skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main point, as this article alludes to, is that we may end up with safe and actually fully autonomous vehicles, but they're bloody annoying to ride in. At that point nobody will be willing to pay that $1000 premium, and you'll never recoup costs.

Personally I think given the prior that we can achieve self-driving tech, there's a ~75% probability people won't want that tech.

We've seen it so many times before, companies spending $$$ on R&D of some cool new thing and people just go "meh." I don't see a compelling argument for why this won't just join the ranks of 3D-TVs, Google Glass and flying cars.
WebGPU isn't really analogous to WASM. It's a replacement to WebGL. It will still have a JavaScript API with a non-JS shader language, it will just be more efficient.
Yes it should be considered work. Anything you do towards your company should be accounted as work.

I also think commuting within reason should be accounted as work. Lets say 30 mins to go to work and 30 minutes to get back from work. That never happens obviously but in an ideal world it should be happening. I see some airplane crews e.g working for Ryanair 3 and a half hour flight, then go back another 3 and half hour, count an hour in between the flight for the change, and then they have to be redirected to where they live that can be another 3 and a half hour flight but its only in 5 hours from the time they get off. Its not accounted as work for them... but imagine they wouldn't be there in the first place if it wasn't for their work.

Also as I posted at another comment in another similar thread, I think the world should be evolving to a 6 hours 4 days a week schedule. Our work has been way more efficient with computers and it is only getting more and more efficient. We can most definitely enjoy the advancement of humanity by adding more personal time to our schedules instead of working more.
We are not at a point where we are making 1 car a day, we are at a point where there is an influx of cars in factories, an influx of flights across the globe etc.

So I'd counter the title (although since 2012) with : 'Bring on 24 hour working weeks'!
So, in your opinion what makes something a slot machine is which psychological effects it tries to use?

I'm not OP, but to me it's the triggered randomness with occasional wins that makes it a slot machine. The intentional psychological effects and engineering to persist the desire to subject oneself to those effects are how King and Zynga are evil companies and deserve to have their corporate charters dissolved. IMHO.
Presently there's a bug in Haiku's Intel video driver on EEE PCs. If you enable VESA video in the bootloader, it should work just fine; I know plenty of people who say that Haiku its the best OS for netbooks. :)
Agreed. The article also didn't really talk about what it was actually like after 30 years of pursuing his dream and failing. They just told a story without much detail. Seems like there would be a lot more interesting details.
Dark Data: What Lies Beneath
I work for Pivotal. We see pretty much 50/50 between Java and .NET across F500.
Is there any evidence to show that men in general are working to keep women out of the tech sector? From what I've seen, any woman who wants to commit to learning and getting a job has been completely free to do so. For example; my sister, who's a software engineer because I got her into it years ago. And from what I've seen; nothing has stopped her. It just seems to me that women in general aren't interested in the field, and I'm not sure of the specific reason for it at this point.
It doesn't - it tests for a "truthy" value.
Yes 56 bits is not enough. I want compatibility with database types and any other protocols I choose to use rather than having a js-crippled subset.
You might consider finding a new employer with a better team dynamic. You might even get a salary bump out of it.
Exposing timing of typing in an SSH connection is pretty fatal to security. That means that ssh clients should send individual characters no more often than, e.g., 10ms, and preferably in multiples of 10ms up to 150ms (say). And they should use SSH2_MSG_IGNORE messages to pad out those packets so that attackers cannot observe the number of characters typed (I forget the details as to whether this last is workable).

Including timing information in the protocol, encrypted of course, would be just fine... But the channel that carries tty session data doesn't have a protocol for conveying timing and other metadata out of band.. A protocol would have to be developed for that, or for carrying that metadata in-band, and all of that would require changes on the server side and in the pty drivers.
Parking tickets are not moving violations, and are typically assigned to the car, not to the driver, for obvious reasons.
Good. This is literally the only possible way humanity could arrest or at least survive climate change.
Airbag Recall: Takata Corporation’s Gross Negligence
Yeah I don’t necessarily care if it doesn’t take the most efficient route if it’s within a reasonable amount of time and the ride is pleasant, and I’m not getting charged extra for the detour. Going around the block seems okay, but not taking the freeway and it taking 20 minutes longer definitely isn’t.
This is one of those "monkey hindbrain" behaviors that can present with any cross-pollination of professionals.

For a closer-to-home example, look at how many dev shops treat their QA people. The out-groups rarely get the love they deserve.

Generally speaking, the odds are better when working with your own kind. If you're a software golden child amongst all the other schmoes without a golden ticket, there's going to be more resentment than anything else.
This article tells about Seymour's many failed attempts to get investors onboard, but nothing - not one word - about the inventor selling prototypes himself.

Yes, producing 100K units will require serious capital. But producing a few units and test-marketing them on Amazon should be well within reach.

There are so many ways to do this. For example, how about starting with a signature edition, produced as a series of 10 units. The guy's had crazy media attention. There are people who know about him and who might be willing to buy a first-run as a collector play or simply to fund a man with relentless drive.

I suspect the investors and other companies he's pitching to see this and that's why they refuse to invest. They don't believe Seymour is the man to bring the idea to market.

And they may be right.

Seymour can solve this problem by:

1. switching focus to marketing;

2. bringing on an associate who is focused on marketing.
this kind of highlights one of the differences between FOSS and paid software. “not our fault” “too late to fix it”

versus a manager forcing you to fix the damn problem nobody cares whose fault it is.

of course this difference is not innate, just a tendency.
We shouldn't be getting through so much electronics to make this a problem. This isn't getting to the root of the problem.
> “Not needing to care reduces the cognitive load on me, which means it reduces complexity. Since our propensity to make mistakes increases very quickly with complexity, keeping it low is key to success.”

I actually have come to disagree strongly with this beyond a very, very tiny amount of basic attribute encapsulation, over my career.

Inevitably, 99% of your time becomes dealing with the headache of how the abstraction hides the underlying details at the next reductive step down the chain. You quickly realize that the “win” you get from being able to express a program more concisely in terms of a layer of intermediate abstractions is pretty meaningless, because the number one thing you and all future code readers will need is immediate visibility into how properties of the implementation result in certain resource usage, running time, etc. The number one day to day activity will be performing surgery at some layer below the top line abstraction, to such a degree that the abstraction is nothing more than a nuisance.

This is also one reason why a functional style tends to work so well. You separate data encapsulation (in dumb no-method, no-inheritance record types) from instruction encapsulation (just functions), and the abstraction does not have much effect on visibility of the primitives it relies on from the next lower reductive layer of components.
but there are people who think companies should be eliminated. if you go to a protest rally in a large US city you will see them marching and carrying signs and advocating for their viewpoint.
What Falls to Earth
Looks like royalties are somewhere in the 2% range for ARM[1]. There's also whatever markup companies like Marvell charge to WD. It sounds like WD sells around 40 million drives per year. So, even a savings of 25 cents per unit would be $10M/year.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-h...
What if he gets a second term?
> And I'm still asked to be 'on call' at weekends.

Do you say "no"?

> people I work with are proud to tell me they worked the whole weekend for some reason

How do you look upon these people?
Trekking shoes have a device to absorbs the shocks, which is usually a gaz or gel layer inside the sole. Unfortunately, this cannot absorb much, since a thick sole would reduce the stability of the foot. By the way, always walking with shock absorbers has bad physiological consequences on the feet and knees.

I think the best way to protect the knees, aside from soft snow and screes, is to lower the body when walking down, and absorb the shock using the thighs' muscles.
> turn signals should _not_ be used as "an indicator of opportunity"

This is just flat wrong and makes no sense. If you want to merge, you’re required to use your turn signal ahead of time. If you don’t know when you’ll have an opening to merge, you may have it on for a long time.
Doctrine is closer (in terms of actually been a Data Mapper) than Eloquent so it may be more up your alley.
This is a great advice!
There is likely more failure paths than available energy in the visible universe.
Nah - that’s why monopolies are bad for the society: in any scenario where the company managed to become a monopoly, they’ve by that time accumulated so many resources that they later on use in order to stiffle the competition.

Free markets don’t exist.
I'm pretty sure I know who Carl is. I don't think he's concerned about his identity as much as the article has been written to make you believe. I think the author was trying to make it seem more like an inside scoop when it isn't.
No, they are threads. It doesn't matter if they start with tiny growing stacks and whether blocking syscall wrappers call into the scheduler. Those are just implementation details.
The reason why stuff like this (electrolysis, desalination, etc.) is not widely done is that the capital cost of the facilities is too high. If you spend a bunch of money on an electrolysis plant and only run it 10% of the time, you'll never make your money back, even if your electricity is free.
Suppose we don't expect that. Does it change who should pay the fine?
Completely untrue.

Customs officials in Norway will generally charge the customs fee on the declared value, but if something looks off - a huge, heavy box with a $1 declaration, for example, they can and do open it to verify the contents.
<sarcasm>So, things have improved.</sarcasm>. Several years ago, I tried to hire a senior-programmer/systems-admin through the various job boards. Our job notice was very specific about the skills and experience we expected. We got hundreds of resumes and letters but precisely zero had the experience and skills we specified in the job notice.
Something similar was done with glasses for color blind people:

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=enchroma+glasses
Ask HN: What is your personal digital file storage setup/structure?
I want to organize all of my digital cloud files, and I was wondering what some of the best/most common setups and structures were. I know there is no one ultimate setup and that each person will have discrepancies between their systems, but I do know that there are some dos and don'ts when it comes to organization, and I thought this would be the best place to find those. Thank you for your help
To me, having a starcraft AI win via super high APM is like having a robot beat Usain Bolt in a sprint, but the robot has wheels as its base instead of legs.

I'm more interested when they can do it with the same physical constraints, like if that humanoid-shaped Boston Dynamics robot (famous for being harassed after a box was knocked out of its hands) could outsprint Usain Bolt.
I'd like a decent standard library.

These days I work mainly with C#, and to a lesser extent Typescript and JavaScript - the anemic nature of the ECMAScript standard library is really jarring.
"The more I practice, the luckier I get" used to be a common .sig quote.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/14/luck/
Deep clone objects
This is on a tty. So outside of X as well.

Both X and Wayland have key down and up events.
KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
DDD get's this right by focusing on the language of talking about the design. If you can't make a single description that succinctly and accurately formulates the purpose and mechanism of the abstraction, in a way that fits all cases. I generally find the abstraction to be a poor fit.
Why wrap fruits and vegetables at all? They come to the store in boxes that ensure they aren't damaged in transport, I don't see the need for another layer of packaging. The only vegetable I buy in a package is lettuce, which would probably dry out pretty quickly if it wasn't in something.
You, as a malicious 3. party, captures the encrypted packets between a client and a server. You can't decrypt those packets.

However if each keystroke is sent in its own packet, you note the timestamp of the packets and then you can infer which keys the user has pressed from the difference in time between the packets.
Isn't it a bit cynical then that a VT100 terminal emulator and the unix shell are still my biggest productivity boost as a programmer? The Windows development environment is a terrible mess. Its command window and batch script language are barely usable.

The Windows guys didn't care to fix this problem in a long long time. While Unix/FOSS platforms have traditionally been very strong in developers tooling.

If you look in Windows more generally, they seem to be more wary not to break compatibility than Linux. That's because they need to run ancient programs that cannot be recompiled. I would say that "too late to fix it" is actually a problem with proprietary software, not FOSS.
It's amazing to see what's happened to English "nice" itself over the history of the word https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nice

I think technically in the case you describe the two words are true cognates, but with different meanings. Cognate means that they share an etymology, not necessarily that they share an etymology and a present-day meaning. Wikipedia distinguishes false friends from false cognates this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
I'm very surprised DARPA, ONR, or SOCOM didn't at least offer a startup grant for this. ONR has an entire office devoted to developing stuff exactly like this.

There is an art to writing DoD research grant proposals, just as there is (I presume) an art to pitching VC. So maybe a lack of understanding of how to go about securing these types of grants could explain him not getting one. But DARPA, in particular, goes way out of its way to take that out of the equation.

Which leads me to wonder whether there isn't more to this story.
The hype is because not very long ago nobody even expected that what they’re doing now would be possible. That they can even do what they’re doing now is an amazing achievement.

It turns out that it’s not enough and we need another breakthrough, but it might not have been possible to see what the limitations of the new approach were going to be when they were doing new, previously impossible things every week.

I think this is similar to the belief in the 20th century that right after the moon, we’d be colonizing mars and exploring the galaxy. We had been bound to the surface of the earth for thousands of years of civilization and then suddenly it seemed like we had no limitations. You can probably excuse a little bit of excess enthusiasm.
Hire a Buzfeeder
Plus they hired a veteran language designer to lead the effort -- Anders Hejlsberg. Compared to Java they were unapologetic in rapidly iterating the language and much more aggressive about borrowing ideas from research.

Arguably it came full circle in Java 8, which was a big update to the language.
I lead a team who rewrote their stack from C#/C++/Win to Java/C++/Node.

Big wins were being able to leverage the much larger ecosystem, and containerization.

We played with Scala but it didn’t work for our team, the expressivity is a two edged sword. Runtime is absolutely fine though it was all about complexity, and poor developer tooling. And since we are in a smaller market, not SV, sticking to platforms where we can find hires was probably a better call for our company.
Improving some of the syntax was sorely needed but I think adding classes was unhelpful. I already have a hard enough time teaching programmers about prototypical inheritance without the language actively lying to them.

And it feels like an odd move in that class based OOP isn't the zeitgeist it once was. Shoehorning it in feels like a throw back to 90's and 00's.
That's how people operate, not just businesses.
Before the most recent re-org, me working overtime was a simple matter of "can you today?".

After the most recent re-org, it was "please get permission from the manager beforehand".

Either way I could still say "yes" or "no" so I still feel in control in some way, only now it's "in control with permission" on my "yes" if the manager agrees.

While I don't like playing "Timeclock Tommy" as a matter of course, having that mindset does protect my sanity.
Wait— a stage union? Is that IATSE down there?

I wouldn’t paint them all like that. Some of their members are brilliant and taught me a lot. Others were negligent cokeheads... but most of them got the job done.

Sounds like a bad crew more than anything.

Edit: can confirm the gaffer/duct tape thing, though. I once worked fixing up high voltage/amperage cabling and distro equipment. They always taped that gear to hell and it was terrible to clean and fix up.
BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking about a merger
'in' operator follows `contain` idiom for collections.

1 in [1,2,3] -> true

"foo" in {foo:1,bar:2} -> true

Real namespaces:

namespace Foo
{
function a() { return "a"; }
function b() { return a(); } // Foo.a() call
}

namespace Key { // enums
const ENTER = 13;
const SPACE = 32;
}

if( evt.keyCode == Key.ENTER )
...
That's fine, but we're here to gratify our intellectual curiosity. There's nothing wrong with recognizing as such, it just needs to be done thoughtfully and informatively so we can have a discussion about it.
Consumers wont buy it if plastic wrapped options are allowed. Clear plastic allows transparency into the object that is being purchased while at the same protecting from external contamination. For example a clear plastic egg carton allows you to see if any eggs are broken without risking getting egg goo on you.
Names are abstractions. If there's an itch to apply some abstractions on a project, begin with good, very carefully considered names for functions, variables, and classes.

The main difference between the projects that make me want to pull my hair out and the ones I can actually understand and immediately begin working with is simple: good projects use good names for things.
“More egregiously, a Chinese firm nicked Seymour’s design, mass-produced the product, and sold it under the “Bionic Boot” name on Amazon.”

This is the most important line to me. I’ve heard so many horror stories along these lines.

Yet, does anyone here know why companies like Sarah Blakely’s Spanx didn’t suffer the same fate? Spanx is now a billion dollar company that launched with an easily clonable product.

She talks about how she filed a patent on her idea on her own with no lawyer and that was the only explanation. I don’t think she had a lot of money to fight cases.

https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mos-ep...
They still start with tiny stacks, if that's what you are asking. I believe it's somewhere around 2 KB nowadays.
That is a really cool app! I bookmarked and I will definitely check it out later.
in the same way that a big law firm protects big-time corporate criminals from actual justice sometimes, unions sometimes protect people who've done very bad things from facing the same justice as the average person. police officer unions in California are an example of this, IMHO. they very frequently oppose and fight the implementation of laws and policies that shine a light on the inner workings of police departments, and bad officer behavior.
I think there is something about the PCI version that's pretty significantly different, but I don't know what exactly.
I get that, it's just not what I originally read the comment to mean. It sounds like you guys say "timed" to mean "sent in real-time", whereas I read it to mean "includes timestamps", that's why I was confused. (Because in my mind I think of things like "timed automata" which are automata accompanied with time variables, not automata that execute in real-time.) But otherwise yeah, that makes sense.
re the part about removing mold: does that only hold for fermentation?

I somewhat recall having seen an interview of a doctor talking about mold (in e.g. jams) and stating that you should be generous with the part removed because mold has roots that go far deeper that what you actually see.
Furthermore, he mentioned it (or byproducts, I don't recall) being carcinogenic, i.e. definitely not just bad taste.
Right，If you can found it.
Interestingly enough, I first heard of Itch not because of the games they publish but because they've become quite popular in the transgender community as a platform for publishing light novels with transgender themes.
Catch 22 situation. Many plastic wrapped objects last longer than paper/non wrapped objects leading to less waste at the store.
My comment was about the reporting and not the actions of the US or China. Reporters should speak straight. If it’s about competition say so and not muddled with unverified threats.
I think the issue here is just the 'size of solution' between private and public transport offerings.
i.e. If you've got tens of thousands of people in a place - an underground line isn't a bad idea.
If you've got tens - then that's not even enough for a bus.
However an Uber driver (or even a pool route) is actually happier with the latter, as they're not having to compete with an underground.
Different types of transport tend to be poorly integrated. Maybe airports being the only example I can think of where private and public play nicely together.
Desperately trying to buy and resell at a higher price? That would require some poor third party sap to pay more, right?

Sounds sad.
There is a long history of commercial UNIX... All have the same limitation. FOSS really has nothing to do with it.
They were only stopped because someone didn't pay off someone. There are trucks from Ukraine to Russia constantly going through "the war zone" and everyone lets them pass - neither side shoots them down. Mostly on those trucks is fake booze and shit like cheese. Stuff that goes on the news is for show, just like the stuff on the news in the US. The reality is quite different.

Anywise, careful with factual information on here. You're about to get downvoted and flagged. If you keep presenting those facts you'll get shadow banned and have to create a new account. Weekly thing for me nowadays.