skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be blunt, your efforts to improve corporate behavior are better spent elsewhere.

The fact that boycotts never work isn't just a moral shame in the abstract; it has real, practical policy implications. It's one of the main reasons why I'm dismissive of libertarianism and its conviction that government regulation is unnecessary because consumer behavior will fix wrongdoings.

You say you want to build a platform to organize boycotts, but consider: your network can't possibly become larger than Facebook (with 2 billion users), and I see constant attempts on Facebook to organize boycotts, to no effect. There's nothing you can do to significantly improve on this outcome.

Honestly, if you really want businesses to behave better, your best ROI would come from advocacy both in favor of more government transparency, and against libertarianism (especially among developer-types, where it has spread like a highly unfortunate mind virus).
Scott Aaronson's "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity"

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
This is the most alien chemical reaction I've ever seen. And it keeps on giving! Thanks for sharing it.

The suggested video in which he dissolves gold in mercury is also cool.
Why would the Moon be any less independent than Mars? It is only 20% less delta-V to ship something there. It is just as much in their interests to become self-sufficient.
Depending on how you count, e.g. May 1961 (Freedom 7 flight) to July 1969 (Apollo 11 flight), yes.
I've seen you plug flash LIDAR (especially ASC's unit) several times here, but is anyone actually using it on SDVs? I've seen things that could have been flash LIDAR on test cars, but never as the primary sensor.

I worked on a team that evaluated the ASC unit a few years ago, but they found it unusable due to bloom issues. Has that changed?
Understandable in general but there are some specific models (Thinkpads) that would have pretty big demand.
Amen. Im glad im not the only one freaking out about this.

a few weeks ago i posted to HN asking for parental advice:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14924520

i mostly got "aahh dont worry about it. you are being hysterical" ... i see it all around me (even in 2nd world countries like Argentina - where im an expat ).

Its quickly deteriorating the fabric of our society.
When I see families go out together for dinner ( 90% of them are ALL on their phones ) .. Single fathers with their sons.. both on phones.. At a singles-night at a bar.. all on phones instagramming hard.

Their little brains are being hardwired to the digital COCA-COLA..and when the water comes around they look at you like "why drink that shit?!"

When he grows up.. no laptop at school for him:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...

in fact our family is seriously thinking of moving to Patagonia, just to re-calibrate with natural wavelengths.
I see some of my favourites among other replies. I don't think I see these:

http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
It's one person describing what it took to make their first sale. Maybe that information doesn't have value to you, but it does to other people who are considering doing something similar.
The comparison the article makes is against rendering a full voxel volume, as if occlusion was a great insight.
could say the same about people "feeling safer" when driving themselves. which is what all the opposing side clings to. (sure isn't statistics)
I was talking about the daydreaming of what to with the winnings.

I must be uncreative with my consumption.
There's a decent book that covers exactly this point: https://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/06...
If anything, wouldn't the loads get larger.. since you could build trailers with more sensors, allowing more trailers to be attached to the same tractor... minimizing energy/fuel cost.

One tractor carrying larger loads is going to be more efficient than many small trucks with smaller loads: total weight over payload.

A human being can only safely handle so much cargo, and that's probably lower than could be automated.
Doesn't matter, nobody would know where you are, just the quadracopters. You could use dozens of drones if you want obscurity and to strengthen the mesh network. I was also joking.
Carbon nanotube “yarn” generates electricity when stretched
I built a competitor to Reddit and Digg (at the time) called RatherGather that had some differentiators that ended up not mattering to people. I wish I understood Metcalfe's Law better at the time.

I built a mobile game called Roaring Racers where you had to use your voice to make your car move (roar louder, go faster).

I built a stickers app for iOS stickers launch that allowed you to import anything. This one wasn't a total dud, but the way Apple positioned the store, the traction wasn't at a scale that made it worth my time.

And then of course there's the laundry list of companies that I've been employed by and built products for where months into it I discovered nobody in the company had really done any market testing, but they got clearance to build something for $XXX,XXX anyways.

9/10 startups fail, so just by nature of that fact, most of us spend our time working on building tech that never really "makes it".

There have been great successes too, but you asked about the failures.
This was mostly fight between two groups of union in one company. New union wanted to show off their power, so they pushed hard for strike. Outcome was laughable for anyone who remotely understands how percentages works. They announced that they got their 14% raise and presented it as great victory. But it was achieved just by adding one extra year to agreement - so instead of cca 4,7% increase in first year and 4,7% increase in second, they also got promise for 4,1% increase in third year. Before strike, they got very similar offer without that third year, but 14% sure looks much better than 8.9%.
Atari wanted people to want Atari games, not Frank Jones games. They considered their programmers replaceable cogs and refused to give them credit.

That's why the Easter egg in Adventure with the programmer's name exists. It was the only way to get his name out there.

What happened was the developers didn't like this and left to start their own company, Activision, which made some of the best remembered games on the 2600.

Apple already 'compromised' by letting their researchers publish at all. Maybe names will be allowed in the future but it's kind of surprising we're even getting this.
Ewolo version 3, a cross-platform workout logger written in React/redux
I find this interesting for two reasons.

I think I recall that not too long ago, the most popular course on coursera was Ng's ML course. It is ironic that people are now more interested in teaching oneself how to learn versus a machine. This change could be attributed to other reasons like change in user demographics, or, market saturation, so that naturally popular courses will change once a large majority moves from one to the next. But I want to believe there is a more interesting phenomenon occurring where reading about abstract notions of learning causes a person to question how they themselves learn, and if the same abstract concepts apply. This is more a whimsical thought, than a serious one.

The second reason this is interesting is it could be surfacing a real issue with the way we have become accustomed to ingesting data. Could it be that we are becoming aware and fearful that the long term effects of suckling the internet's spout of instant gratification is causing serious harm to our ability to "actually learn".

Neither may be the case, but it seems like there is something interesting going on here.
why would it not be? Life exists to create more of itself. We inherently want there to be more of us.
Cost of fuel will also be greatly reduced for the use cases within electric range:

- Removing the driver allows for more aerodynamic cab configuration, or no cab at all

- Electric motors are more efficient, particularly in high-torque / low-rpm environment

- Massive & inefficient 18-speed gearbox can be avoided

- Cost of fuel itself (electricity) is much cheaper
The limit on truck size isn't because of human driving capacity, it's because road damage scales as the fourth power of axle weight. Trucks already do the vast majority of damage to our infrastructure, increasing the weight more would literally take down some older bridges.
I've been through many listed here. Audio Technica ATX-M50, Sony MDR 7506, Sennheiser HD598, etc - all really great cans with their own strengths, but ultimately lacking in build quality and EQ curves that are too bumpy.

Over time, I came to prefer my audio to sound less fun and more "as is". Ie, without any spikes in the bass, mids, or trebles, from the manufacturer to colour the audio with some kind of wow factor.

Eventually, after a bunch of research and a $150-ish budget, I landed at the Beyer Dynamic DT250. They have the flattest EQ curve I know of, are super comfortable, and build quality is sturdy (Germans tend not to fuck around with the quality of the products products).

There's no excess wires that will get snagged around the can, and Beyer have their own unique cabling and connectors which are super-tough and chunky. Noise cancelling is average, but that's not an overly important feature for me.

If you want a bit more of a fun set with some more sub bass , check out the DT770. Supremely comfortable headphones and sound amazing.
I like Hickey and Clojure. But part of me feels sad and pessimistic when I think him and his project. The stuff he was working on at the beginning, although new to most people who were exposed to it, wasn't new to the software engineering community at large. And now it's a decade later and it still feels like it hasn't progressed as far as it aught to given how much time and how many man-hours have been spent on it.
Aaaand... another monthly subscription service. Product looks nice but at $28/year I won't even try it.
The first dollar is usually the hardest though. This is a true account of one person's experience and I think a lot of people don't understand what that feels like. 200+ hours to cheer for $1 and some people don't even get to the dollar.
Frankly, I would be more worried about someone dying using a system that I had a hand in than whatever effect it might have on my career.
tons of technology is used for lesser marginal gains. no clue where you got this idea from.
Well, for-loops also aren't really the complexity that matters in a large app. I'd rather someone write for-loops yet aim for higher level simplicity.

Maybe you're overscrutinizing the trees.
It's literally the definition of the word: of great significance or value; likely to have a profound effect on success, survival, or well-being
Many of these trucks are servicing facilities already equipped with overhead cranes in the loading bay. An overhead crane could be used for battery-swapping in addition to loading/unloading cargo.
Sure. There are a number of issues, but I'll highlight a trio to give you the flavor.

The first is with the OSS appellation, which should rely upon the permissiveness of the corpus of rights surrounding the work. React claims that it is OSS, but functionally the corpus is very restrictive.

The second is that the grant itself removes any question as to whether there's an implied patent license in a typical OSS license. This lowers FB's barriers to litigating against people using react using patents as well as copyright. The multiplication of rights afforded to IP holders is an issue best discussed elsewhere, though.

The third issue is that even if FB would never weaponize their React patent portfolio, prospective coders may avoid using the framework even if it is the best suited to task for fear of FB extending into their industry. This is not efficient for either party.
How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin (2014)
Seems pretty great to me. She watches Wild Kratz and corrects me when I say that spiders are insects. She Facetimes me in the car on the way home from school, she Facetimes her grandparents who live 3,000 miles away. She's gotten really good at the Paw Patrol iPhone game. She just figured out how to print stuff to color on.

I don't get the screen-time hate in this thread at all. I don't know about you, but I was a nerd who was glued to an NES since age 5, and a computer since age 8. I turned out great (married, kid, good job). I highly doubt most of us on HN were well-socialized little kids who spent all their time playing outside.
I wish he went into more detail explaining his solution to the synchronous queries, as the linked gist implies much more knowledge of Servo's internals than I have.
After selling my company, I was doxxed. I'd given away enough information that someone was even able to get my tax filings.

Fortunately, I'm not very controversial but people still behaved like a pack of animals. I got so much delivery pizza that I eventually notified the area services and had them no longer accept orders in my name.

I'd move soon after, but I got the damnedest of complaints. I had donated a ton, but not to the causes people liked. In some cases, I was told I'd donated too much. Things like that.

Meh... It wasn't that bad, for me. I was no longer in a position where my livelihood was at risk. My kids escaped unscathed, but appreciated all the pizza. And yeah, I paid for every last one of those pizzas. It really wasn't the company's fault.

I do kinda wish they'd have ordered other types of food. Pizza got boring and we could only give so many away to neighbors. I'd bring what the neighbors didn't want to the homeless shelter.

So many pizzas...

But, that was the worst of it. I could see it being much worse. I was pretty much immune to harm.
I also drive a new-ish Subaru, adaptive cruise seems to work well in some situations (low speed stop-and-go, like you mentioned) but at high speeds it is terrifying... A speed that is reasonable on straight highways is pretty jarring around curves. If my foot is on the gas I'll subconsciously make the needed adjustment, but with cruise on I don't usually react in time.

This could partly be a consequence of living in the Pacific Northwest... lots of winding mountain highways!
The US basically has (measured by direction of change of debt-to-GDP ratio) in periods of economic expansion even as debt grew in the post-WWII period, except under Nixon and later Republican Presidents and Obama (and even in Obama’s case after the first term debt expansion overlapping the Great Recession and immediate aftermath, the second term was basically flat.)

I'm not sure there is a good case that “Keynesianism” is the problem; the late anti-tax orthodoxy of the Republican Party, which has nothing to do with Keynesian fiscal policy, seems more to blame.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083393

I reposted this because I'd like to hear how people are solving the problem three years later.
It's still a hell of a lot cheaper to have 2 batteries and 1 truck than 2 batteries in two trucks, assuming switching cost isn't too high.
It's mostly that I tend to drive on roads with at least a moderate amount of traffic. It tempts me to not optimally mix with other vehicles. I just got out of the habit of using it.
Making driverless cars safe for people on foot
Could (extra) battery packs be in the trailers? Which often spend a lot of time getting loaded and present a good opportunity for recharging?
I don't think I was being paranoid....I'm generally a very, very fast driver who prefers the inner lane and 85mph+ speeds given the opportunity. I do know the car has amazing handling but it unequivocally started swerving heavily out of the lane at the speed it was traveling at.

It's route 90 between Allston and Back Bay. It looks like a pretty gentle curve so looking at the map certainly makes my description of events seem questionable, but I can only tell you that it occurred as I described.

I understand your skepticism.
Edit:

I forgot one that is fairly recent too. I built a Windows app that allowed you to watch Twitch picture in picture while playing a game. Sold one copy before shutting it down.
see also perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094196 and https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uota-nbr0817...
I was referring to more trailers like this:
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/macneil/2004/ma...

That doesn't require an increase in axle weight
Most of those jobs have much lower fatality rates than logging. (Fishing is about the same, and I don't think the Bureau of Labor Statistics distinguishes underwater welders from other divers.)
Start your own thing, first as a side business and grow it from there... the sky is the limit aftear...
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>It won't make sense to swap a battery pack when you can just park one truck on the charger and let another take its place.

That depends on the relative capital costs of a truck sitting idle for hours while it charges and the costs of the systems for swapping and charging batteries.

It's the difference between making every truck and charging station a little more complex and making every station significantly larger and increasing the number of trucks you need to own.
Depends how much supply they have. A mature lunar colony should have a stockpile and equipment sufficient for reconstructing any equipment needed.

At that point, asteroid mining may be cheaper than launching resources from earth.
>Unfortunately that defeats the purpose of a trainer, because "real" planes, which the trainer is supposed to prepare you for, won't be electric for quite a bit, so you do need to learn all about the intricacies and issues which can crop up on those planes.

Not at all. The vast majority of primary flight training is best spent on so called "stick and rudder" skills. The basics of flying do not change at all from an electric powered ultralight to a Boeing 777.
I believe it's because you can find code where it does the right thing when e.g. a username is short enough, but fails in a useful way if you increase an input string length.
dude. this is not logical. if a system kills less people, we should use it. otherwise, you're just choosing to kill more people for a false sense of authority/security. not only foolish, but i resent that you believe you can make the choice for others.

you are using appeals to authority and emotion rather than the scientific method.
Hey there, I am one of the authors behind this blog. How about we will share our Titan earrings swag instead for your close examination? We fixed captions on the blog, thanks for pointing it out.
Yep yep, and only when no operations are done to it, otherwise it will end up storing the same constant multiple times and referring to each separately. For example

>>> def f():
... x = 2221+1; y=2221+1
... return x is y
>>> f()
False
>>> f.__code__.co_consts
(None, 2221, 1, 2222, 2222)
>>> dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 3 (2222)
2 STORE_FAST 0 (x)
4 LOAD_CONST 4 (2222)
6 STORE_FAST 1 (y)

3 8 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
10 LOAD_FAST 1 (y)
12 COMPARE_OP 8 (is)
14 RETURN_VALUE

Not too sure when stuff like this would be useful (it goes way beyond the 'avoid using is unless checking references` advice), but it sure is fun.
Thanks for posting this, it's one of my favorite utilities. It's rare to see this degree of polish on such a nerdy, low-level tool.
Actually, it's just a shade over 1.6 km.
I just checked the terms of service and they don't at all. They did ban rclone a while back but they said it was because of poor security in rclone itself, and haven't banned anything else.

Interestingly they say you can't use the storage for commercial purposes (whatever that means).
If OP would put substance to their claim, I might be willing to look into that. It's nice that cryptocurrency is used as intermediate in your circles but surely you don't seriously disagree with my 'tiny fractions' of society being like that.

Can you give details about those B2B payments?
In the 10s as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/
OK, but I thought we were talking about legal arguments here. If you're going to maintain the illusion of the legitimacy of the court you have to at least dress the rationale up as something more convincing than, "We're overturning Roe because we were appointed by Republicans."
I should clarify: regardless of whether or not it is used in search "rankings", Google search results clearly consist of an AMP carousel high on the page for many searches, so it's kind of silly to argue that AMP doesn't affect "rankings", as it's patently obvious that it affects where results can show up on a search results page.

Also, FWIW, I don't have any issue with AMP as a technology, but I have a big issue with how AMP cache is used by Google.
> It won't make sense to swap a battery pack when you can just park one truck on the charger and let another take its place.

I'm guessing an operator would want 100% utilization from a truck.

If a battery discharges at the same rate as charging, then you would need 2x the number of batteries. You would need more batteries if charging is slower than discharging.
Our pastor bought our whole (small) congregation a particular book to read a little while back, it seems equally to fail to report that as a sale of 1; just as much as registering the publisher buying their own book a hundred (thousand, ...) times.

... Cue a book buying app that reimburses the first n people to buy a book and scan the sales receipt in order to provide "genuine" sales for skewing popularity lists.
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I highly recommend this course. One thing i learned and have been practicing was how useful was memorization and spaced repetition practice of things i would like learn and understand.
Gtk+ is complex enough that statically linking libgtk3 isn't going to be enough anyway, there's all sorts of extra resources GTK relies upon beyond the .so that it's rather pointless to even try.
Define "valid" human emotion. And after feeling shame or embarrassment, if someone then transitions to feeling offended, is that somehow not a valid emotion?

I can see Bill Burr's angle - just own up to what's yours, be honest about your own shortcomings and move on with life. But everyone handles negative emotions differently, often in spectacularly unproductive and defensive ways. Which might help explain the abundance of stand-up comedian talent in the world today :P
Thanks for posting the explanation -- I thought that Atari's early policies were pretty widely known. Anyhow, here's some further references for the interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)#Easter_... .
Well, if you want a completely general definition of what a string type is, you could get one by following an axiomatic approach and considering the set of (abstract) operations, or functions, that are allowed to be done on strings: concatenation (a binary operation with the neutral element called "the empty string"), taking a substring, having a string-to-integer map "length", etc. From this general perspective, it would be incorrect to say, for example, that a string consists of "individual characters" - instead you might say that the smallest substrings of any (non-empty) string all have the length 1; in this sense the notion of a "character" does not even appear in the abstract definition of the string...
> I/O is not going to be any faster by having more threads.

That's not true on NUMA systems with multiple CPU sockets. You should have at least one thread per NUMA region for optimal results. Critical for example for running multiple 40 or 100 Gbit ethernet adapters.

Then again, you probably aren't going to run Node.js on those systems, at least not for handling heavy I/O.
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And by doing so, it will now become essential for them to widely disseminate the steps needed to get on the dark web, thereby enabling a lot of people to go underground, where it will be harder to monitor and report on their activities.
Thanks! I probably should have looked for this myself...