skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weak American regulation leads to an epidemic of bad businesses making “it’s cheaper to beg for forgiveness” moves.

If you can’t or aren’t willing to make an example of a company on regular occasion, the rest will just factor the weak penalties into the cost of doing business.
I looked, and a fair proportion of your comments on HN are very similar complaints—arguably more irritating and content-free than what you complain against.

I complained about an opaque headline once, and dang told me about how making the reader work a little is part of the HN philosophy. Pretty sensible when you learn about it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Relative privation fallacy here. Amazon’s issues do not make Fakespot OK. I’m asking about Fakespot.
Stoicism Saved a Prisoner of War
> Anyone who wants a non-physicalist approach to consciousness must either claim they can violate the laws of physics in our brains, or cannot affect the physical world.

There is a strand in (an obscure corner of) Buddhism that maintains that:

- The fundamental "substance" in the Universe is awareness.

- Awareness creates the body and the sense organs.

- Awareness projects the external world through the sense organs.

In this model, there is no claim that consciousness violates "the laws of physics". It just disputes that the physical world is fundamental. And this model certainly doesn't ban consciousness from affecting the physical world (that it created).

I don't believe for a moment that this model was meant to explain things, like a scientific explanation; it's meant to present a "view" (a way of looking at experience) that is helpful to meditators. It's very much the opposite of the instinctive way of interpreting experience. In part, it's meant to disrupt pre-conceived notions about experience - so it's also meant as a challenge.
Curious why you are not worried about the USA which has double the co2 emmissions per capita compared to China, and about 8x compared to India?
Which is likely how this works under the hood.
Trump befriended Netanyahu on Twitter after Netanyahu was the first one to congratulation Biden after the election while he was still contesting the outcome. Supposedly Trump is still bitter about the betrayal.

https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/did-donald-trump-unfollow...
I've personally found if I end up ignore it, it simply wasn't the right tool for me.
Try it, it works. Parent probably tried a very old version of LineageOS.
Carmen San Diego was just so good
Perhaps this is a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Philosophy
Same experience. I was quite surprised when I discovered the app to be so limited for users who operate in repeatable "mode".

It's like these creators all read the checklist manifesto and didn't understand the core concept.
How would you call it then, when people rather follow the advice of their Reality-TV-Star-President and drink bleach against COVID, but absolutely condemn advice by Fauci, CDC, etc, i.e. people who’ve been studying it* for decades?

*Not COVID obviously, but desease management.
So far, I am feeling positive about Copilot. I've used it for about a week and it has been useful at times. Like the author, I've mostly found it useful in situations where I am doing something repetitive. I definitely need to look over suggestions carefully though.

I don't think it will go much further than that and I don't know what that would even look like anyway, unless I could actually start discussing architectural decisions with it like I do with a human pair programmer. I guess you could say that this is what the comments are for, so who knows.
Of course it was maintainable.
They stopped doing it because the situation in the EZ more or less stabilized.

The Swiss central bank can always sell as many Francs as they want at any price that is below current bids and that’s always the case when defending an upside limit. They’re never going to run out of Francs to sell because they can issue without any technical limit.
I’m suggesting that Fakespot might not be effective at weeding out fake reviews. We can’t see their core algorithm. We don’t know how they determine a score. Often times, their scoring feels as good as random selection.
Of course, they rarely “beg for forgivesness” they just gaslight you for years and never admit wrongdoing.
It's 2021. Installing from source is no longer a low-friction, non-scary, default thing to do or something that people want to bother with. Users now expect binaries and proper package management.

Furthermore, it's not just "dnf install jemalloc-devel". The Jemalloc version matters a lot. For reasons that are not yet clear, significant memory savings are only achieved with Jemalloc 3, not with Jemalloc 5. And your distribution only ships 1 Jemalloc version. So likely you need to compile Jemalloc 3 yourself.

But Jemalloc 3 no longer compiles by default on some modern distributions, such as Debian 10. Fullstaq Ruby fixes this by patching Jemalloc: https://github.com/fullstaq-labs/fullstaq-ruby-server-editio...

Another caveat is that LD_PRELOADing Jemalloc is more effective than compiling with --with-jemalloc.

Furthermore, installing Ruby is one thing. Keeping it security-patched without having to constantly monitor things, is a whole other can of worms. Here's where Fullstaq Ruby's second value proposition comes in: we supply DEB/RPMs and do the tiny version patching for you, you don't have to go through the whole compilation process and gem migration process every time there's a new Ruby tiny version.

See also this FAQ entry, "Fullstaq Ruby vs LD_PRELOADing Jemalloc yourself": https://github.com/fullstaq-labs/fullstaq-ruby-server-editio...
You can already use jemalloc on Heroku, it's really simple, so this comment is about releasing memory back to the OS, the other headline feature of Fullstaq.

> Memory bloat is a real problem, even for mid-size Rails apps.

Yes, but the solution isn't releasing the memory back to the OS, that's just papering over the cracks. If you're running (say) 10 Rails processes on a machine with 10 GB RAM, and particular request paths/background jobs whatever pushes the process size to 2 GB RAM size, you can release the memory back to the OS after you're done, but you still have the underlying problem which is the process gets to that size in the first place, and if all the processes hit 2GB at once, now you're 10 GB in debt, either in swap, or OOM errors.

The solution you should be looking for is installing something like Scout (or NewRelic, but IMO Scout is better for memory stuff), looking to see what is bloating the processes, and in 99% of the time fixing it using some the Rails' batch find methods (seriously, it's ActiveRecord objects 99% of the time, bonus points for in-memory CSV reading or write buffers).

Rails applications don't have to balloon in memory.
> I live in a large apartment building and would need permission from the building owner to install anything.

Kinda strange for me. Do you need a permission for router install too?
Sure, taxonomy is always debateable. It is approximate though. Beyond 4, other dynamics crop up. maybe we need more cultural tools to keep a conversation. Maybe the conversation starts to subdivide, some people dominate, other zone out...

The "parasocial" dynamic that the author describes is part of that complexity, emerging around central figures in a many-to-many scenario.
Oh, they definitely try to shut down these products by constantly changing the page structure or using javascript to obfuscate things:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951
Docker is fast compared to competitors for deploying to production, but it is slow compared to alternatives for development.

(E.g. if you deploy to production in 20 min people think that is fast, if your build cycle in development is 20 min that is slow.)

For a small system the ratio of dev to deployment is on the side of dev.

Docker’s approach to I/O saves space if you have a lot of containers that share content, but it costs time for a small scale system.

Also docker doesn’t subtract complexity. A dockerfile takes all the work (most importantly the understanding) it takes to write a bash script that can install your system in a VM but you also need to know docker’s quirks.
It looks like it has almost leap=frogged past the PC port as well.
(A cheap shot but it does not yet boot on my PC and I wish it did.)
I have bought dedicated hardware to run interesting systems before; but feel like I am over that; low volume systems are expensive and stock PCs are cheaper and faster.
I can see the attraction of RISC-V though, hope it takes off.
Well made EV's are cheap drive and need less maintenance than what people are used to. You can try to sneak in high margin services and add-ons.

No wonder Apple sees a promise in electric cars ;)
Trump - first president in over 40 years to NOT start a war.
True. I’m being way too generous with the terms. They fight the penalties and class actions every step of the way for years and years.
Quality of audience vs quantity.

The audience of Di Caprio is emotionally deep, and loaded with money and relevancy , plus they are great storytellers themselves among their respective social groups. People of culture, people who have cumulatively billions of hours of interesting conversations to produce.

Johnson's audience is shallow, not loaded with anything except desire for the quickest dopamine hit they can get.

Di Caprio is sitting on a gold mine, it's the opposite for Johnson

There's a reason why Steve Jobs and Paul Allen loved The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix instead of Cardi B, Kanye West and One Direction.

Same goes for Di Caprio audience vs. Johnson's audience.
> Eventually this package will offer full autonomy, but the software is not there yet

Based on videos I've watched, this is the understatement of the year. Tesla is nowhere near having full self driving software.

So this is more like "pay $1500 for something you've already paid for, which we may not even be able to deliver".
Canadians love flattering comparisons to the US. As a Canadian, however, this pandemic mostly revealed how dangerously incompetent most levels of government are in this country.

Canada has had some of the longest, most evidence-free lockdowns of any Western country. Our vaccine acquisition strategy was a disaster, saved only by the near miraculous ramp-up in manufacturing capacity by two American pharmaceutical companies: Moderna and Pfizer. None of those vaccines were manufactured in Canada.

The federal government effectively doubled the national debt in about a year, firehosing money to any and all causes indiscriminately. Small businesses like restaurants and gyms remained closed or severely restricted in much of the country for well over a year, while large foreign businesses like Costco and Amazon thrived. Only in the last month have things started to open up again.

Provinces instituted draconian restrictions, up to an including a months-long 8PM curfew in the province of Quebec. Movement between provinces, a constitutionally-guaranteed freedom, was severely curtailed - roadblocks with police presence were often set up to prevent "non-essential" travel within the country.

All manner of restrictions on fundamental freedoms were reaffirmed by the courts, relying heavily one Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as its escape clause: "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."

Translation: fundamental rights can be abrogated by government whenever it's convenient to do so.

The minority federal government used the pandemic opportunistically, shutting down legitimate investigations into misuse of government funds and ramming through legislation that was unrelated to the pandemic - draconian gun control legislation, massive increases in carbon taxes, regulation of social media, "hate speech" laws that aim to severely curtail freedom of expression, the list goes on. Any criticism of these bills was met with cries of "Now is not the time for criticism, this is a pandemic!".

With a useless senate, captive courts, and weak opposition parties, our government has shown itself to be a rather authoritarian one. And with no term limits, it's quite possible we could be under the thumb of incompetent authoritarianism-lite for the next decade.

The worst part is that few Canadians seem to be bothered by this.
About that last sentence, drug use was probably a symptom and not the underlying cause. It seems more likely that he had some psychological issues that he didn't seek help for and tried to self-medicate with alcohol.
Texans can carry handguns without a license or training starting Sept. 1
I understand some of the legal implications to be regurgitating licensed code verbatim. But, what about this: what if the current Copilot is working out the kinks, and the real product is per-organization models with transfer learning using their repos' code?

At work, we store all our code in our GitHub repo, some public, some private. As-is, I think there's a lot of legal ambiguity around using Copilot, but if all that code just served to teach the model structure of programs and common syntactical constructs, but then it had another layer with our code and its idioms, modules, names, then maybe it would regurgitate our code in a way that's useful and doesn't run afoul of licenses.

I'm thinking of a fast.ai course I did where I took a base model trained on generic image data, and then did transfer learning on top where I fed it labeled images of Go games and Chess games, and with only maybe 100 of those images it learned to distinguish the two with shocking accuracy. As I understand it, the base model taught it how to look for things like lines, corners, contrast, etc, and then it could be easily specialized. Could something similar be the case here?
> Because they are evil

As a US citizen, I'd like to be able to once again travel the world without people thinking thus about me.
Pittsburgh, Chicago and Toronto are a couple other cities with community-driven network initiatives that I've researched. Also, the recent #yosoysnet movement and the Cuban state-run telecoms company (ETECSA) trying to cut off its citizens from the internet is another really relevant and interesting topic. Basically Cubans have built a full fledged branch of thousands of (illegal) nodes which is tangentially connected to the global internet. There were a few articles that Vice did about El Paquete, the daily couple terabytes of new "internet" (movies, music, news) that was shared over the SNET and by flashdrive.
If you're interested, I've written a few articles on why I think community mesh nets could provide a solution to social media echo chambers and reduce the proliferation of conspiracy theories by providing a route for local-first news:
https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/public-internet
cars will be the first commercially available robots with widespread use. They will then be mutated into lawnmowers, farm equipment, commercial transport, etc. They will then get 'add-ons'- arms, legs, power tools. Because humans are mobile, widespread use of any robot will first require portability or mobility. Actually, the smartphone was our first robot-and it is portable.
Back in the late nineties, I worked with a software called Origin. It had a BASIC like programming language where variable names consisted of single letters. If you now think 26 variable names should be enough: Some letters, like X and Y, had special predefined meaning, and you couldn't change that. If you used them, you encountered strange behavior, like values changing behind your back. To add insult to injury I could never find documentation about which variables were special, so I stuck with the few I knew were safe, which were not many...
> If a user can see through a wall locally how can ‘distrusting’ anything fix that?

The fact that the client can remove the wall and see something behind it is due to the fact that the client is trusted to do the hiding. An untrusted client would not receive the enemy position until the enemy is visible. This, however, comes with the drawback that the server needs to do the culling - That's why pretty much nobody does it right now.

Aimhacks would still be possible, of course, but client-side anti-cheat can't prevent those either.
That's one way to pay for the inevitable wrongful death lawsuits
An hour to spare after waiting a week for Xiaomi to authorize unlocking of the bootloader. I bought a Poco X3 Pro yesterday, the phone is awesome for it's asking price (R$ 1800), but I'll keep using my current one (Redmi Note 4) until next week. Im not sure if I'm going to wipe it and install another ROM or just install root and use Titanium Backup to freeze most of Google and Xiaomi's stuff.
Well if it's not distributed then it's a single point of failure, almost by definition. I hate maintaining a Zookeeper cluster as much as anyone, but anything that runs on a single server is not a real alternative (and if a single-server SPoF is acceptable, then just running the batch job / workflow processor / whatever it is on a single server works just as well - maybe with a pool of workers to scale out the actual processing, but a single coordinator, sort of like how Jenkins or Hadoop do it).
'Fakespot' Removed from Apple's App Store After Complaint from Amazon
They are not, in the straight sense of Subsidiary.

>A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company,

Hence that is why using BBK as one would have been wrong. BBK does not own majority of shares, nor de jure voting power. But in a complex power relationship BBK do have much higher leverage or with other investor de facto voting power. Think if Foxconn decided to invest into 5 different Phone making companies, ( Like the current Nokia Smartphone ) and Foxconn is a shareholder and provide technical and manufacturing consultancy, you would not list them all under Foxconn right?

I wont blame the English main stream media most of them are so late to anything from Japan and China it is borderline comical.

I mean when I first mentioned BBK in 2015 no one had a clue what I was talking about. My earliest comment on BBK on HN was from Jan 2018 [1]. Barely anyone knew BBK then. As a matter of fact even right now not that many have heard of BBK.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265008
I tried Keep a few years ago and I'm pretty sure this option wasn't there and needed to uncheck all items. I gave up at the time.

I just reopened it after reading your comments and found this "uncheck all boxes". It looks like you improved my life, thanks :)
> If you're running (say) 10 Rails processes on a machine with 10 GB RAM, and particular request paths/background jobs whatever pushes the process size to 2 GB RAM size, you can release the memory back to the OS after you're done, but you still have the underlying problem which is the process gets to that size in the first place, and if all the processes hit 2GB at once, now you're 10 GB in debt, either in swap, or OOM errors.

Fullstaq Ruby author here. I have done research on the memory bloat problem[1], and this statement is not true. With the way memory allocation in glibc's ptmalloc2 works, multithreaded processes can reach bloaty proportions even if they don't do much work. I started investigating this whole issue because I had a trivial Ruby HTTP proxy server: it had no reason to use 1.3 GB of memory, it doesn't do anything besides forwarding small requests. That's when I found that ~1 GB of that 1.3 GB of memory wasn't even due to anything that my app did by itself, but it's just how the memory allocator works.

[1] https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-caus...
I should clarify, I need permission to install anything on the roof, which is how Mesh connections are almost always made.
The Race to Leave Planet Earth
I had a positive, albeit short, experience with mesh.
The article says "The brine, after lithium extraction, is returned to the geothermal reservoir deep within the earth.”

So doesn't sound like there's a desalinization story here.
Here I explain why it can quickly become not so trivial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872696
Question, why can users see through walls locally, seems like there should be some sort of occlusion? I guess it's too slow to calculate and causes too much server-side processing?
On the Myth of Big Ideas
Just watching videos of the "summon" feature on Youtube makes it obvious how far away they are from self driving. In one video, the operator has his cousin "walk in front of the car" to see what will happen, and it doesn't stop. No thank you.

Also, I spoke with a Tesla sales guy, and he said, "don't pay for something that doesn't exist", which seems super obvious when you think about it objectively and step away from the hype.
> pay $1500 for something you've already paid for, and which we may not even be able to deliver

Some Tesla customers have paid $10,000 for that. I think they should demand their money back and only purchase it if and when "full self-driving" actually exists.
A lot of this app was written with one hand while holding a baby :)

I never realised how overwhelmed I was by my todo app until I pulled my checklists into this app, I've found it definitely helped.

Let me know how you go :)
Also take a look at “due”. It gives you the option to “snooze” task alerts. This is an extremely beneficial feature if you have memory/attention issues.
Sorry but USA counted non covid deaths as covid deaths to pad numbers. This is a proven fact. Die in a car crash they test your corpse if it had rona at the time of death you died of rona, not a car accident. That's fraud. Enjoy being enslaved?
Or a new Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1099)#Afte... (My guess is have most religions have similar events.)
logic can’t describe reality

Godel, Wittgenstein, et al
That's just because no one actually uses HaikuOS or RedoxOS (no offense to these wonderful projects of course). If these came even remotely close to the popularity of Linux, you'd have remixes, spin-offs, and eventually full-blown distributions.

You can try to prevent it with project structure, but even something really unified like FreeBSD ended up having derivatives like GhostBSD as well as full-blown divergent forks like DragonFly BSD that are not necessarily compatible anymore with upstream.
If you allow invalid records and multiple versions of a schema in a collection, you will forever being paying for that mistake every time you read from the database.
You could netboot off an iscsi target on another machine, which is backed by an image file on a zfs volume. That way you get all the nice zfs features of snapshotting, and windows just thinks it's using a hard drive.

You could even skip zfs and just use a qemu image file, with qemu-nbd you can have it present as a block device, and you can then export that block device as an iscsi target. Then you can use qemu-img for snapshotting etc.

The machine running the storage could be pretty low spec too, a nuc would do it for sure, maybe even an rpi or similar (if you go the qemu-img route, zfs on rpi is not feasible, ask me how I know :D)
A pension should never be conditional on “not quitting”. Can it legally be? If you work 10 years you earned 10 years of pension. It should be yours regardless of what happened (e.g if you get fired).

If pensions can be conditional on not quitting, not getting fired or similar, then unions already failed (but this should be law and not require unions).