skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork... is more explicit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance might be relevant to any discussion of "free speech".
Here's #1 out of your zero drivers ;)

"Tesla driver slept as car was going over 80 mph on Autopilot, Wisconsin officials say"
One thing that isn't very clear in the article is she seems to be talking about the reissued Aibo from 2017. Hence all the stuff about neural networks.
Because older articles lose karma and drop down the list. Not many new highly voted articles for today yet.
You're misrepresenting/misreading what I said, yes he was a scum doing great harm but it seems that the situation became a lot worse after France&England intervention as was to be expected, so what was the point of the intervention?
Noone in the mainstream news AFAIK did its job and asked what will be going to happen next?
Glad I am not the only one who read through all that and was confused why they went to all the effort to write such a long piece about a failed software update.

One failure in 19 years is pretty damn good imho. I’ve had more macOS updates fail (and Windows and Linux and Solaris and OpenBSD) in that same time frame.

Sorry but this is a pointless post. I learned nothing other than the writer really seems to like to write.

As a counter point to his post. I’ve updated my 6 machines to Bug Sur and they have all been fine. In fact I would say Big Sur has been one of the “good ones” compared to recent years.
This one is a real weird forum.
Class action against car manufacturer, Toyota, because of 200-400 injuries from airbags? GOOD!

Class action against any medical product? VERY BAD!

It’s like tainted blood transfusions, glyphosate, vioxx, fen-phen, thalidomide just never happened.

I’m guessing the demographics is on the younger and still thinks they are made from steel.
Here in Spain at least snails are still very common.
> the only thing that matters is the end-user's perceived value, and that's almost always in the form of features and stability.

I think here it's more accurate to say, "the business' impression of the end-user's perceived value".

Because a snappy user experience DOES have real value; in web we are very conscious that milliseconds cost viewers in load and response times. It's well documented that brand positivity is connected to load and response times.

But users don't know to tell you that until the performance gets REALLY bad. Consequently it's hard to get this value from a user survey, and hard to communicate internally as a value prop. Capabilities are much more business process friendly.
They can be sure the vaccine is safe without being sure they would win in court.
It's not a stupid question at all, it's actually a good pretext to discuss the difficulties inherent in reasoning about an opaque system you are interacting with.

The article also brings evidence that many players didn't notice or believe that anything changed, they specifically believed that nothing did change, which is a surprising belief for such a huge change - but understandable in the context of of such an opaque system. I also believe that other players noticed something had made the game easier, but no one realized what specifically had changed, or most likely suspected how big of a change it was.
Antivax are people who don't want to take the vaccine. They're not against other people taking vaccines or the development of vaccines. You're likely misinformed.
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I agree.

My point isn't that the failure invalidates Gates's approach or attempts. If you succeed at everything you try, you're not taking any risks.

My point is that the failure has become fuel for critics, who would quite likely find any possible basis to make such criticisms.

(I'm not uncritical of Gates myself, nor do I consider myself a fan. He ran a highly successful business unethically and illegally. He's been a major philanthropist. His campaigns have a mixed record (see comment re: risks above), with some successes and some failures. The policies he pursues are often self-serving, especially regarding software and intellectual property rights.)
Complete and utter conspiracy theorist bullshit, basically.
Yes, this is true, and as you say the more work is put into the bug report, the cheaper it is for the dev to investigate and the less likely it is that a bug report will be closed prematurely.
It was a large law firm looking to make a buck who blew it out of proportion ...not anivaxxers.

Here's another good article from a more legitimate source.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
The point of OS X is that you pay a premium and now put up with a bunch of crap from Apple to not have to deal with stuff that "can happen on any OS." When you have to deal with it why bother? Why not run Linux?
Bad old Le Corbusier.

Who would have thought moving architecture away from beauty and into "efficency" would end up so badly? (i am sarcastic)
Most people have a super hard time socializing in arbitrary locations.

That's why places where people freely socialize sell massive amounts of alcohol, alcohol reduces inhibitions and I imagine the stress level of interacting with someone for the first time.

Most life partners come from (frequently forced) proximity, same for best friends: kindergarten, school, university, workplace, etc.

Pontificating about what people should do doesn't help with what people have actually been doing for hundreds of thousands of years.
As a father of three American kids, I see this first hand. I read (I think it was in Minimalist Parenting) that the average American kid has something like 40x the number of toys of the Average kid from a developing country. Dunno if it’s true, but I think it’s in the right ballpark.

My wife and I have tried to minimize waste. We generally buy used, etc. We have also tried to buy mostly non-plastic toys. But man, is it an uphill battle.

People just love to give us random stuff. For example, my dad rants about “Cheap Chinese crap”, but then turns around and buys my kids “Cheap Chinese crap” even after I’ve made it clear that I want less clutter in our lives.

There is a constant pressure on American parents to give their kids toys / experiences / entertainment. It comes from observing the frenetic activity of other parents, from targeted ads, from everywhere. But the fact is, kids just need to have a childhood. They don’t need their days stuffed with scheduled activities, the latest toys, etc. Just idle time, imagination, and quality attention from loving parents (Just a little attention everyday goes a long way.)

/rant

Anyway, advice on how to exit the American way is very much welcome.
Fascinating post as always from Ian.

My dad used to work for the underground and hearing him talk about the challenges of the engineering down there was always fascinating. This is especially true for the deep tunnels and the older parts of the network. Trying to keep the whole network dry, when you are dealing with brickwork that might be 100 or more years old, in a water table that has risen a lot following the end of heavy industry in London sounded like a particularly tricky issue.

Add in the constrained space and often very limited access on the deep lines and you can understand why it can take so long to do some projects, and why things like longer operating hours might sound nice but have significant knock-on effects.
lol it’s a miracle that he held it together long enough to put it in English, I’ve met a few acid heads that have seen the other side and lost touch with what other people will understand. Ram Dass I guess was wise to give so many lectures, that’s a lot of good feedback for whether your ideas are gobbledegook

Another prophet that I think is talented at articulating truth is Duncan Trussel - the boy has been to hell and heaven and back again and just loves talking about it. His show on Netflix is called “midnight gospel”, I think any ram dass fan would enjoy it and the psychedelic/religious art style
You will find that a lot of people crying about free speech do not place much value on basic human decency.
That's very general and generally known (at least in this community). How do you see that not addressed in the article? which means are you missing?
I think they HAVE lime disease.
I have a MacBook air with a 128GB SSD (I was not involved in this purchase decision :). Upgrade to Big Sur would fail repeatedly without any error message. It would do all the rituals (including gigabytes of downloading), and pretend to reboot. After the reboot, nothing has changed!

It was a good 3-4 tries later I thought to free up the disk a bit and then the upgrade went through.

I think they can do a better job of surfacing error messages to the user. Insufficient disk space is a basic situation I would expect them to have a proper error for.
If that's the crux of what a 150 EUR hardcover book's synopsis will be, then I'll definitely pass.
I imagine people caring about that could be shopping specifically for (any) pre-5G phones and networks. Might have an effect of holding up the deprecation of 4G as the first mover network will be economically punished.
Then what's the "correct" response from a non-bureaucrat?
Hardly surprising that people expect premium experiences after paying premium price for both software and hardware. That's why people are so easy to bash Apple, because they say that they are perfection. When something happens that are not perfection, people blame Apple.

You get the response based on the expectations you set. And with both price and messaging, Apple puts the expectations very high, while sometimes failing to reach them.
Honestly it’s not much better these days. Sends you a notification you have to manually dismiss every day.
The marmite/zinc story was in the linked article as well.
Here an issue is that if all people started using navigation to go via low traffic routes they would clog them and make them high traffic. There is probably some optimal equilibrium but by the time it is reached the rush hour could well have already passed.
There are? QNX and VxWorks (Integrity maybe, depending on your definition of "OS"). If you want the hardest of hard real-time, you'd need to use a CPU that doesn't even have a cache... =;-}
That's not a problem. We should be leaving oil anyway, so upgrading infrastructure is useless.

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Swiss researchers declare new record for exact pi figure
Because the American Legal system is very imperfect.
Projects like these motivate me to finally start learning emacs and move on from VSCode. That would be my third attempt...
> 99% of what we do as engineers is utterly meaningless. That's why we don't do it for free.

That's a really good way to put it. Thanks for the new perspective.
I wish AVIF had a simpler web-oriented profile. It has inherited bloat from HEIF, which is built on a tower of specs, which were designed to be a catch-all of all features for everyone, including cameras, photo management, and editing. Because it recycles a video codec and old MP4 specs, there's also a ton of compatibility with legacy video tools — in a brand new image format.

AVIF/HEIF has hundreds of features that decoders are theoretically supposed to implement. Many of ISOBMFF "boxes" also have multiple versions (typically 16/32/64-bit versions or "oops we forgot to add a field" version). Does every decoder really need to support all of them? It's such a waste of effort, and file bloat. Browsers only care about getting pixels on screen. They don't have UIs nor APIs to browse through photo bursts, bracketed exposures, or an infrared channel (or is every AVIF viewer supposed to implement these now?)

And some features are even dangerous: lossless cropping. Great for your camera roll app, but for publishing on the Web it's a huge footgun. You could think you've cropped private info out of the picture you've shared, but randos on the internet can uncrop your HEIF pictures.
The cash register at the CVS on the corner here already takes paypal, I wonder if I'll be able to pay with crypto by 2024.
Hmm, I wasn't even thinking about fuel efficiency, but that's interesting.

I meant, for anyone that missed it, that commuting by bus/train/tram/metro is much more common in urban areas in Europe than in the USA.
Depends on your use case. If it is a very very large image, then yes you should split it into tiles. If the image is simply large and you want to use leaflet as a panning tool, then simply loading it as is should be fine.
Tell that to the antivaxers that attack vaccination sites and spread the propaganda.
Congestion Avoidance and Control (1988) [pdf]
IMO: LFS is a hack and you probably shouldn't keep large files in git.
“Decent controlled study” might be a little of a stretch for something that’s basically self reported and has effect sizes this small (<20%).
Pretty much what you are describing about is Ra by qntm [1]. I would definitely recommend it!

[1] https://qntm.org/ra
You said it better than I could have. I'm annoyed about the secondary effects of falsy beliefs, but I think you got more directly to the root of it. Lots of religions are more palatable upon export, is a good point. The Romans would have never picked up Christianity as a fashionable cult unless it had mostly dropped the whole monotheistic thing.
You do know that this will end, right? The Black Plague ended and they didn't even have antibiotics back then (heck, they didn't even have proper handwashing back then :-) ).

Yes, there will probably be some changes compared to life before Covid, but by and large normal activities such socializing, in developed countries, will be back to regular levels once we've vaccinated enough people. Which should be by mid-2022 at the latest.

Of course, if people refuse to be vaccinated, they're only prolonging this hell. Can't have both personal freedom and lack of personal responsibility, democracy doesn't work like that.
Yeah for sure, I love a good composable approach to entity creation as well particularly when it’s specified in data rather than code. The basic framework for getting that going is extremely lightweight which is fantastic.
To be honest, for me the most interesting part of the blog post was this one-liner "for an unbuilt high-speed District line service between South Kensington and Mansion House with just one stop at Embankment.".

As one of the millions who at some historical point in their lives has had to suffer the District line commute, the above is a thought I used to have regularly whilst stuck sniffing someone's armpit on the District line ... why can't they have non-stop services intermingled with normal traffic (just like in any other number of countries around the world).

They could have used the same rails, no need for a separate line (just like other countries around the world)... its a shame London Underground seemingly only considered the most expensive option (building separate tracks and tunnels for the non-stop).
The Obsidian Trilogy (Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory) is set in such a world, though it also features "wild magic" (you petition the wild gods for an effect, and you probably get it, but you take on an open-ended obligation to do something for them at a later point) and demonic magic.
yeah - It sounded like she didn't realize how far back the aibo's go..

Though, the original Aibo's were supposed to have some AI and even cloud functions - learned behaviors and online 'journals' and pictures.
That would be my default assumption. Back when I was running a non-profit in Poland, this was the assumption we've made when evaluating options like Patreon - that we'll account for it as income (I don't know the actual interpretation because I've stepped down before the foundation started using such services).

On a related note - also in terms of Polish tax laws (which are bound to be more similar to German than e.g. US would be) - I recently talked about this with a tax advisor, in context of individuals funding OSS work via Patreon and other donation schemes; their answer was that it's a bit case-by-case, depending on your reward structure. If the donors are getting direct value back for their donations, it'll be seen as you selling those rewards (and/or performing a service), which will obligate you to start an actual business. The safe way to do it is to not give anything in return, except maybe for a trinket that's not commensurate to the value of donation.
That's not right, I'm afraid - the Underground is usually profitable and subsidises loss-making forms of transport (particularly buses). Here's some high-level, pre-pandemic figures: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2018/03/average-yield-and...

(based on TfL's draft budget for 2018-19)
> ... wrap a garbage bag around it and Swipe it slowly (it doesn't work), ...

Garbage bag? You mean one of those paper thin plastic bags that many big cities in the USA have all but banned?

Does that actually help with the mag strip being read or was that a joke regarding the cards being complete garbage?
The Many (Manga) Portrayals of Cesare Borgia (2011)
One thing that irks me about Javascript is "const". I think it should have been called "con". "var", "let", "con".

So the first thing I did here is look up the docs and see how variables are declared. Aaarghh.. "let" and "const" again :)
> Might have an effect

I think you vastly overestimate the amount of people that really care about this and won't just get the latest iphone/Android they can afford once their old phone's screen is too cracked and the battery too aged.
They administered over 1 million doses in about a year. 10,000 doses was the sales projection after a misinformation campaign.
How Google, Facebook and Walmart stole Paytm’s fintech crown in India
That jump in number of years needed to save for a house. Bit straight into heart. It's a good website with many plots. I also liked how many hours one needs to work to buy into S&P 500.

To provide some more context to 1971. It is the year of the Nixon shock. The US dollar became a fiat currency not backed by gold any more. Since then the banks have been inventing money out of thin air by issuing debts as they wished. The whole ruse was covered with a lot of bullshit like Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and other very bad newly developed financial instruments.
How elephants avoid cancer (2015)
can you elaborate on what the biggest challenges are? to a naïve bystander is hard to understand why it would be so hard.
My work bought everyone the 128 models too. It’s barely usable as a machine and very difficult to keep more than 5GB free, I know most Mac advocates will never know this because they don’t buy base models but anyone who has had to use one of these can tell you it’s a complete nightmare and the whole Mac experience begins to fall apart.

Either they should have modified and shrank the OS for those models or shouldn’t have shipped such a bad model that only exists to milk people to buy the next one up
only when one is feeling nice with itself can share and spread love to others... I think mindfulness might be a great tool to achieve that stability
It is amazing how what might seem like fairly routine engineering jobs become completely nightmarish once you do it underground.

I used to commute via Goodge Street every day. A few years ago they replaced the four lifts (in twos so that two were still in service) which ultimately took two years. I could never really fathom what it was that specifically slowed that down so much but hey the lift congestion every morning was fun
Express services on shared track isn't common on metro systems. NYC's express subways all use dedicated track, for instance. The tendency to not keep to a strict timetable and the close-running of metro systems makes it hard to slot express trains into gaps between local trains properly.
There were 1.4M doses administered:

> The FDA found only 59 such adverse events out of 1.4 million doses administered, and did not find direct scientific evidence that the Lyme vaccine had caused them. Still, the questions over possible unintended effects were enough to dampen enthusiasm, especially after 121 Lymerix recipients filed a class-action lawsuit against the vaccine’s manufacturer.

Reminds me of the entire clusterfuck around the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, with the difference that politicians this time at least pushed for getting vaccinated simply to stop the pandemic.
The only thing in this blog post I can identify with is the weariness of the Apple update requirement treadmill. If your phone updates to the latest OS, you have to use the latest XCode to build or test an app on it, to use the latest XCode, you have to be on the latest mac OS, to be on the latest mac OS you have to have supported hardware or you can hope that someone has come up with a hacked patcher to get you on the latest OS.
Doesn't look like LaTeX
If you disable P2P mode in Element for 1:1 VoIP calling then it doesn’t disclose your IP address to the other party.
I also agree in principal and agree that the GitHub post with additional context is nice.

But I'm wondering if this is rather feedback for the Git team to do better release notes (like the GitHub team here) as GitHub will always be biased with their release notes, so it would be better for everyone is the release note from Git were as well.

In this particular release, `send-email` is mentioned in the top in the mailing list as it has a new feature.

However, GitHub have zero interest in people to use `send-email` as they are basically a competitor to the `send-email` command. So they simply don't mention it in their release notes.

This is of course bad, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't at least try to remain impartial. But this is why we need the release notes of the Git team to be better.
If I had to guess, I'd say you're using a too old versions of rust.

In the future, one will be able to give a nice error when this happen (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65262)
But now it's true that it can be hard to know what the problem is.
LIDAR surely wouldn't work very well in rain though? Same problem with the RADAR - can't see RADAR transparent objects.

I kind of understand where they're coming from: a sensor where under some conditions you have to totally disregard all its input is a really bad sensor to have because your model will get disproportionately good using the "good" input, and then you're still left with "and in a medium drizzle we need to also work off optics only".
How many devs do they employ? How big is their cashflow? And still they fail to develop a glorified winamp that's not an exercise in frustration to use?
The thing is bloated, slow and riddled with bugs that go years unfixed.
Why take the risk of offering such a crap experience, just because you can afford it? Hubris? Incompetence? Both?
> 'Mindfulness' is nothing but egotism.

I came to the same conclusion recently. I don't practice meditation/mindfulness as per definition, I just sit on my sofa and think about things like "what is reality?", "what is life?", "why things simply are?"... it's all just mental masturbation for me, and at the end of the day I feel like I'm so intelligent that my neighbours watching Netflix or the news are just like stupid monkeys. I do know, though, that at the end of the day I'm just another stupid monkey and that "thinking on higher things" means absolutely nothing more than mental masturbation.
128GB sounds like plenty for Alpine or Debian but way too small for OSX. I'm surprised Apple sells computers with non replaceable storage that small.
Revealing our prices to the public equals to revealing customers' costs to their competitors and their customers. An industrial habit I guess.

It seems to be very important for project bidding processes.
Tbh, var is actually deprecated since v1, so any mention of var in the docs is a mistake. Are there any other languages using 'con' for constants?
America telling China what to do in Afghanistan? Lol, gtfo.
I think a lot of people take throwback projects and retro computing too far by rejecting everything modern. What's wrong with allowing some anachronisms for things like high DPI, internationalization, security, accessibility?