jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The whole point is they're selling you some hardware only (a modified Android), and it's legal if you yourself modify your own car or something. You have to manually install the software and mount it physically after buying this.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma...

It seems well-tested and safe though, not something sizzling out the lab, they're just using a legal loophole.
> Even if someone had rushed out of the gate in 2018, they would probably not have ad products ready for a couple of years (and last year there was covid too) - and this with the most basic tech, which we know actually took significant time to be refined.

Ignorant question: are you not allowed to start developing a product, or "planning" to develop a product, before a patent it infringes on expires? I see from glancing at Wikipedia that with a US patent, "making" the item is infringement, but where is the line on that? Is it that you literally can't fully make the thing, i.e. only get 99% of the way there and you're fine? Or is it infringement to have an on-the-record chat with a buddy that you're thinking of working on X when the patent for X expires? (Responses in the form of LMGTFY are welcome, I couldn't quickly figure out how to search for this.)
Does 3M actually manufacture masks in Minnesota, or anywhere in the U.S. for that matter? Or do they simply buy masks from a white-labeler overseas?
Out of interest

In the US, how much help is testing now other than to sample the population to get an idea of the spread?

Would it not be more interesting to know how well people are self isolating? Finding out where the message isn't getting through?
Almost is. He’s a good friend of Mateschitz and basically can ‘recommend’ any decisions in team.
Earth orbits a second generation star. So the first generation had to form and live to the end of its sequence before the stellar explosion created the heavier elements that our solar system is made out of. Without that life is very hard to imagine. So a lot of this 'delay' is perfectly natural, life may not have had a chance to emerge much sooner in this particular solar system than it did.
Infact they got it backwards. It takes confidence won from experience and paid for with crisis to say screw that to "Best Practices"
TNSTAAFL— the stoics were on to something. Also, research falls apart when it comes to rare events, otherwise we could predict and prevent mass shootings, which coincidentally might themselves be a side effect of psychiatric medication. If only there were more data points we could know things we don’t know.
I'm a long time Linux user who buys software. If you want me to buy it, these are the things you should do:

1. Provide an RPM repo or COPR repo I can add so it is managed with dnf. You'll also want to provide .deb too

2. Make source available with payment, and allow modification for individual use. It's ok to prohibit redistribution as long as personal use/hacking is ok

3. One time payment is a lot more attractive to me than a subscription. I'm beginning to despise subscription software

What are you thinking of making?
Reminds me of US Steel selling off a rail that bypassed the Chicago railtraffic jam for big money:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-09-27-070926...
Depends what is "rock bottom". I do believe there's a huge untapped opportunity. And I assume that some tech entrepreneurs will figure it out. We have the computers in our palms. We just need the sensors. I think there's be a strong demand at the $500 price point - assuming that the consumables don't cost too much.
>Apple has paid hundreds of billions of dividends to shareholders the last few years. It's borrowed money to do it because it would be taxed if it repatriated funds to pay dividends with.

Yeah, the reason why this strategy works is because Apple can pay dividends today and just wait for the inevitable tax holiday that comes when a republican president enters the white house. Similar schemes work with cryptocurrency in Germany. Holding onto Bitcoin for one year grants you tax exemption from capital gains. So you just borrow against your Bitcoin for one year.

Corporate taxes have been gamed so much they are purely cosmetic at this point, with some harm done to smaller companies. A better tax code is needed.
If you enjoyed this you might be interested in reading up on James Randi. To quote Wikipedia, he is "a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience."

There are numerous documentaries and films about him and his life, the one that got me started was a BBC Storyville episode: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p029bgws

It's not currently available on iPlayer apparently, though that restriction does not apply to torrent sites. Couldn't recommend it enough.
I still don't see how your position is any worse when Spotify is paying you more.
Could you expound a bit on why you think it's more useful?

I am thinking about getting one (or one of a couple other similar options), because I think it would be MUCH more comfortable for reading and annotating papers, which is my main practical use case for an iPad. And if it's at all a decent replacement for a paper notebook, that would reduce the number of things in my bag.

But I'm also a bit worried that the organizational features might be lacking. Specifically, it sounds like there's no fulltext search feature, and syncing has to be done through their cloud service, which sounds troublesome because I've already got a system and encompasses file types and tools that ReMarkable doesn't handle.
>No, they were not

Not arguing any real point other than yes those words did. Have a couple of definitions I found in a rather harshly titled old book, Backward and feeble-minded children

> Idiots. — Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that of a normal child of about two years.

> Morons. — Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.

https://archive.org/details/backwardfeeblemi00huey/page/6/
I'd be a customer if the price was lower..
you just described 100% of social media to me.
I see a lot of whataboutism when debating crypto currency issues. We assess the env impact of everything you just listed - monitors and cctv have energy ratings, and if you google for eco friendly mattresses you will see there is a lot going on in that area as well. So, really, whats the issue with making sure cryptos are energy efficient?
Yes, and it also gives us the chance to develop sequestration pathways in parallel to fine-tuning the technology. And, if companies can use cleaner sources of CO2 than ethanol offshoots, that would be a net good for the planet as well.
Obviously anecdotal, but my wife is a nurse and she's been hearing some frightening things about the vaccine. Young people getting it are basically bed-ridden for days and are calling out of work...one lady couldn't lift her arm anymore and is now getting physical therapy...one guy went out to dinner with his family after getting it and had complete memory loss of the entire dinner.

At what point does common sense risk to reward ratio come into play for young people?
I believe the toolchain he's looking for is:

apt-get source packagex

apt-get build-dep packagex

tar xzf …

code code code

dpkg-buildpackage

diff -u … > patch.diff

bugreport -A patch.diff packagex

The functionality's all there; all that's really needed is a FAQ pointing it out.
This is a release, a relatively new github feature

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

Check out the list of D3 releases
https://github.com/mbostock/d3/releases/
Choice quote:

"Nothing like this has been done before," John Schwartz, a US Customs and Border Protection official, said of the legal approach. "Most certainly our nation's security will be enhanced. There are a lot of bad people out there. This will help us remove some of those pests from society."

Regardless of how anyone may feel about 'lie-detector' tests, this is chilling.
> Your points about climate change and other recent political developments are not relevant to understanding this situation at all.

Well, it is certainly possible that they are irrelevant, but I see that you have given up any pretense of justifying that claim.

On the one hand, given how badly your earlier attempts to make that case went, I can see why you would want to avoid another try. On the other, as the person making the claims has demonstrated such a poor record on critical thinking here, why would anyone just accept it?

And these are claims, I may add, that you recently doubled-down on once again, as in this statement:

>Far from my case being based on a fallacy so obviously wrong that it may not occur often enough to have a recognized name, the reality is that your reply suffers from one that is well known and quite common among your ilk: recency bias.

The thing about parody is that it doesn't work if the premise is false! And what premise was behind this version of your claim of recency bias? Explicitly this: "the article actually discusses national winterization standards versus those of Texas, and points out both that other southern states have experienced power disruptions due to the cold, and that the national winterization standards are neither stricter than those of Texas nor strict enough to address the events of recent days."

For one thing, I had only just before pointed out that the fact that multiple states were unprepared does not excuse any one of them. Secondly, what sort of claim could both be an example of recency bias, and be refuted by the statement of yours that I have just quoted? For example, if someone said "only Texas was affected", it would be refuted by that statement of yours, but it would simply have been a false statement about a recent event. That would not be recency bias!

Your other basis for claiming recency bias is "Texas's separate grid dates back decades, and was driven by a conscious desire to optimize for the needs of manufacturing", but as Texas was free to respond to more recent warnings about the inadequacy of its energy infrastructure, its failure to do so at that time is, of course, more relevant than the facts you quote about a much earlier time. This is not recency bias!
Some talk of Spam and 'OcapPub' by Serge at https://archive.org/details/apconf-talks
This is exactly what I came here to say. Thank you for saving me the time, and doing so far more eloquently than I would have. Using the correct tool for the job is the only thing that matters in this situation; dogma is the bane of productivity.

As an anecdote, I once knew a budding developer who insisted we use Gentoo for our new phone system. He recompiled the phone system at least 5 times a day. We had it stable for a week when he decided we needed to upgrade the kernel and all of the packages. We lost everything, and the owner of the company demanded we use Fedora going forward. We never did stand up that VoIP phone system in the time I worked there.

The right tool is the one that works. Sometimes we forget that. Some of the most popular web applications and start ups we know and love were built on the platforms we adamantly ridicule and despise.
Why are you grabbing things from my Twitter stream? Why would I have anything there at all for you to grab?

I didn't make it past the "let us use your Twitter account" step, but my assumption from reading the homepage was that you'd put stuff into Twitter on my behalf.
I struggled with this for months until i realized one thing. And trust me on this: Follow the one you're most passionate about.

You WILL NOT be able to sufficiently execute on an idea if you're not passionate about it.
I say that because there are so many factors outside of the tester's control that "fortunate" is the best word I can think of to describe success/failure. Someone could have been born without whatever genetic pedigree would help them score better, which is pure chance. Someone could have been born into a family situation which precluded them from a serious academic regimen which would enable them to score better, which is pure chance. Someone could have taken the test at a location where some asshole flushed a cherry bomb that morning and blew up the one toilet available for test takers (that happened when I took the SAT), and the resulting distraction could have impacted their score. Because of this, I don't believe performance on a standardized test correlates with anything meaningful. I certainly don't believe your ACT score in 7th grade is meaningful in any way. I think you're really just starting a pissing contest with the unfortunate side effect that everybody here has to get wet. Don't do that.

From the provided citation, it seems that the 75% SAT score is 1200 without the new writing section. That would be 200 points above the standardized average, which means that your point that most of the school exhibits poor academic performance is patent bullshit. It may not be MIT, but Linfield College surely has its place and it is certainly not your place to throw your weight around like you're Scott Aaronson and claim that the college is incapable of academic work. Go out and do something worthwhile instead of insulting strangers.

For the record, I have not taken the ACT but I have taken the SAT, the GRE and the Stanford-Binet IQ test. My scores on each were high enough that they render the tests virtually meaningless when it comes to measuring my "intelligence." They have no more measure of "intelligence" than my golf handicap or mile time have of my "athleticism."
I am not opposed to your solution, but sadly, I think it would be an extremely rare case. The ruby core team is very conservative with change, and I don't see some sweeping stdlib switch happening. James Edward Gray II was successful with ousting CSV for his improved implementation, and I think that's probably the way it will happen, if anything does happen. One library at a time.
This comes across as desperate to me. I don't think Intel can compete meaningfully with TSMC at this point, and process is literally all that matters as we hit the limits of physics. This sounds like a last-ditch effort to find _something_ which will help them out of the hole their currently in with waves hands ... hope?

Intel is roughly a quarter to a third the size of NVidia, a tenth the size of Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft... AMD is starting to eat into the server market, and ARM is more of an existential threat now that Apple sells ARM-based computers and Amazon is deploying ARM based servers. They are no longer a powerhouse, and IMHO, very likely won't ever regain their lead. I think Intel is going to end up like IBM, largely irrelevant, but still hobbling along somehow how as a ghost of its former self. Once single core performance on ARM meaningfully exceeds x86 (which it likely will because energy efficiency will eventually be the defining factor to enable higher speeds) for their most profitable markets, like Fintech it'll be "game over"[1] for Intel.

Intel's management has as a matter of fact: fucked around for the last decade. There is little they can do at this point short of a miracle, to undo their chicanery and prevent the "find out" portion as the market leaves them behind. It's just too bad it's the employees and retail stock holders who will get fucked over in the end.

[1] "Game over" for a multi-billion dollar juggernaut that lasted decades is hobbling along shilling their shittiest technology for decades (think HP).
Were they married at the time of this interview?
Are you suggesting that's a light punishment?
"Gaping holes exposed"
You should take a look at the Yii framework.

http://www.yiiframework.com/
> if you start secret chat only you and your peer knows encryption keys

The moment a product is "secure by exception" rather than "secure by default," a huge benefit of E2E encryption is immediately thrown out the window. Sometimes the simple knowledge of which conversations are secure, and which aren't, is more valuable than the content of those conversations.

Furthermore, when everything is E2E encrypted, mass surveillance of message content is essentially quashed.
> Why would fruits be more scarce for a non predator (as where human ancestors), than meat?

Seasons change?

Meat is available year-round but can be dangerous to acquire and prepare safely.

Fruits/veggies are easy but seasonal food sources that store poorly, and with vast competition.

Grains and tubers are difficult to transport, spoil, and are of limited supply determined by the growing season (especially without agriculture).

Our hunt & gather ancestors followed the seasons far closer than farmers. At least on gut check, it seems fat adaptation would be strongly selected for as well as a strong taste for carbs as available
Appreciate that you take the time to do this. One quick question here, which big problems would you work on now if you were in your twenties?
Where's my password reset email? Hasn't come through yet because the email-miner is still searching for the right nonce
> Evolutionary processes have given us so much unnecessary baggage

21 years ago, when I started writing a cross-platform digital audio workstation called Ardour, I was convinced that your claim above applied to contemporary mixing consoles. It seemed to be that they had evolved in ways that were deeply constrained by physics/mechanical/electrical engineering, and that there were all kinds of things about their design that was just unnecessary baggage from their crude history.

Two decades later, I understand how that evolutionary process actually instilled those designs with all kinds of subtle knowledge about process, intent, workflow, and even desire. It turns out that the precise placement of knobs, and even their diameter and resistance-to-motion, rather than being arbitrary nonsense derived from the catalog of available parts, rather precisely reflect what needs to be done.

Don't be so quick to dismiss your physical form or the subtle wisdom that evolution can imbue.

There's also the whole "situated action" sub-field of AI, which is centered around the idea that humans build themselves physical environments to embody and maintain knowledge in order to reduce computational load during decision making.
Unclack (linked in the article) did a Show HN a few days ago. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644828
Anecdotally, in my own testing for projects nginx beats HAProxy and Varnish every time. But I'm also very comfortable with configuring nginx and known the module ecosystem well for any edge-cases I might encounter.
Cool!

Windows please.

Someone. Anyone.
More a technique in preparing it. Just like anything else that may seem unappetizing on its own. Sweetbreads are pretty tasty, and tripe isn't the worst if it's prepared well. Intestine can get tough if not prepared properly, which is not pleasant to me (though my in-laws seem to like it that way).
At one place, fresh out of college, I quickly found myself tracing trough about 1000 lines of assembly code for trap/exception/interrupt handling. That job was to develop an embedded supercomputer OS kernel. (for use in aircraft and submarines)

Amazon wanted me diagnosing Linux kernel "oops" reports. That would involve looking at hex dumps and register dumps, then mapping that back to C source code to determine the problem.

There was a place that would have had me writing bare-metal software to generate high-volume network packets for testing network gear.

One place had me port some Linux kernel changes, including assembly code, to x86_64.

Currently I mostly write emulators for undocumented hardware. I use IDA Pro as my disassembler. I keep that running all the time. I can spot a security vulnerability as I look at the binary executable in the disassembler; this is an expected part of the job. Sometimes I need to write assembly code or even raw hex bytes in order to demonstrate how things can happen. At one point I had to write assembly code such that the 16-bit checksum of the binary code didn't exceed 0xffff, not counting the last 2 bytes. Another time I had to write code that didn't have any 0x00 bytes in it; this required modifying the instructions in a hex editor.
I tend to think I am an animal with a language faculty and that there is common some experience I share with animals and also that animals are capable of many of the kinds of practical cognition.

I deny the idea that animals have a moral inferiority to humans, in the sense that they make worse decisions as to practical ethics.

For instance, a horse will express affection if you feed it but if you feed a child it might complain it isn't right and then wonder why his mom would rather feed the horses.

I think on any continent you will have a much easier time getting killed by annoying a cop than by annoying an animal.
Whoa, you can't post attacks like this regardless of how wrong someone else is, or how unfairly provoked you feel you were. In fact, the flamewar comments you've been posting in this thread are way outside what the HN guidelines allow.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended? I understand how frustrating it can be to be defending a minority view or to feel that others are ignorant on the internet, but burning the environment to a crisp is not an ok option—and it also does your own views the disservice of discrediting them. Assuming your views are true, then you're discrediting the truth, too - which is bad for all of us.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563352 also.
Useless feature: Tagging files 'Home' or 'Work' in Finder
Core feature: A filesystem that doesn't get so easily corrupted and need constant Disk Utility scans to stay healthy

Now, I know some people will really want tags and I remember them spending a bunch of time in the keynote talking about them but I'm pretty sure I've never used them. It's not a bad feature… I guess it's nice and I bet a lot of people use it, but I would prefer if it was built on top of a more solid foundation.
Oh yes! the next android progress bars [1] are a perfect example of this. I actually kinda like watching them.

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[1] http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/progress-activi...
The crash was 12 hrs before anything happened at Bitstamp.
Very Cool! Serious question, I don't meant to sound rude, but what are the advantages of signing up?
Very neat!

I'd love to see accompanying commentary. For example, what happened in laps 5-6 of Abu Dhabi? Mass chaos.
I'd take the time to make the fix, update the indenting, fix up the inconsistencies, and all that. I know all about the Broken Windows Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory), and have seen it in practice in too many places to ignore things like this and let them "slide".

You let one slide, then another, then another still. Eventually, you start getting little mistakes like this everywhere, because all of your code is ugly and difficult to read, and you have built up just mountains of technical debt.
Last time I tried it, getting started with Lift was a convoluted process. Scala is a nice language but, IMO, it needs to rid itself of dependencies on Java tools like Maven and Eclipse if it wants to get anywhere.

sbaz is nice. More sbaz everywhere would be nicer. It's one of the best language-specific package managers I've used.
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