skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the fact that Apple is worse in one of the few areas the user can actually verify should make us second-guess our preconceived notions? What if Apple is just better at PR?
> Warehouses receiving orbital payloads should probably be nice and far away from the base you care about.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, shades of 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Heinlein.

All your base are belong to dust.
I never want to be engaged in mind-reading, but it seems to me that the people who are shouting about him being mentally ill the loudest are doing so in a way to justify stifling everything he says, as if saying "he's mentally ill" ends any conceivable discussion about any of his ideas.

I think my general question remains. "How could an average outside observer distinguish between another's mental illness and a guy who's just a real out of the box thinker who might be wrong about many ideas but might also add value to the world by perceiving reality in an atypical way?"
I'm not being pedantic, and I'm not accusing anyone in particular of pedantry, I'm saying it would be pedantic to consider a stick or a stone to be a tool in the context of Home Depot.

Personally, I don't think opening a thinly veiled accusation with "just some friendly advice" does much to mitigate the rudeness.
Not much point in reasoning about magic though, might as well say "God will provide" as it gives similar insight. I think assuming that the laws of physics, as we understand them, and reasoning whats possible and likely within them is a lot more interesting.

I can come up with one respons within the believed laws of physics at how a hypothetical stable civilization could suppress exponential ones even though exponential ones would quickly be expanding their radius at close to C: the stable civilization would need to pre-seed the visible universe with idle hidden outposts of a sufficient density to detect and suppress exponential expanders.
ITERATE is nice, except for one very serious blemish: the accumulation into variables requires a code walker, because the variables are not declared at the top of the iterate form. Macros that require code walkers do not play nicely with other kids. Macrolet/symbol-macrolet, for example, can fail inside interate.
That anti-aligns the interests of the employee and the employer. That's a fantastic deal for the employer: they get the employee's commitment to stay for that long for free. The employee, on the other hand, gets far less out of the situation. It's an okay deal for managing the risk around hiring, say, an entry level employee, because in exchange for the temporarily discounted salary the employer is more likely to hire someone in a higher-risk hiring pool. For an established employee, the benefits are a lot less tangible unless it comes with certain guarantees of continued employment, or other concessions from the company.
Interesting. I had heard caribou herds basically choose migration routes to avoid them so that makes sense.
I think you would rather have explicitly named dependencies. I don't want a bunch of aliased dependencies redirecting to wherever
Proposed Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Create a Grocery Giant
Unlikely to be practical.
Many years ago when Signal was quite new I thought that they should implement SMS mirroring, similar to how you can access iMessage on your phone/laptop, and how services like Pushbullet and Project Fi offered SMS mirroring. It'd be a great "carrot" to get people using Signal and the more that did, the less would actually be using SMS!

I submitted a feature request and it was promptly denied. I got the impression they never really wanted to support SMS from the beginning. It was just a carrot even then, and they weren't going to focus any more effort on it.
The irony here being that you claim to be a victim to claim the high ground in the debate.

It's like trying to explain water to a fish.
And RAM is quite cheap these days compared to the money the hardware is supposed to make.
True. But it seems like the wind is turning a little in the US about unions.
This is changing all the time due to the way it is reported, extrapolation, etc. But let's be extreme and pretend half are false. Of the half that are false, only a portion has a narcissist false flagging. All the cases are man on woman.

Now I don't believe the number of false accussations is close to half (yet, anyway), but even if it were, ask yourself:

Would you want to ignore the half of true victims,

Would you utilize an aggressive method (e.g. Duluth model) or utilize a safer method, if you know one exists, and

Does any of this mean woman on man sexual misconduct should be downplayed?

Sure, the actual statistics matter once trade offs come into play. But people are already failing the basic litmus test of answering the questions above. And that's how the pendulum of grief swings on.
> It is a fool's errand to try to evaluate the net societal impact of a particular technology, even with perfect predictive power.

This really isn't true. We regularly do cost-benefit analyses for business; we don't skip them because they're not perfect predictors. We do market analysis and all kinds of customer deep dives to perfect UI/UX and customer response. We've created targeted dopamine-delivery services that are continually refined to maximize impact.

All of this implies a certain kind of ability to evaluate. Looking at tradeoffs and potential uses of technology is well within our abilities, and we should do it. We should be more skeptical of human nature, look harder at the extremes and edge cases, and work towards mitigating the risks. Will it be perfect? No. Will it be helpful? Yes.
Show HN: Contact Form 7 to Google Drive WordPress Plugin
I've built a WordPress plugin to upload files in Google Drive from Contact form 7
> it only takes ~8 hours

Um, what? Can't say as I've experienced this. Only time I ever felt like this is when I was downloading rustc and cargo from the FreeBSD repos.

The rest is semi-fair, if not completely understanding of the trade offs (rootless is mostly good, lots of people use docker on Linux, no one is deploying their web infrastructure on MacOS, not because you couldn't, but because it's not free, etc.)

As always, use what works for you! I made a joke about how this OpenBSD desktop has like Linux of 25 years ago vibes ... which I'd amend to say, and Linux has a MacOS of 5-10 year ago vibes without the apps (all the love in the world for Linux and the BSDs, and my M1 Macbook Air too).
The curl request log is a very interesting idea I have never seen before. Do you have a library recommendation or did you implement something yourself?
I think it depends on if you are a designer or an artist. In my mind a designer works on a specification for a client and produces it, they are interchangeable, they dont put their signatures on the work because its not theirs, its the clients.

Artists however wont have to worry about ai. Ai music already exists but people still support mainly real artists on streaming platforms and go to concerts, because provenance matters for artists and it doesn't for designers. Could an ai make a warhol? Probably not because what made warhols art popular was that he essentially worked outside of the training set and provided something previously unseen. Machine learning is bound to the training set. You can make generic corporate bathroom art for hotels or filling empty picture frames with it, but there will still be real artists and galleries and concerts and museums, because often times people value the provenance of the artist much more than even the work itself.
I fell in love with tailscale as soon as I figured out what it enabled me to do.

it was very confusing at first cause I relate "vpn" to something like nordvpn or express vpn when I hear it. but no tailscale is a lot more than that.
Ditto, I've been purging my old tech books but I just couldn't let the Zaks book go.
> This involves paying teachers paying more and treating them with respect?

It seems like paying the same people more money to do the same job won't change outcomes in any meaningful way. Why would anyone expect it to? Paying teachers more in a competitive market, on the other hand, might has a dramatic impact as we might likely end up with very different teachers.
> Obsidian does not offer free syncing between devices and you will have to manually set up a method to sync your notes, either by using something like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Git.

Obsidian does not offer _free_ syncing, but it does offer it: https://obsidian.md/sync

It's not cheap though and it's not europe-based. But it's a way to support the development.
> humanity to have developed systems as complex as modern jumbo jets with "brains" that are essentially more reliable than the ones that created them

I would not compare human brains to tech. Maybe you can call them simpler and thus more reliable. The human brain is processing far more data than any processor humanity has made. The only comparison is humans handle various types of data whereas computers are designed to handle just a small batch.
Jokes on them, because I'm saving bottlecaps.

They're far more fungible in the apocalypse, because the algorithm is simple:

- I have something

- Someone gives me bottlecaps for it

- I give someone else bottlecaps for something they have that I want.

I mean, how will someone dilute my store of value? Turn on one of the ancient, rusted bottling plants? Please. Never going to happen; the scavs have already ripped all the important parts out of the machinery.
Thanks for the reminder -- I forgot one of the great benefits of soft deletes that I posted in that conversation. If your customer support can quickly investigate and resolve false reports of "my data disappeared without me deleting it" then they can pass along the rarer more mysterious cases to engineering, a lot of which will be real bugs. With hard deletes, all the reports look the same to customer support, so nothing gets passed on to engineering (or worse, everything does.)
Thanks for taking the time to point this out, I really appreciate small acts of kindness like this.
Pre-bankruptcy AA was so good. Exec plats were treated super well and their fleet was massive— even if a plane had an issue they could almost always hot-swap it out for another one.

Despite the website feeling dated now it used to be one of the only airlines where the website accurately reflected the backend system (even phone agents couldn’t touch your booking if you had it open on the site) and their lounges were solid too.

These days I agree they’re towards the bottom of the stack sadly… everyone else caught up and they stayed still.

I mostly fly Delta now almost entirely for the on-time performance.
Most admins AFAIK don't have centralized blocklists but when the new bad instances pop up there tend to be #fediblock posts pretty fast, and they get shared pretty widely.
Oh shit. Today I get my second steroid injection into my left eardrum for sound loss. I’ve been testing with my mbp. FML
I am somewhat confused over the CPU design. Does anyone know what the reason or advantage is for having 2 different architecture processors running at different clock speeds in the same SOC sharing the same ram?

Was this an accident or did it serve a specific purpose?
The problem with fact checking is the presumption of authority over the truth. I don't suggest fact checking, I suggest equal exposure to contesting ideas.

I guess NASA tweets might receive pairs who claim that the Earth is not a globe :) That's OK, NASA can respond to these with equal visibility and if people are not convinced I guess NASA would need more convincing arguments.
Thought the site was designed very beautifully.

I'm not 100% sure I have too much comment on the salaries, but kudos on putting together some engaging content!!
Now do dividends and other perks.
I think everywhere requires "capacity" to enter a contract, and Delaware does have this on the books:

> 6 DE Code § 2705 (2019): Any person who has attained 18 years of age shall have full capacity to contract; provided such person has not been declared legally incompetent to contract for reasons other than age. Any person who has attained the age of 18 years shall become fully responsible for that person’s own contracts.

So I'd presume it would come down to what Delaware's Court of Chancery expects for someone to be "declared legally incompetent to contract." I'd imagine that's not something done lightly.

(IANAL)
FedEx abandons its last-mile delivery robot program
No money in the world could bring me back to wordpress plugin developement. What an actual clusterfuck that shit was. Done it for 2 years on my first internship... I never want to return to that hellish place. Php yikers
U.K. Police Investigate Attack on Pro-Democracy Protester at Chinese Consulate
It is likely better to get the error and fix the mistake than be relying on an redirect owned and operated by who-knows-who indefinitely.
The article is entirely focused on the fish, though. Where's the ideological message?
If the role can't exist without indentured servitude, it sounds like the role shouldn't exist at all.
I object to the whole notion of laundering. Prosecute the underlying crime. Obscuring the source/nature of money (aka privacy) should not be a crime.
We have bans on chemical and biological weapons, nuclear weapons are carefully monitored and there are considerable efforts to prevent proliferation. In hindsight, I think people today would have prevented the nuclear arms race, as it puts civilization at risk, and there is no end date for that.
Note that it says:

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied." Matthew 5:6

This verse isn't talking about physical hunger caused by lack of food. Apparently if you read it in the original greek righteousness and justice are interchangable here. What it's saying is that people who suffer injustice in this life and hunger and thirst for that injustice to be made right will be satisfied.
In Science, “The Fate of What We Say and Make Is in Later Users’ Hands”
Chill out..
Fair I guess. I'm not sure about the "recently" comment though. He's been making a ruckus for well over a decade now.
OpenStreetMap: Users who are nudists (empty)
> If they're only going to lose money, its really not that big of a deal.

This depends on what will happen after they run out of money.

Someone very close to me has an untreated dual diagnosis (mentally ill + substance abuse disorder). She is otherwise young and intelligent, and with treatment she could at least theoretically have a full life. However she refuses all attempts at help, has been unemployed for over a year, is paranoid and isolated and alone from and abusive to friends and family, is burning through her savings, and will soon get to the point where she will have to foreclose on her house.

At that point she will literally be an unemployed, homeless, mentally ill drug addict.

This is a major problem in our individualistic society with no easy answer. As my coach says, people don’t change when they see the light, only when they feel the heat. She may need to crash and burn, and she may pick herself back up. But the odds on that happening for someone in her position are not good.

And meanwhile we all have to watch someone we love slowly descend into ruin.
well, I'm the sort of person who digs around logs of ostensibly working systems just to find problems, which has been very useful in identifying long-tail problems (like, 1% of your network cables are blipping but the application just runs slower instead of failing).
One of my favorites this year is "On Bullshit" by Frankfurt.

After reading it, I realized that the world is less about lies and deception, but more about "bullshit".

Lies are easy to spot, bullshit however is impossible because it's rooted in deception and destruction. Similar to when you bullshit yourself, you are being self-deceptive and self destructive.
Why Was the Lyme Disease Vaccine Tossed Away?
It was pulled from the market almost immediately after it was developed in 1998. Twenty-five years later, the painful disease is on the rise
The parent probably meant it more as an urban legend rather than some sort of documented event.
Then adopt Signal's GPL and prove it. Or any other free license. Until then, any claims are hollow.
large employee pay is driven significantly by revenue per employee + margins (or significant money pumped into it for whatever other reason, ie crypto at least some time ago) imo.

FANG, VC-backed startups, and fintech have them, there are others as well, although you need to look at what the specific companies do in addition to overall industry trends. one that seems like it would fit high revenue per employee + margins is oil and gas for example.

specializing helps (ie data science, DevSecOps, etc) on the engineering side

you can also take home millions as an employee if you're in like the top 1% of salespeople and at a company with a good product/commission plan in likely any industry, although it's not for most people and if you fail you will probably make less than the pre-career transition.
Thanks for pushing back, yeah I'm not able to confirm that list, edited my comment.
I had this problem too. Call your carrier and convert your domestic SIM to an eSIM and pop a new physical one in.

Turn off roaming on main SIM card and iMessage still works, but uses the data of the other SIM card.
> I find tools like Helm to obscure things that should be readily visible.

Goodness, is this ever true. Particularly with Prometheus Operator and all the monitoring bits that go around that. Dealing with this infrastructure breaks a number of the points in the article, like "Deploy everything all the time." and "No in-code fallbacks for configs."

A previous team built this monitoring infrastructure, so when I had to go back in and re-deploy, a bunch of the Helm charts were broken (YAML errors and the like). It hadn't been re-deployed in likely 4-6 months.

Then a lot of the components don't rely on default configs, but the default configs are there nevertheless. So another team was troubleshooting an issue, and they reached the conclusion that the config for AlertManager was empty, but it's not. The config for AlertManager is in a different directory from the default config. Then an issue with Prom2Teams came up, and Prom2Teams gives an error for its default configuration file that it doesn't have permission to load that file--Prom2Teams runs as a user, the file is readable only by root. So another team came to the conclusion that Prom2Teams can't read its configuration file. But that's not the file it's actually using to configure the service; it's just a default.

So two red herrings as a result of default config files that aren't being used at all, compounded by Helm obscuring components that should be visible, and ultimately stemming from the inherent complexity of the system.

But in reality, there are issues that make this worse which are unrelated to Helm, Kubernetes, and the Prometheus stack.
Ugh, this is the worst. And then people are like "why are you suddenly messaging me from this other account".
Why are we here instead of 4chan? Why does everyone that uses email use a spam filter?

Direct, unfiltered exposure to the firehouse is at best banal, and at worst disgusting and self-destructive. It's an _awful_ job that ~no one would chose to do for themselves.
Caltrans had pilot program in the mid-1990's running self driving cars that used magnets embedded in the road. They would run "caravans" of five-ish vehicles driving almost bumper to bumper. This was tested on the car pool lanes on sections of a highway between los angeles and san diego.

This was a partnership between caltrans, the college of engineering at uc berkeley amongst others.

Unfortunately I can find any readily available links, but all of the data should be public. I'm only aware of this because I worked w/ some of the technical groups on the project (very tangentially involved).

I know the magnets were always considered a problem (cost/effort), but there weren't other options at the time, as computer vision was too computationally expensive at the time.
And soon, it won't just be the people who are "playing around" with AI models on their home machine. It will be games and commercial products using ML at the client level that will have system requirements around GPUs with a lot of memory for the better results. A lot of this can be done at the cloud level, but if you're clocking heavy hours on cloud GPU, that subscription model is going to be very expensive and will introduce latency if a lot of data needs to be exchanged. Since you can't (by the license agreement on NVidia's drivers) just throw a bunch of consumer-grade hardware in a datacenter to do ML loads like you can for mining, the price shoots up if you want to do the heavy lifting on a central server.
this is not an argument against absolute free speech, its an argument against social media and discourse being controlled by algorithms
I was chatting with a friend on whatsapp about a guy we used to play sports with in our childhood. Hadn't really seen or heard of him in decades. Very next day, top recommended friend on facebook was that guy. Seems unlikely to be a wild coincidence. That said, I wouldn't(and don't) trust Apple either.
No. But we are often told to always believe those claiming victimhood.
Not every feature, unfortunately, no radar map.
Surely you realize that this is not their only article on Malaria?

https://www.economist.com/search?q=malaria
Observing this disagreement without having first read the article, you're coming off as unreasonable in your details, though your original criticism may make sense. Autonomy is not, in practice, a prerequisite for the label "robot", no matter how much we would like it to be (and I would like it to be). This is especially true of standins for dangerous operations. We all know that e.g. bomb disposal robots are robots in normal writing and normal conversation. It seems like a bad-faith nit-pick to assert otherwise.

Even if you disagree that this is the "common" understanding, the sarcastic exaggeration is meaningless.

I agree with another commenter, that a more reasonable criticism would be that it should be called a "remote controlled robot", rather than just a robot.
For those who don't know, Russia Media Monitor simply reposts segments that appeared on Russian TV with accurate English translations. (My wife's first language is Russian, and she has confirmed the accuracy.)

It is an invaluable resource if you want to know the version of events that people in Russia are seeing. Of course Russia doesn't like it because watching Russian hosts discussing genocide doesn't look good to American audiences. And Russia is apparently successful in getting Youtube to take down the clips.

Here are a few examples to get the flavor.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/158183216390514688... (Should Russia cut back on New Year's parties to pay for basic supplies for soldiers?)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/158134086136299520... (Russia should give lots of weapons to terrorists so that they can attack the USA.)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/157982081075132416... (The guy that Russia put in charge of the DPR talking about how many millions of Ukrainians they should kill if Ukrainians won't be convinced that Russia is right.)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/158019651876555161... (Rejoicing at a barrage of missiles recently sent against civilian targets.)

And so on.
Well, I think you'll have no end to grief if you try to mix rockets and satellites from different decades together and put them on the launch pad today...
If you're genuinely curious:

> I have ADHD: it makes writing blogs hard but Twitter easy. So it gets quickly tiring that every time I'm posted there [to HN] that the comments immediately go "why isn't this a blog? Twitter is a bad site for this kind of writing and I hate it blarg"

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440695857699962893

This exact comment of yours is a prime example of why foone hates it when their tweets are posted here.