skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cup holders...

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Webvan-gh...
I can't see how pure AGI can be "safe". Huge part of human intellect revolves around the need to survive,be it danger,lack of food,or less rational choices based on emotions.If computers can rationalise positive behaviour of humans,they may not be able to do so well with greed, jealousy, hunger for power,that aren't very logical processes but create a lot of positive and negative nonetheless.
- poke faces (Alt-p) doesn't exist

It's in the Face menu, so either select the 'Face' menu dropdown from the viewport header menus, or press Ctrl-F, or press W (context menu) while you have some faces selected.

You can also just right click on the "Poke Faces" menu item, click "Assign Shortcut" and press Alt-P.

- the selection behaviour (A doesn't seem to deselect any more)

Alt-A clears the selection.

- shift-G doesn't work

Shift-G does grouped selections, I think this is the same as in 2.79.

- W doesn't open a menu any more.

The specials menu has gone, replaced by a context-sensitive menu (what a right click might pop up in most apps) So "Poke Faces" is here when faces are selected.

- Shift-tab doesn't change vertex/face/line selection mode any more.

Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-3.
Yes, I realized the CPU issue and already updated my comment. Technically we would need a way to catch the CAS operation and convert it into a network request - like for example segfaults can be handled and converted into a disk load.

And also we'd need to extend all the cache coherency stuff over the network.

> And if you assume all your peers are reliable in a distributed system, you're wrong. Damned either way.

Technically you have the reliability issues with all the components inside a single system, just as well. They are just more reliable. But I'm sure I have seen hard disks failing, etc.

--

Ok, let me think about that abstraction stuff. Thanks.
Why Rust for safe systems programming
Wait, how so? Robinhood's margin is 5%.

Most (fidelity, etrade, etc.) have margin rates around ~10%. IB has ~3-4% but they're an outlier in this regard.
The Ship of Theseus
After an horrific redux experience in a large app, I recently had to set it up on a new project, and was pleasantly surprised. Granted, everything so far has been synchronous, but hooks makes for a lot less boilerplate. Haven't even bothered with action creators, just dispatch stuff.
What orientation controls? The numpad still behaves exactly the same as it did in 2.79.

The shortcut for poke faces seems to be removed. There have been a few irritating removals, definitely.

By default A selects, double-A deselects. You can revert it to the original behavior in the preferences under the keymaps tab.

The specials menu is now essentially the context menus, they can be opened with right click in left-click mode, or W in right-click mode.

Shift-tab used to toggle snapping and it still does...
One of the most bothersome part of HN is when someone tells us about something that happened, and out come a ream of second-guessing replies. "Why didn't you just do this?" and Why didn't you just do that?" and any number of "It's so easy to just thing instead!"

We don't know his environment. We don't know his company's policies. We don't know his hardware, connectivity, or budget issues. These kinds of passive aggressive responses are almost never helpful.
Foreign capital, when it is invested in productive enterprise is good. It reduces the cost of borrowing money, which stimulates your economy, promotes value creation, etc. Assuming you believe that this sort of economic activity is a net good, that is. (And I think that even a dyed-in-the-wool socialist will agree, under the right tax system.)

Foreign capital, when invested into a limited, rationed, speculative resource, that is also required for life - like say, housing, is a ----ing nightmare.
ah, I thought this was for sure a repeat, but apparently only some places changed when this first broke earlier in the year...

"Following outcry, Instacart scrapped the policy and promised to retroactively compensate workers. But DoorDash and Amazon Flex didn’t budge. They still use tips to make up base pay on some of their deliveries. Even more annoyingly, it can be difficult for workers to know when this is even happening because of a lack of transparency in how they’re paid (DoorDash, though, recently rolled out changes to make the source of earnings clearer)."
I'm 35. I've yet to learn a programming language. I've always been intimidated by starting and choosing a language.

I've started to loosen up regarding that and finally finding a path I could take. However, instead now I'm intimidated by the job market and age discrimination.
I currently work for American Electric Power and knew Michael Assante when he used to work here. Sad to hear he's passed away but I'm glad people are starting to listen to him: there has been a lot of digitization and automation brought to bear in the name of "modernizing" the grid that it's very difficult to assess its cyber security especially seeing as how all the pieces interconnect with one another (save for Texas). Add to that a lot of the communication systems directing the command and control have been digitized and you see we have the opportunity for a real mess on our hands. Meanwhile the utilities are under extreme pressure to deliver more for less and, just like every other business, are looking at digitization and automation as a means to do so. It will be quite interesting to see how this progresses.
From personal experience I couldn't get my wall clock (cheap Ikea one) to run on an eneloop, even after I think I charged it, without the second hand going all weird and failing. Works just fine on a disposable, what am I doing wrong? This article may be incorrect but the conclusion matches my experience.
It's still super easy to find bike lights that use replaceable 18650 cells.
Execution price is governed by SEC and clients must get the best price. HFT doesn’t really work on retail investors who’s sells and buys can be covered with one order. You can’t front run one order trades. Institutional investors are the prey for most HFTs since they do large stock trades and they need to hide to prevent front running.
My grocery store will do delivery through Instacart. According to Google Instacart adds $5.99 plus 10% of the order.

What does your store charge?
"you can experience a place without having a content creator constantly yattering away at you"

That all you hear are the activities and ambient environment is one of my favorite things about Primitive Technology. Also makes them really relaxing. A nice sleep aid, too.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
Creating a web app with a multi-billion dollar valuation indicates it is their strength. Who cares about a little superfluous memory usage compared to that.
> please assign this bug to an engineer.

The joys of open source users..
Elon Musk says Starship, Super Heavy will have more than 40 Raptor engines
Do you want ornithopters? ...because this is how you get ornithopters.

(This makes the Dune fan in me happy.)
This is a retrospective on the original post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405957

It got enough attention that it only seemed fair to give this a real chance, and for that, I decided to try out Kickstarter.
8GB - minus OS load gives you about 5-6GB to play with.

The problem isn’t with Slack itself - as more and more desktop software run on Electron then with 8GB of RAM you can only have a handful of instances open simultaneously before you get performance- crushing disk paging.
Dropbox works on a server. I know companies that picked it because of that.
True for older style NiMH, but the newer 'pre-charged' types like Eneloop have very low self-discharge
Parent is extremely insightful. It shouldn't be downvoted.

I remember trying to plan a startup with a guy who did similar things. He'd let his imagination run away, and then try to compromise on something far beyond realistic.

I should have walked away sooner than I did... We went nowhere because every week it was another "Groceries were the start-small compromise."
You can also export your SCHEDULED/DEADLINES from org-mode to caldav.
They raised a pile of money from Benchmark, Sequoia, and Softbank. Does anyone know what happened with these investments? Did they get out post-IPO while it was still high flying?
I have not done CXL; it's not that bad.

I'm in Montana, and a vast majority of the costs were covered as medical expenses, so my health insurance covered the optometrist costs. I only end up paying the cost of the lenses themselves. The optometrist office themselves build the cost of the followup fittings into their normal billing prices; there were no costs for any of the followup meetings.

Most of the iteration time was the shipping, since I'm not near any contact lens manufacturers.
I honestly don't see any possibility of truly "wide-spread benefits for humanity" if AGI is achieved anytime soon. Current state of humanity when it comes to how we treat each other and anything akin to species-level awareness and collaboration is only barely better in recent history than the dark ages. If a group of people gets access to an AGI, I think it will very quickly result in a bit wider group than that having their lives prolonged, no disease, no lack of resources and practically infinite wealth, and everyone eventually being either rid off, or allowed to live in far-away slums and left to die off.
> I'd sincerely advise traveling to Iran if you'd like to understand geo-politics a little better.

Unless you're gay, in which case they reserve the right to execute you. Seems worth mentioning.
People Over Product: how PMs find their place and get sh*t done
As far as I understood the document Google could have argued to have individual members of the class action dismissed based on qualifications after discovery concluded. The "in person interview" was just the initial requirement to join the class action and not a guarantee that they would remain part of it. The article I linked already mentioned 269 and that dropped to 227 in the bloomberg article linked by the guardian, so around a sixt no longer qualified for one reason or the other.

> leaves all the zero bits alone, changes all the one bits into zero bits, and returns the result.

Unless you have a weird integer implementation there is no way to avoid touching individual bits. So if( x ) x = 0; return x; is the best I can come up with.
> They are simply stating what the math tells them.

Which math?
When a write-back error happens, Linux marks the block clean so it can be replaced by another block at any time. Additionally, some Linux filesystems (I don't recall which right now) proactively throw it away immediately.
DoorDash also has terrible customer service which caused me to stop using them long ago. This policy in particular should be illegal without disclaimer (I'm intending to give money as a tip to my dasher, not fund DoorDash Inc) and is atrocious business practice.
Or at least require a deposit for sellers of a non-insignificant amount, a hold on new seller payouts for up to 30-60 days and per-seller stickers on intake inventory so sellers of counterfeits can be rooted out better.

Also, allow product manufacturers who sell directly, to block other sellers on the platform for their products and handle reports for alike-named and-or brand confusing products.

Amazon does very little to actually do anything meaningful to limit counterfeit products.
A two minute travel time is ridiculous. Even light takes more than a second to reach us from the moon.

The lunar orbit->earth delta-v is 4.8km/s. I didn't check your other numbers but they seem to be off by a factor 1000 too.
To each its own, smooth cars are the most boring thing for me, automatic/ gearless and smooth, why driving at all?
How come you're not able to hire in some countries in the EU? Sweden, Italy, Spain, and France are on the blacklist.

A Spanish citizen can work for a company registered in any other EU country without any problems.
Right. Not saying I am. Just looking for why.

I mean at an even lower level why can't the packets sent to the app store be collected analyzed and then forged.

Just don't understand why.
Yeah I've seen some "Amazon Choice" suggestions that I have some area of knowledge in and I know those are not good products. Nothing deadly or dangerous, but as far as selling someone a good product, they're just not good.

While I don't doubt are selling well.... really suck, and I fear the difference is simply sales volume of purchasers who don't know ... due to a couple bucks difference from another product... or straight up sponsorship.
No, the degeneration has slowed enough that I'm not a candidate yet.
> I’m not sure ad hominem applies, since it isn’t trying to discredit his argument by nature of his background

It literally asks that his argument be dismissed because of his his personal conduct; it is textbook ad hominem.
Just because there's enough resources for it doesn't mean it was a good use of those resources.

Why should it be reasonable for displaying a few megs of text & maybe a dozen megs of images to take 250MB+ of RAM? What is the rest of that memory usage, and why is it loaded? CPUs don't like executing code that's not in cache, so hopefully it's not code. And if it's not code, what is it? Figure a few dozen MB for the graphic buffers, but where's the other 100MB+ gone?
I don't think this is a new trend that has anything to do with SEO. It's called "burying the lede" and has been done since the beginning of commercial journalism.
Interesting. Which kinds of things in particular?

I think of undefined behaviour as a matter of knowing the many dark corners of C and C++. How did Haskell help?
If people cared about looks or features, Slack certainly wouldn’t come out on top.

No, what people care about are primarily network effects. They'll use whatever someone in the company decided to use (frequently Slack because it’s always been Slack since someone back in 2013 decided it was the hip choice, before it even had a desktop client), and they’ll put up with whatever dogshit client they’re served, because it’s out of their hands.
My RAM is soldered on.
SD is a garbage spec.
Arasan IP for SD host (in Raspberry SoC) is trash.
Driver support is minimal.
What'd you expect?
Agree in principle, but available Ram real estate (slots) is limited, esp in mobile.
The difference is that every time you do the process, you can consider writing a couple of tests and automating the step.
Binance's BNB token burn – why this is meaningless nonsense to fool suckers
I don't think it's fair to assume that the economy is the main thing that's important. A lot of conservatives would say that the main issue is culture, not economics. On the flip-side, I think migration is a human right, and this discussion is sort of like arguing about whether abolition would hurt the cotton industry.
There's also the UFS Card format, which is a card version of the internal storage that most smartphones use these days. It's still nascent, but in theory should trickle down to single board computers as low cost SoCs get UFS interfaces. It's substantially higher perf than eMMC/SD at read, write, and IOPS.
> Also, allow product manufacturers who sell directly, to block other sellers on the platform for their products and handle reports for alike-named and-or brand confusing products.

They do have a program for this, I believe: https://brandservices.amazon.com/
Partially true, but you're measuring the cells wrong. Alkaline batteries typically start around 1.5v and are advertised to be around 1.5v. A fully charged NiMH cell will be advertised at 1.2v but at peak charge will actually be around 1.4-1.5v.

Even without discharging the NiMH cell at all the peak will wear off within a few hours.

Furthermore, NiMH charges can go stale, trapping electrons inside the cells forever. These trapped electrons occupy cell capacity that can no longer be filled with viable electrons. Thus, a 2,000mah cell that has been left with 1,000mah worth of stale charge will likely only ever charge to 1,000mah for the rest of its life.

If you measure the curve from the delta peak of a NiMH battery the curve is way more extreme than any alkaline.
on one hand I agree that a lunar base would be a cheaper option for a wealth of reasons including not having to refuel orbit keeping rockets, however, landing supply is far more risky than docking supply, which compound with the mission's distance and scope: failing a shipment is always an eventuality, but losing it at launch is far worse than losing it on arrival, in the first case you know immediately, in the other you know 2-3 weeks later, and that influences how large your stockpile needs to be.

what I'd say would be useful is if this station was the stepping stone for a lunar space elevator. then it would be a great investment and a true stepping stone for a permanent lunar presence, but a stationary orbit around the moon is impossible (too far, you'd fall on earth), so the tether would actually have to anchor the station.
And Cuba. Both Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This is an amazing resource. Thank you!
Scientists are searching for a mirror universe It could be right in front of you
The best answer is just return 0
You got food? Pretty sure ours was without food. But our forest was dry (Camp Winton in the Sierra Nevadas, in the summertime).
It is a warm up meant to take 20 seconds. Before we get to something actually meaningful
If the 80% have picked low cost optometrists (such as those attached to big chain stores or glasses retailers), then you get what you pay for. My optometrist offers the same to anyone who uses her, and has for decades. The office specializes in optometry; and their waiting list for appointments is around 11 months long.
Of course, if Slack thought this were true, they wouldn't have bothered with this rewrite.

Obviously no PM is going to tell customers, "just spend $200 for another 8GB of RAM to run our chat software."

> Usage at this scale just doesn't matter to the vast majority of users.

The usage model is that it's on all the time. So if it's draining batteries, causing paging or otherwise slowing things down, people are going to quit Slack, thus defeating the immediacy of communication, thus defeating the point of running Slack.

And Slack becomes powerful when it can be required by a workplace, which is their business model. This means the "vast majority" isn't enough at any given company.
I don't buy anything that I would put into my body from Amazon. This also includes creams, make-up, etc. Way too many counterfeits to trust them and trying to figure out which are legit is a huge task in itself.
Amazon also has issues with returned items. If they judge the returned package to be cosmetically sellable, even if the item is used or half gone, they'll re-sell it.
Some of us would love to do it, but job and customers aren't there.
Seems like a reasonable ask.. I’m not sure what the problem with this is?
From an European perspective Americans have a much more "if it's broke, leave" perspective. It may be to do with a expansive Western Mythos ("Go West young man"), or with extreme poverty forcing a move ala the dustbowl, or simply that regional differences are low (same language, laws, licensing and currency from coast to coast)

I am not sure if it is a good thing or not - but a huge amount of the problems with States not being able to adjust their currency exchange rates have simply been dealt with by making people in the losing states move to get jobs. (This is what we in EU expect to see with Greece - exchange rates are a much nicer solution)

I was looking for data for this "propensity to relocate" but cannot find anything sensible. It does seem different than rural to city transfers.
NASA does a lot of science.
Hi HN,

Didn't post this, but am one of the authors of Legion (more on the language side / Regent [1]). Feel free to ask me questions. I do think our front page does an especially bad job of explaining what we do, so I'm sure you'll have some. :-)

[1]: http://regent-lang.org/
MUHB – A simple Node.js library for writing easy to read HTTP requests and tests
Is it a reasonable alternative to say linux is supported, but only on specific filesystems?
When you reduce it down the title here is “giving people access to running arbitrary, manual and presumably unrestricted maintenance commands in production leads to issues”.

That’s not a surprise, and maybe the issue at the core here is not really Docker. That’s all.
I think this should just be consolidated into the original article discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490687. The verge really isn't adding much
But who cares? if we don't respect Chinese rule of law (or lack thereof) then is it money laundering?

As in, money laundering requires that the source of money have an illicit origin - not merely the observation thats its being moved around - but if the origin is successfully completely unknown, or if the origin is determined illicit by the Chinese government, then neither of those really satisfy the criteria for vilifying the current recipient
Always pay the tip in cash to avoid this kind of tactics from companies.
Shaken but not stirred.
I'm an absolutely dedicated Emacs user. Cannot imagine moving to another editor.

Strangely enough, about 3 years ago I nuked my huge library of custom configurations and complicated Emacs Lisp thingamajigs and just use vanilla Emacs (for the most part) now.

The one thing I can't do without is Paredit and ido, but other than that, its very much just a "can't be bothered" thing anymore.

Never got into org mode. Most people with big org files that I have met have a serious inability to let go, and their org file is actually just a giant burden and illusion about what they are going to do in life.

My organizational philosophy is do one thing at a time until each thing is done and never with a sense of urgency. When the thing is done, stop and think carefully about the next most important thing. Repeat.
https://forums.insynchq.com/t/no-warning-when-file-conflicts... ? Seems very dangerous for keeping data safe.

And for what it's worth I've heard that google drive by itself often does the same thing.
If you do not understand what you mean yourself by the word "consciousness" then it is futile to ask whether an object has that property.

For example the purpose of anesthesia the goal can be broken down into several sub-components that you need to turn off without ever invoking the concept of consciousness: wakefulness, memory-formation, sensory input (pain).

Similarly consciousness seems to be a grab-bag of fuzzy properties that we ascribe to humans and then by letting five be even we also allow a few other species to roughly match (some) of those properties if we squint. And since humans and other, clearly somewhat simpler, species are clearly conscious then we go on and declare it's a really difficult thing to understand how ever-simpler things can't be conscious. It's just the paradox of the heap.

This doesn't mean consciousness is magical. It's just a very poorly defined and overloaded concept almost bordering on useless in the general case. It may feel like magic because we built this thought-edifice that twists to escape our grasp. But to me that seems more like a philosophical mirror cabinet that distracts from looking at the actual problem.

If you want to ask whether something is conscious you first need to come up with a rigorous testable definition or break it down into smaller components which you can detach from the overloaded concept of consciousness.
> What gives us the right to demand something from a writer that isn't what they were writing?

I’m not demanding anything, I’m just making a statement about my personal taste. If I click on an article, it’s because the headline interested me. If I start reading it to find the content is not at all related to that headline, I just feel annoyed and usually close the page.