skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empty seats mean someone screwed up but how can you tell that a group of empty seats is unused due to a scalper, versus some group of people who couldn’t make it?

When speculators don’t screw up, one fewer part being sold now means one more part that can be bought later. Delaying sales of some parts makes the shortage worse earlier and better later. Keeping inventory is a service to people who didn’t plan ahead.

Sometimes people do screw up, buying things that are never used, so they lose money due to the waste. But you can’t assume they’re all screwups.
If you're setting the over-under at 0.5, I'll take the over...
Kinds of Digital Tokens
General electronics yes, but automotive ICs are not in free sales and can't be stocked by 3rd parties.
Also giants like apple, amazon,... buy directly from the manufacturers with orders being made often a year in advance.

This shortage is so big that the 3rd party scalpers are insignificant contributor to it.
How often has Dr. Seuss been banned?
IPhone photos do some weird shit a small portion of the time too. I've had mostly great experiences as well as the rare unrealistically colored outcomes or misplaced bokeh.
Yeah seems like this should have made the list. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/03/0...
If i don't use awk, i throw tr -s ' ' into the pipeline, and then the delimiter is a single space, so you can just cut.
For a long period of time, you got a free Windows key for it if you owned a Java license. I do not believe they are continuing this promotion
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I do believe in negative externalities!

But! If choosing to prevent one negative externality causes another negative externality, well you're proper fucked now! Hence the "double bind".

Now in regards to your proposed question. Radioactive waste is a totally different issue. So that's a hard A!

Now if the question is:

If an unvaccinated person walks into a public space filled with other vaccinated and unvaccinated people all of which made their own personal choice based on their personal circumstances.

C.) Well that's just life right? Freedom is inherently risky. Life for that matter.
Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
They could lobby and get another cash for clunkers sort of arrangement from the federal government to incentivize dealers turning over leases rather than having them on the lot, and having the cost of getting back these cars publicly subsidized by the government. The run for used car supply right now is entirely due to new car supply being so strained. Pushing that demand back to new cars rather than used cars puts the profits back into the automakers rather than dealerships, and guess who swings with more weight in Washington. Not Joe Shmoe Chevrolet from Anytown USA.
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Is this correlated with months-ago leaks about toxic culture in Amazon?
Scale that up and you can see the same effect with entire generations.
We are currently experiencing sixth Mass Extinction event. It started at least 20k years ago, and is generally linked to the end of glaciacion of the northern hemisphere and human activity.

It is not exactly known if this rate is fast or slow, because from our perspective we can't really estimate the length of previous mass extinction events. After all, the closest one was 66M years ago, and with fossil evidence gradual decrease of biodiversity over the course of 1M years wouldn't look much different if said decrease would take just 1 year.
> Even if they arrive 1-2 years later than Waymo/Cruise

It's tough to anchor Tesla's arrival based on the rest of the industry's progress. Cruise and Waymo are heavily dependent on Lidar; Tesla is solving a fairly different technological problem.
What's the difference between scalpers and Digikey hypothetically raising their prices sixfold?
> You can also pay 12 euros per month and don’t have any ads.

How can I pay 12 euros per month and not have ANY ads on YouTube?

By that I mean YouTube ads and native video ads (I can’t) if I need to pay 12 euros per month to ONLY get rid of YouTube ads then I will continue to use ublock + sponsorblock.

If YouTube forced content creators to tag the timeframe for in video ads and auto skipped it for premium users I would gladly pay the subscription fee.

Just as I’m not interested in paying for internet news just to still have ads shoved down my throat and pay for streaming service that still serve ads. I also refuse to pay YouTube to still see ads by sponsors.
Agreed most people will not care. The legacy auto manufacturers and their mainstream media lap dogs will jump all over it. There will be an outpouring of fabricated outrage. It is all so predictable I want to puke.
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Global mutable variables are generally a bad idea because they have nonlocal side effects which are difficult to mitigate, like aliased mutable pointers but worse. Extra non-aliasing arguments and multiple return values are free of these issues, and a better tradeoff in almost all cases (unless you're sure you'll never run 2 instances of a system in the same address space, and you have specialized constraints possibly including embedded/safety-critical development and emulators).

When experienced programmers utilize global variables whenever it makes sense, it tends to bite future generations. Windows's GetLastError is a mess (some functions set it on error but don't clear it on success), I'm not sure about POSIX's errno, and when threads were introduced, these variables had to be changed to thread-local state.
Or, much less than an army of super warriors. They did not win more battles than their rivals. I think of them as Greece's FARC, distinguished mainly by their abuse of their own children and everyone they depended on for their own survival.
you’re welcome. i’m a bit low on sleep so i missed part of your question, and don’t think the video addresses it — that is, are two [cotton] masks more effective than one. i honestly think that this is an interesting question. for most people, their intuition would be to answer “probably,” but i suspect there are some complexities that someone smarter than i am would have to address.

wearing two masks instead of one wouldn’t make things worse, though. but better? again, good question.
Of course it does, it violates many things (the right to medical treatment without coertion, anybody?). I am doubly vaccinated for COVID and have been getting flu jabs yearly. I'm as far away from anti-vaccine as one can be. But the fact of the matter is that people are too afraid of COVID (https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...) because of the media (for example overestimate the risk of getting hospitalized by the factor of x5), and in that anxious state don't think rationally.

There is also an additional factor, which is - people are tired of the pandemic and getting angry at the unvaccinated allows them to vent. It's also really good for politicians because they can redirect the anger from themselves to a fraction of the population.
I don't think I have ever seen the “Certified USB” logo on a product
> I don’t know why HN is acting so strange regarding replies today

It's a speedbump. You have to wait a few minutes before replying to a reply. It encourages reflecting on what the other person is saying instead of launching into what you already wanted to say.

> The intended audience is, by your own admission, possible banking clients. “Institutional investors“ is a category of organizations that have the ability to ramp up foreclosures and/or reduce COVID measures in their businesses.

I don't admit that. We disagree on who the intended audience is. It's not decision-makers looking for a policy recommendation. It's investors who want to know what will happen to their investments.

> I’m always curious about people that go out of their way to defend big, awful organizations and their terrible agendas.
> cheerleaders for this sort of godawful naked “fuck the poor” rhetoric are the aspirational “temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

Surprise surprise, people on HN will give you push-back when you say something outrageous. Maybe you'd find better luck somewhere like r/wallstreetbets where you'll get many upboats for saying something along the lines of "Bankers, evil bastards, amirite?"
Lots of people used to feel this way about automated elevators.

https://medium.com/swlh/what-do-self-driving-cars-and-elevat...
Tesla already did it. No one seems to care?
I don't understand the point of the article. In quantitative terms one can say that Y was better than X. Like: Usa in the 20th century was better at creating technology. Why does the author need to emphasize that Spartans were no better than other Greeks as warriors as it's a bad thing? It's not discimination or racism or whatever. I think it's because in modern times saying Y is better than X is bad. Except for in sports. Weird.
in the age of monopolies - the whole "it's private" has less and less practical meaning. Is it a violation of 1A? No.

should we be reconsidering laws in an age where all ephemeral discussion is gone and near all discussion or communication or media is now permanent and flows through Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter?

Absolutely. The web was never meant to be so centralized and monopolized. The web has "disrupted" so many industries (ie, flat out destroyed them and then consolidated their functions under one of the main web companies), there's decreasing less alternatives for private platforms.

Censoring speech on private platforms was a really different animal 10 years ago.
> Tesla can manufacture full equipped vehicles faster and for much cheaper. There are also already 1.5mil vehicles that could be turned on.

This sounds like premature optimization. The real unsolved problem here is autonomous technology (software and hardware), not manufacturing equipped vehicles. No point having millions of vehicles if your self driving technology doesn't actually work.

> They do not rely on HD maps.

Precisely why FSD doesn't work and is still level 2. The AV players have shown fully autonomous driving needs HD maps and (inconspicuously) the only one not to graduate out of level 2 self driving is the one that's not using HD maps — Tesla. Creating/maintaining HD maps isn't nearly as hard as you think it is, but the benefits are incredible for safe driving.
The Apollo program was greatly accelerated to meet Kennedy's 10 year goal and the worry that the Russians would get their first. A lot of intermediate testing was skipped.

Fortunately, things went well with Apollo 11.

It's telling that Bezos felt confident enough to personally ride in the inaugural manned launch.
They provide short-term, non-committal inventories and buffers to a supply chain that doesn't have them, since it runs on long-term contracts. In some ways, they're capitalizing on the failures of just-in-time inventory dogma
Thank you, I switched to cloudflare/google DNS and flushed router's DNS cache, then it worked.
How would they have expected anything when that's all the page and the title of the submission say?
The picture showing the vast array of cooling tubes and doodads say it all for me. This impossibly finicky technology will never achieve the promise of beating classical computers. Put it in the back of a drawer with the perpetual motion machine and call it a day.
I bought some copies of the italian version a decade ago... It was maybe 2010 or 2011.

It wasn't really interesting. It pretty much along the lines of "hey look at this problem... and how technology will definitely fix that in the next years!".

At the time it was some form of fanboy magazine, totally looking away from the problem that technology was causing.

And that was before the mess that the last decade has been.
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Perhaps I was misunderstood: the competitive market is for devs who can deliver _something worth having at all_, not _any thing_ you want to deliver.
> to the point they suggest that drivers need to place both their hands on the wheel so officers don't become spooked, it's reasonable to ask why companies get deliberate procedures.

I don't understand. Isn't "place both hands on the wheel, show me your license", etc precisely a "deliberate procedure"? It sounds like your complaint is that police are too procedural instead of engaging on a human level, but then you complain that theyre not _more_ procedural with humans?
Its the result of complete burnout of a large portion of society. So many people feel they work too much and dream of just getting away to something simpler. I think its a reflection of so much going wrong currently with society and the way we live in general. But I'm just some guy on the internet; I am probably projecting :)

Edit: I often think about buying a cheap old isolated house on a couple acres in Italy, fixing it up and just putting the world at arms length. Kids and wife make it impractical so I will continue to trudge :)
If it only was so easy to move! Sure, one tool, one configuration format but it’s not so easy to simply change some configs and move.

Even going for the provider lowest common denominator implies maintaining different configurations.
Judge ideas on their own merit and not based on who proposed them. Too many good ideas get hate because of the speaker.
Funny how the only dimension you can understand is the interest you have to pay. You know you still have to pay the house off right?
That is the first time I have been made aware of this.

The article says something about executive agreements. Not sure what that means, anyone ?
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Sure that's true. I just think the military aspect of it is what gets focused on to the exclusion of everything else.
interesting - I was trying to think of a backtracking system as well, but wasn't able to create something efficient. Did it work well for large dense crosswords?
All AWS CLI commands follow the format 'aws [service] [action] [flags...]'. To my knowledge, there are exactly zero instances where positional arguments are used outside of naming the service and action; its always flags.

Whether this is best or not is a different discussion; I'm simply pointing out the irony of suggesting the CLI API for a service designed to make their APIs more consistent, should be inconsistent with the other CLI APIs customers are used to.
I seem to remember Apple already having used a similar style of art in manuals in the 90s. [1]

[1] http://mattjfuller.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSC_0702.j...
> People will not care

I don't believe that.

One pregnant woman gets hi, and she and her unborn child die, and there will be so much anger and pressure on the politcians, everything will get outlawed.

Human drivers are individuals... John Doe killed someone, blame John Doe. Autonomous car kills someone, blame all autonomous cars!
Take a deep breathe, you're going to be OK.
I aggressively refuse to call myself an engineer. Programmer is fine. Developer is better, because programming is only a piece of it. Y’all can call yourselves whatever you like, but inside I’m thinking you retconned an industry insider euphemism into a non-existent sub-type of engineering, by protesting all the ways you apply rigor to what we do.
Who is liable when someone gets hit with a self driving car? It was always a joke in college how the dream was to get hit by a university bus and have your tuition paid off in a huge settlement. I'd imagine if a waymo car made its way around the more desperate parts of the bay area like the tenderloin and liability ends up shifting to huge company with billions of dollars, we might end up with a Russia sort of situation in terms of rampant insurance fraud. Maybe waymo et al will just respond by never servicing these areas, which will no doubt open an entire can of worms in the press and among the most virtuous online.
Oh man there is a 0.3 release right around the corner which has so many new features added. We should post again when some more of the "fresh look" aspects are clearer :)
It all depends on if informed consent was obtained first. Anything that is collecting data about me or my use of my machines without my informed consent is spying in any context.
Is a native provider planned for Cloudflare?
Ah, sorry, got nothing. (I do hope the rec helps some people out there)
Possible, but unlikely. Usually when workers speak up they're the tip of the iceberg. This is different from e.g. celebrities because when they say something, they get attention, adulation, sell shit etc. When workers speak up, they are risking mostly negative consequences and so most speech is repressed.
Yea, given that, it may already be priced in...
how would you know that an animal was rabid?
Presumably, they want to launch a commercial service to get some real-world data and a foot in the door; the intent is to expand both time and geography.
I think the most likely judgement would be that the worker has to quit their job at the competing business.
The fed has MEASURED it to be 2 percent using questionable methods. E.g. the biggest expense of yohr life is not counted
Do you have a source that dives more into this? Specifically breaking down how they weren't actually more effective, contrary to what might be considered common belief.
The legacy manufacturers are pretty invested in the self-driving space at this point though, no? Cruise itself is owned by Honda and GM, among others. I believe waymo has similar investors.

I think we'll see a situation more like nicotine vapes. Instead of trying to crush the industry, big cigarette manufacturers just bought them.
Basically a whole lot of bullshit papers in the field, coupled with negligible improvement and a belief that AI will somehow magically solve the problem of garbage data.
https://twitter.com/morroweric/status/1443628623576109065

> Sen. Blumenthal asks Facebook "Will you commit to ending Finsta?"

> Facebook's safety chief has to explain that Finsta is slang for a fake account.

Sigh.
The way I see it, this makes sense in a hypothetical world of perfect theoretical models (you may recognize this world as being the one inhabited by frictionless, perfectly spherical cows). In this world, scalpers cause the market to price in "stickiness" - the more critical an item is to the buyer, the more they'll be willing to pay - so the supply ultimately gets allocated to the most desperate of buyers, for the price of "your entire margin", or possibly "literally all you have", if the buyer's survival depends on it.

Maybe this makes sense in that theoretical world - where there's no inertia, no friction, no capital investment, no jobs and livelihoods tied to the outcome. But in reality, scalping seems to be the purest form of parasitism. In a crisis, scalpers' activities may kill perfectly fine companies (or people) who would've otherwise limped through the rough times and survived, upsetting an industry long-term, and it forces everyone to waste their money.

And even if you think that this kind of market culling is fine, I'm not seeing why all that money should go to the first asshole who managed to secure a large loan in time to buy off the entire stock of some good.
You don't get to smash a 4,000 pound explosive into a preschool because you want to gather data.
400,000 people worked on the Apollo program.
This reminds me of my relatively new pet peeve when watching any military element in a movie. Every time they gather in a room, the soldiers arrange themselves at attention as scenery. I get that it's mostly symbolic of how organized and dedicated they are, but having been in the military, the last thing a soldier is looking to do is stand at attention.

Movie soldiery (wide term to include knights, personal bodyguards, etc...) have this innate knowledge on how to form ranks and break ranks in perfect unison with no commands.

The professional military is relatively rare throughout history, but is somehow idealized and projected onto those factions which did well militarily. Realistically the Spartans only had to be a little better man for man than those around them in order to be the best in the world.
Years ago, the French ISP `Free`, after much dragging of feet, enabled IPv6 support for their customers.

Performance was abysmal, 2x-10x slower than IPv4.

Turns out many of the routers out there can perform IPv4 table lookups in the data-plane (fast-path), but IPv6 is delegated to the control-plane (slow-path), for much slower performance.
The backing implementation of what supplies the DTO shouldn't be an issue for the client / other part of the application if the contract that the DTO provides remains the same.

If that contract is the underlying field implementation, then that means that those fields are frozen and cannot change.

If that contract is instead methods, the underlying field types can change (for example from a Date to a LocalDateTime) while the method contracts remain the same and new method contracts are added to expose more functionality for other clients / application modules.

In particular, this was code written in the Java 1.7 days and it was Date (and all the mess with java.util.Date and java.sql.Date) while in 1.8 java.time was provided which allowed the underlying implementation of the object to cleaned up without changing the contract of the methods (things wanting a Date still get a Date).

Yes, changing from a Date to a Calendar (because of the aforementioned java.sql.Date mess) to a LocalDateTime were significant changes -- but the clients didn't notice because the methods they were using remained consistent.

The deeper you expose the client contract into the guts of the object, the more difficult it is to change when a change is needed.

Now, if you're just passing DTOs around between classes within a single package or local to one library that don't leak - feel free to do whatever is needed. I suspect that records will solve a lot of the boilerplate DTO code, though passing a record outside of a library boundary gives me a bit of unease because it means that changes to the record will be breaking changes to the clients.
The cars themselves are studded with every kind of camera and sensor you can imagine, it'd be pretty hard to pull of an insurance scam
In regards to classified information it’s come up in some Tom Clancy style novels and contemporary military histories. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Easy_Day
Absolutely. There are steps that software can take to build this trust, though, like

- Have a screen that shows all telemetry that is going to be or has been sent

- Ask for permission to send any telemetry, or certain types of telemetry (i.e. crash reports)

– Publicly share the collected telemetry.
We're going big after the Chief Product Officer in the enterprise. We're in 26 of the Fortune 100 today and are going to figure out how to get to a majority.

The levers you have available as a public company are different and I'm still learning them. Employee stock purchase plans are one thing we've already implemented that helps align incentives with company success. You can also be more aggressive about rewarding top performers with cash which is great. Sidebar: I've never met a great account executive who couldn't use more cash. If you want to make a lot of money in the next few years, come work with us as we take the market!

I feel good about the massive market as well as our differentiation. The #1 challenge is getting the right team in place to execute successfully against the opportunity. When you're growing 50-60% YoY, you have an entirely new company every 2 years. There is such a high degree of variation between people that just because you're a high functioning organization today does not guarantee you will be tomorrow. My biggest lever on it as CEO is the leaders we bring into the business and so I spend a lot of time thinking about how to get that right.