skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't think many people in the valley actually care about being evil.

I disagree. I think many care about the evil they're complicit in in their every day working lives there, but they inherently choose the money over good and hence target their "goodness" on espousing their virtuousness on unrelated, seemingly utterly disconnected "issues" from what they're doing and supporting day-to-day.
Yes of course. I've been testing it for months.

I just meant the final iteration's test has been live for 24 hours now.

I know all of this code like the back of my hand at this point.
I remember these! I thought at the time that they would for sure take off, but they never did. Even ZIP disks with a similar capacity and less convenient form factor seemed to gain more market traction.
That's good advice. I'll probably take that route. Thank you.
Georgia DOT Announces Winners of Safety Message Competition
Previously, on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683939
"Playfulness" is fairly widespread among the intelligent animals of Earth. Mammals, birds, and cetaceans all seem to "play". From there it isn't that hard a guess that they might also "game", and for similar evolutionary reasons.

Unless we're going to argue that Earth has some sort of unique concept of "playfulness" built into the original single cell, it's not that hard a guess that a good chunk of aliens out there might recognizably "game".

Is everyone who thinks we stand no chance of communication really comfortable claiming that we're just soooo unique that we won't be able to communicate with anything? Because it's the exact same claim, just from a different viewpoint. Personally I think it's just fashionable misanthropy that will dissolve the instant you spin it in a direction where it might perhaps look like one is claiming it in a way that makes humanity look special.
Not sure I get your point.

Having atom-resolution maps doesn't help a bit it you don't know where on it you are.
The "we" who benefits, would that include the children?

Essentially, the going theory seems to be that society would be better of if it would delegate childcare to less people per child, contrary to the "traditional" one on one of mothers and their children. (Thinking about it, in the old days mothers had more children, so it was rarely one on one either).

Also, it seems to consider having children merely as a productive factor for society, rather than something people do for its own sake.

I like to compare children to Ferraris, as both are expensive (children probably even more so than Ferraris).

So in analogy, people like to buy Ferraris, but society would be better off if those Ferraris would be parked in somebody else's garage. Think about all the time people waste driving their Ferraris, which they could have otherwise put to productive use for the benefit of society.
its not only lines on the road though:

Imagine you are following a pickup-truck and out of the back an obviously empty box floats out of the bed and lands directly in front of your car.

For a human its trivial to know the box is empty and its ok to hit it....does "AI" know that?

Multiply that case x1000 and you have the conditions self-driving cars will need to handle on a daily basis.
They should just Store the hash. That said, maybe they are able to argue in the same way Google Image Search does that it is fair use.
As a story with a different outcome, my mom parked in a BART parking lot at around 2:30pm one day. This particular lot became free at 3pm, so she had to pay for that half hour, but couldn't figure out where to pay. She went to the station agent to ask. The agent replied, "Eh, it's really hot out today. There's no way I'm going out there to check people's parking. Don't worry about paying." She did not get a ticket.
You won't have to use the service, but if you do then companies will have to have a way to protect the service from abusers.
But why term it 'expensive'? For one you don't know the price but even assuming the cost was non trivial (and it almost certainly was I will agree to that) saying 'expensive' infers lack of value. It's almost the language that is used in news articles to invoke some kind of emotion in the reader beyond what it should be. "

The value relates to a particular purpose. An engineer earning $150,000 per year would be expensive to a small hardware store (a non starter even employment wise most likely) but not to Google, Amazon or even certain well funded startups.
4WD/AWD cars can be towed by flat-bed, or by putting dollies below the wheels that are on the ground.
> You're misrepresenting the problem. There was never a bug or an issue

The story originated from the author of this article [0] posting a bug report issue [1].

Why are you accusing others of misrepresenting the problem while doing so yourself?

0: https://medium.com/@shnatsel/smoke-testing-rust-http-clients...

1: https://archive.is/BEqfM
At risk of violating HN's policy: it's this kind of sophistry that allows tech employees and entrepreneurs to justify their predatory behaviour... bend over backwards hard enough and you can find the logic to justify nearly anything.

Let's try it!

How do you define a biological weapon?

If I know I'm sick and I deliberately sneeze on people, am I a weapon?

If I pay people with an illness to sneeze on people, is that a weapon?

What if I cultivate smallpox in a lab and spread it with an aerosol sprayer instead of using human carriers?

Where is the line on what is a biological weapon? Where along the way did we go too far?
Why are college kids driving in the first place? Are there not enough apartments nearby to rent a room in walking/cycling/shuttle range? Isn't that a pretty foreseeable need when choosing a site for a university?

I can understand this problem if you're serving a lot of nontraditional students who already have households, but not with 18-22 year old full time students.
It would work, except there's nothing in it for the users. So people won't adopt it.
If you're OK with using an unmaintained operating system, why not just keep using the 2.49.5 version of Seamonkey indefinitely.
Ignore the “open access” in the page header.

1. Go to https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-open

2. Select a book

3. Scroll to below the initial summary info until you see links for:
- Overview
- Author(s)
- Open Access

4. Click Open Access

5. Click “Download PDF”
If it is on asphalt roads you can easily embed wires and electronics underneath the surface by heating it up. And an embedded wire would be both easy for a computer to track and easy to fix or replace.
I like driving, I also like the assistance that modern vehicles provide on Motorways, however, would I ever fully hand over control? Probably not. A Boeing 747 has autopilot.. however 3 pilots sit behind hit to keep an eye on what it's doing.
Not if people could aford what they need.
I don't think that's a characteristic of "God" here (which I mean in the sense that you are using it), I think it's the characteristic of asking about a game that "fits" into PSPACE.
Are there any reasons to desalinate water besides geopolitical ones?
Perl was quirky at best, but performed very well on simple string manipulation, so it briefly replaced a lot of "grep | sed | awk" use cases where interpreted Python or Lisp might have been 100x slower.

As an imperative language for novices, Python (based on GvR's earlier ABC) was slow but more approachable than Lisp, and the industry had a huge influx of novices at the time (arguably still does). Now that GC and closures are table stakes, Lisp no longer has major advantages until you're ready to create DSLs.
The fact that they're a reasonably competent outsider arguably bolsters their position.
This analogy would make more sense if it wasn't trivial to make and store exact clones of your apartment and its contents in minutes, if not seconds.
Sure, seems like BASF was welcome in Shanxi after Toms River. Always easy to export the problem to sacrifice-areas. /s
nit: It's Watt * Hours, not Watt/Hours.
Commenting to register disappointment at this outcome, but no point in arguing a forgone conclusion. The opportunities this creates will be in how to satiate the need for validation for this new class of burghers. Imposter syndrome is a trillion dollar opportunity.

Surely there is some new thing we can invent for them to take pictures of themselves with?

Edit: the author is using the Atlantic to take a victory lap after having infiltrated, destroyed and dismantled something. Their cant deserves scorn.
I recall these being too expensive to be practical. All of these "next generation floppy" techs were living on borrowed time with CD burners and blanks dropping in price and broadband internet slowly starting to appear.
I'm sure Harvard's reputation would be fine without admitting a load of thick kids who happen to come from privileged backgrounds (the smart ones would get in anyway). Maybe their endowment would suffer, but since they currently have about as much money as the whole of Latvia I expect they'd survive.
You might want to look up the legal difference between parking, stopping, and standing.

The vast majority of pickups in nyc at least are not illegal under any current law.
Values change. No one would take a taxi where the driver is just some unlicensed taxi driver. Back in the 90's that would be consider akin to hitchhiking in danger! Now we have Uber.

Also I drive because it's faster, and because once you go from A->B getting to B->C is probably easier. Not for privacy. Most people just need to get to work or school or their kids to school for the bulk of their car use. Kids to school might work by sharing with other parents you know.
I really feel like they should teach LISP in elementary school. It has extremely simple rules to get started and helps people intuitively understand programming concepts. Maybe an updated The Little Schemer style curriculum:

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0...
Reddit.com is not what anyone would consider a 'valuable' domain in any way. It's pretty much random. There wouldn't really isn't any good reason to not use a .com if you are going for a madeup and pretty much random domain name (all down side).

> If there's any correlation between domain name and success, I'm guessing it's pretty low.

PG's point (and I don't agree with everything he says or thinks but he is correct here) is that any serious company uses a .com domain. Of course so do failure and non serious companies.

> when there were probably more cheap .com domain names available.

Good .com domains were expensive in the 90's. And to my reply to the other comment 'expensive' does not frame anything relating to the value for the particular purpose.
How happy will it be when camera data in the age of hyper realistic cgi films and “foolproof” telemetry will protect us from killing robot car makers at court. :)
The cost of that infra is so huge, it might be easier to imagine low-altitude self-flying pods.
I totally agree, which is why I haven't ever used a service like this.
A tangent to your idea - if implemented in Japan the BOJ would be forced to vote all of its shares from ETF holdings.
One more:

Rundeck
https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/
Tire particles are emissions? When I walk are my shoe particles emissions? My skin shedding?
It also endangers the basic principle of a rules-based, open world.

If you think that's a good idea, imagine what happens to an economy when civil law and contracts are not enforced, even without any threat of violence.

To pick just one example: if you're trying to get a loan to build a factory or buy a house, it's good for you that there are laws and trusted courts that would cause you a whole lot of pain if you failed to repay.

It's no different in international politics, only that treaties between states are backed not by some external force, but by each country having a strong interest in remaining within that system that outweighs any short-term benefits from skirting its responsibility.

I guess some of this is mildly counter-intuitive. But really there is game theory far more complex than this regularly understood on primary school schoolyards.
I am thinking at what point all those "business
innovations" will turn democracy and freedom into a corporate gulag. What's the point of having so called free and democratic government system if you'd be back to USSR 5 days a week from 9 to 5.
Wait, the British PayByPhone app? That works pretty well actually, never had issues with it, honestly. Nothing to be ashamed of.
The Polygons of Another World: Sega Genesis
Even at the height of the crypto boom my computer with a very fast graphics card at the time made like ten bucks a day.
Anecdotally, I've often had Ubers pick me up in specifically marked and designated passenger loading zones when and where that's been appropriate and necessary. And in principle it's really no different from picking up a friend if you're giving them a ride somewhere.
if Germany won ww2 they might have sanctioned the united states, just saying.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if tracks would actually be a better solution for most use cases. I could see a situation where highways have tracks and you only have to actually drive at the beginning and end of the journey.
In Norway, if I remember correctly, these showed up late for the party. Everybody and their dog already had zip drives, and then LS120 shows up, media twice as expensive, not a LS120 drive to be seen. Good luck gaining traction.

Then, of course, CD-R happened, and zip drives went the way of the dodo.
This is a norm in Salesforce consulting. Employers usually cover the cost of certification and they are usually good way to discover gaps in your knowledge,as it's extremely huge platform. The type of certification would depend on the specialisation route one takes.I think most of this would apply to other fields as well.
Their future sales are dependent upon there NOT not being self driving cars which arguably reduces their position dramatically.
I want to do a "web ring" like those in the old times. A manually curated ring of web pages with content for the sake of content. No ads. No SEO and not all of that crap . Imagine recipes without the SEO crap, news without the pushy videos. ..
Thank you! I'll look into this. Appreciate taking the time to list references.
CD-R and CD-RW drives seem to be the winner from that era. But there were many popular floppy alternatives: Zip, Jazz, SuperDisk, and a few others I probably forgot.
I would prefer Forth. It's simple and yet manages to be close to the hardware.
What about dirt forest service roads? What about the dirt parking lot at that wedding you just went to? How will it find a parking spot? How will it get into a ferry where people direct you to the correct spot?

How will it deal with an accident up ahead where some drunk bystander is trying to direct traffic? How will it know to ignore the drunk guy? What if it isn’t a drunk guy but a sober person directing traffic? Does the car obey in that case?

None of those are edge cases because every time it drives it will encounter some novel edge case that has never happened before and it will have to perform better than a human.

Don’t even get started with liability. Once you take away the steering wheel the manufacturer is on the hook for every single mistake and every single accident. You’d be insane to be a manufacturer and sign up for that.

Sorry, but self driving cars are a complete fantasy.
I’ve always been surprised by the huge amounts plants can grow with so little nitrogen. I never underdtood how their cells could get enough amino acids.
I believe you'd have better throughput by dedicating roads exclusively to buses and bicycles, which are technologies that already exist.
Forth would be great too. I think there's value in learning a stack based language. That being said I suspect LISP is more practical.
>2000 day culture... impressive
Currency Rates API
I think the idea is that with a good idea of where you're starting, either by GPS or some other waypoints, you can avoid the need for GPS through dead reckoning and updating based on other known features. At least, that's my guess.
> Image if it was Germany that used sanctions to prevent the US from building a pipeline to Mexico. Would you be ok with that?

I'd be okay with any number of countries using sanctions to "punish" the US for any number of things. It's their right as sovereign nations. The irony here is that it's a double edged sword.

But what I'd really prefer would be a more direct say over who my country is sanctioning and why.
Could use a countdown clock. This isn’t so challenging if you tahs your time with it.
There's a lot of evidence that the bigger factor is transaction cost. People consume more under all-you-can-eat plans than per-transaction plans (e.g. internet service) even though the unmetered plans may cost more, simply because they don't want the mental overhead. People will drive out of their way to avoid a tool bridge even if the toll costs less than the cost of operating their vehicle for the other route.

All that billing infrastructure costs money as well. Think of how much of the phone and TV cable networks is consumed by nothing but managing tollbooths?

The post from Stratechery yesterday made this point differently: when credit cards were introduced merchants liked them because they no longer needed the (pre-computerized in those days) infrastructure and headcount of billing customers, checking credit, etc.
SkyTrain in Vancouver, BC for example is fully automated. It works well unless there are issues with track or sensors, at which point it has to be driven manually.
They put carts under the wheels.
Finishing Reform (DIY ARM Laptop)
Punt for this company I work for that operates in this space:
http://sea-electric.com
I'm glad that Lisp is not used in spacecraft control system.
I'm not sure I understand how the different types in this library---Manifold, VectorBundle, SubManifold---correspond to the standard definitions of these mathematical objects. How is a manifold represented here? Can arbitrary manifolds be represented?
I had one of these. I remember sharing files with my dad. Only really made sense for a short period before CD writers became less expensive.
they’re practically two sides of
the same coin. I keep thinking it should be possible to build a toy language that has both a forth-like mode and a lisp-like mode, that use the same standard library
There's no such thing as a rules-based, open world. International relations is a state of anarchy and perpetual conflict that only fleetingly resembles peace during those periods where there's a global hegemon that can enforce those "rules". Within a country, those courts are the hegemon.

"Each country having a strong interest in remaining within that system that outweighs any short-term benefits from skirting its responsibility" was the theory prior to 1914 as to why the Great War would never actually happen.
I agree. The AI hype helps with drinking their koolaids and let's hope this will cease soon. I'm not saying that there aren't good problems to solve with AI, but adopting it so readily on people while it is not working properly and while it is amounts to experimenting on people which is a terrible thing to do. I'm not for the AI winter but for the the end of AI hype.
I don't mean to be rude, but I have strong feelings about this attitude.

Let's take going to Mars. We can't reliably go to the moon. We can't even go everywhere on the Earth, where we have every possible advantage. Spend a year on the ISS and you'll develop all sorts of health issues. Spending time on Mars isn't likely to be less hazardous. We may send humans to Mars but it is by no means guaranteed. (And I would also ask, what reason do we have to go to Mars? Probes do a better job of exploring, and I doubt we could colonize it.)

Until someone builds a real self-driving car it is just an idea. On today's roads, it is probably not possible to safely implement a fully self driving car. Driving is not only a technical exercise but a social activity that involves communicating your intentions to other humans, and interpreting the intentions of others. That is something that humans do far better than machines. (Edit: To clarify, humans are better at communicating with other humans. Machines do a great job of communicating with each other, but have mixed results communicating with humans.)

If every car was self-driving and the roads were remade from first principles, then sure, that seems feasible. The degenerate case here would be a self-driving train, which seems perfectly reasonable. But the technical challenges are the easy part of that endeavor. Funding such a project, developing the political will to see it through, and organizing the logistics are far more difficult. Consider for instance; what will happen to the legacy vehicles? Will it be illegal to drive them? Will there be a massive government buyback? Who will fund that? Where will the cars go? How will we organize the logistics of moving hundreds of millions of vehicles? How long will that take? What other matters will we need to turn our attention away from to accomplish that task?

A much more likely scenario is that companies continue to come up with partial, ad-hoc solutions, driving gets more automated, ride sharing becomes more popular and car ownership less so, but that humans remain in the loop for the foreseeable future. What happens outside the foreseeable future is something we can't and shouldn't pretend to know with any degree of certainty.

There are a million ways in which we could never go to Mars or build a self-driving car. We could get a better idea for how transit should work, making self driving cars superfluous. We could discover life on Mars, and make the decision that it would be too dangerous for us to visit. The superpowers of the world could go to war with each other, and our infrastructure could be devastated to the point where space travel is impossible. Climate change could drive us to extinction. Something could happen that we cannot predict or imagine, that we have no precedent for, that completely changes our situation and outlook.

Some of these are more likely than others, but the point is that it would be folly to take the future as read. And frankly, a couple of them are more likely than us ever going to Mars.
Riding trains is great, getting to the train station(s) in a busy city, worrying about the schedule and being in the right spot for the right train, etc, is not at all fun.

But otherwise agreed a ton of this stuff could be solved with modern trains.

But appeasing all of the special interest groups in between has made infrastructure development impossibly expensive or takes a decade. So we keep driving cars even long distances between cities.
What exact benefits do you mean?

I think technological progress has freed women to do other things than, say washing clothes and other household chores.

That doing other things can of course benefit society, if they so chose. A washing machine saving 16 hours of labor per week can bring society a benefit of 16 work hours per week.

As for childcare, I am not sure I agree that organizing childcare so that fewer people can take care of the children is necessarily a benefit. It can be, but there seems to be a limit, too. For example few people would say "one person is enough to take care of 100 toddlers", which would free 99 people (mothers, mostly) to do other things than childcare.

Also, if we think in terms of "benefits to society", wouldn't there be other worthwhile targets? For example, what if instead of watching TV, people would do something useful for society? It would be a huge net benefit - so maybe we should outlaw TVs?

Meaning we neglect that people may have children because they like having them, not because they want to provide a service to society.