jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We have self driving cars right now, see for example DARPA's urban challenge. We only need to increase reliability and decrease costs to make them suitable for the market. There are also some legal problems (e.g. who is responsible if the robot car kills a kitten), but technologically self driving cars are a reality.
What things exactly? Killing people? That is widely supported through ongoing wars, trade embargoes, abortion, and the death penalty.

Rape? What we call rape in many states in the USA, an 18 yr old having consensual sex with a 16 yr old, is accepted in other parts of the world. Or let's take Sweden's definition, having consensual sex without a condom. That's not against the law in most places. Pedophilia? Anthropologists claim found that it is common and accepted in Polynesia and other cultures. Cannibalism? Again, supposedly many cultures practice it and consider it an acceptable and beneficial practice.

What exactly is universally reviled by human nature? Copraphilia? That's not illegal though.
The size of the market does not indicate the quality of the product, only the size of the marketing budget.
Your thesis seems to be "If (if you don't do X, then you starve to death), then X is slavery", but I don't think that's true. Think of small hunter-gatherer groups that lived before the advent of agriculture. If they didn't go out and find food, they would die. But it doesn't seem right to say they were slaves.
Oh, you're asking if the video is slowed down/sped up. Ok.

At first, I thought you were asking if we were watching it in realtime.... and seeing rocket after rocket blow up on this barge.
This is really cool–well done.

I've had the idea for something similar but for #selfie pictures. I think it'd be to compare styles in different geographic regions.
$4.15 billion would be 10x, and $41.5 billion would be 100x
> I do have a huge problem with the content of criminal records, because I have a huge problem with what we consider criminal

While the US wants to know immigrants' criminal history, the US isn't required to care about all of the crimes that show up on the record. For instance, convictions for performing or having an abortion (say, in Brazil) probably won't result in a denied visa.
Somewhat different set of slides[1] was linked in the comments here, it appears the latest chipsets uses SPARC indeed.
1: http://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf
It wasn't the technology so much as the customers/marketplace.

Back in 1999/2000, the market to buy groceries over the Internet wasn't there. Paying for shipping was still a sore point, and Amazon Prime wasn't around yet. People just didn't associate buying groceries with the Internet, so there was a considerable amount of friction they had to overcome, and not a lot of time considering the burden of all the infrastructure they had. Once the bust hit, it was over for them because they didn't make enough revenues to pay their obligations and no more VC money to give them some breathing room.

These days, buying things like groceries is an afterthought, especially post-smartphone where you have a computer everywhere you go, so you can monitor the progress of deliveries, without having to sit by your desktop.
This is definitely interesting but i imagine i wud use it so rarely that it wudnt warrant an install :(
FWIW here's VSCode's issue for supporting Poetry[1] and here's their plan to support it[2]:

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/8372

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/wiki/Support-poet...
As an Australian... that's a deeply weird take on events. The useful takeaway for the Americans is that if your Parliament can't pass a budget, your system needs to pick one of two options: (a) hold elections; or (b) continue the previous year's budget unchanged.
Another thing that would follow Apple's requirements is just buying myweirdwebsite.com
> 70% capacity doesn't seem like much degradation.

It's a lot if you needed the car to go 80% of it's maximum range when new.
The issue here is that police unions don't just represent good police officers, they represent every police officer. Every issue with police unions, like "they make it difficult to fire bad cops", has an analagous issue in every powerful union. Autoworker unions often negotiated terms where companies couldn't fire autoworkers without "just cause" (read: the same kind of absolutely airtight case it would take to fire a police officer; the sort of thing that in practice never happens).

Unions have benefits for their employess of course, like making it impossible to fire them among other things, but then you have to work in the type of environment you get when everybody is impossible to fire.
>But no one is stopping anyone from sending emails. Or setting up their own website and messaging service.

Parler was literally kicked off of AWS and Twillio.
> That loaded fast.

After getting through the order-of-magnitude slower cookie consent page, yes.
I have to say that the dongles situation for iPads is so much better on USB c. The apple adapters cost a fortune compared to the USB c versions.

I was blown away when I plugged a full laptop USB C hub in to my iPad Air 4 and was able to use a USB keyboard, mouse and hdmi out.
My totally unrigorous theory: you don't have to be obsessive to be a reasonably successful employee, but you probably do in order to have a $1b exit. Those people then set the culture, because a bunch of the next wave of ambitious 20 year olds now want a $1b exit just like them. Some people say this is a bad thing, but what can you do about it? Culturally devalue money/success? How?

People don't like impersonal explanations, but I haven't seen a theory on this subject that includes in its model the cultural residue trickling down from the ultimate ability of 23 year olds in our industry to become insanely rich.
I would have liked a little more detail in the fan/filter trade off section.

It's not entirely true that you need a loud fan to move more air through a filter. That looks like a duct booster fan in the picture. Those have very weak (and usually inefficient) motors and impeller design. You could use a PSC motor running a squirrel cage fan. PSC motors are efficient and can handle higher torque. The torque can be used with an appropriate fan/impeller design (like a squirrel cage) to handle the pressure drop through the filters.

That said, the duct boosters are cheap and readily available. Here's a homemade hybrid flow/glove box for inoculating mushroom substrate.

https://postimg.cc/NKrGGRFH
"left to their own devices" doesn't mean that the US (or anyone else) would be uninvolved in things.

I'm addressing what those middle east nations choose to do and who they consult with, get 'approval' from / etc.
I was directly answering your question.

Note that a court is not interested in my understanding of how Google's products work. They are concerned about a layperson's understanding.

Of course, the technologies that much of the internet uses have a lot of inherent privacy implications. The question is whether Google should communicate these accurately to people who do not understand them.
But that still means a real estate agency doesn’t have my address, and the painter doesn’t have the list of shoes I have bought.

Only being able to show me ads in some apps is a comically narrow way of way of “having sold all my data”, akin to “Thugs have sold my house” for “temporarily skinny-dipping in my swimming pool while we were on holidays”. Not nice, but they didn’t sell my house, and Facebook didn’t sell my data, just told an advertiser they could put a picture in a window where there would be house-owners passing by.
If you are reading literature, real literature, purely for information, I'm afraid you've lost the plot somewhere.

As with everything worthwhile in life, good literature is work. Don't expect to pick up a classic novel and understand it immediately.
Nothing in the URL says anything about what's behind it. Something ending in .html or .jpeg can be going through a dozen of microservices and proxies before returning a single byte to you. Any which of these can have countless number of dynamic components each with their own bottlenecks. And something ending in ?randomgarbage=something can be loaded straight from RAM on the nearest CDN.
> should not be performing sterilizations given that it's optional

I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that these sterilizations included procedures that can be medically necessary, such as hysterectomies [1]. And that any medical care is not performed "by jailers", but by doctors that happen to work in jails, over whom jailers have no sway or authority whatsoever. If that is not the case, I agree that's a glaring problem.

[1] "It is the second most commonly performed gynecological surgical procedure, after cesarean section, in the United States." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterectomy
Seems difficult to implement. Suddenly a lot of small companies could appear, each barely making any profit.

Maybe an easier incentive would be to give tax breaks to cooperatives?
I don't have an answer for your question, but I was curious, are you interested in getting paid in BTC at a rate that is tied to the USD or that is negotiated up front based on what the BTC/USD pair is traded at when they sign the offer?

If the former, why not just buy at each paycheck as zepto stated below?
Do you really not see the difference between Bitcoin and, say, Paypal?

Bitcoin closely resembles a strictly finite physical resource. Paypal does no such thing. Bitcoin is money. Paypal is a system for sending money.
The usual way economists look at this is that proxy taxes aren't really effective.

So your company makes a ton of income and it's not taxed - but if every viable path of taking money out of the company is taxed, economists will argue it works better.

So in your scenario they are arguing for a system where your apartment in Monaco either came from direct payments to you (taxed) or is a taxable benefit for you, etc.
> Elixir is really quite good in the semi-embedded space

Yeah, I don't need any convincing there. Erlang was a perfect fit for the device I worked on. High level enough to get things done quickly, but with a really solid, predictable runtime.
This is good news, his ruby on rails screencats[1] are spot on!

[1] http://railscasts.com/
The Feature Macros proposal is only adding macros and vars to Clojure---the reader isn't modified at all. Since all of the things you mentioned are reader macros (as you pointed out), Feature Macros never even see them, so they won't be affected in any way. (Reader macros are expanded before regular macros are, so regular macros don't see things like `#(...)`, they see `(fn [] ...)`.)
I like this answer, but sometimes I work from home. When I know this will be the case, I use dropbox to sync relevant files.

I have also used dropbox in remote locations, to keep a team synced up. It works ok, but works best if you keep a separate working directory (so saves don't automatically generate a sync to cloud).
Job posts are marketing ads, so don't take it seriously. All this posting is hoping to do is to attract people who like Python and get them to apply.

This won't get 100% of the applicants you want but it will get some of then, and that's the whole point.
The dreaming is important. I'm now in a startup past the phase of "changing the world" and into "finding any small market to keep us afloat". The excitement is definitely gone. I find myself buying a coffee, taking a walk, pretty much anything to avoid actually getting to work in the morning. Because once there I'm doing little that anybody will care about. Except our investors of course.
I agree that it sounds like contracting. They're trying to normalize it, I think. Most people won't be contractors because contractors have to pay extra taxes, buy their own benefits, and have no job security. Netflix takes care of these first two and makes the last one softer by giving a "generous severance" while the ex-employee finds a new home (I'm not sure on the specifics of how that works; maybe a NF employee who has been "traded" can offer detail (though he's probably contractually forbidden from doing so)).
By "expressing voice" I mean showing your preferences and acting in some way to make your reality closer to those.

I am not a fan of many window managers available on Linux. The most reasonable solution is not for me to attempt to change the first one I happen to use (Unity in Ubuntu for me) into one I prefer, but to find a community which better suits my use case (i3 now, in Arch - I've clearly made a big jump in communities here).

What you are arguing is that the happenstance of where one starts should absolutely dominate opinions and preferences developed through experience. Or do you think I should have fought Canonical and the entire Ubuntu community to turn it into a much more minimalist distro with i3 as the default WM? There are thousands of orphaned projects out in the wild. If I find one that I like, is it the best use of my time, or is it best for the community for me to take it over, or is it best for me to focus on one of the communities where I find up to date and functioning software?

Similarly, I was born to a pair of Christian parents (one Catholic, one Episcopalian) and experienced two (admittedly very similar) religious traditions growing up. I am now firmly agnostic. Should I follow your line of reasoning and work night and day to turn one of these religions into a bastion of agnosticism, or should I act as a reasonable adult and abandon the community I have no communion (pun intended) with in favor of a community of my choosing? Which community should I choose to fight against in order to make it more pleasing to myself?

Why should the circumstances of my birth bind me inextricably to an arbitrarily delineated geographic region and whatever society predominates there? Why do you expect me to care more about those who live within 500 miles of my birth place than those who live further? Are these people more worthy, more human?

If you admit that the happenstance of birth is exactly that, and that those who share a birthplace with me are not more deserving in any way than those who don't, then how can you demand that I pay more attention to them and make more effort to make them better off?

A strict utilitarian would argue I should go to the worst-off country I can find and help them. I do not believe either of us is a strict utilitarian.

If I find a society that I fit into better than the one I am born into, is it not a cruelty to forbid me to join it? Is it not a qualitatively identical (though quantitatively lesser) cruelty to discourage me from doing so by attempting to make me feel immoral for desiring to join another?

If you value individual choice, why not allow me the pleasure of choosing my own company and my own society? I would argue that the best way to improve societies is to allow anyone to make that same choice.
Nope

>In order to be eligible to compete in the seeding, qualifying, and final tournaments, at least half of your team members must be current students (any school).

http://www.battlecode.org/tournaments/
Id have to look into all your footnotes, but I have direct experience with both countries and if they could hire a local to perform the job the visa would not be approved for a foreigner. There isn't a quota, they just dont get approved.
Well said. This is scary hard. The word 'gruelling' doesn't begin to capture it.
The point is that most people are never going to adopt Bitcoin if they have to worry about the technical side of securing their own funds. And given that there are many examples of incompetence and/or fraud within exchanges and other nascent businesses that intend to handle elements of that security on behalf of customers, and no enforced regulations such as you find in the traditional banking sector, you can imagine that this isn't going to change any time soon.
I used to have nearly every strip memorized.

I'm 90% confident that is not a Calvin & Hobbes strip.

I have not read all the bonus strips from the large anthologies, nor have I read the strips in the teacher's book Watterson contributed to. So, even if my memory is right, it might be one of those.
His current focus is open source mobile communications networks:

https://osmocom.org/
Maybe I'm thick, but I don't understand what your comment means. Can you elaborate?
There are arm phones you can buy now that will boot the aarch64 defconfig kernel from mainline. If a phone doesn't do that it's because the manufacturer doesn't want it to, not because there's something special about arm that prevents it.
I wouldn't say it's surprising at all.
I found this amusing until I realized that it is coming out in Australia shortly
That's a great paper, thanks for the reference.
I'm curious to know how that 7th grader heard about PG. It doesn't really matter for the Q&A, but I'm still curious.

I'm guessing that either a Google search with "computer programming"-type keywords return's PG's page, or that it is via a real-life relationship...
Getting a VC investment is just like a marriage except for the things being equal part. Typically all the power comes with those preferred shares and the only real way to "get a divorce" is to buy them off just like the founder did.

There really are only 3 true options if you need to raise large amounts of institutional capital. 1) Stage a round with so many VCs that if you get one or more bad ones, they get shouted down by the other ones 2) Just take investments from people you know for certain are great (hard to do unless you've taken money from them before 3) Only take a very small amount so you don't actually give up control. That's harder to do since most vc's won't do the deal otherwise.
Why are people...

Carry a clipboard with patient names and diagnoses on it, OK, you're pretty much kosher. Carry a tablet which accesses patient names and diagnoses over a wireless connection and you probably just bought six or seven figures in infrastructure and auditing requirements.

HIPAA: Comply Diligently, Or Get Intimate Domain Knowledge About Emergency Room Operation.
They don't necessarily need their own desktop app. Just enable SIP and allow us to use GV with existing VOIP software and handsets.
Usually 12 or 13.
I'm not familiar with (presumably) the American education system. How old is a seventh grader?
It doesn't happen mechanically, but I think you get about equivalent social behavior - for example Metafilters orders posts by time rather than popularity but there's a great deal of social policing that goes on there and piles upon opinions that are at variance with community norms.
How do you learn that solution curve and their tradeoffs? Swap jobs and hope you see them all in your lifetime? Read articles and hope you pick everything up correctly?
In the poker world, Tom Dwan bet $1M that Phil Ivey couldn't be a vegetarian for one year. Ivey settled after three weeks for $150k.
"The bad technologies we use don't have to be the way they are"
They're not bad technologies, and you can't just 'replace them' and fix the problem. How do you replace P2P and not have IP exposure or a tech that's exactly the same by a different name? That's physically impossible.

How do you replace webgl without identifying information on shader support and GPU model? You don't, that information is given by shader compilation itself.

These technologies are nowhere the same as activex, flash or java. All of those technologies were not built to be safe. They were built to give functionality browsers lacked. Now we have far safer methods of doing this thanks to better features.

Users want their stuff to work, for that to happen you have to have the features necessary for it. Those features are why you can listen to spotify or join voice calls on a browser instead of installing everyones native application which has access to everything.

If you don't want a browser capable of that then use a fork of torbrowser or similar. We will not change anything by trying to reverse the market without actual proof of harm. Instead we can advocate for opt ins to the information these features have given by default.
> when it comes down to technical details, it is required for privacy to be default, otherwise it simply doesn't work.

Absolutely, we are in agreement.

The point I was making is that the coin itself, the base protocols, adding these privacy options makes it the difference between a generic payment protocol and one specifically made to evade the governments controls.

There being a way to do great privacy while leaving the coin itself to be a generic payment coin gives you the best of both worlds.

The point you make is still true, it is required for privacy to be default on. And this can be included in one wallet that people use for this purpose. Now its the choice of wallet that makes the privacy, not the choice of coin.
Perhaps we should start a library. Recently there have been several "classics" re-submitted, and while it's nice to see them again, perhaps we should have a facility where people can browse the classics, and not re-submit them. If it worked well enough perhaps we could persuade PG to have the dup detector check against the classics.
So this clarifies why it behaves better, thanks. Never had the time to dig/research it.

Thanks again.
This should have never been allowed in the first place.
> What a nice manipulative article perfectly targeted at clueless general public.

This could describe approximately 100% of local news articles/segments on any topic even remotely political or controversial. And maybe 75% of the remaining.
Git annex is pretty flexible, more of a framework for storing large files in git than a basic sync utility. ("Large" meaning larger than you'd want to directly commit to git.) If you're running Git Annex Assistant, it does pretty much work as basic file sync of a directory. But you can also use it with normal git commits, like you would Git LFS. Or as a file repository as chubot suggested. The flexibility makes it a little difficult to get started.

The basic idea is that each file targeted by `git annex add` gets replaced by a symlink pointing to its content. The content is managed by git annex and lives as a checksum-addressable blob in .git/annex. The symlink is staged in git to be committed and tracked by the usual git mechanisms. Git annex keeps a log of which host has (had) which file in a branch named "git annex". (There is an alternate non-symlink mechanism for Windows that I don't use and know little about.)

I use git annex in the git LFS-like fashion to store experimental data (microscope images, etc.) in the same repository as the code used to analyze it. The main downside is that you have to remember to sync (push) the git annex branch _and_ copy the annexed content, as well as pushing your main branch. It can take a very long time to sync content when the other repository is not guaranteed to have all the content it's supposed to have, since in that scenario the existence and checksum of each annexed file has to be checked. (You can skip this check if you're feeling lucky.) Also, because partial content syncs are allowed, you do need to run `git annex fsck` periodically and pay attention to the number of verified file copies across repos.
It's a sad year for McElroy listeners. Between this and Graduation, I'm not sure there will be anything left after 2021.
Sad. Yahoo no longer wants to be responsible for hosting any UGC, they would rather sell ads.
I don't know what they're trying to be, but outside of Yahoo Finance the only other thing I'm aware of people using Yahoo for these days is fantasy sports. One of the fantasy football leagues I do every year still uses Yahoo, and other friends that play fantasy seem to report similar. But I don't know what the numbers actually are because it's true Yahoo doesn't seem to lean into that role much.
St. Louis would have likely been in the same general area too because of the Missouri river.