skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not really much point to this but I thought it was interesting how the PSAs are effectively put in a position of responsibility for the actions of the autonomous vehicle but presumably are not compensated the same as an active(?) driver would be.

This is an interesting question. Most drivers on the underground aren’t active drivers at. I think every deep level tube line, except the Bakerloo, is autonomous, and the trains can’t be driven manually in normal operations because a human driver can’t react fast enough to continuous adjustments that are sent to train. Adjustments that are needed to safely operate the tube system at the frequency and close follow distance or achieves during peak.

Instead the only things a tube driver does is check the doors before closing them, instructing the train to depart, and hitting the emergency stop if something goes wrong. They probably do get paid more than PSA, but I know they get extra compensation due to amount of time they work underground.

I do want what level of liability a PSA is exposed to in that position. Presumably they would be in trouble if they were obviously not paying attention during the evening hours. But assuming they’re playing in their phone, I suspect they have little to no liability at all in the event of an incident. But I suspect that the emotional toll if “their” train hit someone would be high, regardless of their responsibilities.

> Maybe a lot of the desire to move to "autonomous" (or really just more automated if it requires a safety driver) is a workaround for union wages by reclassifying drivers as new made up things.

TfL actually have no desire to automate existing lines. The costs involved are astronomical, the saving minimal, and service improvements almost non-existent. For TfL there number one priority is improving capacity, and the biggest blocker to capacity on the underground isn’t drivers, it’s trains, signalling systems, and above all dwell time in stations.

The signalling systems place a hard cap on maximum trains per hour, and the existing systems haven’t performed as well as hoped (it should be mentioned that these systems were cutting edge when installed, TfL tech tends to be on the absolute bleeding edge of metro technology, but the problem is fundamentally harder to solve than original expected), and dwell time (the time spent in stations getting people on and off the trains) his hard to reduce much further, without re-engineering trains and stations to increase the number of doors and platform crowding.

Central government has been pushing the automation angle because it’s a “simple” solution to TfL finance problems. But as usual the problem is vastly more complex than that, and the “simple” solution is only good because it feel intuitively correct to public that doesn’t understand the actual problems TfL faces.

London reconnections has a number of fantastic articles covering all this:

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2014/driverless-trains-p...

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/tfl-the-impossible-...
Fly.io is also the first thing that came to mind for me. I haven't used it yet but it looks awesome and I've really liked seeing the founders interact here on HN.
I totally blocked Reddit in my hosts file. If I really need a post work purposes I go to Google translate, load the post and click 'see original'. Such a hassle that I hardly ever do it. YMMV.

I think its funny that we both stumbled on a similar approach
Isn't manually installing an application from a tarball more complex than just pushing a branch from your source control?
For long running tasks (cron jobs, message queues, fire and forget) I’m the cofounder of https://www.tasker.sh, YC S21.

Feel free to ping me: jay@tasker.sh, happy to personally help onboard and toss in some credits if you’d be willing to chat with us about what you’re building!
If all of this matters so much, don’t use an (interactive) shell.
I thought Powershell syntax was needlessly confusing until I started writing bash scripts, now I see that ps wasn't so bad.

But I accept why linux command line is the way it is - its a shark, not a dinosaur
Just showing up is something that has definitely gone out of fashion. I have family I barely see because meeting up requires advanced notice. Even then it feels like an inconvenience, hence, other than weddings and funerals, I don't bother.
How about you try using your own website?

QA departments suffer through this crap all the time.
Dash just implements the behavior specified by POSIX/SUS.
This is a case where practice improves results. Most of the ideas you pursue will be unsuccessful, but should have interesting results and learning experiences that you can apply to the next ideas. The worst thing you can do in that case is wait to come up with the best idea, it’s a hill that you need to start climbing by grinding through ideas even if they have lots of problems.
Well done! Looks very charming :)

Like the other commenter, I've thought about something related before. But I thought about it more like on a platform. If I may... You could make an account and digitalize your bookshelf for you and others to see. You might pin notes, quotes, ratings, open a discussion thread (about paragraphs or the whole book), etc. to a book. The cover art that is displayed could be changed (like a book that was published multiple times under various publishers), but not only to original covers but also community made cover art (pixel art, collages from movie screenshots and so on). You could tag your books and rearrange them accordingly. And so much more...
If only there was some kind of institution to help protect workers in this situation...
We're not talking about the shell, we're talking about the options parser. Nothing in my examples invokes any shell.
TCO is not really that important. The Common Lisp standard doesn't even require it, though many implementations do support it.
Theming the Administration UI in the new version is a lot harder as it relies more on JavaScript for rendering than FreeMarker templates in the old one. We're keeping the option to use the old interface around until this has been mitigated.

That said, we are now relying on PatternFly (https://www.patternfly.org), which allows quite some customization through CSS variables.

As for the authorization screens, these are out of scope for the changes we're doing here. But they will probably get pulled into their own refactor at some point.
Oh, sure; not in any way attempting to draw a comparison between the two. If it wasn't clear, this is the impression I have of why people (from wherever) complain about EU red tape, not my personal impression of EU red tape.
Sure, but usually you have to dig, even with surface fossils.
It convinced me I am not interested.

Also, totally not related, cant wait for next regular HN thread about how liberals are not polite enough and how their incivility is cause of all evil.
The minimum energy use for transportation as dictated by the laws of physics is zero (for round trips). All kinetic energy can in principle be recovered, and the change in potential energy for a round trip is zero. In practice, of course, there are inefficiencies, but it's not entirely obvious how large the losses must be.
I just close a website and never go there again, if i ever see a cookie consent popup
Until a prohibition on investor owned single family occupancy residential property is put in place (basically make AirBnBs illegal), there is zero chance this will get better...
The 140 byte limit actually didn't last very long, it was 140 Unicode code points since at least a decade ago. You could use 140 CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters or 140 emojis, and if it didn't fit in an SMS they just sent a link to the tweet.

Interestingly when they doubled the character limit they also started double counting CJK characters so the limit is still effectively 140 for those languages.
ah, a fellow tape monkey. Our "white room" had collected 25 years of old hardware and manuals back in the 90s. I loved trawling through it all. Best job ever.
AFAIK those are independent features, I use both noatime and lazytime.
Very interesting but quite verbose for the render
Would be a nice coding project for somebody to add a pull from GoodReads etc to populate the books for people with accounts.
> Case in point: TPM is not required to implement UEFI Secure Boot. You can test yourself in a QEMU VM, if you don’t believe me.

I believe you, but doesn't that mean that there is nothing particular secure about this operation ?

But thank you for the correction, I was under the impression that secure boot neccessarily needs a TPM to store it's keys.
Yeah, I read this explanation, and I'm probably being very dense, but I still don't get it :)
If you don't want to have homeless people set uo tents on the streets its virtue signalling.

If you are also wealthy you are a champaign socialist, becase socialists should be poor. If you are are poor and socialist, then you are envious of rich people.

You just can't win
Same in Ghana
How do you aim?
It's crazy how the cloud companies/Windows/Apple have encouraged modern developers to be scared of running apt update/upgrade.

Can marketing cause learned helplessness?
Evidently the Wikipedia entry is part of a lobbying effort, and it's working.
I recommend Caprover. It's a simple container environment that hosts your services via sensible nginx configurations and Docker swarm, has a cli tool that can be utilized for CI purposes, and provides easy spin-up for common OSS web-apps.

I utilize it to host many different PHP and Java apps.

https://github.com/caprover/caprover
Eula and cookie constent have an legal issue in that it does not legaly prove who clicked on the license. A traditional paper signature or a bank signature do proves its you who signed the document.

Cookie approve, eula it could be have been anyone who clicked the approve link. So it does not bind the approve action to the person.

It could be your spouse, kid, cat, dog who clicked approve.
I’m really not clear what the buyer is getting. Just a copy of the source code? Can I use it? Does it cover updates?Can I resell it? Can I convert it into a saas? Who owns the copyright? Can the original dev resell a different version of the source code?

So many questions arise from this and the lack of information on the listing (unless I’m just blind).
When a measure becomes a target, it cease to be a good measure.
The normal CPU temperature should be around 60C
Most experts says that normal temperature for a CPU should be around 60 but what about those PC that heats up way beyond 80C. Is it still normal?
Maybe I missed them but it would be nice to see actual examples of each monetization strategy.
Looks super nice! I myself use GitHub Issues to track my reading here: https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/books. It has a GitHub Action that tracks reading and generates a summary and API: https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/bookshelf-action
Erratum: s/less expressive than C/less expressive than C++/
That’s 2,598 tweets to transmit a single megabyte.

So, if I wanted to tweet the movie Spaceballs, encoded at 4K UHD (20MB/s), I estimate that I will need to make 20,945,455 tweets.

Twitter limits the posts made by nobodys (like me) to 2,400 tweets per day… so, it is going to take me just under 24 years to complete my task.

I’d better get started.
Sand is becoming scarce these days. I would say no to allowing foreign owned vessels from dredging here. Its notable that lobbyists want to allow it. That article also says a larger dredge is being built in the US, though not AS large as the foreign ones.

TFA is probably just part of the campaign.
I think that making the signal look natural does not need an intent to hide.

It is simply a result of Shannon's entropy. To be detectable, signals have to be broadcasted and low entropy, the opposite of what we need for efficient communication. A signal that makes best use of its bandwidth would be indistinguishable from noise for someone who doesn't know the protocol, it is also likely to be precisely targeted at the recipient and unwanted emissions kept to a minimum in order to limit interference.

It is already happening on earth as we are replacing loud analog TV emissions with more subtle and better targeted cell phone signals.
Aww, someone had a cool comment about only having a good idea after the project was over and it was too late, but when I tried to reply, the comment had been deleted.

Here was my response anyway. The question was how to get better at generating ideas when they're actually relevant instead of after the fact:

I wonder if it would help to taking a deliberate break in the middle of all the action, in order to give some space for your subconscious to bring relevant ideas to the surface.

I guess a short break might not be long enough and a long break might be hard to justify. It reminds me of the discussion yesterday about slack.

Also this is another reason why "the worst place to stop is a good stopping place" - if you wrap everything up before you stop, you don't leave your mind any loose ends to ponder.
> Seriously, no one’s life has been harmed by tracking cookies.

I would argue that privacy is a basic human right and tracking (stalking) should be taken seriously.

Would you say the same thing about stalkers following you on the street, watching you from a distance and browsing through your trash? As long as they don't do anything to you, is it all okay?

No, it's not and you would get a restraining order (i.e. GDPR)

> The fears are overblown. Plus we can find alternative ways to track people.

Yeah that's not creepy at all.
It's difficult to overstate how pervasive the 808 cowbell was in early hip-hop, funk, and R&B music during the 80's. To this day it's a sound that pleasantly nostalgic and takes me right back to my younger days.

Something I always wondered about: it seemed like not all 808 cowbells were exactly the same. Some seemed to nail a very in-tune perfect fifth. While others were just shy of a perfect fifth, giving more of a sour sound which I think was more common.

In Bar-Kays' "Sexomatic," the 808 cowbell's pitch raised up a whole step to match the song's key, but it also sounds like a very in-tune perfect fifth: (3:55)
https://youtu.be/rqWfERqQlk4?t=235

In 2 Live Crew's "Mr. Mixx On The Mix!!" the 808 cowbell has the more sour sound: (3:19)
https://youtu.be/yNiAYpd1f84?t=199

The bread board project was producing an interval that was just shy of a perfect fifth, making it closer to 2 Live Crew's 808 in my ears.

I always wondered if slight variations and and manufacturing anomalies in the analog components accounted for this difference or if something else going on. If OP is in this thread, I'd love to hear your opinion and conjecture on this. (And I'd also like to thank you for the GREAT write-up and YouTube clip. LOVED this.)
Most rely on volunteer moderators who also happen to be active members. The two roles are not exactly compatible.
Converting Strings to Objects with Jq
> I often wish that password hashes weren't even called "hashes"

I agree! And same for crypto hash (as in collision-resistant function) vs. “mixer” hash (as in diffuse permutation)[0].

We should make “PBKDF” a more common name.

[0]: https://cr.yp.to/salsa20.html
A moment of madness, perhaps?
If he actually did any research how could he get it that wrong? Nothing about being built in America, just that the owner and charterer must be Americans, the actual operating crew can be whoever. The coastwise endorsement further defines American ownership with if the owner is a corporation then "must be American" means incorporated in US's legal jurisdiction and voting majority of the board is US citizens.

The dredge act (as linked to by the author) is short enough I will quote it here[1]:

§55109. Dredging

(a) In General.-Except as provided in subsection (b), a vessel may engage in dredging in the navigable waters of the United States only if-

(1) the vessel is wholly owned by citizens of the United States for purposes of engaging in the coastwise trade;

(2) the charterer, if any, is a citizen of the United States for purposes of engaging in the coastwise trade; and

(3) the vessel has been issued a certificate of documentation with a coastwise endorsement under chapter 121 of this title or is exempt from documentation but would otherwise be eligible for such a certificate and endorsement.

(b) Dredging of Gold in Alaska.-A documented vessel with a registry endorsement may engage in the dredging of gold in Alaska.

(c) Penalty.-If a vessel is operated in knowing violation of this section, the vessel and its equipment are liable to seizure by and forfeiture to the United States Government.

[1]:https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
Give render.com a try. I used it for our latest startup and it was overall a pleasant experience.

For me it's the sweet spot between Heroku and AWS.
Fairmail is simply the best
I for one very much hope we don't get to a Gattaca-style society! That movie doesn't leave me with a particularly positive view of such a system, but maybe that's just me.
Why would someone want to spoof a “do not port the number” message? It’s 1 to cancel not 1 to approve.
Does anyone know such a platform where I can get paid submitting data for AI to be trained on?
It's early so could you help me out by showing how to represent say this[1] tree as a list?

Or did you just mean you can store the nodes in an array and index them by level? In that case I wouldn't call it a list.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#/media/File:B-tree.svg
>using cookies to track users based on information that their browsers willingly provide.

Browsers do not "willingly provide" anything. Code is written to trigger functionality. You're ascribing motivation where there is none. Developers willingly write that code.

>If this is considered "theft", then copying anything without removing the original would be theft, which would be a huge problem for anyone advocating for free file sharing or "piracy".

Non-sequitur. Just because the API is there, does not mandate it's use. Free file sharing or even "piracy" can still happen without cognitive dissonance. It isn't the copying that is the problem, but rather the storing, caching, processing and monetization that taken together create a surveillance apparatus that is the problem. The connection to piracy, while undoubtedly seductive, fails to pass muster, because ultimately, entertainment wants to reach audience, and reap value, even if only in brand recognition.

Everyone else does not. Advertising fails to realize, the world is not full of brands looking to be recognized.
Yes, both are very interesting.
> And if you need to keep at least one employee in the bus, why would you take them off the wheel

Driver can help passengers if they’re driving. I could imagine a world where you move the employee to the middle of the Bus and have them help with passenger loading/unloading and providing ticketing and help while the vehicle is in motion.

This is something you see on the trams in Amsterdam, they have a conductor in booth in the middle of the tram that can sell tickets etc. That way trams don’t need to wait at stops while the driver is selling tickets and dealing with customer queries. As a passenger it means you can ask about what stop to get off without distracting the driver.
Humans eat animals. Humans are animals. Please.
Any Canadian want to share a Crave Subscription?
Crave has gone up in price.. but now you can have 4 screens at same time. Anyone interested please message me or reply to this thread. It would be $8 a month.
Musk’s wish for Twitter to authenticate real humans will get some killed
I'm trying to understand your service. You write:

It's really easy to spin up a web
app in production.
...
However, it is incredibly difficult
to run anything longer than a web request.

I can rent a $5/VM with and just run my tasks there. What is difficult about it?
Re: Discovery

A pet peeve of mine, is where some enterprising web developer has either built a theme, or hacked an existing one and removed or not added the <link> tag for the RSS feed, when the site engine in question DOES have a working RSS feed.

You see this a lot on customised WordPress sites. I end up having to try all variants of feed URLs I can think of until I find the feed. Surprisingly, most non-bespoke site engines still have working feeds, so the hit rate is quite high.

I also miss the days of browsers auto-extracting the <link> tag and showing an RSS icon when a feed is found.
Really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing!
First the article mentions that those "AI" implementations, from solutions over MNIST on, underperform humans, then finally overperformed them.

Then it mentions that small changes like adding an object to the assessed scenery, or changing from "what is" to "what's" in the text input, can compromise the result - and this should be a big alarm bell.

The issue - issue that is about both some human intelligence₀, and some artificial intelligence₁ - is evident through the following:

> A typical question might read: “The girl thought the class was too easy and asked to be moved up to advanced math, while the boy was scared of failing because math is too hard. Who is bad at math?” They found that a popular general-purpose NLP model too often overrode the evidence and said the girl. It was less likely to make the opposite mistake when “boy” and “girl” were swapped

*What does it take to understand that the «general-purpose NLP model» does not understand the question: it is just divinating an answer?!*

And it misses the matter switching it to an issue about "prejudice", when also it should be obvious that if the thing is not understanding but just absorbing to receive some equivalent of "social confirmation" (a possible equivalence in a way to "supervised learning") there is little doubt that that can be the outcome!

It's not checking what it's told for truthfulness in the body of evidence (not to mention reasoning)!

"They have created a benchmark to check that". And realizing instead that they are missing the core point?!

I am getting more and more the idea that to some, the human intelligence is not an aletic-search machine, a critical engine, "a scientist assessing the geopolitical scenario as well as the subtleties in a word or the genius in a Rembrandt" - but instead a "Zelig" "social meta-construct" that moulds mindsets to reflect their environments, "a researcher trying with all forces and a single strategy (imitation) to retain its employment".
In hindsight, indeed! They just go straight into `set`.
Technically Amazon Mechanical Turk, although the compensation will probably not be good at all.
Tip: A simpler variant of essentially the same puzzle principle is the xkcd "Blue Eyes" puzzle.

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html
As supporting evidence, the Unix Manual from 1971, http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/UNIX_ProgrammersM... contains synopses like:

du [-s] [-a] [name ...]
ld [-usaol] name ]
ls [-ltasd] name ...
pr [-lcm] name
Can you tell which page you had the problem on? I only see links to bounties.network without the "www" subdomain (see https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization/search?q...) and I couldn't find any link to inkscape - maybe you were on another list we referenced at the end?
> The Russian air defenses seem to be not able to do much when Ukrainians use Bayraktar drones

There’s a lot we don’t know about what happened. For example, the USA could (or could not, of course) have a much bigger hand in such attacks than they let out.

I doubt the USA would actually fire weapons, but they do provide intelligence to the Ukraine, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we eventually learnt that they shared knowledge on how to get past the Russian air defense systems, or even hacked Russian air defense systems to make these ships more vulnerable to these attacks.

I guess it will be decades before we know, if that ever happens.