skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend told me of a similar system which I think was in Malaysia, but some vendors setup food stalls at the side of the road before the exit cameras where people would stop and get a meal to extend their drive time.
Are you allowed to say “use another app”? Or no?
I just wrote a very detailed comment on this thread on why ternary computers aren't a thing, probably can't be a thing, and thus will probably never become a thing.

You might want to read it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618303
I agree. But I don't think the intermediate step of Apple employees reporting this anonymized story to Tim Cook helps much.

The original author has the option of reporting this pretty directly to Tim Cook (or, presumably, a team of minions acting as his mail filter), naming names, projects, etc. He'd be well advised to take this report seriously.

Alternatively, the author also has a number of further options. They could go to the press, as mentioned in the article. They could also find themselves a lawyer. IANAL, but the allegations, if true, would seem to constitute a constructive dismissal[0], which (apart from human decency) is a reason why Apple should have every interest to investigate the allegations.

Any of these three options would seem to me to be a promising way to get this investigated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
I'll still suck
Reminds me of my favorite time travel short story - Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombies"

https://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/shortstories/allyo...

https://archive.org/details/1959--AllYouZombies--Eley96k00.2...
The provincial government is operating in an atmosphere of fear and suspicion under the Xi regime, where local officials try to fly under the radar, suppress bad news, and deflect blame. This is a systemic national problem which will be hard to fix without large-scale reform (I am not holding my breath).

But concretely the provincial government did what it could to hide and cover up the epidemic, silencing local doctors, cooking the statistics, etc., hoping it would go away by itself and they could avoid blame or conflict.
> Owner of car gets a mobile notification as soon as his car speeds in front of camera.

So they have another camera about 20 seconds up the road to catch them reading SMS while driving?
I don't think it's incompetence.

I think it's a UI that's been designed for one very clear, specific use-case; that's been stretched beyond belief by people cramming it to fit radically different use-cases. Developers I'm sure are simply stuck; do they optimize for original use-case and its legions of users; or other use-cases and those legions of users; I genuinely believe they cannot make everybody happy.

But as a user:

1. As an author, you have a choice not to try to cram a square kitchen through a round sink (long-form articles onto twitter)

2. As a reader, you have a choice not to consume content from a platform not designed or well-supporting of that content.

There's a million lifetimes worth of fascinating, useful, interesting, readable content out there.

Puzzling through a maze that is Twitter long-form article threads... is not how I choose to spend my time :).

As I asked in another post, I'm not sure what your underlying point is - that the UI is good and fit for purpose? Or that we should put up with it? Or that we should be more understanding of it, and that implies not criticizing it?
All of them, as often as possible. There's no 'magic bullet' book, but having a habit of reading is a great way toward personal growth.
A two-year old’s solution to the trolley problem
Diarrhea kills 800 thousand children every year, alone (something like 1-2M people die from it every year).

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/global/programs/Globald...
> When we or a real security researcher request a CVE for a real problem as an organization it often takes weeks till we get it, we released some security updates without a CVE, because we didn't want to wait so long.

From your point of view, I'm sure that's probably quite frustrating. From my point of view (as a user), that's completely absurd, should never happen, and is a huge deficiency in the CVE program.

Fortunately, it's possible for the OpenWRT project to become a CNA [0] and gain the ability to assign CVE IDs themselves.

See "Types" under "Key to CNA Roles, Types, and Countries" [1]:

> Vendors and Projects - assigns CVE IDs for vulnerabilities found in their own products and projects.

--

[0]: https://cve.mitre.org/cve/cna.html#become_a_cna

[1]: https://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html#key_cna_roles_and_...
My solution eliminates the entire theft problem, and I'm not going to entertain the nirvana fallacy of "oh but unaffiliated urls can still be rewritten!" which is also goalpost-moving.

Why would Amazon honor a broken affiliate link? They don't now.
Not so. The vast majority of people at that age do not talk about people the way Zuck did.
A detailed changelog wouldn't change the facts, but it just provides more free information to potential plaintiffs.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Odd; it's one of the most popular in the EU. Though electric car sales in Australia in general seem to be very low.
We're signed into Stream to get a PS5 controller device driver (available in Steam) to work with Epic Fortnite :)
Are you sure about those units? Typical SATA SSD can reach ~500 MegaBytes/s, not Megabits/s
I would love to work on such things.
You’re tooling seems...impressive? Assuming you had 2 projects that paid the same why in the WORLD would you eat 1 to 1.5 hours of that a week? Seems soul crushing and demotivating, but, props to you for not being a fair weather sailor and just getting it done. Actually kinda cool how resourceful your solution is.
This law appears to be a boon to anyone trying to find out where specific wealthy people live in order to kidnap them and/or their families for ransom.

It doesn't matter if the information isn't supposed to be made public, if you hand it over it's easily social engineered out, and if you hand it over it gets sold to data brokers. The only way to be secure is to not actually share the data, and this law-- a rider which bypassed democratic review by being tacked onto a budget bill-- makes doing so a crime.

:(

I think that no law should be passed that requires the collection of personal information without including penalties for abuse of the information at least as severe as the penalties for not providing the information.
By the way, there is no hard technical problem in overlaying search results of anything which has physical address/coordinates over any maps. Google could still be useful in finding local bars/gyms/toilets even without forcing you to use their maps. So they don't have an excuse for anti-competitive practices.

I live in a fairly rich country but still hate Google Maps. Fortunately there are alternatives which are better in every aspect (including having all the local businesses, attractions and conveniences listed + able to tell you when to take a bus to get anywhere).
I think it's fine to build NLP models with any desired property you like, including "not leaking vulgar opinions that offend the courtly manners of your society." Makes plenty of sense.

But I do wish people would be more frank and self-aware about these purposes, rather than fig-leafing it as "ethics" or "fairness". By the time you've deliberately omitting the US Congressional Record on grounds of problematicity, it's worth asking yourself whether you're making your bot polite or doing damnatio memoriae.
Easy, just need to find a resistor bank like they use on metro trains for braking and bolt it on the roof.
> But I think, personally, beneficial ownership information should be afforded privacy similar to tax returns.

Out of curiosity, could you explain why? What would be the risks if this information were publicly available?
I have several years of full-time F# experience and I’ve also made some contributions to the F# support for Rider.

1. As part of my job I flip between C# and F# often and with each new release of Rider the IDE-support gap between them is closing. Obviously C# has many more years of attention and work on its tooling, but there are very few things I yearn for when editing F# code nowadays. I also find Rider far better to use than VS Code for F#, simply because I’m so comfortable with JetBrains’s IDEs now.

2. Any time I have to model anything remotely complex in C# I always wish I was doing it in F# instead. Features like discriminated unions, exhaustive pattern matching and immutability-by-default immediately spring to mind.
"We estimated roughly 1.2 million YLLs due to COVID-19 deaths." ("for the period 1 February 2020 through 11 July 2020.")

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/42/4/717/5901977

"Deaths among adults 65 and older accounted for 80% of excess YLL in April but only 36% of excess YLL in June. Since April, working age adults 20-64 have accounted for 47% of excess YLL, and males 20 to 64 have contributed 34%."

https://healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/the-impact-of-...
When I make performance changes I like testing the actual gains on the live server and add them to the changelog, something like: "Improved profile page loading speed by 25%".

For reference: https://docs.usertrack.net/changelog#usertrack-3-3-1-11-dece...
IDK at least in Germany they don't have plans yet to drop 2G, even though there are plans to turn off 3G. German source: https://www.pcwelt.de/news/2G-GSM-Abschaltung-Das-sagen-Tele...

Also, it seems that my phone supports VoLTE even though I use Lineage OS without gapps. At least it shows LTE being set up for voice too in the settings app as well when I dial that 4636 number.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/24/how-to-find-out-if-...
You can choose not to smoke. You can’t choose not to covid.
> we absolutely do need stealthy fast smart planes available in a pinch...

Sure!

The point is more that maybe we don't need 2,456 of them, and that dropping that to, say, 2,000 might get us a couple thousand much cheaper planes for more day-to-day usage in the conflicts we're regularly engaging in too.
Is twitter ever a better link?
Thank you. I feel better about my iPad addiction now.
The companies using F# are definitely few and far between, but G-Research in London are hiring an F# developer at the moment.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please reach out to me at: im (at) saul.re
Not to be a jerk, but you guys don’t allow others to take your performance metrics, but you’re publicly soliciting performance data from other products at the same time? I’m assuming you’re taking it for granted they don’t have a ToS that bans you from doing this.

Sorry if that’s pointed, but it’s sort of meant to be incredulous (but hopefully not offensive).
It probably should be explained. Their classification makes sense, but I think some may be misled. The demographic of people getting older phones and running LineageOS would probably be comfortable with managing a few obnoxiously tiny screws to replace a battery, and just want to be able to replace them when they start crapping out, whereas the older phones I've had which advertised a replaceable battery (consistent with this list) made it easy enough for grandma.
> Let's also remember the way the world was reshaped by 6000 deaths in new york in 2001

I thought it was around 2600 in New York (just under 3000 total).
I suspect it's because scientists were not on the ships and the purpose of voyages was not aimed at a scientific discovery in this regard?

For example, imagine Barry just sailed to Canada from England and observed a bird ...

"Hi Bob, doesn't that bird look similar to the ones back home?"

"Sure does. Glad they've got them here too!"
I discovered I was a baseball card “investor” for 30 years
Sort of both: OOH, mankind once again causes mass extinction for a few dozen species. OTOH, the oceans will be teeming with life.

The gotcha is mainly that one can support the welfare of animals but also be ok with their systematic extinction. I don't know which outcome is worse.
Google goes so far as to send businesses physical mail to make sure they put their business on the map. When an old employer of mine got this, I remember thinking of making flyers that people can distribute and drop in mailboxes for OSM.

(Similar to how my school emailed everyone, every year about how generously Microsoft gives us their Office suite for only 40 euros or something, failing to mention that LibreOffice works perfectly fine --if you don't mind the design-- and is of course completely free. Why not encourage people to donate 40 euros every 5 years to LibreOffice instead, or alongside?)

Didn't end up doing it, also because there just isn't an easy editor that businesses would use. I would make one, but then how would I make them aware of this? OSM in general and such an editor in particular? It's just such an uphill battle when everyone uses Google Search, businesses can get free advertising by putting themselves on Google Maps (that map shows up when you look for a local business or category of businesses), and Google spends a boatload of money on driving cars around and getting more business owners on board as well.
I've started to use VMs for a lot of tools that I want to just work. I snapshot them so I can roll them back if an update breaks them.

Quite a few are still on Windows 7 - but who cares, they still work and security vulnerabilities don't matter as they are for one purpose and have limited access only to their own sandbox shared folder.
Eh, consumer-quality SSDs these days can hit a good bit more than 500Mbps even with writes. This Inland NVMe drive lists 1,900MB/s write speeds (15.2Gbit/s). ~$60 for 512GB. Even if we take its rated speeds with a grain of salt for sustained writes and cut it in half, that's still >7Gbit.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/600420/inland-premium-51...

That said, almost all phones are not using such an interface or controller for their storage and I do largely agree having a phone with a >1Gbps link is a bit overkill for a handheld mobile devices. Ultimately though once there's a bunch of clients on it your actual throughput in practice will be much slower. The big win is that the overall channel (or channel grouping) can now handle a ton more aggregate throughput meaning higher realized speeds per customer for the same amount of spectrum. Being able to get your slice of data faster means you can quit talking or quit listening sooner and someone else can talk or hear something they care about.
Every time this is brought up, the only argument that comes up is that "radio frequency used isn't a frequency that could ionize anything even if the transmit power weren't negligible".

This is absolutely true but fails to recognize that radio frequencies have harmful, non-ionizing effects on biological organisms.
Devs should not have to mount social media campaigns to get bad app store decisions reversed.

I'd like to see some regulation of all app stores that requires a formal appeals process for decisions to ban existing apps that also mandates that the app stays in the store until the appeal is resolved.
Surely this is only a problem if your files live in the Windows filesystem (i.e. inside /mnt/$drive on WSL2)? I can't imagine Windows Defender scanning inside a disk image (/home on WSL2).
Well, certainly this case in particular is one of morals in so far as I understand the concept of morality. To me, sexual relations with children is immoral, it is not proper behaviour in which an adult should partake.

Foucault seemed to think it was, if not proper behaviour, then at least not-unproper. That is a moral judgement.

To suggest that Foucault was above the entire concept of morals as I understand you to do, well I can't agree on that and I don't think he would either. Of course he was trying to be a moral authority, remember that this whole thing was about him (and others) attempting to legalize sexual relations with children. If he did not think himself an authority, on what merit would he petition? And barring that, it is clear that he was and maybe is an authority, because here we are half a century later or so still discussing his position.

His experiences does not excuse him in my eyes. Neither does it impact to the slightest degree the truth-value of his position on this issue, nor of his philosophy overall.
There's a very old homily that applies exactly to this flaming debacle: don't put all your eggs in one basket.

WP says that SolarWinds "had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous federal agencies."

Everyone who thought that was a good idea, for whatever reasons - given the history of security - obviously screwed up badly. When -so many people- go -so wrong-, the problem is clearly bigger than the loss of 'too many secrets'.
At the margin some one reading this thread is much more likely to hop of Atlassian and short the stock than than they are to become a new user with one of those shiny high net promoter scores and “land and expand” wallet shares they brag about in their investor relations materials.
The user is not really 'shadow banned' since they've had their warnings, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18500226

Deciding to ignore them is 'forum hostile'
If you had not written your comment claiming it was usable, I would not have been motivated to try and figure out the interface to see how you could claim that in good faith. Once I figured out how to get the content (by randomly clicking on things that didn't look like user interface), I disagreed. I think a "usable" interface means you can tell how to use it (requiring reading a manual would still be "usable" for complex tasks, but Twitter doesn't have one, and is simple).

I think you are using a more extreme definition of "usable" than most people.

Originally, I clicked on the link, saw there was almost nothing there and no visible way of getting more, and went looking for a usable mirror in HN comments.

I'm 41. I'm not a paraplegic, but I am physically disabled; I've spent most of my adult life unable to use keyboards, for example, and there are many ordinary things that most people take for granted that I simply can't do. I think I have a fair and reasonable definition of "usable".
Valid questions and arguments inside. Like the caveman parallel.
> According t Alex Nove in 1900 there was not a metal lathe in all of Russia. They could de clinker locomotives, but not make a gear box. By 1941 they were out stripping the Germans.

Again, you are regurgitating a myth.

I would not doubt the 4 to 1 outgunning of USSR vs. Germany. Indeed Union's army was incomparably materially superior due to decades long total dedication to military buildup, but that does not preclude the fact the industry was still barely going, and that this material advantage melted like butter within first months of war.
> When you are in this state, the need to contextualize, criticize, or philosophize about your experiences almost disappears.

For me browsing and often gaming fulfills this description of rich life.
If there's will, there's a way. Remember how long they've tried to convince themselves that 140 characters is more than enough. Nowadays, even phones display conversations better and combine or split text messages hiding the 160 characters limit from the end user and allow longer than 280 characters texts. Twitter has some nice ideas, but it's mostly a huge missed opportunity.
>Conway stated that two independent proofs used to exist, one by himself and Richard Parker (that only proved that N existed), and another one by Mike Guy (that actually proved that one may take N = 24, and that it was best possible). Unfortunately both proofs were lost. Here we announce a new proof (which establishes that one may take N = 29; with more computations one should be able to rederive (or else refute) Guy’s sharp N = 24).

This guy was so prolific. Can you imagine losing math proofs because you had so much unique and valuable math in your office, briefcase, passenger seat of auto, etc. that papers and proofs were falling out in the parking lot and being used to support wobbly tables?
Research Software Engineering with Python
I’m currently an undergrad student considering studying robotics eng. at my university. (Olin College of Engineering)

It depends on how the university structures their program, but for us it’s extremely open-ended, besides a few basic fundamental courses. They essentially want you to choose a concentration and pursue that concentration in your robotics projects throughout the 4 years.

It’s a risky choice for us, as unless you have some cool projects to show at the end you could end up ‘not concentrating in anything’ in particular, as robo is such a general field. But if you know what you want to do the flexibility can be nice.
> try to use an American Express for anything and you will just get a puzzled look!

Anyone with an Amex knows you need a visa or mastercard to back it up even in the UK or the US
So let’s fix both, not neither.
I agree with the sentiment, but I don't feel these are mutually exclusive methods. The techniques used by the developer in this case could easily be genericized and shared out as a useful framework for those who end up in this position. That's a big deal, even if it is a short-term benefit while longer-term solutions are designed and implemented.
It's a felony for tax return information to be disclosed without authorization (e.g. 26 US Code § 6103), though it still happens sometimes.

I don't see anything in the bill language that restricts the disclosure, much less makes an unauthorized disclosure a crime.
I suspect the tech debt that many start ups encounter is a matter of execution. They likely require original solutions to tough problems in very short time. The way to reduce tech debt in this case is to make deliberate time at great expense to frequently refactor complexity out of the system.

In the corporate world, on the other hand, the problem is an astonishing fear of originality. Most places I have worked have invented here mentality baked into every decision. Every 5 to 8 years they start over completely with a different tool, framework, or language hoping it magically solves for the group’s prior poor implementation.
I read HN every day, I never post, I signed up for an account just to post this. I'm a senior PM at a large e-comm company, I was EXTREMELY frustrated with the horrible performance of Jira Cloud, I submitted support tickets to no avail. It's obviously an over-architected broken system.

I moved my team to clubhouse, even-though it created an element of fragmentation considering all other teams are using JIRA. I'm so happy though with clubhouse, I can actually get my work done without mindlessly waiting for every interaction.

Icing on the cake: I was considering moving the company over to Jira on a self hosted AWS instance, I've read that it can be a little faster. but.. they're discontinuing the self hosted option. Nail in the coffin for me.

Good bloody riddance.
I'm not sure who you're arguing with, but it isn't me. You said you didn't understand the comment, yet it's pretty much a statement of fact.

I would personally characterize diarrheal diseases as a plague, but I think the broader point is fair: people have lost all perspective on how Covid compares to other causes of death around the world. How far would the tens of trillions of dollars the worlds' advanced economies have spent on Covid in 2020 have gone to eradicating childhood deaths due to dirty water?

You can't simply say "let's do both", because the fact is that we immediately found the money for one, and we haven't found it for the other despite years of effort. It speaks to our priorities.
I created https://huntr.co back in 2017, just reached $15k mrr last month. Looking to hire someone to help with sales in the next few months. It's been fun to work on such a variety of things in the past 3 years (design, development, sales, etc), but I'm ready to grow the team :)