skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glanced over it and saw a recommendation to read the Economist.

Stay away from that junk.

There are tons of free high quality economics books at mises.org
Looks like proof to me, that the classification works correctly.
"+" suffixes are generally a waste of time. Most actors will strip everything between + and @ to avoid exposure like this.
I promise that was not me. I don't do that.

I do other things.
It's also a huge amount of complexity.
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> GC's prevent you from doing a huge range of techniques to improve cache locality or reduce allocation/free churn.

This is only true in languages which don't provide other means of memory allocation.

D, Modula-3, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon variants, Eiffel, .NET all provide features for such techniques.
You put too many people in a confined space and they go nuts - is this a surprise ?
Where are they getting the engine?

You can get model aircraft jet engines with enough power for this.[1] Various human-carrying craft have been built that way, such as the Zapata Flyboard.[2] But the engines have a lifespan measured in hours and not enough reliability for carrying humans. That's why all the demo videos of these things are over water, or tethered.

People have been trying to build small, cheap jet engines for decades. "Small" has been done. Cheap, no. Below bizjet size, the price doesn't go down much. Which is why general aviation is still running mostly on pistons. The 1960s Williams jetpack (not the Bell rocket belt) used an engine intended for cruise missiles.

If they've cracked the small jet engine problem, there's a big market for those, without trying to package them as jetpacks or motorcycles. Otherwise, it's just another demo rig.

The video is a bit suspicious. It's very quiet. You can hear the boats over it. It doesn't blow stuff around. It doesn't move his clothing. It doesn't ripple the water even at low altitude. Other videos of small jet engines are very noisy and have lots of jet blast.

[1] http://www.jetcat.de/jetcat/Kataloge/JetCat%20ENGINES.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7feIt5PRvUw
Funny how quotes mostly about "power supply systems" became "power cords" in the headline, just because one mentioned it too. I doubt Quanta or Lite-On actually make power cords themselves...
Relevant: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/wasm-threa...
Which was released in '14, so possibly corporate position has evolved.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312028
Relax there, Humpty Dumpty. Or should we call a bondulance?
Interaction between humans and AI is far from perfect. It seems that it would be easier for the people to adapt to AI rather than the opposite. I feel that someday every traffic participant (including pedestrians)
will be required to carry tracking device. These devices will communicate together and prohibit or allow actions, e.g. making a turn or crossing a road. Eventually they will make traffic rules as we know today, obsolete. No traffic lights, no road signs and no crossings anymore. Every action will controlled by the device. And, of course, they will automatically report and fine law-breakers.

Is this the bright future of the humankind? Or is this a setting for a new dystopian book?
They're supposed to be exactly as stable as required by law for their intended use, using the minimal amount of labor and materials so satisfy the requirements. Making them more stable using more money is easy, but getting the calculations just right requires years of training.
I mean... we're trying to end human hunger for a few hundred million people. Thank you for believing in us? No one has ever told me that it sounds more plausible than driverless cars. I'm torn between puffing up my chest and taking the compliment.
Apple makes mass market products by the zillions and has a long external supply chain. They can't put everyone in tubes.
Some companies in this space: Clearbit, FullContact
A good analysis. Traditionally I haven’t seen many in depth articles in the social space, mostly emotional reactions or people severely misunderstanding product positioning because they don’t personally use it (2 years ago this was Snap). And even if they are a user, most people have a hard time articulating the value proposition of a free social product.
Compared to a helicopter - down right low risk.

How is this lower risk than a helicopter? If a helicopter fails it doesn't just drop out of the sky; it can autorotate relatively safely to the ground. Autorotor flight is a safety feature taught to every helicopter pilot. People have walked away from helicopter crashes. A jetbike presumably won't have that feature.
this would only work for unskilled workers.

although being a doctor, you only work when there are patients. so that's JIT too i guess.
They do allow it, but it’s a pain to set up for each + address, especially on iOS.
With 3D rotation is even worse
Driving Instructors are always actively engaged, atleast mine was, he'd always check traffic, plan the route, give me directions, etc.

It's way more active than watching a self-driving car doing it's thing completely autonomously.
Thanks, but I've done this (although used Nginx instead).

The web server I've written is now serving several websites I'm hosting, some of which have thousands of images, so there's plenty of scope for connection re-use.

Each connection ID is different within dev tools in Chrome - although errors have 0 - (often sequential, sometimes there are huge gaps). And this is the same with HTTP websites on the net (just tried www.briscoes.co.nz and am still seeing the same thing in Chrome 72).

Using Wireshark I can see that Firefox is doing the correct thing, so I'm not sure why you think what I'm looking at is too low-level: I think it's pretty clearly something the client's doing at the TCP level to close the connection its end after its received the content length.

It may well be that I'm not sending a header Chrome's looking for, but I'm not sure what it is, as in its request it's sending "Connection: keep-alive", and the response has the same, and Firefox works fine.

It's almost like it's a client configuration or something, but I don't know what that would be, as I've tried on several machines.
I beg your pardon? I have never heard of a decent publisher doing the publishing in MS Word, i.e. the process from formatting to printing. The editing most often gets done in Word. As far as I know, Word lacks the formatting capabilities to do professional publishing. But maybe I just misunderstood you, or things have thoroughly changed in the last couple of years.
CNES isn’t working on consumer products used by billions of people, which where popular enough to generate a market for media publications devoted to only talk about them.
The comparison is completely clueless.
Where you to spill the beans on some new CNES innovation in a bar, the best you can aspire to is a “cool story bro” remark from some drunk fella sitting next to you.
Try doing that when you’re an Apple engineer working on the iPhone and your beer burps will be the pullquote of a Bloomberg piece in two hours.
Yeah, it's like... How often did Facebook's press releases lie? Basically every time. Any assumed credibility is from the default assumption that people don't lie, but Facebook and Zuckerberg are far from the default - they are compulsive liars.
Don't know why you would be downvoted for this.

Every ancient-enough religion all starts out, effectively, the same way, in their own "religious dialect": the universe was created, life on Earth was created, and then Mankind invented language. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Things were simply not named before we invented language and named things.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that but the tech can be used with different approaches.

Owning the jetpack outright seems like a sort of "high octane for rich people entertainment" play, which you could compare to the Tesla roadster approach.

You could even have some bungee jumping/jet ski equivalent of it where you rent it for a couple hours.

Longer term, maybe you could have a jetpack/drone Uber-type merge, where you can have your jetpack delivered on demand, go where you want in a quick and entertaining way, and dispose of it until you need one for the ride back.
This 100%. In addition, if you want to look into new factors, the huge amounts of foreign investments that came into Madrid have been dedicated to normal rentals, or to hoarding empty flats; not to short term rentals.
No such thing as a seagull, as my ornithologist friend likes to remind me.
And, 99% of people don't care about the secrets that CNES is hiding. Most people are actually interested in Apple's next product, making it much hard to keep a secret.
This. For me believing in free will is just another type of religion. It makes us feel safer and that we're in control. I think is useful for that, but we're deluding ourselves.

And I just realized you're being downvoted. How surprising.
So you're saying security at this marketing driven consumer products company isn't so special, because government agencies developing top secret military technology are far more secure? Well, I suppose you're right but I don't think that's the sort of comparison most people would make.
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It’s a drawing of a creature that looks a bit like a rabbit or a duck from different angles but is very clearly neither, at best a bad drawing. That’s the failure here - it’s classifying into one of its categories when it shouldn’t be classifying at all.
People getting killed by drunk drivers didn't volunteer for it either. It doesn't matter how you spin it, the metric that matters (there is nuance, but put bluntly) is "How many innocent lives are lost in traffic related accidents from now until [year X]?".

If, given two scenarios:

1. We develop FSD very carefully. 0 lives are lost during FSD development. Ten million lives are lost by the time that FSD sees 100% adoption.

2. We develop FSD less carefully. 100,000 lives are lost during FSD development due to suboptimal performance before it is perfected. Five million lives are lost due to human drivers by the time FSD sees 100% adoption.

Would you really choose the former option? If your ethics board refuses option 2 in favor of option 1, it is they that are mistaken.
I see what you mean now. My point is that even if there's a minor screwup, the architect probably won't be prosecuted for anything because the building won't fail catastrophically thanks to modern standards which have substantial margins of safety built into them. It really does require criminal levels of negligence or extreme circumstances that would almost certainly save the architect from prosecution to have a building collapse on you.

On the other hand, a minor screwup in software is far more likely to cause catastrophic failure because we just don't know how to workably build large, robust systems out of code.
> composting / incineration-generation device to convert the trash into organics and/or electricity.

This is extremely widespread and already industrialised.
Server push can’t be free. You need the web server to somehow know what resources will be required by the page and I still don’t understand how it doesn’t defeat browser caching but I presume it must involve some non trivial configuration.
What's your criterion of being ready for live tests? Under what conditions is loss of innocent life okay?
I have always considered React one of the frameworks that allows you to interop with regular HTML and JavaScript the easiest. The reason being that you can easily access DOM nodes and everything is run in JavaScript anyway. This is a lot more complicated in languages where you have a template language in my own experience.

That said, document.write is kind of special since it requires JavaScript to run while the HTML document is still open (so before it fires the loaded event). There is a reason this API is barely used today and mostly superset by appendChild.
The parent statement was that having signed apps made them easy to disable. If all apps had to be signed, everything would have a reputation hook, and also be easily disabled. It's the hang-up of using the for profit 'verified' code signing ecosystem that makes signing ineffective.

Of course, MSFT/Apple etc will abuse it to kill apps they/govt don't like.
Well it might be fast, but Java/Scala doesn't sound like it is very compact and easy to deploy. It results in a ~10MB jar file + the java runtime.
I have already encounter this behaviour, but I do not understand it. What is the mistake to avoid ?
That's not what the ticket is about. The main part of sagemath is sagelib a python/cython library, and the ticket is about making this part pip-installable. Sagemath the whole package depends on many non-python programs and it won't ever be possible or desirable to make this all pip-installable.

OTOH we have done a ton of work making sagemath apt-get installable, and that works since about 2 years ago.
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My experience is different. I've converted two or three grammars from recursive descent to LR recently. In each case, the recursive descent authors have made surprising mistakes, resolving ambiguities in ways that violate the intended spec. This isn't surprising: you can't, in general, know when you're resolving ambiguities in a recursive descent parser, so mistakes are almost inevitable.
One can find an appraiser to value one's fine art at 10x what one paid for it just prior to donating it to a museum. It then provides tax reduction in excess of the purchase price, and so there can be a logical expectation of positive ROI at time of purchase.

I'm not aware of any analog with cryptocoins. They suffer a fatal flaw of having a clear market value.
Check the referenced 1182(a)(3) [1] regarding excluded aliens. The most direct would be 1182(a)(3)(A)(ii) which prohibits the assistance of any alien whom there is sufficient reason to believe plans to engage in any unlawful activity. Unlawful entry/residence is, of course, unlawful activity. The fact that much of the caravan had already done that, by force of numbers, at the Mexico-Guatemala border while chanting things such as "One way or another, we will pass!" offers more than "reasonable ground to believe" such actions were also planned for the US and US border.

The reason the legalese is so obtuse is because it also encompasses aiding or assisting in the legal entry of an alien for whom there is "reasonable ground to believe" will engage in unlawful activity.

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
It's one of those optical illusions, where we (humans) do recognize animals. I don't think it's reasonable to limit classifications to the specific case where a drawing perfectly resembles a certain animal.

The interesting part (IMO) isn't that the AI classifies it as both a rabbit and a duck, but that the classification is dependent on the rotation of the picture.
> Slavery did exist, but that is overwhelmingly on the basis of race. This comment chain has so far been about women. This smells like whataboutsim.

Nonsense. This comment chain is about diversity hiring practices, which involves gender and race.

> Women's disenfranchisement ended a century ago.

So was it the day after that women made up an equal share of university graduates? Or was it a progression over time, picking up more recently in the last few decades? And is that coincidental with the increase in affirmative action policies. Interesting. I suppose you could argue that women's genes have evolved towards an interest in STEM in the past few decades. I bet you could even find a link or two to share as "evidence".
Continuing to argue that humans do not have bias. Impressive.
The interesting part (IMO) isn't that the AI classifies it as both a rabbit and a duck, but that the classification is dependent on the rotation of the picture.

I can somewhat understand how that happens, but I find it's in an interesting observation (rather than a criticism on the system, though the title is somewhat unclear and had me expect something else).
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it cannot be a rabbit because there is no nose nor mouth
Well, mod_http2 is incompatible with mpm-itk, and while it’s possible to run nginx as a front-end proxy, such a solution has its own complexities making it not really worth it in most cases where speed is not a top requirement.
>Is there a shortcut?

Controversially, I think we need to do less research. The publish-or-perish culture has created a perverse incentive to crank out junk papers. Most working scientists will privately admit that most research isn't actually advancing our understanding of nature, it's just a desperate effort to dredge up something sufficiently novel to publish. Conversely, there's a substantial amount of research that is potentially useful to clinicians, but is languishing unread in some third-tier journal. Most research is never published at all because it supports the null hypothesis, but we can't do good meta-analyses based on a cherry-picked set of studies. We're glutted with data, but we have a remarkable paucity of actionable information getting to the people who need it.

The problem isn't that scientists are doing a bad job, but that the funding mechanisms of science incentivise the wrong kind of work. We should be focusing a far larger proportion of our funding - perhaps even a majority - on replication, meta-analysis and dissemination. Primary research is only one small part of the information architecture of science, but it dominates our spending.

In the case of nutrition, we're spending huge amounts of money on figuring out whether coffee increases or decreases your life expectancy by a fraction of a percent, but almost nothing on behavioural research to figure out how to stop people from gorging themselves to death on food they know to be terrible for them. There's a morbidly obese elephant in the room, but we're preoccupied by the micronutrient-rich mice scuttling around the periphery.
I haven't tried Airbnb in the US, but I stayed at a lot of places in Europe and Israel and once in Australia.

It really depends on the country. Israeli Airbnbs are usually not fantastic because people don't really know how to this stuff properly even if they are generally nice and want you to have a pleasant stay (and the prices are crazy). A well-chosen* airbnb in Ireland, on the other hand, is usually superb.

*Which entails trawling through several pages of reviews and looking for small details.
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Equality doesn't stop at the workplace. You are saying the home life of people is extremely unequal and gender-biased.
That depends on how expensive those calculations are relative to memory access. CPUs are very fast at doing a ton of math but very slow at reading or writing to random memory.
Hm, I still don't see Solaris that way - satiric, I mean. Quite aware of the limits of our knowledge, definitely. A dash of transcendental, a la The Kid by the Strugatsky's (the English version of the title, 'Space Mowgli', is an abomination), or Childhood's End by A.C. Clarke. I feel he says, look at all this flood of mind stuff, and what do we get for it? Finally he's standing on the shore, at the end of knowledge, and he's touching the vast unknown ocean in front of him - very symbolic.

The love story is definitely not the main thread, but I felt it was very personal. Not sure why. Kelvin is Lem, no doubt about it, and he poured into the book some measure of his soul. I didn't catch that when I was 16, but I felt it quite powerfully a few months ago when I re-read it.

The contemplative atmosphere of the movie by Soderbergh seemed to capture some of the spirit of the book, but it would take a heck of a lot of text to explain why. But that was it, it didn't capture much else.

I didn't read much else by Lem - the Cyberiad and some Pirx stuff, but that's about it and it was long ago and I don't remember much. Nothing felt as meaningful as Solaris to me.

I didn't read many books by the Strugatskys, but those I've read are awesome.
Not having an emergency braking system should not have been a no no in this particular test. It was a prototype with probably many parts not working properly, that's why there was a human to check what was happening and act in case of issues. Here the driver is clearly at fault given that he was willfully not paying attention at the road.

There is probably some degree of responsibility on the side of Uber however:

* how this guy was recruted?

* was he trained and evaluated?

* is this kind of behavior quite common in test drives? if so, was it addressed?

* did Uber put in place at least a basic system to keep the driver engaged (like a switch you have to press every 30 seconds)?

Given the specifics I hope this ruling will not serve as a precedent, it's a bit too special.

Lastly, it raises another question: Car automation is unlikely to become perfect within the next few years, and even if it is, the legal responsibilities and liabilities cause issues. So it's likely a driver will be kept in the loop, at least for a decade or two.
Given this statement, how do we design automation that keeps the driver in the loop?
The driver must be aware of the car surroundings at all times so he can take over in case of an emergency. Consequently the automation must be designed to maintain him active, and naturally on alert (like a "manual" driver), an automation that is like "yeah, do nothing... humm, oops I don't know what I put myself into, please take over, you have 2 seconds to analyze the situation and take the correct actions or someone will die, kiss, goodbye" is not the correct answer.
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Watching the road for hours at a time, day in and day out attentively is impossible. No human can do it. You're right that she shouldn't have been in that seat. No one should have as it's an almost impossible task. No one has that type of attention span or ability to react, especially when the situation is so boring. Humans can drive but even then, they will make mistakes. To expect there not to be mistakes or lapses of attention with no interaction is ridiculous. We are not built that way. Maybe some top athletes can do that, but even goalkeepers in soccer whose job is to watch the ball and stop it sometimes can't concentrate and they are selected based on this ability to only play 45 minutes at a time without a break. What tests did uber put this woman through before hiring her to make sure she was capable of the almost super human feat they asked of her? I bet none. The system could have prevented this crash easily but because the auto braking was turned off, it didn't. What kind of company tests a self driving car with the auto braking turned off? They should have known it would cause a collision sooner or later.
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