skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real risk isn't that self driving cars will come, it is that they will come and prove enough safer than human drivers (a low bar) the governments ban all sales of new cars without it. At which point whoever has patents can make a killing licensing them. Car makers can hedge this risk cheap today by getting an alliance with someone who has patents thus ensuring if that risk happens they already have access to key patents either directly or by cross licensing.

If self driving cars are only equal to good human drivers in risk it is could be a fad.
OMRChecker: Grade exams fast and accurately using a scanner or phone
Shady removal definitely isn’t good. On the other hand, every feature can’t be supported forever (or at least I wouldn’t want to). Seems that communication could’ve been better, though.
I used to build Access applications and never had data corruption issues while supporting 20 concurrent users.

The key is separating the database and front end in different files.

While I have many gripes with Access, it is a highly underrated tool.

Using a real database engine requires infrastructure and lots of red tape to set up and it might not even be approved after waiting for months.

With Access, you just put a file in a shared directory and you are done. No need to set up a web server for a front end either.
I am interested in jumping in. I’m concerned that new features, even if better, would make it hard to find up to date documentation and tutorials. Any recommendations?
I've seen plenty of teams with 20-30 engineers working on the same product. At this level, what usually happens is, everyone has a specific role along with their main one, and I don't mean front-end, backend, database.
More of: somebody builds internal dev tools, somebody else maintains documentation, somebody acts as a semi-architect if there's no designated one, somebody helps QA team automate their stuff, somebody participates more in higher-end meetings, etc.

This knowledge comes from a couple of teams that use my product https://archbee.io
I think nuclear is the best current solution, but it is too late to build nuclear plant now because it requires 40 years to be cost effective. I hope that solar will become better than nuclear in less than 10 years.
Richard Feynman?
Exactly. Not sure why someone would actually think we've hit peak car. Maybe in certain countries, but for sure not worldwide.
Full self driving may be a long way away, but driver assist like lane departure and automatic breaking have become major selling points. Further, in customers minds the features are binary rather than something where a slightly better version becomes a selling point.

This makes joint ventures a win/win as they reduce the risk of being left behind while significantly reducing R&D costs.
That's true, but in that case Peugeot and Citroën have been the same company since more than 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_PSA
BitMEX’s owner gives $60k grant to Bitcoin Core developer
There's nothing WRONG with the spreadsheet model, and never has been. It's immensely powerful and useful, and the growth in capability over the life of a product like Excel is remarkable and enviable. Excel is perhaps Microsoft's greatest product.

The problem with it -- and there IS a problem -- is really a problem of applicability. Excel, like Lotus before it, is the first place many people encounter the ability to create their own logical conditions.

For a huge subset of these people, it's also the LAST such tool they learn. And now they have a hammer, so everything is a nail. I don't just mean finance people who live and die by spreadsheets; I've met engineers who would solve problems in Excel macros that would've been better attacked in perl or Python.

The other "problem" is the degree to which a horrifying number of organizations end up depending on very, very complex spreadsheets full of arcane and undocumented formulas and macros, and for which change control is "save-as."

But, again, none of this is a problem with the product itself, or with the idea of spreadsheets.
>Then you get employee turn over where new employees don't get "arcane" knowledge passed down by people who left and took their spreadsheet foo with them.

Yeah, this never happens with a proprietary codebase!
Sort of an interesting idea, and I wholehartedly agree with

ensuring that each and every commit serves a singular purpose and adds to the narrative history of the project has done wonders to reduce thrash and the introduction of “stupid mistakes”.

Read in chronological order, these commits should paint a clear picture of how and why this particular code came into existence and how it has changed over the course of its life.

I'm not sure if this is particular to 'literate', to me it sounds more like common sense, but yes: that is how I like commit history.

The example https://github.com/pcorey/delete-occurrences-of-an-element-i..., even though the OP mentions it's a toy, illustrates this pretty well. Without knowing much about the code you can just read the commit messages and even though the style of the text is a bit too fuzzy for my liking at times (i.e. lots of words just to form nice prhases to make points which could be made with shorter and more to-the point sentences) there is a much larger problem (imo): the first line of each commit makes no sense whatsoever wrt what actually changed in the code. This makes it impossible to at first sight (in git user interfaces which use the first line in their commit lists, i.e. the vast majority I think) find out what is happening and what a particular commit does. If that is an articfact of literate commits, then sorry but that is just not very good. Here's an excerpt:

# Getting Real
# Forging Ahead
# Keep it Simple
# Our First Test
# Take What We're Given
# Laying the Groundwork

Suppose you come back to this knowing you changed something in a recent commit and want to look it up. My strategy is then usually to just glance over the history for a few seconds to see if I can immediately find the commit I'm looking for before starting an actual search. Works very, very often. Not so much in this case. Compared to what I'm looking at right now in a repository of a team I work with:

converters: Fix nullable double getting converted into NaN
plot: Use assembly reference instead of project reference
plot: Update code style and formatting
network: Add functions for element acces to Python scripting API

The body of the commit message then goes on describing more detail and usually also why the change was made. As such creating the narrative the OP talks about. But with the added benefit that the message header provides pretty good insight into what a commit does, hereby providing some kind of index to the book being written, making it much easier to discover things.
Companies don't have moral values, except as a sales pitch. They won't keep to them either, except as required by public outrage. Let's not put on our rose-tinted glasses, even for a track record that's less dark gray than some other companies.
> Here people (big building, multiple companies, etc) are told when they get hired that it's their responsibility to evacuate when the (standardized across Europe) evacuation sound goes off.

So it's up to everyone individually to determine if leaving the building is actually safe, and to figure out which emergency exits are safe to use?
> I don't know that this qualifies as unbelievable. This is just good marketing and spin. The image in that link is exploiting the fact that modern codecs specify upsampling filters, so the HEVC half looks smoothly varying while JPEG can, per spec, only look pixelated when blown up like that.

I think you're focusing on the background? I agree that they should have masked the background out, but if you look instead at the first yellow segment of the rear wing near the body, there is clearly more available detail in the HEVC side.
I highly doubt about it considering how much they already spent and how (very) far they are from that goal.
I think the conspiracy is how much they've overplayed Tesla. Let's meet in the middle.
That parcs and rec meme is awesome!
Serverless C2
From the third paragraph:

That’s a key difference between hypothetical and practical security – your attacker will only do really wacky, creative stuff you hear about at conferences (or wherever) when there’s no easier way and the target of the attack justifies the extra effort.

Emphasis mine.
Could you please source that claim about the number of jobs being affected?

I find it somewhat implausible that whole German states could have such vastly different opinions on the coal exit when those directly affected supposedly only makeup 20k-50k people.

Because those kinds of numbers regularly embezzle where these people are spending their money. Wouldn't be the first time whole German communes suddenly become underdeveloped due to the biggest employers in the region shutting down/leaving.

That's why I can fully understand the people in those regions, they are presented with a choice that has no apparent advantage to them, only disadvantages.

Would you vote for your own job/income getting regulated in non-existence, when nobody offers you an alternative? Because that's the current situation: Nobody is offering alternatives to those people, yet everybody expects them to just give up their livelihoods.
Agree, it can't be ready while you have to ignore static objects because the hardware and software is to weak to handle them IMO

(please Tesla/Elon fans don't downvote an opinion without letting me know why you thing I am wrong and start a discussions, most of the downvotes I get are on my comments about Tesla's autopilot and Apple's hardware )
As for not responding to deadlines for large social issues - when is the last time you saw a tropical depression form over the US? And then b-line to the gulf of Mexico, to become a freaking Hurricane, and then attack the US?

Al Gore was right.

"I dont respond well to X." "I dont want that to be true." "I dont want to believe that."

Facts and Stats dont care about "whether you respond" - you sound just like a MAGA-hat when confronted with the actual damning contents of the Mueller report.

Welcome to the fruits of Capitalism - if there is a resource to exploit, we're going to burn through it until its gone. Exponentially fast. Whether that's topsoil for food, or sand for circuit-board silicon, or oil underneath the dirt. Or helium for lasers, balloons, etc...

Here we are, able to see it coming. And you're letting the most evolutionarily-throwback-ish part of your brain hijack your thinking. "If I hold still and close my eyes as a little lizard, there wont be a problem."

Have some discipline. Maybe show that you've evolved. Maybe, just maybe... Understand that civilization is not as robust as you think.

We can all be like Detroit. Coast to coast United Serfs in Abandonia. That was the Great Depression.

We can burn out the land. The Bronze Age Collapse, the Dust Bowl, the Mound-builders' corn collapse, the desertification of Egypt's Nile-adjacent farmland. All of these cultures simply disappeared.

Human Civilization faces extinction, I want you to understand that your toys will not save us. You children and their children, your entire civilization will suffer and die, and leave nothing living behind but roaches and vines.

All because you thought it was fine to say, "fuck it, I got mine."
It would be cool to get SM64 running at fullspeed on something like an older Rasberry Pi, which I think should be feasible now.

I also wonder if you could add stuff like raytracing given the original source. (Obv not on the Pi)
The article mentions that they attempted bit banging first, but it didn't work precisely for the reasons you mention, which is why they used SPI instead.
Get to know the user for it, ask them what they want (granted that isn't always the best thing to design exactly as they want it but it helps to know), what they want to accomplish, any pain points.

If possible (depends on use case / user) give them some level of customization, moving widgets, filters.
You were accusing them of being both. Now who is being insincere?
How do you sync your password file between your phone and your computer? Currently I only use KeepassXC on my computer but plan to start using it for more accounts so will need to have my passwords there too.
There is an AVIF polyfill, but it has lots of important edge cases.

https://github.com/Kagami/avif.js

I'd rather keep it simple and not deal with more JS, and I'm OK with using JPEG for now. (I've been using mozJPEG for years)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirchi_and_Mime ,along similar lines in Mumbai (IN)
> Would you be just as concerned if it was about veritasium or eevblog channels?

I don't know, do fans of those exhibit fan behaviours that might be considered boundary crossing, addiction, or delusions?
Image compression is complicated. Licencing topics, decompression cpu time, decompression memory use, decompression memory bandwidth use, compression time, is asymmetric slower but more efficient compression available, multi-threading, how much of the decoding can be shadowed during the data transfer, how many levels of progression are preferred, global image artefacts (such as banding) that don't appear in objective metrics, inter-frame copying ending up copying strange stuff around, red colors tend to not to be compressed with great success (there is no gamma compression for red in the eye, but in image formats there is), how much the image format is for the eyes and how much for the metrics, are the results the same on different platforms/implementations, is alpha supported, how good is the HDR modeling and its rather non-linear relations to gamma and colors in general, does the image format tend to preserve the quality of materials such as wood, marble, skin, cloth -- or replace them with cheap plastic imitation, some image formats work dramatically well at low BPP (<0.5) but start failing when compared to old JPEG at higher BPP (2.5+ BPP). Some image formats decode only a few megapixels per second which can be a disaster if your images happen to be in the 40 megapixel category.

Overall, it is a very complex landscape.
Why should they? The article doesn't say.
Data frames are going to be huge. This year I started using them for a personal project -- python, jupyter notebooks, and pandas -- and was astonished at how easy it was to get running, and how powerful.

I feel like lots of number people, once exposed to it, will realize that there's a place to go after Excel that's worthwhile.
> Cutting subsidies to coal and/or increasing subsidies to solar just raises the cost of energy for end users

Source? And does that include the future costs of the environmental impact for the end users that will still be alive by then?

> Germans already paying a ridiculous amount of money per kilowatt hour

What exactly is ridiculous about a price that reflects the actual costs?

> (in fact, we are the first world country with the highest electricity price, 40 US cents as compared to 12 US cents you would pay in the States).

If you are paying 40 US cents per kWh for electricity in .de, then that's because you chose to, not because that's the market price.

> Raising subsidies is an antisocial move that will lead to increased public unrest, at a time when we see right-wing politics raising it's ugly head again.

So ... we should implement right-wing politics so that right-wing politics doesn't win? What's even the point of that argument?
Eyes May Be the Key to Spotting Dementia
Unfortunately, the existing YouTube tutorials will be outdated. Hopefully, the ui will be so perfect that it won't matter! (Am I dreaming?)
Thanks! I drew them using Notability on an iPad, then exported the document as a jpeg and cropped them out.
There's a whole lot of stuff named after him!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemoration_of_Tadeusz_Ko%C5...
The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast
The Cost of Reading
From my understanding (SOMEBODY CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG) Eevee is designed for realtime rendering in mind - it uses tricks similar to videogames to get high quality renders without raycasting everything.

So it performs FAR better than blender internal.
Absolutely! My response was specifically adressing the climate change aspect, not pollution in general.
Insects feel chronic pain after injury
Aquaponics demands a LOT more resources. Petrochemical fertilizers to dissolve in massive amounts of water... This does not sound like a way to sustain a society into perpetuity.
I've heard this described as "parasocial interaction".
Yeah i agree with you. Excel is very powerful to some degree but like all things it can be abused.

somewhere in a cube farm i can hear the shouts...

"Hey Karen did you get the latest budget sheet?"

"Is it budget_final_v2_2019.xlsx?"

"Damnit Karen that is from last week dear god dont tell me you sent that to corporate!! We are on budget_final_FINAL_v4.xlsx"
You are mistaken about both pass and Bitwarden. pass is cross-platform (I personally have it running on Windows 10, macOS and Linux) and Bitwarden can be self-hosted on Windows, macOS and Linux.

And yes, I know who Bruce Schneier is. Not sure what your point is though.
Well, also about how unremittingly shitty F1 help is.

Googling the topic you need help on is invariably faster, even if all you really need is, say, the syntax to a given Excel function.
Editing How to use powerful function composition in JavaScript – Medium
In the c-suite these discussions happen all the time. GM has regularly had a Japaneses manufacture make their cars, it gets the GM nameplate but is otherwise identical to the brand that made it. (Even though it is public knowledge who made the car GM still gets a worse rating in reliability)
I agree with this, plus another factor that I rarely hear discussed is the lifecycle of electric cars. If Elon is to be believed, electric cars should have a useable lifespan about 5 times longer than ICE. Are the traditional automakers prepared for Americans to come in for new cars once every few decades instead of once every few years?
Music broadcasts were also used to send secret message to hostages in Colombia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852772
Right, but the bot needs to know who is in what position what the bets are, who folded, etc. Try inputting all of that information manually to the laptop next to you and you'll quickly get frustrated. Online poker is a fast game with lots of data points.
There is not really any precedent for banning manual cars from the road. The closest may be the ban on non-motorized vehicles from limited access highways. Automated cars, if/when they are released, will always have to contend with human drivers.

Also, PR is pretty sensitive for automated cars. They can't just be statistically equal to human drivers, they have to be at least an order of magnitude better and they cannot afford to make any obvious errors that a sober human would not. Especially if it results in a fatality.
You can actually be evicted for calling 911 too often – even if those calls are legitimate [0].

0: https://thinkprogress.org/chronic-nuisance-laws-ordinances-e...
Looks great! Wishing you all the best!

Few minor notes:
- You've featured an app "Tournament of Books" but there are no links there. Both the title and the mock text conversation image can be links to that app
- Interspersed fixed width font is jarring
I feel like anyone could have seen this coming from a mile away. Heads of state should by definition be scared of cryptocurrency - whether they are actually decentralized or just controlled by Facebook. Both are technically a threat to government fiat.
Its not bullshit. Taking vitamin C + zinc is much more then anecdotal, there is planty of evidence in medical journals, some people for some reason like to cherry pick negative ones (that is, there are no negative ones, even 8% is still better, given that treatment is chepaer then watter).

Those supplements work, they changed life of my entire family. I personally find it ridiculous for people to object. Yes, some may not get full blown effect just like with anything but in majority of cases they work. Personally, they changed my life and I didn't measure on a one year sample.
Every link that leads to this file is shady af haha smh
I agree it's a hedge.. but for a slightly different reason. The legacy automakers have been fighting BEVs and though they have made many announcements, they really don't offer (and don't want to offer) much in the US that isn't a compliance car. They have been teasing upcoming concepts and electrification (code word for hybrid) because they are trying to prevent disruption of their (automakers, fuel suppliers, trucking, dealerships, gas stations, unions, etc) status quo. With every milestone that is being made by Tesla, Waymo, etc, they are more at risk. This is them hedging against change. "If things truly change, we'll work together and be able to catch up."
Ask HN: What tech I should use to make an ERP?
I want to write a new ERP from scratch, my current one was made using PHP-GTK and MySQL, because GTK3 policy of changing the API a bit too fast, updating it became a problem.

Also I found PHP to be problematic, introducing some bizarre bugs because of esoteric reasons of how it works compared to other languages (like... checking if a text box is empty returning true if the contents is "0" but not if the contents are "0.0", I noticed that when I saw lots of entries in my database was 1, or 0.0, when the user wanted it to be 0 and the program blocked them).

If was SOLELY up to me, I would use C++ (or pure C if possible) and Qt, and maybe keep the MySQL... But the other coder wants to use languages that I don't know how else to describe other than saying it is "modern", where the language do some things for you.

So I need suggestions of what technologies to use.

One big constraint: the thing need to be absolutely reliable, I am from Brazil, and here is mandatory to send electronic documents to the government every time you make any sale, meaning whenever the program stops working, it means you can't sell anything, thus blocking the whole company from operating.

Another constraint: I should be able to easily make a organized interface with tons of information, the government documents require a ridiculous amounts of fields, some of them rather complicated (we have the dubious honor of having the most complicated tax code of the planet, according to the "Ease To Do Business" ranking), and they change a lot, one of the reasons GTK is currently in use is because of Glade, its editor, that allow quick hacks whenever the government change suddenly what fields it wants in your documents.
Scihub is probably just buying hacked edu proxy/vpn creds for 1-2 dollars each. There are widespread phishing campaigns targeting .edu mails, and lots of sites selling the credentials.
Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot
Embox is a RTOS which allows you to use desktop software on MCUs
How is it proven not to work just because one or more times it hasn't worked, especially with an example as notable as Facebook on the other side?

There are pros and cons for sure, and perhaps you're right that on balance the cons outweigh the pros, but you haven't made a case for that opinion at all.
Depends on where you live I guess. Here in Norway 25% of all new cars sold is a Tesla.
Ok totally-not-Ben, looks like you got us!
> They were possibly as smart as modern humans, had larger brains, had tools, ritual burial, weapons technologies, and art work.

But the new discovery discussed in the article throws that into question. As the Atlantic writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/apidima-...

> The identity of Apidima 1 could also cast doubt on other archaeological finds from Europe, such as stone tools with no accompanying fossils. Researchers had long assumed that within a certain time window, “any archaeology was all the work of Neanderthals,” says Wragg Sykes. But if modern humans also occupied this “safe range,” which species actually created those artifacts?