skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It chooses not to.

Sometimes it does, which provides an interesting case study that proves slibhb's point -- "A law that is followed only as long as it is enforced is not much of a law and is unlikely to last."

One example is a portion of interstate near the St. Louis airport that runs through St. Ann, MO. (right next to Ferguson, MO), which resulted in changes to state law [1].

Many other munis in that region -- most notably Ferguson -- went far beyond strips of interstate and handed out fines as abundantly as possible, enforcing every law with an iron fist. And then the whole area exploded into chaos, reverberating out of the local community and, over a period of years, boiled over in dozens of communities.

You can rule with an iron fist. Until you can't.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/st-louis-county-municipal-cou...
That’s incredibly messed up. I was inclined to write this report off as a conspiracy but the more I read the more angry I got.

They even paid the damn ransom and it took them days to get to the point of restarting. $5 million to the hackers.

This is a company that forces workers to make repairs to live equipment because they refuse to shut off any part of the pipeline. Dangerous welding and high voltage electrical repair work. This is unconscionable.
How do you get a countries' culture not overwhelmed and wiped out by a foreign one when your frontier is right beside the world's biggest producer of content?

If we give up, all those small productions will never find a way to flourish, or even become a giant themselves.
Canada could have been the best country in the world, having access to French cuisine, British culture, and American technology.

Instead it chose to be the worst country in the world, picking French technology, British cuisine, and American culture.

IMO taxing Canadians to produce losers that no one wants to watch is just subsidizing an elite class of "content creators" that add nothing to Canadian society.

Instead they should let the private system work it out. Canada can produce fantastic television without doing it on the back of tax-payers, see: Letterkenny.
> That list didn’t have “don’t be a dick”, so not sure what you’re talking about.

What I’m talking about is that these two pieces of advice effectively include being a dick, and that being a dick undermines several of the others.

> You can be collaborative and still ensure your own work gets its due credit.

Of course. And you can ensure your work gets credit while crediting others, and while pulling additional weight to support others. I’m saying this from experience helping numerous teammates—especially mentees—advance their careers, and having been helped in my own career advancement by those same teammates because they were happy to share how I’d helped them. Even behind my back, per the list of advice.

I’m saying that there are plenty of ways to both advance your own career and champion/help your colleagues at the same time. And that treating those goals as a conflict is a great way to lose the conflict you create.
> Proof of Steak

There’s so much scope for word play humour here that I’m paralysed by choice. Vegetarianism, steak and chips…
I can't help but see Mars as a dead rocky that has no special value compared to the billions of others in the galaxy. But Earth, as far as we know, is a unique jewel containing countless unique ecosystems.

It must be very different to you, having studied it. Like how a biologist may have a fondness for a particular nemotode worm which means nothing to most of us. It makes me feel shortsighted thinking of it in this way. Reminds me of pro-colonial/imperialist rhetoric like this[0].

Will our descendents see us the same way? Is there a good reason we want to extend our empire into the stars other than... seeing it a lot in sci-fi media?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
Have you tried working through the book[1]? Rust tends to be much harder to learn though experiments/doing than other languages. It can be beneficial to work through the book, even if that's not normally the way you go about learning.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
Reminder that these same clowns have leaked over a million gallons of gasoline into a nature preserve in North Carolina.

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063725961
Tesla has made profits continually (even during the pandemic) for more then 2 years.

They stated clearly that putting less then 10% of their cash assets into something that was highly liquid, but had also chance at gaining value was preferable to cash.

Specially because they can make it liquid difference currencies very fast.
someone else on the internet writing a function does not make the c programming language more complicated. c's (lack of) library namespacing, which is responsible for this confusion, is, frankly, one of those valid critiques, but this is gibberish.
Gravity does seem like a disadvantage, but satellites have worked pretty well for the other problem... we've even got some in place around Mars already.
Sure it restricts specific speech - speech deemed to not meet Canadian content requirements.

And I’d love to hear an example of how free speech in Canada is “more free” than in the US.
> He's single handedly

Fun reminder, Musk did not start Tesla and bought his way into the company. His involvement should not be understated, but it's had years of management shuffles and changes of direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.
Wait, did you not just do that above, calling Musk not that bright?
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Had I known that I would have probably been more inclined to immediately read more! I love lisps, but didn't need/want a dedicated machine, I feel foolish for assuming it wasn't something more straight forward :)
I don't know how but I am convinced that we are capable of finding out if we actually try.
Torontonian here.

Micheal Geist, the Canadian digital rights lawyer, has been giving a barnstormer of a performance on Twitter about why C-10 is bad law poorly written.

It is a handout bill written by the content industry lobby to restrict internet freedoms.

As someone firmly in the “internet” camp I oppose it.
Once you’re under chute, the airplane is picking the arrival spot.
It seems that you're implying that humans shouldn't interfere with any celestial bodies because of the inherent value of their pristine existence.

There's so many engineering and scientific advancements needed to make space-based sustainable colonies using materials sourced solely from Earth that your position would delay any colonization of space past a few great filters.

I was enjoying your takes on preserving Mars, but saying that humanity should only be allowed to change Earth is nihilistic in the extreme.
Some other people and I made this and its not fully out yet. The chat is chat.chatcomm.net, if you look at the time of the messages sent the hour and sometimes the AM & PM are incorrect. I need some help fixing that.
The population created the gas shortage, even where there was no threat of a gas shortage.
Independent of the political or legal questions being discussed in other threads, I feel like I should point out that YouTube ALREADY does this.

I get recommendations for CBC news, and other Canadian news channels and other Canadian content. Most of it is not notable because it's already part of my cultural experience of "Normal", but perhaps an American would look at it and think it was quaint. I do notice the opposite when i go to America and find TV commercials ridiculously over the top.

A few years ago, I moved to a small European country for a couple of years where I didn't speak the language, and just by the nature of my Geolocation (and home country settings in my Google account), my YouTube recommendations were rife with content specific for that country.

Either the EU already has this regulation in place, or YouTube believes that local recommendations are useful for engagement. For me personally, it was a mixed bag. It was interesting to see what the Algorithm thought the locals would enjoy, and it was somewhat culturally immersive. But it also ultimately was not interesting to my (decidedly North American) sensibilities.

When I moved back to Canada, I was relieved to see my recommendations default to a North American focus.
I use fly to host a few apps and its fantastic. Extremely responsive and it handling TLS offload is great from a performance perspective.

I find their billing dashboard leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still very nervous I'm going to get a big unexpected bill.
They are publically on record as having bought $1.5billion Bitcoin.

I don't think that counts as a trivial amount on the financials.
Proof of work keeps the network fair. Non mining nodes have the final say. Proof of stake lets players with the most money have the most say.
$100 USD for shipping to Australia - thats bonkers.
> How do you get a countries' culture not overwhelmed and wiped out by a foreign one when your frontier is right beside the world's biggest producer of content?

From talking to Canadians, they pride themselves with being a multicultural society. "Protecting the nation against foreign cultures" doesn't sound very multicultural to me...
> It's not perfectly documented

I want to chime in to this too.

If anyone from the Keycloak project is reading: keycloak is awesome, but the documentation is really the most painful part.

The main problem is that it assumes that people installing and/or configuring keycloak already are JBoss/J2EE experts.

Please assume knowledge of GNU/Linux systems, the OAuth/OIDC stuff, LDAP and SAML, but do not assume knowledge of JBoss.
Here's a good behavioral experiment that shows surveillance can reduce people's comfort speaking online. Likewise, if people are afraid to speak up, you aren't hearing it.

http://scratchbook.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Journalism-...
I think the difference is that this isn't being used as a tool of political suppression the way that China tries to control various tech companies. Instead it's just as valid to argue that forcing Canadians to accept 100% freely chosen content is an American value that the US is trying to force on us.

I don't mean to say that 40% is definitely the right ratio - but what societal factors are most free are going to differ from country to country. The US enthusiastically embraces the free-market as the salve for all ills - elsewhere government intervention is viewed as being more free and responsible since it can shield residents from the levels undue economic hardship that can strike Americans when it comes to trying to pay medical bills.

What is most free is not a definite objective thing, and I would note that this bill is only targeting how companies need to operate within Canada while the US has a plethora of laws dictating how companies need to act across the world in order to participate in the US market.
Is the solution that no one ever issues legitimate criticism, or that no one ever posts anything worthy of legitimate criticism? Personally, I don't find it ironic or hypocritical when people issue legitimate criticism of anything, including legitimate criticism of the preponderance of illegitimate criticism on this website. These are not two instances of "the same negativity." Issuing legitimate denouncements of people who are issuing illegitimate denouncements is not "the problem recreating itself." This is pretty much a textbook example of the paradox of intolerance.
Not that I know of. I don’t think it’s user-friendly enough to succeed as an open-source tool.
It's hard for me to believe that there is still no way to get your genes sequenced anonymously. There has to be a big enough market for a startup to do so without storing and selling "anonymised" data, right? Is it really that expensive with modern tech to sequence a person's genes and compare against an existing database? I'd pay a good deal extra to 23&me if they'd be willing to take my sample without identifying information and return my results via an [throwaway] email address.
Is that how he feels about surveillance, too? Is that why he's building probably the evilest corporation out there?
It’s sketchy that they used google tag manager? It’s a useful and extremely common tool on marketing sites. Putting it on user pages was a mistake.
> I'd rather greedy hackers shake them down for money then having the country get crippled by political terrorists or enemy nation states

These may be the same thing however.
Have you actually read his paper? Not the bunch of nonsense later published by people like Hyperloop One and other basically scam companies?

What is your bases for dismissing it? Is it videos by one youtuber (who gets reference literally by everybody on this topic)?

And even if its not the best possible solution, he basically spent some amount of time on an idea did some validation on it with teams at Tesla and SpaceX and said he thinks its a good idea and made it public.

Like even if its not the best idea ever, does that prove he is not a good engineer?

Some of the greatest engineers ever had ideas that were not actually workable in practice or were wrong about some major thing.
Ethereum co-founder donates $1B of shiba inu coin to India Covid relief
The googletagmanager or similar equivalent is pretty much required if you want to run advertisements for your service anywhere. Without that, you won't be able to figure out how many ad conversions you got - and thus the cost per install for your ad campaign.

Main thing to remember is to only have it on the landing page for the ad campaign clicks and definitely not on the signed in pages.
Two very plausible theories:

- Musk is not very smart, or at least doesn't always think decisions through or go through proper due diligence(we have evidence for this: see SEC tweets, thai children rescue, excessive management turnover, etc.)

- He (and Tesla management) know he can manipulate the crypto market. So they (first) bought $1.5B in BTC unknowingly to the public, (second) told the market they did (third) sold the BTC unknowingly to the public and (fourth) told the market that it wasn't viable and all the while keeping the profits so they can keep wall street happy/distracted from less than ideal financial performance figures.

Crypto advocates want democratization of currency. Well here ya go - whales can easily manipulate the system.
I'm sort of a 4th category then.
I've already had the virus twice. The first time I only lost sense of smell for a single day and had a very mild fever for three days, and the second time was only caught because I was lazy and didn't get good sleep the night before, so I called out "sick" from work, and they made me get tested before coming back and I tested positive while being asymptomatic. Had I not called out, wouldn't have known at all that I even had it a second time. Nobody else I came into contact with for days prior tested positive either, I do always wear a mask around others, and even while in my car while in a drive-thru.

Based on my experience of contracting the virus and being largely unaffected by it, I felt there was no urgent priority for me over others to receive the vaccine, since it's not beneficial to myself, so I waited until long after it became available to me before getting it, just self classifying as "lowest priority".

I understand the concept "getting vaccinated protects others" but at the time I contracted it a second time, the vaccine was not available to me, so having just had it for a second time, it was significantly less likely for me to contract a third time within the following few months. I did just get vaccinated on Monday with the Janssen one and so far have had no side effects at all from it.
Tesla would have been dead if he had not brought the Fremont factory back online. I give him credit for this, as I think ignoring the “rules” was one of the smartest business moves ever made in 2020.
Vaccinations weren't an option last May, which is when Musk was saying Covid would be gone by, not this May.
Literally 1000s of people have been pointing this out since the very second Tesla started talking about it.
I don't think Yuval is trying to "big brain", just rationalize what the world will become under the need of "emergency" like here, Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus[1], he's not shown interest in "speculating" the origins of the virus or how the pandemic begins so compare this trait to some other "big brain" out there

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc...
> Law is primarily about voluntary submission, not power

Power is itself largely a product of voluntary submission, which radiates out. When some people voluntarily submit to the putative leadership, including in its request to back up the leaders orders with force when necessary, to report violations, etc., it increases the inclination of other people of others to submit without force being directly applied, and so on.
> Did it really ?

Electric cars were a gimmick before Tesla, almost no-one was taking them seriously, after Tesla that changed.
For which resources?

I'm not a heavy cloud services user, so the prices aren't that important to me, but fly.io seems to be on par with other providers.

I think of Heroku as fly's most direct competitor. Heroku charges $50/mo for a dedicated VM with 1 GB RAM, whereas fly charges $31/mo for dedicated VM with 2 GB RAM.
> there is no understanding in the GPT-2 system, but it's able to generate increasingly plausible text

Under some definition of "understanding". GPT understands how to link words and concepts in a broadly correct manner. As long as the training data is valid, it's very plausible that it could connect some concepts that it genuinely and correctly understands are compatible, but doing so in a way which humans had not considered.

It can't do research or verify truth, but I've seen several examples of it coming up with an idea that as far as I can tell had never been explored, but made perfect sense. It understood that those concepts fit together because it saw a chain connecting them through god-knows how many input texts, yet a human wouldn't have ever thought of it. That's still valuable.

As to how far that understanding can be developed... I'm not sure. It's hard to believe that algorithmically generated text would ever be able to somehow ensure that it produces true text, but then again ten years ago I would have scoffed at the idea of it getting as far as it already has.
I really like those diagrams. What tools/software is used to generate?
I don't know, if you have worked in mortgage processing, you know that appraisals are as much a science as an art. Many appraisers that work for banks have the uncanny ability to appraise just high enough to get the loan (within reason, of course).

There is a lot of wiggle room for appraisals. And if an appraiser is very motivated and willing to put in some extra time and effort looking for comps and finding reasons to increase, decrease based on other details, they can affect the appraisal greatly.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that an appraiser, even sub-consciously might not put in quite as much effort once they see that the owner doesn't quite look like them. I wouldn't expect that the make huge differences, but i can imagine it having an aggregate effect of statistical significance.
Unlike other market offering by Intel, Tiger Lake is good choice especially for lightweight mobile laptop.
> Elon might have had the idea,

and the money to convert the idea into execution with a high probability of losing his money.
Soapbox Labs – We are voice tech for kids
I recently started using Fly to host the anycast DNS name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com/).

There were some initial teething issues as Fly only recently added UDP support, but they were very responsive to the various bugs I reported and fixed them. My name servers have been running problem free for several weeks now.

The Fly UX via the flyctl command-line app is excellent, very Heroku-like.

For apps that need anycast the only real alternative to Fly that I found is AWS Global Accelerator, but it limits you to two anycast IP addresses, it's much more expensive than Fly and you're fighting the AWS API the whole time.
Ask HN: Why startups avoid using .NET as their primary back end framework?
I've seen a ton of startups heavily relying on JavaScript and variations of it, some Ruby on Rails but very rare I've seen companies start off with .NET. Why
"If you can bring a crowd together and keep them together, you can accomplish almost anything you want; the trick is holding them together, not just getting lucky once. But if you can do that, then it hardly matters what you’re talking about; the power of the crowd itself is what’s important, and what people are drawn towards."
why would Colonial Pipeline be the scumbag in this story?
> Economies of scale dictate that, yes, Disney and Marvel can make billions of dollars of profits year after year. And they can absolutely out-spend Canadian companies, coming from a market with 10x the number of consumers.

If it's just about the money then why did Parasites do so well globally? Canadians are free to sell their content in the US after all.

> And so this bill is an attempt to (artificially) bootstrap that same culture in the other 75% of Canada.

Why are folks from the 75% not interested in it? Seems they would rather buy American.