skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, there is a huge market for those peddling certainty and reduced risk while also taking on very little liability of risks associated with the work.

People love security theater where some professional swoops in and assures them everything is fine. In some cases you have to rely on an expert but in many cases, I've found that for anything significant, I can't outsource risk assessment because it's not worth it most of the time. No one doing the assessments have enough liability or incentive to do a deep assessment, it often simply costs too much relative to what you're assessing.

Now if you're completely naive or ignorant about something or the total risk is known and is relatively low, then it doesn't hurt to pay a small fee for the quick risk assessment passover made by an expert who will be more likely to spot things than you. Also, if someone really has significant liability for their assessment, they tend to be very direct to the point of pointing out low risks they normally would brush over.

I recently purchased a home and it was hooked up to a private well. The seller said it was fine, the inspector said everything looked fine based on old test data, and a private well inspector said it looked fine. Not a single one of them thought it was worth testing the water quality beyond the bare minimum, only concerned about quantity. It turns out, I spent a part of 4-6 years developing water quality monitoring infrastructure and performing water quality analyses and had it not been for the knowledge I had and always skeptical attitude, I wouldn't have batted an eye. I told them to all stuff it and perform a water quality test or I was rejecting on other terms. Good thing I was difficult because there were all sorts of issues (bacteria, organic and inorganic issues) and I may have even gotten sick or a guest could have gotten sick.

Years ago I had a health scare and saw three independent doctors that thought it was nothing, even after describing my symptoms but there were too many red flags for me to ignore accept their opinions. I suggested a specific condition to each of them and they brushed it off like I was crazy. They didn't have the same level of risk or incentive for their time in their assessments to push forward and didn't want to acknowledge that even a low level of uncertainty could be true. Sure enough, I found a fourth doctor to check, they listened, and did appropriate diagnostics eventually confirming via lab and in person diagnostics I was correct. This isn't something that frequently occurs, not a hypochondriac.

Professional risk assessment can be useful but you should always be skeptical of it given the lack of liability and incentives many have. They want to get paid and move to their next transaction. Such is our highly transactional society where people really don't care about other people or can't afford to care about other people in the name of efficiency.
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Movie stars and anti-Filipino race riots: Secret history of Macintosh Studios
> Does being hit by a 6500 lb vehicle as a cyclist or pedestrian really differ materially from being hit by a 7500 lb vehicle...?

Depends how fast it's going.
Right now the majority of development I'm doing is Python/JS/TS. I've been really liking the Pylance extension by the MSFT team for VSC, it is so much faster than Mypy etc.

Then for JS/TS, the out-of-the-box support is what won me over from being a ST user for nearly 10 years.
He didn’t improperly act as you said and was not interested in this situation other than for the benefit of irc.

To be clear, I have sponsored so many FOSS projects in the past and it’s pretty common knowledge within FOSS — for example even freenode ;)
If you are hauling concrete or mortar mix, you wouldn’t want the dust getting into the cabin. You can of course get vans that partition the passenger space away, but then that would make it impractical as a family car.
> I smashed windows on 20 buildings and took cash out of their registers.

More like they posted on your facebook pro-<insert your kink here> messages. There's some value in grounding the analogy in reality.
Why would the Linux Foundation get to decide on if those researchers are allowed to experiment on and waste the time of volunteer developers?

Granted, In the case of linux, it might make more sense if it were the combination of the Linux Foundation & Linus. It's their project, they can subject their volunteers to any tests they want. It may drive away some volunteers, but wether to take that risk or not, is up to the project to decide. For something as big as the kernel they may decide to get permission from the individual maintainers, maybe even limit the research to only the subsystems that agree to participate.

In any case, the point I'm trying to make, is that this kind of testing may be beneficial, if the project is aware of it, and agrees to it. Who gets to decide on behalf of the project, would depend on the hierarchy of each project.
Would it be fair to say that the ones shutting down are not the ones receiving more business during the pandemic? Or are you saying that their new found success has actually killed them? Because the claim by the original comment here is that volume doesn't matter.
Here in Seattle, I have one close friend with a pickup, everyone else drives Subarus (no exception).

But in all seriousness, he gets asked about 1.5x a week if someone can borrow his truck, it's insane how far this "ask" stretches itself. It drives him a little bonkers, but he's also a pretty nice guy so he says yes more than he should.

Anyways, I'd probably buy a smaller pickup because of how often my partner buys and sells used furniture as a hobby, but I don't want to be the friend with the truck in the city.
This is pretty awesome.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/ford-f-150-lightning-elect...

> “If your F-150 Lightning is plugged in when your outage occurs, Intelligent Backup Power will automatically kick in to power your home,” said Ryan O’Gorman, Ford’s energy services lead, in a video briefing prior to the reveal. “When power is restored, the truck automatically reverts to charging its battery.”
“Be My Weasel” AI made music video – What happens when OpenAI CLIP meets BigGAN?
>They don't need culture

Everybody needs culture, and few people « need » programming beyond those with a a natural disposition for that sort of activity. And I don't know how that's a point relevant at all the subject of the thread.
Wasn't there something going on in 2020 that closed all the cinemas and that?
I realized a few weeks ago that the house I've lived in for 5 years, I don't even know where a single phone jack is in the house. Except for the one that I tucked up in the attic when I remodeled the kitchen.
That's probably because buses have more interaction with pedestrians, both due to people getting in and out, but also, operation in urban areas where there's a lot of pedestrian traffic.
I have never seen a cable internet provider even advertise upload bandwidth, much less actually deliver it. They don’t even bother promising 2Mbps. Check Comcast/Spectrum/Cox/etc websites.

I assume the only reason they do not is because that is how little upload capacity they have.
Yeah, sure.

Then Bell System had to be broken down, and even that wasn't enough.

The whole mess with internet access in US is due to local monopolies held up by idiotic regulations. More regulations won't ever solve the problem.
Go to bed at 21-23 and get up at 08 every day.

Eat breakfast when you get up, lunch around noon and dinner at 18:00, even if the meals are just small ones. Healthy food is better, but it’s the schedule that’s important.

Try to do the housework as you notice it. See a dirty dish? Clean it right away. See dirt on the floor? Vacuum it. But do it in small bursts where you don’t exhaust yourself. It’s perfectly fine to just vacuum the parts where you noticed the dirt and not the entire room for instance.

Try to keep your mind on whatever your doing. If you’re vacuuming you’re vacuuming. You’re not vacuuming while thinking about your finances.

Take a long walk each day, preferably in nature. Figure out which time is the least stressful for you. For some it’s morning, others it’s evenings, and others it’s not the same time each day but changing.

Stop worrying about your future. Whenever you get the dark and worried thoughts, tell yourself that things will work out. (This bit is going to feel stupid until it doesn’t).

Take some time out each day to give yourself compliments, possibly in front of a mirror. (This bit is asleep going to feel stupid until it doesn’t).

Don’t beat yourself up if you go days without doing any of these things, or anything in general. It’s perfectly ok to have “non-days”, especially when you’re depressed.

All of these things are hard to learn, and learning them and staying motivated with them while they are not working is easier if you get therapy.
I find it ironic that you bring up fuel spent for what is a one-time inconvenience when pickup trucks are some of the most inefficient vehicles out there. A regular pickup will do about 14 l / 100 km. A modest ford focus will easily do 5 l / 100 km on the highway.
Indeed.

Even HN cannot see past the perverse dangers and flaws of modern auto design responsible for the current vulnerable road user epidemic in America. [1] When it comes to cars - it's "personal responsibility". When it comes to treadmills - it's a "manufacturing flaw" [2]

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killi...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846641
I’ve been using Matrix with Riot, now Element, for 5 years and it’s only ever gotten worse. You really shouldn’t expect to see improvements.
The pass can be used for tickets to the cinema, museum and theatre, or to buy books, art materials, dance courses and instruments or an online subscription.

Am I being cynical in thinking the "culture" they use it on will be dominated by cinema and online and streaming stuff?

This sounds like a good initiative but I am not sure how helpful it is bundling in theatre, museum etc with more mass-market-friendly entertainment options. I note the classic French prohibition on some of the more American (ie. popular) digital choices though.
The market can go nuts, and regarding vehicle size, it is. It's basically an arms race.
Its not a complete solution obviously - but it is pretty good in a pinch - and doesn't require installing a bunch of dedicated batteries.

And for most scenarios it works - having some energy is always better than none. eg. The fridge will stay cold enough while you go shop for more food or whatever.
Got it. Well, I can say I prefer reading off my cell phone screen, and watching videos off the tablet screen. And laptop is annoying because the keyboard always manages to be in the way.
I’m a big fan of the simple, one tip per page layout
Keep in mind with the dealership model, you are easily paying a 25% or more premium on that vehicle.
This situation is in combination with the longstanding disconnect between academic researchers and applied sciences folks. I say “disconnect” as if that were a two way street, but most of the spherical cow thinkers are on the academic side. People doing real work bristle at their lack of exposure to reality. I worked while still in school and the difference was literally and figuratively night and day. I quickly became an informed consumer and it meant that sometimes in class I was sitting on my hands to keep from disagreeing with the teachers about why something is done a certain way. It was shocking how often they were wrong, and occasionally ass backward. Ultimately I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

But season this old recipe heavily with some “fuck around and find out” and things get pretty spicy.
I don't know what you heard about Data61, but as bad as the federal government is, they don't go around micro-managing ~10-person research groups of CSIRO business units.

This is entirely on the current Data61 leadership. There's nothing more to it.
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> 1) In early 2021, the freenode website was altered to begin prominently
> mentioning Shells, a company that Andrew co-founded [4].
>
> This was not discussed among staff at the time. This caused some
> disruption and considerable confusion among staff for months afterward,
> as to how to handle user inquiries about it, of which we received many.
>
> Ultimately, christel chose to resign rather than explain the situation to
> us.
>
> As an addendum, this is *extremely* irregular. All website advertising is
> usually only found at [5].
>
> [4] https://www.shells.com/l/en-US/team
> [5] https://freenode.net/acknowledgements

This is the incident that kicked everything off.

https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd...
You say "Dismissing the problem with facile insults degrades the dialogue" and also "all republicans are racist" with such ease.
Hypocrits. French authorities are enemies of culture (unless culture means big-budget productions). About a decade ago they passed HADOPI law which outlawed "missecurising your Internet access" (which obviously means nothing) because that's the only legal loophole they could find to fine people for ALLEGEDLY downloading protected torrents. That is despite the fact that a serious study ordered by HADOPI itself showed that sharing cultural goods for free had significant positive impact on cultural commerce as well.

More local authorities are constantly harassing or outright closing down artistic spaces (not the fancy ones for bourgeois) like in Toulouse where MixArt Myrys in Toulouse which is also home to a local hackerspace and non-profit Internet Service Provider (tetalab and tetaneutral respectively).

And as somebody pointed out elsewhere in the thread, this culture pass used to be 500€ previously. All in all, as a french person i dare say, fuck this government (and any other, really).
The music is excellent too.
I said powerful router because running CAKE/fq_codel means your router's CPU will be processing each packet. Which is not normally the case for a router processing unicast traffic without an AQM algorithm.

For instance, much of Ubiquiti's lineup will choke on anything over 500mbps w/ fq_codel (aka Smart Queue) enabled.
The screenshots seems incomplete, which makes me doubtful to trust them. If you are able to show the full conversations it could enlighten me further, but truncated pictures and screenshots won't do.

The internal reorganization and structure seems a sensible thing to do (as an outsider it even looks like an improvement) and was agreed by all the staff. You weren't supposed to interfere so why a new structure and reorg would affect you ?

You also seemed to be annoyed by them improving the current IRCd. Why that would matter to you ?
Automatic breaking systems are getting even better and have been pretty good for awhile. You can expect preventable fatalities of pedestrians and other drivers from cars and trucks to decline as this technology becomes better.
That is somehow the most German thing I've read in a while. It's also really droll to see all these very typically German personalities given the high-middlebrow US magazine nonfiction "a thirty-two-year-old psychologist with blond hair and a steely demeanor" treatment.
That's okay, speaking as a physicist the connections between entropy and information are not at all obvious at first glance and you have to “get used to them.” For example, Maxwell's demon makes more sense if you phrase the second law as “there is no physical process which can move heat long-term from a colder temperature to a hotter temperature, without some extra input of energy.” So this says that refrigerators can work, but they only work by consuming power. There is no “spontaneous” flow the other way.

Given that statement of the second law, you can very well imagine Maxwell saying, “well if a tiny fluctuation can transfer heat from cold to hot temperature, why can't I just look at these fluctuations and filter out the ones that I don’t want, and then I have a long-term process?” And it is not obvious that every mechanism for filtering is going to require energy input.

Feynman gave a better example: a ratchet. A ratchet allows motion one way but not the other. Connect it to a wall between two gases, now the statistical fluctuations where the cold side happens to be pushing more on the wall can move the wall one way, and then the hot side cannot move it back because of the ratchet. You kind of have to peek inside the ratchet and see these springs and bits of metal interlocking, to see how the problem is resolved.

The “entropy of erasure” argument is huge because it gives a very different language for all of this, one where these ratchets and filters are viewed as information processors like computers, and run into fundamental bounds on information processing which require the input of energy. So yes, it is several steps of derivation on (the above definition of the 2nd law doesn't even mention entropy!) and is more abstract, which is necessary to be more universal. But if you're not trying to be universal, you can see the ratchet with its asymmetrical cog and the pawl and the spring holding them together, and I just tell you that at nonzero temperature the spring & pawl must be randomly jittery and you can start to realize, “oh, ratchets can only work if they are refrigerated to get that energy out of the spring, once the random jitter is about the size of the cog’s notches, fuggedaboutit!”... Entropy of erasure says basically that this is going to be a universal problem.
I certainly didn’t expect it to be, or I would’ve added something about the truck lol

I’m interested to see what exactly is included in the base model and when that will become available since they’ve only given us information on higher trims so far. $40K for this vehicle is very affordable, that’s about as cheap as you can get a new Model 3 right now but at least for awhile it could be eligible for electric vehicle credits. If the government extended these credits they could get A LOT of people to buy these trucks.
The markets can stay insane longer than you can stay solvent. :)

Don't worry, its coming.
There's a great article by Hans Magnus Enzensberger called A Theory Of Tourism which goes into this: https://mestrantroponova.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/hans-ma... [PDF, 1MB] The issue is that there's effectively no "good" level of tourism (unless you sell things to tourists I suppose).

Edit: The analysis itself starts on the third page, after comparing and contrasting two travel journals from centuries apart.
Apparently there's still more to see if you dig deeper, but I'm unfamiliar with Chrome's UI for invalid certificates.

If you can open your terminal, this may be easier:

% openssl s_client -connect web.dev:443

It will hang (I guess awaiting more commands) but you can use Control-C to kill the connection.

The gist below has the first several lines showing what you should see.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/68ab1317d4b7677951069baf95c...
The fact that this statement was delivered as a PDF tells us all we need to know.
Well, the provincial government in Quebec. The rest of Canada is pretty Americanized.
You're right, I went back and reread the post. I retract my statement about deflecting responsibility.
> it exists because Elon et al. convinced a bunch of other people to cooperate on making a car.

Surely you meant to write "Martin and Marc", not "Elon".
CEO salaries are made public. We object to them, but most of us don't intentionally avoid working for companies that have that outsized pay discrepancy.

Likewise, if I'm making more than I could at any other company, but then found out a coworker was making twice as much as me, I'd still not leave.

How much coworkers are paid doesn't affect whether or not we leave the company; it's how we're paid compared to the rest of the market that does. Just taking that off the table.

What it DOES affect is our morale and our own performance. To that end, it benefits companies to either keep it secret, or to try and ensure that pay discrepancies within the same role match the actual performance. If that person making double or triple what you do is actually delivering 2x or 3x what you are, and you know that if your own performance increases, your comp will too, that seems like solid incentive. If it's completely disconnected, your morale will drop, and your performance likely -will- drop to be half or a third of what that person's is, and it becomes self-fulfilling.

I think the main benefit to making compensation transparent is that it also forces the company to be very mindful about how compensation and performance are tied. They're supposed to be anyway; that's already a goal. It just raises the stakes for getting it right.
I sleep outside most days year-round and the morning chatter of the birds is a delight. I understand none of it. Maybe they, like us, enjoy hearing themselves talk?
I live in rural America. I have a bit of generalized fear toward truck drivers exactly because they tend to be the most aggressive and dangerous on the road. They also belch diesel pollution and that can get into my cabin. So I own a big vehicle to be somewhat closer in footing, which is itself ridiculous.
Yes, compared to cars even a decade ago modern cars are very bloated. Have you seen an original 500 from the 50's/60's or 70's? They weighed around 1100 lbs. A modern base trim Fiat 500 weighs around 2400 lbs.

We all realize it's due to safety, but a lot of sports cars have gotten progressively less fun as a result. The M3 is no longer a small nimble sedan. It's larger than the 5 series was from only 2 generations ago. That's all he's pointing out.
Wake up, coffee, start working until I get stumped, lunch, work until stumped again, take a half hour walk or shower, then depending on the time either take detailed notes about my ideas or put them into code. If a problem is too big to chew in those breaks then thinking about it _is_ the “work” for the day.

To actually answer the question, probably around 6hrs per week. I work on half wacky theoretical idea projects and half code monkey implementation
It definitely does, and it's normal operation. We're supposed to eat lots of indigestible material; whole vegetables and grains contain a lot of indigestible fiber, which is necessary to support a healthy gut biome and efficient bowel operation. Corn husks, for example, are easy to see when they come out the other end.

So here again, how does your stomach "know" when to stop trying to digest certain pieces of food and let them pass on to the small intestine? This topic is called gastric emptying, and it's a whole other rabbit trail. Your stomach monitors the chemistry of the food in it-- specifically, the chemistry of the digestion products generated as the food breaks down. It knows lots of details about the carbohydrate, protein, and fat being released, and it knows how quickly its digestive enzymes and acids are being used up. So it knows how much more work needs to be done, and whether or not its worth trying to get more nutrients out of a piece of unchewed nut, for example.

There are many other variables, and I think digestion is still largely shrouded in mystery. Studies have shown variation in gastric emptying rates based on the biological activity of food, infections in gut tissues (even if they're subclinical, i.e., you don't feel unwell), time of day, and even the person's emotional state. The guts are the seat of a large part of the autonomous nervous system, and science has barely scratched the surface of it.
Interview with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite (2016)
A Theory of Tourism (1958) by Hans Magnus Enzensberger [pdf]
Can you elaborate? What went wrong?
this is a weak argument on several levels. if you need to move things five times a year, rent a pickup truck. Unless you're moving things on the regular, there's no point owning a very inefficient and heavy vehicle.