skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that truck drivers jobs are under threat.

But you are justifying this assumption with yet more assumptions, not hard data. For example: If they are proven to be inherently safer.

I'm literally just rather tired at the moment and also finding this argument wearying. But actual reality has a really long track record of failing to conform to human predictions of that sort.

When antibiotics were discovered, it was predicted to be the end of human disease. Fast forward to today and the articles we routinely read are about the crisis of antibiotic shortages, antibiotic resistant infections and whatever will do now?

When the first air planes came out, they had square windows. So did the first jets -- until they began falling from the sky as if some Cthulhoid horror had ripped then to pieces in the sky. Then they changed the windows to rounded designs.

Human ability to accurately predict the future is notoriously lousy.
I've used Model Ms / unicomps extensively and like them plenty, but I switched to Cherry in part because they're a little quieter without sacrificing too much feedback. I routinely work late into the night at home without disturbing the family [much!].
Any evidence of bad actors on HN comment threads? Why would attacks be limited to FB?
Are you sure it was "fear of fees" rather than "not having a contract with AmEx"? I would assume Visa's agreements wouldn't let them just refuse your Infinite, since it would defeat the point of the card if they could just refuse the high-fee ones. (Just a guess; I don't know how it works.)
I live in a developing country. People regularly kill animals to eat. They will have chickens, ducks, rats, fish, turtles, dogs, and pigs that they raise and eat.

There is no "communing with nature". There is no "paying the blood price". There is certainly no "greater love and understanding of nature" or "meaning in their lives". It is just eating, living, surviving.
Tool fetishes... Sadly, thought I have about 100 keyboards, of every shape, size, switch, My record typing speed is on a 15 dollar logitech k120. It's pretty much for the sound and the art of it, more than the utility. Wish I knew that when I started. And lost a couple WPM over kinesys advantage and ergodox learning...
Air conditioning is incredibly power-hungry when powered from an inverter. My solar experience is with an RV, but even with that lower-powered AC unit, you can realistically expect only 30-60 minutes with the batteries an RV can carry.

A house won’t have the same space or weight restrictions, but that doesn’t make them any cheaper. FLA batteries are the least expensive currently available, and I’d ballpark it at around $4000 in batteries alone to get a few hours of air conditioner.
26, I learned to swim effectively and effortlessly few weeks ago and still learning and practicing. And learned Android Architecture Components, Dependency Injection and Firebase as my profession is android developer.
i love this! does that mean i have alzheimers??
Just got my WASD in the mail today, been explaining to people at work what mechanical keyboards are, and showing them this:

https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introdu...

(some REALLY good animations in there that show off the different switches!!!)

Also purchased a set of sample keycaps from them separately, and regret not getting that exact sampler kit for the switches.
Ours was the opposite: a three-layer cake where the top two layers were fake.

This was because we didn't have enough guests for a three layer cake (according to the bakery), but for a larger wedding, I suppose you could supplement that with sheet cake?
https://medium.com/ever-heard-of-orchid-protocol-blockchain/...
Is it really any more potentially dangerous than the inverse - being so risk adverse that we'd refuse to probably sacrifice a few to possibly save the many? All we can do is try optimize our expected value given our current understanding with a reasonable risk aversion.

With cars an improvement to just 90% of the current deaths in the US alone (36k vs 40k) would literally justify running down 10 people a day. The numbers are uncomfortable, sure, but they don't lie and while this is a simplistic analysis I don't see where it is qualitatively incorrect: cars kill so many people even a moderate improvement would be a massive decrease in mortality.

For a comparable situation, see research into emergency medicine. It is impossible to get consent, people likely have/will die as a result of trials, and yet they are (judged to be) in the common good, despite some very reasonable reservations.
I just built my house, and it has a lot of solar panels. We planned to generate enough to offset heating with electric heat pumps and charging two cars.

What I did was set up a sub-panel with a generator interlock. For now, we're going to use a portable generator in extended outages. Once batteries are a bit cheaper, the batteries will run the sub-panel.

What about heat in a power outage? That's why we have a wood stove. You never know when an ordinary fossil fuel furnace will fail!
My sister, 29, just got approved for the Waymo program in Phoenix. She has epilepsy and hasn’t driven in 10 years since she had a seizure while driving on the freeway and crashed. Miraculously she had no serious injuries.

We sarcastically joke about how Silicon Valley is making the world a better place, oftentimes for privledged individuals but Waymo is completely changing her life.
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2 gourmet hotdogs per person
Here in Mexico we had something called "Reforma Energetica", basically a constitutional reform of how the electricity is billed in Mexico, one of the few and unknown rule of said bill is that now all the industry has to generate at least 5% of its energy from renewable resources, so almost every major company is installing solar panels... I am on the metal working industry I have a 150 kVa transformer and 20kVa of solar panels installed... There is no subsidies from the government, but if you dont comply you will be fined starting on December 01. I had to invest heavily on my electrical installation, and there is a boom on renewable energies on mexico because of this...

Also, I had to change my capacitor bank to a newer one, an active one.

So maybe its just the US that is lagging on renewable energies...
The selling point of Sony TV's is not just the panel but the processing, similarly to how Apple does not make it's own camera sensors, but it does do a lot of it's own procession to optimize your photos.
They’re also trying to push Walmart Pay as well. At their scale, it’s worth it.

Despite the pain, I still think Walmart should’ve acquired and rebranded a bank, and offered financial products. Would do wonders for the unbanked, while keeping their transaction fees down.
If I went around criticizing people for trying to make money I wouldn't have any friends.
I think the last truly proprietary connector on a Mac was the Apple Display Connector from the G4 Power Mac days.
It could just be a handcuffless gift.
Side point, there is a book Hagakure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure) which is collected comments of a samurai during the end of this samurai/retainer period for Japan. This passage stuck with me and talks about overcoming fear of death through meditating about dying in all sorts of horrible ways. I guess you did the 21st century version;

"The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day, when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day, without fail, one should consider himself as dead. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai."
Having tried and failed to work with Tesla for solar, I strongly suggest you skip the powerwall. Use LG Chem’s RESU instead. It’s slightly cheaper, and they are willing to let third parties install it. It pairs with SolarEdge’s StorEdge.

If you want serious off-grid functionality, you need a beefier inverter. Outback sells such things, but the resulting system is a good deal more complicated.
At this point, it's probably cheaper or simpler just to use a bigger generator or a battery.
While we're on the topic of web performance regression can we please talk about all these damn loading spinners.

JS and ajax we're supposed to save us.

Now instead of one slow page load. I get one slow page with a loading spinner, a login component with a loading spinner, a carousel with a loading spinner, latest news component with loading spinner. Content divs shifting and bouncing every which way as content loads.

It looks like some spilled a bucket of ajax-load.gif all over the damn page!

I'd prefer a blank page and the sudden appearance of the entire page.
Modern televisions and combined recorder-tuners are the same..

My old black & white and clolour valve television sets and VHS video recorder are up and running well before their modern equivalents!
Is this the overall profit margin, or is it what it is once it accounts for spoilage and other losses (theft ect.)?

I ask, because 3% cc fee from a 2 percent margin is huge, but a 3% fee from a 80% margin that averages out to 2% because of spoilage is much smaller.
is this not googles streaming music service on ios?

Google Play Music by Google, Inc.https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-play-music/id69179798...

unsure because i don’t use it, but it looks like it from the outside
Have you tried applying to listings?

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=cto
This is very cool research. I would love to see topics like this built into a browser extension (or even into HN itself although that may be beyond the scope of HN's core features). I find that there's a decent bit of content that gets posted on HN that I'm not personally interested in and, on the flip side, there are times when I want to go more in-depth on a topic but can't find more posts that cover it. I don't really want a whole subreddit-style navigation system, so some automatic topic tagging could be a nice middle ground.
> Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at self

Learn to make webpages
Well, you hit the nose on the head with your final point - if hunting was the only way to get meat, there'd be a hell of a lot more meat being eaten.

I'm not sure that anybody here is recommending that literally every person hunts their meat though, or that it should be the only way to get meat, so what's the point of talking about scale?
A selective excursion into the internals of PyTorch
Meh, maybe, but I don't think so because all that 2 hours I never lost consciousness. There was no point in which my memory was "black". I was talking to my roommates, told them I'm going to bed, took Ambien, lied on my bed and suddenly started to feel very confused, forgetful and it "felt" like I'm somewhere else. It wasn't a very visual experience (like psychedelics) but it felt like I was so confused that I wasn't able to comprehend where I am.
I’ve used the Etymotic, but tend to go back to my Shures. On top of that, I’ll run the active noise cancelling headphones - a pair of Sony’s which function without audio. Depending on my mood, it’s white noise (actually a custom pink noise created in an iPhone app), or music. With the Pink noise, even without the active noise cancellation, I’m oblivious to the world.
SolarCity installed the PV system, so I figured it'd be easier for them to continue with the upgrade. But it sounds like things are kind of a mess over in Tesla/SC land these days, so who knows...
We had wedding pie. It was great. Pie > cake
> I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it.

Then you'll end up with a bunch of charismatic police folks who want it, and can swoon voters to give it, but are generally ineffective at doing it. Source: politics in the US above the municipal level.
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For her second wedding, my sister had a fairly big wedding. She was also part of a two career couple and had lived a long time in the same state. She knew a lot of people.

In contrast, I have moved a lot as an adult and nearly 6 years of homelessness taught me that poverty is very hard on your social life. I would have trouble coming up with, say, six people to invite to a hypothetical second wedding for me. I just do not have a big social network of that sort.

Congrats on getting a wedding for very little money. But I strongly suspect that knowing 200 people well enough to even invite them to your wedding makes you more upper class than you likely realize.

I eloped at age 19. Including rings (bought on sale), dinner and a movie, marriage license, blood testing and cab fair, it was under $300. So you sound like you did amazingly well.

Your testimony doesn't change my opinion that a mock cake for 160 guests is a rather upper class first world problem.
I can't say I entirely understand how the Elapsed Time Wait works, but testing in qemu, I was able to get it to a good speed by replacing the

inc cl

with a

nop
inc dx

By opening in a hex editor, finding

bf86 fec1

and replacing with

bf86 9042

If you're on a very slow system, maybe just use 2 nops or a 2-byte nop.
Why is 160 guests a First World Problem? I don't understand.

I live in the Third World (well, we call it "the developing world" nowadays). 160 guests is totally normal. The last wedding I was at had 500 guests.
If you're in the US, I think you can still buy big packs at BestBuy.
The Fraser Institute that the article cites is a notoriously conservative leaning Thinktank.

You can refer to this tax calculator for a more accurate estimate of a single persons tax obligations at $44,348.

https://simpletax.ca/calculator

As you will see, it’s no where near the 45%.
It's like paying bugfix bounties to the developers who wrote the code in the first place. They have incentives to produce more bugs and these cops are motivated to invent crimes.
I thought everyone knew that giant fancy cakes are usually props?

Anyway, I wanted a fancy single-layer cake at my wedding, but my wife nixed it. Our caterer ended up making delicious cupcakes!
I don't understand why - better being "more natural," right? Those plains have been feeding grazing animals for millennia, what should we do differently?
Having a base on Mars wouldn't solve any of the problems of such a one-in-a-million-year-event, though. It wouldn't help the people in the impact site, and it certainly wouldn't save humanity from an extinction event. (Because what you described is not an extinction event.)
as far as i can see, the effort to meddle would have been considered a failure had the democratic candidate won in 2016.
Even if Facebook decided not to police, they cannot be neutral. They have to decide what to show to users. Now, they use algorithms to do this, but that doesn't relieve them of their responsibility.
Sadly this doesn’t surpise me and paints perfectly into the bigger picture of today’s america - home of deception.

that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians but never been to or heard a single chinese word. They got ingredients from local Cali’s market.

That CVS 100% natural aloe vera? It doesnt have any traces of real alovera at all!

Crab meat? I dint think so; its all immitation made from eatable sponge.

That naural honey? Its all high fructose corn syroupe.

The list go on and on ;( so sad that we as a society in whole accept this state of affairs ;(
Hey, I am a huge user of Apache Flink in personal and work projects. Skimmed through your readme, but still have the following question.

What are the advantages of using Faust feature-wise or otherwise? Are you guys planning on having feature parity with Flink (triggers, evictors, process function equivalent, etc.)? I can definitely see its use in having better compatibility with ML/AI env and the other tools in python toolkit. But specifically regarding ML/AI, I can export those things into the JVM usually. And with regards with Flask/Django, I can use scala http4s.

Sorry if that seemed like a lot! Trust me very excited about this project!
Sounds like India is infected with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
There’s nothing wrong with you. People often feel terribly depressed when they meet their decade long goals. This is because striving is so satisfying and full of novelty.

Basically, the top of the mountain is beautiful but it’s also lonely. It also means you have to start walking down the mountain or find another goal in life. I assure you, there are aspects of your life that you could improve and refine still, but you focused on other aspects for so long.

Try to find something that you want to achieve that’s not work related - maybe run a marathon. That might help refresh yourself.
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A mock cake to save big bucks over an actual fancy cake is a first world problem.

The US is not like developing countries. Inviting 160 people to a wedding tends to be an upper class thing here.

It's a different culture.
If you're lost in the Wilderness in some sort of situation where you cannot walk out, "be careful with that" is out the window.
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> "if hunting was the only way to get meat, there'd be a hell of a lot more meat being eaten"

I think you meant __less__, not more, yeah?
> I can't think of any problem offhand that colonizing Antarctica solves.

It solves the problem of building a sustainable biosphere in an incredibly inhospitable environment. That's a very similar problem to building a Mars colony, that doesn't require you to actually go to Mars.
Yvon Chouinard mentions this in his excellent book “Let My People Go Surfing,” where he says the furthest you can get from a road in the lower 48 is about 20 miles, near the headwaters of the Snake River in Wyoming. Cool to see some methodology that lines up with that estimate.
At this point they should consider investing in their own debit-like card issued by themselves. You prepay it with $100, you get extra 5% loaded on the card, and additional discounts for using it. The retailer saves on per transaction fees since they will have to only pay it once for $100.
Useful might be a browser that extracts most of the information content from web pages and discards most of the formatting information? The text-only browser Lynx comes to mind but I think its obsolete now and doesn't show graphics, which sometimes are useful/necessary.
Variable interchange fees range from 0.05% for Visa Debit Cards(Big Banks) to 2.4% for VISA Infinite for most merchant categories. Fees vary by card type and also merchant type.
Walking in front of someone and blocking them is also rude, though. How do you discourage that without 'aggression'?

An eye for an eye is a terrible thing, but an angry shout in response to a slight can be an effective way of applying social pressure and reducing the number of slights.
Thank you for this piece of history - mankind is only beginning to learn how to manage the talent.
To me, the most interesting thing here is how allegations (quite well substantiated in Anderson's case) give us an opportunity to reevaluate a career's worth of contributions without the haziness of reverence, and how when we do that we sometimes find those contributions lacking. The Anderson/Watson pathology, of developing talent for self-promotion and surreptitious appropriation of credit due to others, is endemic in my field (software security), so I might just be sensitive to it.
My first major project was setting up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) accessible from the Internet.

I knew how to write basic HTML in Notepad and view it in a browser, but the process of installing Linux on an old laptop, setting up the stack, and learning how to port forward through double-NAT was a tremendous accomplishment for myself. I even setup dynamic DNS and had a free domain name.

Today a LAMP stack isn't too impressive, but starting somewhere is important, even if it's small.
I’ll assume that you haven’t read a whole lot of lovecraft, because he really does the reader no favors, using references to classic mythology to describe whole sets of scenery and moods. Making it pretty much impossible to read quite a few of the stories if you’re unfamiliar with some obscure Greek myth.

I have read Knuth though them being part of the CS curriculum, back when I took my degree. They are very revered too, and reasonable so, because they are hard to fault. I personally think they are a needlessly waste of your time though. There are much more approachable books, that’ll teach you the same content in a much friendlier way.

I don’t think we’ll agree though. Especially if you hold harder programming books in higher regard than harder fiction. It took me significantly more effort to go through Dostoyevsky than it did me to go through Knuth, for instance.

And you still haven’t pointed out who exactly the numbers are a useless metric. If book sales aren’t down, isn’t it fair to say, that people are still buying books?
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Actually these books are likely counterfeit, being produced overseas and sold on Amazon as the real deal. It's easy because neither the publisher nor Amazon (nor the customer for that matter) can know that someone listing a product is shipping a fraud.
Return on investment I'd guess. HN is hardly a pipeline into the hearts and minds of the average US citizen. Facebook is practically the collective unconscious of our country, as disgusting as that sounds.
"Deep State" and "Military Industrial Complex" are two different but related things.
The former are unelected diplomatic, intelligence, and military government employees who consider themselves the true bearers of the power of the republic and consider it their duty to manipulate elected officials and the general public to carry out their long-term plans for the world order.
The latter is the cycle of military lobbying, funding, and spending of US taxpayer money, chasing military supremacy against threats real and imagined.
Of course the two are related in that the deep state and military industrial complex are in communication about what kind of weapons to build. But I don't agree that it is two names for the same thing.
> Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option.

There's a very low bar for them to pass to have their driving privileges revoked if they prove themselves to be a danger.

Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy.

> But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough.

"If". We have some very lax standards for what we consider intelligible English, yet Alexa can't set a timer correctly when I tell it to.

> Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense.

Who is proposing this?

> If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar.

Do you apply this accident causation blindness universally? Do you care if a person that hits you was drunk or lacked a driver's license vs driving diligently and licensed?

> People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs!

Some people might object to allowing unproven autonomous vehicles onto the street as stupid, but choose not to use that word in effort to have a respectful discussion.