skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of interesting, but it feels like Girard makes things more complicated than they need to be.

The observation that people want "to be things" not "own things", is very true.

People want status. Status has been important since we started collective action by throwing rocks at lions.

If you didn't throw rocks, then you were out cast and were probably eaten by lions. High status within human groups ensures reproductive success and security.

I found the rest of the article unnecessarily complex in describing humanity.

If you want a much more enlightening and much easier to read book, try "The Social Leap" by William van Hippel.
Thank you! There is only one feature that keeps me on Chrome (I've moved most of my browsing to Firefox and Opera), and that's the built-in translation as I'm on a lot of non-english websites during the day. This will make my daily Chrome use a lot more enjoyable.
Only as a data point, since 1975 there is Law here in Italy that makes some minimum requisites for living spaces, main points:

1) to be legally recognized (as a self-standing home) the surface of an apartment cannot be less than 28 square meters

2)the minimum height of rooms intended for "long permanence of humans" (which is anything but bathrooms, corridors and closets that can be as low as 2.40 m) must be 2.70 meters

3) all rooms as above need to have a window no less than 1/8 of the surface of the room

4) there must be at least one bathroom in the house with all four pieces: basin, bidet, wc and bathtub (or shower)

5) the size in #1 is intended for a "single" person residing in it, the minimum size for two people is 38 square meters and for each person living in the house (this is not usually enforced in practice) there must be at least 14 square meters of surface (up to the first four) and 10 square meters for each more person

Very often local councils impose bigger sizes for the minimum apartment (in case of new constructions or refurbishing of old houses divided in more apartments).
I think he means 'classical'as in class based. Just like you'd refer to 'classical' inheritance.
> I mean, who in their right mind spends $80k on a truck? Yet we see them EVERYWHERE, at least in our neck of the woods

No small part of that will be because they’re written off as a business expense for mining contractors, assuming Nickel City means you’re near Thompson

Same reason Northern Alberta is crawling with F350s
My very short opinion on this: politics is the process of working within a system; protesting is the process of removing oneself _from_ the system. The story of the Civil Rights protests would have been very different had African Americans continued to ride the bus.

There’s a place for both, but I’m not sure there’s a lot of overlap. If you want to protest your boss, that’s fine. But I’d encourage you to have your resume up-to-date. Very few people take an activist role in a company and stay employed. But heated discussions and debate are a natural part of any board meeting.
What kind of event is this and who is it targeted to? Right now there’s a comparison of energy consumption for different instructions on processors, I’m very confused.
CreditKarma requires a non VOIP number before you can sign up for their tax app.
There have been news reports about the model 3 autopilot getting its speed limits from maps, lacking any sort of sign recognition or manual override to adjust to local conditions. The maps seem to be outdated for germany (1). That’s an essential feature even on the autobahn. Given that test result I’d even be skeptical about any claims of being ahead of the game on the highway.

(1) https://m.heise.de/autos/artikel/Test-Tesla-Model-3-4400919....
...out of all the things I expected to see from a Tesla stream, I definitely did not expect a 25 minute discussion on the cost of 32bit additions, dot products, sram bandwidth, and chip design, at the level of a third year college hardware course.
It's not (only) that it feels explorative because of the rate; it feels explorative because they use dark patterns to make it non-obvious that there is a fee in the first place.
> Wouldn't Debian work a bit better and come with a better long-term stability policy?

Both have 5y LTS support?
Don't kid yourself, the car has no bandwidth storage or performance to send back anything other than a few raw frames from disengage events or other rare triggers.
So, another thing that the richest country in the world can't afford, despite the fact that just about every other country can do it.
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What? Really? I can think of no better thing for humanity as a species to aspire to than this.

"Do your best, help out the world, and your needs will be taken care of."

As a goal for structuring society, if that isn't in your top 2 of "things to collectively strive for," I don't think it's a very good society. I grew up on the Star Trek vision of utopia, though, and hope that some day humanity still gets there.
And it's harder to get a job elsewhere, if your name is plastered all over the media, which say that you were organizing against your employer.
An interesting and unfortunately true commentary on the lack of civilized behavior using technology that actually required a fair amount of effort -- and civilized behavior -- to invent in the first place.
doesn't portend well the way it is going, looks like they don't have anything to show here.
Wouldn't tax software make for a perfect open source project? Has this been attempted? Any money I give to tax preparation companies upsets me, and my taxes are as simple as it gets.
Rocket Internet: they copied Airbnb with Wimdu and wasted 90 M in the process.
Compilers generally instantiate one process per input file. (.cpp or .c files, but not .h) Because the compiler writer can generally be assured that the process is very short lived, compilers are typically written to never use free(). When the object file is created, the process exits, and the memory is freed by the OS. This is generally a significant speedup.

Unit tests. When a unit test crashes, that crash needs to be logged, and it can't interrupt the other tests. The good way to do this is by creating a new process per unit test.

Some web servers in certain configurations will start one process per connection. If you have 1000 simultaneous connections, you have 1000 processes. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mpm_winnt.html

That's 3 examples. There are others.
Ending life is not necessarily cruel...how about for veterinarians utilizing euthanasia? Let's say you have an animal that's 95% going to die sometime within 12-24 hours. If your client can pay $5000, which they can't usually, the chances improve to 50% chance of living. In most cases, for money or for suffering, euthanasia is the least cruel option, as it's vastly more affordable and a painless, harmless process.
Do human beings have to add to that suffering? Ask yourself.
It seems like Tesla is at a pivotal moment.

On one hand there are hyper-bulls who claim Tesla is a $4000 stock and the future of transportation. On the other, hyper-bears claim the equity should trade around $0-$10. There seems to be no middle ground.

It seems like they are almost betting the company on FSD. I don’t think FSD is really even close to a possibility over the next 5-10yrs. I hope I’m wrong, but if I’m right, I don’t see how Tesla keeps going on like this.
Aren’t roads paid for by gas tax and schools by property tax?
This focus on the hardware is silly. Assume for a second that their new hardware is 50x faster than their last hardware.

That does not mean that their cars can self drive today.

That does not mean that their cars can self drive three years from now.

It's 100% not proven or obvious how car self driving skill and car self driving error rates scale with compute -- but it's surely not linear.
He lost the civil suit. And the only reason you bring it up is because it is exceptional. The general rule is that the courts tend to get it right but there are obvious (and glaring) exceptions.

The quality of your lawyer will help in the gray areas, and may get you a reduced sentence in case of a criminal affair but in general you will lose if you go to court with a case where you were in the wrong. It's not a perfect system but for most cases it works out.
If you’ve listened to their earnings calls this is par for the course. Say what you will about his tweets, but I find these discussions fantastically informative and transparent.
Surprisingly technical versus what I'd expected, but it is targeted specifically at investors.
He calls this out in a later paragraph, mentioning that in the modern discourse it's too difficult to not. "(It’s almost impossible to actually have a conversation where you stop using the term “black.” So I hope, you know, when I say black and white, I’m not implying that I believe those terms are true. I’m just using it because that’s the way we speak about people.)"
Lots of software developers (mainstream ones, but even someones that deserve way more) make no more than that in LATAM.
Which ingredient are you objecting to? You literally listed water and salt there. Do you think there's no water or salt in beef? Do you know what's in your mass-produced beef?

If I listed the ingredients of a homemade cake, would you also put "vs Beef" next to it?
The Mystery of Tesla Model 3 Demand
> “But there's an awful lot of stuff that is closer to a Rorschach test, where by thinking hard enough you can create your own signal from the noise.”

This is a close match to the spirit of my comment, well put.

It’s very easy to write drivel that essentially means anything the reader wants it to mean, and then try to weasel out of it by claiming there is no point, and that pointlessness is part of the artistic merit.

Another thing that irks me is that quite often there really is an intentional thought process by the artist as they create something. Why make Bob say such and such to Alice at that moment? Why choose a certain style of paint that introduces a texture? You literally can go ask the artist to explain the exact intentionality beyond various choices.

Except in cases where the artist uses some sort of free association / subconscious technique, usually resulting in abstract or surreal art, there’s no intellectually honest way for an artist to claim there’s no “true” meaning, because at bare minimum there is the brain state of the artist at the time they used willful intention to create it one way and not all other possible ways.
The article is short on detail but it sounds to me like they are balancing their traffic by connection instead of by request. Either nginx or haproxy should be able to spread those multiplexed requests across a number of servers and give more the desired backend behavior.
Well, you'll still need to add Ecto, configure it to use separate configs for prod/dev/test environments etc - so point still stands :)
> Are there any frameworks out there that provide a JSX/VueSFC/hyperscript development experience, without adding the complexity of a virtual dom implementation?

Svelte is intended to be exactly that!

Whether performance is an issue depends partly on the kind of app you're building. In my line of work (producing interactive data visualisations etc) it absolutely is. As I talk about here, it's going to become even more important as the 'embedded web' becomes a thing: https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao?t=1498

Bonus thoughts on virtual DOM: https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
how can you claim that? more than waymo? that would be extremely doubtful. google has been driving around cars with sensors and cameras for over a decade.
To save life on Earth, here's the $100B-a-year solution
Also note that the burgers produced by A&W in the U.S. are complete trash almost every time, not comparable to A&W Canada which produces consistently delicious burgers.
Google's ReCaptcha has done a lot of harm to the Internet and is constantly used when it completely unnecessary (viewing a page? Submitting feedback when you're already logged into an account that you already did a captcha to make or login with?).

>Google CAPTCHAs have gone from asking the question "Are you human?" to "Which human are you?".

This is a good way to put it. I wonder if the Googlers that work on ReCaptcha are somehow able to convince themselves they're Making The World A Better Place, like most Googlers somehow manage to.
Did the Bankers deserve 29Tn bailout?

How’s that for “coddling and preventing them from making poor decisions”

The yield curve has already inverted so we’re looking down the barrel of “Recession The Sequel.”

But yeah, keep blaming GenX (and presumably GenY and GenZ) for someone else’s problem. Many of them aren’t even earning a wage to save, avocado toast aside.
I recommend everyone to take a look at the talk linked in the article. It gives you a good overview of how awesome svelte is and how easy it is to use.

I chose vue over react for simplicity and I'll be damned if I don't choose svelte over vue for the same reason and more after this talk.
> Beef

https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
So get engaged and use your privilege to struggle for the rights of workers who have less privilege than you.
Qatar considers privatizing its stock exchange
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier
Given the current ruling in Oracle v. Google, though, I'd imagine Smartcar would have grounds for a legal case. If Oracle is awarded damages from Google for "copying" the Java API specification in Android, even with a different underlying implementation, then I'd imagine Smartcar can highlight the similarities to their own dispute with Otonomo. The tricky thing is it looks like Otonomo is an Israeli company so I'm not familiar with how US court rulings apply across international boundaries -- perhaps at the very least Smartcar can attain an injunction against Otonomo within the US.
If there was a way to sign up with a VoIP number I would definitely try it.
The full title is: Kosoko Jackson’s A Place for Wolves book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier.
The notion of deductions (Schedule A) is complicated enough. I did not know, for example, that state income tax was deductible (pre-tax reforms). If I hadn't just happened to use a tax software (I almost never use one), I would have been overpaying in taxes.

Now of course, once I learned this, Schedule A was a breeze. But it's not something I expect a common person to know, and it's unfair that some of them may be overpaying in taxes due to a (nontrivial) piece of knowledge.

And then I'm always wondering if there are any other deductions I should be aware of.
I’m wondering what new spinoff comes from the hardware... does it have benefits / application to anything in addition to AD?
> through a drive-thru

The kind of drive-thru that Tesla is currently associated with involves semis rather than fast food and it would be really nice to hear that they've at least licked that particular bug (and for good, this time).
So far, half an hour from the head of IC design. Nice special purpose IC and board. Dual everything for redundancy. Wide special purpose neural net evaluation. 100 watts for the compute system. Code signing. Shipping in new Model 3 cars since last 10 days.

"All we need to do is improve the software" - Musk [12:07 PDT]

LIDAR "unnecessary" - Musk [12:13 PDT]

Computer vision guy is now speaking.

Recognizes "driveable space", not just obstacles. Video shown, but just for a freeway. This is crucial to safety. Need to see this is a cluttered environment.
Agreed. The homepage is confusing and doesn't give me some of the information I need.

The requirements/supported brands & models should be somewhere prominent on the front page, and I'm honestly still confused.
Similar any country restrictions. This being limited to the US should not be hidden three levels deep in some FAQ.

The Otonomo isn't any better though, it doesn't even seem to have any links to the docs.
Yes they are. It's called "protected concerted activity" and it's protected under the national labor relations act.

These laws were passed because they were seen as better than the status quo, which was employers firebombing their employees or highering mecenaries to shoot them.
Do you think your local pizza joint could handle every order that they normally get between 4pm and 6pm if they got them all between 5pm and 5:30pm? At the same level of service, with no late orders, and with no additional equipment or labor?
If the investors have a board and shareholder majority (which they may not), and really thought this was a terrible investment decision that they want to get out of, then they could vote to wind down the company immediately, redistributing the assets pro-rata (with possible liquidation preferences). This would be roughly the same as "withdrawing funding".

They could recoup a huge part of their investment before things get worse. But again, afaik this requires a shareholder majority, barring any strings/triggers on the investment terms that could be activated.
Second that. My taste test at Carl's led me to go back and eat it again. Yum!
I wouldn't worry about over fishing Salmon, the vast majority are farmed now. You will know when you pay for wild Salmon.

Same is true for a number of other staples: Tilapia, Shrimp, Catfish, etc.

That said, similar to land based CAFO's you don't really want to know what they're fed (o;
If I'm reading this article correctly, they're claiming their application couldn't handle the load of a single-user loading their webpage. They didn't talk about load spikes during certain times, so it certainly sounds like they just have an inadequate backend.
Okay, granted many companies do it, but you're still dodging the parent comment's issue about this specifically. WHY is it free, WHAT are they doing?
That's the general arc, yes, but I think for Europe the specific effect lately has been the opposite. Perhaps it's part of the same effect, just a generalization.

Economic growth ->
longer life expectancy / lower child mortality ->
population boom ->
people figure this out ->
baby bust ->
??? ->
stable population.

We're in the ??? part, and we may overshoot both sides of equilibrium for a long time for all I know. My sense is very much that fertility rates below replacement rate is due to young people feeling incapable of affording child rearing.
So, I'm wrong about this act being illegal, because it's not illegal, except for the parts where it is illegal?
absolutely glorious, they're taking questions. first question: can you use anything else besides ReLU activations in your neural net engine?

this is wonderful
Unless the application/request/session state is pinned to a host.
It was all built in-house by me and other members of the Svelte community. The playground widget is technically a standalone thing, but it wasn't totally designed to be used outside https://svelte.dev so may be a bit warty! https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-repl (the code for the site itself is in the main project repo https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/tree/master/site)
> It seems like they are almost betting the company on FSD.

IMO they don't have any choice. The more and longer they operate like a car company shipping bigger and bigger volumes, the more their financials will be undeniably trend towards those of the existing car companies and the more their existing market valuation will be hard to justify.

They need something like this to not get traded at traditional car industry multiples.
It is pretty techincal. Wow. Great. Thank you Tesla.
Wow, does he provide any explanation of the delta between the two returns? Side by side comparison of what’s being filed?

I ask because I once did go to a CPA, after first filling out the forms myself. The tax bill he computed was identical to what I came up with, so I concluded he provided no value over doing it myself!
Foreign aid and other financial assistance coming from polluting countries is neither zero-emissions, nor sustainable. Nor is it a probable route to prosperity. Look at the nations that have received significant foreign aid over the decades. How prosperous are they?

There are three basic camps among people who study foreign aid, if the goal is to lift countries out of poverty: 1) it doesn't work, and creates dependency instead. 2) it doesn't work, but that's because we need more of it. 3) it doesn't work, but if we try more ways of delivering aid, we can find something that does.

Tech is becoming available - not nearly proven to be sufficient, but progressing.

As I said, it requires proof, because there is no country that has progressed from poverty to prosperity without emissions.
I think I mentioned that when I said "moving straight to legal action".
Ask HN: What's a good traveling bucket list for younger programmers?
Pretty much what the title says.

I'm interested in visiting places of historic significance to computer programming in particular.

I've been to a few museums showcasing old computer hardware. However, in my opinion, they omit the most interesting aspect of those computers: how they were actually used, and more specifically, how they were programmed (in a broader sense of the word).
Housebound Parkinson's patients have movement restored
> What do we do when there are no more companies to which to flee

A more interesting conversation for sure. There are lots of ways to make software besides companies. Lots of great software that got made before there was a corporate entity supporting it, even indirectly. Some great software written entirely in opposition to a corporate entity.

Don't obsess too narrowly on "GPL" or "open source" or whatever. A lot of software is artisanal, all the way from making websites to make firmwares for space devices, bought and sold on the digital equivalent of a fleamarket and not by the concentration of some corporate entity. Some software is bought/sold at auction, like government contracts.

No one is objecting to corporations generally. There's a reaction against (1) the conformity of it all and (2) the pedigree of the people who work there.

How do supposedly smart people, with their liberal arts and STEM educations, represent a shareholder group that is most likely going to treat the ordinary person unjustly?

For example, it's possible to research AI at universities. No one is going to pressure you into making target-acquisition image recognition or person-of-interest mass-surveillance tech at a university. But these are exactly the sorts of things Google was selling in its Maven contract. They want to sell fucking weapons dude.

We have this intuitive idea that a lot of people are okay with selling the weapons basically because the pay is really fucking good. The controversy is that the Northrup Grumman employees are the "other," and Google engineers were like soft kids from Ivy League schools who are friendly and nice and watch lots of animal videos and crack good jokes.

It just turns out they want money too sometimes, a lot of it. The line has finally been crossed where people have to either quit or shut up.
ugh, try just navigating from https://www.retailroadshow.com/
what is LATAM? You mean the airline?
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The complexity grew over time. Democrats want to add more taxes or tweak the distribution in favor of progressive policies, not remove old taxes. Republicans want people to hate taxes so they can slash them (mostly for the rich, i.e. regressive taxes).

Thus, no one is simplifying, for their own reasons.