skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agree - some blame lies with technologists.

Maybe most of the blame.

But consider this: If a human had the same problem, who would be blamed? If several humans, then the road would be changed, just like this. The process seems sound, but maybe the changes that make it more human-friendly make it more machine-hostile.

New thinking is needed on how we retrain machines after the change, as it necessitates uniformity - the machine would benefit with fewer variations in cattle grids for example. I reckon a simple change to the road markings for all cattle grids would be enough to make them logically identical - be it paint or signs or some other physical indicator.
Protected class should. be reserved to things you cannot change. People don't choose to be black, gay, trans etc. They choose their political affiliation and even their religion.
Doesn't work for me, fyi. iPhone 11, white blank screen
Bioinformatician / R Developer
I guess it's just that most people aren't murderers.

https://xkcd.com/1958/
I don't see a problem with autonomous vehicles having a manual control mode, unless we're talking about a scenario some decades in the future where you don't actually need a driver's license for an autonomous vehicle.
Oi! Having grown up around there I object to this being described as a special case; it's everyday driving conditions for a lot of people. :) Better built cattle grids appear on main roads with good visibility and it's not unreasonable to cross them at 40mph (thinking about it there may even be the occasional example people cross at 60).

An anecdote from around 15 years back: the government considered closing the driving test centre in Minehead because there was no dual carriageway nearby on which learner drivers could demonstrate correct merging skills. Residents collectively replied that all the centres in London should be closed as they did not qualify drivers to deal with reversing down narrow lanes with sheep and mud on the road (...this is painfully evident if you're stuck behind an urbanite driver anywhere near Minehead in summer). Anyhoo, the test centre still operates today.
Indeed he offered the couple any other cake than a custom wedding cake with two men figures on top.

His custom cakes are small works of art. If he'd be forced to create one against his beliefs, why not force a far left painter to paint a favorable portrait of Trump?

And indeed this situation has little to do with Silicon Valley corporations offering generic services to millions of people. They are like supermarkets, who should not be allowed to refuse service to anyone.
It's not actually stated that automatic braking is the reason for the change. It even gives a different reason: 'To create a "virtually smooth ride across the grid"'. They straightened out a step-shaped road into a straight one which is surely just a better experience for all cars and their occupants. I almost wonder if the vehicles that left the road did so by making a jump using it as a stunt ramp.

This article has before and after pictures from the same angle: https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/farmer/18996741.catt...
I'm more and more convinced that the iPad will become a development machine sooner than we expect. The idea of running your own IDE inside the browser would have been crazy a few years ago, but it's reality today, as JetBrains is proving. Laptops and iPads will merge as form factor. Will be interesting to see what happens to the OS (closed vs open).
A mob is a singular. When you think with your brain is every single neuron involved?
> they defaulted to not do any check at all?

That would be a very unsafe default.
Also on their willingness to defer to the engineers when the problem involves some technical details that need to be got right.

I've seen it too many times where the non-technical manager gets to make technical decisions and refuses to listen to the engineers.
The video's been removed by its uploader. What was it?
To this non-US observer, one of the things (from a very long list) that is most incomprehensible about Trump loyalists is the fact that his links with Russia seemed to provoke no particular outrage. Nor does it seem (correct me if I'm wrong) that there were particularly strenuous denials about these.
That is an excellent point. Haskell is such a fundamental shift in thinking, perhaps the only way to learn real application is to make something with it. But I would still maintain every language at least has a highly simplistic example of why certain features work well. In fact, my curiosity reignited by this discussion, I found this video series[1] on youtube which somehow made is 100x more clear where Functors, Applicatives and Monads are to be used. The tree example is pretty abstract, but it helped me connect these features to my work. I still don't know how to get most use out of it, but I think I get the USP. Still have the question about how haskell is helping here, because I can write a hidden state changing function in Julia if I want. But one step at a time

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCut-QT2cpI
Here's what I want: an always-on group audio chat app with:

* A virtual 2D 'office' with positional audio
* Super low latency (~10ms)
* Minimal data/power/CPU usage

This would simulate what it feels like to be in an open office (when they work well). I can hear interesting things going on around me but because the audio is in 3D space I can pretty much filter it without thinking. If I say "hey has anyone gotten this error before?" the context clues of my volume and position make it clear to others who I am talking to.

I actually started building this last year but then the pandemic hit and I figured someone would beat me to it now that there's infinite VC money flowing into team chat. Still nothing!
Good point on having developers in loop in a software business. Tesla might be a counter example, where it is often touted to be run like a "tech" company. Are developers in loop in the design of non-software stuff? (is chassis design an example? or maybe not?)
The other point on triangular communication with middle managers I think is known problem that Musk has publicly spoken about..
You've just reminded me how wonderful the principle of the slide rule appeared, when I eventually encountered one after a childhood using calculators.
I still think it's all worth it because we have a single, reversible port for 5V, or usb2/3 (gen1).

The confusion created by PD/3.1/dp/hdmi/tb/etc is mostly irrelevant to me, and I think the clusterfuck there is real but overblown (so long as pd devices will charge slowly from normal 5V c ports/cables, and usb3.whatever will fall back to usb2).

I can charge my travel router, dji gimbal, gopro, android phone, ipad, and macbook pro (albeit slowly) from the same cheap cables. Neewer battery chargers are now dual micro/c, too.

Even if it were just a 5v connector it would be a win.
Yes, I was referring to the GPL, not BSD licensed software.
So, is the next step an easily searchable database of all the users who commented, together with all the comments, including deleted ones?

(That would be against GDPR in the EU, but probably not against US law.)

Would that be a good thing, a bad thing or something in between?
I wasn't suggesting that it should be thrown out, but mabe a shift in emphasis is needed. Multiple hours on times tables 2-12 is a lot of time out of the school week.

Maybe my own memories of frustration at school, plus having to calm down a deeply upset, bored, son after school so many times affect my perception of the system.
Disease mitigation measures in the control of pandemic influenza (2006)
Watch speech Bannon gave at The Oxford Union Society if you want to genuinely understand the arguments he makes. I think you'd be hard pressed not to find some of the points he makes compelling.
There are two answers. First we can steelman the idea and imagine that, given millions/billions of debtors we could aggregate enough data to notice trends and then be confident in relying on those trends without understanding causality. More dangerously, we could imagine that these data would be used to allocate more favorable lending terms to those individuals who spent their time browsing the "correct" websites.
I guess the cheapest alternatives are gates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E9PWOAsc9o
well, any messaging service, you're only on it for the people. Certainly the only reason I use Telegram is a few favourite chat groups.

The problem with Telegram's crypto is that Nikolai Durov is super-smart - he has two Ph.Ds in mathematics - but he thinks he's smarter than everyone else in the world put together, so Telegram roll their own crypto all the time, and keep being a worked example of why "don't roll your own crypto" is a saying.
Hijacking top comment.

Here's the data: https://donk.sh/06d639b2-0252-4b1e-883b-f275eff7e792/

#noflylist is trending on Twitter. Guess a lot of jobs will soon be available in Silicon Valley.
Republican is a political party, not a ideaology.

Bill Kristol is an Authoritarian, Pro-War, corporatist Republican that does not share much in way of ideology with many social conservatives in the Political party.

Bill Kristol is the type of Republican that turned me away from the Republican party

Bill Kristol is closer in political alignment with the Authoritarian Left, than he is with the Libertarian right which is why he is allowed to stay on Twitter.

Twitter is for Authoritarians / Totalitarians
It pretty easy to see how a law or norm implemented for just reasons can be co-opted for nefarious ones. The US has been doing this for as long as I've been alive. Patriot Act?
I would avoid BountySource: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098
Some of my acquaintances still use Bars'n'Pipes in the Amiga as their main to-go music composing MIDI software, since it's reliable, has a well-designed wide set of tools, and the minimalistic, clutter-free interface helps them stay focused and therefore be more productive.
Same with eg. multi-entry clipboard (although I still use a third party utility app for that out of habit).
Let's make things straight :) "Trappist" is a appellation for beers made by Trappist monasteries in Belgium, Netherlands and a few around the world. They are not specially strong and they may be consumed by the monks. In fact, like for the wine where a lot of monastery produced and developed the basis for modern wine production, it as a bit similar in Belgium for the beers.
Take Orval for example, one of the most famous and it have 6.2% alcohol level. A draft pils beer in Belgium is expected to be around 5%-5.5%. And a few monasteries produced and keep producing beers in Belgium without being Trappist labeled like the Dominicans in Liege with their Sanctus Dominicus.

Besides the rules to give the Trappist label were :

* The beer must be brewed within the walls of a Trappist monastery, either by the monks themselves or under their supervision.

* The brewery must be of secondary importance within the monastery and it should witness to the business practices proper to a monastic way of life.

* The brewery is not intended to be a profit-making venture. The income covers the living expenses of the monks and the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. Whatever remains is donated to charity for social work and to help persons in need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer
See "Can I post a job ad" in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I'd be really curious to understand the origin of this "USB required 3 tries to plug in" thing.

It seem this is something everybody agrees with nowadays, but was it always like that? After all, USB-A plug has a prominent logo (distinguishable both on sight and by touch) that identifies up-side. It should be dead-simple to do, no? What went wrong?

- Did some laptop manufacturer mount USB-A receptacle upside-down?

- Or was that micro-B that trigger this? (for example Samsung/Nexus S and LG/Nexus 4/5 have micro-B receptacle upside-down relative to one another)

- General feeling of inferiority from Apple's Lightning plug?

- Something else altogether?
While it's not about FPGAs, I got started by working through https://www.nand2tetris.org/ . After that I bought an UPduino v2 and started hacking. Of course working on a fantasy CPU and a real FPGA are completely different, but the mindset of how hardware works vs. how software works is very valuable.
Who is society? The coastal rich liberal tech owners?
Yes, that's my impression too, and braking seems sensible.

From uphill: "There's something weird in front of the car, best drive very slowly". From downhill: "WTF I can't see the road any more, best drive very slowly." Both seem quite sensible to me, I don't understand why so many people on the thread seem to disagree.
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there is very litle discussion here any more; its pretty much tribalism by people who aren't honest about being naked tribalists. The irony is that despite the leftist ideas, the actual age is incredibly conformist and conservative; there is a conservative ideology and a conservative spirit, and its possible to be leftist and yet be hidebound or reactionary in terms of free speech or tolerance.
Writing the private key on a paper and storing it in a bank vault could also be an option.
Aren’t power-only cables a security feature?
In his article, Vitalik claims Electrum’s cosigner model isn’t good enough, without mentioning it by name. Cosigner already provides configurable N of M multisig the countersigners of which are user selectable. These are likely to be major financial institutions in the long run. The cosigner model readily provides user-friendly, credit card style spending limits. It can put spending limits on your bitcoin, and it can get you your coins back if you lose your wallet. It does all this without forcing users to interact with “smart contracts”.

I have no choice but to conclude “social sharing” is the Rube Goldberg machine variant of Electrum’s cosigner model, and its primary function is to promote Ethereum.
That may change though. Say we brought in UBI to solve the problems I described above. At the same time twitter is over run by bots making engaging there even more exhausting than it is now. Maybe your peer group have been banned because of one thing or another. Would you consider it then?
Welcome to the Government-IT Infrastructure Complex
related "Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268
Oh nooooooo...

Guess he is more familiar with old tuners than with old computers :) Also, a quick Wikipedia search could have easily prevented this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_4000
> It can happen with the autotools.

Yes. Again squared: project after project etcetera.
Analyzing a new macOS System Release
Wait, what do you mean? Set up Fediverse on WiFi? Fediverse refers to decentralized social media which can 'federate' with each other.
> And we're also at the point where some companies won't provide you with respectable service unless you @ them on social media.

Could you give an example of this? Sounds fascinating.
Anecdotally, I went to school in ireland. Around age 9, cursive became mandatory, however I suffered from pretty illegible handwriting (to the point of multiple interventions between parents and teachers over 3-4 years). It was awful for me, and I was forced to continue with it. When I went to secondary, cursive was optional, and I returned to printing, but I was the only one. By the time I made it through university, I would hand wave it around 50-50 between cursive and printed.

One interesting thing I've noted with my group of friends and my partners friends are that those who have poor handwriting tend to be better typists..
The reddit post describing the hack mentioned creating "MILLIONS" of fake admin accounts: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...
The Great Email Personalisation Payoff
Not only "It's filled with rape and child porn" but "It's filled with rape and child porn and revenge porn that pornhub tacitly tolerates by ignoring removal requests"
> All the GUI stuff worked without me having to fiddle around in the terminal like a "hacker"

This was also my experience.

The only customisation i've done is:

1. Moving the panel, depending on what my feelings about proper panel placement are at the time.

2. Removing all the default shortcuts, because they collide with IntelliJ and/or are useless, and defining a few of my own

3. Setting up custom compose key sequences

Removing the shortcuts was done in the UI, but i really wish i could do it in a config file instead, because it's a pain to spend ten minutes clicking around. I had to hit the command line to set up compose keys, although i think this is an X problem, not a Cinnamon problem.
I think we can distinguish between a technical and a colloquial use of the term "money laundering". Yes, colloquial usage would annoy people who have to deal with the technical definition, but I think instead of trying to dispute the colloquial usage, which isn't focused on the IRS, a better way for people to address it is that "it's not technically 'money laundering' in the eyes of the law, but should be referred to as 'xyz'" (whatever xyz term that describe it better). The way I was colloquial using it, was a way to get cash out of people's stolen credit cards in a way that would be difficult to track back to the thief.

some argue above that there's no fraud involved, it is people simply doing manufactured spend, that makes little sense to me, as there are cheaper and simpler ways of doing manufactured spend (I've done it!). Heck, just buy the gift cards direct from amazon.
Yeah, the first thing I do after installing Linux has always been to replace nautilus with something else.

Nautilus is pretty, and for the most part fairly nice. But lacking typeahead just makes it unusable.
Society hasn't decided anything unless you think a self selected group of people now represents the whole society. The Democratic party and its business lackeys decided to remove political in business opposition/competition with impunity and the Republican party being mostly indifferent about it.
If it takes a court order to get pornhub to remove content they have failed.
How do you engage with a mob that chants demands for executing democratically elected leaders while storming the capitol?

Listen to their demands and try to find a compromise?
Very high tech.
Amazing site -- safe to say this info doesn't exist anywhere else, at least not online. It covers some of the earliest TV development work in the 1930s all the way to satellite/DBS in the 2000s.

Worth looking at the older stuff, just for the examples of European industrial design in the WWII and later eras.
Ok but normally you pay for bandwidth and storage, but here you have to pay for the ability to store a message. While someone else pays for bandwidth, compute and storage.

You just added another expense without solving anything.
A supernova drawn 6,000 years ago
I was one of the principal engineers working on this. Happy to answer questions.
Fundamentals are key. And it is very fun for those who really enjoy their craft
Yeah, sure buddy. Financed by the Mercers[1], are you kidding me.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/15/media/rebekah-mercer-parl...
And it's amazing to me that any Telegram coverage on HN is met with extremely hostile reactions. All they did was not invent the best encryption in the world... like you, me, and 99.9% of the world. Mortal sin, right?

So please stick to facts and what can be reasonably proven, please. The rest is meaningless noise and mindless hate.

The author himself admits it's much more likely this was an amateurish mistake than some man-in-the-middle conspiracy. Did you make it until the end of the article?
Note that there is no evidence the security model is broken here. The 'malware' didn't access any private data.

It just popped up annoying ads, which it doesn't need special permissions to do.
> It's not even supported in the desktop clients.

Secret chat is supported on the macOS native client (there are two clients, the cross-desktop one is electron-based, the native one is in Swift and shares code with the iOS client.
Posted this about 2 years ago, and revived it, as it seems more relevant today than ever before. As social media becomes our primary source of communication and the amount of data we continue to hand over for free, it only makes sense to have something that is truly untracked, unlogged, and absolutely anonymous. Ectochat uses P2P WebRTC technology and is completely open-source. Feel free to use it to talk any time with friends or family. Better to talk and know that no one is reading, listening, or can trace you at all.
Ha, my handwriting was so bad I had to use one of those handwriting pens instead of a fountain pen for a while.

I seem to of been taught looped cursive even though I was in Primary school in the late 90s but I just print everything nowadays because my handwriting is bad, nobody cares after primary school.
It's sad that Signal has a horrible Desktop Client and isn't much to look at because the security and privacy features are good, if you disregard the forced cell phone number.
Personally I never noticed that there is a logo, and that logo means up.

And I’ve plugged in a lot of USB cables in my time, and even read parts of the USB spec in order to implement USB. Maybe I’m just a moron though.
I think it is for emphasis and for clarity. It is to clarify that the ban isn't temporary. A ban could be revoked or it could have a time limit. Permanent means it can't be reverted.
I wonder if 'suspended' might also link to the wording within their ToS, so that's why they use ban vs suspended.
Seems like a well worn path: either pay more for the full-featured option, pay less for the minimal-feature option, or do the research to find the cheapest option which does everything you need.
Summary: Uses Trump Derangement Syndrome as an explanation, gaslights everyone about their political affiliation without specifically saying - not that we had any expectation or obligation for you to -, deflects, proselytizes, and then exits the conversation.

That conversation flowchart alone makes it clear who the influences of that particular filter bubble are.
I do not use an Android phone, is there an easy means to restore one to factory condition? Is there a simple process to save and restore your phone to your PC/Mac similar to how Apple does it?

(my father has an android phone and now I suddenly find myself curious about save/restore and how to find malware on his phone)
> Matrix isn't harder than configuring a new email account on an free provider

You say that, but for a number of my contacts this is a significant hurdle... especially relatives.
Compared to Facebook, Twitter is tiny
> I'm guessing here, but this likely doesn't remove bias. Could they simply refuse to air certain facts?

Not without risking violating the part about "journalistic integrity". Of course there was and will always be some sort of bias (e.g. the tabloid BILD is famous for being on the right wing), but it's nowhere near the scale of Fox News.
I've posted this here before.

> It is encrypted with a per user key known to WhatsApp.

This is no longer true! For a few years now. The backup is stored on Google Drive in plain text.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/about-google-drive-ba...
I don’t think your paraphrase is an accurate representation of the article.
If anything, I would say people (i.e. not everyone, just the major part of them) got more vain in the past 12 years...
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