skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
s/IFR is easier to automate/IFR should be easier automate/ and that's mainly because the theory is that positive separation is neither the pilot nor autopilot's problem. And also the stricter standards constrain the environment. Separation is primarily the responsibility of pilots under VFR. In fact even on an IFR flight plan, in visual conditions, pilots are expected to maintain separation, hence the reporting of entering instrument meteorological conditions. It is the very thing humans are good at, visual analysis, that autonomous systems aren't good at. But if the need for visual analysis is taken off the table, that should make automation of IFR+IMC easier compared to VFR.

The analog for pedestrians might be radio communications. Try getting an autonomous system to understand non-standard jargon, which happens all the time among native English speaking pilots. Of course we should just have standardized communication without voice, thereby reducing ambiguity, but how to do deal with legacy? Again in aviation this would be easier to just say, no more voice radio communications - work for this is already in progress for some time. But get rid of pedestrians? How? And there's some historical point for comparison, when pedestrians had an absolute right to cross the road, with horse driven carriages and before the automobile. Once the automobile arrived, so did ticketing for jaywalking.
Do not forget that in some countries Apple also blocks apps that the current regime deems dangerous for it. Like, apps of the opposition news outlets, etc. Apple is quite content with taking your freedom away: if you needed it, you wouldn't have relinquished controls of YOUR phone for other people to decide what to run on it.
For anyone interested in this genre, there is a very large collection of 60s/70s library music available on Spotify. Searching for "KPM 1000" will get you started.

There is also a documentary on the subject:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Music-Film-Shawn-Lee/dp/B08...
In some countries (at the least the countries that are European Union members, but probably most countries on the continent) the minimum vacation days is set by law (labor code).

In the countries I have experience with it’s 20 working days per year, sometimes with extra days given based on time spent with the same employer. Also, some employers give extra days from the start. But, importantly, it can never be less than the labor code specified number.

So, unlimited vacation may be a trick in the sense that people will rarely take days off, but you can’t be cheated out of the law mandated vacation. Social protection isn't that bad, after all.
Everything passes. After some time users will forget this scandal and will continue using Facebook as before.
I'm nearing that point as well. My goal is to hit 2000 in a year and it's getting to the point now where I have a book in my cart and some printed pages of matches.
I agree that this would be an alternate approach to tackling the issue, and to be honest, from what I've read so far, would be my preference.
Most of the comments here are making perfectly valid points about the whizz-bang "fact" from the title of the post. Note, however, that the actual topic of the article is very different: it's about an effort that was made to preserve native knowledge of sea-ice hunting that is being lost as both the Inupiaq language and the environment that it has long been situated in are fading. It is notably not about counting how many words there are for a particular thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the title was a joking reference to the "great Eskimo vocabulary hoax" that others are referring to here.
I think the use of the word "liberal" may be leaving an opening for misinterpretation. The real worry is that good, talented people leave/refrain from applying, regardless of ideological outlook or label.
Many 8 bit processors had the same “feature”. For example, the Z80’s 8 bit registers were internally just halves of a 16 bit register.
It’s not just trust in media (or government). It’s most societal institutions that have lost trust. I’d argue even trusting one’s own neighbours is probably at an all-time low.

Trust should be something we think about in our interactions and how we can work to improve it.
I guess it depends on where you work. I have "unlimited pto" and over the last 5 years I've taken at least a month a year.
Is that 40+ days including 10-20 days of holidays you get off but can't pick, or in addition to?
>and still does require a pretty high income (investing more than ~$20k/year in a 401k)

Nearing retirement, earning low income now and have a significant amount of savings in non-retirement accounts = Closing the megaBD Roth screws me.

What should really happen is that anyone with net worth < a reasonable threshold should be able to simply roth what ever the fuck they want without having to figure out these annoyingly complex tax rules.
I was thinking of linking this as well. Clj-python is just such a fascinating junction. I don't care so much for clojure, though I'm continuously impressed by the ecosystem and the productivity of it's experts. Very cool stuff.

Core.logic and the like opened a huge door and similar ideas have exhausted my free time for several years now.
I listened to her testimony and the reactions to it and thought that she illustrated the problem with social media but I don't know that there is a solution to the problem of Facebook that doesn't address the issues of scale and a lack of social accountability.

Corporations are typically run by the type of person that will do whatever they can to maximize profits and the central theme of her testimony is that the 'anything we can do to make money' drive is the core issue.

Facebook turns a blind eye to things that will impact their engagement numbers and increasing new users.

Which, as Matt points out in his article, isn't an issue except for the sheer scale of Facebook.

For me the factor complicating is that you can't 'solve' the problem here because the core problem is the drive to maximize profits and increase users at all costs. Any corporate structure is going to run a social media company in the same fashion. And will build up to the size of Facebook if it is allowed to do so.

SO you can't 'fix' it
What Artificial Intelligence Humor and New Comedians Have in Common
Wow, I'd have enough trouble remembering which color I was!
The Russians are quite good at sowing mistrust. Thank you Mr Murdoch for aiding and abetting.
It's a really good point. Maybe we're allowing perfect to be the enemy of good. Where are the worst problems? The edge cases we want to fix? What are humans bad at that autonomous systems are better at? Probably top on that list is patience. Only humans get impatient, frustrated, and have emotional situations cloud their judgement.
> Content creators still have a way to make money from their work, but it is not just enough to plaster ads on our faces and collect a check from Google. They will have to compete for quality.

That's a huge jump. Incentives are basically the same, at worst the same as subscription-supported services that are slowly becoming the standard for news websites that still care about their reputation. The Brave system simply moves some of the power from multiple ad networks to a single entity, Brave. No thanks, this is not the open web.

> There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING stopping Mozilla to create a similar ad network and to follow a similar model.

It doesn't matter who runs the network, you are still creating a massive bottleneck that can potentially determine the fate of any site.

I'd rather have a browser be a browser, without any cryptocurrency bullcrap, thank you. If that means I'll be limited to Konqueror when Mozilla goes down in flames, so be it.
I believe they’re referring to the hedge fund. Lower latency requirement is a confusing way of phrasing it as lower latency is a higher bar. But generally most hedge funds do not need to operate at the speed Instagram does.
Maintaining existing plants can make a lot of sense in many cases, but the problem with nuclear energy has always been cost.

Compared to alternatives, the cost per kWh is high once you take into account the initial capital investment, operation, retrofits, waste storage and decommissioning costs.

For places like California, wind/solar is not only cheaper, but easier to deal with from a planning and regulatory standpoint. When you have limited time and resources to add more generation capacity, there is usually a better option.

There is always the promise of a new generation of nuclear though. It will most certainly have to get used in places that have no alternatives.
There is a lot of self-criticism from the media itself that more or less admits this. Here's a NYT article from 2004: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...

See also this article on Judith Miller's stories from 2001-2002 (she was forced to resign from the NYT): https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/

These aren't isolated incidents, but they were particularly egregious.
> it seems like most of the critiques of social media coming from big / old media are just symptoms of having their revenue bled away

A large portion of it is people who find advertisement inherently distasteful (or, at the least, targeted advertisement) and that optimizing everything entirely for engagement causes massively negative effects for society and individual psychology. Fine-tuning everything for addiction and intense emotional reaction is great for advertisement revenue, but really bad for people.

I think you might be underestimating how many people are actually seriously upset about how they've seen the national conversation degrade to a lower level of discourse, and blame that on social media (whether they're right or wrong). There are clearly people who are upset about modern social media that aren't associated with old media.
The convergence of RISC & CISC has shown that both things are true. A really simple ISA with a modern design can be pretty darn fast. At the same time, additional ISA complexity helps you wring the utmost out of your hardware, and IMO also helps in the bazaar environment - macro ops let a menagerie of hardware do work in the way most efficient for itself without hardware-specific binaries.

Underneath the covers, however, the underlying hardware complexity is an inherent property of modern performance. For example, branch prediction.
Super obvious solution, give the customer the choice.
Example you can buy games for PC from the store you like, you want the game to be on your Steam library then you use Steam, you want DRM free you go to GOG , you want to support the indie dev you go to other site: Customer can chose in the majority of games with the exceptions of some big titles (but you can still find EA games on Steam for example).

The only objection to user choice is that the users are stupid and need someone else to chose for them, my answer is Apple has the money to educate the users , they can put a giant ad on TV to tell users about their "virtues"
Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28774444

Tl;dr nuclear is safe. But if it goes wrong, the cleanup costs can wipe out decades of profits.

That's why it's so expensive, and why private insurers refuse to touch it. Insuring it is the proverbial picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.

Downvoters: feel free to tell me why I'm wrong. I'd love to learn more. I have no axe to grind against nuclear.
Also, I don't know the full scope of 401k's but the one I have is absolutely not post-tax and is equivalent to a traditional IRA, not a Roth.
This is what I'm most bumed on with the mega backdoor and backdoor, but closing them and just opening them for everyone would be ideal. Because you can still contribute to Roth regardless on income level if you know about backdoor, so it makes sense just to legalize across the board.
Yes, absolutely. I love PostgreSQL and it's definitely my default choice, barring some very specific reason to go in a different direction.
Well, sure, it's awkward but also consistent. So once you've learned the rules/pattern for this kind of thing, you can read/write code without having to look up a wack of different instructions and modes and register sets, which x86 is notorious for.

Assembly isn't supposed to be convenient and expressive to write. for that we have high level languages. But some consistency makes for less error prone and easier analysis.
That is some crazy woke bullshit that tries to redefine what objectivity means.

” One of the great books this year on journalism is by Desmond Cole, talking about his experience working at The Toronto Star, what it is to be a Black journalist and how it is that objectivity props up white supremacy.”

The claim is that objectivity is impossible thus not worthy of pursuit and one should instead examine ones “location” to use your biases for good.

This is typical CBC pap. If it’s not being discussed in the elite “progressive” circles of Toronto it’s not news.
For my business unit, it's unlimited as long as our customers are happy and taken care of. If you're good at your job and have lucky customers, then it's great. I don't fit that category, so I can take one week off at a time maximum, but a day or two here and there is also fine.
> First, we need to ratchet back Section 230 as Haugen suggests (or even further), which would simplify the business model.

I give the [EFF] money not because of the bad players in this whole mess, but because of the people with good intentions who aren't as enmeshed in the grit of how stuff works. Every revision of section 230 I've seen proposed would be catastrophic for things entirely unrelated to the intent of the revision.

[EFF]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks

(though I'd agree with the top-level take that drastic anti-monopoly action needs to be a piece of the pie here)
Is apple somehow weird with canceling subscriptions on the iPhone?

I can just go into the Google Play store and terminate the subscription for the NYTimes on Android in one click.
I'm not sure we should be taking the whistle-blower's policy recommendations too literally, since her recommendations about what to do are going to directly influence whether people think she's a credible witness. It's much easier to say "Oh I think we should just do better" whilst also saying "And here's how facebook murders babies" rather than "We should shut down facebook". Because if you say "We should shut down facebook" when you present evidence that facebook murders babies, people will just say "Oh well you would say that, you just want to shut down facebook".

I think this article misses the main way we got here today. The reason we are here today is because Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram are 1 company. This should never have happened. It was totally anti-competitive. Social media will innevitably have network effects, so it kind of makes sense that you'll end up with giants. What doesn't make sense is that you then allow that giant to go around stamping on all its competitors. What is the best competition for Instagram today? Tiktok. Why is Tiktok the best competition? Because it's the one company facebook can't buy. Facebook has extended its life by acquiring any competitive threats or copying those that it couldn't. Simple traditional governance around mergers could have avoiding this situation. Social media companies will grow big through network effects, but until recently, they didn't stay big - because the natural ebb and flow of users meant interests change and different demographics want to differentiate themselves.

You wouldn't need to regulate facebook if it had real competition, because its influence would be smaller and it would face real competitive pressure to improve its platform.
Similarly, for product reviews skip Verge, MKBHD, etc and head straight to Mobile Tech Review (yes strange name). Zero bs, all content: https://www.youtube.com/user/mobiletechreview
It varies very widely based on the company you work for.

At the company I'm at, I haven't heard of vacation requests being denied, but I've also only been here for 3 months. I did ask about the policy during the interview process, and they said the CEO has created a culture that encourages people to take the time off they need. They have two "quiet weeks", one between Christmas and New Year's, the other in August, where everyone is forced to take a whole week off, supposedly because they know that otherwise, some people would feel guilty about taking time off. In addition, the first Friday of every month is a "Fresh Air Friday", where they strongly encourage you to walk away from your computer after 1 PM, and regular meetings after 1 PM are not allowed.

Ask me about the policy in a year and I'll tell you how well it's actually been working.
> Python is now only incrementally better than modern static languages in some dimensions

The main benefit of Python now over those newer languages is its ecosystem.
Effectively 15% for most developers
> I guess it just seems unproductive to use such a click-baity title.

Titles that aren't 'click baity' don't get noticed anymore. Sad but true
.2% of Facebook's gross income if anyone is wondering.
Move fast and break things and blame remote work so managers can feel useful again.
Wanted to support your point on emotions with a quote from my favourite philosopher, David Hume:

"We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."[0]

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ATreatise_of_Human_Natu...
Ever Onward IBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU
I'm thinking more of the Satanism scares of the 80s. Republicans have never really had the mass-media on their side post-Watergate (except maybe briefly after 9/11), so they can't silence anyone in the "fortifying the election" sense.
Ignoring rather or not you should be able to use an IRA to invest in private companies for a moment:

>anyone can continue to invest in private companies.

is a very bold claim.
That's what the introduction of Islam did in Arabia. They went from a situation where the bride's parents paid the groom a dowry (with the predictable female infanticide) to one where the groom paid the bride (not her parents) a mahr or "bridal gift" that is a security for her if the marriage is dissolved.
Man Attempting to Trade Derelict USSR Space Shuttle for Human Skull
"Take the pledge to stop drinking (don't worry, you don't have to stop drinking now)'

I went cold-turkey with facebook and twitter a few years back for my own mental health and never looked back. Facebook did nothing but convince me that everyone else's life was more amazing than mine, and twitter did nothing but show me tons of posts about how horrible life was. They both had addictive qualities though and I also noticed when I interacted on them that it brought out the worst in me. I felt much better about everything when I left both of them.
This seems to be part of a more general phenomenon of businesses being run by people who don't know that area of business, and who direct all focus away from the quality of the product, doing things such as cutting costs even when the resulting lower quality makes the company less profitable, not more. (For instance, Shamus Young has written a fair bit[1] about this phenomenon in the video game industry, although there cost-cutting does not seem to be its primary manifestation.)

It's not entirely clear what's to be done about this; we generally assume that businesses might disregard others' well-being in pursuing their own interest, but what do you do when instead they're just stupidly destructive, serving nobody's interest?

(Of course part of what's going on here seems to be that, due to principal/agent problems, it's not really serving nobody's interest; the shareholders lose out, but the executives, who are paid a salary, and thus rely not on the impersonal evaluation of the market but their own ability to convince people they're doing a good job, do not seem to lose out in the same way...)

[1] For instance, here: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/eas-problem-isnt-greed/
From some articles I've read[1], and discussions I've had (aka mostly anecdata) I really think that it's because views among journalists are changing. They view "just the facts" as potentially misleading because just the facts can lead to incorrect conclusions. Adding in color words that have a touch of opinion/speculation in them is ok if it helps the reader to reach the correct conclusion. Tis is also coupled with a strong sense of moral obligation on the part of journalists to lead people to the right conclusions.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-...
it's never going to happen in mainline cpython.
If they can't be broken up—and they're too big to fail—rolling them up into a utility could be an forgone conclusion.
I'll go against the grain and say that I do think that's possible (I'm not sure why people let these companies put it past them), but if that was something big oil wanted then I don't know why they would facilitate the conspiracy themselves. Enough average Americans are already frightened enough by minor things that all you have to do is wait for film and TV to use nuclear disaster as entertainment for people to become adequately scared. No need for so much as a backroom handshake. When the population is adequately infantilized, let civilization take its course and it will scare itself.

The real conspiracy, and it's not so much a conspiracy as confluence, is that the same powers that suggest that we need to take drastic action to curb climate change take little action in implementing real solutions. With all the hand waving around climate change, you'd think by now we would have an "Operation Warp Speed" for implementing more nuclear and developing large scale CO2 scrubbing. As far as I know, there's been little appreciable effort in that direction. But when it comes to actions that line pockets (electric cars serve not only car companies but fossil fuels and lithium mining), are adverse to civilization (intentional blackouts), and so on, America excels. The actual will to address climate change simply isn't there because modern regimes need crises to occur in order to maintain the illusion that they are even needed at the massive scale in which they currently exist. From corporate America to the depths of the federal government, in the back of our minds we know that most of us are excessive and therefore we need to manufacture reasons for our own existence. The concept of "bullshit jobs" has become popularized in recent years, but the same phenomenon happens at a much larger scale. Much of how countries like America operates is exactly like a bullshit corporate job. In fact, federal and state governments are the mass personification of flunkies, goons, box tickers, duct tapers, and taskmasters. Without crises, there's nothing for those bullshit job archetypes to do. Even the mainstream media addicts and zealots of either political party would have nothing to revere or resent.
Classifieds were a big portion of income. Craigslist effectively killed that in the mid 90s. It's been a slow steady decline to stay solvent. They had to switch to the "print what your audience wants to read," type of infotainment. Emotion, particularly fear is very effective to keep asses in seats (and eyes on screens).

I occasionally like to go back 10 years or so and read some of the ridiculous fear mongering of the time, now that it's well out of context.

https://www.minnpost.com/business/2014/02/how-craigslist-kil...
I believe you're replying to the wrong post and poster.
Yup, they should all be abolished. We're not meant to know what is happening on the other side of the country. We don't need to, otherwise it takes up precious mind space. Being "well-informed" is a lie sold to us by these channels.