skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have the impression that a machine learning model is all you need to drive the car: this isn't true. There is a lot of real-time system programming and overall architecture.

> Andrej Karpathy basically threw everything out once he replaced Latner.

What are you basing this on? I don't believe there is any truth to this.
First Chris was not replaced by Andrej but by Jim Keller and then Stuart Bowers.
Andrej is amazing in his field and has done impressive things at Tesla, but he is managing the ML part of the org, which was a relatively small portion of the Autopilot Software group overall.
When a human shows unquestioning loyalty towards another human and it is non-reciprocal, it tends to communicate a lack of self-respect. People tend to default to believing, even if only at a subconscious level, that when someone lacks self-respect, it's for a good reason.
When loyalty is reciprocal, it is seen as much less off-putting imo. Noble, even.
I'd really hate it if browsers are capable to run in background and accessing microphone or camera. Especially if the tab is closed.
Social apps are like clubs, they are hot for a while and then nobody wants to go anymore. Facebook the company can beat that by building new apps (open a new club) and keep reinventing themselves that way. It's not easy because being ahead of social trends consistently is difficult, but they can just buy whoever cracks the flavor of the decade. I suspect in some incarnation or another they will be around for a while.
Yes. I would endorse this comment.
yes, but in many desirable areas a significant portion of buyers are cash only buyers whose monthly payment is $0 (other than property taxes).
You may very well be correct.
uplevel and upvar..

Kinda strange how scope is restricted to the current level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl
> As a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, He was ranked in 2018 as among the Top 1% of all scientists worldwide.

Let's cut that down to hundreds.
I'm not the OP and I've had the bad habit of living in small urban apartments with no room for a MIDI-enabled acoustic piano, but one problem is resolution. 127 velocity levels can't really cover the detailed expression of playing an acoustic piano, and something like a glissando or a ten-fingered rolled chord might not have enough time resolution to sound right.

I believe there are messages that add another 7 bits to velocity, and aftertouch can represent key position, but I haven't used a MIDI-enabled acoustic myself to know if those are adequate.
Housing supply has been increasing at far lower levels recently than it has historically. Lots of good jobs have been flooding certain cities and which means people with the money to bid up the existing stock. Since people are coming for the jobs and they have money and there isn't new housing to soak up that demand, those people end up bidding up what supply exists.
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Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyv21qW7SQo
Great example, I guess I forgot that a few changes were made that otherwise did surprising things.

They also changed to a (more) deterministic ordering of object keys and I wonder how much software behaved differently / broke as a consequence...

My "favourite" JS quirk is some of the IE versions where it would break if you called console.log without the console open, as it was undefined.

So many quirks, I think I may have slightly overstated the compatibility element.
> a tourist of knowledge

Well put!
I'm also interested to see what kind of throughput they can achieve with a 'briefcase sized' terminal. Our company makes satellite terminals for military, and from that experience I can't really see the physics working for hundreds of Mbps with some type of panel antenna (phased array, etc.) that small at any kind of decent spectral/power efficiency...
I've been busy, I'll get back to you eventually.

seriously it's been flat out here, holy shit inbox 600, and my freebie budget is running sparse

(you can tell by the fact it took me 2 days to respond to this thread)

debates are tedious, let's just talk shit, that's way more fun - i tend to agree 99% with any coiner after all ... it's like, an atheist is an atheist for all religions, a theist is an atheist for all but one religion
FB is not growing as before, but they're buying other social network companies to avoid that ultimate fate.
This has been happening in Peru, Uganda, Bolivia and Grenada.
As I understand the argument, the money is coming from investors in the looser fund, which usually still makes a modest profit, and has great branding from also managing the winner fund.

If RenTec medallion fund is capped at 10B and their other funds are 100B, every 1% profit they transfer is 10% performance improvement in medallion. As long as the large fund is still profitable, it is basically a management fee.

Alternatively, the looser fund could be another external fund, operating in cahoots using a complementary strategy to launder monday.
it's an awful disease that gives you the chronic shits, it's clearly the true meaning
> I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions.

At a certain point you'd rather have your developers focusing on tackling domain complexity, not stack complexity. If I can normalize my developers' skillsets I can shuffle them around at will to address whatever problems the business/product needs to be addressing -- quickly. Can't do that as easily if you need to do a bunch of platform-specific stuff as well.
Oh come now, one essay can't really detract from the general character of all his essays does it?
99.9% of Bitcoin transactions don't go to the darknet
The One Reason Why Most Startups Fail
It takes about 5 minutes to configure an IDE.

Add Git credentials, importing a project takes care of the setup and build and you can create new Run tasks in most IDEs for calling a different part of your build file e.g. deploy or test.

And I occasionally copy/paste from a browser. But you can do that just fine on an iPad or iPhone.
The cost of the home is normally quoted in dollars today (what the seller receives), not the total dollars you will pay on your mortgage. So interest rates don't have much to do with affordability.
I can call someone a noob and not mean anything negative about it. The word is usually used to mean beginner.
How comparable is LSD to Mushrooms?
> but I like to write on my scores which I can’t do on my iPad.

What? Annotating scores is a main use for me. I do it constantly. It's something the ipad is great at.
> supply fresh, gullible, overpaid talent, working not just to pay high rents but high everything, including state income tax, while saving very little

IDK, most people in know in California seem to be saving 30-50% of their post tax income. That's clearly not the case anywhere else in the world.
also, it's never not hilarious having coiners shocked shocked that someone is ... making money!! from something
> The iPad can obviously be used for "real work"

So why say it can't?

Why put down what other people as not being 'real work' because they have different requirements to you?

I pointed it out because it's nasty, belittling, unnecessary, and as you've said, not even true.

Why not reach for a kinder phrase like 'can't be used for more complex content creation workflows' instead of this toxic language.
Excited to have you on the list! Definitely hit reply every once in a while as I'd love to chat more about all of these topics one-on-one.

One theme I'm starting to converge on is the idea of a generalist as an "expert" at a) maintaining a wide range of mental models and skillsets and b) developing a sense of which type of problems to apply each to.

In other words, effective generalists become good at knowing which speciality or approach should be applied to a problem, even if they "only" grasp the basics of any one discipline.

Example:

A software engineer wants to develop deeper friendships. They may think that building an app that reminds them to keep in touch with friends will help.

Of course they think that... software is what they know best.

But a generalist may take a different angle and see that the root cause isn't an automation / information problem, it may be a human psychology issue.

"The real problem is that you don't believe you're worthy of love. If you work on that, you may feel confident enough to want to reach out more."

The next email is going to start outlining the most practical, effective mini-mental models that generalists can use to solve practical problems.
...and there’s pythonista: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ ,I have some python shortcuts I use.
And something similar for Lua, and some variants of julyter notebooks.
I oftne use Panic’s code editor (formerly coda) and workingcopy for my git repos.
It's a bit more complex than that. The life cycle analysis of high-tech products takes many years. That's why most studies seem to be outdated even right after they are just published. It's not just solar panels. Try looking for a life cycle analysis of a recent laptop.
Because the medical profession is demonstrably hostile towards this sort of thing and unable to act as a functional conduit for such substances.

So for purposes of what is going to be legal vs. what is going to get a lot of (almost entirely black) people tossed in jail, doctors are NOT the right gatekeepers.
I’d say it’s more interesting to look at recent immigrants income vs monthly payments.

Existing residents aren’t necessarily buying new houses at 8x multiples. And the new arrivals to an area might be tech workers pulling in $400k, and can afford that $1.2M house with just a 3x multiple.
Yes, exactly. This guy never left the uk, yet he committed a us crime? If China had this power they could extradite almost every single American who watches porn. The real fallacy is believing that laws have reason and logic behind them, that they are fair. Once you go down that path, you're done for. Once you realize that laws have no logic and their enforcement even less, you realize most criminals, like the one convicted in this story, just happen to be unlucky. Whether they actually harmed society is irrelevant and usually unknown. This is a perfect example of that. The machine that goes by the name "justice" is anything but and will chew out and spit anyone who gets in its way, regardless of facts, what happened, or even laws. The only sane thing is to stay out of its way, but once caught within, nothing matters.

Clearly, this sets an expectation that if you live in a country with extradition treaties with the US, you better be rich enough to afford a US lawyer or smart enough to understand all of its countless number of laws on every level. In other words, you just need to do something impossible. Surely that shouldn't be a problem should it?
That was likely due to the macro environment of high inflation in the 70s until Paul Volcker knocked it down.
It also makes me feel like I'm programming in 1987.
LuaJIT does fine with lambdas and I'd bet good money chibi-scheme is faster than GDScript. Its not a really good excuse.
That just sounds like distributing the dependencies. You'll still install them all, just not in the same spot.
I'm curious, what interactivity do you enjoy about notebooks that you find missing in IDEs? I find my situation to be quite the opposite. I love developing/writing code in Pycharm because apart from all the things it excels at (introspection, auto complete, linting, documentation, debugging, etc), it lets me easily prototype things in the interactive python interpreter (usually set to IPython), has an excellent variable viewer and even allows you to attach a debugger to your python interpreter and debug things on-the-fly.

I find myself able to prototype code a lot faster in that setting compared to a Notebook. Even with plots, plotting in Pycharm provides me an interactive plot I can zoom around in, which is not the default behavior in Jupyter. The only situations where I ever use a Notebook is when I need to share a Python "document" that isn't just a python script + results, but rather some form of extensive self-documenting code that could benefit from Markdown integration and co-location of output plots, etc. The other situation is some of their built in animation/interactive widgets (perhaps that is the interactivity you are referring to?). In most other cases, I've found it quite limiting compared to a good IDE like Pycharm/Code.

That being said, I think the efforts on Pycharm and Vscode's part to bridge this gap is commendable and quite interesting.
This was true, but is no longer true in most cases. Copy/paste works between many iPad applications. Increasingly, applications can expose interfaces that allow information to be exchanged between them. Pythonista, in particular, provides a number of ways to use, pile, and process data from and between applications. The Files app has also contributed to making this simpler.

That said... it’s still less productive to move data between applications than on a PC or Mac. The gap hasn’t been closed yet.
Err Tesla mega beat earnings, what are you talking about?
All the blame? No.

Most of the blame? Probably.

The same that happened to your parents happened to landowners of huge properties. They still pay peanuts for property tax 40 years later. In the end - it helped people who got there first and then screwed everyone else over. It helped rent seekers more than anything.
And 30-50% is A LOT more in absolute dollars than it is outside of Cali.
Just out of curiosity, I tried to 'ground' those figures to median income to compare against what's happened in the past few years.

Per the US Census[1], median income in 1973 was $10,500, so the price of your parents' home increased by 3x median household income.

Looking at a completely unremarkable house in the sunset of SF on Zillow[2]. It sold for $1.725M in Nov of 2019 after selling for $997k in June of 2014. Household income today is right around $60k, so an increase of more like 12x median household income in 5 years.

Just madness. (And yes, I know that the median household income in SF is higher than the nationwide, but that'd apply in the past too.)

[1] - https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-096.pdf

[2] - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/610-Rivera-St-San-Francis...
Lots of launch providers and various 3rd parties have been providing rideshares for a while. e.g. there's the big thosuand pound payload, with an extra rack of cubesats to take advantage of extra fairing capacity.

The starlink satellites are relatively small, but they're still larger than Sputnik for example. ISRO has launched 100+ satellites at a time, although I believe those were mostly cubesats which are an order of magnitude or two smaller than the Starlink sats
Looker just sold to Google for 2 billion and there is still an army of tent cities around town due to people falling through the economic cracks coupled with a city wide meth and heroin epidemic. How-do-we-fix-this ?

Okay, enough trolling. I sent you a real email.
Bye
Who else in 3D uses Y-down? I’ve seen Y-up / Z-into-screen (a la Direct3D), Y-up / Z-out-of-screen (a la OpenGL convention), and Y-into-screen / Z-up (top down type games like RPGs, RTS etc.)

I haven't seen Y-down (in 3D space) since software rendering days.

I've yet to meet the monster who would use X-left. :P
Is property ownership a basic necessity though?

Or is its prevalence as an ideal a product of a burgeoning middle class through the last century?

I understand it's not even so common (or common as a goal) now in continental Europe, they think it's some silly English thing to care so much about home ownership.
Whenever I talk friends who are interested in such things, they tell me that Open Sound Control ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ) is the new MIDI.

It seems to support a lot more than traditional MIDI, especially in terms of control and synchronisation.

Does anyone have any idea how well MIDI 2.0 and OSC will compete with or complement each other?
I've seen his statue outside Shibuya station, and also knew about the story, but seeing the black and white pictures on that page hits me how Hachiko wasn't waiting in a neon-lit super-busy corner of Tokyo, surrounded by glass and concrete skyscrapers, it was a whole different world back then.
I've read it and it's a good book. However, I'd like to take the opportunity to point out to the author that there's an English error on the landing page linked above. It should be "Info" not "Infos" since it's not a countable noun.
Not irrelevant at all. The previous commenter's point was that many workflows have been made difficult/impossible by the design of the OS, and not for pro-user reasons. The iPad could support many additional uses cases without compromising at all on the ones it already serves. That is the frustration that is being expressed.
Mine did the same in the early 80's on a cleaners salary, granted the money was better for cleaners back then (no several levels of contractors) and in a less desirable location (Gold Coast), but on my top decile for the country salary there's no way I could afford the same house today. It was also a single income household since they started a family about the same time. It shows how much our standard of living has dropped in four decades.

> Among my college-educated friends, the only one's thinking of buying property are either high income (doctors, investment bankers) or buying in markedly worse (thus cheaper) areas than they lived in as children.

Personally I scaled down expectations and bought a small "affordable" apartment. It's fine for me and achieves some financial stability but I wouldn't want to raise kids in one.
I got to see it in ADC19.

For me the "2.0" part is pure marketing. However, since the industry has moved on (e.g. MPE) it's nice to standardize on something.
I don't think it's as simple as that. In Australia we've had a massive housing boom and consequently the market has been flooded with houses. Strangely this hasn't led to lower house prices. There's a large amount of housing which is purchased and is sitting empty, mostly investment properties which people bought with the intention of re-selling at a much higher price so they're not concerned about renting them out. This has led to a perverse situation where very expensive houses are being built and left empty and prices continue to rise to support this.
This is a huge accomplishment. The maintainers work very hard at keeping data science running for a substantial chunk of the field. Congratulations!
Tesla to $650 all time record in after hours market after posting Q4 Results
Back in the day, we wouldn't let 'The Man' (landlord) control our lives, and would look for other alternatives.
The thing is that to prepare for retirement, you cannot have a plan where you accrue a lump sum that you then draw down.

The only plan that can works is if you accrue a large enough amount, from which the interest earnings are enough to sustain you indefinitely (using a low interest but safe returns instrument like high grade bonds and gov't bonds, with a small mix of stocks selected for dividends). The expectation is to earn some 2-4% interest in aggregate, and that should amount to some $20-30k USD per year (after tax, if taxed - preferably work out how to get good tax treatment). That works out to be between $900k-1mil USD.

If you cannot hit this target by the expected time you need to retire, then you're already fucked. That's why retirement planning should start when you start your first job.
There was a period in the early-Web days when Tcl looked like a serious contender to take the lead in Web programming too, thanks to its use as the main scripting language in the influential AOLServer (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver).

Of course that didn't end up happening, but it's interesting to think about what might have been different if it had.
Training time series forecasting models in parallel with FBProphet and Spark
> It is entirely reasonable to expect evidence of extraordinary claims before accepting them as genuine

In this case, we have the evidence. It's not a theory, the Polynesians are already on all those islands.
In the late 1980s Australian interest rates were 17% so the repayments required were much higher on the same level of debt.

However, your point in general stands that houses in Australia are much more expensive than they were 30 years ago. But a better metric is the proportion of income required to pay for a house.

It's also worth noting for Australians and Americans that these housing cost issues are a global issues in many successful cities around the world.

Some cities and states have avoided these issues. In particular Texas in the US has seen huge growth and has managed to keep prices down.
I am looking forward to a decade of fewer API breaking changes. However, 1.0 introduces a new column type for strings, recommends its use over the old "object" column type, yet says it is "Experimental and may change at any time."

How are we supposed to interpret this in light of the promise that there will be no more API breakages until 2.0? It reads as if this promise does not apply to string data, which impacts rather a lot of use cases.
That’s essentially what I’m doing, but not as a protest. Prices just don’t make sense to commit to at these ratios. I wouldn’t suggest staying out as a protest though. Maybe look for loopholes - at some point it may make sense to buy a beat up home in an undesirable place for very low and either fix it up and resell or use it for casual purposes and tax incentives.
Upton Sinclair’s classic novel 'The Jungle' almost never saw the light of day
personally I'm not that excited by exerting a lot of effort in decriminalization vs legalization.

realistically how many people who are most susceptible to prison time for illegal drug possession in California are being jailed for...shrooms?

at this point saying it is decriminalized state wide is not much more impactful than just a symbolic move.
Inside Node: How node is able to require binary modules
What I'm working on right now is a perfect example. Mission: to write a Python program that parses. a file format that has no documentation. Create a folder for the project along with a data directory inside that has some of the files I need to parse. VS Code is my tool of choice, with the Python extension. Use its ability to run Jupyter to play with opening the files and parsing their contents. Experiment with some Jupyter. Get something running. Take my code and paste it into a module. Save the module, which I install locally in develop mode. Import the module into the notebook. Try what I just did against the file to make sure everything works nicely together. Keep going until the file format is completely figured out. Go on to the next challenge.
They are spending $46 billion a year to keep all that running.

Over a million dollars spent per staff member.

Wow.
Does WireGuard require a kernel module or a specific kernel? (I saw a day or two ago it was in linus' tree). Can I run WireGuard on a digitalocean droplet?
This plot suffers from my pet peeve for geographic display of data. Small areas will have all the interesting details (e.g. extreme outliers in inner city areas), and you just can't see them from a zoomed out perspective.
Why would they ask for my employer information in order to make a donation? My employment has nothing to do with this. Are we now owned by our employer who needs to know everything we do?
You can influence the shape in which a young brain grows much more easily and to a deeper extent than you can a mature brain. The neural systems one develops during adolescence will determine a lot of their psychological traits and the course of their life.
As of the Q4 results posted a few hours ago, TSLA has risen from a closing price of around $580 to over $650 in the after hours market. This is a stock that was trading for just $185 within the last twelve months - a 350% multiplication in price.

Stock:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

Here's the PDF of the results:

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b3cf7f5e-546a-4a65-9888-c9...