skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well right at the start in very big letters:

"THE PERSON IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT IS ONLY THERE FOR LEGAL REASONS. HE IS NOT DOING ANYTHING. THE CAR IS DRIVING ITSELF."

Additionally, the "driver" also does not have their hands on the wheel as required.

I can imagine the dealership showing this to customers and them getting totally the wrong idea.

Edit: And I didn't even know what Veserv said below. Wow... That is like 737MAX levels of misleading.
So I'll route my CI integration tests that test communication from application to database through the loadbalancer? And I'll teach the loadbalancer to talk to itself to talk to the autoscaling web backends it needs to talk to because only the loadbalancer has a valid certificate? Nice brain-knot.

And talking about security risks, wildcard certs are especially dangerous and should be forbidden from ever existing. They just lead to "copy it everywhere"-keys that, sooner or later, will leak. And that won't be revoked or replaced, because of course everything will break at once.

Oh, and the certificate errors will also come with external CAs. Chain too long? Error in some browsers. ECC signature? Error in some browsers. Chain with different paths? Error in some browsers. 4096bit certificate somewhere? Error in some browsers. Two different valid roots? Error in some browsers.
For years I meal-prepped the same stir-fry (with minor modifications) every week because it reheats well and has balanced macros on top of being delicious. My lunch of choice has an array of flavors and textures and scratches the simple majority of my epicurean itches; how people glom on to PB&J or macaroni and cheese is unfathomable to me personally. Different strokes, jmo, ymmv, etc.
tangential, but interesting how they choose to be loud about this, yet don't say or do anything about imessage downgrading to unencrypted sms with anything outside imessage. no warning about a less secure message being sent, no byline that'd be like 'unencrypted text' or like a tiny little open padlock or something, no effort to make messages encrypted where it could be possible, not even a 'snarky ad campaign' or something that'd point out that 'green bubbles? sms? that's insecure'. it's almost like... "encryptedness" and "privacy" isn't really the point. it's more of a 'marketing point' and 'ecosystem dynamics' - lock-in, network effect, and all that. actually implementing outside encrypted messages for their users? mmmeh.
We refer to them as plastics because it's meaningful and useful to do so in most contexts, including the context of the harm they do. Whether that harm is done during manufacturing or ingestion is irrelevant. They're all plastics and they all cause harm.

It's not useful to nitpick over their long chains or oxygen double bonds. That rhetoric contributes nothing but deflective nerdery and confusion to the conversation.
We're not. For a company of our age and scale? To claim competitive reliability to the world's most important data center? Risible. We're making fun of the fact that everybody deploys their apps in a random city in Virginia with like 3 restaurants in it. We're not saying they're dumb to do it, or that Ashburn isn't up to the challenge --- it self-evidently is.

(The comment I'm responding to said something about people in glass houses not throwing stones, but was then edited).
Eggs are also extremely easy to overcook (I'm far from a professional, I think around ~70C/160F, and the temperature tolerance band is quite small), so there's a lot of techniques in controlling the temperature.
Serious question, but how do they intentionally recycle phones/batteries/ ewaste? My first guess would that everything goes through a shredder. Precious metals and plastics are then separated because any kind of disassembly at scale would be infeasible.
This isn’t “harsh” IMO, it’s science.

If you do low quality science (incomplete methods and no reproducibility), other scientists are supposed to use robust evaluation to refute your claims.

Seems extremely straightforward, people just don’t like being shown to be incompetent.
Amazing tech, congratulations!
The result is different when comparing to self-signed certificates. For instance, yes you should be careful with your key, but losing it makes your security as bad as when using self-signed certificates. Yes, you might be teaching some of your users to bypass the warnings. Just like when using self-signed certificates.
The "good old way" of making leather soles grippy is nails, just to give one example. Even using synthetic materials instead of hobnails would reduce plastic consumption quite a bit for these use cases.

I've hiked quite a bit in various types of boots and yes, It's nice to have lighter shoes, but for most people most of the time a kg more or less won't make the damndest bit of difference. Only a fraction of all hikers are attempting trails under circumstances that require top-notch performance gear.
I've rarely (... never?) retired a phone that was still usable enough to wipe it. Most could be repaired to a usable state, but at like 50% the cost of a new phone, so I just get a new one instead (since by then there are usually a bunch of other parts just waiting to go bad). Definitely not gonna spend that money so I can wipe them in order to recycle them.
Acryl Data Gains Momentum with $21M Series A Funding
I've found in general people and even regulatory agencies play fast and loose with comparing GHGs and pollutants. In this case, including CO in "carbon emissions" makes the statement technically true but pretty misleading since most people see "carbon emissions" as an equivalent or shorthand to "GHG ermissions"
>>Only restrictions on the production of plastic and cardboard (!!!) work.
Agreed. we need to price in the externalities into the cost of manufacturing, else it will always be a tragedy of the commons
Apart from its quirks Excel is fine, if you know its limitations. I think the real warning sign would be an analyst/programmer working with Excel and expecting high precision results.
> Or we can keep living, keep enjoying our advancements, and find a way to make it work in a way that keeps the climate stable.

Press X to doubt. The level of technological hubris in this statement is astonishing - we don't know that we'll be able to do this, and we can estimate that the cost of mitigation will be higher than prevention.

Very few are advocating living like acetic monks, but we absolutely need to work on including externalities into our pricing system.
No company I've worked at after FB/Meta ships or works even at a non-eng level with the same velocity. I always attributed that to their internal tools, since most of the other companies seem to be using the same crap. Slack is straight up painful compared to their chat system. And don't get me started on the how good the task tool is compared to literally any other ticketing system out there. Everything is behind their intern tool, and usually built to all just work together without friction.
PTFE is a PFAS, as is PFOA.

> Now, since PFOA belongs to a large group of chemicals called PFAS, consisting of 4,700 similar substances, it might be tempting to just switch to one of the other PFAS chemicals that hasn’t been restricted yet. But that wouldn´t solve the problem, it would only postpone and perpetuate it. [1]

[1] https://marketplace.chemsec.org/articles/news/2020/04/01/the...

I.e. there's a whole zoo of similar compounds, and all those type specific safety claims are all at room temperature. The whole point of their use is often on heated surfaces, getting near and over the safety limit.
Using ints forces you to deal with all that. Using floats lets you easily ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
I did have my postgresql DB on their service randomly stop once and didn't restart until I logged in and poked it :(
> The elephant in the room here is that VFX, unlike many other film professions, isn’t properly unionised.

That’s really all that needs to be said.
My current role for the first time exposed me to amounts of data and variety of data (in type and how/where it's stored) that's difficult to learn organically. I wonder how a FAANG does that at "scale".

> most of that information is carried by the Data engineers who have built the system, and they are over-whelmed with questions that could be answer with a good system, but derive power over analysts.

Is that the kind of question you're talking about here?
I also don't use fly (yet) because of technical issues they have. They are in a really messy state at the moment.

Nevertheless, I'm excited for them and continue to cheer them on until they mature.
reviewstack adds the missing stack and versioning phab UX on top of github apis, been enjoying using it outside meta for some oss stuff, and fixed a limitation of it recently in https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling/pull/656
Well if you’re right maybe in a couple years we’ll see a ‘We razed a bunch of money’ post, seems on brand.
Virtually Try on Clothes with AI: A New Era in Online Shopping
I know the thread has drifted a bit here, but in the context of employment, I don't have the option to try different laptops. I've never worked at an employer that permitted BYOD for the laptop, and so you're stuck with what they issue, which is generally a single choice, as they don't want to put in the IT work to support more than that.

If that choice is a MBP … then you're stuck with not only an infamous keyboard, but also one that causes me (and many people I've worked with) RSI … it's that, or an external.
That data is slighty suspect. Not just the reliability of reporting between 1-1900, but also the data on the site - apparently there was a siting in Chicago Illinois in the year 600? There's a lot of reports for American locations even earlier than that.

I think most importantly we started watching the sky when humanity started to fly. Suddenly the heavens were a viable place for mankind to be, especially after we ourselves got to space. The post-WW2 era also had a whole culture that was used to watching the sky because there had been very plausible threats of death from that direction. We suddenly cared when we saw something weird in the night beyond just a passing curiosity.
I will say this in defense of libertarian individualism: I think you should have a right to opt-out of being a citizen of any given country. The ability to do so, in practice, varies from totalitarian states where you physically cannot leave without risking being killed to western liberal democracies where you're allowed to renounce citizenship with just one condition - get another citizenship first.

While the latter is certainly extremely reasonable and humane relative to the former, that condition is still an insurmountable barrier for lower income, cognitively impaired, or otherwise vulnerable folks.

If you lack the means to obtain another citizenship, you are more or less the partial property of the government you were born into (given they are legally entitled to a portion of all your earnings), and you have no way of leaving.

That we more or less "trap" the vulnerable into partial financial servitude wherever they're born makes me mildly uncomfortable in the same manner that the concept of chattel slavery makes me deeply uncomfortable - no person or institution ought to have such dominion over another living, breathing person that the latter cannot disassociate from former.

We wax and wane about the necessity of such resulting from the social contract, but the social contract is the only contract I know of that is both serious and enforced (even if not literally defined), whilst not being one that you enter into voluntarily.

A key component of what renders a contract valid in contractual law in the US (stemming from common law) is that all parties to the contract must enter into it voluntarily, with full knowledge of it, free from coercion or deception.

We at least ought to stop calling it a "contract" and start calling it what it really is - Demands for involuntary tributes to the ruling elites (who benefits more from taxpayer dollars - the poor and needy, or Lockheed Martin executives?), that you must comply with under threat of force, up to and including lethal if you resist the wrong way.

I'm not saying the alternative is simple, but it seems unjust to me that human societies force their most vulnerable people into subservient economic relationships with governments (that have lengthy track records of using those very same tax dollars to perform horrific and flagrant atrocities against humanity, like drone bombing weddings, abducting and torturing innocent people, etc), based purely on where they're born.

Animals don't engage in this kind of depravity - why must we?

I hope the societies of the distant future look back on our current system of government and see it for the barbaric, medieval, and inhumane institution it really was.
> god damn what a BS article (imo) none of the points make real sense

Maybe that's because none of the complaints it is reporting makes real sense?

The article, as I see it, is merely reporting on the controversy. They aren't making their own points, they are repeating the points made by others.

That's what news is supposed to be: report what is happening, not what you think.
One of the best-written press releases I’ve seen for sure.
Yeah, we are buying these substandard and dangerous products and putting them in our bodies.

They ship generic drugs to the US. The FDA is the regulator. And their regulatory system is terrible. They run extremely infrequent checks, they give months of notice before they do so, and they still manage to find horrific safety violations.

Instead of constant checks that would find small things, they discover a mess every time. This time they found everything you could possibly imagine: incorrect drugs, impure drugs, falsified tests, engineers overriding safety software when it reported impurities, incorrect amounts with falsified reports, etc.
one workaround I use is not to use Spaces but custom Alfred hotkeys for most popular apps that you often switch such as: iterm, browser, xcode, vsc, file browser + rectangle.app for shortcuts to maximize/minimize app (without default animations). Takes some time to train muscle memory though - I use cmd+ctrl+(j or or k or l or ;) to switch between most frequent apps. I also use F1 as hot key for iTerm (quake style) and F2 for Dash.app
> I believe that's what the poster was referring to when critiquing "move fast and break things."

Yes. The original sense of the term was fine and expressed a reasonable thing. Since then, it's been taken much too far and has been applied far outside the development process itself.

This attitude is, in my opinion, one of the things that has turned the software industry from being mostly a force for good into a very mixed bag.
For heating system, you're assuming that the burner unit is regularly maintained (i.e. cleaned of soot) which is a pretty far stretch - most people don't do anything until the unit breaks down, usually because the flame-out protection sensor is so covered in soot that it can't detect the presence of the flame any more.

For stoves, gas stoves are being banned for new construction because they don't burn as cleanly as once thought [1].

For BBQs the heat source used doesn't matter (with the exception that coal units should never ever be used indoors), they all emit tons of toxic and highly odorious particles from all the oil and fats decomposing.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/have-a-gas-stove-how-to-...
We've locked in 1.5C, but we can still avoid worse changes. It's not pass/fail.
Related to uncanny valley with random name insertion, one way to combat this is to have two sentences for the greeting: (1) "Hi/Hey" and (2) <name>. This would allow designers to reduce the stress on (1) and alternate pitch and stress more freely on (2), reducing "uncanny valley" effects.

This also allows you to cross check the input name against names used in pranks (e.g., Yuri Nator; Seymore Butts; Anita Tums; Anita Dikkenmee; Holden Mycock). You could then decide if a prank name is detected to add a little laugh after the name is spoken, for additional personalization.
I think really just non-urban places will be in trouble.

There is no way gas stations on highways are going to close down in the next decade. But if your highway wasn't popular enough to currently have service stations at their rest areas then I don't have much hope your gas stations outside those areas.

Of course this does mean that you might have to drive ~40mins roundtrip to fillup your gas.
Is that the market really breaking down at the edges, or fitting perfectly?

I your examples of the video game programmers being paid less, it is because their compensation is in two parts: the money and the pleasure, astisfaction of passion, & the prestige of working on video games. In contrast, working on a CRM project has no other pleasures nor prestige, so those companies must may more dollars.

Seems the difference in [pleasure, passion, & prestige] could even be quantifiable by measuring the paycheck differences?
I didn't do anything special.Years ago the xps15 had some issues installing linux, there was a git repo with a special post install script to get the drivers sorted. Dell fan control can be weird but this was many years ago at this point.

I have a normal ubuntu install, I use the i3wm to reduce general load. Resolution set to 1440p with xrandr, no scale adjustments.
GPU disabled, totally on intel graphics.

My xps is about 4.5 years old right now, I have replaced the battery when it started to swell slightly, the replacement was salvaged from another and even worse, so after a year I put the original battery back in.

I honestly think the biggest thing is a tiling wm. Any time I go from full gnome to i3wm, my battery life gets an instant 3 hour bonus.

Big ole note, because of the age and battery degradation, i can squeeze about 6-7 hours out of with if I limit myself to a single firefox window and text editors. When it was brand new, 13 hours of normal use was totally doable.
Many of you here are deep in Tech. Probably many with Apple, Google, and Facebook.

Just wondering how do you feel about this?

I was a network engineer and one of the reasons I left was seeing the reality of packet inspection and what that could mean.
Don't forget that the FBI has an office AT Facebook HQ, as mentioned in the writeup of Zuckerberg when he was named Time's person of the year:

"The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you."

Yeah.. he just happened to be in the building... and I suspect FB isn't the only tech giant with an "interesting" relationship with law enforcement and intelligence.

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28...
The license on this file gives extremely broad permission to distribute with no requirements. The GPL has requirements if you are distributing it. These two licenses are not compatible.

Additionally, if they are starting with software under a particular license and modifying it, in a non clean room fashion, then the final product is a derivative of the original and the copyrights likely remain with the original rights holders.
iVentoy is an enhanced version of the PXE server.
Maybe interested isn't the right term. Profitability was seen as a necessary evil. Something that is required but should more be happen stance... a natural evolution of the real work swes did.

What this meant culturally is that Google became a company where technical merit alone is what was rewarded. In my 15+ years of working for the company, not once did I touch a budget. The teams that did handle that sort of stuff were always made to plead their cases to engineering instead of it being the other way around.
Except... It's way easier and more efficient to produce plant based calories.
> no legal pathway to introduce to the public

So, DARPA doesn't exist, and it can't put out calls for things it'd like developed in certain areas? /s

I mean, it doesn't really take much thinking at all to figure out ways to introduce "future generation" technology that's not going to raise many eyebrows.
> Our first reason is obvious, and mercenary.

even though there’s a reason (or three) behind the style of the post, including the use of transparency, it is refreshing.
I do it a little differently, I mostly buy the same things every week but make many different things with them: Cheese, beans, eggs, mushrooms, apples. My weekly shopping trip to Aldi takes less than five minutes. About once every month or two I will make a shopping trip to some specialty grocery stores to pick up spices, condiments and other products.

I have my repertoire of recopies that I find to always be delicious, but I experiment a lot too. Fresh vegetables come from my garden, whatever is in season. The exception is in the dead of winter, then I am buying frozen vegetables mostly. I live in Zone 6B and have fresh produce 9-10 months out of the year.
I agree with you, and with the commenter who discusses the distinction between streets and roads. Restrictions on where cars can go would be wonderful, for many reasons. But given the current design of cities and suburbs, ebikes are unsafe, and subsidizing them is therefore a mistake. Maybe the way to proceed is to subsidize ebikes in combination with turning over to ebikes some lanes or streets or roads that accommodate cars currently.
As a child hearing the news of Dutroux, I recall thinking that it would be better if buildings just collapse if they had this going on.
> There are fun, technical, “control your own destiny” reasons to rack hardware instead of layering on top of commodity clouds. But it's really just economics. ... Hardware is what makes the margins work.

Amen to that.

Nice to see somebody who has raised a ton of money, and yet is still being smart with it.

But I suppose the difficult question is, "Why shouldn't Fly's potential customers also run their own hardware?"
> 3) Make the West so powerful it will finally destroy and conquer both Russia and China and dictate the third world how to live.

Minor snag in your plan: "The West" cannot itself figure out itself "how to live". Witness Jan 6, 2020. And growing strength of Germany's AfD: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-expands-politica...
A couple of tools which are both working on jail management & packaging

- bastille https://bastillebsd.org

- pot https://potluck.honeyguide.net

bastille is great for personal and small setups, pot is aimed at larger scale and meant to be used along with hashicorp nomad+consul
Many dental flosses are literally strands of ptfe and some studies correlate using them with higher blood concentrations of pfas.

Many “compostable” paper food and drink containers are lined with a ptfe film, which does get into the food.

Okay sure maybe it’s all leftover pfas reagents, (or maybe some break down but ignore that) it’s impossible for anyone to know that this particular instance of ptfe doesn’t have residual pfas.
> You've done it for me.

Good. Maybe next time you'll do it for you.
Why is this redacted. FDA observations should be published in real time so that end users can make judgements and watchdog groups can evaluate and grade companies, batches, and products.

That would be a better role for most federal agencies. If states want to make mandates that require adherence to some standard, that is more in line with the original constitutional role of states.

I cannot say for certain, but I "feel" that these types of issues crop up quite often and are only publicized when certain corporations do not make the proper lobbying donations to certain people. Limiting the lobbying potential to a state level may prevent my "feeling".
block soot possibly?

(Not a native speaker.)