skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, Basilikon and basil as synonyms for royal have a pretty interesting history:

So it's unclear why basil's lumped in with royalty, but the story gets even more muddled when a mythical monster rears its tiny, ugly head. The basilisk, which you might remember from your Greek mythology or your Harry Potter, depending on your personal brand of nerdiness, was originally a tiny, highly venomous serpent. Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder named it basiliskos, Greek for "little king," because it supposedly had a crown-shaped mark on its head. It had the power to freeze living things with its gaze and melt surrounding shrubs with its poison, and might have been based on stories of King Cobras filtering over to Ancient Greece from India.

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/...
From "The Causes of World War Three". Of course, America's also had a lot of trouble since WWII simply defining what 'winning' a war means.

Timely; I bought Mills' "The Power Elite" only yesterday.
By this point you're just repeatedly making insinuations about shillage and astroturfing which is in the guidelines as a thing to not do.
"When did I say anything about printing money?"

Because that's how UBI will have to come into fruition i.e. under the auspices 'MMT' or some other made up term.

It's 100% politically impossible to raise taxes on the middle and upper 1/3 to to the extent necessary to pay off the bottom 1/4-1/3 of the population to (mostly) do nothing and that's not even starting to consider the instantaneous shock of inflation that will hit the moment it happens.

0% chance of this happening in any country, any nation, any situation - can't happen.

Ergo, the policy has to be hidden into some kind of 'magic money' theory or policy, which will invariably involve a lot of money and credit creation.

We're already seeing the effects of this today.

That's not to say we can't improve a lot of issues with regards to equality including possibly raising taxes and many other things - but it's far more effective to have people work on doing things of value, like attendants in retirement homes, making meals, then it is to give them free surpluses and have them mostly stay at home. UBI is much like Crypto, an interesting idea that does not add up in any meaningful way in our current context.
How does one take into account lack of maintenance by the end user in a strict 100% liability situation?
I suppose that could happen. One idea is that you just hide them at one time, so even if they see one they won't see the rest if they get distracted eating the other. Over time they'll learn food is around for them to find.

One trick I do is to fill and hide the mice when he's eating his wet food. Nothing will distract him from that! But he's also learned that I do fill them, but won't just give it to him. He might try a quick snack when I'm filling one up but otherwise knows he'll get them somewhere else later.
Has anyone else found google maps will turn your position icon into a pop up saying “accuracy: low, tap to improve”? It is the most obnoxious UI “feature” I’ve seen in maps (one of many I suppose). When you click on it, it wants you to take photos of the street around you to improve accuracy! What bullshit. No, google, I am not going to give you free streetview photos because you are lying about location accuracy.
Is there a data source for this claim?
Lots of reggae/ragga is slang for ganja.

But not all. So quite offtopic, but it reminds me of a related topic, but not as funny or peaceful.

In my youth, this song was popular in the clubs we went

TOK - chi chi man

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrhfXjIEvY

We loved it. Very energetic. (my body still wants to dance hearing that riddim)

It was much later, that I learned, what "chi chi man" and "bun them" means.

Burn the homosexuals.

To which the artists say, it is only meant in a metaphorical, spiritual fire. Burn the filthy, gay thoughts. But since gay people get murdered and burned for real in jamaica, I cannot really enjoy it anymore.

(but I did enjoy the dark humor a bit, witnessing real homosexuals sing and dance to that song, while still being ignorant of its meaning)
On any given timeline, dedicated human drivers will always have larger variable costs and waste than dedicated computational drivers, on top of being cost-prohibitive to people who can't afford to pay for human driven rides.

You could make the same argument for ditching email and calendar technology in favor of everyone having human secretaries typing inter-office memos. It's absurd now, yeah, but that's because we live with the benefits.
Existing crytocurrencies have high transaction fees and can only handle a few transactions per second.

But even if that could be solved the theory here is that wealth or power distribution could be improved by giving away tokens. Obviously companies cannot hand out money and equity to you for using their services, but the article presumes that it would work with tokens, because... and it neglects to mention why it would work.

It would work if you pay with USD for the service and get relatively useless tokens. Based on how crypto economies are today this is how it would play out. Or worst, NFT pay-to-earn games for example managed to combine gig economies with pyramid schemes and gambling.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.7301...
As someone without a drivers license or a car, automation would still be wildly useful in driving down the cost of occasional journeys to locations inconvenient to serve with public transport to a point where it makes living without a car an option for more people.

You're right, though, that the challenge is that it also makes it easier for everyone to opt for cars over mass transit.
> As a society, we want to properly incent smart people to build useful things.

The author of the piece needs to help bridge us from his proposal to "re-examine the way we make rules around tech M&A", and how Mr. Wardle would have been compensated for his work.
I worked at AWS in a technical role, and we had similar systems at our office.

If Covid rules were being broken - too many people in an office, people standing too close together - an alert would be sent to the office manager.

In one case, this was escalated to the country director, who chewed out the sales people who had broken the rules.
I write this as a massive proponent of self-driving vehicles. Musk has himself said that the self-driving has to be proven to be orders of magnitude safer than humans.

Given that, the last thing you want is a bunch of accidents delaying the mass-adoption of this tech. So, the fact that they shipped this is mind-boggling. I wonder who made the call on this.
Paying the creator was also the classy thing to do. Spending "low seven figures" is not a big deal for the NYT financially, but it's a significant token of goodwill (well, to everyone other than the author of this article).

I prefer Kottke's take:

https://kottke.org/22/02/wordle-sold-to-the-ny-times-and-tha...
That only proves that banks in your part of the world are way behind the state of the art. The one thing it doesn't prove -- I hope you didn't think it does? -- is that Crypto/Blockchain is necessary for international currency transfers (as some deluded poster here tried to argue a week or two ago).
Well also the largest animal to ever fly only weighed a few hundred lbs so we’re also just limited by the kind of flight we’re trying to do.

At least today we probably could build a craft that flies by flapping its wings but what would be the point?
The real question isn't "Why is that a surprise?"; it's "Why does it keep happening?"
SMB is Windows File Sharing, built into every Windows since like Windows 3.1.
You can see the same effect on land with a tower and an open plain. Also you can observe the shadow the Earth casts on the moon during a lunar eclipse. It's actually been known since antiquity that the earth is round, though I don't know if most of mankind knew that or if they would have cared.

If you're referring to Columbus with the 600 years ago statement, he actually did some dodgy math to say the Earth was much smaller around than others thought which is why he thought he had a shortcut to India. He would have perished had he not had the good luck to run into a whole other continent that just happened to be in the way. To me the craziest aspect of all of that is that somehow we still refer to Native Americans (somewhat pejoratively) as Indians based on a half millennia old mistake.
In 2014, the ResMed office in Ireland was doing this “off label” with their S+ sleep monitor. They were very close, and the goal/target market was for seniors in long term care facilities.
> Can't believe I'm on this side of the debate, but at what point are we asking too much for free?

You act like it's consumers moving the line. It's Google. Massively profitable for a long time now, Google. Your argument is that if we resist Google's ever-advancing march deeper into our privacy, that we consumers are the ones who are changing things, making things unfair to poor Google.
>bragging about the line count is silly.

and gatekeeping is silly too..
A law to do what, exactly? Criminalize the omission of facts from a statement? Criminalize ignorance?

Who decides when a fact was omitted? Was the fact pertinent (note: there's a lot of wiggle room here)? How much investigation has to be done to uncover whether there was a lie by omission or actual ignorance?

What would the penalty be?

Thinking you can legislate your way out of this is hopeless idealism.
If it's not it should be, this is cool stuff, a little shilling on a capitalist inspired news site should be expected and I think we're smart enough to sort the BS out from the good stuff.
that + not using their trademark
And I'm guessing they don't have much interest in learning statistics? I think statistical thinking is one of the best tools we have for sorting all this out on an individual level.

I wish universities would use statistics as the "weed them out" class instead of calculus. As one example, make the nursing students take statistics instead of calculus; I'm not sure they need either, but statistics will be more useful in their lives and career.
If you bend the rules around rolling stops, I don't trust you not to bend your rules you claim to have about driving tired or in bad weather.

I'm almost positive you'll violate those rules as well.

I just believe that you're a flawed human being like all the rest of us. And so its safer if you follow rules consistently and stop trying to optimize things away that don't need to be optimized. Same thing with using your turn signal every single time because even if you think you 'need' to you should always do it for the pedestrian, vehicle or bicycle that you don't see -- or even the person violating the law and driving down the shoulder of the highway.

And I don't even understand how your example is relevant. But you should take the lane and stay away from the door zone if you're bicycling (and when you're driving you should be careful about the door zone as well). They were in the wrong, but it sounds like you're not very aware either, which kind of only reinforces my point.
An extremely wise set of decisions. I also see no reason, a priori, to 'blind' a vehicle to certain spectra of EM emissions; nor to accept that only passive sensing (cameras) can be used, when Active Sensing (probing, if you will) that Radar and LiDAR use is clearly giving the control computers more information about Reality (tm).

By using all (or almost all) available Active and Passive sensing technologies, fused with geofencing and operating at 'low-ish' speeds -- surely must be the fastest way to achieve 100% accident-proof self-driving vehicles that operate on ordinary city streets. Congratulations, Cruise. Keep up the Good Work.
>Unlike Apple, the user is welcome to use any other app,

This part of your comment makes no sense to me - how do Apple users not have choice in maps apps...?
The majority of the update process is downloading and decompressing, which can be interrupted without issues. The update process itself should be quick enough that if the user does happen to decide to turn off their machine, it will just delay the shutdown process by a minute or two.
The few times I've ridden in a Tesla using "self driving" the phantom breaking was really jarring. It was surprising and concerning how often it slammed on the breaks for no reason.
The thing about your list of conflict is that all of them involve a minority against an overwhelming majority and fighting over distinct territories. This is about two populations roughly equal in size fighting over the same territory.
All you did was sarcastically reply though, with a dismissive/pessimistic lean on basically every point. Given that there isn't a character limit, why not try and provide a more nuanced perspective? This isn't Twitter.

Even if you just really fundamentally dislike the project, I think it'd be to your benefit in convincing people by expanding on your commentary.
I’m a full stack dev for a large media company, and made https://nftpaint.app/ in my free time as an experiment. I have some ideas for turning it into a social drawing NFT app, but would like to find some people to collaborate with, specifically people who know about promoting NFTs or Solidity development.
I'd be interested to know what important features added to syslog-ng that the author is talking about.

I'd consider myself to be in the "syslog-ng is just a drop-in replacement for syslogd, right?" camp, so I'm certainly interested in hearing about what neat things have been added already. Perhaps it would help some people to learn about some of those lesser known features before they feel comfortable making suggestions for even more features.
Very very far from "always". Many say "when kids are present" or "on school days". Some rely on external signs to indicate whether the zone is active or not, and some localities within the US have completely unique signs.

And this is just the US. Imagine how much variety there's gonna be outside of it.
First of all, just to make sure we're on the same page about maybe one single thing, I don't think anybody thinks the subject of the linked article is cultural appropriation. I sure don't.

Ultimately everything is somewhat of consensus in society, right? I mean, even near-universal truths like "murder is generally bad" or "helping your neighbors is good" are just sort of things most societies kind of agree on.

Sometimes those consensuses (consensi?) change over time. Marijuana was legal for centuries, and then it wasn't, and now it kind of is again.

Sometimes the consensus is crap. In a lot of places there used to be a societal consensus that marrying your 13 year old cousin, or stoning religious heretics to death was cool.

If you've really done the work, and really explored why the groups affected by cultural appropriation think it's kind of a shitty thing to do, and you really just think they're just being crybabies or liars, and you're making an informed decision to disagree then, hey, cool.

Might not agree with you but if everybody put that much thought into things the world would be a better place.

how should that disagreement be settled

When it comes to an issue like this, maybe weigh the cost of giving a care about it vs. the cost of not giving a care about it.

Example: suppose I like to use slur XYZ because it's funny to me, and I think humor is a great way to bridge the gaps between people, and it would be better if we all decided to simply not let words hurt us. (I actually do feel that way!)

But a lot of people from group ABC feel like it's pretty crappy for me to use XYZ.

I could just simply think they're being oversensitive, and keep saying XYZ but like... is using XYZ really that important to me? It's pretty easy for me to stop using a word. That's a pretty small cost. If it might do some good, or at least make somebody else's day better, fuck it. I'm generally happy to pay that small cost.
Seems like this is important enough for Musk to make the call.
How about using the mobile website maps.google.com, would that work?
> But can we get 80% there and then have ma human help out?

The problem is that for complex enough projects, the architectural redesign is considerably more demanding than a "remaining 20%". I can imagine it also being quite irritanting, due to shortcuts one may take in C taking advantage of implicit application logic (independently of them being warranted or not), that can't be directly translated due to the Rust strictness.
Are you in the US? I've found it pretty ropey in Europe every time I try to ween myself off Google maps.

Another benefit of Apple maps is that it gets preferential treatment from the os in that it appears on the lock screen when navigating (I really wish this api was open to third parties). This is nice for navigation on foot.
Have you ever been a pedestrian? The fact that most drivers don't give a shit about stopping for crosswalks isn't a reason for Tesla to say "fuck it let's go".
Did the West actually win the Cold War? The parallels with the Soviets are getting more real by the day. With those exceptions the commitments like that would be right at home in Putin's Russia and whatever is left of their universities.
The vehicle in this very article! :)
I don't have a particularly good grip on how long a million years is, but I suspect it's still better than yours.

A million years is less than a week in the Earth's lifetime. The virus of humanity can do its darnedest but the planet isnt going to remember a mild cold.
A small misunderstanding - "legal reasons" are that it is the person in the driver's seat who is legally liable for damage done while the car was driving itself, not Tesla.
>It’s still rather bad about explorative searching for businesses/restaurants

That it just pipes Yelp results infuriates me every time I deal with it, as I refuse to sign up for Yelp.
We like OsmAnd+ a lot, we use Maps too but always keep OsmAnd+ loaded in case we need it. It does use a lot of storage but it's worth it.
Enjoy your Herman Cain Award.
How is it not compliant?
Thanks for citrus, I've started experimenting on it after I've read your pngquant blog post[1] the other day, and it's exactly what I was looking for: c2rust does semantically exact conversion, which isn't what I need: I needed a tool to automate the boring syntax conversion, and when doing the idiomatic rustification by hand I can take care about the different semantics of the two languages.

Off course there's a different trade-off when bugs are involved: c2rust shouldn't add any bugs during the conversion, while citrus will.

[1]: https://pngquant.org/rust.html
A rising tide may lift boats that were sound and seaworthy to begin with.

If your economic boat has holes in it then a rising tide will drown you.

There are always people left behind by the rising tide. Sometimes you have to focus on fixing the boat instead of waiting for the tide.
I haven’t had this exact scenario you describe. In many cases in SF it is you passing them, not the other way around. Cruise gets confused in intersections sometimes, esp in the presence of unexpected cyclists and pedestrians. Their error state is to freeze. Then of course very easy to get around them. I also notice if I close pass the vehicle, they will brake or adjust course to varying degrees depending on street conditions and which tech stack.

I have never witnessed a self driving car exhibiting aggressive behavior towards cyclists or pedestrians. I have witnessed many humans driving cars exhibiting aggressive behavior.
Who said all cars would be replaced? There is PLENTY room out there for company cars and personally owned cars.
Hi Nicholas , Long time!

Yeah Cruise definitely seems to be moving with safety in mind. Props to the team for this milestone!
8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173138
Or only if you prevent supply from meeting demand.
First female chess grandmaster sues Netflix over false claim in Queen’s Gambit
If you don't want it, don't use it and I will just avoid your library.
I have to calibrate it to the fact that during the 2016 presidential debates one of the major party candidates assured everyone watching that his sex organs were doing great. And he won. My knobs are on 11, frankly.
I don't think you can do this one as a hobby really. You need to store brains which means taking them out of peoples heads or getting hold of animal brains. Plus you need to create liquid nitrogen and you also need a block face scanning electron microscope which has diamond parts and scale that up to a brain. So ur looking at several mil and a team of 50 people.
I believe AptX is the best quality codec but I don't think that means it's unidirectional.

In practice I think you'd still want a little bit of bandwidth going the other way in order to be able to skip tracks/pause/etc.
They can sell ads better if they know where you are. Wifi data is making that every easy and battery saving to track.
Finding the author of most common malware isn't hard, skript kiddies really like their credit for reputation.
> no one

This is an article in the Economist decrying it, so I don't think you can claim that no one is worried.
Denmark has lifted all COVID-19 restrictions
I like that -- Guaranteed minimum income for anyone willing to sign up for big-tech free services. I think that is an experiment worth conducting.
It does and though it uses a lot of storage, that's a great feature to have.
>I just hope that there is some way to automatically fold.

Depends on your editor. Vim can definitely do it.
Then what would Google gain from it? The whole point of subsidiaries is that they are not independent and push profits up to mother company.
Wow. Bold take. I don't agree. I think you are conflating choice with quality.

There is more music now. There are more games. There are more TV shows. The reason people cant name a single Kanye song, which I find to be a dubious claim at best, is because their options are not limited to the top 10 artists that the radio plays anymore. They can listen to whatever they want on spotify.

If I'm still listening to The Who and Kanye in 20 years its because I like The Who and Kanye. Not because no new music of quality has been released. Young people love their shitty new music just how I loved my shitty new music that my parents didnt understand.

Pokemon and the yearly EA titles (COD or any sports games) are the closet 1:1's that exist in gaming to the weather channel and cnn. They are just good enough that people will keep paying for them and nothing more.

I watched The Forgotten and The Terminal about 20 times a piece growing up. Why? Because its the two dvds that we owned that were not absolute ass. There are certainly worse movies out there but there are a lot of better ones too. Especially after watching Tom Hanks eat a mustard and cracker sandwich gets old.

Less choices doesnt equal higher quality. More choices doesnt equal higher quality. But it does mean I have more to pick from and of all the choices I have now I'm positive I can find something better than what I grew up with.
> This is something that experts need to work out.

Experts put these regulations into place. To cancel regulations, we will need somebody who is opposite to experts.
All this tech we have is large, depreciating assets yet it still keeps happening. Humans are a large depreciating asset to the elite, lets hope they don't get tired of us anytime soon and replace us with AI and robotic servants...
For context, Android expects 1 in 50k false acceptances. This falls short of that but it's not terrible.

I'd be interested in seeing spoof rates. Apparently a spoof rate of 7% and below is considered secure. I've worked with biometrics and it's easy to spoof voice and especially face. Something like facial recognition requires a long liveness process - look left, look right, close one eye, etc. Typing patterns are harder to spoof. So something like a selfie combined with typing would be interesting.