skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subaru Crosstrek: If you get it with the (quite nice) 6 speed manual, all the annoying driver aid stuff is deleted. Does come with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, so if you like fancy radio, you can have that. But the drivetrain is pleasantly stick-and-rudder.
Please do not take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's just what we don't want here; it's extremely repetitive and almost always turns nasty—probably as a way of compensating for the lack of any interesting new information.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277764.
.. to our current technology

That's the missing point, invisible is subjective
Godaddy has been doing this since forever. They burned me with this practice circa 2005. Back then I searched for a domain, and the next day they registered it and wanted $20 more for it -- nothing close to $3000! It's funny, they put up a website at the domain with a message that it was "Parked helpfully for my convenience." Amazing to see that since they were allowed to get away with it then, they've since taken an abusive practice and turned it into extortion.
I really don't see us ever locking down again. If we do lock down, it will be a half-assed "lock down", even more half-assed than before. Or it would be because of an especially bad variant, and even then it would have to be actually coordinated and enforced or there would be mass riots. I feel guilty saying it, but most people are tired of lockdowns and will refuse even if it's the moral choice.

If we lock down in 2022, what's to stop another lockdown in 2024 and in 2026 etc.? Imagine the mental health implications, especially on children and teenagers, whose entire childhood would be altered by covid. Imagine "who knows if we're going to have Christmas this year? We have to see the forecast for cases and hospitalizations", every year for every special event. People will celebrate Christmas and hang out and go to huge events or they will literally go insane.

Also, there would be massive supply chain issues like you said. Possibly big enough to actually kill people. So now we have to actually weigh the casualties of lockdown vs the casualties of a virus.

It was different in 2020. The lockdown in 2020 was designed to be short-term. It was also much more serious, because we had no idea just how dangerous covid was, and we actually had a chance of eradicating the disease entirely. That's why we could shut-down schools, cancel events planned years in advance, make court appointments virtual, and otherwise significantly alter critical parts of society.

And even then, even in early 2020, there was a not-so-small vocal minority of people (idiots) who refused to believe covid existed.

That's not to say we'll do nothing and assume covid is over. I do believe society can adjust to "stay safe" in the long-term with routine vaccination, mask-wearing in public spaces, and just being aware that covid exists. Also things like WVH and online classes (for those who want to take online) are here to stay. But people are not going to follow a "new normal" where every social interaction is weighed against the virus.
This is tricky.

We have alerts from AWS for monthly threshold, but most of the time it is ignored until the $$$ becomes large enough for the Engineerin Manager to get worried.
You completely ignore the fact that users can be told that they are being tracked. When they are told, do they say "this is a problem that I am willing to spend my resources on solving" or do they do nothing because they are apathetic?

You are the one claiming that people lack understanding but nevertheless care. Show me the survey indicating that claim to be true.
Thank you for opening up and sharing this. Don't let others or even the industry set the standard for what "smart" and "accomplished" means. Every one of us is on a unique journey and we're all accomplished in our own ways -- even a stay-at-home parent without a college degree!

If I may, do look into building your own brand either by starting a newsletter or a freelancing writing practice -- you're clearly great at it!
> Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they're all still far easier to cancel than cable.

I feel like people say they want a la carte but that's not actually what they want. What they want is all the good content and none of the crap filler content, for cheap. People pushed for a la carte because in their mind all content costs the same, so they figured that by removing the content they don't want and only keeping the content they do want, they would save tons of money. They don't understand that the good content (live sports, FX, AMC, HBO, et al) is precisely what studios are charging a premium for and what is driving most of the cost in packages in the first place.

It's roughly akin to someone looking at a Vegas buffet that costs $100 and features 100 entrees and saying "well there are 100 entrees but really all I want is the cheese, prime rib, crab legs, and caviar, so if I remove the other 96 entrees then this should cost $4" then being shocked when they are still charged 40 dollars. Sure it's cheaper but in their minds it should be an order of magnitude cheaper than it is.
Netflix DVD service does in fact still exist... They even have an android app.
Star Trek Discovery started a new season this week. Usually here in the Netherlands episodes come out a day later, so I thought I'd watch the last season finale the day before it came out so I was up to speed.

Turns out Paramount pulled the show from Netflix to put it on Paramount+

As a Star Trek fan, j thought what the heck, let's see how expensive a subscription to that is. Turns out it's not available in this country. It'll launch as part of something called SkyShowtime, a separate service including multiple American streaming platforms, somewhere in 2022.

So I shrugged and added the show to Sonarr. Within minutes, I had all the episodes available for my viewing pleasure.

It's like these companies don't want my business. They pull content from my existing subscription, make it impossible for me to buy their service and then complain about the terrible threat of piracy at the same time.

It's time for someone to set up a service that aggregates all other services so viewers can enjoy their content without chasing platforms. I'll pay for the extra services once content isn't being shifted around anymore, which is clearly going to take another decade.
> GPT-4 or another huge language model like it will be released, and we will see diminishing returns continue to plateau.

It was my understanding that GPT-3 showed pretty well that the returns are not dimishing but rather surprisingly still scaling along with data rather nicely.
A flag function that decides a boolean decision could have a signature such as f: context_t -> bool where context_t is a value type containing fields such as: uuid of the current user, uuid of the node or region we are deployed to, the current time, the current version of the application code.

Feature flag platforms such as launch darkly can be thought of as a way to manage and deploy new implementations of decision functions into running application processes. E.g. dream up a class of decision functions with the signature f: context_t -> bool that could be serialised and sent over the wire between two machines.

For large muddled IT organisations, toggling a flag in a production application by having a developer hardcode it or toggling a flag by changing static application config and redeploying might require 15 minutes of development time followed by days of integration testing and meetings and change approval lead times. In these settings, having some kind of feature flag platform deployed that allows application behaviour to be toggled very rapidly without coupling it to some kind of IT software deployment might let the organisation react and run experiments two or three orders of magnitude faster. Give product managers or "the business" the ability to adjust application configuration live in production with the feature flags without having layers of slow process in the way.

If your application contains a large subsystem where some decision or logic is evaluated by a pure function, it might be a fun exercise to think through "what if we made that it possible to swap in new implementations of that function into a running process in production, like a feature flag". E.g. if your subsystem can be described as an one big expression tree, and there's a way to serialise that expression and send it over the wire, and have an interpreter in your application process execute it.

Maybe the natural and logical conclusion to this is that every production application should be Joe Armstrong's universal server:

https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e...
I have these kinds of feelings a lot. It is hard to feel useful in this day and age of a ubiquitous globally connected society because for anything you attempt to do you have instant access to the top 0.0001% of the Bell curve who you have no hope of ever beating.

I find comfort in that I am not alone, thinking of all the peasants and regular workers across history who didn't amount to much either, but still mostly fought on and had a good life. Plenty of examples in immediate family as well.

And lastly, I found that there is one thing that one can do that is absolutely unique that nobody can match anywhere in the world, and that is - as corny as this sounds - kids. It may be a touchy subject or not for everybody. But raising a human with the best possible effort you can muster is an accomplishment at least one person will remember and value 100000x more vs. any world champion in solving IOI problems or writing clever functional code :-)
The PDF of of the information I assume you're referring to is: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...

Here is a quote from the summary, but I could not find where it was substantiated in the 250-page document:

> Facebook knew that the changes to its policies on the Android mobile phone system,
which enabled the Facebook app to collect a record of calls and texts sent by the user
would be controversial. To mitigate any bad PR, Facebook planned to make it as hard of
possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of
their app.
I had a buckling spring for years, and people kept telling me mechanical is just as good, or in many cases, better. Wrong and not even in the same league.

I'm using blue switches today only because I can't find a backlit buckling spring. If such a thing comes to existence, I'll be first in line.
There's a big difference between leaking intelligence information and criticizing your country's government.
Thinking about this as a red/blue issue was your first mistake.
> What do you think about ... how much harder IIT JEE math is

Seems to me that there are only a couple of different ways somebody could feel about that. The first is to be opposed to the "the smarter you are, the more money you make/better you do in life" meritocratic egalitarianism that these tests support. The second is to support that ideal (whether you agree we're there or not), but insist that tests don't accurately measure intelligence.

Either way, while I can sort of see where the opponents are coming from, I don't see them offering many good alternatives. I don't think it's cosmically "fair" that being born to insanely rich parents leaves you better off in life than being born to unemployed drug addicts, but the only "solution" anybody's ever put forward is massive ongoing wealth redistribution which is demonstrably worse. Similarly, it's not necessarily fair that people who are born smart do better than people who are born stupid, but what do you do? Require as many stupid doctors as smart doctors? Demand that for every smart highway engineer, a stupid one be included as well?

I can also sympathize with people who insist that tests don't accurately measure intelligence - I've always done well on tests, so this system has worked out well for me, but I can see how somebody could be otherwise intelligent but unable to perform on tests. But again... what do you do? Just declare everybody equally intelligent and don't measure anything? Like it or not, tests do measure something that does correlate with that hard-to-quantify trait we call "intelligence" and while there are regrettable false positives as well as false negatives, it's the best we have.

So I wish our tests were harder so there'd be a more fine-grained stratification of actual ability, even if I ended up being closer to the middle than I am now - that would be ok, because a lot of other people would be closer to the middle too! A tests that accurately measured intelligence such that only the most intelligent people in the world could dominate it would necessarily be almost impossible to score perfectly on it, by definition. In the face of such a test, a 50% would be something to brag about and the top scorers would be off curing cancer or something for the benefit of all of us.
You can't know. But people should stop talking about 7% per year ROI like it's a natural law you can rely on. For some people it works out, some do way better and a significant number do worse. And for most part it's just luck.
One suggestion from my side is to add a delivery at 12:00AM. This will help to create a unique long form communication on special occasion days (birthday, wedding day, graduation) that is not achievable in other messengers. This can be a unique value of Pony that can help with customer uptake.
The power of the patch is with you.

Incremental, small changes are how you go from good to great. Nobody started out by shipping liquid gold code. It was a refinement process, done over years of commits.

Start today. The amazing thing about coding is our unit of measurement is incremental improvement. Each patch does something better than the last.
I really like the Niz Plum capacitive switches and their boards - much more than just a knockoff.

Personally I've been on and off Topres since my first HHKB, about 10 years ago. Gazzew U4Ts / Nixdorks have however changed my mind, and my life.
Thanks for emphasizing about the line between illegal and dark. Makes total sense.
Western media has been going on about obesity for decades, and it was one of the earliest and best reported findings as a danger sign for Covid. How is it ignored?
HHKB is amazing for vim programming.
Sounds a little like you’re dealing with burnout. I’ve known these feelings well. Can I suggest two things that helped me? 1) Make sure you find hobbies outside of work that you enjoy, your professional life doesn’t define you and 2) rather than comparing yourself with others, try to be 1% better at something than you were the day before. That’s not only possible but will get great results in the longterm.
Actually the government space program was mired and slow in the 50s as Werner von Braun was walled out of the main programs because he was unpopular among the bureaucrats.

It was only after the success of the Soviet space program that the US government got worried and decided things needed to change. They put von Braun in charge an the rest is history.

The lessons one learns from this isn't that he government is good at science. The lessons are that great individuals produced just about every great thing humanity has, and the best way to empower individuals in through the private sector, rather then having them bogged down in the bureaucracy. The other lesson is something that most totalitarian regimes in history worked out pretty quick: that an all powerful governments can only function well when it has an enemy. It is something in human nature that we fight among ourselves and are happy to corrupt and ruin things for our own benefit. It is only when faced with an enemy that the human instinct to work together for survival kicks in.
As a Chinese I expect this: Peng Shuai, much like Jack Ma, has been kidnapped by the CCP, and tortured and brainwashed until she becomes a harmless sheep, much like Jack Ma. Then she will be released to do CCP's bidding, kind of like Jack Ma right now traveling in EU, trying to get EU secrets on farming to increase food production.

Zhang, because he is part of the Jiang Zemin faction, which is against Xi Jing Ping action, will be dealt like most of Xi Jing Ping's opponent - crushed.

Everyone should realize that basically, CCP is a gang. The biggest evil group of gangsters the world has ever seen. Selling body parts of concentration camp prisoners might just be the surface. It's hilarious that some people actually believe if US and the world somehow lost to CCP, we would be ok under CCP's rule.

傻逼他妈给傻逼开门真是傻逼到家了
> Nothing I’m doing in my life are anything that people will remember me for.

I never expected to be remembered beyond my generation and it always surprises me to find out that some people DO expect that.

I'd argue that 99% of people are entirely unremarkable and will be forgotten entirely within 2 generations of their death. The sooner you come to terms with that and accept it, the better.
Would that be the 25% that isn't "Dark Matter"? Ergo, nothing in the Universe is observable ... wait.
I asked the rhetorical question because the claim that they don't make rockets is obviously false and the evidence that they do is easily found. I think it is worthwhile when people make false claims to counter those claims with the truth, overcoming darkness with light. Stoking anger with falsehood is folly.
Apple TV is a one stop shop to see what’s available then you can choose to subscribe to stuff if you want
I can understand patents (though i thought it'd be 17-20 years, not 30) but why would they need to worry about copyright to make new implementation of the x86 instruction set?
I had a Noppoo keyboard, which ISTR is the same manufacturer as RK, and I found the switches stopped working after a while.
Not sure about the "doesn't last long" part. Certainly doesn't fit my experience of 5+ years on an FC660C, or others' anecdotal evidence.
> If you want one-percenters to pay more taxes, be mad at tax law

You need to make up your mind about whether identifying tax law as the source of the problem and proposing changes is (1) the proper response, or (2) something worthy of sexual humiliation. Because you seem to defending the position that it is #2 with the argument that it is #1, which suggests a bit of confusion on your part.
None of that exists unless a platform / jurisdiction with actual utility / community adopts that specific NFT/blockchain as a source of truth for something that can actually be owned/used on their platform, outside the blockchain. Twitter, World of Warcraft, El Salvador, someone. But such parties are happy to use their own relational databases for that sort of thing instead.

When will that change? Why would anyone that owns a successful platform-that-could-integrate-NFTs, want to?
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Hard to beat a Chevy Express Van when it comes to low tech.

In general, look for vehicles that have a really old platform or really old 'redesign'. Eg: Look at model history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Express

I'm not sure of any way to look this up across brands and models? Perhaps a good opportunity for a microsite?

In general companies boast about how new their tech is, not how old.

Disclosure: I work for GM, this is solely my own opinion.

If you don't want OnStar or Satellite Radio, there are ways to disable it pretty easily.
This graph is bad. It looks like a cumulative frequency graph. It looks more like a sediment analysis.
Cherry picking two specific things I want to reply about.

> No matter what parts of this problem you want to look at, this "500 pages per month" BS still just does not add up, even if you pretend you're stupid and just accept the stated difficulties as actually being the problem.

This is a processing quota per applicant. I agree it's a problem that the system isn't designed to require initial submitters to produce public-release-ready reports as well; though we would presumably need at least an N% (E.G. 20-25%) budget increase for the government across the board.

> It sounds like what should happen is, the data should be supplied with the identifiers separated by the original submitter. Like a standard that everyone follows where when you write the reports in the first place, everyone is subject A who works at employer X and lives in county Z, and the legend is in a separate part of the document which is trivial to withhold.

> Put both the job of segregating the data and the liability for doing it correctly on the submitter when they are creating the data in the first place.

Yes, this is also a logical solution, the inputs to the (government body) processes should have public-release-ready versions as well.

For both cases, please see my parent comment about the necessity of destructive fuzzing to sufficiently frost (ed window) the sensitive data.
Why would it be related to the time of night?
> Donald Knuth will die

You shut your whore mouth and say you're sorry right this instant.
For all of you wondering, according to the video, Waldo helps you avoid using something called Charles. So maybe if you don't really like Charles and wish for a different friend, Waldo is here for you.

I have a friend named Waldo who makes coffee, so I'm not in the market. But the strange thing? Waldo is only his nickname. His real name is Charles.

Hope the video wasn't too expensive.
I am sure it is legal to ask for the pay sheet, but no seller would give you that. Sellers usually do not price discriminate merchandise that is not differentials within the same country since commerce within the country cannot be easily restricted.

That is where brands come in for differentiable products. The generic brand lotion and the name brand lotion might come from the same factory. Maybe it is even the same product, or the different in quality is only slightly better for the name brand. But now the seller can target people willing to pay $x for lotion, and people willing to pay $2x for basically the same lotion.

Or you implement “binning”, where products of worse quality get branded differently, even though the sale price difference between the better quality product and the generic quality product is disproportionately larger than the cost to produce the better quality product than the generic product.

Anyway, you cannot do this for a movie or tv show, so the sellers of movies/tv shows do it more crudely via country or region of the world.
How to create small Docker images for Rust
He's asking somebody to quit the job they have now in exchange for a chance to get a new job... you might be able to get new college graduates or already unemployed to agree to that, but definitely nobody with any sort of options.
also very true
There are additional crazy folk working on bare metal support.

I’m waiting for someone to start working on a custom cpu for it at this point :)
Late 90s Camrys, Corollas, Accords and similar. The most advanced electronics are the entertainment system, anti-lock brakes and ignition system. Not a CAN bus in sight.
I think if the copyright on the work is older than 25 years, its immoral to extract rent on it. As much as a lot of Netflix's stuff isn't that great, at least they're making new content to talk about. Disney doesn't really deserve any more money for A New Hope.