skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Almost hitting pedestrians" isn't how I'd describe what I saw in the video.
> Also that Mutual TLS is an alternative term for client authentication

Mutual TLS is where both the server and the client must present certificates and both must verify the others' certificate in order for them to communicate. It's useful for backend server to server communications mainly.
> This is the kind of moral framework that creates cancel culture.

Cancel culture means a lot of different things to different people. You might want to clarify your interpretation here.

> Russia will decrease many Russian's standard of living, but will have zero impact in stopping them from rigging elections.

Wow, this was a mental leap. So by giving into already established corruption of government officials in Russia, you're making it better for Russians standard of living by further having a corrupt government? I don't know how you reached this conclusion. There are thousands of businesses in Russia (and probably hundreds that are large and US centric), but only one government. One company pulling out is hardly going to make a dent in providing jobs in a country as large as Russia.

> If everyone cuts trade for moral reasons, then there's no incentive for us not to point nukes at each other again.

So, you're implying that if we didn't have global trade then nations would fight more? I don't think I've ever heard this interpretation before - care to elaborate?
This article is making the engineer's mistake regarding reasoning about copyright infringement and the law.

The courts do not care how the copy was made, they care about what markets the copying would allow someone to get into. "Cloud DVRs are OK but only if the kernel, filesystem, and hardware take great pains to ensure separate physical storage locations for and no compression on each customer-created copy" is absurd and no judge is going to go for that.

No, the courts aren't saying "if you waste a bunch of money on extra hard drives, you can infringe copyright", either. Their concern is providing a demarcation line between "things the customer has done with your service" and "things your service provides on it's own". Yes, this line is going to be fuzzy, but it's fuzziness has nothing to do with how the bits are stored. It has to do with the context of the markets in which works are ordinarily sold.

>I originally thought the strangeness of digital copyright outcomes reflected a lack of technical literacy in the courts. But for the most part, I find the Aereo discussion shows general digital competency, and an appropriate aesthetic disgust for the “identical bits are different” problem.

Remember how after the Napster lawsuit, everyone was parroting the thought-terminating cliche "the law needs to catch up to technology"? Yeah... no. In reality the law is almost always three steps ahead of technology, because the law is written in a programming language that executes what you intended to write, not what you actually wrote.
I wish they'd "stand ready" to make their own GPUs in sufficient quantities. Jokes aside, ARM chips are great but I'd also like to see what they could do with RISC-V.
It's more like this:

C diehards: Pauses are bad, we need manual memory management.

Everyone else: Does not have manual memory management.
Not familiar with how the autopilot works, but the guy is touch the wheel a lot, is it the car driving, both, or just manual control?

If it is just the car, it looks like it was trying to turn and didn't consider the people in the crosswalk.

Edit: thanks for the explanation.
No, I disagree. Science is something that's well established and has been around for centuries. Engineering is also well established and has been around for centuries. The iPhone is an engineering advancement and will always be viewed that way; it'll always be in the same category as building the aqueducts. There was nothing scientifically groundbreaking about it, unlike discovering gravity or radiation.
It’s not so much about ancient civilizations, but Michael Mann’s 1491 does a spectacular job expanding on the size and complexity of the civilizations of the Americas, which has only really become clear in the last couple decades.

I also really liked this article, which talks about the difficulty of finding evidence of even large civilizations after enough time: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...
It's not. The expected value of starting a business is well below that of being an employee at a large company
The take away is that governments and large institutions which impact large numbers of people should never attempt to set quantifiable targets and should never attempt to meet quantifiable targets.
> Why would anyone expect profit moticated companies like Google or Apple to have higher moral standards than the elected representative US goverment where it operates from itself?

Because elected representatives are not moral authorities
At 10B there are diseases I could fund cures for all on my own.

Heck I'd probably fund a couple tenure positions at a university on the condition that they research certain problems and publish everything to an open access journal. What does a bio lab cost to run, would 10 million a year cover it? That'd be 100 years of funding for 10% of my wealth.

I'd probably follow it up by going to one of my cities troubled youth schools and offering full ride scholarships to everyone who graduates. Figure 100 students a year, 100k scholarship, that's another 10 million a year, so another 10% gone.

Tl;Dr I'm having no problems figuring out how to spend 10 billion!
I remember the CSAM scandal being a US exclusive, so it’s more apt to say the illusion of privacy is a human right for the middle class.
I'm dealing with RSI issues as well, and am in my late 30's. Hard career left me with a lot of small (and a couple larger) injuries.

The only thing I've found to help is stopping the actions that are unnecessary to reduce load, and training to build the tendons and ligaments. This can be difficult and has required I change how I work. It has, however, paid dividends.

I have a torn ligament in my shoulder that I'm about 18 months into rehabbing to try and avoid surgery, and I have a spinal injury that causes me major issues. I've managed to work through both but my progress is ridiculously slow and my max effort ceiling low compared to many. However I've hit points that I was told I'd never be able to do via the long and slow route.

There's nothing easy about it, and nutrition was a big part of it as well. I had to change hobbies, too, as those were using up some of the load I could use to train. Later on I was able to take them back up as I built up strength and recovered those injuries, but never to the point where I was.
I got curious, and did some back of the envelope mathematics / Fermi estimation.

> Analysts estimate Apple sold between 14 million and 16 million AirPods in 2017.[38] In 2018, AirPods were Apple's most popular accessory product, with 35 million units sold.[39][40] 60 million units were sold in 2019.

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

In 2020, another 114 million units were sold.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

Each airpod weights about 4g. But we're counting sales. So, we're counting pairs. And we also have to factor in the plastic charging case which comes in at 38g since that's also included in the package as well. That makes for a grand total of 46g per sale.

By my count, the total weight of all airpods ever sold is about 10.350 metric tonnes (46g * 225 million units).

According to the Ocean Cleanup project, the Great Pacific Garbage Page weighs about 88.000 tonnes.

https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
Also seems to be confirmed here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w

So, all airpods sold between 2017 and end of 2020 make up about... 11.7% of the Great Pacific Garabage Patch.

That's not a number I'd call "negligible". I'm a bit floored and incredulous and not even all too sure of my number work to the point where I've been re-calculating for the past 20 minutes and I'm arriving at the same numbers again and again.

That's just the amount of waste that will need to be disposed of when all units have reached their end of life.

There's also the production process itself which requires resources and produces waste as well. That's not just the molding of plastics and the assembly of circuits. I'm also talking about the extraction, refining,... of natural resources just to produce the half-finished parts that arrive at the plant where the final product is assembled. There's the logistics and transports involved just to move the entire chain. Oh, and the number juggling above is also discounting packaging and wrapping. There's a massive hidden footprint there as well.
If you are the one pushing for it, why not?
> USA also has much larger financial and physical resources than those countries

Certainly not on a per-capita basis, as far as Norway and Luxembourg are concerned.
Show HN: Audible news shorts, made by real humans
I live in rural Michigan. My nearest "big city" has a estimated population of 2800. No big ISP has run anything our direction. We are just now getting municipal gas run in our area, our house has been on propane since it was built in the 90's.

My current internet connection is provided by wifi access points strung across neighbors roofs that terminates into a T-Mobile data connection somewhere. I get on average 8Mbps down and 2Mbps up. On a good day those might be 12 and 3. It goes down frequently enough that I have a wifi power switch hooked up so I can toggle the PoE and reset the router that never seems to recover on its own.

I work remotely of course, and video is highly pixelated and voice frequently cuts out and stutters. Thankfully I don't work on _huge_ git repos.

Netflix and Youtube adaptive streaming is good enough that their content works well. Streaming from Plex is terrible though, I need to set it to the lowest streaming setting to view anything.

My next best option is "Hughesnet" which is satellite and gives you 10gbp transfer for $40/m the most you can get is 50gbp transfer at $130. No unlimited option. I'll eat 10gb in a day.

I'm dreaming of fiber, and have signed up for Starlink which.. hopefully is a little bit faster and stable than what I've got if it ever arrives.
Which makes it even more confusing as to why they'd Streisand effect themselves.
It's odd to me how endless boosters as this suggests, is heralded as a success. While they do reduce severe outcomes for the person that takes them, it's a fact that the vaccinated still spread COVID. The false confidence may even be worse. That means we only accomplished protecting the recipient, making it a personal choice rather than a public health issue. Doing that by revving up people's immune system every 6 months, as COVID still reigns. Israel is talking about their 4th shot, and getting on a 6 month perpetual injection cycle. I'm not interested in that myself. The real answer is that changes are required to virus-proof our economy as much as possible for today and tomorrow. While I decide if my children receive vaccines, the government is not my dad.

I'm looking for a newfound focus on treatments if the vaccines can't afford sterilizing immunity. I'm just not going to get the flu shot every year, nor the COVID shot. If they mandate it, I'll leave the country or go live off grid.

A lot of the mandate-fans will be left dumbfounded as their children are being shot up by the authorities endlessly. It's one thing that the majority is vaccinated and now thinks the rest should also have to do it, which won't end this pandemic as this data proves. It's another thing as everyone's children get their own mandates. Injecting the latest cocktails into little sweetie will change a lot of minds, just may be too late by then. The road to tyranny is paved with good intentions. This reaction to COVID is going to have longer lasting implications than the disease.
I can attest you can find bad internet in small cities just the same as in rural places.

Sure, size is a factor, but it's not the only factor, nor is it the main factor. The main problem is monopolies.
I'm a huge proponent of yoga. It has helped me immensely.
The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]
From the comments in this thread the Twitter copy was not the original creator of the video. The original creator posted it on YouTube but has since made the video private. And they DMCAd the person that reposted it on Twitter.

I imagine they probably started getting a lot of negative attention.

https://twitter.com/xythar/status/1438539880045309953?s=21
1 Singapore 262.20

2 Hong Kong (SAR) 254.40

3 Monaco 242.89

4 Switzerland 222.00

5 Thailand 221.00

6 Romania 217.91

7 South Korea 216.67

8 Denmark 216.13

9 Chile 209.83

10 France 201.61

11 Hungary 201.55

12 United States 199.00

First of all, Singapore, Hong Kong and Monaco really can't be compared to the US. Two of them are wealthy city-states and Monaco is very small (and wealthy).

Once you get to #4 Switzerland, the difference is negligible. The difference between a 200mbps connection and 222 is barely noticeable. It's more than enough to stream movies and use the internet at home, and it's way too slow if you are running a large tech heavy operation. But if you are in the latter group, chances are you aren't doing it at home and much faster commercial broadband of 1GB+ is readily available in most major cities. And if you are like most places, you probably do most of your heavy lifting in data centers belonging to Msft/google/amazon, where the internet speeds are significantly faster.

It seems to me that the important metric is not average speed, but % of people with, say, reliable connections of 50mbps or faster. That's probably how much you need for reasonable home usage with with a few TVs streaming. I don't think most people will notice the difference beyond that.
Good that this topic gets some attention. I see Goodhart's Law again and again in metrics. I wrote about this a while back, including why we use the misleading name. https://unintendedconsequenc.es/new-morality-of-attainment-g...
Every company I've worked at forces you to take your vacation if you hit the accrual cap. Simply preventing you from continuing to accrue seems like a terrible policy.
As far as I can remember, the stress was mostly put on exchanges more so than overall capacity. I'm not aware of any real degradation beyond the panic in the news about « running out of Internet ».
because it's all just a big trick to fool you specifically.

checkMATE science /s
Ok, I’ll ask. How would you describe it?
We moved to a small rural community where a T1 isn't even available. I can get a 3Mb DSL connection or satellite. I have both because I need to redundancy.

I did call to see what it would cost to have 'real' internet brought out here. They were happy to bring out a fiber line from the nearest town to serve our area. But it was going to cost me around $5k/mo with a 3 year contract for a 10Mb dedicated line. It's cheaper to do point to point relays from that far.

The real issue is that the telcos have been collecting fees for years specifically aimed at rolling out broadband into rural communities and they have done nothing but pocket the money.
Watch again. Those pedestrians were in the crosswalk before the car turns. That's illegal at best, and definitely dangerous for those pedestrians. The car wasn't taking a tight right turn either.
The Great Calculator Race Of The 1970s (2019)
Maybe you know Dan Carlin? His Hardcore History podcasts are amazing. History how it should be.
In this case try the King of King, series.
Although almost all of his podcasts are spellbinding and thoughtful.
For all ages too. Excellent for road trips.
https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
In general most people simply won't ever encounter that scenario. There are parts of the US where the people who commit crimes against you won't think twice about "eliminating eyewitnesses," especially if they are a protected class with favorable treatment by the judiciary in their particular jurisdiction. Court systems vary immensely around the US in prosecutory discretion and rulings. For this reason it is more acceptable to defend yourself with firearms when in Texas than in the Northeast.

Additionally, 9-1-1 simply does not work in many parts of the country. In rural areas, response times are on the order of half an hour or longer. In cities like Washington D.C., 9-1-1 can take FIVE MINUTES to pick up the phone. I could not believe it until I needed to use it. I was put on hold by 9-1-1, LOL. I was able to run away from the threat and hide in that case. I was attacked unprovoked near a dark wooded area while walking down the street. I got lucky then. The stories about Rock Creek Park disappearances are true.
Or Elon haters to make it look like Elon is super paranoid?
Ask HN: Describe instances of people peddling bogus algorithms
FWIW I'm pretty sure YC just offers a standard deal and doesn't make exceptions. For one thing it's way too hard to manage negotiations when working with so many startups (they fund close to 800 a year these days, and consider many more). Maybe there are exceptions (I don't know) but they'd be extremely rare.
KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors) Is Dead. Long Live ANN
Ambient Chaos
But Chemistry cares about actual chemicals and Astronomy cares about our actual universe. Likewise, Computer Science is overwhelmingly concerned with actual computation. You aren't identifying a distinction here.

Both Software Engineering and Computer Engineering exist, as sub-disciplines, but it doesn't make sense to argue that somehow studying Graphene (a chemical which exists) is Chemistry while studying non-blocking algorithms is only Applied Computer Science somehow just because such algorithms could be used on an actual computer.
And... when everything failed except the new system, which seemed to keep the company operational despite the executives' views... you still agree with them?

You agree with their 'enraged' state? You think it was justified? Even with hindsight, or just at that moment in time?
Ah, right. I wish ECS had an option to expose all of an EC2 instance's underlying cores to a container with no constraints. In that case, the scheduler could use the memoryReservation setting to figure out which containers can fit on which instances.
I'm also naive, and regardless, fully in agreement with you.
Just the car. The guy can override by taking hold of the wheel and overriding what the car wants.
Edit:

I was being dumb and am wrong. This is YouTube's internal system for copyrights not DCMA.

Apologies.

Old comment below...

You can read up on how to submit DCMA takedowns for YouTube here -> https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807622?hl=en

The original uploader of the video submitted the DCMA takedown request.
Post author is ranting incoherently, but Title IX is a legit minefield; in particular, its implementations at universities have been pretty problematic. The root of the cause is a notorious "Dear Colleague" letter that came out in the early Obama administration. Due process around sexual misconduct allegations suffered greatly as a direct result of what it asked universities to do.

Aside from individual opportunities for unfairness, it turns out when schools have policies that can get you fired or expelled without a chance to defend yourself (let alone have an attorney) then this gives rise to abuses of the system — many of the same kinds of abuses with similar unfortunate racial impacts that we see when off-campus justice systems are abused.

Ironically, many of the successful lawsuits about unfair expulsions are themselves Title IX lawsuits.

For some introductory coverage see also: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/title-ix-sexual-misconduct-on-c...
Also, because GC is “lazy,” your program may even end up running faster than one that uses an “eager” memory management, such as the one used in C++, where destructors are invoked, and objects on the heap are deallocated, early on, i.e. as soon as something goes out of scope, rather than when the process is close to running out of its memory quota (which may never happen).
Haha how is that illegal? The driver took over way before the car entered the crosswalk section.
This number isn't very useful for the purpose a lot of people here use it for, ,to determine the quality of broadband in a given country.

I'm using Singapore as an example, where 1 Gb/s fibre is available to almost every household (the government ensured that two fibre pairs were installed to each household, and the resident can buy any service they want from different ISP's).

The number shown, at less than 100 Mb/s must mix in tests over mobile as well, which begs the question as to how useful it is.
> Especially nowadays, when opinions hostile to China are bipartisan, it's important to see how they treat these topics from the other side

That logic is too simplistic. The "sides" aren't symmetrical and equivalent. CGTN is meant to be China's version of RT, it exists to further China's foreign propaganda goals, that doesn't include accurate and honest journalism when that would conflict with those goals.

CGTN banned from use on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CGTN

> China Global Television Network was deprecated in the 2020 RfC for publishing false or fabricated information. Many editors consider CGTN a propaganda outlet, and some editors express concern over CGTN's airing of forced confessions.

Telesur is also banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

> Telesur was deprecated in the 2019 RfC, which showed consensus that the TV channel is a Bolivarian propaganda outlet. Many editors state that Telesur publishes false information. As a state-owned media network in a country with low press freedom, Telesur may be a primary source for the viewpoint of the Venezuelan government, although due weight should be considered. Telesur is biased or opinionated, and its statements should be attributed.
No it isn't.

This channel is IRC or Slack. On IRC it is completely normal to log in under a different name. A new generation of "developers" is making up completely arbitrary rules to gain power and suppress productive persons.
Important to note, most broadband providers realized they were getting hammered by speed test in the ratings, and so launched their own (fake) speed tests that show them over performing what they actually can do.

So customers suffering from bad internet are more likely to be directed by their ISP to other services rather than speedtest.
And if they are, then maybe, it's even better.

If their first option is this bad, then others must be completely useless.
I love Java but happen to like TypeScript a lot, at least the way we write it.

The rest of them I've been enthusiastic about for a few weeks until reality catches up with me and I realize what I am missing out on.
Specifically, aio (async io).
> I’ve never had to actually quote the “AS IS” warranty disclaimer in my licenses

I must say that in one of my favorite responses ever, seen in some FOSS discussion with an entitled user, the author replied "Please, go read the License". Or "sorry, but this project is released under the Apache license". Something like that.

This was confusing, and had no bearing to the technical complaints of the user. Until someone pointed out that "the softwate is provided AS-IS without any guarantees". I laughed at that, seemed the right amount of snarkyness to give as reply to a snarky user!
I do see good things in the future for internet in rural areas. Between Starlink (maybe even other competitive satellite in the future?), 5G, and WISPs getting better and better, effective internet access in traditionally underserved areas should really start becoming both available and affordable.

With smaller towns/rural areas having a much lower cost of living and the expanding ability to work from anywhere with a decent internet connection, I hope we begin to see a resurgence of small town America. Not everyone wants to live in giant megacities.