skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a freshman at UC Berkeley in September 1993, I got a front-row seat to this experience. It was my own awakening to this amazing small-world of academics and amateurs that extended beyond the reach of the physical analogue where I had just started attending classes.

Looking back, I'd estimate that it took another 4-6 years before the usenet I met in those years died. Some obscure parts held on longer than others. It was an influx of trolls at the same time that legitimate traffic slowly died off. Back then, I blamed the web forums that were starting to divert and diffuse participation.

I hadn't yet come to appreciate the insatiable need for humans to form ranks and piss on things. To not only root their identity and self-worth in the exclusive, the new, but to try to salt the earth and deny others the use of unoccupied ground.

Now, I recognize more cycles and waves to everything. I have an almost, but not quite, Buddhist outlook on the nature of things. But, it doesn't bring me satisfaction nor clarity. It's hard to put to words, but is more defeatism or morose nostalgia. It's hard not to think that the imagined mountains of youth aren't really sand dunes that slip and flow to consume every step of a futile climb. All this activity and change may be the thin layer of growth on coral, or the irregular fringe of a petri dish.
Everything you've listed involves repetitive actions (or complete lack there of, if my limited understanding of aviation is accurate), which is known to cause humans to lose focus (and make mistakes).

Driving a car, on the other hand, is usually NOT a repetitive, dull process. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Well, frankly I don't think it's a disadvantage. It's difficult to move out from the equilibrium of countries mistrusting each other, but I think what you describe is actually an utopia. If we manage to destroy all tariffs and make countries lose parts of their production abilities, we'd make war unthinkable, which is a net good. The US would never start an all-out war because it would starve, and whomever specialized in the agricultural products supplanting the US productive capability would never start a war because they cannot build weapons.

Of course there are huge problems with this -- what happens if whomever makes your food goes tits up, involuntarily (natural disasters, coups, ...) or voluntarily (maliciously attacking)? Who guarantees the system? How? Etc... --, if there weren't I wouldn't call it utopia. But I think raising the costs of war beyond the unreasonable is a net gain.

Note: I'm fully aware that this is an extremist and probably next to impossible position, no one has to remind me that. I just contest the fact that the objection "but then we could not go around and kill people" isn't a particularly good counter-argument for no trade barriers.
Not really - the thing to understand here is that TextMate isn't really a new editor, if anything it was one of the first of the new breed of extensible GUI based editors that Sublime, VS Code, and Atom have refined.
Yes, if this had backfired I wonder if people would talk about how chess "Makes you see everything in black and white. You win or lose, or rarely draw. There is no team work!"

It would be interesting to know if chess is more effective than, say, reading or making movies. There is something intellectual about it.
That's my whole point. You just asserted that you can extrapolate outside a training set with a structural model. I am asserting that those "many contexts" and "metastudies" amount to a bigger, more representative training set.
> But I can’t see why society would want it handled that way.

Because these self driving cars aren't being developed to solve a hypothetical problem, they're being developed to solve the very real and current problem of cars killing 40,000 people in the US each year.

If extra safety measures result in killing ten fewer people in testing, but delay the introduction of self-driving cars by a year or two, that could mean thousands of preventable deaths still occurred. Are the lives of those people definitely getting killed right now worth 100x less than the lives of those who might get killed with these tests?

And this isn't baseless speculation. People are already obviously dying all the time, and improving these cars' software would be much harder without the kind of real-world data they're currently collecting.
> I associate CBS with bland procedural crime dramas and awful three-camera sitcoms.

The Good Fight is really good, now I'm going back to watch the predecessor.
Or outsource the hassle and risk and use a paid "online torrent client".
I wonder how does someone like KM Music on Youtube make money.

They have near 400M views and 600k subscribers but all their videos use big commercial pop hits.

Do they actually get a cut or does all the ad revenue flow to music authors and Youtube?
It's beginning to look like consolidating a variety of capabilities into one connector was a bad idea. There's no way to differentiate what features are supported on any given USB-C port. USB A was different in that the features were only on the device being attached. USB 1-3 was a bus only. Though even then, there were rarely markings to distinguish between USB 1 and 2 (when that distinction was relevant). And there is no way to know if a given USB hub will provide enough power to your device until you plug it in.

At the root, it seems like Thunderbolt, or Thunderbolt over the USB-C port is more the issue. I've even run into this same problem with Thunderbolt ports on PCs vs. Macs. On a Surface Pro, Thunderbolt is video only, for Ethernet you have to use a USB-attached device. On a Mac, Thunderbolt does both.
Currently there is an agreement between the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army [1] that the air force will control most fixed-wing aircraft and the army most helicopters. I think this is completely dumb and should be dispensed with right away. The air force could then relinquish the A-10s and any future ground support aircraft like (hypothetically) the Super Tucano to the Army if the Army cares to pay for it.

This would help ameliorate the current situation where the Air Force seems compelled to try to cancel every airplane that's not the F-35.

[1] Apparently this originates in the "Johnson-McConnell agreement of 1966" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-McConnell_agreement_of...
One function of tariffs is to put political pressure on other countries. That's exactly what China is doing here. By only putting tariffs on uncompleted goods, it now makes even less sense to assemble in the US. This is in direct opposition to what a lot of Trump's voters were voting for: more manufacturing in the US.
Because it makes it look like your risk of dying is much higher than it actually is. To pick another example - it's like saying "your risk of dying before 30 years old is 10%" and then calculating that risk including heroin users. If you don't use heroin that's not your risk.
I worked at a place that did something similar. If you walked away from your unlocked computer, when you came back you might find you'd sent an email to everyone in the office saying that you're buying lunch today.
TextMate has always had regexp support in find/replace, FYI.
>Japan has nearly 200% higher agriculture tariffs than the US.

Which have a lot of holes in them. The US sends thousands of tons of un-tariffed rice to Japan every year, which they then lock into a shed and let rot. Which is their prerogative, I guess.
Chess will teach the youth to be better strategists, to better evade the authorities when they become adult offenders.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17341478
This argument is deeply flawed, since moving people into prisons is just throwing them away from your view. Many people are unjustly convicted and the idea of taking even more rights away from the incarcerated is barbaric and detrimental to our society. Prisons are micro-totalitarian regimes with abuse and violence as a part of every-day life. We should do everything we can do to reduce the number of people in prison and allow them to lead healthy and productive lives.
The democratic answer is that

1) Non voters chose to go fuck themselves, please avoid counting them in formally correct but delusional statistics.

2) If you really cared about the issue you should have done your best to convince someone to vote Remain.

Of course I feel sorry, and I agree that a better government could or should try to reverse Brexit (for example, with a new referendum or with Scotland-related excuses), but you also voted the Conservative party (and worse) for parliament; see 1 and 2 above.
> Compared to VS Code: Speed. Textmate opens files instantly, VS Code takes forever to open a new window.

I just timed it. Opening a new window on the PC I'm using right now takes between 70 and 72 frames, or between 1.16 and 1.25 seconds. On the rare occasion that I do it.

I understand that everyone is a leet uberhacker who is thrown off their flow by a butterfly farting on the breeze, but this is princess-and-the-pea stuff.
Which is your favourite monitor (display)?
Please mention your profession and favourite monitor model.

Not sure if programmers prefer high dpi monitor like graphic designers.
Original link to the author's article:

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-o...

which was discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312588
Amazon's Fire TV devices have this, as well.
Thank you, good luck to you as well!

I've found that with scheduling tasks for the future it's important to do a final check before fulfilling the action, whether it's sending an email, push notification, etc. You don't want to send a reminder for an event that has been deleted, for example. That is why I have decided to keep the scope small and let developers make the final decision there.

Reports and retries are definitely things that I think add value though, and I have plans to expand on that.
I think the point on linguistic imperialism was referring to things like the Welsh Not:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not
Excessive complaints?
A machine that costs >2000$ that very likely will have a broken keyboard, that is missing the function keys and all the useful ports have been removed.
What is excessive in the complaiants made by people that spent a lot of money and would like to have a working machine without having to pray to win the keyboard lottery?
What leadership? lol
In addition I hope to see independent 3rd party reviewers developing their own autonomous car test suites so we can see how off-the-lot cars operate under hostile test conditions.
The sequel to Writing an Interpreter in Go is coming this summer
Of all the things that managers neglect to ensure rigorous testing of, self-driving cars should be the worst possible offender
It's you who is missing the point. If Netflix et al paid their fair share, you would not have to spam every HN thread with this copypasta, and you would not have to be here trying to convince me to subsidize WhatsApp. I sure hope you spend as much time pestering the corporations that leech off community donations as you do defending your HN spam.

Maybe with a better license that didn't enable such freeloading on the part of these gargantuan corporations, FreeBSD wouldn't need to go begging for donations from private citizens.
How prototyping makes Canada’s Ministry of Transportation more efficient
There's no problem with it, but some very intelligent people don't seem to realize that you can't just "use machine learning" and predict whatever you want. It's gotten better over the last few years, now that it's less new and magical than it used to be, but I still see it happen now and then.
still doesn't scale efficiently. http based streaming is the only reliable way to get economies of scale. The cpu cost per webrtc socket is high compared to a cache-hit for a static resource. Not to mention that WebRTC is way more cpu intensive client side compared to hls/dash which has kernel/hardware offloading.
Too bad everyone thinks they are the true free world and everyone else got it wrong.
Great for wireless debug as well. We had an issue in the early days of WPA and Wireshark was one of the first open apps to support sniffing and decrypting WPA traffic. We also used Omnipeek, which had a better GUI and better promiscuous and monitor support but Wireshark caught up and now it's my go-to tool.

Filter syntax is a headache, though, if I remember correctly it's totally different for capture and display. I have to go to the manual every time I use wireshark.
Show HN: A pure PHP server and client for tus resumable upload protocol v1.0.0
I think you misunderstood. I'm violently agreeing with you! I don't think we should have our property confiscated by the force of the government to support these poor corporations. They're not living, breathing people after all.
Considering the reaction to man including a similar easter egg, it might not go down well (sadly).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
> And you can tell because they're kicking ass when it comes to iOS devices. They're so far ahead in certain areas, it's not even funny.

I'm not convinced of that. I bought an iPhone for the first time a few months ago and returned it after a few days because iOS felt like a backwards step. I've no fanbois allegiance one way or the other, but Android felt a lot more polished, usable and intuitive. Even the hardware was a backwards step for me (albeit at a more advanced price).
The problem is there is no proof AI is better then humans, probably it can't ever be better then a human with the current hardware in the current cars, but we have "hopeful" people that want to sacrifice lives to gather data for shitty startups that need the self driving cars ready this year or it will fail.

So we need this:

-real numbers of AI to have a meaningful discussion on real statistics

-we need good statistics, so not compare different car types and driver ages/categories

-IMO we have a low hanging fruit related to preventing drunk drivers to use a car, a system to detect a driver that is not looking ahead for more then n seconds, someone needs to handle this, it would improve the numbers a lot

-when we compare say a chess AI we compare it with professionals so it would be more honest if we want to say that self driving AI is better we should compare with a driver with experience that is not drunk

-we should not RUSH this because it will backfire,wait for hardware and software to be ready so if a concrete object is in the front of the car the radar can detect it's position and the cameras and image recognition can detect what it is and not ignore it like it is a road sign, hardware and software should be ready to detect signs, bottles, people, bikes, animals as good as humans, if is not as good as a human then we already lost since a human also many more "features" like intuition,
Its really the density argument. Do you go for public transport and hope the density then follows to make it more worthwhile? The alternate of getting a dense place and then trying to add good transit options seems just as likely to fail. I'm sure theres some middle ground I'm missing. But busses using the same clogged roads, or trying to find space for more rail/bus/bike lanes in already overcrowded areas seems like an expensive problem to fix. I obviously don't know the answer either way. I gotta think that we can't just do sprawl forever though.
>My country (Netherlands) has a negative trade balance with the US, we buy a lot of software, entertainment and (heavily subsidized) Tesla's from the US. Even the "German" car I drive (a BMW) is manufactured in the US because of US trade demands.

Your car was built in the US because the labor is cheaper and 40 percent of their cars are sold in the US and China (shipping to China from the US is basically free, better off being here).
Isn't that what Google is making with XiEditor?

(separating the engine from the GUI)

https://github.com/google/xi-editor
Starting to DevSecOps with Ur DevOps? Want HashiCorp Vault for SSH Login Audits?
And Emacs (C-x r t), and Eclipse (Alt-Shift-a to switch to rectangle mode).
Interesting factoid... half of US traffic fatalities occur between the hours of 9pm and 3am on friday and saturday nights. Average drivers in average situations are, indeed, pretty safe. But drunk drivers? Angry drivers? Texting drivers?

If autonomous cars can drive at the skill level of average drivers - and not get drunk or angry or distracted by forwarding cat videos - then they will significantly outperform humans.

Additional evidence in the form of reason... autonomous drivers have better sensors than humans. Human drivers have limited vision, that only points in one direction at a time. Mirrors offer some slight augmentation, but. Ever backed out of a parking space in a crowded parking lot and gotten into an accident because a car you couldn't see before was suddenly right behind you? Common situation. Autonomous drivers won't have that problem. They can see out the back and to the sides, 360 degrees at all times. (I'll note that some of the first deployed autonomous tech was cars that can parallel-park themselves.)

Additionally, autonomous systems have better reflexes. Remember the two second rule? That's to deal with the delay from your eyes to your brain to your hands and feet. Machines can physically respond to changes in situation faster than humans.

Now, let's level up. Imagine a system where autonomous vehicles are transmitting short-range telemetry to nearby vehicles, letting them know their status, including velocity. They can relay back emergency status info - so the car that slams its brakes to avoid a pedestrian doesn't cause someone six cars back to rear-end the car in front of them. Merge-related accidents (related to parking-lot problems) can be reduced to nothingness with telemetry. Think about how Waze is doing this already with driving data for their mapping software. It'd work better with less human involvement.

I can go on and on, but really, I'm gonna throw a bullshit card here. Fear of autonomous vehicles is magical thinking trumping reason. Humans do magical thinking all the time. We think safe things are scary, and we think scary things are safe, for symbolism rather than fact. That's why people in this discussion used the phrase "murderbot", but not "murderer".
> There were always going to be weaker players in the EU

This is true, however there were quite strict criteria (the Maastricht criteria) put in place to try and prevent this from being too bigger problem. In hindsight, those criteria weren't sufficient, in one way or another.

I believe it's correct to say those weaker economies benefited from adopting the Euro the short term, and that they wanted to join the Euro.

As a twist, the Euro was somewhat unpopular in Germany when it was introduced, because it made things more expensive. So there is a feeling that Germany "paid" the price of adopting the Euro - whether this is true or not is irrelevant for the sake of policy-making.
Cheaper than a patent.
The Psychological Effects of Being Separated from Your Child
How to fire your Co-Founder
Have you never commuted a long-ish distance?
It was interesting to read on the F-14 Wikipedia page that Iraqi pilots would often completely avoid engaging with Iranian Tomcats. Just the threat of the AIM-54 was enough to maintain air superiority.

"They performed well, but their primary role was to intimidate the Iraqi Air Force and avoid heavy engagement to protect the fleet's numbers. Their presence was often enough to drive away opposing Iraqi fighters. The precision and effectiveness of the Tomcat's AWG-9 weapons system and AIM-54A Phoenix long-range air-to-air missiles enabled the F-14 to maintain air superiority"
I am a former Mac user who has “come home” to Linux and BSD in recent years.

Between the sad state of the Mac ecosystem (I like both the hardware AND software less today than I did 7 years ago) and the repost about desktop Linux UX this morning, I feel like the F/OSS and Mac communities have missed a golden opportunity.

If I had a time machine and a magic wand, I’d certainly have blessed the GNUStep project to build the desktop many of us wish we had today. Had some hypothetical GNUStep desktop captured the mindshare of the majority of Linux desktops, I could imagine living in a world today in which Mac and Linux software were more or less a recompile away from portability. I could imagine a world in which some developers prefer building Mac software with GNUStep tooling. And I imagine a world in which Apple’s focus, priorities, and missteps weren’t an existential threat to people trying to make their living on the Mac.
I've been a vim user for at least 18 years, but I still use textmate often as #2. TM's find/replace system is the best of any text editor I've ever used, and if I have to bulk-convert a file from one format to another by hand, the multi-column editing support is first-rate. Often I can just select all first-positions, and word-move around all lines at once, inserting commas and deleting parens. Those features just seem native and intuitive to me, and I miss them dearly elsewhere in the OS. Other editors try to implement those features but it's usually janky and hard to call native-feeling.
Google introduces Google Podcasts
No, don't stop thinking of it as spam. It is spam, and you're part of the problem.

Unethical practices that work are still unethical practices.
After some investigation, you are correct! Knowing that some of TrueNorth's creators previously worked on mixed-mode systems, I made the assumption that this one was too.

It seems the TrueNorth is indeed fully digital, but takes advantage of the event-driven architecture and peer-to-peer communication between many tiny cores to keep things low-power.

( http://paulmerolla.com/merolla_main_som.pdf for some details )

Thank you for the correction!
Which is why they aren't quite legal yet. And it's arguable anyway, given the noise in the signal (a tiny handful of fatalities to compare with the ~100k "normal" traffic deaths over the same period).

But like all new technology, it's improving. People aren't.
Looks like there are about 10m women staying at home with kids - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/number-of-stay-at-home...

I wonder how many of them doing such businesses, and how many could engage in such businesses, and if they do not want to do it - why.
tus-php is a pure PHP server and client for the tus resumable upload protocol v1.0.0.

The project:

- Now supports all major tus extensions.

- Can be used seamlessly with uppy and other tus clients.

- Has basic middleware support.

Any feedback/suggestion to improve the project and make it more useful is highly appreciated.
Incidentally, Burt Rutan (the founder of Scaled Composites, who are making Virgin Galactic's space ships) almost made a prototype of exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_ARES

> The original layout was of a low wing canard configuration, aircraft powered by a pusher turboprop, and built around a 30 mm Gatling gun capable of destroying light armored vehicles

The actual prototype ended up with a turbofan. Still had a canard wing though. It also had a GAU-12 as the canon, just like GP wants.

It's also made out of fancy composites. It sounds like the perfect plane for the Hacker News Air Force.
Apple Fined as Customers Win a Right-To-Repair Fight
So at what point will automation become better than humans at this task? Are you saying "never"? Or just "not now"?
Electronic Signatures and DocuSign
I read the first part and can highly recommend it!
And some of us have very practical reasons not to ever rely on others for transport. I'm in the military. I'm expected to be able to get to work no matter what. We are in a tsunami area. Should that happen and my unit be stood up to respond, I need a vehicle that will get me to work even when the power/cell towers are all out. My CO doesn't want to hear that I cannot get in because the Uber app on my phone is down. Without private vehicle ownership we would all have to live on our bases.