skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we have invented is a profit system where there is information assymetry and remarkable consolidation of information sources.

Pump-and-dump manipulation is inevitable.
Creedoplasticity? Pisteuoplasticity?
How do you enforce that, especially as a small company/solo developer? How do you stop people from creating a FOSS alternative by reimplementing your freely available source code?
I’d argue that the fear of failure still boils down to underlying beliefs about:

- What it actually means to fail

- That failure is inherently bad

- What will happen next after failure occurs

- What it says about me when fail

- What others will think about me when I fail

- That I can’t recover from failure

etc.

If you grow up hearing that failure is bad/wrong/implies something about you as a person, it might never occur to you that another framing is that life is a series of experiments, and failure can be one of the best ways to zero in on success (in some cases, this may be the only possible way).

As far as I can tell, it’s beliefs all the way down, and adjusting certain beliefs can fundamentally transform experience relative to all downstream implications of that belief.
> what ended up leaking from the lab was a coronavirus

Did a coronavirus leak from the lab?
.corp TLD Application (2015)
I'm always disappointed the tech behind Spore hasn't gotten more use. I mean, Spore the game was bad, but Spore the system where players could build any kind of animal and vehicle in easy user-friendly tools? Why didn't that take off in other games? The only spin-off was Darkspore which flopped.
Waymo remote operators don't drive the cars remotely, they plot manual courses and the cars follow them. Trucks have worse failure modes and are less likely to be able to recover even with that much prompting.
If that rhetorical device led me to research and discover reputable data suggesting the frequency of such occurrences was indeed so minuscule as to be disregarded entirely, I’d welcome it upsetting my preconceived notions.
These small savings are worth the effort to people who are blowing away multiple times more cash on something else. For example, taking a vacation when they can't actually afford to do so.
If you hate baggage fees, never, ever, ever fly Frontier Airlines. They recently instituted a policy where an attendant at the gate who gets a $100 carry-on fee from someone gets a $10 commission. There have been multiple reports of gate attendants lying about people's bags that are clearly small enough as being "too big" so that they can maximize the commissions that they get. It's a terrible, truly horrendous policy that will make it so I will never fly Frontier again.
Yeah, my first thought in reading the article: maybe SpaceX and all the other constellations with make it cheaper to constantly stream data, and just use the expensive satellites for low speed backup. It looks like big planes will all end up with fat internet pipes for the passengers, let's hope that soon extends to avionics info.
It is just switching the roles which side is exploiting. Before it was communities, now it will be instead of Reddit. Surely it is reasonable to call people who used platform that didn't make money for their personal enjoyment exploitation. Even if they didn't know they did it.
War is often not the product of miscommunication. It is often the product of a mis-alignment of political/military power and resources.

Russia saw Ukraine as militarily weak, but in control over strategic territory that it wanted to capture.

It's a simple calculus - no amount of talking would have prevented this war.
No, there just are lots of grocery chains. I can think of Publix, Kroger, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Lidl, and Aldi all within driving distance of my house.
Trump’s Justices Didn’t Doom Affirmative Action. Demography Did
The vast majority of incidents are brought to conclusion on why it happened. Even the one article uses as an example. I was watching a bunch of post-mortems of various accidents and just about the only thing that came up when it comes to problems with black boxes is:

* That some of them recorded voice cabin sound for too short (which was fixed in later ones but there are still some old planes flying

* That the cockpit voice recorder recorded in a loop and someone forgot to pull the fuse after accident and it got overwritten.

And overall even those would add very little to investigation.

It has simply become good enough and still are incrementally improved.

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot/videos
you seem to be oblivious to the fact that "play" can do more than play audio.
Currently, 14% of pupils (of any gender) in Germany are not eligible for military service because they are not citizens. Conscription (which was never formally abolished) does not extend to females. Based on what others have told me about their basic training, it used to teach a view of masculinity that bordered on the reactionary even back then, and would be unacceptable to broader society today. (I don't know much about replacement service, mine was an underpaid office job.) Therefore, I think we'd need changes that make conscription unrecognizable before we can say that it somehow promotes societal cohesion and inclusiveness.

Regarding self-selection and career prospects: We went to a military fair on a school trip in the 90s. There was an enlistment pitch, too, and even then (conscription had not yet been paused), they seemed to target those who didn't know what they wanted to do with their lives. (Everyone in my class was technically headed for tertiary education eligibility, so unemployment was a far-away concern.)
This.

Add the addictive nature of Reddit and you’ll see the same people back on the site and native app. I hate Reddit but I still open it at least once a week.
This makes little sense to me?

Investing in public transportation is a much more means tested way of reducing traffic accidents. Countries with good public transportation infrastructure have much less traffic deaths per 100k than car focused countries.

Why? Well it makes sense. Public transportation is much more safe all around as you are greatly reducing the amount of people in charge of machines capable of easily killing others.

So when you say "investing in self driving cars is investing in saving lives" you are right. It's just a much more inefficient way of doing it. Funny that you would consider public transportation a waste of money when looking at the actual data shows it's the most efficient way of moving people.
As I mentioned in another comment, permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, BSD) are generally seen as making collaboration, especially among commercial entities easier. There are fewer gotchas to merging products and otherwise pulling in code from different places. As a matter of policy, companies are generally more comfortable making use of permissively licensed code in their own software, even if it's intended for internal use.

So you're right that the GPL provides some safeguards about code being reworked into a proprietary product and kept closed. But a lot of the industry has come to see that the flexibility associated with more permissive licenses can outweigh that. (And there's been a general shift towards more permissive licensing. Most everything in the cloud-native open source space is permissively licensed. I believe the CNCF even requires this for projects under its umbrella.)
Ultimately, you cannot make it use less energy than the amount of calories you want to put in.
It’s a viable technology but only if you have cheap energy or if transportation costs go ballistic, there’s no way to beat thermodynamics on this.
> One issue for this is it makes the market of users for 3rd party applications a lot smaller and it makes it harder for them to acquire users.

Why is this an issue? 3rd party apps exist to solve a problem for users running into limitations of the web interface or Reddits own abomination of an app. So this will just drive existing users into premium accounts and provides a better UX for them with barely any extra cost for Reddit. If the need exists and the opportunity exists in the form of an API someone will build that app and could still collect money on that on top of Reddit premium fee. Just keep the two separated.
If you actually shipped the extra weeks was probably worthwhile. My side project effort can be measured in decades with little real progress yet. I really think this year might see some movement.
People absolutely pretend that! This whole subthread spun of from a discussion of https://iselmdead.info/, which says (emphasis added):

> Elm’s release cycle is (very) slow on purpose. ...

> While the language doesn’t get frequent updates (and that’s a good thing!), ...

> Why is it a good thing that Elm doesn’t get frequent updates? First of all, it means your code will last a long time! It also means the language is very stable, because features are carefully thought out before being implemented.

I have no problem with people enjoying Elm and acknowledging the bugs. I really dislike that this site gets posted every time people point out that there hasn't been an update in four years. A four-year break between updates is not "all part of the plan". It's not a slow release cycle. It's a sign that the creator ran out of steam but didn't want to delegate to a successor.

You seem to be reasonable in your approach to Elm, and that's great. But there absolutely is a contingent that tries to pretend that this four-year hiatus is part of Evan's master plan for Elm and is "a good thing", and it's reasonable for the HN crowd to call that out as problematic.
The flip side is if it’s “crunch time” it’s not the manager that needs to work 12 hours or weekends to get something shipped.
"divide et impera" is not exactly a new concept. Maybe you should brush up your greek philosophy.
I think you get the wrong idea. What he basically says is that scientists mostly do science because they enjoy doing it, and everything else he says is a consequence of that. People in general tend to gravitate to activities which they enjoy in terms of process, and science is no exception. Usefulness of their work would be a nice side effect, but people rarely do things purely for result, especially when it's something that requires a lot of time and efforts. Basically we are inherently hedonistic creatures and there's no way changing that.
you mean that's not the whole point of posting here?
The GPL doesn't enforce stuff, only large amounts of lawyers fees can do that. Plenty of companies violate the GPL with zero consequences. Same goes for permissive licenses TBH.
"Your honor, you can't blame my client for messing the victim's body, he's a known necrophiliac, and since the evidence is tainted you can't prove he was the murderer."

Top notch defense right there.
Yep. Lots of companies - probably most companies - do nothing to support the opensource projects they depend on. Honestly I think most business people would be horrified if they understood how much their business depends on the volunteer labor of strangers. How many Fortune 500 companies depend on the work of a random hippy in NZ who lives in a houseboat? And the article is right - the funniest part is that you need him more than he needs you.

Plenty of non-opensource developers also have no idea how to act on GitHub. Some people are great. But I’ve also gotten more than my share of entitled “drop everything and fix this now” issues opened over the years. “It’s causing an outage!”. It’s like I’m a wayward junior engineer who needs to be brought in line. Do you appreciate my work or not, idiots? You can’t have it both ways. It’s kind of surreal.
Some regenerative agriculture advocates say soil can build up pretty fast with the right techniques that include animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk
> It appears that Twitter is doing the same thing to AWS

They are also not paying their rent on some London office space.

In this instance they're being sued by their landlords, the UK Crown Estates (King Charles, sort of, though not exactly).
Sure, but that's just one part of the traffic congestion problem. Add more cars, and whatever efficiency gains you gained from eliminating weird and inefficient human behavior rippling outward and causing random traffic jams will be more than outweighed by the presence of additional cars. Each additional car takes up ~15 feet plus the distance to the next car.

That adds up very quickly, and when you consider the presence of intersections and traffic lights, you aren't dealing with an isolated roadway where cars just...drive. There are very real limits on how many cars you can stuff in a given stretch of road without radically redesigning roads in a way that makes them entirely unusable for pedestrians and cyclists (i.e. replacing traffic lights with slot-based intersections[0]), meaning there's an upper limit to how much self-driving cars can limit congestion under the most optimistic scenarios.

When self-driving cars eventually manage to take hold, no one reasonably expects car traffic not to increase. Right now, you park your car and do things. There's no real opportunity cost, because you can't be two places at once. When your car can drive around on its own, there's now a real opportunity cost. If it can earn money for you with no human present, there's going to be a massive incentive to let it do so. Stores will use self-driving delivery vehicles--either their own or as part of their own delivery sharing services--for deliveries.

Will there hopefully be big improvements in pedestrian safety and decreased accidents? I think so, though they certainly won't eliminate either. But there will be an incredible amount of increased traffic that goes along with it.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CZc3erc_l4
I think that would fly really well, and make flights cheaper all around for those who continue to fly.
> Garbage has to be moved anyway

It has to be reduced drastically first (buying local, avoiding plastic packaging, composting food wastes separately (what a shame to send that to an incinerator)

Aluminium cans (their paints however is toxic), or glass bottles is the best case, but most of the time it's plastic bottles (for water, which is nonsensical, people should use tap water, or soft drinks, or juices, both unhealthy products)
> This headline is misleading by omission, to (nearly) the point of being false.

Thank you for doing the research and not just upvoting due to click bait.
Mercedes' system only works on specific listed limited-access highways, not all public roads.
One issue is that people can agree on a general vision but differ completely on what problems exist, how they could be resolved, and what series of decisions support each other. It becomes overwhelming for people to think about.

Focus on writing down your thoughts and supporting them. Build a case for something and then make decisions and execute. If you can put together a cogent argument, even people who disagree can often stomach working hard on it as long as you acknowledge their criticism and occasionally reevaluate past decisions.
A big purse is what I use - and I'm a man
> The point is the young and healthy don’t get very sick. You get it, have the sniffles for a day or two, and move on with your life. Same for covid.
We could have just embraced that blessing and let children continue to go to school and not experience massive declines in intelligence. But here we are.
“Think of the really old people” was truly hilarious. Indeed, all we could do was “think” when my grandpa died alone because visiting the nursing home was banned.

One thing to consider is not so much an individual's health and risk of getting serious ill, but rather that as the numbers grow geometrically, health care systems like hospitals can (and in fact, did) become severely overwhelmed.

Even with measures in place, here in Los Angeles we were at a point where for example if you had a heart attack at home, an ambulance / hospital couldn't deal with you.m https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/us/los-angeles-county-califor...
Our cows don't use much electricity. And I don't think the claims was about being energy negative, just carbon negative. That's an important difference. I'll also call BS, but for a different reason. The growing animal takes carbon from the soil by eating grass. If one continually harvests animals off the land, that's carbon being continually removed and taken elsewhere. What happens to that carbon downstream is complicated, but one can be sure it's not being sequestered in the ground where the cattle originated.
The prerequisite for "mental liquidity" is articulated by Aristotle: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." If you entertain the thought, this gives you the chance to try out a new belief network. If you find your belief network would be strengthened by its inclusion, then you adopt it. Otherwise, you reject it. In this way, ones interconnected set of beliefs grows monotonically stronger. And this is right and good.

EDIT: got downvoted! I would love love love to know why! Not offended, just curious.
Viruses mutate because they are constantly exposed to the immune systems of people who were already previously infected, so they have to mutate in order to dodge prior natural immunity. That isn't a concern if most people who get infected die.

Moreover, the first SARS-CoV-2 variant took a long time to start mutating and even then it was only minor mutations. If you release an extremely infectious very deadly virus and you have a vaccine for it, then at that moment it's a Deus Ex scenario and whoever can manufacture the vaccine can take over the world because your enemies are now collapsing and will do anything to obtain the vaccine including giving up their own autonomy. Guess that's the theory, at least.

As to why SARS-CoV-2: because it's airborne and can spread long distances via gas-like clouds (which is why lockdowns, masks, wiping surfaces etc didn't work). You can't really get better if you want to very rapidly infect a whole country.
Interesting reading some of the comments, I wrote about this thing here (if you'll allow the shameless plug to my personal blog). Think I landed roughly where most of the commenters seem to

https://www.wahid.one/blog/be-kind-dont-rewind
If I understand correctly, accesses to address ranges mapped to the GPU have to be aligned on Apple Silicon due to the PCie controller requiring nGnRE mapping mode for external devices. There's a proof-of-concept AMD GPU driver patch for Linux that kinda makes this work but it's an incredible hack, the performance isn't great and applications still need to be reviewed and patched.
We have no way to hold our leaders accountable.

On either side of the aisle.
Libc++ std:sort was worst-case quadratic until 2021
Of the Open Source Definition; no discrimination against fields of endeavor (such as selling software).

https://opensource.org/osd
I obviously have no data to back it up, but I too suspect that third party app users post, reply, vote, and otherwise interact a disproportionate amount. Not only are these users likely to have been big reddit users in the first place, but apps like Apollo are designed to put these interactions in the forefront of the experience and make them as smooth and frictionless as possible.

Contrast this to the official site/app, which are instead designed to keep you jumping from post to post without dwelling for too long, but are also designed to sell junk like NFT avatars.

Reddit might continue on with business as usual after the API rate change goes into effect, but I believe the average quality of content and comments (which was already trending lower) will fall through the floor. There's no incentive for invested users who put more thought and effort into their posts to stick around.
To effectively "de-fuse" the situation in Ukraine, significant historical events would have to have not happened.

To start, the EU loan deal in late 2012 and the CIA-backed coup d'etat known as "Euromaidan" in 2013, could/should have played out differently. Instead it's evident that key players like Victoria Nuland, the CIA / Imperialistic Neo-con agenda played a significant role in exacerbating tensions during that time, ultimately leading to the destabilization of the country.

Secondary, Ukraine should have ceded the eastern territories as "independent states" in 2015 post the Minsk agreements.

Those events have lead to the "special military operation" in 2022, as they disregard the clearly defined "red line" of NATO being in Ukraine which was set by Putin a long time ago.

To defuse things now though? (It's too late now, the Military industrial complex has their pound of flesh.)
Have Ukraine exist freely, similar to Finland before it joined NATO. This would respect Ukraine's sovereignty and ensure its independence without it being a vassal to geopolitical alliances.
I've heard it also said "strong opinions, weakly held". Unlike "mental liquidity", it doesn't require explanation.
The roads in Singapore are okay but nothing in their infrastructure is spectacular. Where Singapore wins is coverage. They have a pretty good coverage of the whole city but this is not unique to Singapore. Paris has good coverage too. So does Tokyo.

Imo, Singapore was hyped too much and also it doesn’t scale (it’s a small island city)
This is how it works if you want to run a 7-11 in china, which I believe is run by Japanese 7-11 corporate. Even though the Japanese 7-11 now owns the American one, I think they franchise differently in the states.
I believe Firefox/Mozilla use sfgate as a stress test.
Personally, I don’t consider more centralization of information to be a good thing.
There are a lot of < $100 domestic flights available to low-income people. If you have friends in the area so you aren't paying for lodging, $30 on a $90 ticket is substantial.
Tech, an Early Booster of Remote Work, Wants People Back in the Office
It really isn't about enforcing it. How do you enforce that is the question that even GPL struggles with.

It's a simple value proposition and a simple premise. If you're commercial, we're commercial. If you're not making money, you can still have it.

Compare that to just someone buying something. Individuals and especially businesses will buy what they need to buy. Imagine someone insisting "you don't have to buy me, but I am hungry". That's not even a business model. I find it's the value proposition is what is broken with most OSS. It's virtue signalling plus relying on donations. NPR does that, except they spend hours on the air begging for money. OSS might work if they were given the airtime too, but usually all the time they have is a few sentences the "shopper" reads before they hit the (free) download button (or enter the git command or whatever).
I had to read this sentence a few times before I realized it was the decision and not the child: "My wife and I even decided to have our third child on our way to a dinner at Gourmet Haus Staudt."
Probably true for many. But there can also be the other side of things where you just need to fly a lot and you want to keep those costs from adding up over time. For instance, needing to fly back and forth from home where you work to visit an ill relative. There are probably many situations where there is reasonable value to be had from a strategy like this.

Plus, you get the benefit of looking like an extremely cool dude!
LLMs + MTurk?
It, like almost all their top startups fails to achieve all the advice they constantly pump out. It’s not revenue positive. It is user agnostic at best if antagonistic. It was not fast to pmf from a margin perspective.

Basically it feels like all the things YC advises are bs when you look at their “success stories”. Other than connections to investors what they say and what they do so entirely opposite.
I think we can do better than that. Google Groups wasn't even up to the standard of contemporary desktop newsreaders.