skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cars are designed to travel at lethal speeds. If you were reckless and killed someone or yourself, do you also declare it to be an "insanely problematic technology"?

More aptly though, I would declare it problematic if I couldn't drive 10 feet without someone carjacking me in my ostensibly armored car, or if pressing the button on my radio caused the car to explode. I'd call that 'problematic' because if it were my fault, I'd be in jail, and if not, the automaker would be on the wrong end of a huge lawsuit.

You know who we have to thank for their current level of safety? The DOT, NHTSA and legal system.

> The problem here is that people are not aware of the risks associated with cryptocurrencies and so are not taking the required precautions.

He had his coins on probably the only legitimate exchange in all of crypto. He had 2fac. He had 2fac on his gmail. If this isn't sufficient to keep your money protected, we need to stop blaming the victim. He's probably one of the most competent technical individuals owning crypto. If he can't keep it safe how on earth would your grandmother?

> After all, you can be pretty reckless with your credit card numbers or bank login and still be fine, because the finance system has an undo button for everything.

Isn't that awesome? We've recognized people make mistakes and created for them a path to remedy said mistakes. Pretending they don't happen and that it's the victims fault if they do isn't a replacement.

> What if you want to make an irreversible payment.

Wire transfer. You can opt in to irreversibility, it's not the default, and that's completely reasonable IMO.

> ...or want to be able to send money to whomever you want without the government stepping in the way.

AKA breaking the law. Yes, you shouldn't be able to send money to people on the OFAC list, to terrorists, or to sanctioned countries. That's fine with me, and all your fellow citizens. That's why we have those laws. Let's not mince words, "sending money to people the government doesn't want" is financing international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking and so on. No, you shouldn't be able to do that.

> ...all while being trustless?

Again, why do you need this without the illegal use cases? Either way PoW cryptos aren't trustless, Beijing has over 80% of the hash power one strongly worded memo away. Decentralized and trustless are not a feature of Bitcoin or most other cryptocurrencies. They are centralized in the PRC. You would give up sovereign control of your money system to the PRC?

> Is there a way to achieve that, and still being able to hit undo when you make a mistake?

No, you shouldn't be able to break the law. An open challenge to all crypto advocates: Provide me one legal use case better suited to cryptocurrency than the US dollar.
I can’t believe you think “scrambles the same way” is misleading and “smells right” isn’t.
> "accidentally logged sensitive data"

... for 14 years without noticing...

:sigh:
True, if I was more careful I’d say Julia’s scientific / numerical community is more energetic. I definitely don’t want to sound like I’m dissing CL as I have great respect for it and want to be better acquainted one day.
Have y'all noticed how they always create these programs for models that existed the year before the problems surfaced? I noticed this for the 15 inch model. (Not so) clever way to absolve themselves of blame for future models that actually manifest the problems!
That data point is meaningless by itself, everyone makes mistakes. Most of those people have nothing like the scale for making mistakes that Google does
There are some open source projects trying to implement some part of Wolfram Mathematica https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4454/is-ther...
A license like that discriminates against fields of endeavour (cloud companies), so it doesn't comply with the open source definition (item 6):

https://opensource.org/osd
I have no opinions on red light cameras, but you're omitting the cost where you hit and kill my kid. And the part where you're being obedience trained to drive safer elsewhere too.
It's a metaphor not actual money that can create a negative value.

Although, you could say that a lot of profitable companies have negative value codebases where the cost to rebuild them is less than the cost to maintain.

This probably explains why some companies get replaced by small nimble startups.
Korean startups get support from state-led incubation program
Yep, somewhere along the way freedom of (or from) a schedule got butchered into the war on sleep.
There was a time that neighbourhoods were far more socioeconomically integrated, though the poor tended to live either above or below (basement apartments) the wealthy.

(Hight gained status with the introduction of lifts.)

Though on balance those times were far less class-blind, or soceoeconomically mobile, thanmuch of the20h-21st centuries.

Win some, lose some.
And the author of the first book I bought on the topic: "Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager"
My Nexus 6P was made by Huawei and was very unlockable. Did I know if Huawei had a backdoor in the radio bin? idk.
Congratulations on the weight loss! Sounds like the obese sportsman was a pretty temporary situation, happily!
the gear on the left is the driving gear, moving at a constant rate. When the gear on the left allows the gear on the right to fit closer to the center of that left gear, the gear on the right moves more slowly. Similarly, when the gear on the right fits farther from the center of the left gear, the gear on the right moves more quickly
Yeah, I just thought that showing how to solve a best-case exponential function in polynomial kind was the sort of thing that would prove P = NP (I dictated this before, so NP came out as MP)
You can get them in allicdata https://www.allicdata.com/products.html
It can simultaneously be true that nobody should do this and that even the best people can make mistakes.
All the other complaints in this thread are valid, but I've never understood why people hate the lighthouses so much.

All you have to do is put up some boxes at the corners of your room one time, and then plug them in. They don't even need to be connected to the computer in any way. They are small, and silent, and nonintrusive.

I get that it's not the best user experience, but for a thing you just spent $1,000 on? I'll take a couple of boxes and better tracking over no boxes and worse tracking any day. I never saw complaints like this over the Wii sensor bar.
Mining cryptocurrency at work lands Australian civil servant in court
It appears that the left gear is the driving gear and the right is the driven. This means that the angular speed of the right gear is the ratio of the left radius to the right radius (speed_right = speed_left*radius_left/radius_right). Because the angular speed of the left gear is constant the only change to the angular speed of the right will come from the changing radius ratio of the two gears.

This behavior can be seen a bit more clearly with nautilus gears that have constantly changing radii.
This is not just about the code, but also about the feature this code implements.

A feature implemented through "indebted" code tends to be buggier and less performant. There are exceptions, of course, but by-and-large this has been my experience.

So the "interest" is not repaid by just the programmers, but also by the users, over and over again as they use the feature.
It's not just transplants who are being priced out of San Francisco, proper, or the Bay Area generally.

And for several classes of employment, the area has weight vastly exceeding virtually all alternatives.

A modicum of empathy is warranted.
Meanwhile my palm can literally rest on the touchpad while typing and I don’t trigger it. Are you in a particularly dry area or something? This is completely the opposite of my experience and I’ve used every MBP since they changed the name from PowerBook. I agree on the keyboard though, but then again I dislike any laptop keyboard due to the short key travel and lack of a mechanical option
These situations are rare despite what the occasional outrage-inducing news story would have you believe. Here in Ontario for example, the average wait time for urgent patients is 1 day, for high-priority (target 10 days) it's 15 days, and for low priority (target 28 days) it was 58 days. Detailed, up-to-date stats for this are available at https://www.hqontario.ca/System-Performance/Wait-Times-for-D...
I didn't know this website, it's absolutely beautiful and even works in a mobile browser (Firefox Focus). Thank you for sharing.
I'm genuinely interested to see how this goes, do you have a blog?
I did not know that this was common in Pakistan. I am from south India and my name (and almost all names in this part of the country) are of the form.
<GivenName> <Father's Given Name>.
This gets less common as one moves towards the north of the country, where
<Given Name> <Family Name>
is more common. So I had assumed the Pakistan would be same given its proximity to and shared culture with North India.
(actually the name is <initial> <given nane> where the initial is the first letter of the father/mother's name. When expanded to satisfy the north - esp for passports or in a western system, it becomes <first>-<Father's first> or <fathers first> - <first>. the reason it is that way in the south was related to the self respect movement aimed at eliminating caste among others. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_name#Tamil_Nadu)
If you are surprised that Apple charge more, welcome to the real world.
Even so - it's "just" a compound pulley system. The advantage of White's pulley seems to be the reduction of friction by only having two axles, and synchronized rope movement so that the rope doesn't need to slip over the sheaves.

[1] https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.2339377
Thank you for sharing this and creating it, I am quite interested to explore and see how many assumptions or (un)commonly held positions are backed by the (available) data.
It affects a company's ability to raise future money. In the case of Tesla, Musk and his other projects are heavily leveraged on his $TSLA shares. There's a very real house of cards that could come falling down in Musk-land if TSLA drops too much.
You know if even Linus Torvalds likes it, you've done something right. I love the idea of solving the current approaches to installing / maintaining software on Linux. This is one approach I do like, but I still appreciate maintaining packages through a package manager. I would love to see a best of both worlds, packages like deb that can both run directly and be managed through the package manager, depending on how you choose to run them.
Additional information: I've found that it requires the following key in about:config to be set to true.

permissions.desktop-notification.postPrompt.enabled

A good site for testing this (requires javascript): https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html
So what’s the alternative? Especially financial institutions insist on using SMS in addition to even hardware keys. It’s crazy.
Yes, my google account was simjacked last year. I lost access to my email, photos, and ability to login via Google. They were after my Coinbase account (luckily the only account I used real 2FA on). They could have initiated bank transfers too but didn’t try.

Customer support for personal gmail accounts is almost nonexistent. Fortunately I had a friend who worked at Google and had them put a word in on my reset request otherwise I would have been SOL.

Disable phone number resets and switch to Google Authenticator w/ backup codes ASAP.
As long as it doesn't have a start button either, it might even be safe enough for other people on the road.
Valve Releases New React Native-Based Steam Chat App
The book is also well outside of its copyright:

https://ia800205.us.archive.org/1/items/Mechanical_Movements...
A toddler being torn apart by fascists several years before fascism was first espoused is rather remarkable.
I wonder if it isn't just, novelty, not anything more than that each generation wants?
I would generally use Misumi.

For random stuff, surplus shed is also fun to browse.
> 22365 lines (18045 sloc) 599 KB

That is a truly enormous "one-pager". I thought my scroll bar was bugged!
"What has happened is that documentation elsewhere has improved. "

No, what has happened is that Apple is acting almost as though third party development itself is going to be deprecated at WWDC this year.

They always had issues and ellisions. This is orders of magnitude worse and suggests a significant shift in management intention, the full extent of which has not yet been revealed.
Bernard Fabrot solves MIT puzzle believed to be unsolvable for 35 years
The use case for gaming VR at least in the near term is a next generation VR arcade in the spirit of laser tag meets Ready Player One. Back when I was a kid, arcades were an awesome place to be. Consoles have long since killed that scene, but a well executed play here that could get middle/high school kids into arcades again would be a winner.
But we do need something. What is the alternative? Our mutual smugness?
yep late 2013 Retina MBP 15"
I just had the battery replaced in two mid-2014 MBPs. They said that I'd be paying for the battery replacement (199), but that they would also replace the keyboard and trackpad and I wouldn't be charged for either. However, the way they stated it initially was a little confusing, since it sounded like I'd be paying an additional 100, but they were quick to clear it up.

They did say that they might need to replace the shell (battery was slightly swollen in both machines) and that I'd be responsible for that cost, but that didn't happen for either box. I don't think they replace the shell unless it's really, really deformed. Neither of my machines would sit flat and both were obviously swollen. One I could practically spin like a top (and the trackpad was screwed).

I got both back with no deformities, a new battery, keyboard, and trackpad, and a 199 bill (plus tax).

I wouldn't rule out getting it fixed. If you do end up paying a little more, then you can probably sell it for more than the price it cost to fix.
A phone is good for talking to people. Don't need a computer for that. Much better audio (analog) would be a plus.

I'd use a mobile-sized computer with no radios, just ethernet, USB (for a keyboard) and HDMI (monitor).

Putting both in one package? just asking for troubles.
People have complained about Apple removing things since they first removed floppy drives. They remove them not because of some misguided belief, but because it’s old tech. I have a MBP from 2012 still going strong. When laptops last that long a bit of future proofing is a bonus. If you swap laptops every other year then you obviously miss out on this benefit. PC manufacturers will start removing USB ports and if history is any judge we’ll see zero complaints about them doing it, just like with the floppy
What Happens If You Always Wear Headphone
Not OP. But similar situation. My name is of the form <given nane> <father's given name> (a bit more complicated than that, see my other comment). So if my father's given name is Jack, my name may be Michael Jack. In my native setting I am always referred to as Mr Michael. Very rarely Mr Michael Jack. Never Mr Jack, because that is how my father would be referred to as. So in a western setting I am almost always called Mr Jack and in my mind it is my dad, not me.
But will that continue to be the case as headerless Swift takes over?
can't speak for the people who flagged it but for me personally - someone who made their living for many years denying climate change has now flipped to a new narrative of 'risk'. i just assume that he's shilling for the status quo in a new way i haven't got the energy to figure out - probably some sort of predatory delay or hawking a financial con.
MultiBootUSB: install multiple live Linux on a USB disk
Washington state legalizes “human composting”
I'm required to facilitate the USPS's delivery of this spam by maintaining a box in my yard if I want to ever get anything from them at all. If UPS/FedEx start leaving garbage in my yard I can sue them for littering on my private property.
My solution for loneliness: Start a family.
Tech Book Face Off: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks vs. CUDA by Example
I'm an electric car fan, but this is silly. There are a huge number of car buyers that would, currently, never consider an electric car.
The problem is that it's much more clearly communicated by your blind spots and assumptions.

In 20 years when a generation of children with butchered bodies for the sake of a vocal minority ask you "Why?" what will you say "But I only meant to do good!"?

The path to hell is paved with good intentions, and the neon hair fringe of the trans community is racing down that high way as fast as it can.
> A free market does not mean a market where a buyer has a choice of not buying something. It only means one where the market choices of agents are not constrained by coercive intervention of other agents.

That's not how I was taught this concept. I know, Wikipedia is a bad source, but I would like to point out how widespread my specific interpetation is amongst the economics textbooks I've read;

In a free market, individuals and firms taking part in these transactions have the liberty to enter, leave and participate in the market as they so choose. Prices and quantities are allowed to adjust according to economic conditions in order to reach equilibrium and properly allocate resources.

Note, enter and leave. This means both as a producer and a consumer, without this we cannot have efficient allocation.

> We need to buy food, but the market for food is still quite free, and consequently, very efficient.

The food market is a really good counter-argument to mine, but when I was first making my observations, I found that food is a very different market that was originally constrained in similar ways but isn't. First is that it's a "market" that's nearing globalized post-scarcity (this doesn't preclude localized scarcity). We produce enough food that we can feed the global population twice over https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person (3k+ per capita for developed nations and 2k+ for underdeveloped ones).

Humans have reached this state due to government-sponsored research and sponsored application of revolutionary new technologies.

Second, our ability to process food has also led to a surplus in stored calories. We can feed ourselves even during catastrophes (though distribution will remain a challenge).

And third, historically (as I am not certain about this particular point, but it is consistent with my reading of history), prior to the green revolution, the food market was never this free - it has always been state managed to a varying degrees. From feudal lords and chieftains to the Roman grain dole, food has been a carefully managed resources until our time.

Due to its oversupply and heterogeneity, the food market has a very different structure and dynamics that are inherent to it. But, taking my argument at face value, I would argue that it is indeed possible to exit the food market - we can grow our own food! Even a small-ish farm with good practices can feed a family for a year or more using wild seeds, natural compost and herbicides alone.
That’s not an alternative when you want to leave age unspecified. Read the link and the clumsy “women and girls” construction, which the rabble rousers have scared everyone into using, even in medical contexts!
I'm glad someone else mentioned their fingers physically hurting when using it. I haven't seen many other complaints round this online and its shocking - This made me stop using the device completely - I was in pain just by typing normally!
If you buy thousands of dollars of unnecessary crap with your credit card, you’re still in “debt”, so the analogy still holds.
Dumb question. How do you cast to the iPhone? And does it slow down the vr?
I think my block is I am still not sure what it is... I have used Wolfram Alpha and I think that is cool. But the times I have spent looking at the docs... I feel like it is not a programming language exactly. Or not one I am used to or familiar with.
Nope. I wonder if they switched to one if the effect would be the same.
Now that I can’t have it, I really want that Huawei laptop :/
> Also just for fun, here's a creative stab at my own explanation.

I know you said "just for fun", but I really think we need to do better than these types of explanations.

I remember many years ago, I was wondering what the heck hyper-threading was, and I came across a video that compared it to a bowl of cereal. Even though you only have one mouth, you'll be able to eat the cereal more quickly if you use both your hands, instead of just one.

I watched this video, and felt gratified, and closed the browser window... and then suddenly realized that I still had no idea what hyper-threading was, only that I should use both my hands if I'm ever in a cereal-eating competition.

A better explanation would have gone something like, "CPUs solve math problems more quickly than we can give them problems to solve. Hyper-threading queues up additional sets of problems that the CPU can switch to when it would otherwise be doing nothing."

Analogies are useful tools, but usually only after we have some understanding of the real version.
I do. Media circus aside Musk has a reputation of delivering working solutions to hard problems.

If they still had Chriss Latner heading Autopilot I'd be skeptical, but they have Andrej Karpathy who is a god when it comes to machine learning and computer vision.
I’ve always gotten bad motion sickness with the vive but with the quest there’s nothing. I’m really excited.

I’m starting to think the Pc powering the vive was just never up to par. I really like having a self contained device.
The suboptimal user experience of setting up lighthouses was cited as an argument against the high price of $1000. Treating it as something to be considered only after buying would be the same as assuming that the item has a high value because of the high price.
https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Atheists-Non-believers-Guide...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

(my favorite philosopher)
You’re making my point for me: “female” is valid as an adjective, and “woman/man” programmer make no sense, but you feel intimidated into rejecting all uses of “female” because of outrage over an unrelated phenomenon.

That’s exactly what I mean when I talk about someone deciding something and everyone joining the bandwagon without really thinking about it.

And I didn’t say I was random; it’s deliberate, but deeply confused.
This is how adults should behave. And if people have a personal problem with the person existing at the conference (as in, this isn’t actually a violent person, and it’s an issue of discomfort as opposed to safety) that cannot be solved by avoiding them, then it’s probably those people who shouldn’t be there. Or anywhere else really.
Yeah seems like a nightmare to animate though.
Thanks for checking it out.

1. There is no demo setup currently. But I will setup one soon. Thank you for the suggestion!

2.There is no particular meaning behind the name. I was thinking the product as a “website management system out of the box”. And abbreviated it to something anyone can pronounce easily.
I highly recommend watching the presentation. It's quite a deep dive into their entire plan including solving the world model problem.
Nice! Thanks for the info!
Well, I'm sensitive to that too, since 5 months ago, an at-fault driver illegally entered an intersection that I had the full green on, and I hit, and rolled her minivan. Total damages was about $45,000, and thank God everyone, including my passenger, walked away with minor bruises (45 MPH relative speeds at impact). So, swap out my initial $10,000, for the $45,000. Everyone's wreck has their own costs... long story short, we throw massive weights around with immense kinetic energies when we push down on that accelerator.