skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention electrical safety issues (daisy chaining loaded power strips and/or insufficiently rated extension cords) or fire issues (space heaters).
>> If you want to know where you stand in an org just observe how preferred your environment is to others.

That probably explains a lot of the resistance in old-school organizations to any type of working from home. The existing power brokers lose a good bit of leverage when everyone can cozy up in their own preferred environment, that they control.
On the books...debt/liability is offset with either an asset or "expense".

An asset has enduring value, it remains on the books year after year.

An expense however, is only on the books for the current year, then it gets rolled into owner equity. Expense shrinks owner equity. In fact, owner equity can go negative in extreme situations.

A portion (I'm not sure how much) of the $250t in debt was certainly spent on expense. There is no way to get that portion back...the funds do not exist.
XBox is hardware and a completely different thing.

> The App Store’s 5% cut is not currently a major revenue stream for them, but it’s still revenue and would be a big deal for most companies.

Do you have a citation for how much money it is? And it's only a big deal if it's larger than expenses, which I'll believe but not assume.
That’s a complicated issue. I’d hope they’d get better jobs, but in the interim, should any full-time position be permitted to pay an unlivable wage? If so, why?
Man that's bullshit. We need an agency / taskforce that can investigate that sort of thing and bring swift justice / reform without making the little guy suffer through the court system.
In fact, it would actually be easier to implement Prolog then implement a compiler in it, than to implement a compiler directly in e.g. C, Java, Lisp, etc.
Could somebody explain to me if these mutations, being germline, are permanent damage to the gene pool, or would go away after two generations?
It'd cost more than you'd likely recover. Even a video with a lot (1M+) of hits only generates a few hundred to a few thousand dollars of revenue (depends on how many of those users skip the ads basically).

Might be worth trying to put together a class action suit for all of the people that this keeps happening to... but again, the recovery would likely go primarily to the legal firm, though it might be enough to get Google to wake up and do something about their auto-rejecting appeals system.
Deciding it’s best to operate in a low tax jurisdiction is not “exploiting a weakness in the system”. It’s simply acting rationally in an environment when you have multiple options for where you operate.
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Came here to post this! Was really intrigued the first time I saw it. One of the many oddities of Providence that make it a fun place to visit.
I was expecting I could press “back” and return to this thread. I think I honestly would have perferred the designers doing the “scroll hijack” in this case.
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I suspect in those days "dinner" implied a large meal while "lunch" is something smaller and simpler, like the sandwiches mentioned in the article.
What do you mean by traffic always increasing? Im not really following what you are saying...
This is a potentially deep topic and something I could say a lot about (speaking as a 6+ year Xoogler) but I’ll avoid going not the weeds.

I see where you’re going but don’t entirely agree.

For one I think extracting every dollar is true but my theory is that comes from Ruth not Sundar. I mean Ruth would’ve been brought in for that purpose but that goes up to the board and Larry.

I also see where you’re going with the terminal cancer part but again I wouldn’t put it that way. I would say that Google is in a similar position to Microsoft after the antitrust case: it was directionless. It doesn’t know what it stands for or what it’s mission is anymore. Everything is a search for purpose. And this is really a failure in leadership.

This lack of leadership is what allowed the incredibly tone deaf military AI program to happen.

I also don’t think google search has stood still or is in danger from Bing.
They used to be called journalists.
Can you give me a source on what the total economic costs are (including opportunity costs) per reduced cases of e coli due to licensure of eateries?

I have spent years in Asia and never heard of it. In the states I know of a few cases of it happening. Not from food trucks or otherwise unlicensed places.

I'm all for prudent regulations. I'm not suggesting we abolish the FDA. However, I think government interfering in me and a lemonaide stand, or food truck being, able to voluntarily exchange value is far across the line into the absurd.
Extracting one part of a conversation I had on Reddit with someone who's worked with GreenSock --

"GSAP is fairly standard on commercial sites. It’s the most mature and cross tested animation option, but it’s best features aren’t free. I’d argue there’s a good reason for that though, because the codebase is pretty impressive and can’t be cheap to maintain.

Most people say the biggest advantage of GSAP is the timeline. When paired with SVGs (and using GSAP’s morph plugin) there’s some pretty crazy and unexplored UI orientated options that become very possible. I rarely have a client with a budget to go there, but why use another tool that can’t do such amazing SVG manipulations in real time and synced to other movement on the screen?

I cannot overstate how powerful that is.

But the bottom line is that not enough “ux” folk are good enough with JavaScript to really be creative with GSAP. So it’s mostly front Enders that use it or propose it in meetings.

Also I’m not 100% sure... but I think I recall reading somewhere that a lot of the software solutions trying to make web animation “easy” for designers, use GSAP under the hood. So I look as GSAP a lot like D3. Since they’re advanced/enterprise solutions, and not easy to use (but not hard at all for proper programmers), there’s a lot of attempts to make it easier with libraries built on top of their bases through licensing."
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on
A-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

I knew a guy whom took dates to buzz around the Statue of Liberty about 20m away, pre-9/11.. now dudes are going to have to take them literally around the moon. To afford this, anyone got any hot stock tips? :)
This is one of the unspoken rules of the road I learned on a trip to Puerto Rico, only it's not only at traffic signals -- any time a vehicle is signaling a left turn common practice is to slow/stop and allow it to make the turn.
Is it possible to use this in vscode ?

That would be awesome.
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No, someone else doing something illegal is NOT a valid reason for me to not legally own something. Sheeple need to pull the wool from their eyes.
I generally embrace the standard home directory structure. ~/Downloads, ~/Documents, etc. I always have a ~/Projects directory that I keep my source code for various projects I am working on. (Or non source code projects that are not just a document of some sort).

Applications I install for my user go under ~/.local. So ie, ~/.local/bin for just a binary or ~/.local/appname for something specific with a symlink to ~/.local/bin.

I use a simple user cron job to clear out files older than 3 days from my Downloads folder so that it doesn't become messy.

I keep my bash profile in git and will check it out to ~/.bash and symlink the appropriate files where I want them from there.

Same for Vim.. but ya know... ~/.vim ;).
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Inspired by NASA?

https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blogs/symphonies-of-the-...

>For instance, the probes picked up the interaction of solar wind on the planets magnetospheres, which releases ionic particles with an audible vibration frequency. Essentially, we can then translate these waves into sound waves and put them on an album.

https://archive.org/details/SymphoniesOfThePlanets2

https://archive.org/details/SymphoniesOfThePlanets3
That would also make sense, good point.
At this point, couldn't all/any metro gov't be considered a RICO violation?
It doesn't surprise me that many of the prolific authors are in medical and life sciences. I have worked with validating registered research at a large hospital (actually a conglomerate of multiple hospitals) and the physicians there had the most 'creative' ways of registering their research I have ever seen. Interviewed by a journalist? Let's put that down as a peer reviewed journal article. It was absolutely jaw dropping some of the things they tried to get way with in order to inflate their publication numbers. I'm sure that many other tricks are being used, like pressuring students to publish papers and get your name on them without any work, etc. Citation cartels have been uncovered among journals that you wouldn't normally think to be predatory, and are indexed by Scopus and/or WoS. It would not surprise me the least if publication cartels exists as well, with editors and reviewers agreeing to let anything get published in exchange for returning the favor.
I really enjoyed it as well. I’ve never heard of Laphams Quarterly. If the rest of the publication writes to this standard, I think I’d find myself a frequent reader.
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Exactly. "Immaturity" includes a big lack of detailed domain knowledge and domain-specific judgment, which is one of the things I think is going to be very hard to teach to computers.
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What if alien civilisations figured it was a good move to hide themselves from hostile civilisations... Or if those that broadcast like we do were destroyed by hostile civilizations. Let's hope not I guess.
Kelo v. City of New London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

The company should be seized by eminent domain and its assets sold to a company that contracts to produce the drug(s) at a reasonable price.
You mean like Google do already? See also this discussion from earlier in the week about automatically logging in to Gmail when you start chrome. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252
Solar wind too though.
Language and mathematics are two more abstractions that "... hovers above the physical world."
There is some evidence for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Ai...
There's a catch though: you won't get a chance of a raise because you are needed to just keep on delivering the value while others get promoted behind your back for selling it internally.
In phases, this is roughly how I learned:

1. Cute hacks like using the eval function in Python and rewriting the string before passing it in. This is basically metaprogramming by macro-processing and a good stepping stone to thinking about what a programming language really accomplishes.

2. Writing various Forth-like and Lisp-like languages. This let me explore a working system without spending too much time on parsing - I could try interpreting the AST directly or compiling it to an intermediate language.

3. Gradually learned that a lot of the features and technologies in general purpose programming languages aren't things I want to care about(how to implement arithmetic, perform variable assignment, perform typechecking etc.). Focused on data languages like JSON and small supplemental languages for e.g. scheduling concurrency.

4. Found a useful model for prototyping semantics before adding a syntax, by envisioning the whole language in the form of a state machine that builds expressions one API call at a time, then compiles/executes the result with a "commit" call or similar. This is a practical technique for many domain specific problems, and makes the necessary syntax emerge naturally.

A lot of what goes into making a useful production language isn't really on the theoretical side, but on finish-and-polish stuff: fast builds, helpful docs and error messages, well-rounded libraries, debugging tools, ease of deployment and so on. Learning this through the process of writing small PLs helped change how I viewed language selection to be more like picking any other application, vs a point of religion: choosing something with approximately the right features and tooling so that the groundwork is easy, and then magnifying that leverage by adding a bit of custom syntax, static checking, code generation, what-have-you on top. Turning the tech into an airtight abstraction generalized across a whole language is a ton of work, but getting 80% of it in for the specific app takes a fraction of the time in comparison.
"Perception" in the context of autonomous agents means a mapping from sensors to a model of the world; how effectively can the agent establish a reliable model given its sensor readings?

What GP means by perception being a solved problem is that existing sensors and algorithms produce high quality and reliable models in a wide range of environment conditions.

A webcam is a sensor device, the human observing the webcam feed most likely cannot construct a good model of the car and its surrounds, as they can't do things like shoulder checking or looking in the rear view mirror, which a good driver does frequently to maintain a model of where other cars are.

But then "reasonably well" for a human driving a car remotely via webcam feed is likely to be a far lower standard than we're holding self-driving cars to.
A rich person might rather buy 5 houses with a 20% down payment and 80% debt rather than 1 house with cash.
Weather and trips being not completely predictable, the car would have to be able to pull over and stop if there was weather the car wasn't certified to handle, and if the human was asleep in the back seat or whatever and took a long time to get ready to take over.

I think I've seen at least a prototype Waymo car (it was exhibited in the Computer History Museum) that was designed without the steering wheel and pedals for a human to use. That wouldn't work so well given that the car might pull over and be unable/unwilling to drive anymore. (Maybe you can put an expected upper limit on how long the weather will remain bad ... Nah, storms can last for days, by which point a human who didn't bring food and water could be in bad shape.) I guess you could rely on being able to call AAA. Though a bad blizzard might be exactly the case where AAA would have a hard time reaching you. The human being able to take over eventually seems like an important feature. I guess that is the way all the cars in the field (that I've seen) work.

Does anyone happen to know if self-driving cars are practicing "pull over and stop" maneuvers? For some reason I've never heard of it. I think it is the only potentially reliable fallback mechanism if the car encounters, say, weird terrain it knows it can't handle. (I don't think you can assume the human will be able to respond within n seconds.)
This is a great study and gives insights in to what's wrong with research today. As the study has uncovered the causes:

- mentorship of very many young researchers

- leadership of a research team

- becoming full professors, department chairs

- leadership roles in large centres

As the paper states: at the peak of their productivity, some cardiologists publish 10 to 80 times more papers in one year compared with their average annual productivity when they were 35–42 years old. There was also often a sharp decrease after passing the chair to a successor.

In other words, people with checkbooks gets their names engraved on work that is being done by others. Their author metrics like h-index and citation counts would shoot up and the get credit for scholarly publications even if they have played little or no part.

This is extremely sad. These people in leadership roles should be avoiding taking credit to scholarly work that is not theirs.

As the article says, requirements for authorship are the "Vancouver criteria" established in 1988. These specify that authors must do all of four things to qualify: play a part in designing or conducting experiments or processing results; help to write or revise the manuscript; approve the published version; and take responsibility for the article’s contents.

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors does not count supervision, mentoring or obtaining funding as sufficient for authorship. However as credit hungry folks becomes leaders they circumvent all and every ethical line to get their names on everybody else's work whoes paychecks and careers depend on their whims.
Sounds like a trap...
Umm, Radar?

Comma.ai is doing vision+radar right now and driving cars with it.
computers can be daisy chained unsafely and often are in my experience. in my current office we have done that. i still remember that when i was in college microwave ovens were prohibited (used too much energy) but tvs were okay. even my ra had a microwave that had a sign on it that said tv. bullshit rules are ignored. and the other problem is bullshit rules lead people to ignore actual useful rules. kind of like making so many laws that everything and everyone has abused a law leads to people not respecting the system.
That's a very young-civilization perspective. 100 years seems like a long time to us because it's approximately 1% of the age of our civilization. But it's possible that civilizations that are hundreds of millions of years old exist. To such civilizations 100 years would be a flash in the pan.

Also keep in mind than until recently on earth we used transmission mechanisms for long-on-earth distances that were closer to the order of magnitude of 100-year transmission time (a few months) than to present transmission time (a few milliseconds).
I think if they wanted to disclose that information they would have done so.
My understanding is that official ACI[1] trucks, as opposed to private ones, are still allowed, if your car breaks down on the GRA your insurer will send an ACI truck

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_Club_d%27Italia
What do you mean abolish zoning on federal level? Zoning is controlled by municipalities, as a result of Euclid v. Ambler (turns out using police force to control where you can build things is not unconstitutional).

Honestly, the issue isn’t zoning in general, it’s Euclidean zoning, up to and including municipal control of zoning ordinances. Urban planning is hard, and cities, especially small ones, don’t necessarily have the proper resources to do it well. Combined with plentiful NIMBYs, you get, well, the nonsense we have now.

Maybe zoning at the state or federal level (like in Japan) would help, but that would also make it possible to enshrine BAD zoning into law for everyone. I mean, at least a municipality has a shot at doing some zoning reform since they are constitutionally allowed to (if the political will is there).

One good baby step is to remove the distinction between single and multi-family home zones. This would result in duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and little apartment buildings interspersed in neighborhoods. It’s not perfect, but it slowly increases density.

We don’t need to abolish zoning, we just need to zone intelligently and without the landed gentry using the legislative branch to keep their property values artificially high.
Pointers seem unnecessary for non-CS majors. Go with R or Python.
You're just changing infrastructure attack to industrial espionage. You calling it something else doesn't detract from the point that it's been done, and it was targeted at one country or another's infrastructure.

Nukes don't deter infrastructure attacks. They ENCOURAGE them. Cripple your opponents ability to maintain his arsenal and coordinate his forces, and you could shift the odds of pulling off a crippling first strike immensely.
>No one significant is predicting a doom/collapse

No one significant predicted the biggest economic collapse since the great depression either.
Could they face repercussions over this? That is unsettling that they can remotely manipulate your phone without your permission.
Small claims, filed in your local county. Sony isn’t going to send a $500/hr attorney to fight a $5000 suit.

I won a case against American Airlines doing that (a baggage related issue.)
Wow, that's $6500.
Cool, polished website. But if it does it 100% in the browser, then I expect to see the result in the browser. Maybe a [1] before/after slider would be a good addition.

[1] https://codepen.io/nosurprisethere/pen/xrXjYV
Jank is an actual term, it’s the time-derivative of acceleration. Page jank looks how motion jank feels; unexpected and uncomfortable.
The first couple chapters of crafting interpreters (free) cover lexing and parsing and precedence well and it's very readable and practical rather than theoretical.
Because they are companies that sell a product to consumers, who expect that this will keep them safe on the road. We need to hold them to a much higher standard than a teenager.
IMO, The best example of designing and implementing a "small" language can be seen in Chapter 8 of "The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike" where they walk you through the construction of "hoc" (higher order calculator) using the standard compiler construction tools. The example is realistic, not too small nor too big and every step is explained. The exposition is very clear and you really can "get" how languages are designed and implemented. This should be the first thing you should read :-)

If you have a specific problem, you can then write a small DSL for it. I once had the opportunity to write a small "test language" for the sub-protocols of H.323. These protocols are specified using SDL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_...) and i just converted the tokens in the spec directly into my language and put a simple markdown syntax around it. The tests simply exercise the protocol FSM.

Eg:

<H245>
<Test1>
<Prestimuli>
Var1=Val1 //these are assignments
Var2=Val2
</Prestimuli>
<Stimuli>
MsgFromNetwork=<msg name> //trigger to FSM
</Stimuli>
<Poststimuli>
Var1=Val1.1 //these are assertions
Var2=Val2.1
</Poststimuli>
</Test1>
</H245>

Though simple, this worked nicely, allowing me to push off the actual writing of the test cases to non-programmers who just had to convert the SDL diagrams from the spec. to text as given above.
Is it unethical for a professor to lie to their students?

Yes.

Is is still unethical if the professor argues that the lies were for the students' own good?

Yes.

Is it still unethical if, a few months into the course, the professor tells the truth?

Yes.

Is it still unethical if, a few months later, the professor tells the truth and one or more students says "you know, I understand now why you lied to us"?

Yes.

This really isn't a challenging conundrum. The student-teacher relationship is a special one. There are expectations that need to be fulfilled on both sides. One of the most basic ones that can be expected of a teacher is don't lie to your fucking students.
I think his note clarifies it pretty well: "This is what Uber, Lyft, and conventional taxi services can do today."

What I've seen about Waymo (and maybe I've missed something) is very hazy. And it's not out yet. I'll be very surprised if they go from "operating in secret" to "completely competitive with Lyft" in one jump. My guess is that there will be significant limitations for whatever their first release is.
We're only hiring in the US and Canada right now. Thanks!
Never mind that I can perform fast and accurate manipulations with my hands better than anyone will be able to learn to manipulate their brain chip any time soon.

Hell, I'd put money on someone using their feet to operate a radio transmitter over the brain chip given equal amounts of time to practice. And I think I would win that bet for the rest of my life at least.

Of course, we all agree there is definitely a coolness factor at play. It is undeniably cool.
Tesla: What's Really Going On, on the Plant Floor