skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to communicate it to users. If they ask, and you can truthfully reply:

> We are contractually forbidden from doing this, and if we do, you're entitled to [insert compensation plan that would cripple the company, without a private equity-style (or other) takeover being able to game it for profit] – on top of any legal obligations.

then they'll probably sing your praises… if they believe you. So maybe publish a blog post or something about how you bullet-proofed the commitment (with lots of details)? Added bonus: I'd learn how you managed it, because it's too hard a legal problem for my amateur mind to solve.
I never had the time/brains to get past the learn curve with LaTeX.
Recently I started using a pipeline of markdown to html with Pandoc and then to pdf with Dompdf for project documentation.

Turns out you get neatly formatted printable docs with not so much effort, and the raw markdown stays with the code where it can be used and updated by fellow devs
I tried telling random adults on the main street in my University town that Target was using non-disclosed facial recognition, about four years ago, for a while. The rate of response was less than half for people to show concern. I also somewhat-randomly discovered a local "facial aware" security system installer at the coffee shop. Once he noticed I was asking pointed questions about consent, he changed his tone and said "yeah I install a bunch of high tech shit" and ended the conversation. Weeks later I saw him driving by and rode my bicycle next to him in traffic making a scene (saying nothing that could be construed as a threat). He was a little shaken that time I hope.

As a US Citizen I am strongly opposed to non-disclosed facial recognition in commercial settings. The covid masking is almost like Greek-fable humor of the gods, rendering even ATM (perfect picture) facial recognition moot.
They also include miles driven by previous versions of their software in the “safe miles driven” tally. There’s no guarantee any improvement would not have resulted in more accidents. They should reset the counter on every release.
> This thread is not just about taste.

Wrong. The thread that started with my comment was specifically responding to "it tastes just like a real thing".

> That was the word used in one of the comments, but in the video in question, the reporter said she "wouldn't know the difference."

Fair point. I didn't watch the video (unfortunately I can't at the moment), so I was responding specifically to the parent comment. That's on me.
More abstractly, most everyone bends over backwards to promote their subconsciously estimated personal ~~illusion~~ model of reality as being representative of shared reality.

As the saying goes: "Humans gonna human".
Thats exactly the point for this project. Also, I am hoping once we release the FPGA HDL files, the community will start adding more features like IRIG-B output, etc...
No. People who have no wealth are just farther behind.

If you can't afford a $100 coat because you have no money, you fall into despair when the price of the coat goes to $200 and you have no money. Everything is farther out of reach.
True. I guess I was thinking that if you build totally new infrastructure for these new overhauled cars, you'd keep it completely separate from other modes of transportation. My sci-fi inclinations had me imagining tubes like Logan's Run.
> Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs

> David Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs theory’ has generated a great deal of academic and public interest. This theory holds that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value. Despite generating clear testable hypotheses, this theory is not based on robust empirical research. We, therefore, use representative data from the EU to test five of its core hypotheses. Although we find that the perception of doing useless work is strongly associated with poor wellbeing, our findings contradict the main propositions of Graeber’s theory. The proportion of employees describing their jobs as useless is low and declining and bears little relationship to Graeber’s predictions. Marx’s concept of alienation and a ‘Work Relations’ approach provide inspiration for an alternative account that highlights poor management and toxic workplace environments in explaining why workers perceive paid work as useless.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170211015067
Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters
So you don't need to memorize and hard-code IP addresses for your network services.

* router.home.arpa
* nas.home.arpa
* printer.home.arpa
* htpc.home.arpa
Judging by the IPv6 translation: new calendar.

In the 656th century we will be behind 50 layers of NAT.
A self driving car obviously needs to be aware of other cars on the road. I don't see any reason why the car couldn't observe other cars, see what speed they are going at, and refuse to go faster than the rest. A car that refuses to do 120mph when all the other cars are doing 60mph in a 50mph zone should be trivial.

(Trivial if the self driving tech works at all....)
Huh, neat, didn't know "wait". Thanks!

Still doesn't let you easily get the output of the two commands, but a good start.
There was this dude who jumped off the eiffel tower with his own -invention- flying jacket, didn't fly shit.
Ah no. I'm thinking about games on Steam that I couldn't play between Windows and MacOS.
Given the numerous videos of shoplifters just walking into SF stores and stealing in plain view while being recorded, I doubt this will stop any of them. Unless there is some change to the system of policies that cause stores to do effectively nothing about shoplifting, it’s not going to stop.
This reminds me of some advice I received from a previous manager. He said that decisions are impossible to make in any meeting larger than 5 people, so I vowed to really pay attention to my invite list and pair it down where possible. His response was, "That's great, but more importantly, if you want to make sure no decision is reached, be sure to invite more than 5 people."
If you are texting while driving and hit a stopped car or run a red light, you are very lightly to kill others. Actually more likely, as a side impact is more dangerous than a frontal one.
> The Taliban can mass troops in specific areas, so it outnumbers the defenders, and then move on.

At which point the army could not just move back in and retake the "lost" area because...?
Yes, supply of immigrants will increase because of climate change, but I think it's important to understand the current structure of age distributions in the world. The US had a pretty large Millenial generation. Most other countries did not. Which means, we're not REALLY going to be feeling the need to take on immigrants for a while. But as boomers retire, and millenials move to replace them, the countries that didn't have a sizable millenial generation are going to be in a position to have a much higher demand. Those countries are going to be more desperate than the US, and will likely start developing very sizable offers. The US is going to catch up though, the US does appear to be inverting it's demographic distribution as well, but we're 20 years behind. That's actually a pretty big advantage in a bunch of ways, but in terms of competing for immigrants, it's a disadvantage.
I knew what you meant. I feel like we almost have our own culture, sometimes. Weird.
They polled 31k Americans for this, what do you want the article title to be?
I sent send you a prototype if you are willing to help with some bug hunting
I heard it in Philadelphia a decade ago.
Thanks!

Performance: We use WebKit for the actual pages, so similar to Safari in speed and memory usage (much better than Chrome), and our UX should be pretty fast (we did a performance update right before this launch!)

Privacy: The app obviously knows what pages are on it since it's loading them. Our server doesn't have any of that data unless you choose to upload it for cloud syncing. That data is encrypted so shouldn't be trivial to access (though we want to move over to iCloud to avoid this problem).
What do you think?
I read that fellow's blog (marginalrevolution.com) and he goes out of the way to get the best authentic local food he can get, he's well read about the history of many different countries and the economic implications of the recent history (he's an academic economist). He often does a brief blog writeup about the particularly culturally unique bits of places after he visits. Part of his job as an academic/ popular econ culture writer is to understand cultures and economies around the world.

I don't mind if part of his motivation is to impress others, or if it's wasteful, etc. Why would his motivations have to be pure for it to be meaningful for him?
Fair point! Although I wish they had found a way to add F# style global inference rather all these little tricks
> I recall a particular incident where Waymo was marketing their car being able to drive a blind man to a drive-thru, way before the thing could safely drive more than a mile on it's own.

How is a marketing video relevant from 2015 relevant to their safety record? They weren't even operating a public robotaxi service back then.

> My understanding is that in 2021, it still can't navigate parking lots (which would preclude using it for drive-thrus).

Completely false. Here is one navigating a Costco parking lot (can't get any busier than that) [1]. If you watch any videos in that YouTube channel, it picks you up and drops you off right from the parking lot. Yes, you can't use it for drive-thrus, but it doesn't qualify as "lying about capabilities".

> Later, they were talking about how sophisticated their technology was: It can detect the hand signals of someone directing traffic in the middle of an intersection. Funny that a few months later, a journalist got an admission out of a Waymo engineer that the car wouldn't even stop at a stoplight unless the stoplight was explicitly mapped (with centimeter-level precision) so the car knew to look for it and where to look for the signal.

Here is one recognizing a handheld stop sign from a police officer while it stopped for an emergency vehicle [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5CXcJD3mcU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpDbX1FViWk&t=75s
Holy cow this change is annoying, thank you for sharing. It boggles my mind what a dumpster fire Firefox updates often are. I already stopped recommending Firefox to friends because so many people I know have gotten turned off by their awful UI churn and lost functionality; now I might finally be done with it myself.
People definitely move away from where I live in Chicagoland to avoid taxes, though perhaps more often to Indiana than to Arizona.
Thank you, really appreciate the kind words :)

Would love to hear your thoughts on the product if you give it a shot!
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> English doesn't have pro drop

Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.)

> Second, there's more than just the subject missing in "Former emergency response driver...".

This is a good point; I did indeed miss this subtlety. (Actually, it’s not even very subtle!) In this case, I must admit to being unsure about how to analyse this.
The public meeting list for August 16 currently says "Secretary Blinken attends meetings and briefings, from the Department of State."

You can't infer that the lack of public meetings on the topic means a lack of any action.

For example, the same source lists no activity (public meetings or otherwise) for the SoS on August 14.

But scrolling through https://www.state.gov/press-releases/ shows relevant activity :

August 14: "Secretary Blinken’s Call with Canadian Foreign Minister Garneau" - https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-canadian-...

August 14: "Secretary Blinken’s Call with Afghanistan High Council for National Reconciliation Chair Abdullah Abdullah" - https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-afghanist...

August 14: "Secretary Blinken’s Call with Afghan President Ghani" - https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-afghan-pr...

Or, for a weekday, August 12, "Secretary Blinken’s Calls with Foreign Minister Garneau, Foreign Minister Maas, and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg " - https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-calls-with-foreign-... but his public schedule for that day was "Secretary Blinken has no public appointments." - https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-august-12-2021/ .
Production version will come today or tomorrow. Check the github
Is being anti-nuclear necessarily "anti-science"? How much have Chernobyl and Fukushima cost to clean up? Are there a lot of private insurers lining up to underwrite new plants?

Even if nuclear is perfectly safe (which it largely is), and waste disposal is a perfectly solved problem (which it's not), economically there's a big question mark over it. I don't understand why conservatives are so hot about something so fiscally reckless.
https://www.google.com/maps/@-54.1416517,-36.6886183,3a,75y,...
> Productivity has stalled mostly because people have already filled their needs, so it makes little sense to buy more. Basically everyone have the clothes they need, the food they need, the car they need, the computer they need, already. Screen entertainment and information is basically free nowadays. So no matter how much you increase productivity these sectors will remain mostly constant.

I know you are not being literal with your claims, but I just wanted to provide some data, so that others who read it will have some grounded context. Across several categories, there is a stubborn (and maybe surprisingly or not-so-surprisingly consistent) 10-15% of Americans who don't have many of those needs filled that you mentioned:

- The official national poverty rate hovers around 10%, but there has always been much controversy about defining what that means and what the threshold should be: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

- 32 million uninsured under 65 (the default age threshold for Medicare): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-insurance.htm

- 42+ million Americans face food insecurity: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america

- It should come as no surprise that many poor people cannot afford cars and hence rely on public transit more, but that public transit systems are woefully underfunded (or funded but misappropriated/delayed/etc.) in America. Because economic disparity is interwoven with racial inequality, this is not just an economic problem; suffice it to say that, no, not everyone in America has the car they need: https://www.urban.org/features/unequal-commute

- The FCC reports large gains in the past 5 years for broadband and mobile broadband access, but this is baselined against a paltry and outdated 25/3 and 10/3 Mbps standard definition for "broadband speed" (trying living in a 25/3 Mbps household while remote-working, video conferencing, streaming Netflix, etc.): https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-21-18A1.pdf
> Correct. Rationality is Bounded. That fact won a Nobel Prize.

It's a model not a fact. As a model, it can't really be correct only more or less accurate.
if they believe us, indeed :p

Hey, if we figure out how to do that, I'll make a post outlining how to do it for others as well :)
> Apart from the snooze and done features, tell me one thing that this browser achieves that isn't already available through free, open-source, trustworthy extensions whose code I can see and audit.

Is there a Spotlight/Alfred extension for Chrome/ium/Firefox? I haven't seen that UX in a browser yet.
Same for my site: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
I liked the idea.it seems to have potential,considering the raise of bloatware browser tools in day to day life of an dev.

but what makes me skeptical about it is, i don't see any user reviews about your product.

whenever you are making bold claim about your product, it's existing /early users must verify it is true,which creates trust when potential customers sees it.

Have you beta tested your product?
One of the many benefits of facial coverings in 2020 and beyond. Its not perfect but its a solution until we get a "sparkler".
Hahaha be nice, but yes. I think I pay a lot of attention to this as a lawyer because of the whole trope of "lawyers always muddy the waters," and the deeply silly but attractive-to-tech-people idea that you can replace lawyering with technology, like with more "precision" or something like that.

Not gonna happen anytime soon; at the end of the day what lawyers do is work on "when humans being human disagree on things where the stakes are big," not "writing things clearly like a computer."
We Once Waltzed in Kabul
I can recommend nethack.
Well, it depends on the topic. Choosing rationally between the most green of two tomatoes is easy. You are limited by your ability to distinguish colors but you can still decide rationally.

Not all questions have answers, if you want to be rational when you are asked to answer those question, you can just say "I dont know"

At the beginning of the pandemic, when politics were saying mask dont work. You could just say, well, if we transmit covid by air, then putting something in front of my mouth is going to decrease the spread. That's what is being rational. Of course that's not going to be all the time the good answer, but you have still thought rationally.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove. Of curse being rational is possible. All people are rational for most of their decisions.
Yes. Vivaldi has one that can be invoked with F2, by default.
I type in my email and click "Login" and nothing happens. No visual indicator, nothing. Just sits there and lets me keep clicking the "Login" button.
Even though you're on a discussion forum, this discussion forum exists because it's part of the marketing strategy for a VC firm.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this. You're having an (ostensibly) good time here and YC benefits, too.

HN is great marketing because people will convince themselves it's not marketing because they're too smart to fall for marketing.
The unnecessary "from user input" qualification is why spaces are kryptonite for most shell-based tools.

It doesn't matter where input comes from. Input needs to be escaped for the context it's used in, period. Non-exploitable doesn't mean it's correct.
> they never ordered anything illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

You can't have it both ways. You are either responsible for the management and oversight of your organization (corporation, country, etc.), and thus accountable, or you are negligent.

So criminal intent, or criminal negligence.
> Weeks later I saw him driving by and rode my bicycle next to him in traffic making a scene while saying nothing that could be construed as a threat. He was a little shaken that time I hope.

You tried to subtly threaten and shake up the owner of a local coffee shop, weeks later, as revenge for not entertaining your questions about the features of his security system?
I have no idea, but the point wasn't so much that the lane change is illegal, but that lack of signal is used to indicate lack of driver attention. I shouldn't have used "illegal" in my original post.
the lights are actually what cause the crash. Some drivers just drive straight into the lights. This is part of why police, at least around here, have particular protocols around how far they stop behind a car, and never standing between the cop car and the car they stopped.
You'd think scholars interested in doing serious research on original source documents would have better ways of publishing than relying on Facebook.
It's less so that people are downvoting you because we don't want to talk about these things but rather because you present grandiose claims without presenting any evidence for them.
There seems to be a general case of amnesia about the way the Iraq war was sold and I'm not quite sure why.

While the fairy tale of WMDs was a multiyear effort the US has undertaken, first and foremost as a response to 9/11, Saddam was painted as the leader harboring terrorists and aiding public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden and his then suddenly sprung into public attention group called Al Qaeda.

It's only later on that Powell was sent on a mission by Bush/Chaney/Rumsfeld to tug on the world's and American's heart strings by producing laughable evidence of WMDs. Not dissimilar to how they sold the original Iraq War with babies in incubators being thrown.

During that first year and all the way to March 2003, endlessly bush has used 9/11, and anybody who is 'harboring terrorists' cough cough Saddam Hussain cough cough to justify anything and everything America wanted to do. And Americans stood behind him, blind and proud with our American flag.
One could argue that Go from the design point of view is has no breadth nor depth.

There are few rules and rules are very simple.

Depth of the strategy and the gameplay comes out as emergent property of the game.

But that's just splitting hair.
Probably from people financing phones. Most credit applications require information like that in the US.
I did no threatening or revenge, and you should definitely retract that statement.
But not a texteditor.

You can use this library for that: https://pypi.org/project/texteditor/

(Disclaimer: I’m the author)
Hopefully this drives uptake of those better ways. And if better ways don’t exist, this is a call for improvements (integrating with Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, SciHub, mailing lists/rss, etc).
Thanks!

I do appreciate the skepticism. Most of it seems healthy.

If anyone is skeptical, try it out and let us know if the experience sucked (though we don't think it will), and we'll improve it from your feedback :D
Rest in Peace, Ismael.

Who knows what the world has lost. Obviously a very accomplished inventor, he may have brought us great things.
That's the thing though... if the options are "write and test 30 lines of custom parallelism code to handle this stuff" or "everyone waits twice as long for their results", in practice most developers choose the latter.

Imagine if instead of that, you could do:

foo, bar, []err := await getFoo(), getBar()
if len(err) > 0 {
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("Frobnication failed: %s", err)
}
return foo, bar, nil

Of course, JavaScript having exceptions as the main error-raising approach and `await` supporting them makes that a lot easier.
I bought a physical copy when it was released a couple of years ago. I've recommended it a few times; I think it's worth reading for anyone who hasn't spent much time writing actual mathematical software or hasn't had a formal CS education.
I disagree. Do you identify any mis-information article? Otherwise I don't share your distain.

EDIT: this is an ad-hom. Please respond to the point - I also linked to WP as evidence that your claim is shaky. Refusing to do so because I linked to a journalist you dislike is pure tribalism.
I remember around 1997 I was reading my raw web site logs and saw the Nokia 9000 user agent appear. I knew what it was but never saw one in person.

I wondered what some rich person was doing reading my website, probably about skateboarding back then.
How Do New Organs Evolve? A Beetle Gland Shows the Way
From my perspective, conversation doesn't stay rigidly locked onto one specific case.

And, your comment appears (to me) more general, as you just say conmen...

But anyhow, no biggie. Have a good one.
All that seems like they don't want you to steal at their store by giving deterrent cues. Which parts were practically inconvenient, or slow you down?
In some areas yeah they are. I’ve interviewed a few folks who are tremendously unhappy though where as previously it seems like they had one of the most content and happy workforces in tech.