skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be because nobody trusts the legacy car manufacturers to deliver something solid for a product that heavily relies on electronics & software?

Given the sad state of infotainment systems and the overall UX of non-Tesla cars I would not buy an electric car from such a manufacturer.

The legacy manufacturers are trying to cram more software & screens in cars (and will need to for the electric ones) but don't follow the software development process; the software and UX still feels like an afterthought. Tesla on the other hand operates like a modern software company (sometimes too much and it "moves fast and breaks things" but everyone makes mistakes and overall it feels like they're going in the right direction).
>you're telling me to expect that the upstream author will take their code offline

Yes. If a company shuts down, who is to blame when the downloads are no longer available?

No offense, but your build process is lacking if you are affected by a project disappearing from the internet.. You should be bundling all of your libraries with your final artifact.

This is a prime example of relying on the cloud without a continuity plan.
From what I saw, the problem wasn't response time but response tone.

If he'd said "I'll write my own solution" rather than calling it boring, his response wouldn't have been a problem.
Think you’re both looking different sides. OP is saying that CA is becoming a parasitic government that taxes the producers for being so awesome, and you’re saying it’s the haven for producers where they can be free from parasitic government.
It's not just prop 47 or the cops. The new DA just refused to prosecute a murder.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-District-Attorn...
When I last voted (most recent federal election), my ballot was fed through an electronic reader of some sort on its way into the ballot box, no doubt an electronic vote counter.
What would be a good way to reach you? I’d like to get in touch about your tech!
I don't think the person you are replying to is either agreeing or disagreeing it is a privilege. They are just pointing out the increadibly bad argument they are replying to.

A brand new account posting self-contradictory nonsense like For dads to step up, as feminists demand, mothers would have to give up that privilege. sounds like a troll to me.

I think the comment "no, you see, I can't possibly help you with this, because it's such a privilege for you." captured the contradiction pretty well.

(I "stepped up" and took time off when my child was born. It was both a privilege that I was able to do that, a burden that it needed to be done, and one of the hardest things I've done in my life. Trying to make it an identity labelled "feminist" move is insulting. I too experienced the sexism you referred to - I mean I bought dipers that say "only a mother knows" on them.)
Income inequality now is much less than during Astor and Rockefeller times. Yet the homelessness and the relative poverty is worse.
[1] https://swisscows.com/web?culture=en&query=Chicken%20Scheme

has something called "semantic map" on the right side.
Maybe this works for you?

edit: couldn't resist to add a loud MOOOO!
I’m also skeptical, but after reading the explanation above, I am intrigued.

Say I have a cube with 100 x 100 x 100 mesh cells inside, and ports on opposing faces. Given enough time, I can literally run through every possible combination of PEC and air for every cell and solve the FD form of maxwells equations, then save the results. Now, a user can ask my solver for any of those cases, and I simply pull the presolved result, and give the user the answer with orders of magnitude reduction in time.

Obviously, the presolving approach doesn’t scale. More materials, more mesh cells, eventually it is impractical to presolve every case. But the beauty of neural networks is that they can be very good at generalizing from a partial sample of the problem space. In effect, they can give results close enough to the presolve solution with drastically reduced numbers of computations.
Why does it need to balance itself?
Understanding Math Behind Microsoft’s Commitment to Become Carbon Negative(vid)
We’ve run into some nontrivial but totally solvable issues at about 100-200 engineers.

IME, most consternation comes from people adopting a mono repo without adopting a build/dependency graph tool (like Bazel, buck or pants).

An additional source of strain is from people abusing the repo (checking in large binaries, third party dependencies, etc).

A third is when people try to do branch-based feature development, instead of the “correct” practice of only deploying master (or weekly cuts of master).

I think even a simple list of these sort of “gotchas” would be valuable for the aspirational mono repo company.

My impression is that a lot of teams hit these early and painful roadblocks, and imagine that they’ll never go away (they do!!).
We have nuclear weapons, but only certain people are allowed to use them. The IANA has root key-signing keys, but their use is strictly controlled and made highly transparent. If we approach facial recognition technology with an equal sense of caution and respect, I’m sure we can (for example) help police catch rapists, murderers, and child-abductors without building or maintaining a database of every innocent citizen’s movements.
This is addressed in the first paragraph of the article, and the concept of "nihilism" has more to it than a literal translation of the Latin base word.
Insurance claims generally require a police report.
Sure, it may be possible to be a nihilist who believes in divine beings who perhaps are also nihilists and who created a meaningless world. Or to be an atheist who thinks that life is meaningful. But I do think that atheism and nihilism more logically go together.
There is a difference in fertility age, but men don't start leaving STEM academia in droves when they approach their fertility limits- only women do. So the part about it being urgent to have children at a certain age may be a biological difference, as you say, but the part about leaving academia to have children is not a biological difference.

Or, to put it more simply: why don't men leave their careers to have children at any age?
Have you ever programmed a microcontroller? Like an MSP430 or something?

Working on such low-level hardware taught me something about my own mind. When you want to read data from say, a serial port or a camera, you point your program to where in the microcontroller's memory that data has been placed. Serial ports will usually have a dedicated buffer that you can read from a particular address, you see. A camera could also directly access memory and write its data there in your MCU's ram for you to read, at an address that you have a pointer to.

What I learned about myself was that although it feels like I'm looking at a piece of paper with the words "I'm human" written on it, my consciousness main loop is not accessing my eyes, it's accessing the region of memory that my retinas have recently written image data to. A Boltzmann brain would have no trouble with this sort of hallucination.
Two children is a lot of effort only because male and/or public involvment is so low, and it is so because it is socially expected. It is socially expected because, I assume, men are setting the expectations here. As to how, your comment, assuming it fall on to women to care for children and ridiculing "female empowerment", is a textbook example of it.
I worked at a well-known company with an unlimited vacation policy. Perhaps people did end up taking fewer overall holidays, but I would say the cognitive relief was worth it. If I needed a day off here and there, for any reason -- I knew I wouldn't have to stress about it.

Some days you just can't be arsed to go out.
This looks really great, what do you use to generate all the feature gifs on the front page? I love when I see features visualized out like this, so easy to comprehend
Oh, you mean the discredited pop-psychologist who practiced almost none of what she preached, yet somehow influenced an entire generation of sociopaths?
Being a professor in USSR gave one not only a rather high state-mandated salary, but also an opportunity to be bribed for passing an exam when a student would otherwise flunk it.
I don't have the stats but I'd assume that the cost of living has also gone up in the largest cities along with the density.
The irony is that the crimes that you mention are not those that are in the sights of the politicians looking to ban or backdoor encryption.
I agree. We should try to guide women to date and marry men who are poorer or make less money, rather than the sexist women choosing rich guys over poor guys. After time this will reduce the pressure on men to sacrifice their life for money. If women's top mate selection criteria was how nurturing a male is rather than how much money he can provide for the family, then the problem would quickly solve itself.
> life is meaningless

This is actually objectively true, our life are not different to the laws of physics then a rock on the surface of Mars.

Our life is meaningful to ourselves, however.
This was my thinking as well. Spacecraft are already incredibly complex. Building a new clock for the sake of building a new clock surely wasn't a priority.
Thanks for sharing this! I learned how to write floating point math routines from scratch by disassembling the ROMs on my PET and figuring out how they worked.

Nice to see the coefficients for the taylor series computation for sin() in the POLY_SIN table.
TFA claims Amazon themselves are selling counterfeits though.

>"Multiple times we discovered that Amazon itself had sourced counterfeit product and was selling it alongside our own product," he noted.

>He asserted that Amazon representatives would tell him over the phone: "If we don't get it, then we're going to source product from the gray market."
So that the employer will see him more favorably than the other employees at the same level when making decisions in which all other things are equal.

From the candor of GP's comment, I would venture to guess that both he and the manager are type-A personalities who want to be at work all the time. My dad was and is like that. He progressed much further in his career than he would have otherwise and our family was none-the-worse for it. Not everyone is like that, but I don't see it as incomprehensible (or even a problem).

Although I'm not the same as my dad, I've long felt an individualist stubbornness that leads me to a similar conclusions. When I was a kid, we had a birthday party at a bowling alley and the attendants put the bumpers[1] up in our alley and wouldn't take them down. I was so incensed that I instead made a game of trying to whack the bowling ball hard enough against the bumpers to bounce over them. I was elated when I got one all the way into the next alley.

My gut reacts to the idea of "mandatory days off" in an intuitively similar way, even though I probably wouldn't be incensed about it the way I was about the bumpers in the bowling alley as a child. I'm probably on the extreme end of a cultural and value difference between Americans and Europeans.

[1]: https://cdn.mykidlist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0211010...
I very much disagree. To characterize engineering as a social activity implies that this is the foremost characteristic. It is not. It is very much a personal art. It is a science, and it is math. It is you vs. the machine. The engineering part is done alone, between you and the universe. It is you vs. you. It is not about people.

Do not misunderstand me, helping your peers and all manner of social skills are used, and are all necessary. There are other parts to this career and it requires balance and diverse skills.

But don't say that "engineering is a social activity". Nope. Bollocks. Staying employed as an engineer is a bit of social challenge we need to learn to deal with. Writing good code is not a social thing. Architecting good systems is not a social thing. The right answer is apolitical almost magically unfies people automatically. Mediocre answers are the domain for arguing and politics.

People are not the solution. Citing Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-24 - people are the problem.

Help? Learning? Asking for help is fine, giving and receiving help is fine. This should be viewed as a mentoring or apprenticing and learning relation. But you really need to figure things out yourself or it doesn't count. After the hint, or the explanation, what do you do? You go home, alone, and try to do it yourself.

Engineering is a life of learning to DIY. If you can't DIY, then you should, very much, not be giving advice, nor continuing this career. So by its very nature, the core of this field is a very solitary venture.

All good tips, btw. I concur with all of them. But I'm just immediately suspicious, on purpose, on principle, of people taking the line social first, maths second.

Having drinks with friends is a social activity. It doesn't pay as well.
You should compare your modern house to a commercial building with steel beams or concrete slabs, if you want a real comparison. Those ‘houses’ were not built for people to live in, but for commercial storage and transport. Of course they were expensive and well built... the owners were wealthy and the warehouses profitable.
Generally, flipper skills are a good place to start. The PAPA website has a nice guide: https://papa.org/learning-center/players-guide/#152269588216...

It’s also a good idea to pick one machine and learn its rules. The PAPA YouTube channel has guides for most classic games (Addams Family, Twilight Zone, etc)
https://outline.com/qLzUjp
>> But the beauty of neural networks is that they can be very good at generalizing from a partial sample of the problem space.

That is really not the case. Neural nets generalise very poorly, hence the need for ever larger amounts of data: to overcome their lack of generalisation by attempting to cover as many "cases" as possible.

Edit: when this subject comes up I cite the following article, by François Chollet, maintainer of Keras:

The limitations of deep learning

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html

I quote from the article:

This stands in sharp contrast with what deep nets do, which I would call "local generalization": the mapping from inputs to outputs performed by deep nets quickly stops making sense if new inputs differ even slightly from what they saw at training time. Consider, for instance, the problem of learning the appropriate launch parameters to get a rocket to land on the moon. If you were to use a deep net for this task, whether training using supervised learning or reinforcement learning, you would need to feed it with thousands or even millions of launch trials, i.e. you would need to expose it to a dense sampling of the input space, in order to learn a reliable mapping from input space to output space.
They cannot even manage shutting down a blatant stolen goods market / fence on 15th and Mission.
Eh you might as well consider some people living in SF/LA in a gated community. If you Uber/Lyft from home to work to your favorite restaurant you’re not really in the community.
Crime peaked when Pete Wilson was governor and California was a swing state. Since then, under Davis, Schwarzenegger, Brown, and now Newsom it has decreased significantly.

[0] https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/
This is objectively false, of course. Governments do get things done all the time, even if policy changes you want are not happening. Even as hyperbole, your statement serves to fray the social fabric.

People seem to think that governments should be solving all the problems on their own. But a democracy is a government of the people. If people don’t participate beyond just voting, they deserve what they get.
In my experience the biggest critics of Japan's legal system are people who are not used to being the minority in a country and not having the privileges they usually get. Japan is a wealthy country that doesn't feel any need to treat minorities special because of their money or country of origin like some other poorer countries.

Being part of the majority in the US already makes you less likely to be arrested, murdered by a "scared" police officer and your also less likely of being convicted if you are arrested. The police in Japan love to stop and frisk foreigners on bicycles or who are drinking on the street, but their interactions are atleast respectful and there's no fear of something being planted on you or you being shot.

The Japanese legal system doesn't tend to put people into it unless they believe they can convict. Ghoson was probably not going to get the most fair trial in Japan but he's shown he isn't above breaking the law so I don't know why the media is portraying him as some human rights activist against the Japanese system. The case the courts in Japan had against him just seems stronger.

If he had been in the US or another western country he simply would have used his money to get a deal from the prosecution. When he realized he couldn't he used that money to escape and pay for media PR.
The author doesn't actually seem to demonstrate an understanding of nihilism or of pessimism. Most of classical philosophy is predicated on _something_ in the universe having an intrinsic purpose or value. They require an "uncaused-cause" of moral values.

Nihilism is simply the rejection of inherent value or purpose to the universe or anything in it. It means the only values or purposes in the universe are non-inherent and they are things we made up. It doesn't discourage you from making up values, it just discourages you from claiming they are inherently right for some reason.

For a nihilist, hearing somebody ask how things are "good" or "bad" in a nihilist viewpoint is like an atheist being asked why they act morally without a god to act as judge. It is mildly horrifying to see somebody else unable to behave reasonably without made-up guidance.
Honestly as a California resident there are ways that I agree.

Other places need to be happening, too.
There is a popular argument being made that any amount of inequality is evil and must be stamped out. I’ve asked several people to define in logical terms the line beneath which someone is not evil, and above which they are an evil rich person taking too many resources.

There is no logical explanation for such a line, it’s always an emotion against people who have more than them. Everyone always compares themselves to someone richer, whether they make 15k, 150k, or 1.5m. If you keep voting for such policies, you will eventually outlaw anyone for trying to do anything but living on government dole. It’s a sad future some people want. Venezuela collapsed rather quickly.
Principles to help design and deploy a zero trust architecture
Students pay 30$ extra for usage of the “barnacle” in addition to the fine.
It’s not diverse if all the new residents work in the same industry and talk about the same things.
This may make PostgREST easier: https://supabase.io

Disclaimer: my startup. We will do a public launch soon, but the restful component of Supabase is a postgrest instance, and we are wrapping it with some libraries to make it a bit quicker to get started.
What's wrong with MTV highschool sitcoms? There's a lot to be learned from the artifacts of pop culture.
Really? You don't understand why someone would want to become a PhD and make contributions driving a field forward? It's not something I want to do personally, but I find it odd that someone couldn't see _why_ someone would choose to do that. Additionally, positions in academia come with a great deal of prestige.
That could explain the difference between rr and Firefox, but it doesn't explain the difference between rr and all the other developer-oriented projects with toxicity issues.
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I have no question why a reasonable person, woman or not, might stay away from academia.

I wonder why there are few women in engineering, where the conditions and the pay are so much better. I've seen a number of women in IT industry, from junior developers to CTOs, and most of them were brilliant and sharp. But they are still a minority in the field. This puzzles me.
> All individual rights are carved out from the default government

Not sure this is how you meant it. If you mean to say that rights come from governments that is not quite correct, at least not in the US.

Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT (upper case is for emphasis only). In other words, these rights don't require government in order to exist. We are recognized to have them and government can't do a thing about it other than to respect and protect them.

This is a massive difference with other systems that lots of people, both inside and outside the US are not aware of.

Take the right to bare arms as an example. In most other nations, if it exists, this is a right granted by government to the people. In the US this is a right recognized by the constitution to exist despite and outside of government.

Here's the key difference between "grant" and "recognize": The government can't take away that which it does not own, did not and cannot grant.

An example of a right (well, a privilege) government can take away is your driver's license. They grant it and they can take it away.

In the case of firearms, the US government does not have the ability to confiscate weapons because that is not a right the government granted and, therefore, they don't have unilateral power to cancel that right with a simple bill. In fact, it takes a tremendously complex agreement across all States and the federal government to make any changes to the US Constitution (2/3 majority in the Senate, House and all 50 State Legislatures). Even that does not guarantee government to have the right to eliminate rights.

This is good. This means, among other things, that the government can't take your freedom of speech away because they do not own it, they did not grant it. It is recognized as a fundamental right. All rights in the Bill of Rights are equal in this sense (as far as I know). If we weaken one of them (as many want to do with firearms) you run the risk of opening Pandora's box and exposing the people to government control of rights.

It's an interesting problem.

Coming from this perspective it is hard to understand why people in any nation would want to live in an environment where the government owns and grants rights --and can take them away at will. If the idea is that government works for us --they are our representatives-- why in the world would it make sense that they would be able to take away our rights? Imperfect analogy: It's like a project manager hiring a worker and then having that worker fire the project manager.

PS.: A lot of anti-gun activists keep pointing at places like New Zealand and their gun confiscation and buy-back programs. The typical cry is "We should do the same". Well, we can't. Government did not grant, nor does it own that right. And it can't take it away. In many ways this kind of activism is nothing less than futile and even nonsensical. It's almost like demanding that we change the gravitational constant in that it is about as likely.
Im actually for doing something about income inequality but most of the homeless problem has nothing to do with it in SF. The main issue is the city lets a lot of psychotic people that need help do whatever they want with no consequences.
STEM is Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
At least those shacks didn’t ‘cost’ a $million so the developer’s REIT could show 12% returns on quickly degrading crap. At least they have to meet some modern codes, but that doesn’t mean they won’t fall apart, leak and mold, or burn quickly.