skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rather painful to see the fantasy rabbithole you got yourself sucked into. Reality isn't spy fiction. Get a grip. Your utter lack of self-awareness and taking pride in ignorance is plain laughable. Have fun with your cooked up conspiracy theory. The Internet has way too many of them already so good luck at getting recognition as an unseen genius.
Morally speaking, I’m not sure who is in the right here. I believe in the right to protect your data, and the kill switches seem somewhat acceptable.. on the other hand, Uber is scum and has systematically destroyed the taxi business.
But if a student doesn’t care about the degree what is the point of going to that school? Would it be cheaper and faster to go to a normal trade school that just teaches trades?
The extent at which so many americans are absolutely convinced they are “the good guys” of the world is simply amazing. A real testimony of the power of american propaganda.
Interesting. Do you view software in your car the same way? If not, how are they different?
From Wikipedia:

> The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is a procedural software cost estimation model developed by Barry W. Boehm. The model parameters are derived from fitting a regression formula using data from historical projects.

> Intermediate COCOMO computes software development effort as function of program size and a set of "cost drivers" that include subjective assessment of product, hardware, personnel and project attributes. This extension considers a set of four "cost drivers", each with a number of subsidiary attributes.
Oh, I know - most likely it will contribute to more death and destruction or as you described, wind up in some corrupt official / warlord / oligarch's pocket. There are no good guys in corrupt and evil wars, yet people love to try and pick one.

If folks new the whole story behind this war and the history of the region and US / NGO intervention in it, before throwing their support blindly behind a cause because their government and media told them to, I believe the sentiment around this war would be much different and no one would be cheering either side on in it.

It's just like Medicare and prescription drugs though - trusting citizens expect their government to enact policy that has their best interests at heart. Then they don't, and they turn around and vote for them again anyway. Then they'll wag the finger across the aisle and find some other virtuous cause to distract from the fact they're being screwed over by the very leaders they voted for, that turned around and lied to their faces. Military industrial complex, big pharma, our state-run media - It doesn't really matter what sector the federal government decides to get in bed with, people complain about it and then go right back to the polls to signal their willingness and intent to go through with another cycle of it all over again.
Even a Windows developer cannot use a typical locked-down enterprise PC. For many tasks you would need admin rights. I guess typically Windows developers solve in such company solve that by having 2 PCs. One official office PC and then one R&D PC which is not under control of corporate IT (depending on the company officially connected to non-intranet network zone or just completely secret form corporate IT).

Of course for really hairy driver work you want to have a separate machine regardless of the OS. But for the last 15 years I have managed to do Linux development with having root access and still not breaking the office side of work. Although if you usea dd to write system images for embedded systems many times a day you are playing a bit with fire. Thought for a long time I should patch dd so it wouldn't overwrite anything bigger than 64GB. But nowadays we mostly have better firmware update methods, so dd is used rarely and my patch still unwritten...
> A bit disingenuous to say that they dont know if the autopilot or any automated feature was involved AT ALL, and then proceed to insinuate that teslas cameras and autopilot are so bad, they might as well be responsible.

Oddly, NHTSA and others have noted that Fool Self Driving will cut itself off in case of impact or an accident, sometimes only a second before impact. Tesla can also kick drivers off of FSD Beta for opaque reasons, including for being a journalist. Several experts and users have noted the many flaws and errors with FSD.

Weird.

I for one don't appreciate being part of their testing program on public roads with drivers who take "Full Self Driving" at name value.
I don't think it is disingenuous. The phenomenon he is talking about has happened before

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/tesla-on-autopil...

I'm not going to claim to know how weird driver error can be - but if you look at the image of the crash scene it is extremely unusual. Would require very rapid accelerating in a parking lot and very high speeds.
hehe, I was thinking the same, then I read your comment.

I wish they give support to Firefox in the future, getting text (and even modifying it!) is something I need to do often.
This is a fantastic paper. Any tips on how to digest some of the more math-y parts of the paper? For example in understanding Theorem 1.
while i admit it’s doable if using traditional SQL database it’s sadly not possible with newsql and noSQL databases.

Also in my last 30 year working for different industries, it’s extremely rare that DBA write unit test or a proper deploy system to automatically rollback if anything break while changing database schema or stored procedure.

the best DBA i have met use Liquibase or something similar to treat database code like app code. But this is the exception not the norm.
Oh for the love of god or whatever, Russia likes to think it’s a world power. It couldn’t fucking take kiev, so calling it a regional power is already pandering.
Russia definitely has, just not as much in your backyard. China hasn't, but that's probably because the last time they tried that they got their ass handed to them by a country that had just been savagely attacked by (but also defeated) the us. Also it has been slowly encroaching on India and bhutan territory. China definitely declares it's intent to export it's style of polity around the world. And that does include torturing and disappearing citizens that are supposed to be on their own watch.
Uber appear to have been instructing their staff to act unlawfully to conceal information that could be used as evidence against them, when they were (and knew they were) operating illegally. And not just in one country, in at least six different ones.

I mean it's kind of hard to feel sorry for Uber in this scenario surely?
This is fascinating, thanks. Have you experimented on allowing the bing ad bot that you have blocked? If they have some kind of retaliatory non-crawling?
And you dont think some traditional taxi firms do this already?

They are one of many eyes and ears on the ground, tracking people's movements.
> Why? Are watchmakers not people who deserve to have an income?

Why? Just because they're good at something that takes effort? By that logic everyone who has a challenging hobby - and most hobbies are ultimately challenging - deserves an income from it. Would you say that anyone who's good at any sport, or any craft, or any game, or even knowing celebrity trivia, deserves an income?

IMO at most people who produce real value for others can be said to "deserve" an income. And while watchmakers produce something that a small number of people are willing to pay a lot for, it's hard to say that they're producing real value as opposed to some kind of Veblen status display. (Contrast that with something like a mansion or a sports car - although it's a luxury good, there are tangible ways in which it's objectively better than the "cheap" equivalent, in a way that a mechanical watch is not)
> Which papers did the CDC rep cite in her speech?

Dr. Walensky is much more than a CDC "rep"; she is[1] "an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to her appointment at the CDC, she was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walensky is an expert on HIV/AIDS."

So Americans are supposed to not trust the imminently qualified head of the CDC unless she cites specific papers, which they should then go and read to "do their own research" and second guess her?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Walensky
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Well if you put bad things in the past 3-5 years, China and Russia have a lot on their hands

Russia: uses their natural resources as weapons, invaded Ukraine, supports dictatorship in Syria

China: embargoes anyone that dares to have a relationship with Taiwan or talks bad about the CCP, provokes Taiwan like crazy, likely will invade it in the next 10 years

This is just the recent stuff, China has invaded Vietnam and fought against UN coalition that was protecting South Korea against North Korea aggression

Russia has done so much ** i am going to take too long to write

And these are only what affect other countries, they have done horrible things to their domestic population as well…
it says more about your skill that someone from 3rd world country, whose parents earn $10/mo is more skilled and smart to pass interview.

Keep in mind it is more expensive for company to hire foreigners as there are 12 hoops to bring foreigner in board, they just desperate for any talent that can do the job (at high bar though)
By giving up, you end up underestimating the demands. That's how you get what you want. However, this "desired" is much worse than the initial expectations.
Does the internet have a 1 star review problem?
A few days ago, I was in the lobby of my hotel on a Greek island. A woman was at the front desk very upset about having not been upgraded. She was yelling at the staff and causing a real scene. She left with everyone visibly shaken. Chatting with them a little after, this sounds like an all too common scene.

This morning, as promised, a 1 star rating shows up on every review platform. She claims the hotel is ugly, the staff was rude and racist, and even that someone had pushed her.

Everything about this claim is a lie. My partner and have been here 4 days and everything has been fantastic. Every single person on the staff goes out of their way to be helpful and the property is beautiful.

Looking more at their reviews online, there are a handful of 1 star reviews with some crazy claims. One even looks to have photoshopped an image to make the pool appear dirty. Almost every 1 star review mentioned not being upgraded.

I've become especially sensitive to this after listing a property on Airbnb last year. Almost all guests and reviews are wonderful, thoughtful comments about my home and it's location. But then occasionally get a 3 star review with an explanation of something like "the dryer vent had lint in it". Come on...you're staying in a cabin in the woods, not the St Regis.

As a business owner and a technologist, I feel a ton of empathy for people that have it all on the line and can be so vulnerable. How can rating systems better account for/normalize against this kind of behavior?
It keeps happening because there are no consequences for it happening.

If the c-levels at Experian were sent to prison for a few years each time this happens, you can bet your last dollar they'd put measures in place to prevent this sort of thing.
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No? We finally had a president that hasn't started a new war (trump) and we are on track to having a president that hasn't started a new war and has withdrawn troops from one war. Things are changing.
Tool like sqlitch are great and i used them myself when working for a startup.

but in big company only DBA are allowed to make change to the db not the developers.
And sadly most dba refuse to use those tool.
Asian languages are ignored. the world is only America and Europe.
As much as the US none because no country has ever been this strong

But it has happened

China tried with Vietnam but failed

Russia tried with Afghanistan but failed

France under Napoleon could do a lot of stuff in continental Europe

And the list goes on
Back then people still used Slashdot:

Wondering if it's real... https://m.slashdot.org/story/20680

Years later, it's a widespread phenomenon:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/43312

It was affectionately called the "click of death".
The prior history is a rationale for why one might investigate whether it is involved.

Most news stories will mention any prior notable incidents impacting the subject they’re talking about even if it is not yet determined if they are connected.
"Normal people" aren't afforded the same opportunity or even half the chances in that just so happens from "being from wealthy backgrounds.". I think that's the issue.
Fishing with punycode is a mostly solved problem: Show the Unicode characters only if there are no homoglyphs in it. That's why browsers can show them. See "client side mitigations" on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Five Reasons to Use Kubernetes
It’s not new and that strategy doesn’t always work. I tried to get a hotdog in SF in like 2014 and they wouldn’t let me through. When I asked about purchasing alcohol he said that was allowed but they would have an employee escort me to the liquor and then checkout to ensure I couldn’t go to the food court.
If anything, I think this just goes to show again how much of a scam higher education is. The demographic of those seeking a better education wouldn't have changed as much if the availability of those services hadn't been made artificially scarce. I think we have a combination of greedy businesses practices by university administrations and the weird culture of ivy league worship to thank for this.
https://www.antidote.info/en/
Global south is not the majority of the population

And I am from the global south, I don’t know anyone that thinks the US is a threat

China and Russia on the other hand, yes, very much
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And my 2016 F-150. Bought it used in 2017. I finally changed the front brakes yesterday not because it was necessary but because I felt that it should probably be done on a 5 year old vehicle with 47k miles on it. Took me all of an hour. I’d never changed brakes on my own before (saw and helped my dad as a kid lots of times.)
I can see his point but it seems to rely on redefining what the term "API" means. You could as well say "The Windows API isn't just .NET - it's Win32 and a whole lot of other things". Which is kind of true, but we don't usually call all of those things an API. We call some of those individual parts APIs, just like we do with UNIX. And other parts we'd call filesystem conventions and so on.

I think he's arguing that you need to know all of those things to program with the OS and he's right, but that's still not how we conventionally use the word "API". It's more of a "standard" and the POSIX standard actually does define a lot of this.
While we're cherry picking examples, there's Sri Lanka, port of gwadar.
I find a super-yacht less offensive than an expensive watch, because at least a super-yacht lets you do things that a regular yacht couldn't, or do them better. Getting a yacht with e.g. a helipad on it is obviously a luxury, but it's a reasonable luxury: anyone can see how it's nicer to be able to fly to your yacht rather than having to bring it in and out of port. What makes these watches so infuriating is that all that money (and not just notional money, but real hours of skilled labour) is poured into a black hole: at the end of the day you get a watch that's very visibly less good than a $300 smartwatch.
Something is better than nothing. https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
I was initially a bit confused as to how the crash occurred in a parking lot while the couple traveled southbound on an Interstate, but then noticed it's a parking lot of a rest stop, ie just off the side of the highway. I think this is it here:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Paynes+Prairie+rest+area/...
Shopping for appliances is not easy.

For my recent purchase, I looked at wirecutter as a starting point and bought from Costco. Also I got a 3rd party extended warranty (since you never know with water-using appliances).

According to Wirecutter (NYT): "If you’re a member, Costco offers the cheapest delivery and installation of the big national chains, you’ll get an additional year of warranty coverage for many products, and it will help you make warranty claims with the manufacturer."

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/where-to-buy-appl...
Yeah great, a xenophobic, homophobic dictatorship will keep the USA in check!

First thing in agenda: invade Taiwan and cause a chip shortage in the world that will cause the greatest economic crisis you will ever see!
> As people have found out in the past, the real Unix API is the whole collection of behaviors and environments that Unix programs assume. It isn't just POSIX library calls; it's also the shell and standard utilities and files that are in known locations and standard capabilities and various other things.

But... "the shell and standard utilities and files that are in known locations and standard capabilities and various other things" are also specified by POSIX.

(Historically, they were the "POSIX.2" standard, and the libc/syscall library functions were in the "POSIX.1" standard, but since 1998 when POSIX became the ratification of Single Unix Specification version 2-and-later, they're all just in "POSIX".)

So... yes?

> Unless you intend for your program to be narrowly and specifically portable to POSIX or an even more minimal standard, it is not a bug for it to rely on portions of the broader, de facto Unix API. It's not even necessarily a bug to rely on APIs that are only there on some Unixes (for example Linux and FreeBSD),

Why would any of those things be considered a "bug"?

> for example, can you implement a compatible and fully capable Bourne shell using only public Unix kernel APIs, or at most public C library APIs?

What other APIs does the author think that Bourne shell writers used?

I feel like I'm missing some broader context for this post.
And would have lowered the GDP of the economy, ergo the state will waste taxpayers money to keep the GDP up, even if it means building up a massive national debt.
“Tron is so idealistic: ‘If we just get the tools into the hands of people, then democracy is assured for all time,’” he says. “The irony is that the computer has been used to just damn-near overthrow democracy! If someone had said: ‘If we put these tools into the hands of the public, it’s going to result in endless conspiracy theories, misinformation, lack of civility, endless rivers of porn, and the most violent video games you could ever imagine,’ we would have said: ‘Oh, no way. It’s going to be wonderful!’ It turns out we can predict the tools of the future but we can’t really predict the philosophies or the ethics of the future.”

I could cry.
Game companies want to avoid people downloading cracked games. If every game someone wants is available legally, then that person might decide to be 100% legal. But if some stuff isn't available legally, that person might turn to cracks for those, and then once on the cracks, continue using cracks in other situations.
Can you elaborate on what "Enron-style vibe" means when describing university faculty?
Yikes. Cisco claims this is "an industry wide firmware index bug". Is there any validity to this claim? Are any consumer drives affected by the same issue?
There is no productive conversation to be had on HN about this. I literally can’t answer your question without a ban.

Consider other platforms if you want to really have discussions.
At 37 investigations, shouldn't we have these things pulled off the roads?

At minimum, we should be demanding a update disabling Autopilot and FSD entirely to the entire fleet until the company's relatively rogue practices can be brought under control.
I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.
After Grammarly stopped the service for users from Russia, I switched to LanguageTool, but found the experience much more lacking. It often suggests weird "fixes", for example replacing "look" with "onion", apparently because that's how "onion" in russian sounds.
Regardless of school, I would be hard pressed to find someone in my engineering organization who is an extroverted native English speaker with the very high EQ needed to hack it in sales. We're all better at working with computers than people.
This conversation can’t happen on HN. The only output of this input is a ban and/or rate limit.

> Then we can talk.

Lol no we can’t, we can’t even establish the basics here.
The us occupied Palestine? I better review my history.
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"We've had to accumulate . ."

Hahaha oh nice, that is really nice. They completely blew out bond sales in the 6 months before the 737 max crisis even hit - let alone COVID - accruing 3 or 4 times as much debt as anyone else in the industry. What made them "have to" accumulate that debt? Elves?

Anyone wanna guess where half that new debt was spent? C'mon, c'mon just take a guess.
Once, when I saw someone using Grammarly during a screen presentation, I took an instant mental note to self-censor when chatting with that Person in the future, because this person does not care about digital privacy like I do and will broadcast at least parts of our conversations.
I signed up for the identity monitoring offered as part of the class-action lawsuit for the 2017 hack. Now I get an email whenever the developmentally disabled guy who works at Hardee's moves to a new apartment, because 15 years ago he tried to have sex with a teenager when he was 20. Yeah, obviously not good, but what the hell does it have to do with my identity? None of these people have lived within half a mile of me, and they have no connection to me or any of the identifying data that Experian associates with me. And I know who they are, because they are already half the content of the police Twitter. Their website has an FAQ item asking specifically what unrelated sex offenders have to do with identity protection, and the answer is, "Many of our customers like getting these alerts". Literally no attempt to answer the question that they voluntarily added to their website.

It turns out you literally cannot turn off sex offender notices (within an unspecified distance of your home) without turning off all notices for activity under your name, address, or SSN.
Whhooossh moment. You said there was a $6K /markup/, parent was making a joke about /markdown/.
Today it's replacing the text in PNGs.

Tomorrow it's replacing us. Duh duh duh...
I've read comments from people (don't remember the forum, perhaps HN) where people have said that they did this. No idea if there's a public project for this that you can use, but people have definitely done it. I agree that it'd be useful to have, though you probably need a good way to filter out irrelevant stuff.
A $15k econobox with automatic emergency braking can avoid a forward collision like this. No "autopilot" or "full self driving" required.
Sure, I blunder and I never claimed it to be always the case, but sometimes I know a tree of variations really deep, just because I remembered it from looking at it together with a computer.
Anyway, here's my account on lichess:
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