skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50-100 good sources on a topic is arguably a lot more expertise than most newsrooms have available, especially if they’re approximately single topic tweeters, and considering they probably aren’t only tweeting their own original thoughts but also providing other ideas (e.g. articles, videos etc) by others.

Presuming the minds you follow have the same concern (to take on uncomfortable, ambiguous, and challenging ideas), then the approach is already far ahead of virtually all publications I’m aware of, including the most upvoted ones on this thread (economist, for example), since they all have problems too: revenue incentives for one, which shapes what they can and cannot report on, a need to produce content to fill pages (e.g. manufacturing drama), bias towards sensational but unimportant topics etc.

Also, Twitter is somewhat self regulating, at least, more so than “news” sites. Since an author of a news article may face little backlash for biased or wrong information, whereas on Twitter it takes only a few seconds to get a whiff that something’s not right (scan replies for compelling counter arguments, look who endorses via retweet/like etc).
It's all about the conflict of interest created by having prisons earning money by having prisoners.
I mean Bernie Sanders was almost the nominee and he is pretty far left even by European standards
regex based prose linting seems rife with opportunities to write buggy regexes
> If it's just relative the crystal lattice itself I can't see how that breaks symmetry.

Yeah, just relative to the crystal lattice.
Can you tell us a bit about what makes it 'hackable', or maybe some cool hacks you can do with it? :)
I don't think he was saying legal immigrants get paid less than minimum wage, but less than a citizen. Immigrants are in a more precarious situation depending on which visa they have (assuming they don't have a green card) which can make it more of a challenge to switch jobs which drives down their wages.
Benefits of Exercise in a Pill?
The other sibling comments in reply to this comment emphasise the central point that it was about culture war and that therefore it's not surprising that many employees don't want to take part on one side or the other!

The comments are literally just rehashing a conflict. Would anyone want to work in a place where such a discussion was part of daily working life?
The core technology at the heart of both VB6 and Delphi were the Win32 Common Controls, a set of native code GUI elements that are still present in windows. They offered a consistent toolkit across all windows versions. At the time, this was most GUIs.

It is unlikely that any one set of native GUI elements and library calls will ever be applied across all GUIs ever again. The constant churn of languages, the web stack, the vast size range of displays all combine to a situation where GUI application development receded from a high water mark, and it's all downhill from here.

The tools are worse than they were, and are unlikely to recover.
> Presumably, most of the incarcerated people are there for a reason.

About a decade ago, The Economist ran an article highlighting how the folks owning the prisons lobbied for harsher laws and such, as they made so much money off the "free" prison labor.

The details are a bit fuzzy given it's been so long since I read it, but one example that stuck with me was US citizen who had been in prison for several years, due to transporting normal fish, crabs or similar in a plastic container, which apparently was against the law in the Caribbean country he was visiting (IIRC to protect endangered species from illegal export).

He was prosecuted and imprisoned back in the US, due to some law that was initially intended to be used against drug cartel folks.

Of course, not saying that this applies to all of the prison population.
Well, if they're already building the tunnel they can just add markers every 10 meters or so, and patch their "self-driving" software to recognize these markers.
Those single quotes on 'progress' made me remember about that video of James Baldwin[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/OCUlE5ldPvM
[I'm likely not the target audience.]

For IoT applications I can think of, a soft real-time system using standard kernel and appropriate mainstream should be sufficient.

I suppose real-time process control falls under IoT and could have shorter hard deadlines. But when I think of IoT I'm thinking over the internet with > 1ms communication and jitter times.

Maybe the way to think of this is "Yes, we can do hard real-time things in lower-level hardware that's used in the device which includes a soft real-time OS". But another approach is to "Use this hard real-time OS to do all of it instead of having two types of firmware/software development."
I am actually taking delivery of a new X on Monday so I am definitely going to be interested in the build quality
One of the best books I read over the past few years was Democracy at Work by Wolff. I'm in my 30s now and have some real savings from working during my 20s, enough that I could conceivably have a go at starting a business to solve some problems that I see. Unfortunately I can't think of my relationship with the hypothetical employees of this hypothetical business as anything other than exploitative. The book introduced me to the idea of a worker-self-directed cooperative (which is a different from your local grocery co-op or credit union) which might dissolve such a relationship. The only tech companies I've heard of who are structured similar to this are a consulting/product company called Informal Systems and Motion Twin, the developer of the game Dead Cells. I'm sure such a business has its unique problems but after a decade of seeing the dysfunction inside "regular" companies my mind is pretty open in this regard.
Currently I use the following tools:
- try to drink enought water during the workday (this is important)

- snickers candy bars (they have low IG) + 473 ml of sugar free redbull (drink it cool and at once. Edition with sugar gave me serious acne, so it's my last resource)

- normal or dehydrated apples as snacks;

- integral bread for snacks;

- 20 min power naps from time to time;

- a countdown timer;

- well illuminated environment

- well ventilated/oxigenated environment;

- avoid to lie down;

Final observation: red bull, sugar and candy bars are acid. So, after consuming then, its a good measure to drink water soon after its consumption.
>What is the alternative? If someone kills someone in cold blood do you just let them roam free? You could argue that certain crimes don't warrant certain levels of punishment but incarceration /generally/ seems necessary.

There are more crimes and pre/potential crimes than just violence and murder. We even treat some innocent people as guilty by locking them up. At least we wouldn't have innocent people in cages if there were no cages. Perhaps restitution or weregeld could be a substitute for theft or assault. But I strongly doubt that putting people behind bars does much to improve their lives or the ones they've affected in the overall vast majority of cases.
Progress is dead! Long live the plane of immanence!

history doesn't progress in a forward arrow. just like evolution, it explodes outwards in every direction all at once, driven by desiring machines. humans, corporations, states, animals, plants, even the systems of the earth themselves have made themselves into political actors.

anybody who has described a vector and metrics to demonstrate it should be scrutinized for their politics and what goals they are trying to achieve.

economic indicators are used (by capitalist economists) to bludgeon those who dislike the status quo into accepting that "it's not as bad as you experience it" and keep chugging along towards our climate demise in the name of capital and profit.
Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I don't like his podcasts. It's not his guests or questions - its the way he talks. He talks too slow and it sounds like his mouth is full of cotton. This may be a shallow assessment, but this is podcast, how you talk and sound is important. Even when he has a guest on that I'm interested in hearing from I end up not being able to because his slow muffled speaking stresses me out.
Curious what others' experience with dealing with "drift" has been.
The only platform I've been heavily involved in developing/maintaining over the last 4-5 years we've been super strict and doing any infrastructure changes via CF scripts, so drift hasn't been an issue, at least in our prod environment. In fact our non-prod environments get ripped down and rebuilt from scratch (DB instances excepted) almost every day, which basically forces us to do all changes via IaC.
Which isn't to say I don't think CF shouldn't have the ability to generate, e.g. CF script changes from drift detection results, it'd be handy in one or two cases for sure.
hover sucks for touchscreens
Good thing it is his company
>> If you just use Wayland as a drop-in replacement for X (as GNOME/Wayland and KDE/Wayland are essentially doing), you're still screwed six ways to Sunday.

No, you're only screwed 4 or 5 ways. Applications can't screen capture, and they can't monitor the keyboard input to other applications.

Your points on other security issues are valid, but just because there are 6 different ways a program can dig into your system is no reason not to plug some of those holes. Wayland does that.

IMHO we need to restrict a bunch of system calls so they can only be used by the GUI toolkit. Then only files selected by the user could be accessed by an application. Of course CLI programs and other cases need permission too, so there is some complexity to work out. But this would allow a random application to use the system installed GUI toolkit and access only what the user specifically says through interactions.

Better security doesn't have to be hard, but it does require that changes be made.
> What has failed us is putting people like Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC and the federal government trying to remove net neutrality.

Net neutrality is good, but so far it hasn't fucked with us so I don't know what you are saying... What really messed up the internet/world is the centralization... Google, Facebook, etc... which allows them to control speech on a major scale.
We should focus on easier tasks and build up to it. First we should try to predict the past accurately. Once we're comfortable with that maybe we can move on to predicting the present.
> Locking people in a cage for years and controlling every detail of their life: okay

Not "okay". Far from okay. Potentially justified on the theory that imprisoning people may be necessary to protect society and deter offenders. (Although many other countries obtain better results with lower/fewer prison sentences and better conditions.)

Forcing people to dig holes, on the other hand? Not necessary. And yes, it is slavery.
In our latest tutorial, we look at and implement the pipeline for running zero-shot text classification with Hugging Face on a Gradient Notebook.
Isn't the civil dialogue part immediately thrown out the window when the person posts and signs a public letter?
I would, as I did, call regulations forcing stupidity as a lack of meaningful regulation; but I take your point. It is even a problem of negative regulation.

Small jets do indeed use jet fuel but have a terrible efficiency proposition when ran at even 50% capacity, which is not the standard use case.
Does anyone know of this is the case? Are the earnings from prison labor taxed?
It's no different than having less expensive foreign labor do the work and then importing the goods. The only thing the minimum wage does here is ensure that nobody is allowed to perform the task at that rate.

Toss out the minimum wage and institute a survival level "basic income" instead. If it is truly the desire of a society to set a minimum acceptable amount of money that a person deserves, let the cost be paid by society itself. Then people can have an open, unquestioned choice about what rate they are willing to accept to perform a job to supplement their income: be it unpaid internships or working at a fruit stand.
Well yes of course. I'm envisioning a park with natural and human-made barriers to keep them in their area. We already manage large predators in the lower 48 states of the US by tracking and monitoring wolves and grizzlies. If it's a choice between polar bears going extinct at the North Pole and surviving comfortably at the South Pole, I'd choose the latter.
It's quite common with a senior engineers who also know the business domain well. Such person can elicit requirements, design and implement the entire feature without much supervision. This is basically good news for you - you can give them large chunks of work and don't need to spend much effort on overseeing the progress. Just treat them like the independent, valueable expert they are.

Also, as with all your reports, you should help them grow in the direction they want (maybe they want to get more comfortable in business-facing situations? If so, let them conduct some presentations for senior mgmt types etc.).
Can we just assume large percentage of people is just plain stupid?

My fathers car was totaled. He wanted a compact car like the Hyundai Elantra. I suggested Honda Civic. I called a few dealers around and 0 civics were available with no ETA. We went to a dealer who had a few Elantras. We drove one. We sit down to talk numbers. The MSRP was $23k, plus about $7k in mark up. Otd price would be around $33k. I said I'm not paying anywhere close to that and walked out. However, there were many people buying......I was floored, obviously they can probably get that price lowered a bit but still.

I ended up finding a Jetta below MSRP, not as popular due to the scandal and worse predicted reliability but we paid much less for a better higher trim car.

When the car prices fall and they will, these people will be very much upside down on their loans.
You're mixing up SpaceX the company with Elon Musk the CEO. They are not the same thing, and just because someone wants to work on space travel doesn't mean they worship a billionaire. TFA is about the very employees who you claim "worship" Musk who are claiming that his behavior is harming the company.

It's not arrogance to want to work on something you're passionate about without a petulant billionaire figurehead actively devaluing your work.
How much efficiency do they lose? Desert land is orders of magnitude cheaper than German farmland, and the latter appears to be economic to cover in PV panels, so if we could get the cost of materials down we could deal with losing 20% or maybe even 90% efficiency.
Was one of the first I was going to mention. Being on the board of the NY Tech Meetup, and in the room for the demo, it was electric. Set the bar for every similar demo that followed.
My semi-ranty post is more on the topic of actual large carriers/telcos/cable company/ILECs/last mile and middle mile ISPs. Although google has some last mile stuff through their acquisition of webpass they are not in the same market segment.

There are definitely a whole lot of screwed up things going with walled garden social media platforms and centralization there as well.
How to set up COTURN server
he shows a db interface builder at: https://youtu.be/rf5o5liZxnA?t=1387

the video on the whole is pretty mind boggling.
Is it 40%?

I guess it's herpes for most of that number?
Whats the going hourly rate for a slave?
We here in the US have apex predators in the Rocky Mountains (grizzlies, wolves) so I don't see how this is a blocking issue
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI drops sales chief, chunk of staff
Agreed. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I consider that to fall into the "value is really nullable and you are using the presence of null to decide anything..." scenario, in which case, this is important to the domain, so explicitly model it so the next dev doesn't trip over the special meaning of null in this case.

Again, personal judgment and aesthetics, probably.
> It may also incentivize people to avoid going to prison. What is the incentive to avoid prison?

Pretty unlikely, see DOJ research[1]. severity of punishment, including the death penalty, does little to deter crime. It seems unlikely that the threat of forced labor would somehow deter something that the threat of years behind bars or death would not.

> How does society recoup losses from crime?

In civilized societies, we recoup losses from crime by leveraging incarceration of a criminal to apply methods proven to reduce recidivism. trying to recoup losses of a past crime at the expense of preventing a life of future crime isn't a winning strategy imo.

> Does the 13th amendment exist to disincentivize crime? I don't know the history behind the specific language with the exclusion for criminals.

It exists to free the enslaved population. the exception of criminals exists to throw the south a bone during reconstruction.

[1] https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf
Hundreds of SpaceX employees signed letter denouncing Elon Musk's behavior
It's a warehouse job. Warehouse jobs are "not good". Most people do it for a while and move on to better things.
Oh yeah, I remember that and have watched and recommended this video countless times over the years
I'm not the above commenter, but I subscribe to the fatalism... even with a deadly disease that could (for a small sub-percent of "could") kill you within 2 weeks, people got into denial as one of the excuses why they shouldn't follow what society wanted them to do.
TypeScript is nice because its null type is explicit. So if a type claims to be bool, it is really bool (either true or false, nothing else).

For a nullable variable of type T (including boolean), the type must be explicit about it:

let choice: T | null;

Another nice alternative is an Option type, like Rust has. I think it would be something like Option<bool>.

But those (a null, or a None, respectively) would be only choices if internally, at the code level, the Unset case must be handled as some kind of extraordinary scenario. If it was possible for users to make a conscious decision to leave it unset, i.e. if Unset is part of the valid choices offered by the user-facing API, then I'd encode it as a proper possible state, in an enum.
The long-lost Adolf Eichmann recordings shown in new documentary
What do your competitors do? Why? How much effort have they put into figuring out ideal pricing? Would pricing differently create an advantage? How would pricing affect the users you attract from competitors?
Per TFA:

> No, individual file previews aren’t "thumbnails."
The article does not mention organ damage or nerve damage as theories. The virus may not linger but while it is there it may damage things that cause long term problems.
If only it were a slippery slope. You're describing something more like a sticky slope, where every step down is gummed up by a pile of other things to pay attention to.

I don't think we're at any risk of sliding too rapidly down this one, and I'm not sure why we wouldn't want to even if we could. Getting rid of injustices is a net good no matter how many other injustices there are.
You’d think. But Imgur has fooled you, and actually still serves text/html with the full suite of their trash when other people follow those links.
For businesses that utilize ngrok for commercial purposes, I think it's priced very well. However, for the use-case of a (very) occasional localhost tunnel for webhook testing, I do think it's overpriced @ $25/mo. Perhaps it'd be nice if they added a cheaper paid plan for only localhost tunnels and a static subdomain, without the rest of their services (i.e. what ngrok was when it started).

But then again, I use the free tier for testing webhooks (or for viewing UI changes/fixes on my phone) without much hassle, so perhaps pushing those users to the free tier and all commercial usage onto a paid tier is what ngrok wants?
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
An interesting video - but I am
unconvinced this is "hydrogen can't work" - just the current approach won't work.

The point seems to be (watch the video) that the fuel is currently stored in wings of aircraft, which in layman's terms means the wings bend up carrying the weight of the fuselage, but the weight of the fuel is in the wings meaning fuel weight does not contribute to wing bend

Current hydrogen fuel power trains put the hydrogen into the fuselage in big tanks. This means the fuel weight now does count to wing bending and so fundamentally you can either take off without passengers or you can have your wings snap.

The answer seems to be put the hydrogen fuel in the wings. I could not find the argument against that. I suspect there is a lot more in the weeds in the industry
I don’t think they are. They pay lip service to it but I don’t see any data, experiments or even hypotheses.

What data did they use to determine that users needed this?

How are they verifying that what they built is better than investing nothing into this?

I am personally far more interested in those kinds of UX questions than a shiny checkbox.
Yep, most tiling WMs come with really solid floating window options. i3wm with floating windows by default is such a treat!
> And in the context of SpaceX, how exactly has he been "an asshole"?

Why does it matter whether his actions are in the context of SpaceX? He is associated with his companies (and vice-versa) to a greater extent than probably any other current head of business. Separating Musk from his companies in the minds of the public would be an exercise in futility, and his personal branding and thirst for public attention seem designed to encourage this. Therefore, every public action he takes has an effect on each of his companies, including SpaceX, regardless of whether said action took place "in the context of" those companies.

With that said, here are some of Musk's "greatest hits":

1. The tweet comparing Bill Gates to the pregnant man emoji [1]

2. referring to the guy who rescued the Thai cave divers as a "pedo" [2]

3. committing securities fraud [3]

4. tweeting that he'd start a STEM school called Texas Institute of Technology & Science (aka TITS) in an industry already rife with casual sexism [4]

5. implying that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized [5]

6. branding Tesla's driver assist technology as "autonomous", implying it requires no human intervention and therefore meets the criteria for full self-driving. [6]

The above actions range from needlessly trollish to outright illegal. One could argue that you don't build multiple billion-dollar companies without being an asshole to some of the people some of the time, but you'd be hard-pressed to argue that these are not the actions of an asshole.

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496

2. https://time.com/5339219/elon-musk-diver-thai-soccer-team-pe...

3. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-mu...

4. https://qz.com/work/2082746/elon-musks-tweet-captures-everyd...

5. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808

6. https://screenshot-media.com/technology/ai/tesla-autopilot-u...
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I don't think licking butts would do it. The gastric acids in the stomach might kill most of the good stuff?

Now a turkey baster with a partner whom has no STD's might be doable.

I once had a perpetually happy virginal, before me, girlfriend whom would have made a perfect donor.
Well yeah, but that's a very very direct explanation of why people might LEAVE Amazon to go work at Wal Mart, since they fit into that category of some workers with past experience.

Turnover is the subject of the story, those two statements seem directly relevant.