skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm an old fogey, but this car looks much more like "a traditional compact crossover SUV", and much less like a "traditional Mustang".
This is indeed true for the majority of bicycle helmets. They are commonly referred to as "single impact" helmets. Unlike, for example a football or hockey helmet.
Should be possible to achieve your goals. Researchers are working on prototypes.

You are very welcome!
Do the AuthaGraph inventors ever mention the dymaxion projection? I always felt creeped out that the two maps are so similar, yet no one ever talks about the dymaxion projection. As far as I can tell the AuthaGraph people have neither confirmed nor denied knowing about the dymaxion projection.
> Sydneysiders are too busy surfing at their 200+ beaches

All of them? All the time? I guess that explains their puzzling lack of cultural output. Thanks! :P
I can't help but feel like they are selling out here.

It seems like they wanted to combine the excellent brand recognition of "Mustang" with the staggering sales figures of SUVs.

Although they might get a semi-pass here, because the nature of electric cars really lends itself to SUV's, allowing bigger battery packs while also keeping weight way down low along with the motor(s). An electric SUV will handle much much better than it's gas counterpart because of this.

So I would give this a fair shot of actually being a good car, with many more mustang like qualities than would be expected. However part of me really does still feel like Ford should have just called this something else, and released an electric pure sports car mustang later on. I would imagine that Ford went back and forth with the "Mustang" branding a lot before settling on it.
I'm pretty sure part of the job of a bodyguard is to ensure the well being of their client. If they ask for something that improves safety but makes the client miserable, they are not doing their job.
> GPLv2 and v3 gave hobbyists, students, and anti-corporate hackers a means to feel as though their work resists the evil empire of the software industry, while in fact serving it up with unpaid work product. From the VC point of view, the GPLs break the dam on that pool of labor, flooding venture prospects with freebie technology.

That seems concerning and deeply cynical. Mostly because I worry that it may be accurate.
I guess Maverick was too sullied for them :). LTD might have fit though.
For anyone having many good shower thoughts but easily forget them due to bad short-term memory: buy some water proof note taking papers. It's among the best things I've done for myself recently.
FTDI tried the "filter the clones" thing. It didn't go well: https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chip...

Interestingly, all the Saleae clones seem to be based on the Cypress USB2 devkit.

I also wouldn't even be considering buying a real Saleae device without having used a $5 clone first.
As I said, pick your definition of object (Java objects, Smalltalk objects, actor, etc.). Unless it's "Turing Complete machine", which isn't anyone's definition of object, you can't equate objects with computers. Saying objects are computers is like saying objects are bicycles. Some of them are, yes, but that's not the point.

What's your definition of computer?
That's awesome, thanks for sharing. :) There's always someone smarter...
I'd love to learn more. Which company do you work for? What RPA software are you using? What tasks are being automated?

Thanks!
Could someone write a few sentences about what it is and how it works, and why it is significant? I see neither this post, the GH repo, nor its website really says much of anything on the subject. I only see info about why it’s being open sourced and how to set it up. If someone were to go to all that trouble, I am surprised they would stop short on just providing basic info.
Having seen the lead pipes Romans used, yes, plumbers have had some rough times.
Do you think that holds true for both sales and support?
On mobile, upvote and downvote buttons are so close together, sometimes I spend a few seconds voting and unvoting, just to make sure I didn't accidentally downvote. That's a possibility too.
What if trichromatism is also a disorder, that afflicts the vast majority of humans?
That medium link is awesome. I've been trying to find more links that dive into the innerworks of comma ai's openpilot. Do you have any more similar articles that you can recommend?
I think people who never got captured didn't know that the matrix could be changed, so they just hid from the machines. Then someone figured out that the matrix could be controlled, and the fight to free all began. I think the "freed the first of us" means "freed to believe that the matrix could be defeated".
Is it possible that tetrachromat people may have a lot of trouble shopping for painting supplies? Since the dye or pigment used on the packaging may not be the same as the dye or pigment in the actual pastel/watercolour/whatever.

Wouldn't it be really confusing?

Are there lines of painting and art supplies specifically for tetrachromats?
Thanks for correcting the record. I've read your HOPL paper but didn't remember.
Did me some hitch-hiking back in the day. Sydney-Perth, Melbourne-Perth (and the corresponding return trips) somehow always neatly approached four days, or 96 hours if you like.

Once got a ride from a trucker who did Adelaide-Perth-Adelaide once a week. Alternating with a colleague, that is, so he had 3½ days exactly to complete the round trip, including on/off loading at both ends. They never really stopped once they got the truck moving, and I do believe a lot of the driving was pill-fueled. Completely bat-shit, of course, but apparently not that uncommon a practice back in the eighties.
I also this is a good time to remember that not every citizen has to have the same values on this. Some people might think the tradeoff in terms of freedoms vs security is worth it.

It seems everyone is so eager to paint the other side as objectively wrong / motivated by bad intentions, when in reality I don't believe this is an objectively right answer. As a society we have to decide how much freedom and security we want at this moment in time.
Encryption is math, and not even hard math at that. You have as much chance of stopping evil people from using encryption as you have of stopping them from doing multiplication.

Make every politician who opposes encryption feel like an idiot for thinking they can stop people from adding and multiplying.
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We are in effect the same tragedy that encompasses Octopoda. They are provably relatively intelligent and emotive creatures but have extremely short lifespans for their mental capacity and thus can never take real advantage of their learning ability.

Humans are still that, just on an order of magnitude longer time scale. Its still hugely limited when compared to orders of magnitude larger time scales than that.
He was actually at Los Alamos, he was trained as a chemical engineer; it’s hard to imagine he didn’t get invited to see the demon core and other fun stuff, or otherwise breathe in some particles.
They've been doing a lot of work in the last decade to fix the acoustics in the main wall with acoustic diffusers, reflectors and changes in stage and seating structures
For example?

https://www.toptal.com/c/after-all-these-years-the-world-is-...
Thanks! This is the one that has the comments.
Utilities?
It's no worse than a Porsche SUV.
Most of these tunnels are being built in heavily populated areas where surface space is at a premium. You'd have to tear down thousands of apartments and offices to make any meaningful progress on a cut and cover tunnel inside a city unless the tunnel is exactly following existing roads. That would be both very expensive and far more disruptive than just a little traffic
While it's always dangerous to criticize a computer legend, I would add one more thing that I believe Alan Kay "got wrong about objects": objects are extremely bad at representing most types of problems in business software.

I mean this in regards to the "true" message-passing type of actor objects, and not OO as it came to be post-C++ and Java. The reason being is that actors 1) fundamentally involve themselves with state and time, and 2) connect subject and recipient together directly.

In relation to 1), most business problems involve _data_ processing, and the thing about data is it is immutable. It's essentially a solid state type of activity, and bears no resemblance to the organic, messy world of biology where things are changing. For problems like these, you really want to avoid state in your program, and persist state after data transformation in an actual database. Concepts like stateful actor supervision hierarchies, and what to do with clearing mailbox state when something goes wrong are fundamentally complex. Those concepts are also broadly unnecessary (and arguably harmful) for most request/response or async pub-sub type software. I can't count the amount of time I've wasted redoing systems on an actor model to be a simple "stateless" request model. On all of those occasions, the model that didn't persist state in-app was more reliable, easier to understand, less code, and more maintainable.

With respect to 2), actors basically violate all concepts of dependency injection. Actors need to know exactly where they're going (or you can add a proxy, and now your state graph is even more complicated), and even with message passing, program flow is dependent upon _time_ and the order in which a program is run. This is a large step backwards in my opinion.

I feel that languages like Elixir that pride themselves on stateless, immutable functions, have a deep contradiction internally embracing the actor model, because it is none of those things. Sadly, I also predict that this generation of Elixir programmers will learn the lessons of the Waldo paper the hard way: you can't just throw an actor model over the network and have it work great. (I think it's especially interesting that most of the success stories around modern day actor systems involve problems that can withstand data loss: telephones, IOT, content, media streaming, games, etc.)
I had an idea that a decent compromise is to limit keystrength, but not have any kind of backdoor.

This way the vast majority of communication is protected, and the government can't just spy en mass.

But, if there was some specific target they could throw a lot of computing resources at it. But they would need to know in advance who to target, they couldn't just have a wide dragnet.

Thoughts?
"His room" and "his code" is not comparable in the context. "His code" is part of a business's product and can impact the livelihood of many people involved in the product including customers.

"His room" is a private space that doesn't affect other people. I don't tell my co-worker to clean up his side-project on github.
"At the time Stokes began recording, television stations had been deleting archives for decades, Wolf says."

wtf.. stations delete their own footage? wouldn't you want to just hang on to everything indefinitely?
The good news is that the tide can shift. If you add more bike lanes, people start riding their bikes. People don't like to bike because it's (rightly) perceived as dangerous.

I ride in LA and if you can get a bike lane at all, it's gonna be a faded strip painted 2 feet from the parked cars/along the sewer grates. There needs to be more separation from the batshit drivers here who wouldn't shrug at a hit and run too. Not very inviting, but I can bike all year at least.
Or a 4 door Porsche for that matter.
Or you could just move the surface streets a couple of stories up like they did in the early 20th century in Chicago. Trucks (for deliveries, etc) are not allowed on the surface, only below.
I spent much of today doing some woodwork in the garage, and due to its untidiness, probably spent as much time looking for various tools as I did using them. (Not to mention tripping a time or two).

Working in a large code base that has little structure/consistency is another example of high cost/friction.

There is some benefit to organization.
As someone who’s lived in LA for 4 years now without a car, I think it’s a trap that we’ve all fallen into to assume SoCal was fundamentally designed exclusively for the car. While, yes, automobiles have dominated the regional planning conversation from the 1960s up until very recently (LA and neighboring cities are finally taking public transit planning seriously), up until the 50s Los Angeles had one of the world’s largest streetcar and interurban train systems in the world. The city was, quite literally, built by and for transit — even its far-flung suburbs, like the town of Huntington Beach or Claremont, were built and developed as terminuses to train lines (and the train line to Claremont, on the very eastern edge of LA County, still exists in the form of the MetroLink).

There’s been some serious sprawl since then, yes, but at its heart Los Angeles is a city that is conducive — not contradictory — to public transit. And I think our planning decisions will only get more effective once we, as a region, realize that.

https://usp100la.weebly.com/history-of-transportation.html (scroll down for a map — and note that this doesn’t include the downtown/central LA streetcar system, which essentially covered every other block in downtown LA)
Even if the antenna is well matched when it's set up... is it still well matched while it's loaded with snow?
At least 3 significant digits, since we know the exact year; but given we seem to know the exact day you could probably claim it's more like 5 significant digits (500.00 years).
Chatwoot Co-Founder here:
Thanks a lot for the support.

Totally get your concern about "Alternative". In terms of the scope of features, we are still behind many of the current market offerings. But we will be making some steady progress over the new couple of months.

Meanwhile, we are updating the website & repo with feature comparison and an in-progress roadmap. It should be up in a day or two
I'm struggling to think of any great empire that was brought to its knees due to the introduction of something novel.
A long hood is arguably one of the marks of a mustang, though I don't know if that played a role in their design process.

It certainly adds more crumple zone and frunk capacity though.
Why would you deny needy people, people trying to make ends meet and move up the ladder, people with revoked licenses, etc. the opportunity to partake and contribute in society? Wouldn't you agree that if we take this away, it would cost the economy more by causing more crime and reducing gains these folks might have had to offer?
On reading this on iOS I selected the word and pressed “look up”. It seems that iOS strips out formatting in its dictionary, make superscript full size. Not ideal.
Gigabyte “a unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) or, strictly, 230 bytes.”
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There seems to be a low tolerance to the construction disruption, especially to adjacent businesses and residents. Cut and cover also had high cost of moving infrastructure. I also wonder whether there's some relationship with the speed of construction - in NYC, ripping up the whole street to build a Subway was perhaps more acceptable if it's done in a year or so.

One note: new cut and cover projects tend to actually use cover and cut: first the walls are built underground (often piledriven), then the top is covered with a concrete plate, then the Earth dug away from below. This minimizes the surface disruption.
Peter Thiel 2019 Wriston Lecture: The End of the Computer Age
In the context of the (european) New World, this is positively ancient. It's actually a bit disorienting (I'm betraying a bit of an US-centric perspective here, apologies) to think of Havana thriving for HUNDREDS of years before many American metropolises. Very cool.
I am also suspicious as well. The biggest turn off for me initially was the fact that you had to login to use even the free tool. Apparently though this has been addressed somewhat overtime. (https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/bcdwsn/pulumi/)
Deepfake Roundtable: Cruise, Downey Jr., Lucas and More
It's a different approach. The most material difference is that a VPN does not protect you if a rouge web app breaks out of the browser sandbox.
Many years of reading on HN, I used to just accept that encryption is the best thing. And from a point of view of what will happen, that’s what will happen. But should we as a society want this?

I would argue these days that it is far better to be able to reconstruct a conversation and prove someone said something. In case things go wrong, we have to have a way to establish truth, and prove things, so we can have fairness in outcomes.

Now, if we have governments that punish people for being dissidents or engaging in victimless crimes, the answer is to fix the government and the laws, and not to sneak around. That’s like making slavery better for those few people who happened to have nice masters (or encryption).

So, what’s the upshot? We need more immutability and also work hard to make governments not punish people for victimless crimes.

PS: freedom of speech should refer to actual speech of humans, not the unregulated ability of organizations to provide megaphones (whether Twitter or network TV). I think these are harmful for society, and I would be happier if every statement in science, news, politics, history etc. would be peer reviewed and battle it out in some wiki site before the general public sees it. Unless they want to press the Talk page to see the battle going on behind the scenes, regular people should see the article AFTER multiple sides have battled it out. I see the current megaphones controlled by Sinclair or Twitter or Newspapers or Network TV a lot more harmful and dividing our society.
> Akka and Erlang have been used to implement some important scalable systems

Very few, really. Maybe you can come up with a few (besides the Ericsson router), but they are a tiny, tiny minority of how we build scalable systems today, and even if some systems are built this way, it's still no evidence that using Akka or Erlang was the best technology.

> What do you recommend as a "traditional" way to implement scalable systems?

I'm not recommending anything, I'm just observing that a crushing majority of scalable systems in use today, reliably serving billions of people and billions of API calls, are built on traditional, imperative technologies (C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, etc...).

This past decade, these services have been supplemented by increasingly powerful threading (thread pool, fork join, work stealing, etc...) and asynchronous (coroutines, promises, futures, channels, etc...) approaches.

The actor model has so far completely failed to prove itself as an improvement over these traditional approaches.

I also happen to think the actor model is terrible to debug, deeply violates encapsulation, and often forces developers to forego static typing, but that's more of a personal opinion than an observation.
How does Greyhound compare to that?
This is exactly my experience. The beliefs and utterances of many Chinese wouldn't be out of place in 1930s Germany, replacing the appropriate nouns. The scary thing is this has been going on for decades, just not visible to most outsiders.
But it is a living language and not among the most difficult ones. Why not learn the whole language rather than a reading focus only? You don't have to learn to fluency.
Canada is the same. They built Ottawa in the middle of nowhere, halfway between Toronto and Montreal.
> wouldn't you want to just hang on to everything indefinitely?

Maintaining archives isn't free and has very little expected future value in many cases, so, no, in a for-profit business you probably wouldn't want to.
Same thing could be said about Lambo, but the Urus is selling like hot cakes.
The pricing for this appears to be $650.
The moderators do not have an effective solution for wumamos. Discussion of China isn't really worth it under these circumstances.

There's no room for "intellectual curiosity" in regards to some issues. China tops that list. HN's apolitical stance amounts to discouraging discussion in regards to dissenting views.

Like other voting based sites, there is an implicit endorsement of the dominant narratives. Presenting this as curiosity seems like a bit of a stretch.

Perhaps this could be changed by ranking contentious comments and threads differently. Disputed information is a feature of the horizon.

Ideally people wouldn't down-vote those who they disagree with, but here we are. Even if there were a disagree button, wumaos act in bad faith by definition.
Only 9 years after the Model S and not as good.

Still, happy to see big players invest more in electric.
The headline ("A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy") isn't very accurate. The black hole in question is the super-massive black hole in the middle of our galaxy, and like most galaxies, there's only one of them. The article does go on to explain that, which is great, but it would be nice if the headline writer hadn't dropped that essential fact.
Latency differences aren't just a difference in degree. They're a difference in kind. Some interactions have to be sufficiently fast or they shouldn't happen at all. A runtime that minimizes global latency guarantees isn't sufficient. You also need to guarantee that certain individual Actor interactions are sufficiently fast, which is only possible through colocation. You could add a colocation constraint to your Actor scheduler, but now you're pretty much back to where you started.

And latency is only one of the problems. Partial failure is another. It's often convenient for authors of colocated actors to assume fate sharing. If they can't, they have to handle a much wider set of failure modes.
As I understand it, it's like an extreme sandbox -- a completely separate computer (or a VM) where all the web stuff happens (javascript etc), which just ships pixels to your computer (phone/laptop etc). Ideally the complexity of the client software is low, i.e. not a web browser, and there is strict site isolation (VMs) at the sandbox side to prevent leakage from one site to another. I'm a little vague as to how this implementation works.

So this is nothing to do with a VPN as such, but of course you could host it in the cloud, or run a VPN to a cloud endpoint.
the trips I take between Seattle and Vancouver are regularly 1h+ late due to sitting for 30min a few times waiting for freight

I also arrive and get onto the train in ~5min. getting off in Canada is slow though
They use tests like https://www.eyeque.com/color-blind-test/

How colorblind you are -- or maybe in what way -- determines which color combinations you can distinguish characters for. That's horrible, I know, but I'm tired.

I suppose it depends on what mutation(s) you carry. And probably other factors that affect penetrance.
> most business problems involve _data_ processing

To quote two other computer legends, Fred Brooks and Linus Torvalds are right: data not behavior is the more crucial part of programming.

Actors focus on the behavior, whereas the data is the part that is really important.

What `git log` does isn't all that important relative to how the git object model is structured, as the latter dictates the former.

> I can't count the amount of time I've wasted redoing systems on an actor model to be a simple "stateless" request model.

So much this. So often people forget that "it's just code". It can run on a toaster, or a mainframe, or a VPS, or a Docker container, or a Lambda function. The lion's share of code should be structured as input => output in the most straightforward way possible.