skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Maps is horrible for driving navigation. Relevant information like route number of the next turn is much smaller than it needs to be.

The directions are floating in space over the map which looks nice but wastes space on the margins. The directions themselves are in a box that also wastes tons of space.

If you reach a destination navigation is cancelled but you cant re-start navigation from there. So if you arrive but Apple Maps wants you to make a left turn across a median it cancels nav and you are in the dark for finding a route around.

I wish usability was a priority but modern UX doesn’t seem to consider it at all.
There are also now a wide range of surrogate activities for doing that come with way less risk of failure than doing: planning the doing, managing the doing, strategizing about doing, ...

Not everyone likes taking risks and dealing with failures (and there will always be some - even if it us just on the way to success).
I just read your comment out loud if it helps.
I forgot to add one important part: guess which company will be uniquely capable to comply with whatever regulation comes up with?

You guessed correctly.

Guess whom can't comply? Indeed, everybody else. That's why they welcome regulation.
I think the List monad is easier to comprehend.
Interesting. Can you elaborate on the last sentence you wrote? Where is it from?
I did indeed include the possibility that she's just perfectly suited for this:

>"Perhaps she's simply a natural"

That is certainly within the realm of possibility. That being said, to me, it seems incredibly unlikely that someone in her situation would be so articulate, collected, and unflappable after being suddenly thrust onto the national stage in just a few short days. Even if she knew she was going to attract a ton of attention when she came forward, she just doesn't seem to be showing the kind of body language that reflects someone in her situation who doesn't know what is about to happen next.

Again, to me, the most simple explanation is that she was coached or prepared beforehand and knew what to expect. I wouldn't put it past some political operatives to slip her some questions from a few senators before the hearings began.

This next part is going to sound the most conspiratorial, so take it with a grain of salt. Despite all of what I wrote, she really could be the real deal and there was no conspiracy behind the scenes to make the perfect storm for Facebook. But to me, that begs the question of, "how lucky were we that such a person with impeccable credentials just so happened to be the perfect whistleblower to take down Facebook?"
This title was very hard for me to parse. I think I reread it almost ten times.
> The public is not presently pro-regulation and nobody really knows what form the regulations should take.

A majority of Americans support regulation of big tech https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/20/56-of-ameri...
Places like the DPRK, Cuba, and Venezuela are especially relevant when discussing cryptocurrency because it's a technology that allows people in those locations to escape economic totalitarianism. What confuses me is that people in democratic countries are calling a tool of democracy "anti-democratic". It's completely illogical.
other case studies: Belgian Congo, British East India Company, US chattel slavery, etc.
Also in that particular token-buying ecosystem, you can sell yourself the token representation of that gif multiple times, in order to fool people into thinking that there is a genuine market for the token corresponding to that gif.
And Microsoft could ask the OEMs to push a UEFI update that enforces secure boot with only the Windows keys. I don’t think they will though.
The idea that a product (e.g. bitcoin) can be designed in such a way as to always increase in price has to be dismissed as crackpottery.
Not really, plenty of users were unable to connect for some time. Just about my whole friend group and I myself were unable to use Telegram for about an hour or so around the peak of the surge.
> After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity. [1]
> It’s bad for society to codify too much behaviour in law.

The issue with over-codification is one of the complexity in the laws that result - not that a large number of prohibitions is actually damaging to society. If too many laws exist then enforcement becomes intractable, arbitrary and unjust - but if enforcement could be sanely and fairly dealt out then there are lots of things that we'd appreciate being laws - i.e. sniping someone's parking spot while they're pulling in: it's a dangerous action that encourages people to park faster than they're comfortable and generally makes people act like assholes... but is it worth paying someone 50k/year to prevent sniping parking spots? Nope.
It’s pretty apparent that wealth correlates with power.

If inequality increases and you’re on the lower end you’ll find yourself losing out in society more and more as the wealthy influence it to their tastes and needs
This lack of communication from the companies (Google in this case) is just insulting. They can afford to have humans hand these escalated issues.

And quite frankly, automated penalties (removal, ban, etc.) should be required to give specific reasons for the penalty.

If the user doesn't know what they've done wrong, chances are they'll do it wrong again unless they are told where they made a misstep.

And when the company makes a misstep and incorrectly penalizes a user, the company should admit its mistake and state how it will prevent making such a mistake again. If the company claims it is too complex, then they should not be using such a system.

Google (and other companies which use similar technologies) need to change their requirements for AI to never generate false positives.
The other party you talk to need not to be a top-notch engineer. Good results were reported with the use of a rubber duck. With some training, you can talk to a more intelligent counterpart, yourself.

One more approach that worked several times for me is to start writing a Stackoverflow question, carefully formulating the problem for the reader who does not have your context. Often I saw the answer before you finish writing, and never posted the question.
Not the original googler responding, but I have never experienced what they describe.

Postmortems are always blameless in the sense that "Somebody fat fingered it" is not an acceptable explanation for the causes of an incident - the possibility to fat finger it in the first place must be identified and eliminated.

Opinions are my own, as always
Yes. You probably have the extra codecs package added which is arguably illegal to distribute in the US. Other distros like Fedora won’t touch it.
I would agree that it's mostly network effect, but I don't agree that it's all network effect. How the app or service works and feels does count, at least a bit.

Operational failures are honestly not a big factor unless they happen often. Facebook has had 2 such failures now in the past 3 years. Will this really cost them users? No. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and Apple's Messages have all had approximately that same level of reliability.
Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop (2019)
I hope it is written in a pure functional language, because this seems like the perfect application for it.
Any "solution" that rests on "educating people" is not going to work.

What works is incentives and design that makes it hard to misuse or obvious how to use.
> all these negative comments that seem to stem from projections of fear of failure.

No. I criticise this project because it adds value to a device that we should all be boycotting.

We absolutely do not want to see the proliferation of custom, locked down SoCs on the desktop platform with each one being incompatible with each other, and limiting our freedom to run what code we want on it. That is why this project is extremely short-sighted for the future of our computing freedom.

The M1 is a locked blackbox. It is designed to take away user control on both hardware and software. These are legitimate criticism that many Apple fans try to deflect. They claim that the M1 isn't a locked down machine by comparing it with the ios platform as proof. After all, iPhones and iPads have locked bootloaders that prevent you from even running any other OS, while this is not so with the M1 computers.

That's just plain denial. Just look at what has been happening to the Mac Mini:

1. The first few Intel Mac Minis allowed you some level of customisation of both the hardware (change RAM or HDD / SSD) and software (install other full featured OS).

2. Then came the Mac Minis with soldered RAM and SSD. You could no longer customise the hardware. Software was still customisable and you could still install other OSes. (Recall that Apple even offered free drivers for another OS, i.e. Windows).

3. The current generation of M1 Mini now doesn't allow you to customise both the hardware (everything is soldered) and the software. Technically you can install other OSes, but the reality is that currently only crippled versions of Linux and xBSD is available and practically the only full-featured OS available for it is macOS.

These are clear indicators of how Apple has been working slowly to lockdown the Mac platform like their ios platforms. (Right now, projects like these give Apple and M1 publicity without harming their end goals. And so they are tolerated. Want to bet that as soon as some alternate fully featured viable OS appears for the M1, the bootloader will be locked, and the next Apple SoC will cripple it again?).

The frog is still slowly boiling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog - to keep you in denial.

There's another reason why I call this particular project short-sighted. Remember what happened when Apple introduced the Mini with soldered RAM and SSD's? It wasn't popular and didn't sell. Apple was forced to backtrack and the next Mini didn't have soldered RAM (but the SSD was still soldered). A similar thing could have been possible with the M1 too. Apple has bet their future on the success of their ARM processors. But if people boycotted Apple Silicon desktop platform for not being as open as AMD / Intel, Apple would have been forced to compromise a bit (at least strategically for the short-term) and released more literature to make the platform seem a little more open. And we might have seen Linux and xBSD being supported on the platform by now.
You don't need a blockchain to do that, and there's a reason voting records for individuals are not made public. It's to protect against coercion, among other things.
The source is the reason given. Modelling is NOT physics, it's not even science its statistics and does not actually produce the result that are claimed.

There is a reason why the IPCC comes out with a range and not a specific number. They haven't found the right initial conditions or they would only use his to move forward.

In fact if that had really been the case he should have been the only person who got the prize as that would have been an amazing achievement.

This is just "sciencewashing" speculative modelling based on models about the climate that can't be proven to be correct in the future. (Hence the reason they are not going to stop modelling different initial conditions.

So yes it's political nothing else. Politics not software is eating the world.
We need to take CO2 out of the sky
> a piece of paper that allows them to demand a high wage while actively avoiding mental or physical exertion

I’d argue that the piece of paper is more for a semi-secure livable wage than a high wage, with or without physical exertion. From my anecdotal subgroup, I’ve yet to meet a person who expects (let alone: hopes for) high wages (above $25/hr) as a result of their degree.
Why does democracy need checks and balances at all if the government is fundamentally accountable?

Some portion of the answers to the objection that cryptocurrency increases the level of unaccountable power seem to be being met with "but look how unaccountable power is now", which misses the power. Boy, yes, power is pretty unaccountable and those with their hands on the levers of power seem to be the wealthy.

Those who benefit from cryptocurrency are also the wealthy, who can use this along with the other levers of power to increase their influence and increase their wealth. There's counter balance to the power of Fed here.
Genetics?
I'm fine with remote work - people don't all need to be in the same place. I'm just tired of work from home. Internet speed, work/life balance, space for desk and monitors, etc.

Hopefully WeWork etc. can fill some of that need.
> To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors, the two meters physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks, according to researchers from Quebec, Illinois, and Texas. However, wearing a mask indoors can reduce the contamination range of airborne particles by about 67 percent

> In a study published in Building and Environment, the researchers found that when people are unmasked, more than 70 percent of airborne particles pass the two meters threshold within the 30 seconds. By contrast, less than 1 percent of particles cross the two-meter mark if masks are worn

The article presented in the divulgation from MedicalExpress should be

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...

or Implication of coughing dynamics on safe social distancing in an indoor environment - A numerical perspective.

The study seems to be based on modelling (around Computational Fluid Dynamics methodology): it is possible that the results only refer to the effects of coughing, and not to the normal situation of just breathing.

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Note: there is a sniper hitting posts containing abridgements (e.g. the first two paragraphs here). I write them to take notes and for the comfort of accessing the core information, as titles are not enough - I write them because I want to find them, in general, and with good reason: efficiency. The sniper is invited to stick to discussion.
> The cruise industry uses over double the emissions of the bitcoin protocol

Not to defend the cruise lines, but that quote appears bogus. The tweet you cite refers to a "carbon footprint", in response to a quote about particulate emissions (using sulfur dioxide as an example).

This [1] puts total cruise line CO2 emissions in 2017 (first source I picked, but I imagine the number won't have changed much) at 21K tons, whereas a recent Reuters article [2] put Bitcoin at 22,000K tons of CO2.

If the above data is correct, then Bitcoin is responsible for more than 1000x as many CO2 emissions as cruise ships.

[1] https://www.tourismdashboard.org/explore-the-data/cruise-shi...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-big-is-bitcoins-carbo...
> And if you do not want that I think Kitty allows you to just use another font then

Do you really believe that's reasonable? That I should stop using my favorite monospace fonts just because a terminal emulator doesn't let me disable italic variants of that font when other terminal emulators like Alacritty and foot do?

I don't think that's reasonable and so I stopped using Kitty. And no, I'm not gonna resort to fontconfig hacks or manually delete the italic otf/ttf files. I'd rather use a terminal that gives me choice rather than imposes it.
GCC FTW
> Any "solution" that rests on "educating people" is not going to work.

This is not true at all, lol. How do you think modern civilization came to be?
You should really check if you have bad memory. I've found firefox to be very sensitive to such an issue
steel beams 1.0 lol
Yeah, this is all 70s style mainframe/dumb terminal programs with a nice GUI layer on top to make it look new and exciting and innovative.
It’s really hard if you don’t start linting them early on because they creep on your codebase. There are a set of functions that will panic on you surprisingly. Indexing is one example, copy_from_slice is another one, honestly it’s too bad that there are such functions in the library but at least clippy can find them.
Which shouldn't be given a nobel price unless they can explain exactly why which they can't just like we can't really explain why the temperature didn't increase for a period after 2nd world war without getting into speculation.

It's bogus and as far some anything related to scientific standards as we can come.
The problem with this phrasing is it implies that motivation is an inherent aspect of individuals. Nobody is a do-er. Motivation is impacted by a variety of factors.
Part of the problem finding these people is they probably aren't looking to work for you. They know their resume isn't going to pass your assumptions. So instead of applying to jobs they're never be considered for they're out trying to do something instead.
This is the kicker I think. Facebook scales 'keeping up with the Jones' up and make it easier. But that's been a common trope since (google search... 1920ish). What Facebook's doing isn't new; it's simply Easier.

When you say, '1% develop suicidal thoughts' - Is that causation or correlation? Maybe I'm missing something; but this seems somewhat like 'biggest target' to me as the world had shrunk.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/even-before-...
Really depressing; our last chance at browser diversity and keeping the fate of the web out of Google's hands is being run by a white collar thief
If we assume doers as being goal-oriented, then I can see it being easier to educate them in ways to help them get closer to their goals faster and more efficiently. On the other hand, someone who doesn't really care about the goal, isn't going to care as much about getting there sooner or in a better fashion.

That said, I've found myself in both camps on various projects. When you're working on something where the end result is really exciting, it makes a huge difference on you and your team. It's exhilarating. On the flip side, projects were you don't care about the end result, are really brutal to work through. You just work for the paycheck. Any sort of educating about how to do things better feels particularly pointless.
I was sending a few short videos to several contacts (during the FB outage) and the upload speed was something like 20KB/s, whereas normally 2MB are uploaded before I blink.

My account is from 2016, if not 2015 even.
> I distrust anything connected to the cloud

Good idea. The WD My Cloud service was hacked a while back, and some driver owners lost all their data.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22549677/wd-my-book-live-...
Each individual can have a unique identifier that is not linked to their identity. It could be a public key that they generate from their private key. We'd have to figure out the details of how that would work exactly, i.e. making sure people cannot vote twice, but that's possible to figure out.

I don't think there's any way to do this without giving trust to some central entity without a public blockchain. The public blockchain does become the source of trust, but you need a resource (like energy), that is finite, to secure that network.

However, going back to your original comment, you said we are assuming a zero carbon footprint, so that would assume some future where this trust could be put on a network in a way that would be environmentally sustainable. All I'm saying is that there are more possibilities to this technology than I think you are acknowledging.
Alternative take: in the hiring process education is often used as a proxy for motivation, when actually it only proves that once upon a time someone was motivated long enough to get educated, but it doesn't actually say anything about their present state in terms of motivation.

A 'Do-er' is at least at present motivated, and educating them will get them to the desired combination of education+motivation in the present, even if that education is going to be by necessity a very narrow one (typically: job specific).

Being hungry for money and creature comforts also tends to be conflated with being motivated ('ambitious'), but it doesn't really align well because once financial success (for some very modest success) is attained the motivation will vanish. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it tends to confuse people who were not aware of the driving power being the outwardly visible motivation.

The movie 'Rush' has a nice bit about that, James Hunt just wants to be WDC, once. He doesn't care about anything past that point because it will give him what he wants. But until he's got it he will be super motivated.
ethereum 2 is live and PoS :)
Senators demand Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg answer questions after revelations
Found this page hard to read because text does not wrap when zooming in to increase font-size.
I was expecting way too much in this article. But, I don't see anything about logging requestId's etc.

Sharing a few things briefly below I have learned over the past few years -

1. Log every single message for a transaction/request with the requestId to look at the entire picture. Ideally, that requestId would be used upstream/downstream too internally for finding exact point of failure in a sea of micro services.
2. Log all essential id's/PK's for that particular transaction. - makes debugging easier.
3. Log all the messages possibly in a json format, if the log aggregator you are using supports that. Parsing later for dashboards makes lives WAY EASIER and is more readable too. Might also reduce overall computations being run on the cloud to extract values you want -> hence, lesser cost.
4. Having error/warn logs is good, but having success/positive logs is equally important imo.
5. Oh, and be very very careful about what you end up logging. We don't want to log any sort of user PII. At one of my previous companies, there were mistakes made where we were logging user's phone numbers, addresses etc.

I am sure the community here already knows about these, and might have even more to add. Would love to hear what other people are doing.

Cheers.
> With crypto, you don't have to suffer because of them messing up the economy.

So you won't be affected by unemployment? Poor public services and infrastructure? Corruption? Police brutality? Crime? Because you have crypto. Open your fucking eyes.
Let us all honor the bravery of the Facebook Whistleblower, who is working with a Democratic PR firm and an adoring media to expose the dark and dirty fact that Facebook has so far failed to totally suppress all right wing content on its platform. She is a hero.
Well, bear in mind that you're only hearing about the people who're complaining and those will tend to be large manufacturers with significant production volumes. The little shops all over the place that bought a year's inventory are fine now but still anxiously wondering what will happen when inventory runs out.

I just left my last job (engineering services) a couple months ago, but we were already warning new customers that they should be prepared to buy whatever inventory we could find if they wanted to be able to ship product by Christmas.
I would say there is no way to 100% cover with reading what you need to learn on the job. Also there is no way to cover some concepts with 100% on the job training (much harder to make a HS grad a petroleum engineer by just throwing them on a platform in the gulf without any formal education).

You have to have some implicit knowledge of how things work in order first...but that doesn't always come from formal education.
(2013)

So, the viewpoint seems to be that high complexity is analogous to low entropy (and that complexity can be measured, and predictions about the system's behavior can be made, using methods similar to those used in statistical physics)?