skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the cases "not strong enough" because
A- prosecutors believe that these types of legal battles will be an uncertainty due to the massive wealth CEOs can use to leverage their legal teams, have massive potential political fallout, and/or are an undue burden on the taxpayers;
B- the actions perpetuated are not singular and specifically provable, despite their obvious intent and illegality, but instead spread out over a network of subordinates/proxies creating a fig-leaf of plausible deniability;
C- the laws were written by a state deeply indebted (on both sides of the aisle) to the funding provided by exactly these types of citizens and their massive personal wealths?

My point is: While I am a deep and firm lover of due process, I think there's alternative explanations for why these people weren't convicted of crimes that don't solely point to "they were 100% blameless and these accusations are without merit".

That's why people are writing these articles/still want blood from the investor class.
Alternative take, the Azure documentation is shit if you are not using dot net... but pretty good if that's your toolchain.
Do you mean these two short films by Dima Fedotov?
https://youtu.be/pyMNIFZTQkg
https://youtu.be/IjJmTeBSEzU
> There are alternate Discord clients, and — unlike Slack — Discord doesn't try to actively prevent people from writing alternate clients against their API.

It's again TOS and people have copped bans for using alternate clients.
Uh...

The problem with socialism is that there are so many definitions of the word that it's actually rather meaningless (this is generally true of every -ism in political theory).

Nevertheless, if we're discussing socialism in the context of the contest between different economic and political organizing philosophies in the 19th century, then rspoerri would in fact be correct to call what he did socialism. The demand for the government to provide various social functions (including things like healthcare or pensions), adding progressive taxation to provide some measure of wealth redistribution, and the limitation of corporate rights over workers (e.g., child labor laws, minimum wage laws, working hour laws) are all hallmarks of the socialist movement that were eventually pretty universally adopted, in contrast to the activists for capitalism.

While there is definitely room for disagreement of what constitutes socialism, I would be surprised to find any political science textbook that wouldn't consider government provision of services (especially as opposed to private provision) a hallmark of socialism.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
--Upton Sinclair (1934)
https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248?lang=...
Electromagnetism, or light, is the interaction, or heat transfer, between two things with no medium in between. The medium of interaction is the the insides of the two things themselves. In order to exist, insides need to be able to interact, outside needs to stay the same. The surroundings have a thermometer. It moves a little. It only has one place to go. Wherever it goes, the outside of it gets stuck glowing red before glowing orange.

Insides and how they interact with the surroundings can not only cause outsides to get stuck, but go backwards. There's nothing the surroundings can do to get the outside to change. The insides can handle anything thrown at it. The insides themselves can't get anything beyond the outside. Whatever the insides are doing, it's easier to go back in than to simply fall out into the surroundings. Why? Things have no mind. They take the easy way. They don't make fast decisions to what's easiest. The way they took is the easiest way because they have no choice in the matter.

If you consider empty space as not empty, but two things canceling each other out, that's an easier way than going back inside. It's possible to say that's a property of the inside, and not the surroundings. You have a way to limit insides where the outside does not change. That provides insights on what nature does when it lacks composite structure.
Sorry, but I'm not in the mood to get flagged today. I cut it off with "crack a book," because if you go one more step down the road beyond that, that leads to something you can't discuss rationally on Hacker News.
The optimistic vision of self-driving vehicles is as a publicly run transit system, where you have a fleet of automated vehicles of varying sizes able to dynamically, collectively route based on demand. A hyper efficient, fully electric bus system.

That would be a pretty exciting development even in, eg, European cities with decent public transit.
It's funny how Americans seem to have accepted the idea that corporations control their political life
Maybe AutoPilot/self-driving status should be obviously indicated by some light, sort of like an on-duty taxicab.

This could alert drivers to be wary; there maybe/is no human driver.
"The truth is that for many Apple workers -- a reality faced disproportionately by our Black, Indigenous, and other colleagues from minoritized racial, gender, and historically marginalized groups of people"

Chances are these Apple employees are mostly middle-upper class trust fund whites who went to expensive colleges, often exclusive ivy leagues. They use emotionally charged language and minorities as a shield against criticism. Saying that you're doing something on behalf of the marginalized is highly effective at disarming people.

"we are faced with a pattern of isolation, degradation, and gaslighting."

This is also a disarming tactic. In reality they are gaslighting us.

"When our stories are collected and presented together, they help expose persistent patterns of racism, sexism, inequity, discrimination, intimidation, suppression, coercion, abuse, unfair punishment, and unchecked privilege."

A bog standard laundry list of critical social justice language. That "unchecked privilege" makes the list of grievances betrays any possible seriousness.

"aren't all given equal rights."

Which rights are they missing exactly?
>I don't think it's easy to beat the mean human driver and to demonstrate with solid data that you've done so.

Agreed. I should have written "relatively easy."

> Any self-driving automobile technology that doesn't have at least 1 billion vehicle miles of data is in no position to claim that it is safer than human drivers and less likely to kill people.

The circumstances under which those miles are driven (e.g. road type, location, weather, time of day, etc.) also have to be consistent with circumstances under which humans are driving. 10 billion autonomous vehicle miles driven only on highways in broad daylight is a worthless point of comparison, whereas 500 million miles driven across a variety of conditions representative of the full human driving population is worth a lot more.
I vouched for your comment. A lot of the rise of Discord can be attributed to convenience, network effects, and pretty features like animated reactions, but ultimately it is still surveillance capitalism. Unfortunately, it appears that the masses don't care about things like privacy, as they're more than willing to sign up for these kinds of services.

https://www.pcgamer.com/how-private-is-your-private-discord-...
For when you want to meet all the feds in your area.
It's probably just a few scraper bots that cause all this inconvenience for millions of innocent people.
Coincidence, most likely. We joined as a team and decided on the company name Level when we were working on an entirely different business.

We liked the name because it seemed very versatile, which has proved to be the case as we've refined our business.
Review of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World”
Nitro pulls $10/mo and has enough benefits that a lot of people pay. Plus server boosts. I bet that they have good cash flow.
> Just as mindboggling as the mind's reluctance to think of itself as a brain.

A bit of an understatement in my experience...very often, minds get rather emotionally agitated when encountering the idea that the reality they perceive is a representation of reality, implemented by a brain (as opposed to being reality itself).
do they ever explain what their "anti-entropy" processes are for and what they do?
You will notice that I expand my point way beyond SpaceX, and even start by stating

> While I do get your point and have my own doubts […]
that and they really are unaware of the horrible things their government/country did and still does. In my view, every good thing/ideal has been corrupted and weaponized by the west. Be it women's rights, civil liberties, human rights in general - whatever. West uses this as a means to pressure other countries to achieve west's foreign policy goals. It's just a stick to beat others with - not an ideal to uphold. So, what you have is a few in the west setting the narrative, and the rest mindlessly dancing as per the narrative believing it. What you see in HN/Reddit etc are the people who believe the propaganda as they being the good guys despite the ones doing the horrible things all across the planet for the last few hundred years. It's hypocrisy when the ones setting the narrative peddle this nonsense. I don't think that crowd comes to HN/Reddit. They are more in nytimes/wapo/economist opeds and columns. The ones you find here are genuinely clueless and/or can't think for themselves. As punishing wrongthink becomes the norm, it's going to get worse.
The 'Joker' Virus Has Returned to Android
Also relevant... can you learn it, build it and deploy it for free?

I've always thought the whole ecosystem looked really productive, and the code I've had to review occasionally looked well structured and readable. But when I was starting out MSDN cost a fortune and I've never really considered trying to learn it.
The entire isle was constructed on the fly just for you, including all the items you "compared", and their prices, and the thing you eventually "picked".
reply because I can't edit. even HN knows how User Hostile Twitter is:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Absolutely, we've got the same problem in Canada. We waste so many resources on treating emergencies, because we can't spare a buck to help folks with minor/moderate problems. And of course, "universal healthcare" doesn't cover mental health, dental or vision -- those are privileges for folks with upper-crust jobs.
A massive "told you so" moment. Next is booster shots and subscription vaccinations connected to a "health pass" that later turns into a citizen pass.
This reminds me of the documentary film Abacus: Small Enough to Jail about how a tiny community bank became the only financial institution criminally charged in relation to the subprime mortgage crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail
Please fix the title (the original title spells Go correctly too).
Netflix and Prime do ask if you launch the app, but importantly do allow a deep link to the content that bypasses the whole “who the hell are you, total stranger?” step.

It’s that interstitial slam on the brakes, after your intent expressed by hitting play on a particular content, that makes no sense.
Context allows us to forgive some sins (which is what I was alluding to, in the first half of my comment on Easy Rider), not all of them.

It is an objective fact that the centralization and scarcity of mass-media broadcasting, back then, effectively acted as a funnel towards certain works, amplifying their influence well beyond their merit.
Exactly right. Furthermore, most risky behavior is a choice. Crashes aren't random "acts of god" that strike anybody with equal likelihood. If you choose not to drive drunk, drive in bad weather, or for many hours without rest, then you can greatly improve your odds and almost certainly reduce your risk below the average. In these discussions I often see far too much fatalism; "Everybody thinks they're above average but half of you aren't". ignores both the fact that crashes aren't distributed like that, and the fact that the riskiest behavior is a choice. The mean number of miles driven drunk is greater than zero, but the number of miles I drive drunk is zero.
I pointed to published papers in the peer-reviewed literature, and you point to a newsletter?

You wrote: "everybody on the internet is an expert and reads one study, selectively quotes something without even understanding full implications and thinks that they have proven everything"

You didn't even point to a study.

Were the red zones in Italy effective? That's the closest Italy had to the specific type of lockdown you mention. And I pointed to a study which argued that it was indeed effective.
Right. It's situations like this that I point to when people say "AP is safer than human drivers" - because AP is disabled entirely when it is unable to work effectively. Humans don't have that luxury.
I worked at a payday loan place, and sure, if you make decent income and just find yourself short a few hundred bucks for a few days before a payday you can get out okay, but folks who are at the edge, making ends meet just barely...well those folks get trapped in a very difficult cycle of paying back $795 every two weeks and immediately taking out a $700 loan, rinse repeat 7 cycles of that before the payday company will allow for a different repayment plan (still a hard hole to dig out of, but a little less shitty than the standard pay us 795 right now thing you have to do for 7 cycles before the option for escape is even available to you)

It's a gross business, exploitation of human misery.
Who would be Boeing then?

Because almost no company has much more serious experience with self-driving cars, let alone FSD.
Oh the old “I would vote left, but this minorities shit is driving me away”, and “this discrimination is all made up”.
Summary:

> This classified CIA analysis from March outlines possible PR strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan.

> The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points that have been identified within these countries.

> For France it is the sympathy of the public for Afghan refugees and women.

> For Germany it is the fear of the consequences of defeat (drugs, more refugees, terrorism) as well as for Germany's standing in NATO.

> The memo is a recipe for the targeted manipulation of public opinion in two NATO ally countries, written by the CIA. It is classified as Confidential/No Foreign Nationals.
I seriously disagree in that there were innumerable thoughtful, measured, and nuanced critiques at the time and they had very little impact. Yes, memes are crude, but they get to the point. And it's a legitimate point; there was a great deal of corruption exposed in numerous markets around the time of the financial crisis, and few of those who profited therefrom suffered any consequences.

I could give a long list of examples and detailed analyses, but my secondary point is that a culture of corruption is enabled partly through talking things to death in abstruse legalistic terms, until everyone is so tired that they become demoralized and lose any motivation to do anything about it.

The US Constitution (not the only operative document, but an important one given the financial industry's very deep roots here) contemplates judicial powers to examine questions of both law and equity. Law is complex and if you have the resources you can hire legal specialists to problematize and pull apart just about any legal assertion. In many respects, a dense thicket of petty legalism surrounds a moral vacuum at the heart of society in which substantive questions about fairness and decency as eschewed as too political for judicial engagement; if you'll forgive my stretching a metaphor, much of our 'shining city on a hill' is just elaborate topiary growing atop crumbling foundations.
It's not you. It's scraper bots they are trying to protect against.
USDC Reserves Composition
Computer says no Why we might have an issue with Artificial Intelligence soon
I think that autodiscovery is only finding the first feed. Since you’re aggregating feeds, I’d expect it to find all feeds on all pages. Sample page with multiple feeds: https://chrismorgan.info/blog/tags/fun/ has the site-wide feed and then the tag-specific feed. I say only “I think” at the start of this comment because the entries in the second feed are a subset of the entries in the first, though it has a different feed ID and title, and I can imagine it possibly merging them.

Losing formatting makes me a little bit sad. The widespread idea that titles are necessarily plain unformatted text is just bad. Italics especially are very regularly useful.
Why doesn't Signal maintain an F-Droid compatible build? (if there's a dependency problem, then they should considering dropping it, release a Signal lite perhaps)
Not sure if I can tell so I'll have to pass on answering that. You can take a look at this though: https://youtu.be/0oyjYH6v0b8?t=434
InitWare (a systemd fork) has been ported to macOS
See https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare for more details.
I figured they are making improvement in HBM but wasn't expecting an massive improvement with power saving. That is great to know.

I forgot that HBM is stacked. I wonder if it a form factor issue? HBM is clearly "thick boy" than conventional DRAM. I imagine they need to make some room for the HBM modules including double-sided stick.
Are we looking at the same file?[0]

Tons of very "interesting" attributes like this:

// prevent inlining into main to decrease JIT time to generate main
[SkipLocalsInit][MethodImpl(NoInlining)]

[SkipLocalsInit][StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Pack = 32)]

[SkipLocalsInit][MethodImpl(AggressiveOptimization | NoInlining)]

[FieldOffset(32)]

and tons of "unchecked" blocks.

Not to mention that the entire file is using explicit vectorization, which I consider to be a very high degree of optimization -- tons of software never bothers to implement explicit vectorization, and does just fine.

If all of this is "nothing out of the ordinary", then "ordinary" C# has changed a lot since I last spent much time with it.

[0]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
The organizing site, from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280134
I’m on a project I created in .NET 1 and then migrated to 2.0 (to generics) early on. It’s moved through VSS via svn to git. It has gone from VS 2002 on CD’s to VS2019/2022. It has over 100k commits. Still work full time on it today. I share your experience with the migrations. Never an issue. The new sdk (“core”) style project system was probably the largest blessing of this whole journey.
Cool video in that article:
https://youtu.be/MaIKWtSCx0M?t=110

It doesn't show them doing what you mentioned, but they all go into their coop on command
I wouldn't be using cruise control during a heavy rainstorm. Standing water and hydroplaning plus cruise control = not a fun time.
>The computer is not going to overlook even one deer.

Oh it will. Animals have evolved amazing camouflage. Computer Vision will easily miss a deer hidden in a dark treeline. And radar/lidar even more so because the forest is going to have a pretty irregular geometry.

Even identifying a bicycle in a regular city street is something we have not convincingly solved yet. Animals on the side of a forest road is pretty far away.
Not really answering your question, but CDC says 28% of all traffic-related deaths in 2016 involved alcohol. Excluding these would immediately improve the mean performance.
If you use Firefox, there's the "reader view" feature that kinds of do what you want for a great number of websites. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
What if someone grossly negligently screws up a $1000 smart contract that convinces the public that bitcoin sucks and the value plummets? It's gross negligence resulting in billions of dollars of losses for others. Are you going to call that property damage in the same way?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439725 - Jan 2017 (155 comments)
For C# they went too far, it has this comment in one of the files:
> Using GOTO which currently causes dotnet to generate better machine code
> absolutely idiomatic and trivial optimization

Which is not accepted for the C# programs either.

sync.Pool is accepted —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> the Go version is expressly contrived to be slower

The requirements were contrived in April 2008.

afaict Go initial release was March 2012.
Samesies.

It's not bad per se but there's plenty of crap in there.

The shortcuts situation is absolutely dreadful for one, I don't understand how gamers can cope with it:

* there are all of 5 actions you can bind to custom shortcuts

* discord defines dozens of built-in shortcuts you can not rebind or disable, if any of those conflicts with something you need you better hope the OS has a way of overriding it

Large chatrooms as well, the moderation tools seem rather limited, maybe it's better for administrators but as a user all you can do is block someone and you still have to see that they're posting comments. It' incredibly frustrating.

Then the linking and jumping to old message works half the time, maybe, search is absolute dogshit, and I've rarely seen a less reliable @-autocompletion, half the time I have to find old messages of the person I'm trying to ping before discord remembers they exist and lets me actually @ them.

And I don’t think support actually exists. You just post into the black hole that are tte support forum thing.
Wikipedia has a liberal bias, according to its co-founder Larry Sanger. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you do too.
> but they make different kinds of mistakes.

This is key, there's expectation and some wiggle room that as a human driver, humans will fuck up predictably and experienced drivers know how to avoid getting into incidents when this happens (usually).

Self-driving cars are weird to drive around. They will absolutely stop in situations where no human would think to stop. I think about this as a motorcycle rider, what if I'm committed to cornering on a corner I can't see around and the software decides on a self-driving car that it should just stop in the middle of the road after the apex? A human driver could do this too but many will know that this is a dangerous place to stop and try to put the car on the shoulder or minimize the amount of time it's stuck there.

I don't know if this is something we need to tolerate a temporary increased incident rate on as people get used to them being on the road, or if we need to make the software drive more like humans (with the assumption that means potentially making the behavior act sloppier than it can handle so that increased software reaction rate doesn't cause humans with slow reaction rate to slam into them)
> Should I be in jail for selling what I knew was a crappy, over-valued company?

If your job was to sell these things to people as a professional service, and you set things up so that a supposedly impartial ratings agency would give a high rating to something you know is shit? Absolutely. It’s not the same thing though is it?
I see why LMGTFY had its day in the sun: you can literally paste the first sentence of parent’s post into DDG, and the first link answers your question. Hell, the preview answers your question, you don’t even need to click it.
No it doesnt. But they tell you it does...
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It's "people like us". Always been. What's changed is how the "people like us" is defined. It used to be race, then skin color, then religious belief, and now it's class. It's still us vs them, only "us" is not defined on racial or religious lines.
> I don't think it's easy to beat the mean human driver and to demonstrate with solid data that you've done so.

It is. The mean is dragged down by alcoholics who drive drunk every single day. If you never drive drunk, that gives you a significant advantage.