skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people actually don't like to have to rely on public transport for everything

I'm not advocating complete removal of private cars, but people need to be able to build daily routines that do not require them.

For example, you might live in a village or suburban town, walk to the station and get the train to nearest city where you walk to work. You still have a car for weekends and random errands.

Even within a car dependent lifestyle, car usage can be reduced. This was possible with old style "high streets" where you could drive there, park once, visit a number of shops and businesses then drive home. Now, you travel between a few big box stores much further out of town.
The GPLv2 “death penalty” is most likely unenforceable.

The legal argument is that since the GPLv2 is a public offer that one can accept by complying with it's terms, regardless of the original holder's specific permissions, the offer is even extended to past violators, so all violators have to do to re-accept the offer is to simply come into terms with it again, but for the duration that they are out of terms, the offer is terminated.
White privilege is embedded in your daily objects
The DOJ needs to strip Google's ability to run the world's most popular browser away from it. This is far more blatant than Microsoft antitrust with Internet Explorer. Google is literally shaping the entire internet into their ad funnel.

Google cannot be allowed to run Chrome.
This is exactly democracy.

Democracies that are actually constantly changing micro dictatures are failed democracies.

It is perfectly reasonable to stop to discuss and aim for consensus when you are not able to reach an agreement.

Otherwise each party just spends time and resources undoing what the other has done until then.

Good democracies are actually those that go even further and try to incorporate the needs of even smaller minorities/opinions in their decision making.

Reaching a consensus is a hard task but it is the cost of an ideal democracy as envisioned by Rawls for instance.

Look at countries that have high trust in their government, those are the most productive countries in the world.

China is definitely not an exemple in that regards, they have the numbers only because of their population. But on a per capita basis their productivity is abysmal. And that's without considering that most Chinese work 12h a day.
You are not in a position to put an obligation on me. I'm a founding member of the egcs/GCC steering committee, though I quit that role quite a while ago and am no longer a contributor. I've known RMS since the 90s and have been with him in person in small groups back then. I'm an eyewitness to RMS repeatedly creeping out women, but I don't have video. Take my word or not, your choice.
> The FLoC component in Chrome needs to call Google’s servers to check if it can function since Google is only enabling it in parts of the world that are not covered by Europe’s GDPR

This is all you should need to know about it.
isnt this why they made gplv3 then
TL;DR: Spotify made a sleek new gadget that presents a nice Spotify interface designed for mounting on a dashboard. It connects to your phone and uses its data plan. No maps or navigation. Just Spotify.

My reaction is that this isn't helpful for anyone who has a newer car that likely can connect to a phone via CarPlay, Android Auto, or Mirrorlink. And for those who don't, the device is sorely missing navigation. If my car couldn't connect to my phone, I'd be looking for a $20 plastic thing to mount my phone to my dash so I could get nav + music.
I am not a user, but I believe the idea is to have the light settings be part of a larger macro.

For instance, you're upstairs and you wish to watch a movie in your home theater in the basement. You hit the button on your phone and while you travel to the basement the lights lining the hallways and staircases come on (if off); the projector turns on and switches to the movie input; the receiver turns on and switches to the movie input; the theater recliner adjusts to your preferred position; the bias lighting turns on; and two minutes later the lights lining the hallways and staircases revert to their previous state.
Thanks for this; I have only just had a chance to have a look. (I am less interested in strategic thinking than I am in details. I have a text and I want to make it work better in some of these ways. So I ma asking: What kinds of questions? What kinds of graphics? ...) This looks very helpful.
> it seemed like everyone I interviewed with was a caricature of narcissism and delusions of grandeur

If some of the people you encounter are assholes, that's just life. But if all of them are — that's you.
I'm curious, if the year were 2011, would you be saying that all that 'deep learning' stuff of Hinton was just a load of malarkey? Because most people did. And then, 2012 happened and the world changed.

This is the problem when working on Hard Problems -- you cannot predict with certainty when your work will pay off (if ever...).
How different is this from people spouting off their political party lines without really understanding the platform? It's human nature. We should not be required to let morons doing moronic things dissuade us from our natural reactions and feelings.

I personally enjoy the way Linus tends to lead with his emotional reaction and then explain the layers behind it. I get the impression he often backtracks from his initial position because he's just giving the topic more thought, which is a mature response. The fact that he's a well-known figure doesn't excuse him from the privilege of being a human who learns.
Average users view the garden as a feature, not a bug - and that's the point. Apple removing complexity that their user's do not understand or need is good product design. HN audience is not Apple's main target audience.
Good post, thanks!
If you are wondering, this is about bringing up a Linux env and not about building the actual RBPi embedded/HW system.
Did it break you? Did it damage your family? "After all is said and done", you lost money. You walked away.

How is any of that different then a renter where the landlord sells the home, raises the rent (they can do that every year or so), refuses to fix something (or takes forever to find the "best" price), or just starts doing some other crazy stuff? The risk seems pretty similar to me.
I don't think it's optimal, but I tried to account for some of what you're saying. I'd take in whatever adds the most new dependencies if the amount it would add is lower or equal to the least contributing package I have. Otherwise, kick stuff out and recalculate.
It's as if the people paying for this app aren't actually the ones complaining.

Why wouldn't they complain if it was a scam?

Because they're not actually using it. It's a money laundering app.

If you're just laundering money through an app, it doesn't have to actually do anything.

And if you make the price outrageously high, you can launder more money with fewer clicks and reduce the risk of some idiot actually buying it.
My response to this request would be "I do not have a smart phone for work." On the few occasions I've been asked to be on call for a job this has been my reply. It usually gets a "okay we will provide you with a phone," which is a better solution. Then I can choose when and where to turn it on and issues with the device are their responsibility.
Clearly we are going to have gatherings again at some point. The only real question is the timing.
I think that you thinking of near earth sats. There are many others like the solar observatory that are much farther out and are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in the gigayear range.
Thank you! I've fixed it.
Great read. I could feel the emotion of the character's throughout. The story reminds me of a previous post I saw on HN about a tech support guy trying to solve mysterious bad code appearing in a professors program, only for him to fall down the rabbit whole and discovering a student had tampered with the compiler's code in a similar fashion. If someone could find and link the story, I would be very grateful.
> All these anti-vaxers talking about living in fear of a virus that has 98% survival rate

Please cite a source here. Survival rate usually means IFR not CFR, and even the CDC's own number (the CDC is going to be incentivized to overstate risk) puts it at around a 99.4% general survival rate. Other estimates put it closer to 99.7% or even higher.
Careful to not play the appeal to authority. Anyone can understand anything, regardless of their so-called qualifications. Are they likely to? No, and that’s why someone’s qualifications are purely a heuristic, not a prerequisite.
Focusing on the business need filled and results seems to be the best tactic here; we all hype ourselves, but if we were honest most of our work is boring "plumbing" to solve a business need. I mean, that's what we're hired to do, that's why we get paid; if we're not producing value for who we're working for, that relationship has broken down.

Most day-to-day "programming" can be broken down into that "Pair a datastore with a processor" idea, or "know enough about the problem to google/SO a fix or solution," so I don't think being honest about the mundane is a bad quality. Honestly, I think it's important enough, to make it at least a few of my questions on any formal interview, something akin to "what was a project that you thought would be simple but turned into something bigger, and how did you handle communication and management of it from that point forward?"
>Vaccination is also about stopping the overall spread of infections.

Then why are people still asked to wear masks in stores even if they are vaccinated? I've heard from the media non-stop that even if you have the vaccination you need to wear a mask - it doesn't make sense.
> Where’s the analysis?

Buried in over a million graves.
An underdiscussed second-order consequence of bad press is that it does deter a subset of potential hires from joining the company. However, it's near-impossible to measure this effect, and in the case of FAANGs, there's more than enough supply of candidates (and enough compensation offered) to overcome a recruiting decline due to bad press.

I myself would not join Google (or Facebook)'s data science or AI divisions without assurance that those companies are taking bad DS/AI PR into account and making impactful changes to their pipeline.
This is brilliant, I manage IT systems for hospitals and clinics and hear the front desk staff using analogies like this to put the risk into perspective. For something like this it shouldn't matter if you're even an order of magnitude off, the point is to help the non-mathematically-inclined general population understand how low the risks are in a context they understand (and anecdotally I'd say this strategy works well).
Google needs to be split up, plain and simple. They are the most dangerous company in America
Ambiguous PEMDAS (Heavy discussion of 6÷2(1+2)=? in the footnote updates)
>to forcing people to migrate to their cloud only infrastructure ... fully SaaS

A slight gentle correction. I criticize them elsewhere in this thread, but in fairness I have to point out that this isn't quite correct yet. It's still possible (though they've buried it) to buy a standalone perpetual license for the latest 1Password, run purely local vaults, or keep syncing via Dropbox, iCloud, or manually over WLAN. There isn't any hard tie to the 1Password.com service yet.

Perhaps they'll put the kibosh on that in the future. And they can be and I will criticize them for not having better local sync options, which they clearly stopped bothering with in favor of their own cloud offering. But for the time being I've still got a fully local 1Password 7 license that works the same as every previous version.
That's a good method to not develop immunity and develop resistant strains.
Then instead of superheroes think about countries or groups. How do you align Iran? How do you align the NRA? How’s culture, storytelling, arguing, etc. working for us so far? The point is that there is no simple recipe for "alignment", it will be continuous work and discourse, just as it is today with humanity. We’re talking about minds here, not machines that follow exact orders. How do you change minds?
It's pretty neat how Elixir's version of Jupyter Notebook was written as, essentially, someone's "noogler project". ;)

I love Elixir's developer productivity.
"Doctors For COVID Ethics" a (non anti-vax) group of 150+ medical professionals/university professors etc, warned in March about the likelihood of deaths resultant from exactly this issue. They went public with their previously private correspondence with the European Medicines Agency, as they were unsatisfied with EMA's responses. Who picked up their pleas? Conspiracy, fringe and some right-wing websites - that seems to be it.
It's a good point and I don't consider it gatekeeping. The newer devices really do cost less and if you're staying within the Arduino ecosystem, the tools will work with (usually) no code changes, especially if you're doing beginner stuff, so the faster chips are just as easy to use, while the increased RAM/Flash resources mean you can use languages like Python or, gasp, templating.

Forget the "extra features." They're just along for the ride. Silicon is cheap!
Thing's I haven't done since college:

- partial differential equations

- reverse a binary tree

- (sadly) made quite so many long-term friends
Who is then?
I use the default keymapping for Vim with Colemak (Norwegian) and find it a pleasant experience. The up/down movement is reversed, but I got used to it pretty quickly.
I feel strongly also about eating cassoulet 24/7 in the south. It makes one feel like they are sitting next to a tavern fireplace in a fantasy novel about to go on an epic adventure.

It's weird though because I do _not_ feel the same way about regional sweets. Marrons glacés (disgusting), calissons (yuck), and macarons d'amiens (not even macarons!) can light themselves on fire. If they were any good, they wouldn't be only regional!
We're not quite there yet, but it is interesting that the Wikipedia article about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

has "Cancel culture" in its "See also" section.

I hope her life will improve in a reasonable college (if there still are any left).
Where is your source about it being free?

As far as I remember, I've paid for several versions and upgrades until they forced their crappy subscription service on us.

Not sure about OP but I can see a clearly dark pattern by hiding the non subscription option to the point where I had to google how to acquire one. At this point I simply gave up and choose other option.

If I have to pay yearly at least bitwarden gives me fair price and comparable service. Maybe 1pass is better than bitwarden but it's certainly not 4x better.
It is. My point is that saying Tivoization went against "the entire purpose of the GPL" (which would include v2) isn't backed up by the text of v2 itself.
Probably the mini iPad. It’s essentially their LTS form factor so not much to expect them to announce on it.
Used to be tours going to Baikonur launches. Atleast $5000.
Deep Learning-Based Autonomous Driving Systems: A Survey of Attacks and Defenses
> Because it’s not about proving they verified the parking lot was clear. It’s about proving the business did what is “reasonable” to prevent the problem.

If that's the case, isn't your business already going what is "reasonable" by virtue of employing a facilities manager whose job includes ensuring the grounds are clear of dangerous obstructions while the facility is in operation?

Regardless, this scenario doesn't really jive with my assertion that it should be illegal for employers to track their employees. Were that the case, the court's definition of what is "reasonable" could not include maintaining records of your employees' locations throughout the workday, as doing so would be illegal. Although your scenario does at least provide a hypothetical for why a business would consider tracking employees in the absence of such a law. Hopefully courts never set a precedent to actively encourage that kind of tracking.
Nope

If you cannot tell the space has been cleaned, get new glasses.
If you can tell and it is dirty, give me a warning and then fire me.
Otherwise nunyabizness
> I haven’t heard a single uneducated opinion say, “You should not get it because X”.

It's not even 3 hours into my day and I've already received 3 texts from family saying something along those lines regarding J&J, even if it gets unpaused. It's a much more prevalent thing to say than you think.

> If people wanna rationalize not getting the shot based on their own misunderstanding of the science, that’s fine. That’s okay.

It's not okay. We need shots in arms. And you're doing your part by enabling those who are misunderstanding the science by making them feel like it's okay to not get the shot.
Google has lost all of its allure. I once dreamed of working there. Now, I think their employees drink the kool aid hard, and they are generally inept. Working at google isn't really impressive.
Dos pipes were just writes and reads to temporary files. No parallel processes
My response to the title is: "No, but it requires more resources than most are willing to admit or give."

The crux of the issue is that there's no "cost" to be bad. If there was a "cost" then bad actors would go away for quickly. Any "cost" you impose will be diametrically opposed to popularity - but a low volume/unpopular site is unlikely to be abused to begin with.
> The US is a impregnable continent with oceans on both sides

This must be news to it, because it constantly acts as if it is existentially threatened by one foreign adversary or other, from Grenada to Venezuela to Iran/q to Mexico, and so on and so forth.

> Congress isn't the Sejm and a single veto doesn't halt legislation.

I believe the parent poster used that as an example of the absurdity of a checks-and-balances system, taken to the extreme. In the current state of the US, the checks-and-balances system results in pretty extreme outcomes.

> significant legislation still gets passed regularly.

Got to have to disagree there. The sole lasting legacy of a presidency, a supreme court, a senate, and a congress owned by the Trump party between 2016 and 2018 was... A lot of judicial appointments. [1] Its legislative efforts were not very successful - neither were Obama's[2] between 2008 and 2010, and I expect the same for Biden 2020-2022.

> Misinformation has always existed. The idea that somehow everything was true and honest back when we only had 3 TV stations is naive at best. The media has lost control of the narrative and they no longer have the power they once did to control information. It's as simple as that.

Now, I wasn't alive back in the sixties, and I am well aware of how media propaganda works... But you should spend some time interacting with true believers of QAnon, and you'll observe that something has fundamentally changed about how information spreads.

It feels like a qualitative change to me, you may argue that it's merely a quantitative change. Even if you are right, the point is not that the media 'simply' lost control of the narrative. Someone else has gained control of the narrative, at its expense, and the outcome is not pretty.

People were optimistic that the internet, and social media would let a thousand flowers of culture bloom. This... Did not happen. What we got instead, was an open-air cesspit, with a hydra's heads peering at us from the surface.

[1] It developed a bit of a legacy in the tail end of 2020 as well, but it's not exactly a legislative one, and there's still a slim hope that it won't be a lasting one, and that we won't have to go through it again every time a president loses an election.

[2] Whose sole lasting legacy is passing a Republican healthcare reform, which the Republicans have been gleefully attacking for the past decade. But at least it's got his name on it, so that counts for something.
For young people (it seems especially young women) I think the answer could end up going in either direction honestly. I think it's completely reasonable to redirect them to mRNA vaccine until we know more.

Not sure why the J&J vaccine had to pause for older population where clearly the vaccine has a much better benefit/risk profile though. But at least in my area of the US the vaccination rate for senior citizens is quite high already.
Does your solution works in incognito mode as well
The T2 chip is based on the A10 design but it's not the same thing. The M1 and A14X may also end up being based on similar core designs as well, but the rest of the SoC will have many differences.
I hear this line being trotted out all over - especially from the "experts" - and I find it nothing short of enraging. There is a difference between saying "an mRNA platform in general might not be safe" and the actual claim real people make which is "this specific vaccine has not existed for more than a year and is being hastily rolled out on the world population via implicit or explicit coercion". The mRNA platform in general can be safe and, say, the Moderna vax could still have a poor safety profile. This is why we perform rigorous long-term testing and why most vaccine approvals (not that these are FDA approved of course) take several years.

If you can't be intellectually honest enough to admit that there is a difference between "we've used this platform in theoretical research in small numbers" to "we mass-market and roll out this novel vaccine to billions of humans worldwide", you shouldn't be in the discussion, IMO.
> an unknown side effect that did not come up in the original studies.

You shouldn't expect side-effects this rare to show up in the trials. The AZ trial was based on ~32k participants (https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...). Your probability of observing a 1/1,000,000 occurrence in 32k observations is something like 3%.

It's impossible to uncover (with statistical significance) 1/1,000,000 side effects without giving millions of doses.

The fact that a rare side-effect has (maybe!) shown up should not negatively impact your priors for how safe the vaccine is. If anything, the fact that we're talking about 7 / 7,000,000 cases should reassure you that we're catching extremely rare stuff, which means we would have caught anything more serious too.

A more general way of putting this is that, by doing a trial you don't prove there are _no_ side-effects, you just put an upper bound on how common they can be. This is the best that science can do! Epistemologically speaking, you can never prove the non-existence of something, you can just show that it doesn't occur in the places you've taken measurements, at a frequency that your experiments would detect. (This is the "black swan fallacy", as John Stuart Mill originally formulated it.)