skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I would have thought this technical feat was amazing, and stopped there. Now I think it's creepy. Ah how times have changed...
I agree with this in principle, but repeated hardware failures are likely to test my patience to its limits.

Since I cannot see myself switching to a combination of by and large inferior hardware and (at least what I consider) inferior OS on other platforms without considerable comprises and pain, I've persevered with the OS bugs. Sadly, hardware failures are too disruptive and costly to put up with in the long run.
My biggest issues is the lack of memory past 16gb in the "pro" line of macbooks.

Right now I'm working on some integration tests with 5-6 different codebases and I have an intellij window for each. Then I have a couple of dozen chrome tabs open, a bunch of terminals and (most importantly for memory) a whole stack of docker containers and virtual machines.

16gb is a major blocker.
When I raise the Earth opacity to try and hide the opposite-side-of-the-globe cells, all the cells are hidden by the Earth layer, just purple dots left.

FF 60.0.2 on Win7
Same here. I've been using BBEdit on the Mac for 20 years now. I suspect BBEdit on the Mac and vi(m) in the terminal will be the only editors I'll ever need.
I used textmate for awhile as my job had a site wide subscription. It was that and BBEdit. I used both as much as I could. I previously came from Atom at the time with all its plugins and I thought hey textmate and BBEdit both have sort of plugin/bundle functionality.

For what it’s worth if anyone is considering switching here are some pros and cons that I personally found. It’s largely based on my specific tastes as well so please if in doubt do try as they’re both excellent software.

Some pros of Textmate(IIRC it was 2.0rc1 or there about):

- the SSH support was very good. Textmate has functionality for this called rmate that lets you edit remote documents and I found it to be very fast and IMHO preferred this over tmux + vim for pure editing of remote files

- textmate has a decent ecosystem of plugins I felt. Lots of themes and bundles for all kinds of features and languages.

- out of the box editing experience is relatively well featured in broad scope

The down sides:

- while I felt like textmate had lots of good third party bundles a lot of them also were really old and were not well maintained. Even some that are maintained dont see tons of updates

- at least for the languages I used (mostly a web stack of JS SCSS/CSS HTML and Python) the autocomplete would leave much to be desired if there was any at all. In parcular I could never quite get Jedi to work with it for python (and the listed bundle in their readme doesn’t really work and updating it wasn’t going well for me) and forget about typescript definition files. I don’t know if this changed at all.

- the API (to me) was a little terse and I didn’t feel it was super well documented IMO. I also found that a lot of the documentation wasn’t or didn’t feel like it was as current as the API could handle too and examples that were up to date are very sparse.

So generally if you rely on very good autocomplete like you get in VS Code, Atom, or an IDE it might not be the best fit for you. This of course was at the time and a lot of this may have improved I have not investigated this in some time.

I have similar feelings about BBEdit for what it’s worth.
BitTorrent does what again? Yeah, I know they claim to have 100-some million users, but that's pretty easy to say. I think the buyers got a bad deal here. I have followed technology for a long time and BitTorrent has managed to get in the headlines once every 2-3 years with some big announcement or the other, all of which have amounted to nothing.. correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure i'm not. There last big announcement was (surprise, surprise!) another crypto-currency thing to add to the 1600 that are already out. Like that's going to go far...
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Yep. I try not to get caught up in worrying by adding lots of tests and making my code easy to change. When I find an old crusty piece of code I actually have the most fun because it takes me completely immersing myself in it to find all the crap floating around.
TL;DR: if you ask for what you want and are very lucky, you might just get it. Nothing new here.
Same as in Miami.
What scares me even more is how overvalued everything else must be around us. It really can't be that people give money away in such way and other valuations are still sane, there has to be some correlation.

I see companies closing in to 1 trillion USD, housing feeling decoupled from reality and the entire crypto market cap even now is ~300bln USD for what mostly is pure speculation. Odd.
If you're interested in the userspace machinations, as opposed to what goes on in the kernel, there's a great rundown on this StackOverflow answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226872/how-to-shrin...

There's also https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622301)

Both of these share a similar premise - set up and transfer control to an in-memory root filesystem, in order to make major changes to the real root filesystem.
I traveled around the world already. Now I'd rather visit some places only virtually and park on Maldives or Miami for relax.
Trading zones are hugely interconnected. It is not as if trading zones are just isolated islands that produce everything and where people never leave the trading zone.

Just like any established economy benefits from free trade (though slightly regulated to avoid dumping, etc.), established cultures benefit from free exchange of information (again slightly regulated to weed out some really bad stuff)
For some values of 'human' e.g. alert, sober. Which is sadly, a minority?

Its arguable that self-driving cars are better already. What we need to do is, secure the roads so they won't get confused (fence them & remove pedestrians/bikes). I know, we can't do that everywhere but we could do it for long-haul etc. Like freeways already do.
Is using a year long maternity leave to start a business an argument for extended maternity leaves?
I try to things as simple as possible, and do all my note taking in Google Docs. Sometimes I worry that I depend too much on Google, so I started to take notes in plaintext using Vim and uploading them to my GitHub repo. For everything else (including visualization) I use pen and paper (or a graph composition notebook).
You're right about deadlocks and general race conditions. I was confused. Rust only (statically) prevents data races (arguably the only form of race condition that is always undesirable). Rust does nothing to prevent deadlocks.

The advantage of Rust over, e.g. Java, then, is that Rust can prevent data races at compile time?
"The nice area expands" - basically what gentrification is.

If public transit opens up travel options for poorer (usually minority) areas, young white people who can't afford to live in the city will start moving there, bringing their yoga studios and brunch cafes and actual grocery-stores-that-arent-just-an-isle-of-canned-food-in-liquor-stores.
You generally can't stop someone with administrative access to production from running something that didn't come from your normal process/VCS.
At any rate, Google did do something like what that person described for a few years. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJnjuhBIhwc

That stage of testing is past, though.
It's absolutely mind-boggling that they are allowed to sell phone location data in the first place without any real consent from their customers.

That's why it must really say something about these companies - Verizon especially - that them voluntarily stopping such a practice makes me imagine they have nefarious motives in mind.

Either that, or they just think net neutrality's death is going to be so much more profitable than this that it's not worth the man-hours anymore.
This is a huge clickbait. Does not mention that fine is in Australia and fine is just $7 mil.
I think your mistake was thinking that traveling was the goal. It just widens a bit the path you're following to your actual goal. I envy you for those experiences, though. They must be interesting.
Suddenly that movie's iris-scanning seems quaint.
Just checked, there are hundreds of apartments for rent in Berlin at the moment. Doesn't look to be banned.
I dind't realise TextMate was open source, and haven't given it a good look.

What do you get when purchasing a license? http://shop.macromates.com/
Oh, really? Where's all the farmland going to come from?
Funnily enough, the US numbers show a trade deficit with Canada, and the Canadian numbers show a trade deficit with the US. Who knew - it turns out that how you compute these things gives you the ability to wiggle a bit.

What is generally accepted though, is that internationally speaking the US and Canada are one of the most balanced know of, over long periods, and for major trading partners.

Pretending otherwise is just serving partisan politics at this point.
Those are funny things to get upset over. Most of those don't sound irrational if you have the need, but I don't have any of those. I never knew what that "26.2" bumper sticker meant. I do have a CUV for the winter snow and ice though. Also, I don't think taxis, let along driverless ones, service my area which is out in the country (rural) even though it's only 30 minutes from downtown.
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Shit hardware too as you find out when they need repair. Components are combined for cheaper manufacture, so don't expect to easily replace a defrost heater element without a whole bunch of other components in the block and a regas at the same time.

Unfortunately most makers are at this game now. No surprise that it promotes a lot more replacements when you can't change the £20 broken part but have to get some £250 thing that includes lots else.
2 week vacations are almost always paid in the US.
I wonder how they arrived at Creative Commons' CC-BY-NC as the license. These licenses are not meant for code but for artwork, Creative Commons actually discourage the use of their licenses for code [1].
I recently noticed the same with the FastPhotoStyle code [2] by nvidia, so I'm wondering if there is something that draws their legal departments to this license?

[1]: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

[2]: https://github.com/NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle
It's possible - just perhaps barely possible - that you might get a better reception from a more friendly audience if you didn't describe trade as theft. In the eyes of many, it robs your truthful, necessary, utterly critical message of credibility to the people who most need to internalize it.
Driving a car is absolutely a repetitive process. It's improvisational to a degree, but the mechanics and decision-making in response to stimuli are consistent, learned behaviors. And it's hard to argue that humans are mechanically better at driving than machines can be - better sensors, better feedback, more direct connections, better reflexes. So we're only questioning whether self-driving cars can respond to unexpected stimuli better than humans.
It is baseless speculation. There is a high chance, that drivers most likeky to die in a car accident are less likely to use SDC.
Also, estimating how safe sekf-driving car is you should take into account all the cases where human took over.
Also there are many accidents in weather conditions where self driving car would not be able to drive at all.
Exactly...they have nothing to speak of, but a lot they like to talk about. Cohen got real lucky here and if he is as smart as he is supposed to be, he will stash away a couple million of that for a rainy day. History is littered with inventors who ended up broke.
I think you mean Syndicate. ;)
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>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?

There is exactly zero proof that self-driving vehicles are better than drunk drivers. There is exactly zero proof that self-driving vehicles are better than angry drivers. There is exactly zero proof that self-driving vehicles are better than texting drivers. There is zero proof they will soon overtake any of those categories.

>Additional evidence in the form of reason... autonomous drivers have better sensors than humans.

Teslas have to ignore stationary objects because they can't accurately estimate the height of those objects. My 'sensors' know when a tire shred is on the ground and about 2 inches high and when a bicyclist is on the ground and about 5 feet high.

>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.

Watch the video here: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44439523

I have driven while texting, I still sometimes drive angry and I have (unfortunately) driven drunk in the past. I have never made the very simple mistake made in that video. Where is the quick mechanical reflex you are leading me to believe exists in self-driving vehicles?

>Now, let's level up. Imagine a...

No. Your imagination is running wild imagining something that doesn't and won't in the near future exist. Your imaginary car not only is covered in sensors, but can p2p communicate with the cars around it, has no lag in processing complex input, can behave itself among human drivers, etc. None of this actually exists, none of it is actually out there and we really don't have good reason to expect it any time soon.

>I can go on and on,

I believe you could, but it's just your fantasizing, it's not a realistic portrait of what is actually happening.

>I'm gonna throw a bullshit card here.

Going to? What about the several you've already sent my way lol.

>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.

Exactly! That's why people in this discussion called humans "So. Fucking. Awful." at driving and then wrote three paragraphs imagining a utopian, non-existent self-driving system which magically solves all problems and is really quite safe. Before diagnosing magical thinking in others you might attempt detecting it in yourself.
> Will people get hurt? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes.

Do you get to decide this? No. Does Uber get to decide this? No. Is this attitude going to produce a backlash against the idea of the technology, similar to the GMO backlash? Probably.
This is important. I hope engineers working autonomous cars think long and hard about whether they want to be on a team that, it looks to me like, negligently killed someone by choice.

The only difference between disabling the emergency braking mechanism and, say, intentionally disabling safeties on industrial machinery is the novelty. I think it was pretty obvious that something like this would happen, and that's why so many people have been making noise about it. Now that we know for a fact that Uber is willing to make this choice, there's (a) no excuse for not coming down on them for it, (b) no excuse for Uber not completely overhauling their safety protocols with the help of an external ethics and legal advisors, and (c) no excuse for engineers working on this for not at least seriously thinking about their own ethics and possible moral culpability.

Some people want to focus on the future. Self driving cars will be great! Gotta break some eggs to make omelets! Fine. But those who are killed before that bright future deserve some accountability, those who don't want to be killed deserve some respect, and the makers of said omelets can bloody well be expected to be held responsible for their actions.
Why do people need to know about this magical thing?
Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add to the general cancerous spam of "hey, I'm sure you're going to find that thing awesome, even if you don't need it"
Sure. But if he didn't have access to that money, would he still have been able to do that?
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Just look at the U.S. as an example - if they followed Smith's advice, they would still continue to trade cotton.

The US is (still) the third largest cotton producer in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_production_in_the_Unite...
https://www.npr.org/2013/12/02/248243399/technology-subsidie...
I'd say this view comes from massively underestimating the complexity of the effects on the economy that result from the externalities of instituting tariffs.
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discourage people that aren't just hobbyists messing around from using it?
They already did some of that testing.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a100168...
NP-hard isn't the end of the world (2018)
They are joined by Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com/investors...

What a world we live in!
Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things.

My classroom was the first class in the school to get a computer. At the time, nobody knew how to work the things, so instead of rotating around all of the different classrooms each week, it was left in our room for half of the year.

During that time, I got to use it a lot and became more fluent on it than the teacher. Eventually, a local news crew came to do a story on this rollout of computers in the classroom, and I got to be on local TV showing the reporter how to do stuff on this 'new technology'.

I learned that not everyone 'got' computers like I did.
I haven't had chance to try it on FF yet - I'll switch my box over to Windows later, install FF and see if I can figure out why. Thank you!
Oh? Care to elucidate on that? What do they actually do and how do they make money besides selling a few ads on that client? Serious question I'm sure everyone here would like to know the answer to.
Mutual Assured Destruction has been more effective than high-tech planes at preventing wars between major powers.
Particularly true if your "scaling up" assumes you can reduce costs at the same time (other than economies of scale).
Personally, I'm waiting for AR UBlock. That would put the "augmented" in AR. :)
> Textmate doesn't auto fill the search box

Not sure how it works exactly with Textmate, but for most Mac editors, you double click a word, cmd-E to place the word in the search box, then cmd-G to find again. This saves time because you never see the find dialog and can start searching immediately. I only use cmd-F if I need to fiddle with the find settings. Replacing is just as simple, shift-cmd-E to place selected word in the replace field, cmd-T to replace and find again.
The first part of your statement is generally accurate. However, the article is discussing tariffs the US has chosen. This is not something China is doing.
What are the chances of this being FUD pushed by Musk to cover up for failing to meet expected deliveries and/or possibly other obstacles Tesla's been hitting recently?
> She made enough money that after two months, PayPal came along and froze her accounts

What does that mean?
Most open-source projects aren't "community projects" and "betray the users" is an interesting way to phrase "tried to get people to support the project, they by and large refused, and so he made it distinctly less optional".

You're better than that, man. This stuff goes both ways.
Nice, thanks for the numbers! At a certain point you start competing with Home Depot, Michaels, Walmart, Amazon, whoever. You are in the product retail business, rather than the manufacturing or services business.

I think if you get really good at streamlining your marketing (Instagram photos and landing pages) as well as your pick/pack/ship operations (i.e running a warehouse), then you can expand into multiple niches. Fabrics, clothes, prints, whatever is super niche and high margin and can't be found on the shelves of a big box store.
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Thanks for the link!

It seems reasonable that there should be some regulation on "x miles per incident" before autonomous vehicle companies are allowed to move forward from carts to full-sized cars.

Based on the stats that have been posted on HN, Google is very safe. Uber, on the other hand, is not.
That's a poor comparison. A heroin user is not going to accidentally kill anybody else when overdosing. Children that never even drove a car can die when a drunk driver smashes into a pedestrian crossing.
Verizon to end location data sales to brokers
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You say "utilitarian responses to ethical dilemmas", I say "using reason to respond to magical thinking".
Not a complex idea.

But it sounds as if you're trying to blame eight rich people, when you yourself have your henchmen, oops, your fund managers do the same thing. (I assume you're trying to get a maximum interest for your own pension savings?)
If the service outage is on Posthook's side, they would be retried.

If the outage is on the customer's side, all hooks that were attempted during the outage would be marked as failed. I plan on adding a feature that will allow the developer to fire off again all failed hooks in a given time period.
Listening to the audio, it's subtle but it definitely sounds unique to my ear. :)
Cutting down on meat is good for a lot more than just feelin good my friend. I’m typing this from my phone, so I will just say do some more research on the benefits. There is a lot of byproducts directly from animal agriculture that affect quality of life for the entire biosphere.

Militant vegans do make it hard to listen at times but there are also other some other voices starting to speak up. Laboratory meats are probably going to be a monumental moment for the movement.

Moderation is key to everything. Facebook and most social media is built on feedloops that, in my opinion, stifle human potential. It’ll will be looked back on one day like people view cigarettes today. I’ll bet money on that.

I’ve gone through a crazy adventure through out my 20s to feel how I feel today. I feel healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually, etc etc.

I’m kinda out there now, renouncing all my possessions besides one backpack, working on Option 1 in your list. I’m 28, first generation American
I've used Discord since sept 2015. It's been an interesting journey (my friend develops a bot and has reached 26,000 servers and 3 million users.) It's quite good, but still does not support stereo audio input inside of the client. Canary build has a new experimental audio subsystem so it may be now, haven't tested yet.
As someone who grew up in Southern California and the "surfer" and "valley girl" cultures and dialects, I was hoping this article would provide some insight into the formation of such things. However, the biggest takeaway seemed to be the surprise that this was happening in the middle of Kansas. It was interesting that the Hispanic population quadrupled there recently, but no conclusions were drawn by the author.
Curious, why skip DNS traffic when your capturing all other traffic?