skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes struggle to reconcile the consequences of our actions on the planet with the fact were we all basically randomly put on this planet and never really "choose" to be here. And pretty much every other species and even many non-living things depend on massive amounts of resource consumption (usually in the form of mass murder of weaker species or co-opting the surrounding environment for mass automated nutrient extraction processes). Even the most harmless things engage in at least some manipulation of the world around them.

Take coral reefs for example, they are a massive self-interested survival mechanism that over a very long period co-opted some part of of the ocean floor near costs, largely existing as feeding grounds of countless exotic species who uniquely benefit from the arrangement. An arrangement which wouldn't normally be there without massive manipulation of the environment by millions of different fish and plant species.

Then we have humans who by some random luck of the draw are capable of mass exploitation of resources, often at the detriment to the environment but largely until recent times in very sustainable way.

Humans didn't choose the terms of the survival game which we were given for our own short existence and there's a billions other planets out there which are 'pristine' in an idealistic environmentalist perspective.

Our responsibility we give to our own environment, which is a relatively modern phenomenon is interesting to consider in this context. It will always be largely our doing but also our decision to do something about it (or not). I don't mean to suggest any of this justifies the destruction of habitats and hurting our own long-term odds by over-consuming. But I still feel like this trillion-mile-high context is glossed over in many of these environmental diatribes and the endless drumbeat to protect it which we've all grown up with in modern times.
Fascinating. I wrote objective-c for years and cannot recall ever encountering the proper-noun form of Nil.

The other three are quite common.
> Much of the foundation of capitalism was based on flawed assumptions ("perfect information" being a major one)

Perfect information isn't part of the foundation of capitalism.

It's part of rational choice theory, which didn't exist until long ashtray capitalism. (There are arguments for capitalism rooted in rational choice theory, but those are retroactive justifications not the foundation of the system.)

> Huge amounts of abuse were allowed to be perpetuated as a resul

The abuse predates the theory “justifying” it, the theory isn't the cause of the abuse. Capitalism historically wasn't grounded in theory, it was grounded in the opportunism of the mercantile class under late feudalism leverage wealth, power, and the opportunities created by new technology to rearrange society so that the mercantile class (the subset that became the capitalist class) could displace the economic (and also political) power for the feudal nobility.
This is just my personal opinion, but it looks more bullshit marketing speech than interesting technical content this article.
First part until the numbers is clearly marketing bullshit blabla: "the logo of windows (speaking in fact only of the wallpaper...) is the most important thing in the world, it saves kittens and perform heart surgery..."

Then, long text to say: we took a colored projector and black scotch and voilà.

No explanation of why it would be better than doing it digitally. And most of it, the technique is far from new and they did a very basic thing with it. Some people mix lights to create images and all.

My point is that if it was not related to something famous (Microsoft), no one would have cared
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The start menu in Server 2012 R2 is the same as in Windows 8. Who's logging into a server with a tablet device and doing work with WinRT style apps?
macOS has been using 10-bit 5K wallpapers worth tens of megabytes at full quality for years now.
https://twtext.com/article/1194713712516423681
I'd like to see this car vs humans in the Hyperdrive series on Netflix
Because the source would probably be re-educated to death by now. Not sure why people expect 21st century levels of public discourse from a country that literally has re-education centers for tens of thousands of people (if not not more) who have the only fault of being of the wrong religion.
The ranking system wasn't really gamed. A single extra vote doesn't do much: it won't get you onto the front page, and it won't be a deciding factor in getting you there, either, at the hour this link was posted.

Throwing something back into /new isn't gaming the system, and there's no reason why 'dang shouldn't get a vote as well. At minimum it's curation, at maximum it's just a retry with 'dang upmodding it.

I say this as a person who read the post, didn't like it, thought about making a snarky comment about how the first time I saw it I thought the person's screen was covered in smudges, and refrained.
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What is 'crazy pills; is that any reasonable person would hold them accountable for this.

This is populist lynching.

First - the rate of suicides at Orange during this time were pretty much on par with suicide rates in France overall. Orange has 100K employees, and there are going to be suicides every year.

It's a huge misrepresentation to talk about a 'rash of suicides' that's just about the statistical norm.

Second - having lived and worked in France, I can assure you that workplaces are generally not toxic nearly to the degree that you see in the USA. The hours are short, and vacations are long.

In France employees literally kidnap managers by blockading them in their offices with furniture during union negotiations.

Third - is the degree to which negative work conditions actually affect life outcomes. So it's clear there were several policies in place that were not very nice - but this happens all the time in the world. An 'easier' route would have been for Orange to simply have done a big layoff.

If a factory closes and employees are laid off, does the business then become responsible if people kill themselves over it? No.

What needs to happen here is an investigation into what actually happened, to try to fix the issues in a reasonable way.

Instead - we got a kangaroo court.

French workers and management have been in a really tense standoff now for a couple of decades (well, leftover from a few hundred years ago) and it's not going well.

I literally live in an are of Montreal where tons of young, educated people are moving because the French system in their words is 'breaking down'. Few people believe in the work, it's very risky to hire people because they can't be let go, taxes are insanely high (>50% income tax after a 24% employment tax), systematically high levels of inequality and a serious problem with integration of new migrants that has little parallel in North America.

This was a political answer to a problem that needs real solutions.
So, you prefer that they peddle in political influence in ways other than money instead? Things that are harder to track and follow? Because companies as large as Google cannot afford not to.
The timescales are completely different. Past climate changes have been on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years. Now we are seeing it on the scale of a hundred years.

Life on Earth will most likely exist after climate change but it won't be any of the life as we know it.
Vehicle speed within traffic lane, or relative speed
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This is an amazing piece of computing history. Unfortunately, it was never finished: Iverson died during that year, and as the text says, McIntyre's health started to decline as well.

A less-well typeset (but hyperlinked) copy can be found on J's website. J was the last programming language K.E.I. worked on before he died.

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/autobio.htm
It costs too much money for the quality of the result.

I've been lucky enough to know professional creative people who are very good at their jobs, and the one quality they share is the ability to produce work that is somehow reassuringly effective.

It's like they can give an audience the gift of just believing in what they do. There's no need for cynicism or questions - the work just works, and you can relax into it.

I don't think this is on that level. There's something awkward and self-conscious about it, so it doesn't quite gel or pop like it should. It's both too controlled and too messily out of control (lasers? acrylic? light projection? kitchen sink?) at the same time.

It's only about the money in the sense that there seems to have been a lot of it, and it's not obvious why.
That's trivial to implement as a C function though, so no real need to add it as a language feature
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Wow! This is really natural! Great job.
The worst part is someone unrolled it on Thread Reader App, and now:

> Sorry this content is not available on Thread Reader

> It has been removed by the author.
> As always, this needs a reference to the classic Pepsi logo design case.

Context?
Burning trash is an environmental nightmare. https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/html/i...
Sounds quite expensive. Not sure if the exact position of the buoy is considered that important.
Echo that. I somehow feels this reflects the op's post.

We went from blogs to twitter because you know for whatever reasons. Now we are tweeting out blogs as series of threads and using something like ThreaderApp[https://threader.app/] to recreate the blog.
In terms of scale of the planet’s life, the amount of time we are here is extremely short.

The earth has been struck by at least one large rock resulting in mass extinctions. The planet recovered just fine along with the atmosphere, but there was significant change to the life left over.

I also believe Earth will be fine this time, and there is some balancing factor that will eventually correct the changes to the atmosphere, but we and the majority of life on the planet will have difficulty surviving in the interim period.
Yeah, Jetbrains marketing wants you to think it is the other way round, but actually tooling support for Scala is ahead of Kotlin by far, except maybe Android.

Scala is not tied to a single IDE, it works great in VScode, Eclipse and Intellij and anything else that supports LSP, which is an open standard. And it works really well - including type inference and very advanced implicits stuff.

And recently Scala got excellent incremental compilation support by Bloop from ScalaCenter, which not only blows Kotlin out of the water but even Java with Gradle. The last year I develop purely in Java and I use Scala bloop for day-to-day development, because I couldn't stand multi-minute Gradle compile times. Getting incremental compile times counted in milliseconds (!) or single seconds at worst is something very hard to give up on.
Programming was a different game back then, when every kb counted. The bar was much higher. Niche PhDs chasing the cutting edge of technology. Now we have web dev.
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> "The trouble with pure neural net controllers is that they sometimes do something totally bogus for some data point within the normal input space."

A friend's theory on Google Maps is that it sometimes intentionally sends you down a non-optimal path in order to gather data on alternate routes. This friend isn't in the ML space, so this is just their anecdotal observation. Are they right, then?
Watching as your comment gets downvoted, I think HN has an issue of brigading, and there is mostly nothing users can do to prevent it. Stories get flagged, comments are downvoted to bury them, flamewars are provoked to push down actionable information, and those behind these activities will ultimately win, unless we spend our afternoons documenting every instance of it and reporting it to moderators, which obviously won't happen.

Only HN has the power to proactively discover accounts which show inauthentic behavior that consistently leans towards depressing the propagation of news about the erosion of human rights and the prevalence of corporate surveillance.

This place is an important ideological battleground, because many developers who build and maintain surveillance systems are reading HN.
The switch is fantastic about this. If a game needs an OS update its generally included on the cartridge, and then it will just work. It politely reminds you about updates when launching software, but you always have the ability to just play the game instead. I think only online focused titles (Like Splatoon) would require an update, and those are fairly uncommon.
Drifting is objectively less effective and safe than normal manuevering and braking.

Drifting as a sport exists to look cool and stylish. It's like figure skating with cars.

(There is one exception- off road racing on loose surfaces requires drifting. But driving that way off road is only useful for speed at the expense of safety and reliability.)
Does anyone have evidence that this video is real? If not, and you're having an emotional reaction anyway, you're part of the problem.
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...
> The economic case against nuclear is that it can potentially wipe out everyone in a 50 mile radius.

Your magnitudes are way, way off. Even the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, only had a blast radius of 22 miles. And we’re talking about a nuclear power plant here, not a nuclear bomb. Do you understand the difference in how they operate?

Your comment is a perfect example of anti-nuclear hysteria based on embarrassing levels of ignorance.
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What problem, need, or challenge currently exists that would be valueable to 1000+ potential paying customers?

Obviously you can simplify or modify that question, but ask as many people you can. However many customers you hope to have, try to collect at least 10x in responses.

Start with your local network, ask everyone you know, people at events, attend networking events, travel to the surrounding cities and repeat.
Probably also too many people are focused on a solution, and not problems for specific domains. Learning more about deep learning is cool, but in practice, most problems in domains need domain expertise combined with more mundane models. This is particularly true when you need to rally domain experts help - folks able to understand logistic regression more easily than a complex deep learning model.
One approach is that you have a semi-traditional control system, which has integrators, filters, adders, etc. All these components have tuning parameters, and tuning complex controllers is hard. But once you get them tuned, they behave in a reasonably predictable way.

The machine learning part is used to get a predictor. You operate the thing and train a model of what will happen for various inputs. The machine learning system is just an observer in this training phase; it doesn't control anything. You train from recorded data.

Then you use the trained model to tune the controller. The model lets you get an output for any set of inputs, so you can now choose input test sets which are suitable for tuning the model, like changing one input at a time and noting the output change.

Automatically generating the structure of the controller (how those blocks are connected) is a separate problem. That's called "system identification".

See [1].

[1] http://www.mpc.berkeley.edu/research/adaptive-and-learning-p...
Oh man you’re in for a treat.

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> They probably already have a bunch of lubricant on that lot in order to reduce wear on the tires.

That's a real skid pad at a real road course[1] with real rules and regulations[2], not some expendable engineering testbed greased up to save tires.

[1] https://www.thunderhill.com/renting/skid-pad

[2] https://www.thunderhill.com/s/Skidpad-Event-Guidelines-2018-...
...on the border of Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The sales tax was different depending on which side of Homestead

No, that's never been the case. Neither Sunnyvale nor Cupertino has a city sales tax.
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According to Google translate, this reads "Thank you boss"
Only global communism and white genocide can save the planet................. Commie bastards
> black text on white background

It seems to use the colors provided by the desktop environment, actually. I'm using MATE with its BlackMATE theme and reader view is white text on black bg for me (which is what I prefer). The browser's preferences itself are set to black-on-white (simply because almost all websites would break otherwise), hence why I'm assuming it must be using MATE's colors.
> It doesn't make the images available to customers as of yet

You can see your pizza. Just use the normal web site.

It also uses "AI" to check the toppings are as they should be, with a software update coming to the stores soon I think that also checks the base is correct.

The pizza looked great on the photo, but was shit when it arrived. Nothing was faked or changed, just photos don't represent reality well.

But an updateable system that tracks every single pizza coming out of every store.... Could do some interesting things..... No reason you couldn't pop the camera higher up and watch the store either, humans cant be much different to pizza toppings to 'AI'
>The trouble with pure neural net controllers is that they sometimes do something totally bogus for some data point within the normal input space. That's not OK in control systems.

Is that actually true? Everything we do at work with neural nets seems to indicate continuity. We do stuff with mathematical simulations and imagelike processing. Latent space for auto encoders tend to be smoothly varying throughout the range of outputs.

I thought the problem is just that it isn't proven that neural nets are sufficiently smooth.
Found this disclaimer sad and reminiscent of the endless and useless cookie prompts in the EU

Note: This text used to be interactive, but is no longer, thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which makes it virtually impossible for small, non-commercal sites to "process user data" (like your input) without contacting a lawyer first.
Yes to be the devils advocate get, what if this really is a hoax to get the rest of the world riled up against China?

Except that we do have leaks like the China cables which are generally viewed a as authentic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Cables IMO the rest of the wield needs to realize that this is nazi germany levels of crazy that are starting up again, and realize that Bernie ww3 breaks out.
Doh, yes!
Unlikely. Usually a suboptimal route is chosen when there's traffic somewhere else. Sometimes traffic might clear up after the path is chosen. Its an appropriate theory though, given that this is Google we're talking about.
It's not the temperature that kills. It's the rate of change. When organisms can't evolve fast enough with a changing environment, extinctions occur.

We are causing a rate of change that is very significant. Not unprecedented (e.g. asteroid impact) but daunting nonetheless.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992651
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That's exactly what it means, if you consider it rigorously and you want to be "100% green". You can't get fruit or electronics from the other side of the world without burning kerosene. You can't get meat without methane. Even public transportation is far from "green" unless it's electric and powered entirely from renewable sources. If the author is talking "100% green" that's what it's gonna be.

That's the trouble with woke activism: it's always someone else's lifestyle that needs to change. It's always someone else's money that needs to be spent. I can't take such people seriously unless they practice what they preach. And none of them do.
The one industry where car analogies are appropriate :)
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Will take years to get there, if they even get there at all. This is a single-man side project now. Also benchmarking something that has 1/100 of the original functionality and is not production ready is very unfair. It is much easier to get a specialized use case faster than a general purpose system.
Perhaps it could just try and learn the parameters to some kind of pre existing control theory algorithm? Perhaps with a simulator it could fall into the first category you mentioned.
Can you even buy a smartphone, or even a computer without buying things from China in 2019? Especially if you’re not American.
There is so much technology available to combat it, yet those people elected seem hell bent on wrecking it to support a shrinking fossil fuel industry. They’re obviously failing to realise they will be victims too.

How pathetic and what an unusual time to be alive.

Take a look at the Australian PM. What a stick in the mud, the whole state of NSW is practically on fire, and all he can say is that isn’t not really caused by climate change, there are “other factors involved.

What these climate scientists have done to predict this would’ve been witchcraft a hundred years ago, the work they’ve done is amazing. The people who matter still don’t listen.
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If I squint hard enough I can find a way to agree with you. I personally believe that we’re on the edge of a change in climate that will cause huge and potentially devastating problems.

But I also think that most of the people that would agree with that statement don’t actually act like they agree with it. If you honestly think we have “12 years left” (as a certain congresswoman has said) you would be doing things like stocking arms, getting ready to grow your own vegetables and husband livestock, figuring out how barter economies would work in this apocalypse that is, allegedly, around the corner.

Of course none of them are doing this.
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> The point I am making, that you are repeatedly refusing to acknowledge, is that the H-1B program covers almost ALL skilled immigrants, not just the ones that are hired because they are cheap.

What you are failing to grasp is the very existence of an H1-B program causes the labir rates to go down for other jobs.

They do have a choice, they can bid up the price of the engineers or whatever in an effort to lure engineers away.

Instead, they collude and try not to compete with each other.

Charles Crocker didnt import chinease immigrants to build railroads because they were the bestest railroad builders in the world.
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I made it about three tweets deep and just hit the back button hoping someone would cover the salient points in the comments here.
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