skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SoftBank fellas said that autonomous cars will be ‘won’ by those who can outspend everyone else.

Lol, of course they said that as their entire investment strategy is to throw more dumb money at startups than anyone else can possibly match. Their vision fund VC has been investing $100 billion dollars and they're planning on doing another $100 billion dollar fund. "To put the fund’s magnitude in perspective, its size is almost double the investments made by U.S. venture firms last year. PitchBook data shows that VC fundraising in the U.S. totaled $53.9 billion last year across more than 200 funds, and that was the largest annual raise in at least a decade." [0]

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/softbanks-100-billion-vision...
Detecting the Impossible: Serverless C2 in the Cloud
I can't think of a reason folks here would hate on Toyota, Honda, etc: companies that build practical, efficient, cheap cars, have well regarded engineering, and have met with incredible economic success.

False equivalency to say all car brands are like VW, which lied and cheated about emissions whilst marketing their product as Clean Diesel, and left their own customers and everyone else on planet Earth holding the bag.
Are your browsing and spending habits public?
As someone who does code, I think most people would be worse off by learning to code.

It can be a rewarding job for someone who enjoys constantly solving crazy puzzles but, even for those who love to code, it can still be a miserable experience. Most people aren't particularly grabbed by the ability to control what a computer does the way that we "geeks" are. They would be bored out of their minds the second they have to do Fizz Buzz, which is why a lot of people never get off the ground with coding in the first place. The starting salary is barely livable; the national average is ~65k, and though I now make six figures, I started in the low 40ks. You won't get rich quick, perhaps at all, and unless you're talented or pick the right technologies, you might be stuck making mediocre pay while suffering the bad code of other learn-to-coders who are in it to strike it rich. After about 4 years, you begin to realize that your job is just like every other job, and that is to clean up the mess made by someone else. Unless you're part of the <10% that actually builds brand new stuff, your purpose is to be frequently astonished and make sense of the chaos. How fun.

Some people enjoy all of that, but it's a fallacy to believe that anyone could do it if they _just learned_. More people aren't coding(or choosing unemployment over coding) for the same reason that I and many of us didn't learn to become aerospace engineers, or CEOs, or HVAC technicians. Most of us probably wouldn't be that good at those things because we don't all have the drive for them, and I don't think that having more people who are mediocre at their jobs is a good thing for anyone.
So you own a 27 inch monitor connected to a computer that allows you to watch video over the internet and that’s somehow different than the typical household these days that owns a television connected to a Roku device (a specialized computer) or that has built in processor that allows them to watch video on demand over the internet?
Most of what we call AI can learn and update to an extent, in order to be able to match a wider verity if I puts or to improve accuracy on existing inputs, this is a hardcoded solution. If this counts as AI, then every bit of software ever written also counts as AI, which makes the term even more meaningless and marketing buzzwordy than it already is.

I suppose the question is, if an AI has learned and you export that final learned state to use in a now-hardcoded classifier, is that classifier still AI (or part of the overall AI) or is it simply the output? I can imagine arguments on both sides. If you accept that as AI, then sure, this fits the bill!
See https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340 for a basic introduction to the issues, and https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3347 for a slightly more extensive treatment, also mentioning proof nets. This does not explicitly say that these diagrams can be understood as the equivalent to sequences in something FORTH-like, but this is in fact what the papers are pointing out in a general sense, so I see it as a rather trivial remark.
I think Apple or the US govt would have won by now were that true.
Micronaut – A JVM Based Framework for Writing Microservices
The recommendations is pretty good but it is limited because a lot of the games it recommended me were games that I had bought through GOG, Epic, or other places. If it could pick up that I have a game on other stores it would be more useful.
"Scaled to the offense, not the offender" is a good principle, but how do you make it work for offenders like Facebook or Uber? Uber used their massive war chest to basically ignore laws on a massive scale, and we've now seen that Facebook was happy to go on and commit more violations even after being scolded by the FTC before.

What makes this fine different, other than being bigger? They can afford it. Why will they change their behavior now when they didn't before? Other companies of this sort haven't changed their behavior. Will Facebook finally learn after they commit even larger offenses and then get slapped with another larger fine 5 years later?

Like, realistically speaking: "Profit" here is not the goal, especially not in the earlier phase. FB making a billion dollars is a side effect of the other things they really want, which is growing a market and building lock-in - because those things are worth a LOT. It's the same reason Uber is willing to lose money on rides and eat legal penalties and get dragged into court: The costs are worth the result. So I'm not convinced slapping FB with a $5b fine after this long is really going to have a deterrent effect. Hopefully it does...
Hayabusa2 Collects Asteroid Sample
Golang issue ticket: “Remove the Google logo”
It's often not very efficient in terms of getting back the energy you put in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_energy_storage#Effic...
> Moreover, cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death for smokers

that alone tells nothing, cardiovascular disease is the primary death cause for general populace, that why you need to work out incidences, and guess which one has greater variation?

cardiovascular disease: 4x more likely

Cancer: 23x the risk compared to general populace

respiratory disease: 17x the risk

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

funny how you had to cherry pick stats to present your point while accusing people of being shills.

smoking is bad, we get it. not everyone that can see a larger picture are part of God knows what conspiracy.

and I specifically did not say "tobacco without the other stuff is fine" so go grind your axe somewhere else
See post from 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20388029
The trouble with corporate jobs is that we tend not to cultivate a social support network and activities outside of it because many of these jobs are a kind of slavish race to the bottom where people compete to show their sacrifices in exchange for managerial favor. Some ways to hedge the (arguably, insane) social risks of your corporate job are, before you are unemployed:

- learn to fish, as the author mentions. Hunting is similar, and good for relationships, as is canoeing, camping, and general outdoorsmanship.

- buy a year+ membership at a cheap gym so you have somewhere to go a few days a week while you are off. The cheaper it is, the more social it will be. Think of it as social and mental health insurance.

- join volunteer, church, or fraternal organizations to develop cheap activity based relationships. if you are a committed atheist, join a secular volunteer organization, and barring those, a theatre or activist group.

- No matter what you hear about others, your severance will be a nasty insult and you will very likely have to spend to hire a lawyer to get what you are owed. Find one now and agree on a rate while you have a job.

- keep lines to recruiters open while you are still employed, even if they are obnoxious. Don't let them know your current/past salary ever, because they will just use your lack of job to pressure you down on the next one. For them to "have your number," literally means being at a disadvantage.

If you are unemployed or just about to be, it's very stressful, but it builds character, and for everyone I know who experiences it, living through it is always better than living in fear of it.
Agreed. Would you go to war over your phone? I think the analogy to faith kind of breaks down when you ask that question. I seriously doubt that anyone would be rioting in the streets over loss of access to Facebook. However I do think phones are like an “opiate” in that they have produced a lot of undesirable behavior in people.
I mean, it's obvious why it's taken so long from the slides. He has built an entire literate C project as well as a CLI test project, both entirely independent of Inform; an intermediate output format; and has worked toward an intermediate input format.

I for one am very interested in his ideas around exporting the world model to other areas, like Unity. That way you can script your world in Inform 7 and then make it available in e.g. a 3D RPG with a bridge between the two. Obviously that's years away, but it's an interesting idea.

Finally, the main concern here is that there's just so much here that has lived in the author's head for decades (18 for Inform 7 alone) that it will be daunting for new contributors to get involved.
Scientists unveil image of quantum entanglement for the first time ever
https://imgur.com/gallery/vdsHl8y
"Before phones, people used to talk to each other"
Burning it, actually. It's a legend about how Seymour Cray would design and build a sailboat every year only to burn it afterward, so he could design a better one, or something like that.
Postgres works well. Neo4j. Persistence is pretty well solved.

So is the in-memory representation! Have you thought about using lazy structures? The graph can be conceptually infinite in size but your program only loads the pieces being used as they are needed and offloads old ones that are not.
Vide Big Chelsea Man United Arsenal News
This is a great idea! I didn't think about going to the local governments and asking them to reach out. I will get on this come Monday morning!
> "IQ of 70 or greater"

It means that 70 is the lowest IQ of people with High-functioning autism, which makes the average much higher than that.

> and "HFA is not a recognized diagnosis"

So is Asperger's since 2013. Yet, there is a huge difference between people with high-functioning and low-functioning autism.

A person with low-functioning autism is not able to live independently at all.
Wait, soviets already did automated sample returns while apollo was still ongoing [0]?! That's quite a surprise to me... don't think I ever came across this, and I do follow quite a bit of space news. E.g. this [1] recent set of videos how Apollo moon rocks are stored did not mention it at all, and I'd certainly expect them to have exchanged some samples.

Now I'd really love to learn more about what kind of tech that long ago achieved the precession necessary for an automated sample return.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI
The analogy doesn't hold. Unlike in the case of the car, if you send someone a file you are not deprived of use of the original.
perhaps that’s why he thought it
Kuru Incir
maden gıda, nazilli, maden, incir,kuru incir, organik zeytinyağı, organik kuru incir, doğal incir, doğal kuru incir, incir reçeli, incir ezmesi, incir pekmezi, kuru meyve, kuruyemiş, gıda, turkish dried figs, kayısı, gökhan maden, madenler tarım ürünleri, madenler, Organik Doğal En Kaliteli Kuru incir, Soğuk Sıkım Naturel Sızma Zeytinyağı, Kuru meyve, Turkish Dried Figs Fruits, kuru incir, kuru incir satın al, kurutulmuş incir sipariş, süzme dökme incir, incir al, kuru incir satış, Zeytin yağı, incir, Kayısı, Kestane, Ceviz, Hurma, Kuruyemiş, toptancıları, kalori, zeytinyağı kürü, besin değeri, reçeli, tatlısı, faydaları, fiyatı, ağacı, nerede yetişir, yetişme koşulları, Aydın Nazilli Turkey, madenler tarım ürünleri sultanhisar, http://www.madengida.com
> Complaints about air conditioning are mostly a form of modern self-flagellation.

For your, and HN's consideration, we are losing regional vernacular architecture because of air conditioning. One of my fav episode of 99% Invisible makes this case, that once architects outsourced the solving of thermal problem to air conditioning, they could build boxes of steel and glass anywhere. It's contrarian to Wright-ish principle of building with the land ("buildings should not be on a hill but of it"). I recall there's a part about how people would rather open a window for cooling and get moving air, instead of being inside a confined air conditioned space. The episode also visits a "baoli" of India and the modern building designed with its features.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
What would be the practical applications of something like this?

+ Can you embed it in a mirror to portray information if a face is recognized?

+ Or can you make glass semitransparent when something is recognized?

+ What about windows that blur anything that looks like a face? Preferably keeping other objects the same. A bit of an autoencoder where only certain objects are blurred.

+ Can the amount of light shining on it lead to different results? Then you can show a little movie by shining more and more light through the glass using it in reverse.

It's a simple embodiment but I guess there are thousands of applications we haven't thought of yet. Really cool train of thought!
Curiosity Rover on Mars Spotted from Space in NASA Photo
If it's 70F indoors and you need to wear sweaters to keep from shivering, you might have a health & fitness problem just as much as the opposite case.
Fly fishing for trout is the standard, but I strongly recommended getting some poppers and trying for bass/pan fish. Same fly fishing engagement but more strikes.
Yes, but there is still vagueness. Depending upon where you are and the circumstances, there may be no "safely pull over." I've certainly gotten into very low visibility situations on highways (snow squall, very heavy rain) where put on hazards and crawl along as best you can and pull over to the side of the road are pretty much equally bad alternatives.
Why not just unfriend or unfollow former colleagues and people that you met at conferences?
Your comparison to a simple driving game might be misleading. A two-color game is probably an easier challenge, not a harder one, because the game developer has reduced your input to almost pure information rather than throwing a lot of visual data at you to interpret.

In other words, it isn't that your eyes and brain are so good that you can still drive at an Atari level--it's that the Atari level is optimized for your eyes and brain.
There are built-in ways to do that#

Android: android.com/find

iPhone: find my iPhone, find my friends.

I think I trust Apple's implementation more.

Also, SnapChat has a similar platform-agnostic feature, if you're willing to give them your data.
I don't agree at all. From day one he been using intellectual wankery.

Regarding lists like r/stallmanwasright, I work with plenty of smart people who couldn't care less about free software some of them aren't even tech savvy and they can spot all the problems with a lot of the services we have today.

I think it is more an exercise of throwing shit at a wall until and seeing what sticks. Which btw is a perfectly valid method of seeing how your message gets across but it doesn't make you a genius.

That combined with awful manners, hygiene and the fact that he has some disgusting opinions about child abuse. I can't stand the man. The fact that this guy has any importance past "Well he was the founder of the GNU project and he wrote a text editor" seems ludicrous to me.
Best of luck with your cancer treatment. Enjoy the time you have left, and hope you get the lucky end of estimates for time left or survive completely. My father died (relatively young) from cancer recently even with the best treatment, so I’m crying as I type this but make sure you spend lots of time with family and close friends. You are likely loved more than you know.
If you’re not willing to give up certain tools, then this is probably not the phone for you. If you’re trying to replicate another system you will be disappointed. If you were to switch to Android you’d have the same issue with iMessage, so sacrifices need to be made regardless of platform.

I will probably be using slack still from my laptop which may be unacceptable for your needs. However if Slack’s electron app runs on Linux already it may already work on the Librem 5 on release. Maybe not in fancy phone UI mode but desktop mode?

TLDR; I don’t see apps as a blocker for me personally. I’m willing to give up a certain amount of tether for privacy. I don’t expect this phone to compete with the iPhone or Android devices for market share, nor should it have to compete.
US housing policies have to change such that we can fix our housing supply issues. In a nutshell, the size of new housing has more than doubled since the 1950s and we have largely zoned out of existence the kind of housing that makes it feasible to live without a car or for single people with entry level jobs to have a place of their own without roommates.

We also need to fix our healthcare system which is an excessive cost burden on far too many Americans.
I wonder could you do something like this with liquid crystal to enable some learning.
good luck on your journey im beginning this soon too.
There are lots of ways to cool large spaces passively if the air is hot and dry. Your options are much more limited if the air is hot and humid. That's why most of these innovations come from places with arid climates such as Egypt, Zimbabwe, and (parts of) California, and practically none from Japan or Singapore.
Diabetic Retinopathy Ophthalmology
I see more and more people noticing the massive privacy (just an example) implications that many of these solutions bring and they're trying to regain control of their data. This is why I said "people are starting to see". Of course I can't see into the future but there's no reason to believe the trend isn't there at all.

But going back to OP's comment above and the link to the Dropbox topic, a decade ago many were not seeing the move to the cloud as anything more than a gimmick compared to the established private solution, not seeing the trend.

P.S. Just to be clear, by "private solution" I don't mean hosting in your own basement. It's retaining control over your solution even if it is hosted in someone's datacenter.
>Can the amount of light shining on it lead to different results? Then you can show a little movie by shining more and more light through the glass using it in reverse.

I don't think movies, but some monotonic changes should be possible using critical refractive angles.
Indeed he is ... Karl Marx [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

[Edit] Note to self - check other threads before posting links?
Ecuador tribe wins legal battle over the Amazon
There are built-in rules for some things, like rooms. If you say "the living room is east of the dining room", then going west from the living room will move you to the dining room. There are libraries of rules for containers, ropes, water, fire, etc.
He is clearly a thief:

> Knight survived by breaking into these cabins and a community centre and stealing supplies.

Let him break into your house and take what he wants.
I know a lot of people who own EVs. Every single one of them also has a gas vehicle in the family. No one uses EVs for road trips. Afaict they don't belong to single-car households.
In providence RI my friends and I rented a 3 BR 2nd floor of a duplex. The heating cost was insanity. The rent itself was 1350 per month and the oil heating in the winter cost us 3600, which is 100 per month added onto my 450 share for the entire year. I left that year, my roomies stayed and begged the landlord to switch, the oil heater was wicked old and inefficient. He said no, he didn't care. They moved due to that. So yes, it did cost him, probly the months worth of rent that he lost due to the realtors finders fee.
The are plenty of options for dropping out of society. Siberia for example is millions of square kilometers of wilderness where you won't be bothered. It's not populated because the conditions for farming are bad: the soil is not suitable and the climate is not ideal - but it should be ok for a hunter-gatherer.
>I've spent a long time messing around with Inform7, for quite a few years on and off, and then I kind of stopped after realizing a few things: 1) it's incredibly frustrating and inefficient to write games in an English like language when you're a perfectly capable programmer, 2) if I try to do any even slightly more complex programming I'll be shot in the foot,

I've heard that people who get annoyed with both 1 and 2 usually use TADS instead of Inform.
Dex: Efficient Symbol Index for Clangd
It's given up:

Crawled: 2001
To-Do : 4068
It was unofficially redistributed from the Computer History Museum page: https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/electronic-arts-deluxe... It states the following:

> and does not give you the right to license it to third parties by posting copies elsewhere on the web.
I’m not a cryptocurrency enthusiast, so take this with a grain of salt, but there’s a lot of Rust in it. Like, some of the earliest non-Mozilla jobs were in cryptocurrency. Various companies sponsored our conferences. And of course, there’s Libra.
And one day before that :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20204596
4. Lose profits when landlord charges you for excessive use
> I think the question is: Why are we so inefficient today? It's not about looks either: We are building even uglier buildings. The building I'm living in right now is buzzing with air-conditioning units. It's wasteful and it's also an inferior solution (headaches, dry air, only inside is cool, etc...)

I'd guess because of misguided "separation of concerns" and the ability to externalize the inefficiencies: You can either carefully analyze the surrounding climate and the usage patterns of your building, then hire architects who are able to take those into account and are willing to work with the imposed constraints - or you can have your architects go wild and imagine whatever crazy shape you want and treat climate control as an afterthought: After all, you can just slap on some air-conditioning and be done.

Of course air-conditioning will cause numerous problems: Energy usage, air pollution, additional heating of the outside environment, etc - however as long as energy is cheap, those are not the problems of the owners of the building.
> Forbid stalking, dark patterns, lies (aka fraud) and their overall lack of morals & ethics.

This is what I was talking about. I consider surveillance and tracking of any kind a dark pattern, though.
Let’s see what they actually end up paying.
>> "Being artists, old, hipster, gay/lesbian, etc shouldn't give anyone special rights to claim that they need to be specially immunized from the pressures of the world."

Really? pressures of the world? Those peeps you mention know a whole lot about the world--prolly any one knows more than the two of us combined. Pressures from the free market and capitalism is more like it.

I rewatched the scifi movie IRobot last week. You know the one where Will Smith's character hates robots. Robots are everywhere doing great things for people--helping the elderly, doing crappy jobs--but his prejudice blinds him from all the good. He's obviously obsessed and paranoid. No way, the three laws make it impossible for anything bad to happen. What could go wrong?

That was fun movie.
https://www.makyajmag.com
Zoem: Interpretive Macro/Processing Language