skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you aren't going to leave anything behind for your kids, why work so hard to earn so much in the first place?
I thought let's download and try to find out their secret sauce by reverse engineering. Their download is just a web browser client [0]. So, my guess is pg_bot is right. They might be using web sockets.

more details - https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/

[0] - https://www.zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
In what way would this apply? Firstly the Constitution only restricts the government not individuals so kind of out of bounds immediately.
I am amused at the threat model that might be concerned, on one hand, with extremely complex and difficult speculation attacks, and on the other hand permits downloading random Windows apps and running them at the highest possible privilege level. Clearly the public is of two minds.
It's not really specific to machine learning - everything in big corporate pre-ML reporting, data analytics, business intelligence and management information systems domain (which is a mainstream field of IT systems with decades of history and lots and lots of systems experience) have the same issues. Any pipeline of business data collection and analysis tends to be reliant of lots and lots of factors external to that system, and dependent on particular details of every business process involved.

It's just well-known things being rediscovered because people are treating this as a new field - but everything mentioned in this article would be the same for company tracking some other sales efficiency metric twenty years ago, except that the "change in front end framework" would be "change in preorder sales reporting templates", causing very similar problems in your data analysis.
> Why is that cynical/implying this is bad?

Cynically in the context of the articles' semi-upbeat note about affluence, minimalism, and personal decision to own experiences rather than stuff.

I don't necessarily disagree that we need more tenements, except that I would have to carefully qualify what kind of tenements we're talking about. The industrial revolution held some horrifyingly poor standards of living that I wouldn't wish on my enemies.
> I've always felt that "In Praise of Idleness" would be the basis of the fictional post-scarcity economy of Star Trek (and it's likely that this essay influenced the screenwriters).

The "problem" is that Star Trek has always been about the adventure at the frontier, with a quasi-military (and precisely how quasi varying based on series) organization exploring new worlds, meeting new civilizations, and fighting with well-known civilizations the Federation is currently struggling against. Very little time is devoted to the people at home actually living that post-scarcity existence.

(And, no, I don't see that as a problem. I like adventure-oriented Star Trek. It just means that these ideas have little relevance to that show.)
I bought a home in a very desirable location, assuming (like a dummy) that like the previous 30+ years the value would continue to rise. This desirable location meant I paid 25-30% more than a home about an hour away. My wife and I scrapped and saved for years to afford the down payment and then "poof" the value of that home dropped by 50%. The most important takeway/quote from that whole ordeal was "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
It is controversial though. Vegans have higher rates of depression and anxiety than the general cheeseburger eating population which has terrible rates of depression and anxiety. They also have higher rates of auto-immune disorders. The major benefit of their diet comes from toxicity reduction from eating optimised daily calories.

A plant sits in one spot thinking how to poison anything that eats too much of it. An animal moves about consuming as little poison as possible.

Once you're assured of enough calories (which used to limit population growth) the primary solution is to eat some calories from animals that evolved systems for processing plant toxins to minimise your toxic load.

I used pea goo in the comment because I went to the beyond meat website and looked at the ingredients in the impossible burger. The impossible burger consists of about 15 chemical compounds, combined by people highly financially motivated to optimise flavour, texture and colour and the primary component is pea protein. If you can think of a more concise name I'm all ears but it's definitely not a iphone or macbook air.

Vegan's choose pea goo over lamb. That's their choice and some vegan's will have the genetic biochemistry to live healthily on a plant based diet. The general population doesn't share that biochemistry. Veganism is the most environmentally sound option if one's health optimises from the diet. Unfortunately this is not the case for the majority of the population. The average vegan should be admired for their sacrifice, not their logic.
The use of the Gigi Wu story was unfair to begin with, but it became far weirder when it was set up for some kind of contrast with Honnold.

> Is Gigi Wu’s summit project really all that different than the stylized images we love to see in glossy magazines like Outside? Do we put it in the same category as, say, elite athlete Alex Honnold’s epic free climb of El Capitan

That's a nasty rhetorical trick, because they are in the same category, but it's not the one the story set up for Wu. Solo traverses and free soloing are both risky but established practices, and neither is a product of selfies or modern media culture. John Bachar was setting the precedent for Yosemite free solos 30 years ago, and solo hiking is too old to date. Wu and Honnold aren't average people getting hurt imitating experts, they're experts who happened to gather fame for risks they were already taking. Neither of them deserves to be present in a story about people endangering themselves for the sake of social media.
Three ways to nail your data driven demo
Using multiple processes communicating via IPC is quite possible, but requires a significant restructuring for applications that are used to doing simple function calls between code operating in different privilege domains.

Chromium already had a lot of this infrastructure built up, and it was still a significant task to split processes up further by origin, on top of the splitting by tab chromium always had.
Moments of whimsy with a bit of perseverance. Without the second part, you're just a wildcard.
The act of taking notes is where at least half the value of notes are. Review latter is useful, but you can review the book. I cannot read my own writing, I still find I learn better when I take notes.
Joe changed the way I think about software, and made me a better programmer through his talks and blog posts. He will be missed.
darnit.. thank you.. now fixed.
Note that Texinfo != info, the former is a document source format similar to DocBook (but much simpler), the latter is a very simple hypertext format with preformatted text and support for indices (think of it as a text-based CHM). You can use the former to generate the latter, but Texinfo can be used to generate several other types of documents, including plain text, PDF and HTML (and yes, also CHM).

Also note that the info file format is independent from the GNU info viewer, that most people associate with, and there are other viewers for it, including pinfo and tkinfo (Tcl/Tk viewer) and some other help systems have support for it, like GNOME's and KDE's help viewers. And yes, there is also support for it on Emacs (which AFAIK is the only viewer with image support). FWIW personally i like using tkinfo.
What Would an American Trade ‘Victory’ Look Like?
If you do not own what you use, you don't control it

And you don’t have to fix it or maintain it.

But how about it enables you to travel whereever you want whenever you want?

And you’re spending money on car notes, car insurance, and in major cities, parking, not to mention maintenance and repairs.

Owning a house or an apartment might seem unnecessary in our modern society, until the next rent increase or some disturbance in your financial situation

Most people have a mortgage who do have house. But if you have a financial situation, it’s much easier to relocate to find another job when you rent than when you own.

While I love to be able to rent things that I cannot or don't want to own, I have the impression that this "share everything" paradigm is actually just a toxic mixture of permanent monetarization and centralised control.

And owning everything is more to stuff to maintain and makes it harder to downsize when needed.
Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)
Ever closer political union has been the aim, publicly stated or not, since the early days of the treaty of Rome.

They know and knew that monetary union can only lead to further political union.

The main issue, or the benefit, is that it requires all countries to have a good governance. It will force Greece and friends to finally be serious.
Would a police officer looking at tire tread depth also be considered an illegal search?
The more logical solution, from the city's perspective, might be to just get rid of free-but-time-limited parking. Then parking meters could serve as both the enforcement mechanism and another revenue source.
It's weird that this was done with special legislation. I see that the US does not have any general mechanism for such situations, although it has done this for these onions and for Tennessee whiskey specifically.

The EU has a system-wide concept of products (mostly but not exclusively foods) that are by definition produced in a set region, by a particular method etcetera called the Protected Designation of Origin. This is inspired by laws in some of its member states (most famously France's AOC laws which protect Champagne) but because it's a system rather than being stapled into the law for one specific product it makes it practical to use for less famous things where the heavy lifting of actual legislation would be too much to ask. If your town produces a peculiar furry hat, and then one day sales of the furry hats begin to drop off because it turns out somebody is making replicas in China and selling them under your town's name, applying for PDO is a relatively straight forwad way to fix that across the entire EU without trying to attract attention from legislators in two dozen countries.

Of course PDOs can be abused (e.g. arguably protection of Newcastle Brown Ale was pointless, its only producers were indeed in Newcastle, but when they decided to move they simply applied to discontinue the PDO status...) but overall it seems like having a framework makes more sense than only doing this as actual national legislation (a rule saying Vidalia onions are from Georgia only works because the US government enforces it, the part in Georgia state law has very little effect)
How does that video show more progress than the self-driving demo that's been on the Tesla Autopilot homepage since 2016 [0]? The 2016 version seems to feature much more in-town driving, including interaction with pedestrians, whereas the newest demo seems to be mostly highway driving?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG68SKoG7vE
Impressive demo but it is not representative of the traffic conditions during peak times in most cities.
Count your drinks. It's way too easy to just say "yea I'll have one more" when you're not consciously thinking "well, I've had 6 already..."
Every time I bring up that I'm building an app on my own time, without fail I'm asked "How are you going to make money off it?"

People never listen when I tell them that I code because I enjoy it. It makes me wonder how much people actually enjoy aspects of their own lives. If I make money off what I do, that's great, but most of my motivation is to satisfy the "what if" and "could I" type questions that run through my brain.
First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued
My personal advice would be: Get the rest of the pieces in place before buying the domain name. I've probably bought dozens of domains over the years with an eye to a specific Great Business Idea underpinning them, but for some reason the act of buying the domain seems to stall my interest.

They were all good ideas, not duffers, evidenced by subsequent pick up years after.

I just never bothered.

Bother first, domain second! :)
Perhaps it is about what he leaves behind for people other than his children?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720832.
Couldn't take the time to park legally then went out of her way to launch a lawsuit against the city. This is not community behavior. It's toxic.
It wasn't long ago when the knowledge that food is made of plants that grow on dirt was common knowledge, not a life hack. Schoolchildren used to grow plants from seed as homework.
Bio-degradability can not be under-rated. The big problem with plastic is that it degrades extremely slowly, practically speaking it is not bio-degradable.

You clearly care about the environment, so do understand that plain paper is as biodegradable as tree leaves. Little bugs of all sizes happily eat it like leaves. It will never accumulate in the oceans.

There are problems with how it can be produced, but it can be one of the most ecologically advantageous and sustainable materials possible.
ClojureCLR exists as well, to target the .net CLR VM.

It's an official dialect: https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr
It's possible to make airplanes which kinda look like cars and which can perhaps fold their wings away and drive on roads. It isn't possible to make airplanes which the average person can get in and safely fly with no more than a current driver's license. The true division between flying car and roadable airplane is that kind of extremely advanced autopilot we don't currently possess.
Not a lawyer...but if a cop pulls you over, the default assumption is that there is an "individualized suspicion of wrongdoing" - you would probably have to show that the officer did not have a valid reason for stopping you (e.g. "Driving while black").
Monetary union will lead to deeper political union. There is no choice. It already has.
In my city, littering carries a $200 fine.

Per offense.
You have to consider the economies of scale. A few dollars multiplied over millions of manufacturing orders and shipping costs.

And that's just cost. The reason I'm stressing about virgin plastic over recycled is also in consideration of the electricity you use to recycle, the water costs, transportation costs, human labor, ect.

The same applies to glass and cardboard. That sand isn't coming from thin air. The cardboard wasn't made from hopes and dreams. These are physical commodities which are either as finite as natural gas (sand) or require space, water and nutrients to grow (trees for paper for cardboard). Yes, paper is biodegradable and plastic is not, but you're spending a LOT of time and energy to make something that could be better served quickly via plastic.
Tesla's Autonomy Day Presentation Leaves Biggest Questions Unanswered
The employees? Why do you think they should be fired?
NVidia has an interesting response [0] to Tesla's event yesterday. They appear to not want to seem too accepting of Tesla's progress, but clearly give credit where due yet try to indicate their superiority in their products. Ultimately I feel like it will be NVidia winning this long term as they will have the luxury of scale across N number of vendors buying into their product. But for Tesla it may be / is a niche differentiator for the time being. CV and self driving hardware in cars will become akin to other tech specs: something some consumers care about but a component of the car that is expected. I would guess Tesla wants to keep on the performance edge of that moving forward.

[0] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/04/23/tesla-self-driving/
I, personally, would rather my humanitarian efforts incentivize the cultivation of good will, as opposed to the cultivation of money.

Good relations with customers often involve the cultivation of good will. That used to be an article of faith in the SV startup community and on this site. The cultivation of good will (not fanboy/fangirl-ism) is a sign that a group is doing real good in the world, where the money is a strong validation.

Inexpensive every-person pastimes and products also used to fit this pattern. The ready availability of those used to elevate most everyone in American society to a certain level of dignity. It seems like there's fewer of those as time goes on.
Oh good, so now cities will need to pay a contractor to develop, operate, and maintain some complex hardware/software solution to perform a task that was until now being easily and efficiently performed using a stick of chalk. Because... reasons.

Hmm... I'll have to keep an eye out for the RFPs.
A better question would be why would you leave anything material for your kids? A good eduction and guidance through life should suffice. The rest should be invested in good governance.
Textio Flow Launched Today
Sorta like the allegory of the boot, I imagine.

To be fair, though, you can buy insurance for those unpredictable costs.
Anything in public and in plain sight is considered not a search wrt the 4th. Otherwise, cops could never be eyewitnesses in court.
Peter here (author) - happy to answer any questions..
I will always pronounce "capsule" with the Jean-Luc Picard glide, and you can't stop me. Capshule-corp.
"Musk stated that they were looking for Level 4/5 next year."

Some conditions may apply. Driving under inclement weather conditions, or in a dirty car, or in winter, during heavy traffic, on a road with poorly painted etc.. is not supported. /s
Sounds like he did a good job raising his kids from early age. Kudos. Yes, he is still privileged, but it's not easy for parents to make this kind of choice for their children.

Not only did he believe this is for the greater good, but he must've had a strong conviction that his children would've been better off this way.
Not really.

Rolling around a road, in broad daylight, with no adverse conditions and no "interesting" events isn't progress.

yes, merging onto a freeway is mildly impressive, but its not anywhere near state of the art.

What I'd like to see is what happens when someone swerves out in front of the car? does it stop dead? or panic and hand back control to the driver, just in time to crash? What about rain, or snow?

How does it handle diversions? what about new roads?

None of this is really about hardware, sure more power helps, as does sensors with lower noise floors and greater pre-processing. The difficult part is, and has always been, software.

What Tesla is doing is knowingly allow people to to unsafe software to gather scenarios that can be used as learning events. Not only that, they are getting people to pay a premium. I imagine that tesla will then rent the next generation of trained models back to the drivers, even though they paid for, and provided the training set.
I find it strange we the people for the people by the people don't just straight up outlaw things like this with an amendment.

The constitution is a great document that lasted far longer than expected. And surprisingly holds up extremely well to modern era technological change.

But I suspect the founding fathers would be down right horrified by the loss of privacy and liberty that has taken place in the name of safety.

Why do they need chalk or a location database? Find a better solution that doesn't require loss of privacy. It's not hard even with tech from 50 years ago.

We are supposedly at the pinnacle of civilization and knowledge. Yet we are not yet wise or skilled enough to question and alter that which governs us?

I mean a lot has changed since then our understanding of the reasoning may have been loss but I suspect non breaking improvements may be a viable course of action.
Those cars exist and honestly they're worse to me than chalking because that data is stored and can be used later in theory where chalking is temporary and leaves no data behind that can be used later. I see where the legal argument stems from and makes sense but this really doesn't protect much and the alternative methods use create so much more potential for abuse!
I think I understand the case you're making - that generic solutions are generally preferable to special-case solutions. That's a sensible enough position to take.

But it's pretty unreasonable to call it _bad design_ in a vacuum, as if there are no obstacles to a more generic design. The reason something like do-notation wasn't chosen is that nobody figured out a way to implement it without major trade-offs. So the alternative you're championing here either isn't possible within the constraints of the language, or the solution hasn't been discovered yet. The `?` operator was a pragmatic compromise.

I'm with you 100% that it is a shortcoming, but you can't really call it bad design given the reality of the situation. Compromises aren't bad design.
How do you send a piece of your gold to someone in another part of the world?

https://hacked.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/gold-commodity...
Andrew Carnegie did much the same, and wrote this about it, after first considering and dismissing passing your wealth on to your families or endowing it at your death:

There remains, then, only one mode of using great fortunes; but in this we have the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of wealth, the reconciliation of the rich and the poor—a reign of harmony—another ideal, differing, indeed, from that of the Communist in requiring only the further evolution of existing conditions, not the total overthrow of our civilization. It is founded upon the present most intense individualism, and the race is projected to put it in practice by degree whenever it pleases. Under its sway we shall have an ideal state, in which the surplus wealth of the few will become, in the best sense the property of the many, because administered for the common good, and this wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if it had been distributed in small sums to the people themselves. Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts through the course of many years.

[0]: https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/
> while also respecting the environment

Honest question: is it disrespecting the environment to harvest cotton/paper from the earth and put it back in the earth? They're both biodegradeable and renewable. If anything, I think that it would take carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it for decades, which is a net positive.
In the US, yes.

EDIT: Not all of the US, see below.
That video is less impressive than the one they released in 2016 using off-the-shelf hardware and software from Nvidia. The only progress it shows is that they have almost replicated the state-of-the-art circa 3 years ago when shown on one of the easiest pre-planned routes possible.
That is exactly what the gdpr also wants to make sure: make it clear what happens to your data. I just hope they stick to the same rules :)
Hi there, Hank Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FA__4fLBos
Evolutionarily speaking, people should be motivated to protect their offspring and ensure their survival.

It strikes me as very odd (and stupid) for someone to give their own child nothing, but then essentially give a bunch of other families and their children $400 million.

I mean, at least give your own kid a leg up! Geez.
I'd go even further to suggest that idleness itself has value and doesn't need be justified by the belief that a mind with fewer external stressors is more productive. It's only worth clarification because the idea of "wanting, but not needing" to work is incredibly foreign and through our current lens can only be interpreted as "needing to work, but enjoying it more."