skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great! I find such tools useful for analysis and they come in handy sometimes.

Sad that this tool also is not open source but better then nothing. So Thanks to the author!
Sea salt, micro plastic particles in 90% of salt brands worldwide, no escape
Most of the population outside of the natural time zone are small rural villages so they just ignore the official time. There is a major city far in the west, and they use two time zones simultaneously. It's a contentious issue, because which time zone you use is basically race-based. Han Chinese use Bejing time, and Uighurs use the local zone.
If the CCP can’t get western governments to act like an extension of the party and Chinese State Media, they’ll be happy to work directly with big tech.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen news people claim that a video has "gone viral" only to find out that it has something like 80,000 views.

80k views is nothing to sniff at, but that's hardly "viral".

Not really the same as what you're talking about, but I was reminded because it's another example of lazy use of language by journalists.
Nothing in my comment implied this will happen soon. I don't think a safe, fully automated system will arrive anytime soon.

What I was discussing was the supposed ethics of fully automated driving vs human driving when crashes happen.

I'm tired of seeing these contrived, hypothetical examples about what an automated car may or may not do in a very specific scenario, that completely ignore the fact that crashes & deaths will go down by orders of magnitude.
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Hi Dustin!

I saw your work on Hacker News last year and I forwarded it to a colleague of mine working in the academic side of Transportation Engineering. They found your work interesting and complemented on your visualizations.

If I could suggest something, it might be useful to reach out to professors at your local university whose research interests coincides with your software's application (you can shop around as well).

They can probably help you with the following:

1. Provide cutting-edge technology and ideas related to transportation engineering

2. Offer a method/connection to the local DOT or other agencies who may be interested in this as a decision support system (DSS).

3. Maybe even find a partner or... (and I think this might be a better option) help you establish a steering committee or a group of advisors who can then make recommendations to supplement your skillsets.

You might even be able to temporarily support your open source model through grant funding and application to different "cutting-edge" applied projects and, if you can, develop those technology in a generalizable way (a framework) to be used as a shiny feature for your application. Grow it up to be a one-stop-shop with the latest and greatest.

I'd be happy to discuss a bit more to help you navigate these waters.

Cheers,

Don

P.S. regarding finding a partner for the business side, what might be useful is to reach out to the local universities in your area and see if their business college/program has a "founders meet-and-greet" program. At our current institution we have programs in place to connect founders with a business counterpart which has resulted in establishing some growing companies. In addition, you can probably take this opportunity to network with a few professors and (as an advisor) be willing to put their name to the product for technical knowledge/support.
One of the best bioweapons is Tularemia, and part of that reason is its general lack of lethality. It temporarily renders the exposed population incapable of putting up a good fight, but it kills relatively few. Escape isn't that big a deal (because again, it's not very lethal), and it's easy enough to inoculate one's own troops against the particular flavor being used.
It depends on where you are. For instance once could make the argument that a good chunk of the northeast should either be permanently EDT or Atlantic standard time. Meanwhile, for folks on the western edge of the eastern timezone that'd be a silly proposition
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Markets force you to this conclusion, which is why governments are so morally incompetent.
> most things Just Work out of the box!

That has not ever been my experience with Linux. I ran Linux on the desktop for a long time and I would never have made this claim.

Linux definitely is good, and it is superior to other operating systems in many ways, and saying that most things just work is a very myopic view, I think.
I lost mine. But we were told about this quite a long time ago now.
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What about bananas? Referring to banana republics.
What he means is hiding the keypress sounds to the local user, not to the recording.
I'm unsure I've understood the premise: does it all boil down to "the morally incompetent considers problems as personal challenges, while the morally competent considers them as a societal responsibility" (which of course it includes him/herself)?
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From the notes section of the article, here were the brands which did not have microplastics:

Only three brands of investigated salts – Taiwan (refined sea salt), China mainland (refined rock salt), France (unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation) – did not contain any microplastic particles in both replicate samples. All other salt samples contained microplastic particles.
Man, I've stopped cold turkey the ingestion of my two favourite vegetables this past year:caffeine and tobacco (after 25 and 35 years of use -and frequent abuse- respectively), because of this pandemic. Come on.
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I wonder how much more they will prod me to move all my files to their servers/cloud. And then how many more times per week they will force me to shut down my computer and update it. Its almost like they are moving to PC as a service. I anticipate ill be moving to Linux pretty soon.
> it's not only the immediate side effects that are a problem, but rather the change in behavior coming from the rest of the population.

That's just as true of our actual responses to COVID.

> If you think that 330 million people would have gotten a vaccine

I explicitly said in my post that not all Americans would choose to take the vaccine. You are attacking a straw man. I was simply giving the highest possible upper bound to the expected number of deaths from vaccination.

> a large portion of the population is still unsure after the phase 3 trials

Yes, and why is that? Because despite all of our "respected" institutions saying that the vaccine is safe, many people don't believe them. Why not? Because they know that those same institutions lied to them, repeatedly--and not just in general, specifically during the whole COVID crisis. So why should people believe those institutions now?

In other words, we have a problem with the status quo.

> If, on top of that, you had widely reported and exaggerated ("free speech" at work) reports of side effects, the percentage of willing volunteers falls dramatically.

Who would be reporting and exaggerating the side effects in a way that everyone would hear about? The mainstream media. In other words, the problem you describe is the status quo right now. So the status quo in this respect obviously needs to change since it makes us as a society stupid, unable to even consider courses of action that, in hindsight, would have been obvious and dramatic improvements over what actually happened.
It is an excellent illustration of that issue! And a needful reminder, as long as the implementations being compared are allowed use of that strategy.

It would be interesting to see benchmark comparisons with somewhat more rigorous guidelines about what’s being compared, perhaps mandating the use of the same algorithm. That approach would introduce problems as well, like some languages benefiting more than others from the chosen algorithms. I think benchmarks are useful but the fact that they’re so often “flawed” or “misleading” may paradoxically mean that we need more of them so we can get a clearer view of the field.
'We are way behind': FDA commissioner says US has backlog of 35M vaccines
fwiw the relevant regulation seems to be :
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...

The way I read article 4 3 b) I think the registry is allowed to terminate a domain name when the domain holder stops being eligible.
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> no way to protect against an undocumented bug in some software you depend on

I understand the point you're making, but I feel like it's overstating the frequency.

Of all the code in a piece of software, only some amount will have bugs. Of those bugs, only some will be executable in your configuration. Of that buggy code, only some will create security issues. Of those security issues, only some will be network-exploitable.

That's a lot of partitioning.

So it's fair to say systems run on other systems, but I don't think it's fair to say it's likely that every system has an undiscovered, network accessible security vulnerability.
It was a tweet written by the engineer working on their server.

No clickbait, not journalism. Just people sharing their experience, and a HN submitter who got noverexcited.
It's like driving a Tesla but complaining that the charging infrastructure is not as good as it could be yet ... so you build your own which Tesla encouraged. Then Tesla builds their own charging network and you're all "cool, but I already have my own network, can I keep using that?" and Tesla was like "yah bro".

Use Gutenberg, don't use Gutenberg, whatever. That's what makes WordPress great (and terrible).
> It seems less like a pivot and more like a full startover.

This is a pretty good description of what we did. The path went something like CBT Journal => Regular Journal => Notion Clone => Notion Clone with an API => API for "Notion Features" => Real time collaboration as a service, within the course of a month or so.
The page says right at the very top that this is about tricking the line counter.

notinventedhear is not disputing the actual page when they say "There is still one line of code." Nor do they appear to be objecting to the title, because they're quoting part of the actual page and re-explaining it even though the page already does so.

This seems like pretty strong evidence to me that they missed the point; they missed the part about tricking.

It's not that I don't agree with what they said, it's that what they said was already thoroughly covered in the linked page, right up front and in more detail. If they understood that, then why did they even make a comment like that?
A $10 million dollar fine for this is hardly a disincentive for similarly minded actors to do the same. If you're a large incumbent company fearing a challenger, a $10 million worst-case scenario fine for taking them out is pennies compared to the saved revenue.
The problem IS Brexit. Without Brexit, none of this whole sorry mess occurs.
Well, if you're a corporation with dozens/hundreds of designers, who did a great job of building an extensible design system, and now any engineer can just take that design system and roll with it, what are you going to do? Fire all those designers?

Of course not. You simply re-design every few years.

The re-design will be supported by evidence like "its cleaner" and "it increases visual clarity" or "it unifies our brand", because phrases like that mean nothing but who would ever vote against cleaning something up?
ah, I guess I'm the only one who makes things that are air-gapped and don't take updates on the regular. It's hard being in my own little bubble.
> The issue is that the money market fund was the default choice, which meant that while the new program helped people save more, it also led folks who would have chosen better-performing funds to earn far less than they would have. Defaults are powerful!

Does the data actually back this up? It seems to me like the cited data could also support that everyone who would have otherwise opted in still went and selected stocks.

I can't see the full paper cited, but the abstract says:

> Second, a substantial fraction of 401(k) participants hired under automatic enrollment retain both the default contribution rate and fund allocation even though few employees hired before automatic enrollment picked this particular outcome.

This seems to be specifically not stating the conclusion that the article did.
Letting people eliminate general purpose computing is the point.

That program permits you to say "as of this moment, all the apps that comprise this device's purpose have been installed, and computing should cease being general, and should instead be limited to only those apps (including upgrades)". This isn't something I'd do for my development device, but I can see how it's a desirable policy for some people.
I am curious to know how one would answer to this. Is it related to DDD concepts like maintaining upstream/downstream dependencies, boundary contexts and migrate piecemeal?
For those of you who actually like the concept of a block editor like Gutenberg (but outside the WP ecosystem), there's Sir Trevor [1] which I believe was among those pioneering the concept but could use some love (last update was in october).

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i believe this is not specific to social good, but instead is an implicit trait in human nature. an excellent piece was run by the wapo recently that examined this very issue within the us cdc in the early days of the pandemic. other countries turned around testing programs in short order based on the specific testing methodology distributed by the who, where the us cdc wasted 41 precious days trying to improve on it.

where it gets interesting is trying to tease out where it went wrong. is it simple vanity? do people feel obligated to live up to some standard created by the environment they operate within? is good enough ignored in light of exceptionalism? where does that come from and how do you (and should you) dispel it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-covid/2020...
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Probably not. But the timing is strange to me
In competitive markets, the issue isn't getting the loan - it's getting an offer accepted.

Sellers will heavily favor a cash offer, as it's faster and far more assured of going through. One strategy I've heard about people doing is to take a pile of cash, acquire the property, and then refinance it pulling out 80% of what they put in so that they can both have a mortgage and have a stronger buying position. Add in things like dropping inspection, no contingencies, etc... and it gets really hard for many first time home buyers to compete.

Additionally, coming in with an FHA 3.5% down, vs someone with a traditional 20% down - the sellers will favor the 20% as again it's less paperwork, easier, faster, and more certain to go through if the assessment is off by a few %.

I had no idea about this before trying to buy a property in New England. So much of traditional advice doesn't include these details.

What's weird about it to me is that this is one of the few places in US consumer markets where the seller cares deeply about your method of purchase and where the money came from. Buying a used car? They don't care if it's cash, credit, loan, etc generally. Hell, most car dealers want you to use a loan from them and would prefer that over cash in many ways. When you go to WalMart, they don't deny you buying something for using a credit card vs cash.
If the employer demands that then they can provide me the phone
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> The truth is that the development of complete AI systems is extremely challenging and the organizational effort required to drive such projects to completion is orders of magnitude higher than developing proof-of-concept or prototype models.

This is very true, and I agree very much with Michael Jordan's thoughts (referenced in the article) that AI has yet to become a serious engineering discipline, and that only through this happening will we see substantial impacts of AI in meat-space.

At the moment this is feasible for big tech companies (see e.g. autonomous driving) but I'm interested to see what might happen when tools are developed that make this possible for nimbler organisations
> Why do people (in particular people without robotics experience) keep assuming this will happen any time soon without any evidence whatsoever?

As someone who spends more time cycling than driving, watching videos like this[1] give me more confidence in today’s self-driving technology (assuming good conditions) than in most drivers on the road, even knowing that any internal video is bound to have a dose of propaganda. It’s not entirely even that drivers are to blame; our infrastructure puts cyclists at risk as does the human limitation of only having two eyes.

https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8
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I ran a group radio station with my friends via Spotify and it was chaos
My reading was:

- the "morally incompetent" views working on a societal problem as "good thing"

- the "morally competent" views solving a societal problem as "good thing"

i.e. success at solving the problem is important.
Jeez, this strikes me as such an unnecessarily harsh and critical self analysis.

The biggest issue I have with this take is that the author's distinction between moral "competence" and "incompetence", from what I've read, doesn't really have anything to do with a moral or ethical system. It seems like his morally incompetent have admirable moral intentions (help depressed people with CBT), but suffer basically from implementation failures. They don't know how to help effectively, and are taking all of wrong lessons from working in tech (searching for direct & measurable impact, searching for technological solutions etc) and could probably be gently taught how to help more effectively. Dividing the world of people who want to help into binary 'competent' and 'incompetent' groups will just serve to discourage people who want to help but don't know how.

I also don't feel like I have a sense of what a 'morally competent person' actually does, or how they design strategies to help effectively. The article feels like a lot of unfortunate self-flagellation for being 'morally incompetent' and not as much constructive dialog about how to actually help better.

Edit: To OP - maybe there is a perspective where you don't have to be so down on yourself here? Maybe this idea 'failed' from a cashflow & user acquisition perspective, but if it helped all of the people who downloaded and used the app, didn't you do good in the world? Maybe you didn't do good at billion dollar scale, but does that matter if you improved people's lives?
So we should potentially sacrifice the health of a large portion of the working class and school children so that restaurants could have more business? It sounds a little unfair.
You are not using it, I am not using it, lots of people never use it.

For this reason they need to change it. So we have a reason to use it.

Way back in the Windows 3.11 days and also in the Win 95 days and to some extent the Windows XP days they gave people a good reason to use it. With 3.11 it was more to do with the apps that came along for the ride, with 95 it was neat touches like the context menu and DirectX, with XP it was because it wasn't a DOS system in disguise any more.

In the next iteration they have plenty of opportunities to get it right. Lots of historical design decisions were taken because of reasons that no longer matter. They can just do it right rather than due to a half baked whim.

An overhaul is warranted, to bring people back to using it.
> You should design your service to try to help those users who use the same password they did on myspace in 2004 and write it on a sticky note on their desk. Engineer for those who shared their password with their now-hated ex.

Those can't be helped. We're not talking about Geocities or MySpace here - we're talking about a service that hosts a distributed version control system aimed at experienced users with a technical background.

The target audience is strictly not your average consumer and even then you shouldn't insult the intelligence of your users.

2FA is intended to protect all users of the service and users do have a choice when it comes to selecting their 2nd factor. Doesn't have to be an e-mail or phone. It can be an app-generated token as well.

And loosing everything at once is tragic (hence: keep backups!), but suggesting that the locksmith should be allowed to just open the door if you ask nicely and the owners don't show up within an hour would be just as ridiculous as allowing to circumvent 2FA.
Kind of like saying "the 49ers didn't lose, their players did"...
> We want every developer to be able to collaborate on GitHub, and we are working with the US government to secure similar licenses for developers in Crimea and Syria as well.

I'm very interested in hearing about the experience of HN people from these regions in terms of open source collabs. Since Github has such a large presence, what are you all using instead?
> Because humans drive tired, drunk, while texting, etc,

But I don't. I don't care about 30k deaths a year if I'm killed by a floating point exception or an image reconnaissance glitch making my car think the truck in front of me is part of the sky.