skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that we're trying to achieve a goal which is not possible with the tools at hand. There is no way to satisfy the right of all people to self-govern in a nation where half of the population wants a secular society with a European-style welfare system, and the other half wants a laissez-faire system that imposes Christian social mores. The goals of the left and right are not reconcilable.

The underlying issue here is that democracy is not enough. To state it differently, democracy is a means to an end, with the 'end' being self-representation. Democracy is necessary to achieve self-representation, but it's not sufficient.

An example: remember when The Don wanted to buy Greenland? Well, let's say the US bought Greenland. Their people, then, would be granted US Citizenship, including the right to vote. Throughout the transition, they would reside in democracies. One day they would stop voting in Danish elections and would instead vote in US elections. They would always be able to participate in the democratic process. They would also be extremely pissed off. Why, though? They had their say, didn't they? They voted in the elections, didn't they? But even though the process was democratic, the right of the people of Greenland to self-govern was not observed. They had democracy, but not self-representation.

Folks in the US feel the same way. In the Pacific Northwest, there is a broad consensus that the state should run healthcare, and yet they don't have state-run healthcare. Why? Because they need the consent of folks who live thousands of miles away in Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida! They have democracy, but they don't have self-representation.

When the tide turns and there is majority support, on the national level, for state-run healthcare, what happens in Oklahoma? We're going to force a national healthcare system on them when the vast majority of the citizenry abhor the idea of state healthcare. And why? Because, thousands of miles away in California, Oregon, and Washington, folks support the idea. That's democracy, sure, but it's not self-representation.

The rash of democracies that have taken hold in the world over the last few centuries has been wonderful, but we'd be foolish to assume that we've perfected human governance. There are better, more representative forms of government out there that we need to seek out and implement.

To make the next great leap in human governance, we need to acknowledge the limits of the systems that we currently have. We need to admit that over-large democracies are not conducive to actual self-representation. And we need to exorcise the ghosts of our monarchical forebears. Our governments don't own us, do they? Then why do we allow them to stifle and suppress democratic secession movements, like the recent one in Catalonia?

To ensure that we are truly able to self-govern, we need to pick our governments, not just our representatives.
The "homeowners can 'gift' stays to 'friends and family'" [second scare quotes added] quote in the middle, plus the app to organize bookings hints at the direction they're going to take this. You're not buying a very expensive timeshare, you're buying a 1/8th share in a revenue-generating asset. These aren't paying guests, they're friends of the owners who have been gifted a stay.

Turns out, though, that a neighborhood of (by definition) multi-millionaires can mount a more effective defense than the markets airbnb started in.
To me it does a great job of saying "this is my fun side project that I do not want to become my day job". :)
This made me realize that my dad has a specific whistle that he would use throughout my childhood and even today as an adult, to get the attention of my brother and myself if we were out somewhere. Like a "Hey, we're leaving. Let's go"
Totally agree. I always get in trouble when I say that we must build a first version to get a “feel” for the task and then refine for a while. This may involve scrapping the whole thing a few times. This is especially true if something is totally new. Once you have an established UX it’s much easier to plan and make changes.
A bit more text describing the app on the website would be great - I wasn't thinking about RSS first...
If Waymo has a 10-year lead, the people who get paid by the word to write about the horse race don't get paid. That's why you'll often see articles on self-driving cars that don't even mention Waymo.
Most of the commercial value is achieved at Level 4.

I'm curious what all the folks who claimed this was decades away are thinking?
> With 1TB of RAM you could set aside 128GBish for use as normal memory and 850GB as a RAM disk you can use for copy-back installation.

You don't really need ram disks, you can preload things to cache[0] and it will work just as if it were a ramdisk.

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/43383/caching-preloading-f...
You seem to assume there is unmet demand that you can meet cheaper with automation than with human drivers. I agree there may be unmet demand but I don't see you get automation to be cheaper than a $10 an hour cab driver. I mean if automation was cheap and easy then our factories would all be automated before something quixotic like a car. It is frankly absurd.
>Most people who say they want you to talk about your feelings are predators looking for angry and vulnerable young people who they can manipulate with sympathy and groom for other pipelines and agendas.

I'm not really sure what this means... are you lumping in licensed therapists and social workers in here? Seems unfair to me, IMO.

I guess just a little clarification would be useful, not trying to tear down your view or anything. I'm equally skeptic of journalists from big orgs like CNN coming into these spaces.
What if I buy a share and use it for a porn studio?
And what kind of person you think we are talking about here for 60k in Amsterdam? Is that a senior Software Engineer? Or even an engineering lead (responsible for a bunch of other SEs)? Because 60k per year in Amsterdam equates around 4.6k per month + holiday pay. I can hire at most a medior - senior SE for that in AMS (let's say 4-5 years of experience) and I really don't believe a person with that kind of experience would earn 300k a year in SV.
I know this is off topic, but I have an M1 16 GB, and an Alienware with 32 GB and a nice GPU. My M1 Mac is snappier, runs better, can handle the same workloads, runs high docker workloads fine. My alienware was 2200 dollars. I'll probably never buy another intel chip laptop. Only draw back is when I need a GPU, I use the alienware. Lately I just ssh in from my Mac and then run the workload.

Just to reiterate, its shocking how much better the M1 chip is.
yep I think you're exactly right, as evidenced by the fringes.
He was sent to a rehab facility when he had no addiction problem[1]. He was forced to attend AA meetings, etc. That's enough for me to assume the state had other motives.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3921800-McGahey-PSI-... (linked from the article)
> Also, just a reminder that Waymo in Phoenix is nowhere close to being level 5

Because they are not even trying to be level 5. They've made it very clear that will only ever be a level 4 company and level 5 is not feasible.
SF is hardly a nightmare to drive. Try Boston during a winter storm.
maybe part of the whole conversations is survivorship bias? id be interested to see data on the past positions and companies people on both sides of the argument have worked on. ie: if you have seen how teams of hundreds are justified, it makes sense. likewise, if you have only worked on small teams, its hard to understand what 100s of engineers would do.

its been a few years but i knew of multiple alexa-100 sites that were all running on just two 4 core servers(this is back when alexa was a useful measure of size, mind you). managed essentially by the hosting company. so "scale" is not always directly linked to traffic, i would think complexity dictates the need for more engineers rather then size.
Yes, I'm not saying HN is wrong about everything. HN isn't opposed to my other examples of VR or deep learning (though there are certainly people who argue strenuously that deep learning is a dead end and GOFAI is the way forward). I'm just saying that when the consensus about something is wrong, that's an opportunity to get ahead of the curve. And reading HN is a great way to gather the information you need to decide whether the consensus is right or not. But you have to figure that out for yourself.
> The ecological impact of this shouldn't be ignored.

Pretty low so long as they only use it for theft. Thieves will soon learn not to steal TVs as there is no value in it. As such it is only a small number of bricked TVs that are landfilled early - nothing compared to all the TVs already landfilled.

Now if this is used for something other than theft cases it can get bad, but in this case at least it is a good thing that helps all honest people.

> At the very least, there should be a well-known process to remove these locks.

There is. Or so they claim, I don't know if it works or not, but supposedly you can just send proof of legal purchase.
> Lewis is trying to solve a problem a lot of other people are trying to solve: how can you have a normal community in US culture?

Indeed, in sociology this building of community is typically called the 'third place' [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Rampant misconfigurations in Microsoft Power Apps exposed 38M records
On the other hand I think Twitter and these platforms are a net gain for Human connectivity and sharing of knowledge and expansion of interest. There are many things, including humor, events , people, technology, that I would have never discovered without the existence of many of these platforms. I’m someone who pushes for greater globalization and I believe the transfer of culture that Twitter provides is a good effort towards that.

I think a lot of the complaints towards Twitter is due to people not using the on-site tools to cater the site towards what they want. I find Twitter the most approachable platform in allowing the user to curate the content they want to see via blocking and muting alone. Out of all the Social Media platforms, if there’s something I really don’t want to see while still wanting to use the platform , Twitter is the best. All without having to make a single tweet in 2-3 years.
How is this showing anything is a feature about capitalism? The labor relations described in the article are not capitalistic.

How are you defining capitalism?
Hey when you say there have been no high quality large studies perhaps you are unaware of the 63 studies, 42 of which were peer reviewed and 31 were randomized controlled trials. Please look at ivmmeta.com and let me know what you think of these are high quality large studies and if not why.
Try telling that to Uber or Waze. Both of those apps need special permissions from Apple just to keep operating.
Author here. At my day job I spend lots of hours debugging messy React code! The key is to have side projects too :)
Even if that's probably a somewhat idealistic view of many large extended families :-), there is shared context and history which makes it at least feel different.
- They likely were able to get a commercial volume purchase discount

- if that's the car their devs are testing on, it's going to be the fleet car, at least at first

- Alphabet has $135B cash on hand[0]

0: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q2_alphabet_earnings...
How different is this from IMEI blacklisting of stolen phones? The secondary market for stolen phones has kind of disappeared despite cost of phones increasing.

EDIT: I think there is plenty of reason to want an open source tv os. They are terrible, ad ridden, bloated commodities. But this seems to be only valid use of DRM I can think of.
There is a firefox extension that I use, called Stylus[1], that lets you add custom CSS to websites. The thing that helps most is that Stylus lets you browse other people's styles for website, and there are already themes for Dan Luu's website.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
So your prediction would be that African immigrants would underperform other immigrant groups originating from far away countries, owing to racism once they land here?
"US left Afghan airfield at night, didn’t tell new commander"[1] comes to mind.

> Before the Afghan army could take control of the airfield about an hour’s drive from the Afghan capital Kabul, it was invaded by a small army of looters, who ransacked barrack after barrack and rummaged through giant storage tents before being evicted, according to Afghan military officials.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-tr...
Cue in joke about that Dropbox thread comment
I loathe the day where manufacturers start requiring Internet access because you know that most people won't think twice about it. And they'll also all do it within a couple years of each other.
That could be a nice alternative! In that case you do need a separate tuner though and something like a Chromecast if you want to watch Netflix. And you might not have easy access to extended channel offerings such as watching older episodes on demand etc.
The Bitcoin ecosystem today is so different from what it was in the early days, that it's barely the same topic.
Because corporate interests have brainwashed us into thinking that IRC isn't good enough any more
Yes and the marketing copy that says "grab a bite in Sunset or visit Golden Gate Park" kind of implies the Ave's will the service area. I don't think it's going to be downtown and Soma, yet.
Anecdata: I have a 8 year-old CST trackball that has never been cleaned. (That sounds really gross.) It works fine.

However, I think I should clean my ErgoDox and mouse soon... thanks for the inspiration.
Maldives' dredging 6m m³ of sand for for 244-hectare expansion
> a $10 an hour cab driver

Well, for one thing, I don't want anyone in populated parts of the US to live on $10 an hour, not even a cab driver. What happens when we double that? Cost of living goes up over time, but cost of technology goes down. When do we reach the tipping point? Have we already?
Please elaborate. These kind of comments don’t really belong on hacker news without more content.
No way, they have the great firewall! /s
The Lord works in mysterious, tax-advantaged ways. Praise be.
Exiting after 20 years in Afghanistan is a good choice; if we couldn't build a strong US-backed government there in two decades, we never could.

The issue that everybody has is the scrambled and disorganized form of the exit, and that's what the administration is receiving bipartisan flak over. Biden said "this is not Saigon, there will be no helicopters evacuating people from the roofs of embassies," and that is exactly what occurred. This should've been higher on the administration's priority list, and evacuations should have begun much sooner.

Here's just a couple of the blaring issues:

- US forces should have protected Bagram air base from being surrendered to the Taliban, as it was much more defensible and capable of this scale of evacuations, and we would not be running so close to the August 31st deadline while also failing to evacuate Afghan nationals.

- General McKenzie should have stayed in Afghanistan to manage the operations rather than exiting early to CENTCOM in Tampa; our presence completely deteriorated without an effective chain of command.

- Maybe we could have spent the past few months working harder to give the Afghans better intelligence capabilities (intel and air support mattered more than our troops on the ground), and ensuring our own intelligence was accurate, as we failed to detect the Taliban's offensive plans.
I never relied on Netflix's suggestions, yet still find Netflix interface superior to those of Disney+, Hulu, HBO, and Amazon Prime. To be honest, Amazon Prime is a mess.
Massive Google Sheets are the main memory hog for me… I suppose I could do work to make the sheets more efficient or move them into a better kind of database. But that would take effort.
The difference between SAE level 4 and 5 is explicitly whether the autonomy is geographically limited or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#SAE_Classific...
As Our Money Hits the Big 5–0, Is It Still Fit for Purpose?
Here is another burnout story: https://ldhawke.medium.com/trying-41aa07e8629d
You wouldn't achieve any scaling benefits there. But also - trashing an autonomous car (aka a car full of cameras and sensors, which you charged to your credit card) seems like one of those self-limiting problems as the people who do it go bankrupt or to jail.
Poetic
Yet customers love free stuff, aslong as they can send cat pictures they dont care.
The answer to why people don't like this is simple, if a government like China says "Apple, you're going to add these image hashes to the database and report any device that has them in the next update or you're going to leave China," what do you think Apple is going to do?

I have read their papers, I understand the system and the safeguards they put in place, but none of them are good enough to have scanning on my device. There is nothing that is good enough. On device scanning for "illicit" content is a box that cannot be closed.
Seems reasonable - We have proof of work, proof of stake, proof of storage. Why not proof of trees!
Bezos at one time mentioned that 35% of all Amazons sales came from recommendations. That’s not an insignificant number.
A question on the article title from someone who is not aware of the latest words to use w.r.t. race - why is it "Black barbers" but "African American men"? Why aren't both "black" or both "African American"?
How do you measure what is wrong? In the example of Bitcoin, if the measurement is price, I think that's a misunderstanding of what people are criticizing.
Is cyber insurance still an economically viable approach to ransomeware?
At 25, you have the option to move (that is, change companies) even if you worked on obscure tech. At 25, you can find someone who will take you in that situation (though it may take longer than finding someone who wants the current hotness).
I read some other thread on here some time ago that talked about the option of using a Pi-hole (or so?) to block smart TV ads.
Yeah its funny, because they used to have the most reliable system for finding new good content. Back when you could just sort by the number of stars as rated by other users and before they started manipulating that, it actually worked really well. If something was 4.5 stars, it was almost universally good. They innovated their way into their recommendation system being completely useless and unused by me. Now I just wait to get recommendations from other people I trust to act as a filter for me. I used to occasionally peruse the netflix original content because it was relatively good compared to average in the industry and often worth investigating, but I don't even do that now.
Atleast Amazon has a decent amount of content. The Apple TV app feels like a scam. I don't think I've ever found watchable content if I didn't hear about the TV show through a review or a friend. It's a waste of time trying to browse.
The noprocrast option in the user settings can help. You can set minaway to a much longer time to avoid checking in constantly.
1. Religion: Other pros:

- Highly tailored to cultural nuances. Many immigrant communities only have religion as their fallback. I cannot overstate how important this is to such communities.

- In some cases, a diverse set of people and backgrounds from different points in their life.

- Many religions instill a sense of humility.

Other cons:
- By nature ripe for abuse, without checks and
balances in the structure.

- A lot of work and time/financial commitment by its members.

- In practice, some
of the nastiest and most egotistical people I’ve met attend churches.
I am in the AGI camp, but have wondered and still wonder,

Why are efforts not focused primarily on interstate/highway travel, specifically, collaboration with DoT for mesh/distributed/coordinated long-term travel?

I don't need a self-driving taxi. I would pay 20K for a car which participated in a federally-regulated framework which let me let go of the wheel when I get on a highway and let teh emergent cloud determine how best to move my car and all the others on dedicated/reserved lanes in coordinated "trains" for hours.

The wins here seem like no-brainers. Sidestep all jurisdictional nonsense; optimize commerce and personal travel; automatically handle emergency vehicles and other unusual conditions; etc ad infinitum.

All my car needs to be able to do other than existing lower-tier self-driving/driver assist basics, is join the borg.

Coordination for traffic flow management seems like an unbelievable win.

But no, all we seem to be getting is cyclist-terminating taxis which cost $250K each and are, IMO, doomed in target-rich environments like SF to not forseeably adequately the last 8% of anomalous novel cases.

Just don't get it.
The are everywhere. I'm fairly certain that I encounter them more often than SFMTA.

My car was broken into over the weekend and I couldn't help but think about whether a Waymo captured the vandalism... Not like it would help, but like all mass data collection campaigns, the potential implications are strange.
Its quite common in some hoods in South Africa to use whistling to communicate if the police or enemy gang are coming. Im pretty sure this isnt unique to South Africa though
I can confirm this as recently as June 2021
I really appreciate this comment. What I've seen in my life is that if I call it mental health, I probably still see it as disjointed as that. If I call it emotional health, it seems to open up a much broader spectrum of services. Then me calling my friend and talking about how I'm feeling, about my stress, confusion, anger, joy, excitement, dreams and fears, helps me to process some of those feelings and share them more. And it doesn't have to be a friend, it can be journaling to myself, or talking to a barber or someone on a plane or someone at a bar, or someone via online forums. It could even include the physical activity as well, as I like to define emotional = mental + physical. So going for a run or a swim or throwing a ball with a friend can provide avenues for this as well. At least for me, I find the term "emotional health" helps me see the gradient more.
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Yes because processes are not mapped 1-to-1 to their executable file format. Have a look at this video[0] which explains the structure of an ELF file (the binary format used for executable files in many OSes). The ELF structure basically describes how the process memory should be initialize with data and code.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC1U1LJQL8o
It will also seriously harm their TV/AirPlay competitor Chromecast, right? I have to imagine that every app with a Chromecast integration is using multicast to discover devices, but I could be wrong.