skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I'm a bit younger than most on here (late twenties), but my parents got me into Lego Mindstorms quite young. I was 8 when they bought me the the Robotics Invention System 2.0 set. For those that remember, it was the yellow RCX brick based on the Renesas H8/300. That single gift basically kicked off my entire interest (and later career) in computing. The hacker community surrounding them was _insane_.

I got really tired of the block based programming after a few weeks. My first "text" programming language was NQC ("not quite C") for the RCX, which was a C-like language that ran on top of the standard lego firmware. My first experience with proper C was legOS/brickOS, a toolchain to write software for the RCX with GCC. My first experience with Java was leJOS, which managed to fit a functional Java VM into the 32 KiB of RAM of the RCX. My first experience with Linux was because both of these tools functioned better there (except leJOS for NXT, bluetooth downloads always caused me trouble).

My dad kind of regretted it when his 10 year old built the disk launcher from the ultimate builder's set and hooked it up to the mindstorms vision command set to make a disk launcher that fired at anyone entering the basement...

So, Mindstorms introduced me to programming, then Linux, C, and Java.
If you find out, let me know.
I was pretty bummed to learn that my Model 3's "real" range was about 70% of the "rated" range depending on how the car was feeling. Tesla definitely creatively interprets range calculations.
The last that I'd explored amateur radio I thought digital signatures were still a grey area. Good to know they're not. That does increase the usefulness dramatically.
We are required to use some internal assets, so I am using a combination of Flask, our "workflow execution platform", and some Amazon EC2, S3 and Glacier on the backend. Angular and a few data viz libraries for frontend.

It's very rigid and slow :(
Yeah, it's silly to compare. BEV charging infrastructure is trivially expanded and piggybacked on an already ubiquitous power grid.

You still need big trucks constantly hauling liquid hydrogen around for the fuel cell option...
An interesting and educational thread

> "I've now come to understand the two chief weapons of the JIT remain surprise, fear, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope."

I like this very much. Even adding nice red uniforms, it's still two chief weapons.
yes and no. Older cars were far heavier and far less safe. They could make incremental safety design improvements that allow to reduce weight incrementally without compromise.
What does the Sprint merger have to do with Facebook Messenger in Europe and Instagrams direct message system being down?

Overload because people go there or NSA updating a dragnet system? ;)
1) a mistake in the benchmark procedure explained in https://discourse.julialang.org/t/grassmann-jl-a-b-3x-faster..., and
2) the dynamically-sized result vector containing 10000 statically-sized 5-vectors still needs to be allocated.
I guess it depends what you mean by "luxury", but the vehicles I'm thinking of tend to come with sticky high-performance tires. these actually increase rolling friction.
The trend has gotten worse even after forced busing wasn't a thing anymore.
In summation:

I like these movies.
>Apple responded by banning literally all third-party development tools.

How was this not anticompetitive?
bike-shedding at work. Everyone "understands" language but not too many DB systems.
Based on my own data, owning a Model X for two years, it achieves about 95% of EPA in the real world.

Plural of anecdotes etc.
> where the only obstacle is that the store does not replace one door type with another that a wheelchair user can enter, and the store can reasonably afford the cost,

It wouldn't be the only obstacle. Let's take wheelchair-accessible parking spots for example. We have to convince the store that sacrificing regular-sized parking spots (and the ones closest to the store, at that) in order to make room for a smaller number of larger parking spots that are reserved for 2% of their customers (and not exactly the most profitable 2%, either) is a reasonable accommodation.

Bear in mind that some of those spots we're asking them to convert might already be reserved for the store manager, some senior employees, and the employee-of-the-month as perks, rather than for customers. You will have a lot of convincing to do, and should expect significant pushback from the local chamber of commerce.
Holy shit, this sounds exactly like something I might have written. Feeling exactly the same way right now. I don't have any real advice because I have the same questions and am also trying to figure it out, just wanted to let you know that you're not alone and I'm somewhat relieved to know I'm not the only who feels this way. So thank you for making this post.
I just ordered some WD Reds and a Synology box a couple of days ago, not knowing about this issue. Should I cancel the HDDs and go for another brand, or will I be okay if I don’t use ZFS?
A Stately English Lawn Is Going Wild in the Name of Biodiversity
His opinions and tastes are somewhat odd imho, so despite some good observations, his opinions ought to be taken with a grain of salt. For instance, in his Dorico video, he doesn't seem to appreciate that some of the software's design stems from a separation of content and appearance (much like TeX), which has has long term benefits to the user that may not be apparent at first.
Yes, exactly.

For simple games or single animations Pixi is plenty. In fact Phaser.js is built on top of Pixi.
Cornering the real world silver market is a tough thing to do as well. Just ask the Hunt brothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
I think ASML makes the chips for companies that design them (like NVDA).
Yes, some pipe organs had enormous switching systems. They didn't do all that much; they just switched the keyboard to pipe rank connections. Physically, they were huge, like multiple upright pianos. Some needed compressed air for power; others were entirely electrical.

They had no direct function in producing sound. All this was separate from the actuators for the pipes.
Due date driven work isn’t necessarily because that’s copied from manufacturing. It often seems to be just an accountability and planning measure. Ie if we (stakeholders) know the thing will be delivered in June, then I can launch my thing in July and I build that into my forecasts.

If there were no deadlines for features And teams could pivot willy billy based on whatever they find, cross functional planning would probably be difficult.

I think the right hybrid for larger companies is some agree on cadence for adjustments in direction based on customer feedback / learnings (eg quarterly)
Generics and Compile-Time in Rust
I wish how things would be if it was QUEL that would became the standard. The language looks closer to the access pattern that ORMs using.
Do you know of any other kinds of universal function approximators that also have a good regret bound like this, or is yours the first one?

global convergence to any arbitrarily weird function at rate O(sqrt(T)) seems amazing, almost too good to be true, and I’m wondering what the catch is. Maybe it’s just a moderately nice property but not extraordinary? Maybe there are some horrible constants hiding in there?
Not all WD Reds are affected, only certain ones. Check first to see whether the ones you ordered are SMR or not.
I've always considered electric charging to be similar to an interface. You can change out the back end without the consumer having to do anything. You consume electricity but it could be nuclear, wind, coal, or pig shit.
Thanks, got that wrong. My comment was more of a thought experiment than an expression of actual belief that it might work.
Oh dear. Erroneous 'grossing up' percentages and mis-non-use of percentage points is a pet hate of mine. I didn't realise I was a cartoon!
Model shows civilization collapse is not at all unlikely
Here I am with a 2018 S 75D getting low 200’s. sniff
How much is the cash back?
> How could you possibly prove that somebody knew an action would be illegal?

I'm far from an expert but I think usually the "reasonable" keyword applies to such things in law. A "reasonable" person would know killing is wrong - and they'll say you mightn't, too bad, pay attention to society.

A "reasonable" person might not know some obscure tax law they broke by mistake so they have to make it right and pay it back, but not be punished too harshly otherwise. OTOH you'd expect an accountant to know so you could infer intent and they could be handled more sternly.
We shouldn’t trivialize gaslighting by applying it in contexts that aren’t gas lighting.

In this case WD lied, obscured the information required by consumers to make an appropriate choice, then blamed the same consumers for choosing poorly based off of information that they weren’t given. That is gaslighting.
The dream of course, would be to see some inter-operation capabilities between Lilypond and Musescore.
Wikipedia gives a good summary of the various meanings of that idiom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule

Also, I don't think the advice is outdated at all. I've seen it happen multiple times. However, it describes a tendency to be on guard against. It's not some sort of law of the universe.

It's also not about rewriting in Go or Rust (you may be thinking of a completely different piece of advice about not doing ground up rewrites.) The second system effect is about being overconfident from the success of an initial system with limited scope, and being too ambitious in a second system.
Could be separate problems
Really enjoying Tesla's 'innovation' of giving my Model 3 only 70% of the promised range.

Doesn't help that everyone on Tesla forums love to praise the company no matter what they do, so it's not like this is something easy to learn prior to using the car for some time.
Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, gangway
^ I can tell you have kids.
Also note this is only the receiver, you'd need another device of similarly massive scale to transmit.
Why are so many people in this thread sure that this is "just Sprint merger mishap" when i and many others have been unable to use Facebook Messenger and Instagram chat in Europe?

What does those services have to do with US cellular networks?
I don't know about "kill" but power viruses have been a research topic for a long time. A decade ago researchers were using automatic techniques for maximizing power consumption on real hardware (https://lca.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/ganesan_pact10.pdf)
Went down the rabbit hole because of point 2 and ended up at some Chrome experiments. There is some amazing stuff like that out there. I can't believe there aren't more browser-based 3D games.
NSA updating their taps?
They are lying. I was in the market for a new car earlier this year, and I really wanted to get a Tesla. I also really wanted a car that could handle a trip of 295 miles that I regularly make. I will not go into the nightmare that was scheduling a test drive of the long-range Model S, but after getting conflicting answers from multiple PoCs at Tesla, I finally got the firm answer. The car cannot do even my 295 mile commute (either way) without recharging once. I gave up and bought something else, but I did reserve a "Cyber Truck" which they claim will have a 500 mile range.
It's inevitable, isn't it, given that we have to work for a living?

In school they call it 'procrastinating', when you're supposed to be doing an assignment, but you're doing everything but the assignment?

You can force people to do the bare minimum - I just don't know how long we can have enough jobs where the bare minimum is better than not doing it at all, or automating it in some fashion.

This is the question of the 21st century and I'm afraid it'll only be the upcoming generation of politicians like Andrew Yang who even stand a chance of answering it in a way that doesn't lead to significant civil unrest.
Exactly so one, they don’t run very long and two they add rolling resistance (for better two wheeled traction), so both in Tesla’s favor.
Heyo, thank you for responding! I totally agree that the commit, PR, merge semantics are powerful and valuable, and you can’t get that easily with existing databases.

I guess in my imaginary perfect world, you don’t need to use commit, PR, merge semantics to make normal edits. You can use existing bitemporal/transaction history ideas in online updates, appends, and deletes, and then you have a higher-level abstraction for offline(-only?) branching and merging.

I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t totally buy the idea that you need git “all the way down”, especially if it gets in the way of performance. But maybe I’m just used to “the old way”, and I’ll cringe reading this in 20 years. :)

Major kudos for this project, it’s super impressive. I’m excited to see how it grows!
Certainly not. But the results they list are interesting - my gut tells me they wouldn’t be reproducible.

Can’t seem to find the full text though, pretty messed up that my tax dollars go to finance academia that I can’t even consume.
What conclusions do you disagree with?
Spent a few minutes trying to figure out why Black Lives Matter owned so much of Utah...
So I should want to live in this great theoretical democracy where the will of the majority means the government can legally discriminate against me? Or as late as 2013 , there were cases where gay people were being arrested for “sodomy” because they were having sex in their own homes? (https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/gay-people-are-stil...) just because those are the laws passed by the “democratic process”?

I have a strange feeling you wouldn’t feel the same way if the Democratic process infringed on your liberties.

Do you agree that I shouldn’t have been able to buy a house in a certain neighborhood because the “Democratic process” allowed racial covenants? Or that my son shouldn’t have been able to go to the school that he was zone to and instead wait on people to decide that it was okay with them even though I was paying taxes too?
Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity and Origins (Except how is built)
The real story here, is that we likely have a very good understanding of what North Korea and Iran, each, have accomplished with their nuclear programs, based on what these neutrino detectors and LIGO experiments notice.

LIGO being dual-use sensitive to ground vibration, and teams of neutrino detectors capturing and triangulating sudden directional showers of particles from special places around the globe, shot directly through the planet, into their chilled water tanks.
Simple thinking is frowned upon nowadays.
So this paper uses observations/models of Easter Island and extrapolates that model to the entire planet. It also assumes resource usage stays the same, and that tree-human codependency observed/modelled around Easter Island can be extrapolated to all of the Earth + humanity's future over the coming 100-200 years.

Climate change is real; the risks associated with climate change is real. This paper makes a few too many assumptions and extrapolations to be the one I'd cite in trying to understand those risks and changes...
No, the abstraction is not literal and not very acurate either but was catchy and implied the control/controlled. You and all of us picked it up without issues. For black people, it may not have gone that well because of the implied meaning and the black history around slavery. Im fine dropping it for a different term
Cuba is amazing at making the most of what they have. I hadn’t heard of SNET before this, but I know they’ve kept classic cars running for decades out of necessity
Are you a Slav?

Because I am, and I did not ask for this. Find me one Slav who requested this.

And yet, you thinking about the word association is all it took to imagine you you're helping someone with that. Because, hypothetically, there might be someone who is offended. For some reason.

Who thought about renaming master? As far as I know, a white person. Somehow, all these fuckups are started by white people in the US on behalf of minorities. I can imagine how it went:

"master branch... hmm, where does this naming convention come from anyway? Maybe master/slave? Hm, slavery is bad. That means the term master here might possibly offend someone. Welp, let's change it then! Oh, and it'd also excuse my job role of Dev Relations. I'm definitively useful!"

Or an academic in very-soft sciences instead of Dev Relations. I just saw some Dev Relations people on Twitter being very srs about this crap.

Meanwhile, all the software is broken. Feeling like it's held together by duct tape. Consuming more and more resources as time goes on, while functionality decreases.

All of this is excused by talking about programmer time. "Programmer time is more valuable".

Yeah, so valuable we'll be wasting time on this crap. And some things will break, maybe. Some will be fixed, some not. Some manual/help resources will be left in their original, horribly racist form. Some will be rewritten.

Oh, and there's the little cost of making politics just a tiny bit more toxic.

Anyway: when I learned the term for my ethnicity is basically the same word as slave, I thought "Hmm, that's interesting/cool fact" I'm pretty sure all the people react this way if at all.

I don't believe Blacks in the US are as unreasonable as you all paint them. I think you're all pretty damn racist for implying otherwise.
Quick question - do Teslas turn on brake lights when using one-pedal mode? Seems it can brake quite aggressively using regen.
Similarly; I used to drive a "somewhat" performance enhanced Subaru Impreza WRX. One month I tried an experiment of driving as fuel conscious as I could. It improved 1 mpg over the normal 21 mpg. However in my Model S, there is a very direct and obvious correlation between efficiency and acceleration/speed.

I don't really have a problem with my effective range being less do to my driving style as long as it's predictable (and it is).
If I were the CIA and interested in hastening the collapse of Chilean socialism, I would do everything I could to encourage them to use 1960s technology to compute the national PPF and allocate resources accordingly. Heck, I'd open a tab for them at IBM and invite them to order whatever they needed, free of charge. Then I'd sit back and watch the mayhem.
Priority access services like 911 are handled very differently. For example, I can’t place any normal outbound calls with my T-Mobile sim, but calling 311 in NYC works fine.
True though i have never in the 10 years i have been on FB had problems with chats, so quite an incredible coincidence..
I haven't seen chord diagrams used like this before but back in the early 2000s I worked in a shared office with a guy doing movie colour analysis using barcodes, so that at least has been around for a while.
Can’t Invert the CDF? Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region Under Curve
It is pretty close to ideal.

It doesn't even poison the groundwater when the pipes break.
"PHB" means "Pointy-Haired Boss": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss

The relevant bit:

> He is notable for his micromanagement, gross incompetence, obliviousness to his surroundings, and unhelpful buzzword usage; yet somehow retains power in the workplace.
> A computer programmer can change programming terminology

And that's fine, perhaps even laudable in the abstract, but right now it's not what we should be wasting time on.

> They can't really change police department practices

They could protest. They could donate time and money. They could use their platform to elevate issues that have a material impact on people's lives. They aren't obligated to do those things to be good people, and a few of them might be doing all of the above, but changing computer jargon doesn't even begin to register on the scales of social justice, it is so utterly meaningless in the face of what's going on all around us that it's almost insulting, save for the fact that the idea is overall well intentioned.
> I'm assuming neutrinos are sparse in nature, which is 50,000 metric ton pool of water was needed to detect the neutrinos emanating from the sun.

No, that's not the reason. The reason is that they barely interact with anything, including detection equipment.

> even a 99.99% loss / non-detection rate shouldn't be problem.

"Two water-filled detectors of this type (Kamiokande and IMB) recorded a neutrino burst from supernova SN 1987A. Scientists detected 19 neutrinos from an explosion of a star inside the Large Magellanic Cloud – only 19 out of the octo-decillion (10^57) neutrinos emitted by the supernova." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_detector)
Not into this game myself, but I am terribly curious how the program is architected/written. When I hear the myriad bizarre possibilities, it sounds like it could rapidly become a terrible mountain of spaghtetti code, and with so many strange interactions, would not be naturally stable or playable.

Is the secret sauce that they've made a really well-designed object model that somehow scales up well? Seems like a world rife with terribly O() complexity potentially, too.
Perhaps you should actually "burn out"? Once you burn out there is nothing left to burn. Can't light a fire in that area for awhile. So, let yourself fully "burn out" for that "place".

Take your skill elsewhere. Apply it somewhere else in some other fashion. If you return to the original place then good. Otherwise you're elsewhere and doing different or even the same things.
I.... don’t know.

One, you put a whole hell of a lot of people out of work (they’re like ~roughly 20% of the Econ)

Two, it’s too damn efficient. Government needs to be slow and frustrating. You don’t want to have lightning fast change. Natural change follows generational change... which is why you don’t want a world of super centenarians...

Efficient government is a double edged sword. Sure, it can be efficient and save money.... it can also be efficient about the bad things (imagine efficient govt coupled with Stalin or Mao to get a picture).

So, yeah.... No!

Inefficient governments leave you alone more.
All US cell operators hit with 'largest cyber attack in history'
Plus the anti-seller bias generally ensures that a bad buyer can ruin your day. I used to sell my old electronics on eBay a lot but recently have used it as a last resort if Craigslist and Swappa didn't work out.
The test before the storm
Why would I search for a situation that's going to be a definite WONTFIX?

I made up my mind some fifteen years ago that if a terminal isn't ANSI conforming, it can be casually disregarded as something unsupported.

It's like testing that web pages work with Mosaic from 1993.
Is it really worth doing so if it's as inane as they say?
The problem is that software no-one wants often has the best careers.

I worked on a system used by many people and it was hard work, was getting 10-15 years old, held together with tape and lots of users who all had their gripes and requests.

I moved to a system hardly used by anyone and life is so much better. Get to play with interesting technology and no one minds because there is now risk of annoying a our users who dont really care. The best thing is I get paid more here too.
Hey Gwern! Thank you for your note. You're right about the "its", I think a lot of them happened because quotation marks in my Latex setup need to be dealt with individually. I'll make a pass and fix those soon.

I suppose you are also right about the GitS section. The main useful observations I made there were the abundance of skin tone and the gothic look of the museum towards the end, but those are not as significant as the green in Akira. I'd love to hear your (and anyone else's) thoughts on the colors in GitS.

( Also, on a separate note, thank you for all your advice related to ML things in the TPU Discord over the past couple days :) )
Gambit Scheme: Inside Out (2010) [pdf]
Also, errors would accumulate and accelerate all bad decisions.