jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OK, an oversized self-driving electric limo that seats 4. Why not?

It's amusing that Mercedes' concept of the future of automotive transportation is total isolation from the external world. They didn't go all the way to windowless, but it seems to have more display screen acreage than side windows.

They seem to have borrowed the "street glow" concept from lowriders.[1] The car has large areas of blue LEDs on the front and back faces. That's so LA.

The concept might work, once they get the bulk of the vehicle down and lose the tacky bling.

[1] http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff272/tilley858/RX-7-Stre...
I honestly feel that in this case we can say that beyond a reasonable doubt this is a state-sponsored attack. This is because of both the target and the fact that traffic is manipulated at the "great" firewall to initiate this attack.
I really like breadfruit - I prefer it over potatoes. But it's not as simple as potatoes. It's slightly toxic when raw (depends on the species) and preparation, although not difficult, isn't as simple as potatoes.

That said, if it was actually regularly available I would buy it regularly. I always assumed it wasn't available for the same reasons mangosteen wasn't available in the u.s. - that it was banned due to worry about parasites. We get mangosteen here in europe and I assume it's now available in the u.s. too. I'll have to look for some breadfruit now...
Hopefully, a key benefit of autonomous cars is that they optimize speed to minimize jams and improve overall traffic flow.

https://keshavsaharia.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/traffic-op...

Things like junctions/intersections would be much better managed (we might even be able to make them free-flowing on roads where non-autonomous vehicles were banned).
"There is no political will to do so."

That was true a couple of years ago, but healthcare.gov was a wakeup call, and everybody from the president on down takes reforming government IT seriously.

I was part of the healthcare.gov "tech surge" and I can tell you firsthand that the government is willing to change. In the last year, the healthcare.gov UI was streamlined from 76 to 16 screens for the average user. Large parts of the site now run on AWS and more is moving. The most problematic individual component, the login system, was rewritten from scratch with an API-compatible, drop-in replacement which now serves 100% of traffic. And this has been done within the same agency responsible for the original site. It is not a story of "smart hackers" parachuting in and wresting control away from government bureaucrats, but rather partnering with the agencies and creating reform from within.

USDS itself, although started by the White House, now has bipartisan support and a real budget to grow. Although you are right that there are powerful entrenched interests in the beltway, the political will to change is there, and now the challenge is to recruit people like Andrew to seize the opportunity.
Yeah -- and that's a good point. I am also interested in seeing if we're going to see a bunch of self driving cars running around at exactly the speed limit, like grandma out on a Sunday drive. And how many drivers is that going to anger?
> I always found this fact fascinating. Why would I attribute different levels of worth to two artifacts that were totally identical, save for their method of construction?

You might be interested in Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", in which he muses about more or less the same question: What is the difference between the original and an identical copy, made possible due to the technical advantages of our times?

Wikipedia has a summary and a link to the complete text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_M...
If you are in a browser, you can fade them out or hide them via browser extensions.

I am building Flix Plus by Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/flix-plus-customizes-netflix-to-your-h...) right now which does this within Chrome.
Maybe I want to believe too much.

Regardless, I would say that there's a big difference between murdering someone who is blackmailing you and other kinds of murder, to the point that I wouldn't expect psychopathy from someone who was doing the former.
> It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself.

People like Jacques Ellul had been warning us about that for at least five or six decades now, I guess that's how long it takes from an idea first being "caught" as actually "existing" (for lack of a better word) to becoming so prevalent as to be very easily observable.

I'd also very highly recommend the works of Ulrich Beck [1], well, his "Risk Society" to be more precise, to quote wikipedia: "Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk" [2]. It is a book written in the mid '80s, right before Chernobyl, and recently other people have (re-)discovered him too, like in this "Foreign Policy" article [3] from last August.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Beck

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_society

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/01/the-sociologist-who-cou...
Yandex! It's like Russian Google, but the results (or at least the English-language results) are more algorithmic, without human intervention in the rankings.
the use of the phrase 'the last man' is a nod to Nietzsche's concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man . we see similar sentiments echoed elsewhere in culture, for example: the masses placated by soma in Huxley's 'Brave New World', the blue pill in the matrix, or the public medicated by cheap conveniences in Idiocracy.

the author is pointing towards a decadent and impotent cultural milieu -- "Nietzsche warned that the society of the last man could be too barren and decadent to support the growth of healthy human life or great individuals."

Search for the text "blink" on this page https://praxeology.net/zara.htm for a fuller picture. "We have discovered happiness," -- say the Last Men, and they blink.
Great! Do you have an example of a form from your home country (assuming you don't live in the US)?
Log into irs.gov and download your transcripts. You can also call them and request they be faxed or mailed to you. But they are only usually available by about July of the tax year, so only useful if you're filing late
Not the poster but I assume an easy setup is simply ubuntu server, nginx, get a domain and put it on cloudflare free plan, setup a script that updates your home IP to cloudflare dns records.
Then do letsencrypt for the https cert, setup automatic renewal, and you're probably good.
On "60 Minutes" they reported that the hardware in your computer is likely compromised as well, so new hardware will have to be bought.

This has a simple fix I've advocated for years.

Put the firmware for disk drives, USB sticks, embedded systems, etc., in ROM. Or at least provide a physical write-enable switch for updates.

I have no idea why people responsible for security do not demand this. I would expect them to be really sick and tired of "we have no idea if our firmware is infected or not, because we allow any piece of software to modify the firmware."
I wasn't talking about methods for matrix multiplication.

The algorithms that are used by most ad recommendation services are deep enough themselves.

The ICML test of time award this year was for an adaptation of a technique used to study online decision making algorithms.
> Firefox sends anonymized technical data

Can't we intercept this data and see what it is?
Right?

What's DALL·E.? What's a VAE?

A post to hacker news doesn't target a specific niche community.
Can't comment on the accuracy of this overall, but there are a lot of mistakes/sloppiness with the Yiddish. The word is "tsore" not "sore", "shul" has meant school in Yiddish for a long time and not exclusively synagogue, and "und" is German and not Yiddish.
You're given a space to work in!
Pre-pandemic, most fully remote companies like Basecamp had people get together a couple times a year. I expect that to be the norm. (Also at bigger companies. I'm on a team that's very distributed and we fly to get together for offsites.)
Never understood downvotes on questions or on economics. The cost of something affects how well it will scale. This is like downvoting a question about performance specs. Cost is a performance spec that determines scaling.
They can sell one line of Windows-proof highly capable, futuristic computers while keeping and developing their legacy-ish, kludgy, virus-infested, Windows-bundled, 8080-descendant-based inefficient lines.

Of course, Microsoft will probably find a way to increase their OEM pricing, specially if the Windows-proof line ends up making a dent on the Windows-bundled lines. And they don't even need to increase, say, Asus's licensing prices. All they have to do is to lower Acer's.
Give Smalltalk a look, it's probably the truest OO language out there and best to teach OO with.
There are a depressing number of such umbrella-terms. The (likely) grand-daddy of them all being "chronic fatigue", which you'll almost certainly get applied to you if you have an undiagnosed cause of "fatigue" for more than 6 months.

The depressing part is that such umbrella terms prevent study of the causes, because they likely come from many sources, and muddle any research.
Perhaps, though there is a fascinating link between the three illnesses you mention and vitamin D deficiency.[1] The human body is a complex organism that we are only beginning to understand, but there are a few critical things that the human body absolutely needs to survive and thrive.

In the short-term, we all need adequate food, water, and air. Without this short-term fuel, we die.

In the long-term, vitamin D <rant>misnamed as it is not a vitamin but is actually the most powerful seco-steroid hormone in the body -- a seco-steroid hormone is basically just something in the body that is made from cholesterol and turns genes on and off</rant> optimizes health. If you think about it, it makes sense intuitively that vitamin D would be so critical. Most living things have adapted to make something useful from the sun's radiation. Plants use it to feed themselves, and most animals use it to help generate vitamin D.

[1] Sorry for the crazy-long-and-to-a-google-doc link -- I didn't want to give the PDF-link and the original New England Journal of Medicine HTML page is subscriber-only: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o13HNdtJjWwJ:c...
Isn't there an issue with not being able to read .epub format though?

I have a nook which I use exclusively for reading out-of-copyright epubs. I can't complain about it.
Actually, the placebo effect is not a delusion, that's why it's called that and not "the placebo delusion." A better analogy would be something that worked despite not believing that it will. Results despite opinion, as it were.

The upshot is that discipline is self-evident. Anything that has an effect on discipline is indistinguishable from placebo. Either you're getting more done or you aren't, there's not a lot of room for "getting stuff done, but in a fake way."
Jeff McMahan has some very interesting arguments about what we are. Simply put, he argues that we are not our cells. Our cells, our organisms are simply part of ourselves. Based on that I think that we are entities made out of e.g. our cells, immune systems and the bacteria which our organisms carry. Sure, we can make a distinction between 'us' and 'them'; it's just that 'us' actually includes 'them', and that it's just a distinction made by ourselves because we like simple models and hate the feeling of being not autonomous. Humans like to compartmentalize: we see that all the time especially when dealing which psychiatric diseases.
Good to know. FWIW, the starter plan was available before the AppSumo deal (though not for long - it began as an experiment) and is also available to any other existing user. I just plan to turn it off after the deal ends to move things over to my new pricing plans, but decided to keep it alive long enough for this deal.
On the other hand, "search" is much more advanced in e-books. Taking notes, bookmarks, etc. It's just that e-paper/e-ink isn't as responsive as tablets. It'll come, though. It's only a matter of time.
I don't want to challenge too many points of your post here, but I have a couple questions:

"This example also brings up another typical point of confusion in building distributed systems: people actually want "ordered processing", not "ordered delivery". The physical receiving order does not matter: your friend will not attempt to follow instruction #2 without first following instruction #1. If instruction #2 is received first, your friend will wait for instruction #1."

How do you handle that, practically speaking? In say, any system that operates at a scale where you might have thousands of messages per second. One concern I have with holding onto instruction 2 until instruction 1 arrives is, what if it never arrives? The system is blocked, isn't it?
On x86 machines (which includes any standard desktop/laptop PC) C/C++ is compiled into x86 before it can be executed. Writing in C or C++ is actually more abstracted than x86.

As a rule, hand-written x86 assembly will outperform C or C++, when both are very thoroughly optimised.
See also: Asch Conformity Test
thanks, didnt realize i7 was an option. you just complicated my life! :)
A lot of this may be errors in the more-complicated delivery supply chain rather than intentional dishonesty, or intentional dishonesty on the part of someone other than the (listed) customer.

We've had our delivery orders show up next door. Orders for next door show up on our doorstep. Orders for somebody the next block over show up on our doorstep. Orders go completely missing. Dashers pick up the wrong order at the restaurant. Restaurants pack the wrong item into the wrong order. Restaurants leave off an item. Platforms display menu items that the restaurant isn't actually selling.

In most cases, when our order doesn't show up, we call the platform and get the charge refunded, or sometimes have the order resent. But when we've called a platform to say that we got somebody else's meal, they might be looking for it, they tell us "Well, it's yours now." We've gotten a few free lunches (and one free order of ~$200 worth of groceries) this way, making up for the many missing items and occasional lost grocery delivery. We assumed that the platform is eating (no pun intended) the cost of this, but maybe they're just passing it along to the restaurant.

Some of this is also generic credit card & identity theft. We had our bank account number stolen a few months ago; you damn well bet we're going to call and shut down that account and get those charges reversed, and whoever's providing services to someone with fraudulent payment methods is going to eat the costs.
Is there a way to wrap NFT in DRM?

I've been thinking of an possible business idea:

Musicians sell digital copies of their music. Users can resell these but 10% of sales go back to the musician - lifetime royalties basically.

Users can also "lend" the music ...think stream it like on spotify.
Streamers pay a monthly fee, maybe $10/month.

Every time someone streams something from your library you get a token good for a share of the monthly revenue, every stream = 1 token, or maybe more valuable streams are worth more tokens? Some sort of value based on popularity of song.

Musicians could control how many albums are in circulation thus controlling their residuals to some extent, there'd be algorithms recommending a good amount based on their popularity, requests to stream, sales and second-hand sales, etc...

Basically merging of CDBaby with Spotify and CD Connection (or any second-hand music store).
Maybe there could be a trading function too: Trades are "free" except for a transaction fee split between platform devs and artists, so artists always get something from every trade, sale, stream.

Another feature could be adding in ticket sales... creating one hub to control everything for musical artists...

I'm just not sure how to possibly get started on something like this or if it's even feasible with technologies currently out there.
I seem to remember reading that introverts are more likely to suffer from depression.
I use feedly. The UI is closest to what I liked about reader.
Exactly. I haven't used it for weeks after looking at what the fuss and hype is about.

It's another media and VC hype machine to get a giant exit scam out of an acquisition whilst our 'conversations' are being listened in and our phone numbers being collected and it's already being riddled with hackers.

With Twitter and Facebook feature clones coming along, We'll see how Clubhouse fights for survival whilst being 'copied to death'.
Does anyone know if rollback netcode works well in a 20+ player shooter game? I curious because the current craze of Battle Royals seems really taxing to the whole re-simulation of multiple frames within the window of a single frame.

Without being any less subtle, games like Apex Legends is known for really bad server performance, latency, and among other things.
> a) You're going to write unit tests anyway.

I fail to see the point of this remark.

At best, you're arguing in favour of reinventing the wheel. With. Every. Single. Call.

At worse, you're somehow arguing in favour of being far less productive by having to fill in boilerplate code to run your own hand-rolled and error prone and hard to maintain typing checks.

Where's the value in this?

> b) Null is a value of the wrong type, and most type systems let that one through.

I really see no point in this assertion. So what if "most type systems" handle a specific type in a way you don't personally like? Are you writing your software based on Nond alone? Just specify your type and let the static type checker flag an error if it catches the possibility of a type seeping through an interface. Heck, Python's type hints system already support None, Optional, and even union types. You can also double-check with unit tests and runtime type checks. The TypeScript community considers this a solved problem. Why should this be of any concern to the Python community?

> c) Values have a habit of coming from outside the boundaries of the type system. Sockets, files, etc. You will always have to deal with (or reject) arbitrarily wacky inputs at runtime.

I fail to see the relevance of this point. With static type checks you specify the interface you're expected to support. You write and test your code based on that interface, and if the language enforces it then everyone, including your dependencies, also declare a contract that they comply with.

How is that a problem? At all?

> d) Static typing leads programmers to overspecify data and make programs unnecessarily brittle.

This assertion is quite wrong. At best, you're complaining that there might be a programmer somewhere that over specified an interface. How is this a problem? At all?

Meanwhile, let's look at the real world. Even if you intentionally turn a blind eye to what's already offered by Python's type hints, just look at how TypeSript handles interfaces. With it, you can quite literally specify that a function's input/output parameter is just an object that might have a key of acertain type. Then, to move the dial away from loose and into rigour, you can use type guards to infer more specific types. Why is this supposed to be a problem ?
I ported my https://rpgplayground.com from ActionScript3 to Haxe several years ago. (It's an RPG Maker for the web).

Very happy with it! The main benefit for me is that once I want to go to other platforms, even game consoles, I can do that without much hassle.

I used to be an avid Python developer, and thought that language was really undervalued. Now I have the same feeling about Haxe.

When people ask me what language I use for RPG Playground, and I say Haxe, they have no idea what I'm talking about. I always mention that Dead Cells is also built in Haxe, and the it's "ah I know that one".

Expect big things for Haxe!
I developed some RSI in my right followed by both wrists/fingers last fall due to overuse and poor body/hand/arm posture. Thankfully it relieved with lots of rest, but heed your body's warnings lest it become permanent!

I took 4 days off in the middle of reaching a deadline just to correct my ergo setup, and the rest combined with learning really helped.

1. Take breaks! I know it sucks, I was on a deadline. But you'll be cursed with 0 deadlines later (out of work) if you push it too far.

2. A vertical mouse is better than a standard mouse because it moves the pressure from your sensitive, soft tissue under your wrist to the side. But your arm/wrist isn't immune there either. This prevents strain in my wrist now, but during an intense period, it doesn't help. Assuming you get the right trackball, trackball > vertical mouse > standard 'flat' mouse.

3. The best sources I've found are a little outdated in terms of webpage but in the end helped me immensely! The Cornell Human Ergo lab [0] is a big site with lots of useful information, namely a quick snapshot of roughly idealized setup with points like negative keyboard tilt [1], and a checklist for yourself [2].

4. A trackpad is in some ways better for your arm position than a mouse, because it's closer to your body's midline. Of course, a track pad can be worse on your fingers/hand.

5. Your ergo setup and body is a system. Even if you make one objectively positive change, this may result in undue pressure on another part of your body. Watch your aches and pains and adjust each accordingly. This usually takes iteration, or changes throughout the day (i.e. time split standing vs. sitting; time split using mouse, trackball, pen tablet).

Edit: #6 it goes without saying but is worth emphasizing: get regular exercise, sleep, and eat a balanced diet. These 3 go a long way. IME even brief brisk walks during breaks were better than simple breaks away from the keyboard.

[0] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/
[1] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/DEA6510/dea6512k/ergo12tips.ht...
[2] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUVDTChecklist.html
I don't see any reason the swift type system could not accommodate the types required for ML. I did a lot of work with computer graphics in Swift, which is all linear algebra also, and the type system was a huge benefit.

Also I don't see why Swift would perform worse than python in any case. If python is fast, it's because it's wrapping a C++ library. There's no reason Swift could not wrap the same library, but on top Swift could communicate better type information back to the user.
My physical therapist's best guess is that I have pinched radial nerves in both arms. Things that have helped the most:

1. Stretches and nerve glides every couple hours.

2. Ergo keyboard[0], focused on separation so my arms are more squared with my body, and on keys that are easy to press (no more mechanical keyboard for me).

3. Foot pedals for CTRL/SHIFT/ALT. I hacked together[1] a custom solution with an arduinio and a couple industrial pedals.

My advice is start working with a PT as soon as you notice any pain or numbness in your arms or hands. I'm to a sustainable point now but I should have taken action months before I did. Maybe I could have beat it completely. Still hoping I will at some point. You're probably going to need to take some serious rest. It can be hard with deadlines or other work pressures, but try to think long term.

A gram of prevention is worth a kg of cure.

[0]: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/

[1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/ergo-pedals