skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's 843 pull requests at this time, and I just looked and over 50 are from just the last month

That's kinda overwhelming though ... imagine that if the maintainer pops up somewhere, suddenly 100 motivated people may chime in "hey please review this important pull request that's been sitting over here for a while".

There are some kinds of open source projects that are prone to this ... some are really not so bad to maintain if you have the right kind of discipline, because they converge on a stable set of functionality and platform compatibility evolves slowly, but some just naturally have endless room for variations and special cases, and as users increase, PRs increase linearly (instead of sub-linearly as you'd hope). I'm thinking in particular of https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy (of which I contributed to an older fork)
~10 years ago I made about 10k Twitter accounts just for fun. I never used them. They still exist, no one deleted them. A while ago I lost the script and password for them.

Back then you could bypass captchas and other checks by changing Tor endpoint (some endpoints required captchas, some didn’t). Made a script that did just that.

It also worked for Facebook and I still receive facebook spam for those accounts daily.

I have no problem with asking for a phone number during registration, it complicates automated account registration and makes it quite expensive.
But I dislike the idea of hiding content behind login page, internet should not be a walled garden.
Gosq is a super simple, template-based SQL builder for Go
Do you really imagine that there is any kind of oversight on development like this? Levels of management getting involved in some random feature? Very unrealistic.

The requirement said to not lose the customers work. Everything else was on the development team most likely.
They don't in Phoenix; the article links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdrV9wqXyH0 as an example.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself.)
That's not fundamentalist market thoughts.

The argument is against free market rules . Sorry if that wasn't made clear to you.

The premises are that in a rather laissez faire market, prices are obscured and tend on the over profiting side. With competition not actually leading to the outcome one would expect in a free market.

One pays 100 bucks,another pays 700 bucks. And an RMI shot ( decades old tech ) still costs thousands of dollars.

Edit: can't write proper English with auto correct.
Cool! Congrats everyone @ Grafana Labs!
There should not be a channel for government communications that is only available upon giving money or information to a private party.

(But that's a ship that sailed long before the internet age. "Want to know the laws? Pay up!")
Well, as long as the tech isn't ready to sell to consumers, 'partnering' with Waymo doesn't have all that much upside for automakers. It's not like Waymo is handing over the secret sauce or promising them exclusivity. I also suspect over the past decade Waymo has found fewer and fewer automakers fighting to make a deal with them.

Jaguar doesn't have a high-profile competing autonomy effort of their own, that would create a conflict of interest and/or invite spying.

The i-pace is electric, which makes integration easier and won't hurt for PR purposes.

And it's luxurious enough that no matter who you're showing the tech off to, it won't be a big step down from their personal car.
1492 or 2021, it’s still “civilizing the savages”
If you can teach a car to drive, you can teach a car to detect when it's being thrashed.
Level 5 isn't feasible as much for legal reasons as technical ones.

I don't think any company wants to sign off on the notion that their software will handle all classes of problem, even ones they have no data for at all.
Same with Coimbra, Portugal. Would love to see a Waymo car trying to navigate those old intricate roads.
They didn’t want to lose their job. Most support chats want you to rate the person. This is the real issue.
If this is correct then the most logical decision is to immediately cease all domestic COVID limitations, and expose as much of the vaccinated population as possible to the existing strains.

Australia, New Zealand etc. should open up immediately.
If Google can't do it with its massive resources and sensors don't ever expect a Tesla to perform better than this.

It's time for Elon to pay the piper and refund all users who were hoodwinked into purchasing FSD. Especially people who's cars are nearing end of life.
Your word in Zuckerberg's ear. I love seeing ads for things I actually want. I'd say they're less than 1% of all the ads I see though. For all the data these companies have on me, they don't seem to make great use of it.
I believe advertising works on everyone; if it's really good, you just won't even be able to tell it's advertising or that it's 'working on you.'
Most likely Jaguar is involved financially and it's not a straight purchase. From Wired:

"Jaguar, for its part, gets a large chunk of guaranteed sales and a chance to look like it’s at the forefront of this emerging technology."

- Waymo Expands Its Robo-Fleet with Electric Jaguar SUVs,
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-buys-jaguar-suvs/
> I'm curious what all the folks who claimed this was decades away are thinking?

What is the "this" you're talking about here? I don't think there were many skeptics out there saying that it'll be decades before a taxi service will be able to launch a small, manned trial in a single municipality. Given that it's manned it still isn't quite at Level 4.

The cynicism (and I'd consider myself a mild cynic I guess) was and is around the notion that the vast majority of us would be sat in self-driving cars by now. That was always wildly optimistic. We're making progress and that's great! But there were a lot of breathless predictions years back that have not come to fruition.
Even better, some kind of configuration that accepts a range of values and then generates a model. Dactyl keyboards work this way

https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
Show HN: Slack/Discord bot for running interactive REPLs and shells from a chat
Same here. Microsoft Defender is a real productivity killer. Cached C++ compilation now takes nearly twice as much time if the cache is hot.
And git operations or she'll prompts take forever in large repos like LLVM.
What's funny, is all these issues were raised when Apple rolled out Zeroconf (old name for Bonjour). Apple pointed out that it wasn't a vulnerability, and that not doing it was akin to punching people who came in the front door, while leaving illegal entry unattended.
The other passengers serve as the social discouragement in that instance. Most human-driven rail transit isn't monitored by rail employees.
Yeah SF is very messy configuration wise and is more "european" in that way.
No idea. I used it a while and enjoyed the content, then they changed something in the algorithm and I'd suddenly get basically the same content every single day, often >30% of the feed would be the exact same as the week before. They also removed the list of topics, so there was no obvious way to escape the near static feed.

Not sure what they wanted to achieve with that change, but I never visited the site again.
I agree. I think the problem has been the ride hailing companies shifting all the attention to being self driving taxis.

For 95% of people I think the value is in letting them do other stuff while driving long distances/times instead of stuck behind the wheel. This seems many orders of magnitude easier than trying to tackle inner city driving.
Not that i disagree, but it's funny to me that more people aren't paranoid of companies like i am. I expect _everyone_ to try and swindle me. No company loses anything, so every sale or v2 product i expect to be worse for me.

The only time i actually like ads and feel it "works on me" is when the product is a new area i have not previously seen before. Eg heated cups - i love my Ember. It sucks, but there's not much competition i'm aware of - so early ads were a dominated space. I eat those ads up if it's a product area i care about. (and i really love heated coffee lol)
AFAIK no one recently claimed level 4 with a safety driver was decades away, and I was working on self driving until a few months ago so I was kinda "plugged" into the news. A handful of serious companies have plans and funding to deploy L4 taxi fleets or L4 features to consumer cars in 4/5 years.

There's no commercial value at L4 whatsoever if you still pay a safety driver. It's usually even more expensive per hour than a normal human driver and the cars don't work under adverse weather conditions.
100% Phoenix is basically a big grid with a relatively flat elevation. SF is quite contrary to that organization with elevation changes, more dense traffic and irregular roads being common.
How is this appropriate for Hacker News?
That is mostly pointless.

A PCIe4 NVMe can read at around 7 GB/s.

You'll likely find that few applications can actually manage that in practice, because you have to do something with all that stuff: uncompress it, process it into various in-memory data structures, etc. You need a high end CPU to go along with it, as well as software written to do all that decoding in parallel. It may require planning ahead of time just to ensure that it's possible to uncompress data that fast on existing hardware.

Many programs and games aren't going to bother because it massively increases complexity and the benefit isn't a lot for many applications. Eg, having a game load a level in 1 second rather than 15 on a 16 core CPU -- that's neat, but you were going to stay in that level for half an hour anyway, and it's a potential source for bugs.

You're only likely to see code take good advantage of such hardware if it was especially made for it, like you have an enormous world with a very high detail level that can't be preloaded and the code relies on constantly streaming it.
No because then it is still using EmacsLisp which is dynamically scoped. The idea is really to move it over to a traditional lexically scoped Scheme.
I have no idea but twitter uses google translate API
I thought they did this years ago. I added it to my uBlock Origin list way back when because of it. In addition to that, that kind of pattern across so many sites had inspired me to make an FF add-on for my self to completely remove links to sites I know I never want to visit from whatever page I'm on, that way I didn't have to manually vet every link, or waste time opening a new tab just to have uBO tell me it's blocked.

Funny that they're doing this now, just this month I setup a new PC after 7 years of using the old one and hadn't yet added twitter back to my list but noticed they weren't nagging me anymore, so I left it off. Now it's back on.
Oh wow, this is a great Wiki article -- thank you for sharing!
Please spare us the "there is nothing christian about..." or "jesus was a forgiving guy..." because this is what Christians do over and over again.

There is no special innate morality that Christianity imbues in people. If anything it feeds people's narcissism and makes them behave even worse. "I am important b/c god speaks to me, I can do no wrong because I have the word of god and am surrounded by people who say the same."

Christianity is constantly on the wrong side of history. Christians were overwhelmingly pro-slavery, and used the bible to justify their owning of slaves. Women's rights, accepting of homosexual and trans individuals. Heck, look at today: The republicans whose absurd agenda are prolonging the pandemic are overwhelmingly Christian.

Maybe it's time to stop pointing at "bad Christians" and saying "well they are doing it wrong." Maybe YOU are doing Christianity wrong.
*Windows 7. Which was released in 2009, 1 year after TLS 1.2 was finalized. Windows 8.1 and 10 support TLS 1.2 without opt in.
I agree with what you said. Good comment.

My only issue is the level at which that single one-word descriptor is used above all others. So much focus is placed on "black" "white" etc... that it devalues the nuance of other descriptors. Like "immigrant", "rich", "poor", "college-educated" etc.
Sorry to be pedantic, but that’s not quite correct:

> … The deal would create a new business, separate from AT&T… AT&T shareholders would receive stock representing 71% of the new company, while Discovery shareholders would own 29%… AT&T said Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav will lead the new company, which will have a new name announced in coming days.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/17/att-to-combine-warnermedia-a...
for some of the scenarios listed: a lot of cameras shall be the easy solution.

for wreck, flat, accident, etc : shall be outsourced to some 3rd party 'recovery operator'
That Netflix is even involved in the art of recommendations speaks to the challenge of monetizing independent voices.

I find it fascinating the desire that our storefronts be the place where optimal suggestions are found. It's anachronistic, as if we're still rolling up to chat with the mattress vendor at Sears. Last century's version of us would see an inherent conflict of interest and instead rely on newspapers, magazines, journalists, reviewers, editors, scholars for our discovery. But the revenue in those vocations is crushed and instead we're sheep among wolves.
It's also (and this is important for Tesla owners to keep in mind) not-italicized-technically level 2.

As in, "This system is known to degrade in ways that require immediate human manual intervention under risk of serious injury or death. Do not operate it without constant driver supervision and preparation for takeover."
In all seriousness, in the real world the business types don't actually know the precise business logic, and the people who know number 1 are the ones that have to figure it out.
That's what happens when you enslave a portion of your population, then begrudingly free them but then hold it against them for multiple generations.

That doesn't mean both groups aren't discriminated against.
Maybe people who want to program radio shows mostly don’t know a general-purpose programming language, and making them learn one would be overkill?
> and maybe made it worse

I'm on this boat.

Certainly the proliferation of social media has given every moron a voice, but Twitter made it worse with its short message limit. There's no room for nuance in your messages, so people just post short "zingers" to "own" the other side, which are often not based on any sort of reality and just giant straw men.

It's absolutely destroyed people's ability to have intelligent political conversations.
I have mostly held a position that the streaming market will eventually circle back to some sort of aggregator in the future, but I wonder if these types of moves will create hold outs from that potential product.

What's the ideal endgame here? What do they really _need_ the data for? IMO the "recommendations" angle is more geared towards peddling low-quality content onto viewers so I guess the vision is horrible productions of specifically tailored movies/shows.

Can't wait to see what films they start producing to appeal to whichever market segment I fall under
What do you expect customers to do? Accept a $3000 defective product from a manufacturer screw up?
This cars don't even work with a light drizzle.
Samsung should be permitted to have something like this until the unit is sold.

Once it is sold it is no longer theirs and any of these blocking features should be removed unless explicitly re-added buy the new owner. In fact why don't they charge extra for such a feature?
Same here, I bought a Samsung TV around 5-6 years ago and a year ago it started to show me ads all of a sudden in that 'Media Bar' (I have no idea what's it called, where you select the apps you want to use). A day later I factory reset it and gave it no access to the internet anymore and only stream to it from my PlayStation.

This made me swear off Samsung forever. Don't mess with my stuff I bought years ago.
if they don’t have fsd then they are just an electric car company. if they are just a car company their stock should be at 50 dollars right now. hence why he’d never admit it and instead will double down with his robot that will never materialize
> SF is a real nightmare to drive.

Yes and no. The weather conditions are probably close to perfect for a project like this. A city that spends months with icy roads... _that_ would be the real nightmare.
If you think of advertising as being "see ad -> buy thing", well, it may have worked on you if you needed that thing. That's not a crazy idea right? Advertising purely as a form of product discovery?

Then, beyond that, you can get into the stuff that uses observations about basic human psychology. It might be arrogance to consider yourself above human weakness. You are probably familiar with the strategy of brand awareness? All else being equal you are more likely to purchase a product that is familiar to you. If you see an advertisement for a product, even if you try to form a negative emotional attachment immediately, the emotional tenor will fade but the familiarity will remain.

I'm not going to say every form of advertising is effective, probably a lot of the web stuff that can be gamed is gamed and thus less effective, but I'd be cautious assuming it won't work on you (or anyone else for that matter).
But it ultimately does happen server side. The client is is hash creation, but the server runs it thru an elliptical curve to see if there’s a real match. And if so, it performs an additional hash on the server side.
This is not about measurement. This is about tracking people across third-party websites.
I tried several tools but the only thing that worked for me is just plain text.
I will say it gave me the idea to turn my own house into a corporation. Or maybe I should go the "my house is actually a church" route. Oh, the possibilities.
A self-drive / remote piloted vehicle doesn't need a functional interior. Which means the interior can be basically be made fluid tight, and rapidly replaceable.

The current situation with taxis is that you enter before confirming your identity via payment, and the problem is put onto the taxi driver (an individual) when something happens.

This is distinctly not the self-drive corporation issue: you trash the car, the issue is forwarded to corporate debt recovery, who then work a 9 to 5 slowly pushing the issue though the relevant channels. Meanwhile, the car is returned to base, maintenance rips out the absorbent materials and power washes the interior.

Trashing it becomes a line-item cost to a very large organization, not a problem which "isn't worth it" for an individual operator.
I wonder if they have somehow mathematically proven that they are the same trick?

In which case I reject mathematics.
How? Level 3 requires a driver who needs to take over when alerted. Level 4 is fully driverless.
Only if by trends you mean things that can be traded on unregulated markets.
Yeah. "HN mentioned the future, but no one noticed even on HN" != "HN predicts the future".
I mean, has that sentiment changed? It's still a cute pump and dump scheme that went viral.
No, the companies pay for the R&D as their carbon offset instead of the forest owners, if that's the concern. A fossil fuel company isn't going to reduce its carbon footprint as long as energy demands need to be met by fossil fuels.
Some TV manufacturers have gotten wise to this (sigh) and started hard-coding their DNS lookup IPs.
The criterion is along the lines of something that may be of interest to hackers. Not necessarily as hackers, but to them in general.

All communities either become conservative and lock in around a few norms and aggressively police them or become liberal and become about anything and everything.

There is no healthy middle.

I mean why should economics and housing and finance topics be of interests to hackers?
Pretty sure their sign up rates are going down the shitter, so they need some creative ways to satisfy the execs or whatever
There's an outstanding featurette on Disney+ about "Soul" (part of the "Inside Pixar" series, I think) where Kemp Powers, the co-director and screenwriter talks specifically about adding the barbershop scene(s) because it's such an important part of the African-American culture.
As I understand it, they just started selling the "fsd capable" stuff a few years ago. Are any of those cars nearing end of life? That would be an even greater cause for concern IMO.
Level 4 is where most of value is. If a system could drive in all cities and highways, that's more than 90% of benefit.
Lol. Out of all the vehicles they could have chosen. Why the Jaguar?
The streets of pre-pandemic San Francisco were an unmitigated clusterfuck, arguably the worst in the nation at its 2019 peak. I imagine it's much easier these days for an autonomous vehicle.
You are just talking without any bases. It is true that ZK is a rather new concept in applied cryptography, but the theory has been around for a while now, without any relevant breakthrough in possible attacks. Monero cryptography comes from primitives that are not new to cryptocurrencies and have been in the cryptography scene for a couple of decades now. One could argue that theory and implementation are two very different problems, but even in the implementation side there haven't been any severe vulnerabilities (the only that comes to my mind now is the double spending attack that could be done because of a missing check in a signature). Again, the one you cited is far from a real attack on Monero.
Do you have any concrete examples of parts of the protocol that are so new and immature that we should distrust for this reason?

At the end of the day it is a matter of trust and risk. I trust the mathematics of it because I took the time to read about it and understand the claims of security being made. I also have some trust in the team writing the software because I have been following their development relatively close. You may have done the same and come to the conclusion that they are not that serious or competent, but claiming that Monero is not to be trusted because the cryptography is too new is just an exaggerated view. This things are not being claimed without a proper basis.

Now, I am only talking about Monero here, there are several other crypto-systems using more esoteric methods than Monero that I wouldn't have the same trust in them, like ZCash and its derivatives. They use far more novel cryptography (zk-SNARKs) and some debatable design decisions (trusted setup, optional privacy, developers taking a chunk of mined coins).
Cities that did decide to tear up urban areas for freeways aren't really any better. Consider places like Los Angeles, Dallas, or Houston.

What makes SF difficult to drive in (from my perspective of only ever being a pedestrian there) is a) extremely hilly terrain, b) the general difficulty of a dense urban environment anywhere, and only a distant third is c) traffic, which is merely an added stressor to the complex choreography that is an urban street.
What's silly is your characterization of these barber shops.

We're talking about black American males who are local to their barbers and they use the time to talk about the issues that affect them.

There are literally movies (Coming to America, the Barbershop) and TV shows (The Shop: Uninterrupted) which directly feature these concepts. So if they're as unimportant and silly as you suggest, then why are they so prominent?

Could it possibly be because these people find the experience important in a way that you've missed?
I think the ignorance in these comments say otherwise...
Yes, haha. To be fair it's more of a government role and they do support the government with "2.1 billion in state income taxes" https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/15/which-bay-area-compan...
Exactly, I use bootstrap more as a scaffolding/wireframe type tool and often it's just good enough. For the times when I want to elevate my product I can bring in a designer. Bootstrap lets me be productive and leverage the skills I DO have instead of getting bogged down in how ugly my stuff looks.