skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd trust a machine to drive more accurately than most people I see on the highway. Humans aren't special, in fact more often than not we're sloppy, subject to fatigue, and a whole bunch of other negative things.

Humans are much, much, much more capable than the absolute state-of-the-art robots when it comes to doing things in an uncontrolled environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo
The people who invaded the Capitol Building are domestic terrorists who tried to overthrow the government. The former lot you refer to are just criminals. Huge difference.
Yup. Tesla has built a real profitable company with a decent car and has brought a real shift in thinking about the cars of the future. If there is ever a real self driving car then I wont own it but rather rent it like Uber.

Waymo on other hand sounds like a cool engineering project that is not going anywhere and Google will shut it down in next 10 years.
Krugman has a 1998 paper on Japan that's probably still relevant today, especially since more places are hitting zero rates:

* https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/its-baaack-japans-sl...

* https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/japans_trap.pdf
That could be true but only applies to people subject to the American legal system, i.e. those with American citizenship or living on American soil.

For the other 96% of us, the American legal system offers no protection whatsoever, as far as I'm aware.

This deficiency is not true of all jurisdictions. As far as I can tell from reading articles 1-3 GDPR, the GDPR applies to all processing that takes place within the EU or on behalf of an EU entity, regardless of whether the subject of the data is a citizen or resident of the EU. Same goes for the Swiss data protection act [0].

So as a non-American, I have a choice between services located in a country where I have no legal rights and services located in countries where I do.

This is also all from a security point of view. From a privacy point of view, I know that American companies have essentially free reign over the data I give them. They can monetize it, sell it, train machine learning models with it or do whatever else they please, regardless of whether they have my explicit consent.

Other jurisdictions have privacy protections, so I know I have some basic level of privacy if I choose say a German email provider, while I know I have essentially none if I choose an American one.

Really, as a non-American, I see no reason why I should treat American services as being any better than say Russian or Chinese services. I'm happy to listen if you have any compelling arguments though.

[0]: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/1945_1945_1945/en
Those exist in the Netherlands too, but the problem is that those spots are now _exclusive_ to EVs. An ICE car is not allowed to park there. I live in an area where >95% of parking spots are occupied on a given night. The current approach is, at least for the time being, only making it worse.
>There's nothing wrong with that as long as the law enforcement is trustworthy and competent

"there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly" Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Lets be honest here. If Tesla had invested the waste majority of their efforts on 1 city, not having to deal with all the problems of broken line markings, crazy signs, signs in different language, driving threw fog at night, driving mountains roads, driving country side in China and so on.

Could the Tesla software do what Waymo does? Specially if you map out the whole city? I would argue it could.

I agree that Tesla is quite far away, but in terms of a general solution for waste majority of the world, Tesla is the closest.
I agree with this comment. The article and parent comments probably were doing some scam, either by the people themselves or if they were hacked.

Lots of people criticize Facebook all the time and have no issues.
That’s pretty much exactly the point. On the consumer facing side there is the VPN market, which people use to access content in remote locations or obfuscate their traffic to prevent surveillance/fingerprinting.

On the business side, there’s a real need to be able to scrape say LinkedIn or Amazon, which necessitates rotating IPs to avoid getting blocked. The legal precedent currently incentivizes this sort of behavior between both parties.

Mentioned also, however, is that criminals can use the technology to advance fraud.
It's the loss of features that drove me away from Gnome. First configuration options were hidden, then removed. Window borders became larger, and bloated transitions slowed everything down. Menus were removed and replaced with incomprehensible drawings with no meaning. Keyboard shortcuts made non-obvious. Not at all an improvement over the state of the platform 20 years ago in my opinion when things were much more lightweight and interfaces were more discoverable. A lot has been lost for desktops in the push for an interface that "works" on tablets.
>I'm sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

This is basically your way of saying that my viewpoint is sexist. I have not acted in such a manner, and please cite evidence as to where I am acting that way if you believe otherwise. Basically all I'm saying is that people should stop turning every freaking conversation about real demographic differences into an ideological witch hunt. It's completely off topic and nobody is thinking about such things yet there always has to be some social justice warrior pointing out some "infraction" whoops did I say women are physically weaker than men even though it's generally the truth? My bad for being a heathen sexist.

>Rather than assume that the balance of demographics in the photos were waited towards that game's premise, 50/50 split.

I assumed the balance was not weighted towards sex. I assumed he picked random set of people where the sex and race were random and only whether or not they were language developers/serial killers was the heuristic. It was a mistaken assumption because if the picks were truly random, it is highly unlikely for women to appear in the question set at all (assuming women are unlikely to be serial killers as stated by some people in this thread). Obviously, because two women appeared in the question set, the heuristic is biased for other attributes as the test maker deliberately made sure the question set included two women.

Frankly, the test actually masks reality as we know it. Programmers, Language creators and serial killers are highly, highly unlikely to be women.
right up there with phrenology.
I think you can now pay for github sponsors via your normal subscription, which gives you an invoice.
Interestingly enough, sometimes its the only way to "lose" them. Centralized control within companies has its own issues.
> too much power in two few hands is bad for capitalism

too much power in too few hands is an inherent feature of capitalism.
So often you get to these charts and figures and they could be bothered to explain anything.

What is 'total money' vs. 'hard money' vs. 'outside money' and why don't they bother to explain it.

Edit: the answer is here [1]

Hard Money is direct political contributions to campaigns, registered etc.

Outside is to supporting activities, other PACs

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money/basics
Web scraping is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions, as well as getting around the countermeasures. A datacenter IP is a huge red flag for those.
While your point is valid when thinking of the Raspberry Pi as a replacement computer, they do have a few advantages when it comes to projects.

The size and I/O capabilities are desirable for anything from a plug-and-play media centre to building electronics projects. While there are disadvantages with respect to the latter, being able to write code on the Pi vastly simplifies things compared to microcontrollers.

It is also worth noting that a fully equipped Pi can cost significantly less than $200. Everything that you need to add to it can be salvaged e-waste: discarded USB power adapter, old keyboards and mice, lower capacity SD cards, as well as televisions are things that are often discarded in working order.

Edit: for clarification.
This is a story about an ordinary computer

When it was made they found something wrong with it

They threw it away like a piece of rubbish into an old dark storeroom

Then, from outer space, a Clever Man brought it to life with his cosmic dust!

—

...adapted from an ancient piece of welsh folklore: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouLJ-dP1Wps
Facebook has complete monopoly for online sales where I live (no ecommerce platform is well developed), and thus getting cut from Facebook will probably mean you are no longer in the business.

Also as a buyer, I have to use my mother or friend Facebook account to find items or contact sellers.
To answer your question: no
> you agreed to it as part of your service agreement

"Agree" implies willful consent and being in harmony with the implied outcome.

People accept because they have no meaningfully acceptable choice - which is the exact target that carriers aim for.
Wow, I envy you. I never had the chance to talk to an acttress from a show I know and love. I find it interesting enough to observe the changes in their voice when listening to audio commentary for instance. It would be even more interesting to actually hear them speak IRL.
The ISS and all spacecraft that dock with it run at 1 atm. Which is nearly all currently flying spacecraft. (And probably Shenzhou does too, since it's basically a Soyuz.)
So you’d get 130k USD? And what’s the tax rate? Pretty solid.
This is really well designed. Kudos.

Especially good is treating the Gemfile.lock as input for the the file system image and requiring it.
Betting one friend on a small timing detail is fun and all, but that not really what people mean when people talk about 'not betting against Elon'. We are talking about big things.

Elon said they will capture Apollo size booster directly from the air on ocean space ports. And the majority of people were like 'mh, sound reasonable will probably work in a few years'.

Think about laterally any other person or government saying that people would be like 'yeah, sure maybe in a decade plus and 20 billion or more'.
> Do due diligence before picking a place to live, folks.

Honestly, aside from a few obvious things, "due diligence" is often pretty much impossible.

If you move into an apartment in the winter, there's zero way of knowing that teens like to blare window-shakingly loud music in the park across the street every other day in the summer.

Or that the seemingly innocuous speed bump in front of your building will cause the 10's of garbage trucks that race by at maximum speed at 2 am each night to rattle and bump with such a force that each one wakes you up.

Or that a month after you move in, you get a new neighbor next door who blares bass-thumping music all day long while you're trying to work.

Or that the building next door starts to undergo gut renovation and welcome to jackhammering all day long.

Except for super-obvious stuff like is this a street with noisy bars/clubs, or yeah an active train yard -- which isn't even "due diligence" it's just keeping your eyes open -- there really isn't much you can do ahead of time. You just have to accept it'll always be a gamble.
My favorite part of this interview about interviewing.
King: "I hate interviewers who don't ask questions but make statements"
Thorn: "Well that's just what I was going to say. One of things about your interview style that's special is you are a very modest interviewer. You're not afraid to ask a simple question.. uh what is this..."
King: then interrupts his statement and riffs as if Thorn had asked the question "Why do you ask simple questions". :D
In practice, checkpoint is not a big deal. For history older than X, where X is a sufficiently distant time in the past, there will always be widespread consensus on the hash of the true chain, and numerous reputable parties that the hash of the true chain can be obtained from. Some poison node attack where fraudulent websites provide a hash of a fake history will not be viable.

Checkpointing is also currently being utilized in Bitcoin Core, so relying on it further is not a major departure on how things are currently done.

And at 100X current block sizes, validating the entire history with no checkpoints will still be possible for thousands of hobbyists with beefed up but still modest hardware/bandwidth.

The empowerment from 100X more people being able to write transactions to the main chain, with their own private keys, will be well worth the relatively tolerable compromises on full node validation.
In college classes, males speak 1.6 times more often, and interrupt more
HN is pretty relentlessly negative, and compared to the market in general overindexes on technology/security/privacy and underindexes on distribution/marketing. Some of the top upvoted advice on certain threads (not all) is just bad, usually because it's not pragmatic enough, and should be taken with a large grain of salt.
I use one of the first batches to control a few sensors around my front door. Movement detection, reed switch door opening sensor and it controls the siren and the light at the front door.

I burnt through sooo many SD cards until I started using Alpine Linux which runs perfectly on the Pi and runs from a RAM disk. No more dead SD cards for me
Do a clean reinstall of the OS and give it a week to cache files from regular use. I have a 2015 mbp too
The thing is that farmers nowadays are required to have huge surface to survive. The cereal market is now global and they compete with mega farms in south america and Russia.

I think non farmers don't understand why they have to bear the nuisance from food production when the food can be brought from outside, and cheaper. What they loose sight of, is that being able to feed your country is a huge advantage when shit hits the fan. During wartime, food is the most important ressource there is.
That's great news; finally he can stop preaching about decentralizing social media and start practicing it.
I think it was the worst performing stock in much of 2020.
> You talk about OTA updates as if that’s some huge technological moat? Hell, cars have been receiving very frequent software updates for over a decade.

I think OTAs are a moat but highlight an important incentive difference. Traditional automakers want to sell you next year's model of the car. Tesla seems like they want your car to get better over time.

Perhaps it is organizational cruft or the dealer network but consider even the simple case of adaptive cruise control systems in cars today that have radar + cameras. Most of those systems bounce between lanes and can't even stay centered well. This is something that could be a software fix but you'll have to wait for the next N models when they redesign the car to see it.

Infotainment systems are another example - they are almost universally crappy and it is rare to get updates OTA. Shipping a car with capable hardware and slowly improving software capability imo is a smarter long-term approach.

Time will tell though.
> my main thought here is that we should not continue to manufacture engines that burn leaded fuel.

I don't disagree with you, but there are many thousands of perfectly good planes from previous decades that are in good shape (they have to be inspected annually) that will be a long legacy.

Right now I can find 63 pre-1960 single-piston aircraft for sale, with the cheapest being US$ 42K from 1945 as I type this:

* https://www.controller.com/listings/search?Category=6&ScopeC...

One of the oldest is a 1928 biplane ($130K). If you're a WW2 enthusiast there's a 1940 Hawker Hurricane for US$ 2.7M.
It also has up to 32 amps of current running through it. Better get those industrial cutters with proper insulation =)

BTW, are all scrappers completely unethical? People steal the weirdest shit for the value of the metal and they always seem to find some scrapyard that'll take it and pay for it.
You want experience engineers to take a risk on your startup, you pay above market salaries and/or give stock options. There is no magic bullet.
It doesn’t matter if you have a 5G device, it is a function of the increased tower density. Those towers are capable of the old frequencies, too.
> Somehow, the big players have managed to convince us to suck up the damage.

Not always. The GDPR has some decent provisions against overuse of machine learning, for example (it is just a shame it is basically unenforceable against global megacorps, and otherwise so shit as a set of law). We should not accept it, and I don;t think this is a fight that is lost. It is fine to use ML, as long as you are prepared to suffer the consequences of the mistakes of your models that you do not check. This is an important principle.

> Even in a world without Google and Facebook, enterprising nerds will be encoding H.265 via smoke signals to ensure we get our cat videos.

Damn right. These are important. I'm concerned this statement isn't entirely serious. While I hope not to have to resort to similar to that, I will if I have to. Cat videos are important damn it.
I went from being a kernel engineer to a JavaScript application engineer, and JS was more satisfying to do over a long period of time for me -- the "recompile, reboot, retest" loop taking several minutes each time for testing kernel changes that can't be tested in a kernel module was extremely frustrating, compared to the amazing browser devtools for modern JS.
And yet, violent crime this year is at a multi-decade high[1]. It's one thing to suffer the indignity of a surveillance, but it's quite another when the surveillance doesn't even deliver its purported benefits.

[1] https://time.com/5922082/2020-gun-violence-homicides-record-...
That’s an excellent idea. Will you be writing a blogpost about it (please please)!
What is so insane to me is how Java was the one that came out when Sun had so many other things going on.

The Self language had all the tech, they had a full compiler team, a high performance implementation and could reasonably do everything Java could. So much that the same people ow did Self eventually end up working on the JVM as well.

And Java Script, end-up up itself being basically like Self in many ways.

Maybe the Self team focused to much on research and the Java team focused more on getting it out there.
He predicted the financial crisis. And predicting is hard, especially, if you have a "creative" government. The underlying problem was postponed, not fixed, and it got bigger in the mean time. I do not agree with him on everything, but he has many apt observations and convincing explanations. And at least he looks at fundamental mechanisms, which I like to interpret as a hard reality. I believe we now live in a soft reality, where the sweet falsehoods are preached to and believed by masses.
Whatever. It is known that it often is sufficient to reach a real human at Facebook or Google to find out it was a false positive and unban you. But actually reaching a real human who would check your case consciously and competently is extremely hard - you have to know one personally or pay some agency (the lowest price quote I have seen was $500) and hope for the best.

What actually seems going on here (as well as on YouTube with copyright stuff) is a wild misuse of AI technologies. Like if the police was giving people life sentences just because they had a weird accent or suspicious face triggering a neural network signal - perhaps deploying such measures on global scale could help catch a lot of murderers but undoubtedly it would also ruin many innocent people and this can hardly be considered OK.

So we don't even have to regulate Facebook in particular, just regulate large-scale AI usage.
Site.js: Small Web construction set
Today I watched "Contact". Coincidentally, both Larry King and Clinton appear in cameos (I think that Clinton's cameo was unauthorized, though.)
Giving these a read, thanks.
The most interesting thing about driving is that it requires a general intelligence to do it. Sure 99.99% of the time, you stay in lane, obey lights and don't ram things. But for a few seconds every hour you actually need to think.

This is why I'm bearish on fully autonomous cars, at least without major changes to infrastructure.
I cleaned out a MBP of similar age while replacing the battery. There was quite a bit of dust trapped in the CPU fan, as well dried out thermal paste. Between new battery + cleaned fan + new paste it runs 'like new'.

(Unfortunately the dGPU on the machine appears to have developed a fault which might put it into retirement for good)
Sea Shanties and the Whale Oil Myth
And yet, the DMV cannot have access to a I94 form even if they already have all the information.

And they also need me to print it so that they can scan it back in their computer system !

What a world we live in.
To protect against harassment: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/08/t-mobile-hands-over...
By the same standard of freedom of association, users should have a say over whether Facebook collects any data about them I.e. no shadow profiles, and ability to sever one’s relationship with Facebook and purge all data.
Why don't you quote all of the instances where he endorsed large blocks?

You're singling out one expression of mildly small-block sentiment and overlooking multiple expressions of strongly large-block sentiment by Satoshi.
These are all quotes from the article. Compare the first four with the fifth and tell me if you see anything wrong with this picture:

1) a handful of schools

2) a small number of devices

3) not widespread

4) a very small number of devices

5) self-propagating network worm
not at all, the rooster's owner, Corinne Fesseau, lives there since 35 years. The plaintiffs bought the house in 2003, and come there only during summer.

source: https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/05/13/ile-doleron-parce-quil-g...
I visit right-wing websites for research purposes and this is actually true. If you visit right wing websites and review posts about the jan 6th protest it was actually related to basically having a peaceful protest to put pressure on the electoral vote. Most of the flyers related to it and were extremely vague. The slogan was simply: "be there, it will be crazy" with no other concrete details.

The reality is that the actual insurrectionists were a small fringe group (Qanon) that managed to convince the rest of the useful idiots to join in. If you watch the videos of the siege you can see that it was mostly Qanon people leading the charge in while the other people simply walked into the building.

Of course comments like mine are not welcome because it paints a different picture compared to the narrative being presented in the media but the facts are still there. I encourage everyone to go online and do your own research. Go to the right-wing websites, pull up posts from December talking about the march and see what is being said. It is all public information. Same with the siege videos, you can watch the livestreams and reach your own conclusions yourself.