skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That bigger puzzle you are talking about is a topic I’m extremely familiar with. You appear to have read 3 random books (none of which were written by anyone who worked in that field) at some point and are now relying on excessive use of quotation marks to make it seem more mysterious than it is.

I’m not looking to debate you on this one, I was pointing out that I happen to know with an incredibly high level of confidence that what you are saying isn’t correct.
Aren't the tiny displays manufactured all on a wafer, bypassing the need for assembling all the individual LED elements that causes problems for the TV-sized displays?
I differ on this recommendation. I watched some of it and found the show very mediocre and what 'help there was from the intelligence community' would have been provided to put a positive spin on the work done by Western intelligence agencies, which is mostly to protect Western corporate interests and neo-colonialism.

It's naive to think that any mass entertainment portrayal of intelligence agencies gives any real idea of how these agencies really function and what kind of work they actually do.
I think you mean organizational issue not development skill issue. If shit is constantly hitting the fan, that is the orgs fault, not the engineers
100% agree with your three points.

When you "visit" Google / Facebook / YouTube / other online properties do you think you are "going to a place that's all about having people sell me things"?
Why, then, is he asking for WP Engine to pay licensing fees to Automattic, which is not the open source project, nor the Foundation, but his for-profit competitor. Ostensibly, Automattic has no ability to license WordPress (an open source project that it does not own).

That sounds like an injustice to me. That sounds like someone who has been using Automattic and WP.com (and Pressable), WP.org, and the Foundation interchangeably, depending on what best fits his needs.
My car drives me all over town without intervention (on 12.3.6, and now on 12.5.4). It’s beyond confusing to be constantly told it doesn’t, when I have never taken over for a safety issue. Only for cases where it’s being too hesitant. 2020 Model 3.

I bought a used Tesla and had very low expectations for FSD’s usefulness, and those were shattered. All my complaints are stylistic - accelerates a bit too quick, hesitates a bit longer in some cases. Steering wheel is a bit jumpy on turns at low speeds, but not unsafe.

The only explanation I can come up with is that there is either a well-motivated group that wants FSD to be bad, or there is some huge variation between vehicles and I lucked out on my car’s cameras being aligned right or something. Maybe the roads in my area are easier than normal, but I’m in a large non-California metro area, so I don’t think I’m unrepresentative.

> AMCI found that, on average, when operating FSD, human intervention is required at least once every 13 miles to maintain safe operation.

I drove a 200 mile road trip last week, combination of city, suburb, interstate, rural. Didn’t take over except to pull in/out of driveways. So this statement is just mind boggling - implies that my drive last week was, like, a 3 or 4 sigma event. But I’ve done it more than once. At some point, it stops being anecdotes and starts being “I simple cannot square your number with my experience”

Last time I said something positive about FSD here, someone suggested I’m simply forgetting the many times it must try to kill me. Debates around this get wild.

I will not reply to anything negative below, because I’ve learned it’s much more fun to have my car drive me around town than argue with people who insist it can’t.
> No one has a problem with science itself per se. Everyone accepts the scientific method to be one of our greatest cultural achievements

This is just wrong and naive. You can be happy if a majority of people agree to this.
In an efficient market, competition would drive prices down to reach quite thin profit margins. Of course there is all sorts of friction, change in conditions, inertia, upfront costs, risk etc that reality isn't ideal.
Agreed, the "XKCD imitation" style doesn't really work when its one-step above writing a paper with MS Paint.

They'd have been better off using a hand-written comic style font like Blambot.
> I'm so glad to see such a positive step in this conflict. It really shows how much Matt genuinely cares about the community and how he's willing to take the higher ground.

Yes. Saying "We have generously decided to give you 72 hours to figure out how to mirror all this content, actually mirror it, and then plug it in, before we reinstate a block affecting your end users again. Oh, yes, I do realize it's 3pm PT on Friday afternoon and the clock is ticking, no, not 3 business days, we're turning the block back on at 4pm PT on Monday afternoon" is entirely positive, empathetic to those users, and shows genuine care for the community...

Or maybe not.

> WP Engine sent a cease-and-desist to WP.org

Despite you saying so in multiple places here, WPEngine did not fire the first shots in this shitshow.
No - this is all from Max Levchin (who actually did build the MVP of PayPal) in Founders at Work.

Musk made some amusing comments that he thought were insightful about this that showed how little he really knew:

He also suggested that PayPal should have written its front end in C++ (because C++ in 2000 was an excellent choice for front-end web development?!?), and later cited Blizzard writing WoW in C++ as proof that this was the correct decision that Max and the board never understood.

(Oh, and "Microsoft has a DLL library for anything you could possibly ever want to do, but you can't get Unix libraries for anything.")

He also said that Max "never really understood this" despite Musk's efforts to educate him, and that these decisions are also why PayPal "hasn't been able really add any new features".

He then complained about the Board's decision to fire him as making him "more careful about who he allowed to invest in his companies in the future": 1) he was the largest shareholder, but it was not "his" company, he only held a fraction of it, and 2) the idea wasn't even his! Really what he means here is "I want to make sure to hand-select a bunch of yes-men so I get what I want regardless of whose idea it is, how good the idea is, and what I want to do with it."
https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/newton-minow-discusses...
The idea is that they would have to spend that money on improving the good/service or reducing the price in order to compete. Currently more money goes to competing for your attention than on competing on merit.
I work with many women, but I don't manage any
Nuclear waste is transported regularly:

https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-transp.html
I’ve been advertised something that actually removes a problem I know about in my life, just for made up “problems”.

If I don’t know a product or service exists, why do I need it?

My life is fine as it is, I don’t need stupid advertisements for stuff that won’t enrich it.
Were they ever asked to run a mirror of the plugin repo for use with their customers?

If the bandwidth/infra costs to support all of WPEngines customers were so much, then they must have, right?

If they were asked and refused that's certainly one thing. If they were never asked, and then when they refused the demands for money.. then it looks like matt was just looking for a wrench to hit them with and this one came to mind.
Might be easier to aggregate data if it’s all coming in in a similar way?
Digital Twin Services for Battery Tech
Deepmind is producing science vapourware while OpenAI is changing the world
The car should not have entered the intersection if it could not exit the intersection, and it pretty clearly shows it waiting to enter the intersection. Note the dashed red line showing it was correctly waiting to enter, and only choosing to enter after the lights were red.

It was not already in the intersection.
I'm fairly anti-copyright as it goes but does anyone else find this whole discussion bizarre?

The site hosts things like full ROM sets, PDFs of in print books, the lot. You can just whack things in a search engine and half of the time an IA page comes up with the goods.

The fact that they've survived this long is baffling to me.
Edit: replied to wrong comment
> Matt mentioned it's costing them millions per year to provide them with automatic updates and other services they provide.

A single hosted plugin repository is a huge multiplier towards ecosystem growth, but WordPress always had the option of distributing the load by asking others to set up mirrors, and offering a selection of mirrors. Y'know, redundancy. They've never done so.

There's also no option in the WordPress core to easily point towards a different repository URL.

Maybe this whole debacle would lead to slightly more decentralisation of WordPress, which might be a good thing for the long-term health of the project and community.
"This could destroy your marriage and your family." seems like a good intro.

I still remember getting paged when I was explicitly NOT on the pagerduty rotation at my tenth anniversary dinner with my wife. Ruined the whole day. And I wasn't making particularly good money.

If you aren't free to do what you want, you should be getting paid like you're at work.
Trademarks do not expire ever.

The intended point of a trademark is essentially to prevent scams. E.g. nobody is allowed to sell something called an "apple computer" except apple. The interest doesnt change with time. (In contrast the theoretical point of copyright and patents is to allow people to recoup r&d costs. Eventually at some point the holder has had a fair shot at recouping the cost, so there is a time limit)
Obviously the comment above is far from helpful in tone or content, but this spurred me to look it up. As a python guy, my takeaways are:

1. It’s designed by mathematicians specifically for math.

2. It has much better support for generic/runtime types, something the academics apparently describe using the terms “parametric polymorphism” and “multi-dispatch”.

Plus there’s this cute founding ethos blog post from 2012, though it’s necessarily vague: https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

None of that sounds even close to convincing me to switch from Python, but I can see the appeal for people who value those typing features and want something faster.

I don’t necessarily see the connection between either of those things and the implementation above, tho… presumably it’s basically instant, anyway?
Did you reply to the wrong comment
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More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669912
> It’s beyond confusing to be constantly told it doesn’t

I don't think I've seen any assertions here (or elsewhere) that FSD doesn't work in rogerrogerr's car. I've seen LOTS of assertions (and plenty of video evidence) that it doesn't work in other cars, and that it behaves unpredictably.

This is why data over many samples is important. Maybe you've got an environment where it happens to work really well. Maybe it's probabilistic and you are the person who keeps rolling well on your random dice rolls.

There's plenty of evidence the system is not generally safe, even if your personal anecdotes are that it is.
Call me naïve, but I actually suspect Brin started out believing in "do no evil" and changed over time after becoming ridiculously wealthy. Having the misfortune of actually knowing some of the other people though, I firmly believe they were shitty from the beginning.
The man is a professional buffoon. He genuinely didn't know if he would be pro or anti brexit until the last minute. A game, smart opportunist. There's an essay online I can't find now where somebody sees him do the "Oh god, I've lost my speech, I'll just talk extemporaneously" schtik twice and realises the buffoonery is a deliberate strategy to disarm.
I did, was about to delete it but then you commented haha.
"I've driven drunk many times, and I've never been in an accident. It’s beyond confusing to be constantly told it's an unsafe way to drive. The only explanation I can come up with is that there is either a well-motivated group that _wants_ drunk driving to be unsafe."
Anime doesn't come in 4K, I have no real reason not to get an early 2010s TV before all this garbage, Sony, LG, Samsung, etc. All for about 100 USD, 200 USD for near enough whatever screen size I'd want for a device right at the bottom of the bathtub curve.

Pair with a Chromecast with Google TV or a PC for best results.
Why does it take 4 minutes (after being optimized from 8 minutes!) to move a 30 GB (compressed) docker image ...? The read slowness of docker registries continues to surprise me ...
The future will be local models. Let these investors burn the money.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669912
Well yeah, the problem with modern justice is that it doesn't really work. It's a tool for use by the powerful, besides that for common people there is no real justice.

I once got a lot of stuff stolen from me; long story but I could identify the perpetrators with 100% confidence. At the police station they showed me quite a lot of grids of photo mugshots, unsurprisingly I found the thieves.
But then the officer told me that one of them had been caught 17 times, and yet here he was, still stealing stuff.
I was asked to be a witness to make a case, I refused because clearly justice wasn't working at all so what's the point?

I am pretty sure that this person will continue his ways until he dies but society is unwilling to recognize this reality and "justice" is those kinds of people getting a free pass at the expense of law-abiding citizens.

Meanwhile if you are caught driving too fast you will get an insane fee, car seized, and permit revoked. "Justice" is very nice to criminal, but always hard on weak people who have no choice, funny thing that we call it justice.
Shipping containers seem to have a maximum weight of about 20 tonnes so surely around 100 containers?
That's concerning. To be clear, I once worked on a company that developed an audio-based ACR technology to be used in conjunction with a secondary device that users would turn on at their will. Anything more invasive would have been substantially challenging in legal aspects so that was the status quo more than 10 years ago. So it's new to me that not only ACR is somehow pervasive in "smart" devices but also they even don't care whether they are really being used as a television (which has no other interaction mechanism in principle, and ACR is not only for ads).
but we reached the moon, didn't we?
XML=JSON=YAML=TDL (tree describing language)
> just a lie from the start

Ugh. Such a naive and simplistic take. People change, for better and worse. And the figureheads that unaccountable nerds love to bash here are sometimes just that, figureheads.
This one, I think - a brilliant essay. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-boris-johnson-story/
while far from perfect, after watching all three videos, nothing stood out as egregious. Yep... definitely not perfect and still room for improvement. But this headline feels pretty sensational when backed up with the 3 videos (poorly) linked.
Do you mean when an entirely new product category is invented and I didn't even know it's useful to me? Because that's kinda rare.

In other cases such as buying a shoe or a can of beer or a fridge or a car, I just go to the website or the physical store that sells it and I compare the products and buy the most suitable one.

This way purchases would be prompted by an actual need, like when my shoes are worn out, I look to buy new ones instead of it being pushed on me through ads when I don't even need it.

Usually the existence of the ad doesn't mean that it's the best in its category. Why would it be in my interest to be following ads instead of my own research?

Also this gotcha is decades out of date. Today's ads are rarely about the features or suitability of the actual product. Instead they sell a vibe, a lifestyle feeling, they create positive emotional associations in ways orthogonal to the product's attributes. Think Coca Cola with celebrities etc. After all, how would I otherwise know I need a can of coke if the trendy singer didn't tell me about it, right?
For anyone interested in a very deep dive on this topic, check out NIST SP 800-63-3 and 800-63A. The article's concept of an identity proofing spectrum is approached by NIST with formal definitions of Identity Assurance Levels.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/
Of course. Did anyone say otherwise? On-call is typically compensated for (with paid time off and/or money) on top of regular pay, with extras for any time spent on responses to incidents.
Perhaps they are throttling this transfer to 1Gbps so as to not slam their network or disk I/O? It does seem quite slow.
That’s a strange perspective. AEB isn’t 100% reliable but we still allow it on the roads because it’s a net increase in safety. When used correctly FSD seems to be a net increase in safety as well. You can make the case they should do a better job with the labeling, maybe stop calling it FSD to start.
Current labeling is FSD (Supervised), which in my experience is accurate. There’s so many prompts and enforcement of paying attention that zero people are being fooled into thinking they can take a nap and arrive at their destination. If they tried, it’d yell at them before they counted a half dozen sheep.
First of all, the federal sports gambling ban was struck down as unconstitutional, on the grounds that governing sports betting is outside the purview of the federal government. States have every constitutional right to impose sports gambling bans of their own. Even if you support such bans, you should not advocate imposing them unconstitutionally, by a federal government that was not delegated the power to impose them.

Those who support unconstitutional overreaches by the federal government are perhaps not considering the unintended consequences of eroding the principle of governing in accordance with such constitutional limits. They ought to consider a type of government restriction that they oppose and find harmful, and consider how much worse it is when the federal government can nationalize it.

Second, once someone reaches the age of consent, they should be able to do things that run a high risk of ruining their lives. The only type of restriction that I could possibly see being justifiable for activity like this is on advertisements for such activity, which could be required to disclose risks and/or not communicate falsehoods.
>That's false. Native Jewish population across the whole Middle East have always been a second-class citizen persecuted minority in the Muslim Arab countries, as all other conquered people — if they had the fortune to survive and save their identity at all.

>Jews have been slaughtered and persecuted across the whole of Arab world, just as in Palestine, for centuries. So were other ethnical and religious groups. Can you find a single one which was not?

I think this needs to be viewed in context. At various points in time in Antiquity, Jews were enslaved, subjected to poll taxes, massacred, and denied the right to full citizenship even after emancipation. After Theodosius enacted the Edict of Thessalonica, Jews lost the right to build synagogues and were barred from holding many professions. Pogroms became common and Jews were segregated; this was the story well into the 9th century in Byzantine territories. Meanwhile, in western Europe, this is the period where the blood libel originates. Quite a lot of Jews actually migrated into Muslim territories as paying the jizya was considered a sight better than what they got in Christian ones.

The jizya itself is not some unique artifact of Islamic polity anyway, poll taxes, temple taxes in India, and tithes have all variously been levied by rulers of specific sects against constituents who adhered to other ones. The same is true for sectarian hierarchy, which continued well into the age of exploration, when, for example, the Portuguese levied the Xenddi against Muslims and Hindus alike in its territories in India.

Not to suggest that there isn't widespread antisemitism in the Muslim world, but I do think characterizing it as unique and unprecedented when it emerges in the medieval Levant is at least anachronistic if not orientalist.
It was obvious and predictable that laying off government workers and ending various subsidy/stimulus/welfare programs would leave many people worse off in the short term. There better be a part two of this plan.
It’s often suggested in HN comments that keeping a TV disconnected from the LAN will soon be insufficient to prevent data transmission, because companies are on the cusp of including subsidized cell modems in the devices. Have you ever encountered this idea, and is it actually realistic?
The article mentions that Tesla now claims they will show a prototype of a self-driving taxi on October 10. After four years of postponements.[1] After fakes going back to 2016.[2] At a movie studio, not on the road.

We will see.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-robotaxis-will-ready-2...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer...
The GP would have had to appeal only to the expert’s opinion, with no actual evidence, but the GP actually gave a lot of evidence to the expertise of the researcher in the form of peer reviewed papers and other links. That’s not an appeal to authority at all.
Yeah, probably.

What I mean to imply is that it is an issue that is naturally fixed by improved development, and that fixing does require development skill, but the organization can hamstring their developers to prevent them fixing the issue even if they could.
Yep thats the one. Thanks! And the spectator is no friend to socialism, quite the contrary. This is written by fellow journalist Jeremy Vine.
Sometimes girls get bothered about being called dude or bro.

For the former, I’m certainly not going to call you dudette. And it seems widely accepted that dude is gender neutral.

As for bro … I can understand why it bother girls, but I always remember my close friend who says bro so much he frequently uses it even with his wife!!
Did you have to ACK that? I don’t mean to be dubious, but sometimes I worry that the nature of this discussion forum amplifies the issue because commenters are disproportionately likely to act on the work instead of “I didn’t have my pager device.”
This legislation already exists in other countries. For example Swiss engineers have very specific on call requirements, and their salaries aren’t really less than Americans.
If advertising is giving an expected edge over competition bigger than price decrease, then the advertising will be used in sort of an arms race that could have been a competition in giving the best product for the least money instead.

Still, even if there is no immediate price decrease for the customer, I would be much more satisfied if all the money went to the maker(s) of the product and well-investing shareholders than someone who provides no value and could have been working on something productive instead.
You need to look up nominative usage.

"We offer WordPress hosting" is a perfectly legal thing for people to say if they actually offer WordPress hosting, and no amount of trademarks can prevent that. This is specifically called out to try to avoid trademark fuckery.

Sure, everyone refers to the "Big Game" versus the "Super Bowl", but that's largely because the NFL can afford more lawyers than they can, and it's not worth the fight.