skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
im already trying to get people to join signal and only half succeeding, can't swap aagain right noww
> you can't go smoothly from a driver assist to fully autonomous

Ok. So Waymo has developed a 100% reliable full self driving system that handles every possible situation. It was never put in a situation in which it would have given back control to a human driver, because that would have meant "going smoothly" to driver assist mode, and we have already said that this is impossible.
It's a cultural issue, not a technical one. When Mastodon started to take off, one of differentiating factors was about the sort of people they wanted to attract. It's very easy to market to a tribe and appeal to their identity, so it started to stick.

One of my goals with communick is to get rid of this idea, actually. I try to make the point that an instance does not say anything about who you are or who you should follow.
Completely agree. Something like Project Treble, but for PC hardware.

Thinking about it, this is what the BIOS was originally for: to provide a bare minimum abstraction to the hardware. I hoped that UEFI would extend this abstraction in a meaningful way, making OS development easier. Instead it has made it even more complex.
When it's hottest, you run into dollar's other challenge - they get less efficient as they heat up
America has a long tradition of being vocal and offensive in its communications. At the very founding of our nation, you could find political cartoons of George Washington on a donkey, with the caption, "An ass being led to Washington."

In general Americans seem to be more thick-skinned than others. Or at least we used to be.

EDIT: Here you go buddy... this is almost a word-for-word of the argument that was used in the actual Supreme Court case, and should illustrate why we're at such a dangerous time in history - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeTuNES82O0
> giving your product away for free is just as bad a business strategy as it sounds.

Has anyone, anywhere, argued the opposite? Because this seems like beating a strawman.

> Copyleft licenses such as AGPL force adopters to publish changes back to the source repo or offer them via network protocols.

The AGPL specifically does this, other copyleft licenses (like the GPL do not for “adopters”, only for people redistributing executables)

> This is meant to deter third parties from offering competing hosted services

No, copyleft in general is about prohibiting downstream proprietary distributions (and also, in the AGPL case, proprietary hosted versions) it is not supposed to prevent competing software/services.

> Instead, why not do what traditional businesses are doing, sell a product, and simply charge for the value it provides?

That's what “open source” companies do. The thing they sell is the product (whether it's support and consultancy, the value-add of the enterprise version of an open-core product, or hosted SaaS.)

The problem with “prop-tech” is often, as this piece itself points out, but entirely fails to address in recommending “prop-tech”: “the world of FOSS is full of strong and established offerings with a zero-dollar price tag.” And making your tech proprietary doesn't stop you from having to compete with the open-source competition.
This article and the theory it presents has some interesting intersections with how society actually works (i.e. the elite being anyone who has real leverage). I liked the depiction of the intellectual classes, but I believe that rather than hiding from reality they are commenting on it and influencing society's culture, not having to worry about material security.

Also, the categories/ladders are looser than one would assume. Cultural and labor leaders, if determined, can seize power for themselves, as seen with the rise of the Soviet Union and Islamic Republic of Iran. I personally don't believe in the "babytalk" notion: this depends on individual character, and any common lingo would be based solely on the pressures of position the individual is in.
You are braver than I. After some experimenting decades ago I became disillusioned with the industry as a whole. And these days it seems like a very expensive lottery, whether indie or mainstream.
Have you looked at Japan lately? At their peak in early January they were seeing a new case rate that was the equivalent of about 20,000 cases per day in the U.S. Still a pretty far cry from our own rate of spread, but a pretty challenging data point to the idea that "competent lockdowns" are a silver bullet. Meanwhile you can't even get a deaths count from China and their standard for a "positive test" is very different from the Western countries'.

Australia and New Zealand have been in their summer months. Being relatively isolate-able islands perhaps they will be able to keep Covid "out," but NZ did just report its first case of community spread in months as their autumn gets started.
This is also compatible with different operating systems, I remember running this with OS X and Windows 10. Pretty wild.
The entire world has been forced to act as diplomats. When coming from vastly different world views and experiences, being charitable in your interpretation of others is essential; it is important to distinguish disagreement, harassment, and true threat so as to avoid false positives and further degradation of the conversation. That charity requires having a very thick skin, and yes, it’s unfair when it’s not reciprocated and you are being targeted.

I think social media has taught us that most people are terrible diplomats. Which is to expected when a person’s threat response is engaged. Having a thick skinned and measured reaction to threat is still the best way to reduce that threat. And it requires a level of discomfort unprivileged people are generally much better at dealing with; the people who need to hear that advice most are those advantaged enough to be unfamiliar with dealing with discomfort.

I think a better solution than forcing everyone to become diplomatic or banning those who violate the norms of others is to have somewhat siloed social groups that are represented by open minded thick skinned diplomatic types that permeate the borders. That’s part of what’s appealing about a federated model; I think it better mirrors our social tendencies and historically successful political systems with diverse constituents (representative republics seem to be the only proven systems capable of dealing with lots of different peoples long term).

I’m of the opinion that the most virulent partisanship is actually due to the lack of silos rather than the echo chamber narrative. Before the internet, in group conversations stayed behind closed doors. That privacy allowed people who would be outraged at the contents of those conversations to get along in a diplomatic middle.

Now those conversations are public, and people seem to be fighting over control of one big room where all the walls have been removed.
Observer's bias? Of course you observe people in that situation, because of where you are.

I agree though, that folks also live in cities by inertia. They've always lived there, and don't know any better. Even though they've got problems getting employment and housing, they can't see any solution. That's a demographic too.
Indeed that is the conspiracy theory where they have undue influence on the profit seeking behaviors of utility companies, financial entities, municipalities, and otherwise private individuals with sufficient capital.

However, what most don't know is that the big money (in terms of EBITDA) in the fossil fuel industry is in downstream services, plastics and other carbon products derived from oil. This accounts for around 80.1% of Exxon's Revenue[1] and even more in profit. The goal for Exxon is to reduce reliance of energy from oil to reduce the cost of crude oil and maintain the sticky margins of plastics.

It's for this reason that Exxon has always been in the forefront in carbon economies and taxes [2].

Energy is instead one of the worst businesses to be in, a low-margin commodity, with ever-decreasing margins.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/16/how-exxonmobil-str...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/09/exxon-mobil-pledges-1-millio...
Chunking JS just leads to massive latency issues as the client is forced to download dozens (or hundreds) of "efficiently" chunked JS files.

The e-commerce platform Magento 2 is packed with this kind of bullshit and is part of the reason my colleagues and I abandoned it for our clients' large e-commerce websites:

https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/104583/magento-2...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Magento/comments/bli7vz/seriously_w...

https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/277544/page-load...

https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/270553/is-it-pos...
The Gervais Principle is a great read for fans of The Office and/or people who work at large companies. Nice to see it get a shout out.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
The essay itself is of course an example of posturetalk.
I relocated and wfh in the midwest. It's not been hard at all.
Fascinating.

The problem is far more rife than I realised...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/what-massive-databas...

https://retractionwatch.com/2014/05/15/which-countries-have-...
Yes, sorry. https://littr.me

However, fair warning, my project doesn't have yet federation enabled. It's on a backburner until I have a better handle on moderation.
I agree, this bit in particular seems wrong to me:

> Posturetalk is everything said by Michael, Dwight and Andy, to anyone: the staff, the execs, or each other. Everything they say is some form or another of meaningless, performative babbling.

I only really remember the first four seasons of The Office, but I remember Michael as being a very skilled salesman and a very unskilled manager. But Michael's skill as a salesman comes from a genuine desire to connect with people and form relationships --- recall the episode where he takes a second job as a telemarketer and keeps deviating from the call scripts to ask people about their lives. In that sense, a big chunk of what Michael says is pretty close to the opposite of performative?
Why does HN allow paywalled articles?
There is the trifecta of development, design, and business. Usually someone is only good at one of those things. I want to see what it's like to be good at all 3, and see if I can build a very valuable company as a single founder/employee, by leveraging automation as much as possible. Even if I can't, I'm sure I'll find a bunch of problems for which I can create a new startup to solve.

Not OP but just wanted to answer haha
I expect Tesla and Waymo to be the 2 best driverless solutions in the near future. Tesla is a real competitor to Waymo, as the better sensor has a litmited time advantage until deep learning algorithms improve even more.

Waymo doesn't have too much time to get back the billions of dollars of invested R&D money, while Tesla is already profitable even without self driving.
This laptop is also popular with openbsd developers, everything should work for that OS also. This will probably be what I get next. I'm using an X260 at the moment - smaller footprint.
When I get to sleep with sound in the background it usually gets incorporated in my dreams. Recently fell asleep while listening to a podcast about file systems and in my dreams all my family members were talking about files systems and B-trees. Didn't feel well rested in the morning. But something like white-noise or different nature sounds could be much better. There are apps that play different droning sounds like train or plain noises, forest sounds, seaside waves etc.
Oh, but it makes so much sense as ». It's an expensive operator, it should be harder to type.
> So the end goal is for a system where users download random binaries off the net

They download the binaries they trust off the net.

You're insinuating that some users are too stupid to know who to trust and go around downloading random binaries. If there are such users, then I guess my OS is not geared towards them, but rather to software developers, creative professionals, etc. who know what they're doing and need to get their application software directly from the developer.

People who don't know who to trust or want their OS developers to keep repositories for them can keep using Apple devices with their walled gardens or repository-centric Linux distros.

> which never get any security patches and leave dozens of copies of vulnerable dependencies lying around?

Do Windows applications never get any security patches?

And yes, sandboxing is not an infallible security mechanism, but it could help, and it also has other practical advantages not related to security.
To take the other side of this perspective:

The edge is twofold. First, it's a way to pool funding using an exchange rather than getting some bank to underwrite an IPO. Second, many of the people who run SPACs are famous investors who have a track record of success and have greater information and access than most investors.
That’s one way of looking at it. It could also be described as being realistic - there are always “unknown unknowns” and all else equal, no matter how motivated and capable your team, estimates that consider this will be more accurate than those that do not.
Waymo is amazing, but it doesn't make the business profitable: it needs to scale up the investment in hardware and keep its advantage until Tesla gets good enough to compete. This PR is mostly aimed at investors in Waymo.
Interesting perspective. Without agreeing or disagreeing, I wonder where, on which ladder I’d want to be. Old Money is probably best, but, I don’t really have a choice. Seems Michael Scott is the next best option.
But they wanted their beloved fraudulent democrat voting masses to cast their votes in the general election. What a hypocrite ninny. Go to hell Bezos.
I'm making extensions that talk to native apps. When that kind of communication is authorized then any vulnerability in the target apps does allow arbitrary execution.
I’m interested in buying a Tesla. I would be charging in my garage.

My impression is that many of the superchargers are in locations that are fine for travel, but not very convenient for shopping.

If I pull up to a charger and it’s busy, with the owner absent, how am I supposed to know the status of the recharge? Is there something equivalent to a running gas pump that I can look at to estimate when the owner will return? Or, is the best move to simply move on, if there’s no empty plug?

How do 12 EV manage to share 2 charge ports at an apartment? How do you know when it’s your “turn“? How long does your car stay plugged in, once you get the slot? Isn’t there conflict caused by impolite owners?
I've used both kinds of forums, and I think both trees and linear threads - let's call them 'streams' - have their places.

If you imagine a forum as a large dinner table, trees are like conversations that start out at one corner of the table, maybe with a few people participating, and then usually split off into individual exchanges that don't interact with each other. When that happens late in the dinner after coffee and liquor, people usually move around and form little groups.

Streams are like shared conversations involving the entire table - one person at a time talks, everybody listens and replies. Sometimes people try to talk over each other, sometimes it's mostly two or three people talking and the others are nodding along for a while. But it's what makes the experience a communal one, and it's how you get to know the people in the group other than the few you directly spoke to.

It also acts as a moderating influence, since if two people are getting into a heated debate over some niche issue, other attendees will usually try to mediate for the sake of the event, instead of ignoring them and letting them fight among them.

Stream-based forums IME tended to form more robust communities where people recognized each other's names and avatars, whereas even in smaller subreddits I might recognize a couple of very frequent commenters but nowhere near as easily or as often. On the other side, tree-based forums make it much easier to establish a rapport with the couple of people you wanted to talk to and ignore everybody else.

(Potential objection: nothing's stopping a tree system from acting like a stream by having a "main" thread where most everybody pipes up. In theory that's true, but in practice I find that threads simply don't have the staying power of streams, because they fade off into the 'click here for the next 20 replies' purgatory where only the participants and a few lurkers follow. Streams keep all the eyeballs in the same place.)
Agreed, I've never gotten it to work, or when I have, it very quickly failed, and disconnected thereafter.
In practice many extensions need access to all URLs.
This is the approach Windows 10 should have taken.
Have you looked into grow lights? It seems like they satisfy the same concerns (warmth, lux) with the benefit of lower energy consumption. I quickly lost interest in throwing a lot of money at growing cheap plants, but I still remember that plants demand a lot of ~5500k light, and that unlike most LED gadgets, quality grow lights come with well-defined, well-tested specs.
As a local, rehabilitating Salton Sea would be a tragedy. There are plenty of out-of-the-way resorts and Oasis towns to go to.

The Salton Sea, the dunes surrounding it, and Anza-Borrego itself are unique pieces of desert that don't really have any nearby analogues. I think that area is better off in its current, dessicated form, as do most of the people who reside there. Land is cheap, and it is really, really far away from civilization.
if it is a joke, it pretty soundly failed to be funny.
> I was surprised when I learned that this US ethnicity is a self-defined status. This means that me, a blond blue eyed man (and accessorily French) could define myself as Afro-American in the US.

That's not really true. You wouldn't be actually able to define yourself as Afro-American in the US, beyond maybe lying on a form (and even that designation would probably be overridden if it mattered). Pretty-much everyone would consider your self-designation to be annoying BS.

A few full-blooded white people have tried passing as Afro-American (only possible because of the lingering effects of the one-drop rule), but they received a lot of press (and rejection) when the real story came out.
> Now they are the ones who did everything wrong and should be blamed.

Is it possible to develop a blame-free (or at least blame-avoiding) culture that also can still look for root cause problems? I'd like to think so but have never seen such a thing at scale.
For this new trend of monospaced fonts on a blog - just keep in mind that proportional fonts and the entire study of kerning exists to improve readability. Monospaced fonts, while not bad, aren't optimal for reading long form text.
For me I had a single mixed managed/native DLL which made my life a lot easier when dealing with interop. The documentation for C++/CLI was really good IMO. I wasn’t marshaling particularly complex types though so had pretty simple pinning scenarios.
I have struggled with sleep at night for at least 15 years now. I get very sleepy in food courts (general hubbub in a safe feeling surrounding) and as a child who hated cricket I dozed off on the couch more than once when it was on. There's something calming about a low level of crowd noise.
Yeah, I really want to know where the author is getting their model of PhDs. Are we talking about literature departments or chemistry labs?
How Taiwan Semiconductor Came to Dominate the World [audio]
here are a few more examples: https://elonmusk.today/
Just because this is the new trend (for no reason) ?
They are working on it https://delta.chat/en/2020-03-11-reduced-message-size
AFAIK, there is no implementation beyond some proof-of-concepts, but the idea is that Matrix (via bridges) can receive and send activitypub updates and treat them as messages in a room. So you could follow and respond to people on a room and they would receive updates on their ActivityPub server. It

This idea is not new, really. Movim (https://movim.eu) is running a federated social network on top of XMPP for over a decade already.
Applied Materials is a key player in semicom fabrication and it's American. There are also a handful of Japanese companies that hold virtual monopolies over key resources like fluorinated polyimide film, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride and it became a big international issue when Japan revoked korea's free trade access to those materials.

It seems like there's been a deliberate push, like propaganda, to play up ASML's importance over everyone else in the past year or so. I've been seeing ASML brought up everywhere and often seemingly for no reason.
Solar energy will not run out in the near future (at least 5 billion years, even earth will be destroyed way before the sun run out of fuel), fossil fuels will run out, it does not matter if it's 50, 100 or 1000 years from now, but it will run out. Period. (that's the same problem with current nuclear power technology beside other factors)
> Yeah, exactly. The thing is, where do you draw the line of what is statistically so unlikely that you can deem it improbable?

Important question, because otherwise your costs are absurd and something important (like a power source) never gets built.

Some fields, like road construction, have a cost model built in and at some point are willing to either pull the plug or decide that a few unlikely (originally autocorrected to "unlucky!") fatalities are acceptable.
In the earlier days of the x86 PC, the hardware was far more documented, but now a lot of manufacturers are notoriously secretive about it. Nonetheless, standards still exist (HDA,ATA/ATAPI/SATA,OHCI/UHCI/EHCI/XHCI,etc.) and much of the backwards compatibility is still there.

You bring up wi-fi cards and that is definitely one category of hardware with little standardisation/documentation (I suspect due to FCC regulations and such.) Wired ethernet is a bit better --- Realtek and Intel NICs are both quite well-documented, with the latter being more complex. The other difficult one is GPU acceleration (but a VESA framebuffer is usually available, which gets you at least a GUI if not a fast one.)
I think that one problem that eventually happens with this approach, which is a problem I had with Duolingo as well, is that very soon after learning a few words you need to start learning basic grammar. In these approaches that don't explain the grammar at all, you need to spend effort pattern matching to pick up the right grammatical rules to construct your own sentences, and you are never sure that you're doing the right thing.

For example, in 猿はバナナを食べる, how should I understand what は and を mean? When should I use them? I can more or less easily understand that 猿 means monkey, バナナ means banana, and 食べる is related to eating. But to understand that は indicates the topic and を indicates that the word before is having an action done to them, I would have to see a LOT of examples.

I think a little grammatical explanation goes a very long way in terms of the number of examples you have to show.
This would be so great if you could download the images. Is there any way to do that?
It feels trying to get troubleshooting for Windows is like shouting into the void, so I, as well as I think many others, have long since just given up.

I for instance bought "Assure Software Support" at $99 a year to try to get support for an unrelated (usb-c dock) issue. And there seemed to be no way to actually use it, and I just gave up, resentful that I paid Microsoft a support fee.
I´m so sad that this is a closed source effort. Anyone know what happened with Mark Shannon proposal? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837309 )
I lack the funds to do that.

I found that reading philosophy helps, even just a little bit. The absurdists figured it out I think. Absurdism also helps with coping with the belief in determinism I guess, but I am still in conflict.