressure.
The crazy thing is that the stock is worth 4x as much now!