skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all the autonomous miles are on sunny days driven on the same circuit hour after hour. So the same mile driven millions of times, and even then they crash.

Source: lived along one of the Mountain View circuits, would see 3 autonomous vehicles from the same company in a row doing their "miles" with no other traffic. Even if they crashed into each other, it would be from the same company, so why report it?
The web exists, android exists, etc.

I like local control, I think urbit is cool and hope they succeed. I'm a little disturbed by the need for mighty and how we've ended up in a such a messy state of things with modern computing.

It's not about reducing risk or scam apps really - it's about Apple being able to incentivize user-benefiting behavior that ad-driven business models corrupt. Maybe we wouldn't need this in a world that had more CCPA laws with teeth, I'd be happy to live in that world, but we don't.

At least with Apple I have the option to buy hardware from a company with aligned incentives that gives a shit.
And yet here in the UK we are thinking of reintroducing wolves, as has already been done with beavers.
Nobody here has been making them by hand.
Anything legitimizing loss of user control over hardware and peddling proprietary walled garden as something good and desirable is simply immoral, dangerous for the future of Humanity and should not be legal.
Yes, Google and Apple's current situation is the result of incompetent government.
And how are profits gained? Ideally, in providing goods or services of value to society.

In a competitive free market the profit incentive is actually the 'who can do the most good for society' incentive.
You will get downvoted for saying that, even though it's obviously the truth.
I honestly thought this was a passage from HHGTTG.
Ask HN: Is there an open-source AWS Code Deploy or similar?
Context:

* I want a server to poll a Docker registry at a regular interval, and if it finds there's a new image then pull
it down and start it up.

* I'm looking to do it this way vs. just pushing the image out as part of CI/CD because Github Actions doesn't easily support a static IP range and I don't want to have unrestricted SSH access.
This is another case study in why I'm instantly suspicious of any company that markets themselves primarily on how amazing and perfect their workplace is. The truth is never as great as the marketing material.
This is such a clueless, uninformed and useless comment that i don't even know where to begin my rebuttal.

I will only remind you of this quote;

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Another important concern is upload performance. Download performance is not a concern, since would be using a CDN.
Home Birth in the Netherlands (2020)
I’m pro-wolves because they are a keystone species that keeps the entire ecosystem in check.

I’d happily let predators into my urban area, cause the deer and geese cause their own damage. If some house cats get eaten, that’s not so bad for the native bird population either.
As someone with a varied background, this makes me curious to learn where my speech patterns place me.

Is there any frame of reference for what characterizes a “higher class” speech pattern compared to a “lower class” one?
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Buy on-shore - COVID kind of fucked it up. I used to ignore Amazon until there was no other choice. Now it is Amazon mostly and I do not think my habit will return unless Amazon itself morphs into something different.

Buy local - I afraid other than some food there isn't much stuff that either does not come from off-shore or is made from off-shored components.
> Would you be willing to pay a premium for that?

That's literally what millions of customers do, whether they do so explicitly or not.
Part of the problem I have with them is they're bundling things in ways I don't want. What if I like their hardware and want Siri but don't want to use their app store? I don't believe most iOS buyers are buying it for privacy reasons. I bet if this was unbundled and their was an alternate store for iOS that openly used your data but apps cost 10% less a lot of consumers would choose it. You can argue that might not be a wise choice but right now its not a choice they're given.
Not really. If Facebook (and the rest of them) keep burning bridges and making enemies, in this political climate, they're going to get broken up or even liquidated if enough users leave. That is not in shareholder interest.
That sounds terribly complicated.
Really it's that adding more app stores doesn't remove those things either.

Even with things going through apple, you don't have a safe and consistent payments scheme.

With more app stores, you can still get every app that's available on the Apple app store, just as you can now. You may not have access to every app, but you don't today either
Or they have different values.

One of the things politicians say is "we are going to follow science" to avoid making a value decision.

Science can tell you the risks/benefits/tradeoffs of a decision, but you have to ultimately make a value judgement about the best course of action.

Science can tell us various things about what the wolf does and what its loss or population reduction is expected to do within a certain confidence interval. Politicians are the people, ultimately charged with taking that information and making a value decision about what to do.
The bigger problem is probably they don't have the capacity anymore, so now people will take Oakland because they have to, have a bad experience, and be like fuck Oakland.

This is precisely why the US and the world has farm subsidies. Because these kinds of supply / logistical shocks to the food supply can result in some real issues and political changes.

If we port / shipping subsidies we would keep capacity and subsidize return trips. A big part of the problem is a lack of empty containers in Asia.
If I were a share holder, I'd say that too and then expect them to break the law as long as we made more than the fine was worth.

Let's face it guys and gals. For profit is killing our world.
I want out because Apple doesn't approve the apps I want to use. Everything from emulators to cloud gaming (Xbox Game Streaming and Google Stadia) and alternative browser engines (all browsers are just Safari skins on iOS) are blocked by Apple because of their app store rules. These types of apps being blocked by Apple does not benefit anyone but Apple.
It's not Apple's fault if Android devices aren't suitable alternatives.
I view this in a different light. We have two options for platforms, one for each idea. One idea being a platform that allows for third party app stores (android) and another platform that does not (apple).

We already have a choice, between these ideas, some prefer one over the other.

I personally prefer the platform that is better integrated, designed, and backed by the company already making the hardware and software. If I have an issue, I know who to go to.

If the other option were more obviously beneficial, why haven't alternative App Stores on Android succeeded yet? What's holding the maintainers of those alternative stores back from growth?

Maybe the answer in this case is that it really is just better (in a relativistic way) for the majority of people to interact with the same entity producing the rest of their phone's core software and perhaps even easier for developers to not have to contend with varying rules and policies across multiple App Store platforms.
Is it legal for a school to request that type of information from the teachers in writing?
Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
Same here when I was younger (i.e., less fat). With a full breath of air in me, I'd float, but exhale a bit and I could sink to the bottom of a 12 ft pool without any effort on my part.
- Children learn applied mathematic principles earlier, such as odds and optimizations

- Gives children a chance to materially understand the meaning of a dollar

- Allows for demonstrations of propositional logic and formal reasoning
Humans have been interfering with key-stone species for millenia. Lions used to be relatively common throughout the Middle East, but it seems during the Neo-Assyrian Empire were hunted to extinction. I believe the Romans drove a lot of animal species in North Africa to extension because of the circuses.

We need a much more nuanced analysis than just don't interfere with a key-stone species.
Or you can pay an accountant. But yes, I hate it.
OpenWRT is unfortunately rather limiting.

For example: can you run tcpflow on your mini router?
Privacy from whom? Apple fully complies with all law enforcement requests and turns over all icloud data from a valid warrant.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

Some it seems thinks Apple keeps data private and anonymous. In fact they do the opposite and encourage using an icloud account over and over (after ever update). All of this data is easily acquired via a warrant at any law enforcement level.

A county cop (without a college degree) investigating his neighbor can get all this info simply submitting a scanned PDF of a warrant from a county judge.
Absolutely not believable, at best an isolated anecdote. Urban India is the one place where "casteism" is almost irrelevant. Like everywhere else it is economic conditions that drive everything.

More specifically, it is in Southern India where "upper-caste Brahmins" are at the receiving end due to the long lived "Dravidian" movement.
Oh don't you know that acts of free will only take place in the subset of chains of cause and effect that can be traced to the (decoherence-induced) collapse of a quantum state, and also just happen to turn out to be perfectly randomly distributed samples of the particular distribution quantum physics predicts for that situation?

Free will of the gaps lives on [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
>"It's a benefit for computer literate people too."

Sure, maybe. I do not care as I personally do not feel any benefit. I am most likely in minority but that does not mean I have to tailor my opinions.

Not even really criticizing Apple / Google. I want my phone to be able to function as normal Windows / Linux PC except that its phone capability would be able to function even if the rest of the OS is crashed. Such product simply does not exist outside of half baked attempts and I am not willing to waste my time/money on those.
As per that site, you can still deal directly with the govt and avoid MyGovID.
Second Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale – Schneier on Security
Given the long history of Akkadian and cuneiform usage by all of their neighbors, it's not as if they had to forsake writing. Just look at the ruins of Ebla for a comparison of civilization at that time.
> If you were an architect with those kinds of clients you would have a list of potential builders with track records of successfully completing similar work.

My point is that you don't have to have this knowledge, and you don't have to hire expert craftspeople and pay them expert wages if you can have a machine do the difficult work.

> And most importantly you would know that right angles are almost always the right answer...

Not necessarily. Box-shaped rooms work nicely, but the most important thing is to not have acute angles between walls. (IIRC Christopher Alexander goes into this in A Pattern Language in defense of right-angle walls, but for some reason neglects to consider rooms with more than 4 sides as an option.) Greater than 90 degrees is fine as long as it doesn't present a problem for the intended use (i.e. client expects furniture to fit at right angles). Also, if you're printing a whole house you can design benches, shelves, desks, and so forth into the design. Or maybe contract out to some service that will make the furniture based on a 3D model.

A big part of why walls are straight and meet at right angles is that building materials are generally straight and expect to be joined at right angles. Anything else turns into a complicated geometry problem that takes a lot longer to build. With a 3D printer, though, that's not a limitation. It doesn't matter how simple or complicated a design is, it takes about the same amount of time to print and uses about the same amount of material. The main constraints then just become what's strongest, nicest-looking, and most functional. Most people will probably prefer box-shaped rooms, but the point is that they'll have options if a box-shaped room isn't optimal.

One could imagine if house-design software becomes sufficiently advanced, you could dispense with the architect as well. Someone who wants a house could just log onto a website, identify the site where the house is to be built, and specify a bunch of constraints and preferences, and then the backend software generates a bunch of house plans. The customer choses the one they like and pay the money, then a building permit is applied for and a printing machine and work crew show up on site and assemble a house that's unique and exactly suited to its site.
They have a nasty problem of behaving completely amorally until someone points it out.
Thanks for the honest answer. I wasn't clear on who would be at risk because I just don't know how these things work. It's a bold position to take.
I wanted a 5900x but settled for a 5950x bundled with a useless one year of Microsoft 365 for a $100 premium over MSRP.
that's the long and short of it, idaho is a super conservative state (which generally resent environmentalism) with a powerful farm lobby.

https://www.idahopress.com/postregister/farmandranch/idaho/w...
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Iterable CEO Justin Zhu ousted for taking LSD at work
By intent, I mean facebook does not choose specifically immoral things and it just happens to be super profitable; they show whatever is profitable, which happens to be immoral things. I don't mean "they don't mean to show bad ads" because they do, I mean "they would just as quickly choose another category if it meant more profits".
> There are strict policies internally about viewing someone’s browser history: it is prohibited.
https://www.mightyapp.com/mightyapp.com/security

This is a strange commitment to pricacy. Not that there’s a technical barrier to employees accessing data, but something along the lines of “we wrote up a rule in the company wiki, so we trust that employees won’t violate it”
I recently switched from gitk to qgit as my always-open repo status tool, and qgit doesn't show staged/unstaged changed separately like gitk. As a result, using the staging area suddenly has higher friction.

What I found myself doing is using a plain old commit instead of a staging area. Where I would previously build a commit in the staging area before I finally create it, I now simply keep amending it until it suits my need. It oftens starts out with a message like "WIP". This also scales to building multiple commits (use --fixup instead of --amend, and checkout instead of stash).

In practice the workflow is very similar and I was surprised by how little the removal of a core feature that I used all the time actually affects me.
Sam Harris very recently published a podcast where he updated his stance on free will - worth a listen as he explored in depth the direct quote towards the end of the article: "If one pays sufficient attention, one can notice that there's no subject in the middle of experience – there is only experience. And everything we experience simply arises on its own."

In saying that he says that most of our actions simply come out of the fast thinking system, and when we think something through slower we have an "illusion of free will" but still act in a way that to an external observer would say was "in character".
I didn't mention this but it didn't happen initially, only after a couple months did the random screen errors happen. And power cycling, disconnecting/reconnecting/changing cables, etc to the monitor changes nothing.
Very well put. This whole BLM and white priviledge movement looks like it's setup to cause trouble, not solve issues. I think it's detrimental to the black cause too, so I wonder who and with what purpose is pushing this messaging?

Like you said, it would have been so much easier for everyone to acknowledge the black dis-priviledge. In the current state of affairs, the poors of Appalachia are somewhat privileged? That's laughable, they haven't had a good chance in generations.
While I am on the Mighty waitlist, I am skimming this thread to find quick alternatives for remote desktops that are fast? (shadow.tech waitlist until march 2022..OK..)

I will use Mighty but would like to find quick remote desktop software in general, any recommendations?
they did. we paid a lot of money to reintroduce wolves. you did, your taxes did.

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2020-01-14/25-yea...

https://www.idahopress.com/postregister/farmandranch/idaho/w...

same thing in michigan.

it's emblematic of how the culture has shifted far to the conservative. environmentalism is out, the farm lobby is powerful, and now we'll straight-up shoot the wolves we spent so much time reintroducing.

at this point it's just another bullet in the culture war more than anything. farmers want them gone and doing so will piss off the libs, so why not?

> “That was the camel’s nose,” says former Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter. “The unintended consequences were the fact that after the introduction, even with the denials, the populations of wolves exploded, the federal government had control of them, and they weren’t going to turn it over to the states.”

killing the wolves will piss off the libs and show Washington who's boss and that's what conservative states want.
You should actually read the article, perhaps after first setting down the axe you're grinding. The details are interesting, and they discuss the Reuters piece you linked to.
I ordered a printer from Staples with an estimated delivery date about a week and a half out. When I checked on that order a few days later the delivery date had been changed to over a month out. It changed every time I checked, sometimes sooner, other times later. Eventually it shipped about three weeks after the order was placed. Not an ideal experience but I wasn’t really expecting one. If having to wait on or go without some non-essential goods is the worst thing I have to deal with from the pandemic then I’ll consider myself fortunate.
You get job offers from FB recruiters.
Genuinely curious, do GPUs help with multiple browser tabs? I was assuming it's the RAM's job.
The landing page looks nice but has a lot of hand-wavy claims. For instance,

> Your Internet speed while using Mighty is over 1 Gbps.

How's that work if it isn't?

> 2 more hours to stay in flow

How are you going to improve my battery life by that much when I run a 4K monitor that makes it impossible?

It's also full of claims that would be labeled as [citation required] if it was on Wikipedia.

> uses 10x less memory

Where are the profiles? Where's the network timing graph?

You can get most of the way there by using Auto Tab Discard.
https://github.com/rodrigogs/xvideos-random

It is a very early project. I want to improve it in the future.

The cool part is that it uses dontpad as a database :P
I think it’s a bit of a false argument. The walls to entry are high.

Thanks think if users had to enable “unsafe” apps on the App Store than that would be fair. The whole “Benefit” from these walled gardens was that they would have some validation.

In reality their walls are revenue funnels.
in my case power cycling does not change anything, could be a separate issue for you. In my case it is also retaining a "ghost" of previous pages I've had open. It does eventually go away (and most of the time is not there).
Do you mean insulated concrete form houses, or something where whole wall sections come in a single prefabricated piece?

My impression is that ICF tends to cost about the same as stick frame construction, but I'm not an expert in these things.
Git LFS is really robust these days. Personally I think its faster then Perforce now. Reconciles can hang and there's just so much more that can be done in git without hitting the network.

GitLFS supports locking too.
Of course not. But the limited selection of alternatives certainly adds to the pain of switching platforms. Therefore it's not so simple to "just buy another phone".
Trumps tariffs are designed to bring back jobs to the USA. We shouldn’t be giving so much money to China.
Protocol – An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols
It is very interesting to me that components in OTP like GenServer, Register, and Supervisor are surprisingly intuitive if one tries to learn and play Erlang first, but not so obvious and possibly looks artificial if people don't learn Erlang in the first place.

At first, I was surprised that the Erlang processes resemble the Actor model in such a minimalistic interface. Then I play with them for a while, I realized I wanted to extract something similar to GenServers. Then when I played with GenServers, soon I was bothered by a bunch of Pids, and yearning for Registry. In the end, Supervisor is also pretty natural because things in the universe generally cannot revive themselves.

In a retrospective, OTP resembles a lot of concepts we are familiar with, the Registry just looks like how the web works because we need to resolve the address problem. And vice versa: Docker, Service Discovery, and Kubernetes look like GenServer, Registry, Supervisor respectively just at different scales.

It seems to me to let our systems fulfill some properties, some recurring themes are required. We'll reuse them or rediscover them one way or another.
AltStore requires a software developer to set it up and use it. Not anywhere close for non-tech people, let alone elderly.
I have to say, it's an interesting design. I have my reservations about portions of it though. Insulation of recycled newspaper makes me very uncomfortable with the idea of what happens if it catches fire. That said, it's just one small aspect of the whole I'm uneasy with so far (but I haven't watched it all).
Not really. Experts can still detect if something is a deep fake, and the punishment for trying to pass one off as evidence is severe.
This would overwrite any other classes as well, which might be fine if you don’t have any but could lead to bugs later on if you forget about this behavior.

I don’t really think the point brought up by the other commenters is an issue. If the `no-js` class is missing, that’s a bug. Allowing it to be missing or present makes the behavior hard to reason about: If there is neither a `js` or `no-js` class, what is the desired behavior?

If the elimination of coupling is desired, maybe we should get rid of the `no-js` class altogether and interpret the absence of a `js` class to indicate no js. I think I like this solution best.
Yes, this reads like it was written by someone who has never run a real Facebook ad. Facebook routinely accidentally blocks legitimate advertisers from running normal, compliant ads, and there's a massive underground devoted to beating Facebook's algorithms to get non-compliant ads running. This looks like they just got lucky with a few ad sets, and since they never set them active, it looks like they might've not been approved, anyway.
Smaller towns here in the northwest that have developed suburbs over the last decade or two are overrun with deer, because coyotes have been displaced. It's a real problem.
I actually kind of like 'liege' and 'vassal': if we really need to replace the current terminology, I'd definitely be open to 'liege'/'vassal'.

I'm going to assume you were joking about 'm-word' and 's-word', because there is no world in which I can imagine people having technical discussions while saying that...