skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the police bear no responsibility for someone issue a false report. That's a crime for a reason. If you report your car stolen, the police don't first investigate you to be sure you are telling the truth, they just work to find the car.

The police do, however, bear responsibility for not allowing those arrested to have access to medication, maintain their jails to appropriate health standards, or prevent assaults--all of which were also reported in the article.

Further, if a person is constantly falsely reporting their car stolen, they should be arrested for filing a false report. But in this case, there is no central authority that would be in a position to track that because there is no centralized control of the police and these all probably happened in different police districts.

Mistakes do happen, but this sounds like a pattern of egregious behavior that is likely (and rightly if the facts in the article stand up) going to result in large fines, mandated oversight, legal restraint, and removal of a number of people at Hertz. It's not like any of that is going to be helpful to a company that is struggling to stay alive.
It’s amusing to me how this article ended. It really discredits much of the author’s opinion.

I’m a self taught software developer that went back to school to learn the engineering aspects of what I’m doing. Boot camps and online tutorials like what the author appears to be selling teach you how to do a task. Higher education teaches you how to think, learn, and communicate at a higher level.

Do you learn how to build a React app? No. But anyone can go learn that on any of the thousands of websites that promise to turn you into a computer scientist in 6 weeks.

I fully enjoyed my experience in grad school, and wouldn’t trade it for anything. It might not have been the deciding factor in getting a job, but it sure as hell made me more confident.
> I have not seen a single case of a death pronouncement for COVID which has not unambiguously been from COVID.

How about this one? https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycl...
And it’s another similar multiple drop to the average American. I’m not sure your point.

Musk is an outlier and we will never know who would have held those positions if he didn’t exist. On the technology front I’d argue it’s far more likely we would be equivalently close to self-driving EVs than not.

In my experience billionaires are unique in their proximity to money and relative desire to accumulate wealth, and their lack of attention or concern for anything that does not serve this outcome.

If they are inherently unique perhaps it is because they cross-wired the evolutionary modules for threat detection and scarcity avoidance.
Even if they don’t, the TV broadcast of presidential debates is a duopoly. If they were required to have five candidates, then perhaps the US would have better executive branch
Hard pass. Tolerating shifting the Overton Window is what got us here in the firsts place. Instead of tolerating, we need to bluntly state when someone crosses the line and why.
What I am saying is that the majority of people have zero Community about them, and where they live.

In any disaster scenario, 99% of the people, environment and resources surrounding them are foreign.
My philosophy is that I want to be upfront with who I am so the person who hires gets to know me a little bit. And I definetly think it is their business. Personality plays a huge role in whether you are a good or a bad fit for the job.
The guy bought 10% of the company in secret after being a power Twitter user for 11 years and deciding he could unlock its languishing potential, and then gave them a take-it-or-leave-it, no diligence offer. I don't think Twitter was "selling" anything.
Yes, following along online can give you as much information as sitting silently in lectures and recitations and completing problem sets while sitting in isolation in your dorm room; but there’s way more to be learned by thoughtfully engaging in discussions with your professors, TA’s, and classmates. In fact I’d argue the bulk of my education came from the latter.

In short: Getting A’s at MIT is simple. Challenging yourself to challenge your colleagues is difficult. Not to mention all the labs.

As a corollary, I’d go on to argue everyone who paid full tuition for online classes during the pandemic got ripped off on a massive scale.
So, in areas where a provider only offers 20 or 50... will they just stop serving that area until it's financially worthwhile to upgrade that equipment?
You make it into any exclusive club in society and you will also enjoy more benefits than the average person in society.
Same where I am. Most of the city has competition because it’s most new developments out here and a few fiber companies were able to get in the ground early. My neighborhood is older so we only have Comcast. But Comcast buried fiber here to “future proof” ages ago, they just haven’t lit it up. And they’re the only company who got their hardware in the ground. So I’m stuck on their cable.

As it turns out the service here is good, so I shouldn’t complain. But it’s still frustrating that they are just sitting on fiber and not using it. And also that there’s no competition where I am.

If I ever move, then I’ll know better and pick a house with fiber already. :/
Brazil electricity is 60 hertz, so I guess it'd be a bit different :)
This is much more straightforward than your JVM-based, huge infra solutions like Flink. For when you need something that is familiar [python] and just works.
> A large number of people now think they've experienced the reality of climate change. Over 40 percent say they've experienced extreme weather and/or extended heat waves, while 30 percent say their region has gone through drought and another 20 percent cite major wildfires. In all these cases, 80 percent of those who said they had experienced these problems suspect that climate change has contributed to them (as, in many cases, it has).

Emphasis mine.

This to me is a subtle admission that most people who think they've experienced the effects of climate change have in fact not experienced them, or at least, not in the ways they think. Otherwise it wouldn't simply be in many cases, but in every case or at least, in the vast majority of cases. But still, it implies that this is a good thing.

The data about the direction of the country appears to me to speak particularly about energy policy. The effect of climate change related regulation that is most prominent in people's lives is the price of fuel at the pump. Of course people think we are going in the wrong direction, their lives are getting significantly harder. And perhaps they're right, we all know that climate change policy is about balancing the needs of a population with it's impact on the environment with an eye to a good resolution, and perhaps the current cost of fuel is emblematic of a bit too aggressive approach.

One issue I take with a lot of these articles is the conflation of environmental policies with the subset of specifically climate change directed policies. I doubt most Americans are happy with the current set of regulations on chemical pollution in waterways and want more stringent restrictions. Most people would probably agree that logging woodland should be rotated. Most Americans wildly support environmental policies and regulations, but significantly less support the current policies aimed at fighting climate change.
Odd then that I've only in 1 out of a few hundred cases ever had to disable it after install in order to not have it run.
If I am a victim why should I give a flying fuck about the reasons. It is their error and they must fix it ASAP. It is their fucking for job which we pay.
> i think maybe that this is not a technical problem, but more an ethical one. under the open data approach, if you want to study humans you probably would need to get express informed consent that indicates that their data will be public and that it could be linked back to them.

As someone who wants science to advance, I want highly trusted researchers to be able to do studies that involve my private, personal data, that I would not consent to being public and linked back to me.

It is highly important to me that we allow these studies to not use open data.

A great example of this is the US college scorecard, which uses very private tax returns to measure how much college degrees and majors contribute to income (not the only value of college education, but certainly an important one):

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

Only high degrees of trust allowed this data to be published on extremely private information, and I think that makes for a better world. I am pro-open data, but research on non-open data should absolutely exist.

For instance, should any research about mental health for transgender people be abolished? Because anything on that subject is not going to be open, or at the least those who would be open to their data being public are a probably non-representative subset.
Ha! Very nice. Perhaps, since the goal is to dump it on the public via IPO before it crashes, you can think of it as a circular scam.

It’s our duty as retirement account holders to game it as much as possible to prevent the IPO. If we succeed, we all win. If not, then individuals have to measure their subsidies against the overall market loss to see whether they have come out ahead or not. Not playing the game is a certain loss!
Luck and the innate or learned tendency to get other people to do things for you, both propagated by access to wealth.
I have people say things like this to me all the time.

My standard response at the moment is something along the lines of "If the house is burning down and water is not flowing from the fire hydrant, you don't stop to measure the water pressue".

The assertion that "you cannot improve something if you cannot measure it" IMHO promotes a lot of unproductive activity.
Sure, but we're on HN, not at a 1980's breakfast club.
It depends on the composition of the ground and how heat pumps are used. In places like Canada with wild temperature variations over the course of the year heatpumps have the potential to be used as both a means to cool buildings in the summer, and then heat them in the winter with that stored heat.
He's saying a reasonable software developer salary is $150K which is likely true if someone is a software developer who is considering a masters program just for fun.
I have been unable to gain access to my Twitter account for months. It says I need to upload my photo identification to prove I own it, but the upload form fails with a 500 error message and no information. Emails to twitter support (in response to the thread requesting I upload it) with the photo attached go unanswered. It's pretty insane.
I just checked and the footer links work fine for me, and I'm not sure which links you're referring to. Privacy is really important to us, we've gone through security reviews in a bunch of notable companies, and we all take a lot of personal pride in our attention to detail here. Note how you can use eesel without even logging in.

Privacy - https://www.eesel.app/privacy
Terms - https://www.eesel.app/terms
I think the problem is that the original source needs to use that list as well. Just looked though .nz and they list several sites ( govt.nz , school.nz, gen.nz ) that don't exist since all the domains are one level below.

They even list.govt.nz as the top site. In fact that doesn't exist (although www.govt.nz does since it is a a kinda government portal )

I see they list an old employer of mine who got bought 15 years ago and whose website has been redirecting for 10 years.
Yes I do find it painful. Because rust’s memory safety restricts the number of valid programs, it is (to me) more difficult to write code. That’s not a bad thing though! It’s just not a trade off I’m willing to make most of the time.

If my project requires the memory safety that rust offers, I’ll choose rust. But most of the time I’ll pick something else to lower my mental load when coding.
If you can’t afford material security either way, and you’re just choosing between roommates or parents, it’s get rich or die trying. Might as well.
They can still grow food, there are just emission standards for tractors, which importantly will take most of a decade to go into effect. It's a pretty gross misrepresentation of the situation to say they're no longer allowed to grow food.

Obviously the world has not ended yet, but that doesn't mean all of history was equally uneventful or pleasant to live through. I'm not saying the world is going to end in the next decade, I'm just saying that it stands to be "eventful", and quite likely not in a good way.
Moving to another country is a safer choice: you get to choose the level of “deadness” you are to your surroundings, if you just cut all ties nobody’s going after you. And you can start a new chapter somewhere you never existed in the first place.
A tenth the cost? No. Half the cost? Possibly but even that is a stretch. A huge amount of the work effort (and funding) would have to be repeated. All the testing, validation, hardware-specific characterization and calibration, troubleshooting, and attendant analysis. Not to mention partial redesign since many of the parts used are no longer produced and the tooling long gone.

Source: just my perspective after 20 years working on space systems.
IIRC — I worked in a computer lab full of PS/2 Model 25 at the time — MCGA was just CGA with a couple VGA modes (640x480x2 and 320x200x256) bolted on. In particular, it was not compatible with EGA.
It is impressive. Don’t let articles like this make you think it isn’t. Many people start it and can’t finish. Graduating is an accomplishment that should be celebrated.
You also have faster and slower floppy drives. This video by Cathode Ray Dude explores some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWwp3vVtElw

He got results ranging from 25 KB/s - 100 KB/s
I don't think we should measure the outcome of this incident by Tesla's stock performance in the years since, that doesn't really make sense. I never heard someone make a bull case for Tesla like, "in 2018, the CEO said he may take the company private, so it's a buy." That he was sued by the SEC and had to give up his chairmanship in the settlement seem like much more relevant ways to judge the outcome of this particular event, to me.

This standard ought to work in reverse too, right? If he was winning from 2018 to the end of 2021 because Tesla stock was skyrocketing, surely he's been losing since the beginning of the year as the stock has been plummeting. Otherwise, we would have defined "winning" in a way where "losing" is impossible, which would be a meaningless exercise, wouldn't you say?

If you believe that Tesla's poor stock performance since the beginning of the year isn't per say Musk's fault, it's just the market environment, I'd agree with you. But the same is true, at least in part, of Tesla's bull run. It coincided with a broader bull run in the market and tech stocks in particular.
New Radars Are Giving Old Air Force F-16s Capabilities Like Never Before
Compare James Webb and Hubble images of the same patch of the Galaxy
I think you are right about this with the one huge problem from my point of view being the text rendering on Windows.

This is of course a problem with the Webview implementation on Windows but it is so awful it makes me want to use something else instead.

Note this is not a reflection on Tauri which I think is awesome but Microsoft really should fix it.
So... It's not declining?
Extreme drought, sawfly infestation cause wheat yields to plummet
Am surprised to see the pushback asserting this will cause prices to rise. This speed was practical on comcast's cable system back in 2007 (when we got it) and probably earlier. There is a wealth of evidence that higher bandwidth has minimal to marginal costs for typical residential usage.

On to the actual proposal, it raises the minimums from:
* Down: 25mbps --> 100mbps
* Up: 3mbps --> 20mbps

As a head of household of 5, I carefully monitored and managed our internet usage during covid, and upgraded from comcast to AT&T fiber (1g symmetric). I can say with high certainty that the previous minimum (25/3) would be severely inadequate for a family of 5. This bump to 100/20, while not amazing, is a good step in the right direction. It would make 5 people working/learning remotely at least _possible_.

TLDR: The tech is cheap and decades old. There should be minimal cost to ISPs. The best arguments in this thread, imho, are that we should strive for even higher.
One trick for better AT&T support here on the Peninsula may be to sign up through Sonic instead of directly with AT&T. In some areas like SF, Sonic runs their own fiber, in others they are an AT&T reseller - with the wrinkle that Sonic handles all support with their own local staff. I have been told that they have better insight and connections into the internal AT&T systems than AT&T's own support team. I haven't had much need for support, so I can't vouch for that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I'm in Flood Triangle (between Menlo Oaks and 101), and AT&T ran fiber though our neighborhoods last year.

I had good Comcast service, at least after I reported some intermittent outages and they finally sent someone out to test the connection and he said "I'm surprised you're getting any service at all! Your drop has been spliced a few times. I'm calling my buddy with a bucket truck and we will run you a new drop."

(A "drop" is the cable that connects your home to the main cable line.)

After that it was solid. Had gigabit downloads, but uploads were limited to 30 megabit. Comcast is in a bind here, as they built out their infrastructure in an era of "on-demand television" where download speed was the important thing and upload was just a simple control channel. So they have hardware filters everywhere to separate the upload and download frequencies, and naturally they gave more spectrum to the downloads.

In my work I often need to upload large files of 15GB or more. So when AT&T came through I signed up and it is a huge difference: ten minutes to upload one of those files instead of two hours (with people waiting on it).
What is a lemon sky? Your YouTube link just talks about outsourcing.
Is this some public bug ticket system? Or is it some “Mommy said no, so ask Daddy” kind of thing. People are too self-important these days…

The logical conclusion of this is to eventually have some biometric data that ties you to something a little more secure than an email. I’m not sure tweeting about academic absurdities would warrant me allowing a corporation access to my fingerprint, but different strokes.
>So I'm pretty comfortable with my approach. And hey, next time you're in the Bay Area (or perhaps when I'm in your neck of the woods), lemme buy you beer and we can talk about why it gives you satisfaction to dump on other people's work.

I love this response - stealing it :)
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Late middle ages / early Enlightenment, say, 14-15 centuries, were very cool in their special way, with very complex social structures. ThInge like the Hanseatic league, the great geographical discoveries and conquests, the beginning of modern science, the flourishing of arts — this all required highly advanced society, compared to, say, what Charlemagne or (imaginary) king Arthur would have.
A lot of random but interesting material in this article
I stuck around another year and got my masters. It was mainly an excuse to go on another solar car race. Even though I delayed getting a job a year, I suspect the masters degree got me more stock options than I would have gotten otherwise, and that stock turned out to be rather lucrative. My wealth of experiences from building embedded systems for solar race cars also played positively into entering the workforce.

The graduate level algorithms course I took was definitely interesting and helpful.
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> 2) How does one define "re-runnable processing"? Software rots, dependencies disappear, operating systems become incompatible with software, permission models change. Does every researcher now need a docker expert to publish? Who verifies that something is re-runnable, and how are they paid for it?

This is always a problem even with some of the most open scientific code.

Requiring that the code be published, and perhaps a peer-reviewer to run it just once with a bit of support to ensure that the submitters aren't completely bullshitting, before the paper gets approved to be published, might be a good start.
You can contradict the opinions of experts all you want, but i’m still going to believe “Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev” over hacker news commenter cpursley 11 times out of ten.

I agree it’s not working as well as we’d all hoped, but to say it’s strengthening russia is not in alignment with what all expert opinions i’ve heard so far are saying.
Yeah we have MVNOs that do this for mobile. But it can't currently compete with wired internet on price, and we apparently don't require it for cable internet.
Agreed. The example from Jobs’ commencement fell flat as a way to reinforce the point of the article. That quote was inspirational rather than a template for success.
> Lets hope they never find out that cheap renewables and EVs replacing fossil fuels will save them literal billions in both energy and health spending. Wouldn't they feel foolish.

Would you mind elaborating on this a bit?
I always found this loop strange (idea-wise, biological drive is easy to explain). An average man struggles, has to jump over his head to get happy, then kids quickly arrive, and the man lives in misery slightly balanced by love. Then kids grow up and the cycle repeats. This may be not your story, but I see it everywhere and not sure how I am different or able to even try. I’ve also seen enough friends’ lives deteriorating. To me kids are like opioids, every year you lose someone to it. Pretty sure most of you will find this comparison terrible, but that’s how it looks on my side.

I have a couple of nice family examples as well. But they are so different that it doesn’t even count.
The classical 'visualisation' of this is 'cake expansion'.

If you think about what's happening inside a cake when you put it in an oven, it expands in all directions, and the center has only a meaning there because the cake is finite.
If they can still grow food, why are they protesting? Seems like a lot of time to waste not working on the farm. But, honestly, I haven't really found a source of news that wasn't just calling the farmers terrible names. Why do you think the farmers are being called terrible names by news sources? Maybe its because they are not growing food. Its becoming a circle now.

Which decades were "uneventful"?
As T.S. Eliot said, great writers steal. That’s Kurt Vonnegut’s joke!
It's solvable if publishing the dataset counts as a paper, and citations of the dataset which should be required count as citations for e.g. tenure.

For example, ImageNet for machine learning is a very expensive and difficult data set to produce that has resulted in revolutionary advances in machine learning. And people build models on it, cite their results as evidence their models are good, and cite the paper.
I'm sure it works on Hacker News, but creating a new identity can be harder elsewhere.
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Anybody check out the contract yet to see what it steals? since its a free mint