skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are weird creatures. It's hard to believe something so far out of the ordinary can happen until it does happen. Black swan events come to mind. Yes, the building needed a lot of work done but imminent collapse was probably not on anyones mind.

HOA politics may have been part of it, but it was probably simpler. It was going to cost a lot of money, and people tend to fight large assessments.

The bigger HOA failure sounds like 40 years of poor maintenance. There are reports of a similar building nearby that was maintained, and it shows none of the same problems.
This isn't very true though.

The bans are a very hard regulatory signal that the automakers have to contend with, that they likely would not otherwise - and it's a 'giant anchor' in the timeline for transformation that all industries can operate around. A 'date' is a form of regulatory clarity which is what businesses actually want.

The 'original bans' i.e. Denmark/California etc. make the most impact, because they're the markets that force the change, but the follow-ons matter.

15 years is actually not that long in the industry life cycle for automotive. 'Changing everything' about cars is going to be a big deal.

More importantly - it's not the auto-makers that will struggle: it's the electricity grid, battery makers, energy producers - because we have no idea what that means.

Where is the National/Provincial plan to upgrade the Energy Grid to be able to support this? Well now everyone is on notice.

Canada I think timed it correctly because I don't think bans on cars would be appropriate until there is material visibility into a solution. Electric cares are just now crossing the threshold of regular, viable utility to now is the time to flip the switch.
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Aaaaand here come the downvotes from the adherents of the religion of mRNA Technology :D Scientific objectivity is LONG GONE!

"With the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, protection against symptomatic COVID-19 was found to be 52% from 12 days after the first dose (immunity takes time to build). Protection then rose to 95% after the second dose." [1]

"Vaccine efficacy, based on the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases from 21 days after the first dose of vaccine, is reported as 91·6% (95% CI 85·6–95·2), and the suggested lessening of disease severity after one dose is particularly encouraging for current dose-sparing strategies." [2]

Dear mRNA-ists, how is 95 % after second dosis (mRNA) vs 91·6% after first dosis (non-mRNA) worth being called "hugely outperforming"?

And I didn't even go into the severe side effects of mRNA vaccines (AZ: Blood clotting in brain and/or lung; Biontech: Myocarditis, Anaphylaxia) vs virtual absence of side effects in traditional vaccines. But how dare I point those out, that's heresy, right? :O

[1] https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-why-its-import...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Search? Interaction? Collapsable sections?

It's 2021.
Yeah, you can no longer be bound by paperwork. But - having worked in digitalization projects for several megacorps - Bureaucracy is a beast, and it refuses to die - before long, you have now underemployed bureaucrats taking four weeks for registering an (internal) domain or a 14-page-project-outline with no less than 5 alignment meetings (involving ITSec, Compliance, the GDPR lawyer (even though you don't handle user-data), someone who wants to be promoted and 10 guys from Accenture for slidedeck-preparation) for a VM.
My pet theory is that Snowden's disclosure is both a bit of CIA/NSA sibling rivalry and a misinformation campaign to scare people into thinking that the NSA has far more surveillance capabilities than it really does. The goals being to frighten people into inaction and to herd them onto platforms these entities can monitor (TOR & ANOM come to mind).

That Snowden is able to rake in book and movie deals while 'on the run' makes me doubt that anybody is actually interested in catching him.
Maybe some vac manufacter will proclame he has a vac which is effective against all known mutations. Bill Gates has told in early 2020 that it is impossible to build a decent vac until late 2021. Maybe amount of vac in my country will end and I will regret for not being vacced. Maybe I will need to travel abroad and be forced to take a vac. Maybe I will catch a covid and die in sufferings depsite probability is low. I really ready to all possible scenarios and there is the only thing I want - I want _not_ to be in rush for doing what TV hurries me up to do.
'Smoking Free' bars were rare until smoking was banned.

Regulatory edicts have immense power to move needles.

Canada has several, major industries that have to make massive adjustments, a 'timeline' is very helpful to manage the transition.
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There isn't a method to estimate how often a potential warning sign is acted upon appropriately and a risk properly controlled. Engineers keeping things working are very, very rarely in the news.

In converse the universe follows laws of cause and effect. Every disaster is presaged by warning signs and could be predicted in foresight.

So this pattern is everywhere something goes wrong, but is also quite rare.
Time Team is coming back
Chomsky's point is that the N people that need to be involved is large, so even if you think it's unlikely that one co-conspirator would come forward (you are right on that), when N is large then the probability that at least one will come forward, 1-pow(1-p, N), becomes much more likely.

Your other point about people not being believed is a separate point to the above. Has there been people claiming to have been involved in 9/11 on the inside that haven't been believed?
This is very much why I keep things simple with an automated shell script[0] that creates and appends to a YYYY-MM.txt file for notes that's optimized for easy entry from the command line. I've been doing this style of note taking since 2001.

There's never any reason to think about where to save it, how to save it, what tags I should use, what it's linked to, formatting and other distracting tasks. You just run `notes` and it opens this month's file in your default $EDITOR, `notes this is my 1 liner to append to the file` or `echo "something to pipe in" | notes` depending on what you want to add.

It's just 1 continuous thought process of notes that's broken up by date and having it broken up by month is nice because if you're working on something that spans a few days you have everything together most of the time to recall it when you want it most.

Then for recalling specific older entries it's really easy to use grep and other command line tools or just open the whole directory in your editor and casually browse your notes if you want to go down memory lane.

[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
Devops is agnostic to which tool you use. The same ideas apply regardless if you use RPMs, Docker containers, VM images, ... as the format to deliver apps. (remember, the term is from 2009, and that was just when the catchy label was attached, not when people started doing these things, I'm sure good teams did things the label is appropriate for in 90s too)
The problem is your assumption that "it doesn't need to pass any code".

It varies with location but in general you first need a Building Permit, then a Certificate of Occupancy" before you can live in it.

And of course for either, the dwelling has to meet local codes.
Got it, very cool! For any students that want to freelance after they graduate, feel free to have them ping me, joel@tribe.ai (or apply directly on the site). We mainly use more experienced folks but I'm sure there are some projects where an enthusiastic new data scientist would be useful

Edit: I'm also really glad you're not selling ISAs. To me the direct connection/ownership of the debt is what really aligns the parties, not the ISA itself. Once it's sold off to a third party debt collection agency of course there is still some alignment but I think the connection gets fuzzier.
I recall being aware of A5 not being very strong and that fact not being much of a secret. But there’s a difference between using something known to be weaker than something else and using something that has been deliberately weakened in a way that allows compromise of that channel with that knowledge - which seems to be the suggestion in this article?

At that point it’s not weaker crypto, more a back door.
Over 1 million marched against the 2nd Gulf war in London and it was pointless. Anyone who was paying attention knew the wmd evidence was most likely fabricated. It's the same all over the world.
I don't feel France is nearly as business unfriendly as people like to pretend. At least not anymore. It's just an undying trope.
Honestly, why is that a problem? Installing shell extensions is trivial.
Pedant comes from French or Italian and meant teacher or schoolmaster.
Thanks for clarifying, but are you sure? On the very page I mentioned, there's a link at the bottom: "Distributing Documentation to External Developers" and on that page it says:
"Share your documentation directly with Xcode users or host it on a web server."

Sounds to me like you build that documentation using the SwiftUI-like DSL, but it is distributed in the DocC package.
Keep wondering if a smartphone maker will build in a point to point radio system like goTenna [1] or Beartooth [2].

Ideally everyone would agree on a standard and you can just text message / share location with anyone in range and mesh back to the cell network, one can hope.

1. https://gotenna.com

2. https://beartooth.com
What happened is going to be a thing that's different. Buildings don't just fall down.

It'll be something like a burst water-main creating a sink hole.

These, we should have known stories are pretty lame.
Add Indra to the list.
React's concurrent mode doesn't split DOM updates across animation frames because that would cause visual tearing. It splits all the component "overhead" and the virtual DOM cost over multiple tasks though.
That would be the plan. If it is a government contract then the government is the customer. The customer manages the project and the hired contractors do the heavy lifting.

Look to the people who actually use these systems. Once it is up and running they will all be government employees. The real work, the thing the system is designed to do, starts after the IT infrastructure is up and running. The vast majority of people reading and handling classified informatiom are government employees ... most of them in uniform.

FYI, this system is apparently mean to protect "NATO Secret" material. That isnt a very high classification. I'd call it entry level, the sort of thing that nearly everyone in uniform is cleared to see.
Every time pg puts out a new essay, we get into this privilege bingo stuff. It’s always irrelevant. There’s a huge audience of people who don’t care if their CEO is 300x better paid than they are, or that they didn’t go to an elite school, or that they didn’t have prestigious family connections: what they want to know is how did he work, what can we do to unlock our productive potential, how can we create things that we can be proud of in the same way. That’s who Graham is writing for.
> secession, you cannot secede in NK, even individually. They have machinegunners at the border, shooting everybody trying to run away

That's not what secession means.

Sometimes in authoritarian regimes, a portion of the territory under controls realizes it is powerful enough to be its own master. The ensuing conflicts might then topple the whole thing. That's how the Ottoman Empire fell for example.

Disintegration is always a risk for large entity.
In my experience a better question would have been.
"Have you worked hard on something that DID pay off???"
Most of the things that we work hard on never pay off except in terms of learned lessons.
Your estimate is way too high. At least in most parts of the country. I know because I’m building right now in a mid-priced coastal metro.

A small monolithic slab foundation is maybe $8k at most. Running buried electric on a 20 foot setback is $2k. Water and sewer lines are $3k. The municipal water and sewer tap are $5k total. And the county capacity fee is $4k. Altogether these ancillary “hookup” costs are $20k, and that’s for a “get it done fast” job at a period of labor and material shortages.
(1) That may be so, but you are not training the models on public data like sports results. You are training it on copyright protected creations of humans that often took years to write.

So your point (1) is a distraction, and quite an offensive one to thousands of open source developers, who trusted GitHub with their creations.
I'll have to study this a bit. If I can add a simple index.html file, one step up, that redirects into the bundle, that might work.
I read it. Honestly that just feels like momentum. I’d be surprised if in two years the product was recognizable
Running Mint on a T480:

1. Hibernation is broken in three different ways (1. it's disabled by default 2. it resumes instantly when certain hardware is plugged in 3. it only works if almost no programs run, probably because the default swap partition is too small)

2. Computer freezes when running out of memory. Still not sure how to improve this, perhaps a bigger swap partition, perhaps changing the OOM killer configuration or installing another OOM killer daemon.

3. Ran out of space on the boot partition so kernel updates won't work until I figure out how to manually fix that. Plus the last kernel it installed before complaining doesn't boot at all, so I have to manually pick an old one.

And my earlier attempts on other distributions didn't go better either. Fedora managed to corrupt its package manager state and started complaining about incorrectly signed packages. And on Ubuntu I didn't manage to switch to nvidia's driver, it kept using nouveau with no indication of what's wrong.
Fiber optic cables contain glass strands. That’s what’s what’s used to transfer the signal. The plastic sheet is just mechanical protection.

Not to be confused with the plastic ducts the fiber optic cables are often placed in.
There was a scandal 20 years ago about intoxicated BA pilots so they did not always take it seriously. It was first when someone made a documentary about it. I am sure there were plenty of ignored warnings before the documentary.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81889&page=1
Indeed, I should have qualified that statement with "on margin"
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It definitely is more akin to an operating system than just an editor. You can even VIM within Emacs with evil mode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
The procedure to invent a conspiracy is quite simple.

Write down all the topics which "seem important" right now.

Eg., China, USA, Trump, Biden, AI, Virus, etc.

(Where do these terms come from? Mostly the news, conversation. But each person will produce a different list.)

Now all you have to do is connect all of them. This is, in reality, not possible. So one has to dispense with every greater "obvious truths" in order to make the connection work.

It is in this attempt to rationalise a free association that we get such mythologies.

It is the heart of how schizophrenics think. Psychosis is the mistaking of importance and connection in one's perceptions. And so it is quite common to find schizophrenia in the conspiracy theory population.

However if you havent been taught to be sceptical of yourself, etc., its a fairly "natural" way to think.
Yeah, I don't think the state banning and shutting down existing municipal broadband falls into the category of "compromise".
Can I be the "lazy person" and ask which are the author's points?!
We had a tricky trademark submission recently and we were provided with a free attorney who was spectacular and very easy to work with. Your assessment matched my experience.
How Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs
Interrupt and Use Your Cognitive Biases
> What It Lacks - Markdown, or something similar - Import/export - revision control - hierarchical structuring - sharing notes with non-keep users - linking to other notes within the app

Noticed this so wanted to pitch in. Notesnook [0] solves most of these.

There is full markdown support, import from all the big note apps, you can share notes with anyone via Monograph [1].

Internal linking between notes is planned.

Google Keep is a awesome but only for taking quick notes. You are stuck as soon as you want to write something longform. Not to mention the privacy implications.

[0] https://notesnook.com

[1] https://monograph.notesnook.com
I'm very intrigued by a lot of the new education opportunities coming out of YC. Lambda have highlighted a few concerns with this model, which I think you mostly address with selective admission, course specialism and experience, that said I have a few (Lambda inspired) questions:

1. The total cost (5k direct[1], 9k ISA) is significantly cheaper than Lambda: do you see that as a reflection on the cost sensitivity of the European market or is there a reason your model allows for lower-cost execution?

2. The ISA model gives the school a vested interest in the career outcomes of students, but Lambda has highlighted that ISAs can become a debt product that is resold: do you see that model (of reselling ISAs) as part of Turing College's future?

3. Lambda has had problems with new courses being unable to deliver on the promised quality: how do you see the next few years of growth for Turing, do you expect to introduce new courses based on demand or do you expect to build out new curriculums (and test with whole cohorts) before introducing them?

4. What's the relationship between supervisors and Turing? The team page notes that these people are part-time with Turing: how do you ensure that they're able to deliver the valuable mentorship required by students? Are they volunteering? Paid per hour? How does their mentorship accommodate students that require more support than average? Does their commitment to Turing come before their work, with their employers supporting?

Very promising proposition, team etc: very interested to hear answers to the above to better understand how you are approaching the more challenging aspects.

[1] I'm an employed Software Engineer but at that price it's very tempting to enroll to build out my data science skills.
Is there a clear definition of what ZTA even is? I read the O'Reilly book, and as best I can tell, the advice was fairly obvious recommendations and also 'replace your firewall as a single point of failure and make your access-control system your single point of failure'.
With my current knowledge? Probably some sort of woodworking. It is very satisfying. But I actually don't know how or if it is profitable in any way.
Initial Thoughts on Android Code Transparency
I love Fluent Python, Luciano is a great professor and writer, also is a Brazilian (even more points for being a countryman)
Prions are not foreign proteins. They have to be misfolded native proteins to cause disease.
>you're all weak!

You have some toxic ideas about what "strength" and "weakness" are.

Strength is facing your demons, being honest with yourself, admitting your mistakes, being able to change your opinions in the face of new evidence, and admitting when you're failing. Real strength is humble.

Weakness is "manning up" instead of dealing with the problem, reducing all situations down to a conflict of two sides because the reality is too complex, being unable to admit that you were wrong, "pushing through" instead of working out why, and being unable to face reality when it's not what you expected. Weakness is a fragile ego full of pride.

Yes, software engineers wrote tracking software. That doesn't mean we all agree with what they did. They're not "our own people" because we don't see the world as "software engineers vs business guys".
The other reason for that, which he also touches on, is that conspiracies are now tied up in the narrative that undergirds identity, especially political identity. The extent of truth in a conspiracy theory isn't that relevant to the partisan news orgs. Be it systemic racism, lab leak hypothesis, influence of certain lobby groups, etc.
So just to be clear you actually believe that media being populist justify abitrary detentions, jailing people from indefinite duration without ever putting them to trial while threatening them with life in prison if not straight murder?
Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. have almost completely automated customer/user service to keep costs down. Their business model depends on that.

The consumers are in the position of primitive people in front of their gods. They have to come together and pray for gods to notice them if they want wrongs to be righted.

It would be better to solve this through legislation.
I took interest and downloaded the app for testing. It looks slick and well polished. Great that it is available for so many devices and that you run sync service with such respect for privacy.

Couple of points though:

It wasn't clear to me where the notes are actually stored. If I'm relying on your tool to collect my private thoughts, I would require raw access to files. Sure, there is backup & restore features, but I'd still require full content access without going through the client. The info wasn't in any FAQ. It seems to be a SQLite db inside ~/.config/Notesnook/. Ideally the note taking system would have open and documented format so others can build tools to insert and query notes, provide CLI interface, show dated notes on calendar, and so on. I understand this is not necessary the direction you want to take this product.

When importing a .md document, the first line "# heading" was set to be paragraph type with 24pt size instead of Header 1 type, and Header 1 seems to be generally missing from the pull-down menu. Other types of headings were correctly transformed.

As I type in a new heading using the markdown syntax "## subheader" and press Enter, the text is correctly converted to Header 2 type, but Pro version popup is triggered. I would call this a bug. Either don't convert to header, or don't show the nag screen.

The splash screen that advertised the Monograph feature could not be dismissed without pressing "Start publishing" button. Maybe that button should be changed to some less misleading text (it doesn't actually lead to any publishing feature).

I like the business model and I would gladly subscribe at this price. I also love that I can already run it and try everything out without even having an account. The thing is, right now the text formatting buttons are a minefield of PRO-only features. I just dislike when applications include buttons for pro features that open nag screen. If you want to keep the client slightly crippled for free users, you could at least disable (gray out) pro features. It would be much cleaner cut if only syncing service is paid, but I don't know enough about your target users and business model.

In general I would love to be able to restrict formatting UI to just markdown features. I don't want to accidentally change font size or mess with text alignment. All included options for text formatting are just noise to me and I prefer simplicity in note taking.

Just few thoughts from trying it for 20 minutes. I'm still thinking about using it seriously.
There's not a huge difference between the domain of telecom switches and modern web applications. You've got multiple clients connecting, with the understanding that one client shouldn't have undue impact on the responsiveness seen by other clients. This is even more true once you get into using websockets which are directly analogous to active calls in a telecom switch - one websocket channel dying shouldn't cause other user's channels to be killed as well.