skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do the conversations typically go when asked "did you know this could happen"/"did we see this coming" or has no one bothered to ask that question yet during the RCA process?
Did you install homebrew via a Rosetta Terminal?

M1/ARM code is treated more strictly than Intel, so I guess all my command line stuff is Intel.
Jason Calacanis's interview with Vincent Woo(the author of that piece) is quite good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8
It's bad enough private investors are wasting so much capital on self-driving. The last thing we need is the government doing the same.
This is not a feature available to mere mortals. Your assumption seems likely.
Unless your transactional code relies on deferred constraints. They don’t get checked until commit time so any test that rolls back upon “success” will not reflect an error.
Can you share examples of these things? Isn't training data considered "experience"?
For fucks sake it still requires the phone to recognize the fact that you're wearing the mask to allow AW unlock—and good luck if the mask isn't the one Apple trained this shit on or lighting conditions are not optimal.

I do want to look the manager who decided that in the eye. What serious attack vector is this supposed to close? Somebody sawing your hand off and unlocking your phone? You have much bigger problems then.
Perhaps consider a Carbolic Smoke Ball as well!
> of course you can trick yourself by using thread pools and move long running functions to them

How is that tricking yourself? Blocking code exists, and you will almost always run into it one way or the other.
Lambda School updates language to comply with new California law

Looks like that's 64 characters.

Just tossing out a suggestion. Maybe could stand to be edited to clarify where this language occurs or something.
One for my lawn please.
Make it a responsibilty of the states.

I'd go find links on RealID, and the resistance to that, but it should be an easy query away. RealID made it the responsibility of the states, and people still didn't want it. As I understand it, mainly because it was just a proxy for a federal ID.
It helps when you have the global media in your pocket
> What do you even mean by this?

Group chats aren't E2E encrypted and there is no way to enable it for them. In contrast, standard one-to-one chats are also insecure but there is the alternative of using secret chats with E2E encryption (however, unlike Signal chats, they don't synchronize among devices).
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It's also a question of return on investment (not necessarily in the monetary sense). Due to the high costs of the pandemic, we've also deployed lots of resources to combat it. But that doesn't imply those resources wouldn't create more value for humanity if they weren't redirected.

Keep in mind that if the pandemic results in extermination of the common cold, in the alternative world without a pandemic we would most likely also achieve it, just slower. It isn't a matter of now or never.
Some users just wanting a string of hookups, perhaps?
But baked beans and black pudding aren't listed in the protocol :(
I'm not really sure how that applies here. Apparently Brooks describes this as:

An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it
carefully and with great restraint.

As he designs the first work, frill after frill and
embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These
get stored away to be used 'next time.' Sooner or later
the first system is finished, and the architect, with
firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of that class
of systems, is ready to build a second system.

This second is the most dangerous system a man ever
designs. When he does his third and later ones, his
prior experiences will confirm each other as to the
general characteristics of such systems, and their
differences will identify those parts of his experience
that are particular and not generalizable.

The general tendency is to over-design the second
system, using all the ideas and frills that were
cautiously sidetracked on the first one.

(https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect)

But this is not really the case. Since UNIX went through at least two revisions of the basic design in the first stage. Furthermore, Plan9 outright meets all the design goals of the system, and is a genuine improvement on UNIX as a concept. Rob Pike admitted the only reason he stopped using it was because he wasn't interested in porting all of his software to it (And ran Acme in a virtual machine for a very long time while working at Google -- I seem to recall?). Much of the Plan9 software was ported to UNIX, and as I understand it a number of the creators still use parts of it to this day, as much as they are able to.
> This reminds me of people who would shit on the Internet in the 90's because of porn and scams and this and that.

In retrospect, those people were ahead of their time.
Nature demonstrates that very small machines are possible. We just haven't learned how to build them yet.
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The reason these consumer credit monitoring services came into existence is interesting and, I assume, public knowledge, but I only learned about it when I worked for them.

Once upon a time governments in places with credit reference agencies (so particularly the UK and US for this story) noticed that this is a lot of power with not very much responsibility and they ought to fix that. So what they said was, you must let people see this data you know about them, for a small statutory fee. No option, that's what you have to do now if you want to stay in business.

This actually terrified the CRAs, because they imagined everybody is going to send off their fee, and it costs more for this enormous unwieldy corporation to respond than they're allowed to charge, so if everybody does this the company goes bankrupt.

But internally at Experian somebody says - Aha! The law doesn't require us to explain what the credit data means. So if you pay your fee you will get stuff that's incomprehsible to lay people not because we're deliberately obfuscating it, but because to us maybe "day 60 late ratio" has an obvious and very specific meaning but to a consumer it's noise. Obviously an expert could write a book about how to decode the statutory report, but we can instead offer a product that costs more than this fee but includes friendly explanations and translation. If we set the pricing right on this product, we make a profit while also warding off the statutory reports we dread.

And that project actually worked. As of ten years ago lots of people worried about their credit would cheerfully pay a CRA money to find out what the problem was. The division doing that grew enormously within Experian and other CRAs copied this idea.

In fact popular culture made things that didn't exist in one country (e.g. the numeric FICO score from the US) part of what consumers expected to learn in other countries, and so Experian UK actually has (or had when I worked for them) people who make up the formula for an arbitrary score number, even though creditors in the UK don't use this - so it's as meaningless as your Hacker News "karma" score.

Then somebody had another bright idea, what if we give this product which apparently people value, away for free, and then for a fee attach it to credit offers like new credit cards? We funnel card companies the exact customer profile they were looking for, they save acquisition costs, the customer gets the new credit they wanted, everybody is happy and we're richer. So that's what happens today.
Note that the author of this piece was the founder of Coderpad, not some industry entrenched journalist. After watching his interview with Jason Calacanis(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8), where they discuss the content of his piece, I'm more inclined to believe what Woo wrote.
As I understand it, the resurgence of interest in mRNA research has already raised hopes with respect to HIV and (I think, some forms of?) cancer. So yeah, much like a lot of life-saving technology is created in response to war, there might be a silver lining here.
How does one's office environment relate to how many calories they consume?

If you lift weights or do other strenuous exercise 3-4k calories a day is needed. The trick with calories is just to not consume more than you are using if you don't want to gain weight.
I’ll be interested to see how well we predict the externalities of eliminating a species of microbe or insect that we consider a pure pathogen.
Even Scandinavia is not immune to gender disparities in online dating
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Not OP, but I have ADHD and would love to chime in here. I love programming on meds and I hate programming on meds. Meds connect the dots, but meds also over-engineer everything. Then the meds wear off and I am stuck with a huge solution and I have no idea what I just did.
Sure, all you need is a man behind a microphone to make a comment like "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ____". Make it a national interest, and have the "people" behind it. However, I don't think you could unite the "people" behind anything anymore. Half will be for it, the other half will be against it just because the other half want it.
> I don't describe myself as a "growth hacker" anywhere that I'm aware of.

Sorry, growth consultant. Maybe it's fair to say the two are interchangeable, maybe not. I'd at least assume the same when someone uses the word growth instead of revenue/sales/marketing. Might help to not pontificate about what the term "growth hacking" is if you don't want to be associated with it: https://jamiequint.substack.com/p/growth-hacking-a-primer

> In any case, obviously a lawyer wrote the contract and gave an opinion that doesn't agree with your own expert legal opinion.

Where did I give my legal opinion? The fact is they had to settle to "undergo a review of its marketing materials to ensure that the information is accurate". This case wasn't about some doubt about legalese, but rather about how they presented themselves, hence the word "deception". It doesn't take a lawyer to know what that word means.

> More Zuckerbergs, more Travis Kalaniks. The more the better.

I think you'll understand why people are being critical of you now.
My Samsung S10e has the fingerprint reader on the power button. I have it set to recognize my left index finger and right thumb. Works great.

The touchID on my new MacBook Pro is extremely useful. Trained on right index finger.
If the whole market declines but your share of the overall market raises and you overtake everybody else in that market that is clearly an achievement.

Given that this is literally the first mass market car by Tesla, achieving leading sales globally over comparable products by BMW and Mercedes is clearly pretty important.

And as they said, they hope Model Y will hopefully be the best selling vehicle globally next year.

This is important to point out after 5 years of FUD about how Tesla has no demand.
This is an oddly pessimistic view - what are you implying?
$50 price point i'm guessing
One sample can always be really "lucky."

I feel that we need to collect more data and have it open in some way so that people can look for "unexpected" correlations and figure out if people in one area or exposed to one thing are unnaturally lucky in general.

I wonder if in the future one could use purchases (e.g. harmful products which we do not know they are harmful) and GPS data (e.g. exposed to environmental factors) correlated with health records to do forensic large scale analysis? Still I wonder if the signals are strong enough to show up?

It is sort of like generic trait attribution via population studies.
By "arson" I mean setting threads on fire, which is an apt metaphor - the same metaphor, of course, as in the word "flamewar". Comments like these are not acceptable here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912876

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924151

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? Please remember that the rules don't stop applying when someone else behaves badly. Although I haven't asked the other user about it, I'm certain they would see you as "this troll" and themselves as the one who ought not to be "lumped in". It always feels like the other person started it and did worse. That's obviously a recipe for a downward spiral. The only solution is to do better, even when provoked.
I’m not sure I even disagree with that. Is your proposal that because everyone can’t have it nobody should?
While I hear the, "But anything could be viewed as societal and political discussion", it's kind of a straw man argument. We all know what types of discourse Jason and David are referring to and they augmented their request with, "But if you make a mistake, it's not the end of the world. Someone will gently remind you of the etiquette, and we'll move on. This isn't some zero-tolerance, max-consequences new policy."

From my POV, they're taking a difficult stance to rid the workforce of the extreme forms of toxic distraction (which happens across the political spectrum and is pretty recognizable) and for the most part, doing exactly what you articulated: returning to reasonable adult conversations that 99% of people are capable of doing.
The main players have a lot of funding, but that isn’t the only function of government. Standards and infrastructure will be required for self driving to work. LIDAR, optics… it’s becoming more and more apparent that the current approach (Waymo ceo stepping down) (Tesla’s promises FSD) that its just not as simple as money. Governments job is to save lives, NHSTA has done hundreds of studies on the efficacy of self driving. They don’t need to be encouraged… they already know if it’s importance to safety.
Since you’re expressing your amazement at this, let me just point things out from the other side: being unable to eat two slices of toast and a glass of milk in 20min without a tummy ache sounds very weenie to me. There are people of all shapes in the world with all sorts of fortitude. That breakfast wouldn’t even test mine. Except maybe when coming out.
The vaccine community was already well aware of the potential of mRNA vaccines, it just needed a bit more development to mature. The pandemic provided that final push, but without the pandemic that would still have happened, just at a lower pace. They'd still be available and successful on the market in 2025 or so.
> Yet driving deaths are the leading cause of death in older children and young adults.

All vehicle-related deaths in the US average around 32,000 annually, of which about 50% of those are alcohol and/or drug related, leaving the true accidental vehicular death number around 15,000 annually.

The problem we're trying to solve with FSD just doesn't exist at the levels FSD proponents would have you believe. Humans are incredibly safe drivers when you account for the number of people driving, and the number of miles driven per year.
mRNA-induced production of protein in animal tissues was demonstrated in vivo in 1989. Yes, I know that's very different from large-scale manufacture of a reliable product. But still.

It just wasn't profitable to put a lot of research into. Vaccines are the most obvious application, and vaccines just aren't profitable most of the time. There are few endemic diseases in wealthy countries, and even fewer where you can sell every person a dose in a few years. For most diseases, the total number of doses sold during the patent period would be relatively small. For example, a potential hepatitis C vaccine would probably look like the hep B vaccine's deployment -- with some ~200 million hep B vaccines given the USA over the last 40 years. Compare to a similar number of COVID-19 vaccines sold in under 12 months.

The underlying technology may well be the cure for many types of cancer and a broad solution to most infectious disease. But again, that likely wouldn't pay off while the patents are in effect. So no point in investing heavily.

Pfizer and Moderna were both sitting on quite a lot of proprietary knowledge, based on the sheer volume of patents filed since early last year. Some basic research, hoping for some breakthrough, but mostly just waiting for an opportune time to develop it into something that would be profitable.
> Part of my point, that I did not make clear, is that this law came into effect January 1st. A 3 month turn-around between something becoming illegal, and a "settlement" being reached, feels awfully fast to me, and implies that everyone involved was actually trying to follow this new law.

Not really, I’d say it more implies:

(1) regulators were ready to start enforcement, at least of easy cases, on day 1 (unsurprising, as non-emergency laws in CA have a significant delay between passage and going into effect, both to prepare for enforcement and to give people subject to them sufficient notice to comply), and

(2) Lambda either didn’t want to comply or was lackadaisical (or they would have stopped before the law went into effect, since, again, there was notice) and

(3) the violation was open-and-shut leaving no room for denial, it was settle or lose for Lambda, with no upside for fighting.
That's when you show the other hundred lists of solutions to things that could go wrong.
On the contrary, as an earth (not climate) scientist, I have an appreciation for the complexity of global climate and I think it's hubris to presume that we can predict with certainty that anthropogenic warming will be exclusively and certainly catastrophic for life on earth.

I'm also well aware of the clathrate gun hypothesis, as well as evidence that it is proceeding both subsea and with thawing permafrost. There is no lack of proposed doomsday mechanisms - but there is an ideologically driven dearth of research into positive aspects of climate change. And given the overwhelming complexity of climate and climate change, it's foolish to presume that no benefit could come from a warmer planet.
Can't be an English breakfast, there were no beans nor tomatoes
This is ~4% of all possible IPv4 addresses, for reference
Or how to navigate to /Users/<username>. You have to manually add it to the sidebar from Preferences.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...

Government has been studying this since the 1960’s…
Coding Horror has an overview of some paper based archive options: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-paper-data-storage-option/
The next tech hearing targets social media algorithms – and YouTube, for once
yeah sorry, I would bet you are right in the strict legal sense, I guess its a dumb cop out but I meant in the colloquial sense.
>The first word

Followed by "and your group," which is exactly what my last post said. And even if he was not part of the group that carried out the previous work, he would still be part of the UMN CS research program that "publicly admitted to sending known-buggy patches..."

I've said multiple times it seems that Pakki is receiving far more blame than he deserves. He merely submitted bad patches and got defensive about the manner in which they were rejected.
I mean broadly in the sense a startup that’s funded by YC. After all, we are on YC forums. It was an earnest question and not implying anything to do with what non-SV companies can and cannot do. That said, many startups from SV have shaken up the industry veterans. I was mostly interested in the roadblocks and challenges. Not really about which city and whom can solve this problem which is far less interesting to discuss.
Quincy Morgan and OpenStreetMap Foundation’s Board about iD editor development
That would make it sound like Lambda School did it proactively. It would obscure the claims were deceptive irrespective of California law. And it would obscure Lambda School acknowledged the claims were misleading.
Not necessarily.

That is just testing if COVID19 breaks down when exposed to mouth wash. For that to prevent infection you'd need contact between the mouthwash and the virus.

So maybe mouth wash helps or maybe it's useless because people are getting infected in their nose or before they use mouthwash. Pretty hard to say but this study doesn't tell you anything actionable.
I see.

Maybe I'm overthinking it (this happens sometimes, I'm working on it), but waiting around for a security crisis to happen when a solution is in sight, even when facing difficulty prioritizing the work seems dangerous to one's career.

But I admit not knowing a lot of things most engineers just assume are a given, lately.
Software is a creative act. This kills creativity and will kill any company culture. Basecamp might as well become JIRA at this point.
Farm and weekend breakfasts are like this, and standard to get at breakfast places in the US. I've had similar at a hotel in Amsterdam, honestly (though it was a buffet). It isn't really that much food or calories as long as you are hungry when it is served.
If you need a life-saving medicine and you don't have the money, it's a problem. Or at least the people that are dying think that way.
I'm glad they're cherry-picking. They're more likely to get it right, and it's best if they move slowly. Ten years from now they can take a case from a student who will have been sent to detention for cursing her teacher's parentage during class.
Or maybe they are spending too much time on a device scrolling through a feed instead of actually eating?
Generally not well.

If you haven’t been shot down by an expendable in the past, the best course of action is to find the most complementary position historically taken by leadership, twist to your objective and then credit them publicly with the vision.

The gap can be reconciled privately later.
And?

The direction of implication is "people are evil because they do evil actions", not "actions are evil because evil people do them".

Unjustifiedly firing people is wrong, and therefore conservatives are wrong to do so.

Unjustifiedly firing people is wrong, and therefore liberals are wrong to do so.
> The Linux kernel team had to revert changes in over 200 files.

No, they didn't have to. That seems like quite a bit of an over-reaction by mr Kroah-Hartman.
> care team

You used this phrase, and I like it.

I see this as the core of the problem, and I might just be re-phrasing what you are saying.

I risk veering off into politics here, and I don't really want to, but I do think that the profit-centered healthcare system in the United States creates this separation of people who should really be consolidated into a single team. There should be a team of people working together: Dieticians, physicians, etc.

But, in my experience, everything is siloed pretty bad. Physicians work for one company, the dieticians work for another. Everybody is divorced from one-another. Nobody is part of a consolidated team.

Ideally, you would have both a PCP, and a dietician that you could consult, both of whom are part of a team, share the same medical records system, talk to each other over lunch, etc.

Let the doctors do the doctor part. Let the dieticians do the dietician part. Let them both work together for the benefit of the patient. But, integrate them into the same system.
Skip the "really mentally gymnastic" contortions and say what you mean.

There's no question that it takes more effort to think of something better than "hey" to say than it does to read that message. And let's not forget that the matched people have both explicitly opted into a conversation.

I thought the entire point of Bumble was to spare women from gross messages and dick pics.
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SV companies tend to be better at account security then this.