skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can say that about many things, which is why safety is paramount. Not an "overall" safety that kills fewer people, but that no additional people will die. There is responsibility incurrred for kiling 1,000 people who wouldn't have otherwise died. It's really a terrible argument to say, "we killed different people."

> The handful of people who die in plane crashes "wouldn't have died otherwise", but I think the majority of people agree that planes are the preferred (in terms of safety) way to get across oceans, and they are more or less the only choice for civilians unless they want to take a luxury cruise.

When a person is hit by a falling plane, there will likely be liablity assigned. Similarly, when someone is run over by an AP navigated car, there will be liability assigned, even if it makes the jobs of engineers more difficult.

> Same thing about cars/trains vs. walking thousands of miles across deserts. Overall more lives are saved, but yes, a small handful of people are going to get hit crossing the road/tracks that wouldn't have gotten hit if cars/trains weren't invented.

Exactly. That is why people and companies are assigned liablity, not just for intentional torts, but for negligence. When people "do things" they are responsible for not creating havoc or destruction, regardless of how helpful their actions otherwise are.

If the walls fall off your house, are you going to thank the building contracter for making the safest house around? Because, the way you are talking, you would be happy to pay for a replacement house without holding that "safest builder" responsible - even if people were crushed by the falling roof.
Unfortunately there's a large overlap in the Venn diagram between NIMBYs and progressives, and those afflicted don't realize the inherent contradiction in holding both of those views. Personally I'm in the "build lots more housing everywhere because that'll make it cheaper for everyone" camp.
Which Apple will presumably appeal and and win, because the charge was legitimate.
That’s a great question. Seaside was really good at handling application flow through pages, seamlessly allowing the back button to work, by being based on closures and continuations. If that had been paired with the new ideas about convention over configuration and if a good object database were freely available, I think DHH might have chosen it had he been aware. DSL like things and magical code are possible in Smalltalk but the system is more reified in its final view. You could have class methods initializing the relationships, etc, but afterward those methods and variables would be visible parts of the system. Then tearing them down might not be as easy as removing a line of code like it is in a language like Ruby where the state is discarded at the end of a run.
How long does OpenGL have until it's deprecated?
I'm not. I get the distinction. The point I'm trying to make is that only considering the intended usage is an incorrect approach to design. The consequences of this constrained thinking can be particularly extreme in infosec, but it's just as true of software in general, or even, say, consumer products -- hence seeing all sorts of weird disclaimers on them these days.
You give them tons of data and then all you hear is "I'm gonna have to go with mah gut on this one"
There's basically no chance a mandatory vaccine will happen in the US at least. If it somehow made it through the legal/political side of things, it wouldn't make it through the people side of things. Especially if it's being rushed, or could be perceived that way.
> when I drive into the Berkeley hills, Marin, or Piedmont/rich Oakland the density of Black Lives Matter signs in front of houses increases.

Because unfortunately, a large part of the phenomenon is just virtue signaling.
Could sti be hired at Apple directly, but at another city/country with cheap wage costs. No clue though where they have their employees.
Ask HN: Are Azure/Amazon/Other Cognitive Search Based Off ElasticSeach?
As far as open source tools, it appears both ElasticSearch and Vespa use a BM25 algorithm to rank results, possibly with a neural re-ranking algorithm. Is this the best there is? Or have AWS and other services found ways of improving on it?

https://www.elastic.co/blog/practical-bm25-part-2-the-bm25-algorithm-and-its-variables
I don't think temperature has anything yo do with it. There are still plenty of cities in southern Italy were temperature goes above 40° in the summer and still do not sprawl.
Users want convenience. Hosted is usually more convenient to use (at least in the short term) as all the maintenance is taken care of transparently.
Everyone wants to surround themselves with those at a socioeconomic status above them, or at worst equal to them.
>here is something funny about our status quo when people live in a $2m home on a 1/2 acre of extremely sought after real estate while loudly advertising their desire for more equality.

This isn't isolated to the Bay either. I struggle with understanding activists who have careers in tech/pharma/etc who publically express these types of problems but privately are willing participants in the systems they deride. Sometimes I'm not sure if they actually want to live in the world they're fighting for.

I know plenty of eco-activists who saddle up to the bar and order a hamburger after attending a meeting about how factory farming is destroying the world and we need to stop eating meat as a society yesterday.
This has happened since the dawn of the computer age, and probably before.

Any technology too complex for the managers who purchase for it to understand fully can be sold and oversold by marketing people as "the next big thing".

Managers may or may not see through that, but if their superiors want them to pursue it or if they need to pursue something in order to show they're doing something of value, then they're happy to follow where the marketers lead.

Java everywhere, set top TV boxes, IOT devices, transitioning mainframes to minis, you name it... the marketers have made a mint selling it, usually for little benefit to the companies that bought into it.
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Tufte definitely has something of a soft spot for Minard. He discusses that particular map on page 40 - 41 of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (in the section "Narrative graphics of space and time"), and his site has a page devoted to it/the sources used to produce it: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard
> Wright’s opposition to denser housing in his San Jose neighborhood has made him bedfellows with one rather uncomfortable partner for the self-described liberal: President Donald Trump, who has decried efforts led by Wiener and others to build “low income housing” in suburban communities. “It’s an absolute nightmare for me to say anything that is so close to what Trump has been saying about the invasion of the suburbs,” Wright said. “There’s a very embarrassing and disturbing parallel.”

And yet he is also quoted as saying “I don’t know what the answer is.” This just reflects the same issue I’ve seen since moving to the Bay Area 20 years ago: people’s value and pride in their “diverse” geographical area being at odds with their desire for ever-higher property values and NIMBYism. It’s pretty clear which one usually wins, even if folks can scarcely bring themselves to admit it.
For dramatic effect I will simply say that all one has to do is google or bing "ebay execs".
You can make them very small, a couple millimeters. The power density will cripple you long before you hit a size limit.
Feel better. This was something I knew nothing about a
few months back but I took a workshop on STAMP that went virtual earlier this summer.
Outline version for those with browsers that won't render the page properly without massive amounts of popups: https://outline.com/3Ezn4C
Are you trolling? Masks are not new. Their effectiveness against a virus which was just discovered is new.
I find I have few words to describe that video better than "dope as hell"
Some folks in the comments here are missing the point or perhaps haven't read the article thoroughly enough. The article is making a reasonably valid complaint about overt domain squatters, but the writer doesn't have a problem with the owner of a domain having some kind of useful and legitimate use if it's not available:

"If it was being used legitimately, I’d have absolutely not problem with someone else owning the domain."
Ask HN: What is your programming horror story?
> unless you want to use cross-language LTO (which we'll eventually want to do, but it won't be a hard requirement for a working kernel).

Does Linux even work with LTO right now? It seems to do a lot of weird-linking-magic things that I wouldn't expect to work well with LTO.
Fair warning: this is from 4 years ago.
dang! these are so creative. thanks for the pointer. i always wondered about capturing flights' time lapses. this is much harder than the flights. i wonder what inspired them.
There recently was a kerfuffle in Berkeley when Robert Reich, ex-Secretary of Laber, UC Berkeley professor, and author of "The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It" was found to have written a letter to the city in opposition of a small apartment building that is proposed to replace an empty detached house on the block where he lives in his 2-million-dollar house. There is often a gap between the positions taken in print, and the actions taken in practice.
Well, nowadays, designing a city around defense would seem ridiculous.
JRuby has a semi-optimizing JIT since JRuby 9000 was released in 2015. It's mostly non-speculative but still the fastest way to run Ruby in production. I've used it at several companies.
Or "high-functioning psychopaths", if you're a bit less concerned with rriepe's concerns.
Right, I know what the c-key did but I can't recall ever learning why it was called a c-key. What does the C stand for?
Do you really think humans have some magic powers for doing computationally intractable proof search??

Do you think human-written proofs vs machine-written proofs magically overcome what Gödel points out a limitation of the language itself both proofs are written in (or, in principle, "compile to")??

Why so much of this human skills mysticism on HN of all places... :/
I'm reminded of the failed assassination attempt against Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro
China is increasing spending on R&D, meanwhile America is increasing spending on "diversity training". Top Chinese universities admit the most brilliant students who study tirelessly, American universities actively deny those students due to being "overrepresented" and pick the less competent purely on the basis of skin color. America's bizarre focus on equal outcomes at any cost has actually made it more communist than the CCP in some categories. Who could have guessed? What a tragedy.
This is a pretty acrimonious split within modern feminism, with a faction believing that the modern trans movement is reifying gender norms as something concrete and valid instead of arbitrary oppressive constraints on individual expression and behavior.
Some of the better historic manufacturers that "made it" were known to have good managers go and visit the filthy masses on the factory floor and get a feel for what's going on. It was very valuable for me when I used to help with manufacturing testing. I always spent some time with the techs and the people on the floor assembling stuff. A lot of it was useless but a lot of it was worthwhile and we learned to trust each other better instead of the "eggheads upstairs" and the "jarheads downstairs" that seemed to be most prevalent there.
An interesting and reasonable proposal. Similar practices are still alive today [0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
this statement belies a lack of understanding of just how long autoland has existed. Guess which decade autoland was invented... and what decade commercial service flights began making fully autonomous landings...

(you're probably wrong)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland#Civil_aviation

It is not, on the whole, that difficult a problem to actually land an aircraft autonomously. Now that planes can autonomously fly the rest of the route too, it makes sense to just take the pilot out of the cockpit.
> The American Revolution was absolutely leftist in the traditional sense right as "support of the monarchy" or conservative and left as "royal abolitionists" or progressive.

But that wasn't it at all. They didn't revolt "because kings are shit", they revolted because they believed the British parliament (where the anti-royalists had won against the royalists in the English civil war) didn't give them adequate representation. It was motivated by an unbalanced relationship between economic ability and political participation, not because of ideology.
Thanks for the correction. I borrowed the spanish plural.

Trivia: Spanish would distinguish between "una bacteria" (one bacterium) feminine noun in Spanish so it ends in "a", and between "una colonia de bacterias" (a colony of bacteria). Bacterias would be the correct plural in Spanish. English works a little different here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Saved me a bunch of frustrating searches.
There ought to be a FAQ for this.
How do you pronounce GNR? It think it needs to be a vowel, or an R.

Some attempts: GRR: Gnu Renames Rust, GAR: Gnu assimilates rust, GER: Gnu non Est Rust (gnu is not rust, but in latin to get an E), GIR: Gnu Isn't Rust, GOR: Gnu Oxidizes Rust, GUR: Gnu Unseats Rust.
When you rezone, it doesn't force houses to be torn down, it just allows people to build denser.
Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario
My comment was entirely based on the second link. Direct quote from that:

> Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP.

(Which linked to a patch adding driver support for handling HDCP, with absolutely no possibility of it somehow being forced.)

Regarding the quote from that interview: sure, and there's also no guarantee that the Linux kernel won't drop support for every architecture except SPARC, except of course for all the people involved not putting up with it. In what possible universe would Linux developers decide it was a good idea to mandate HDCP? It's completely unfounded and unsupported hyperbole and fearmongering, without even a hint of potential truth.

It's also roughly consistent with what I'd expect from someone who thinks that gettext daring to have support for Java and C# format strings is a horrific problem that should be ripped out by the roots.
NB: That points to what turns out to be an old version of a continuously updated page, from 2013. Actual content, which was offline at the time, dates to at latest 2016. Apologies for any confusion.
I do agree that "easy" isn't a solved space in the Linux world (Pop!_OS by System 76 is supposed to be quite good albeit also Ubuntu-based).

I don't think that necessarily absolves problems with the AUR or including AUR helpers out of the box. I do understand that the AUR is incredibly useful for a wide(r?) array of software, but I take issue with Manjaro's approach of foisting it on potentially unsuspecting users who may not know enough to understand that these are user-maintained packages that anyone could upload. I'd say I don't think it's a particularly responsible thing to do, but Manjaro's approach seems to eschew caution, throwing it entirely to the wind.

But, I confess it could be because I'm a long time Arch user protecting the status quo. I understand that the traditional approach (install base-devel, copy the target PKGBUILD, run makepkg, run pacman -U) is an obstacle to a lot of users. That said, I think it's a good thing because the community repo has a ton of commonly used software (maintained by TUs) so there isn't a huge requirement on diving into the AUR now as there was 5 years ago.

My fear is that encouraging people to blindly install PKGBUILDs via yay or pamac will eventually nail someone.
Currently they need another user clicking 'vouch', not sure what's up there. Might be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310891 but I'd say it's more a side-effect by algorithm, not deliberate. You can email the moderators (link in the footer). dang is one of the moderators.
I’m now curious about implementing a long running Smalltalk server that can be accessed using command line tools and traditional editors, with some graphical or web based tools to implement inspectors and other UI.
Jeez, have some empathy for regular people. The whole damn point of those measures on Apple's side is to introduce friction and make it excessively hard to install non-notarized apps. It's already bad and unusable by most average people, and that's exactly the goal.
Depends on where in Europe. There is a lot of wood construction in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. The Netherlands, for instance, uses a lot of brick (for facades, and sand-lime bricks on the inside). Places near the Mediterranean, often use thick stone walls and/or concrete.
I don't see why it's funny. The fact you're rich doesn't mean you don't support equality. Also the slogan BLM can mean many things. The fact someone supports BLM (for whatever it means) doesn't mean they also think money should be equally distributed.
Truly outstanding works of art. Absolutely stunning.
it's pretty obvious that he DOES know what the answer is, he just doesn't like it...
"The melting is overtaking the climate models we use to guide us, and we are in danger of being unprepared for the risks posed by sea level rise."
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oops, right you are, it's not defined on Enumerable (though i do wonder why! `each` does define an iteration order after all)
Well, the Bay Area has very conservative politics, so this is not a surprise. The rhetoric here is all around preservation and the lost golden age and all that stuff - standard conservative fare.

There's a veneer of supporting progressive issues but it's a veneer. I imagine that most people would have high RWAS scores as well.
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This is really more common than many north americans think. Crudo, tartare, carpaccio, sashimi, etc. Cow, fish, horse, buffalo, etc. Some are raw & seasoned, some lightly cured (e.g. ceviche)
Agreed, even as I am currently home searching - this, I want to be the worst house in the neighborhood.

Not the best, never the best.
don't need it. I failed the Turing test in Kindergarten, graduated from Elementary school the same way Ender Wiggin did and I like bugs better than people today. ;-)

We are working on a game like Advance Wars but where you can have Spain fight Portugal or something like that.
I'm finding myself really enjoying this type of work and I think I would like to specialize in it. Any good learning resources you used on your path to where you are now?
https://youtu.be/RxD6H3ri8RI -- hyper-speed, highly entertaining overview of the process he used.
Copypasta isn't a clever prank, though, it's banal and derivative. Trolling sucks, please quit it. I say funny stuff on HN all the time. I aim to keep it 100% original, and mixed in with relevant and topical discussion, and I rarely get downvoted for making jokes in that context.
You are completely alone in the universe. Nobody is going to make any choices for you or help define your life. You have to decide who you are and how you live.

That's how it came down, practically and especially emotionally, to a lot of people who were quarantined. Seems pretty existential to me.
Could be the case for Windows RT but I'm not sure if that's relevant in this case because RT has a small market share.
Exactly, this is why I had avoided posting the Daily Mail article.. Unfortunately their summary seems quite complete.
> the fact of the matter is that he gave the people what they wanted.

I know nothing about Moses, but if the accusations are true, the above would not absolve it in any way.
The 4 color theorem was a boring case analysis, but that doesn't mean that all computer proofs are boring and tedious.

We have proof assistants using many beautiful type theoretic languages, and tools which can (attempt) to write proofs in this languages.

In fact, this is one of the best usages of ML because we hardly care whatever impenetrable bullshit goes into the proof search when the proof must be self-justifying, and, just like a ML go game log, potentially lead to new techniques for human mathematicians.
They wouldn't be the first: https://www.sunflower-labs.com/
At the moment, I believe the Linux kernel can do LTO with some additional patches, but there are still regular issues. It isn't nearly as well supported as Clang or LLD yet.
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In Ruby, as in NodeJS, the GIL pushes you to scale horizontally. The memory footprint of Hello World becomes a big problem, because the number of copies you run will be proportional to the number of cores you have, not the number of machines. You get no benefit from moving from an 8 core box to 16 or 20 cores.

I suspect if they do manage to pull off more concurrency in Ruby 3, that vertically scaling machines will make more sense. If 8 cores benefit from a shared footprint, instead of one core per process, then the budget looks more attractive.

So now might not be the right time to cherry-pick some of these features, but it may not be far off.
it involves the "patches-must-be-approved-by-upstream" to still be called Rust clause that Rust inherits from the Mozilla Trademark policy. Its the same policy that led to the creation of IceWeasel/Waterfox etc.
Ouch.

The verification aspect was one of the core arguments that Apple brought forward to argue that the app store would be a consumer benefit and not a monopolistic extortion scheme, as Epic had claimed. But now it looks like unrelated teams are poking holes into Apple's defense from all directions.

Plus, as the article correctly states, the resulting illusion of safety might be even more dangerous than a user who is aware of the need to be careful with stuff downloaded from the internet.
How good are data scientists in building reliable, scalable systems? My anecdotal experience has been that many don’t bother or care to learn good software development practices, so the systems they build almost always work well for specific use cases but are hard to productionize.
Ultimately it is about protection of personal property. The value and and desirability of your personal property is directly tied to adjacent properties and the neighborhood. Height restrictions prevent someone building a tall building and blocking your view, which would have significant and direct cost to your asset value. Zoning restrictions ensure the neighborhood stays safe and quiet, another direct contributor of asset value.

This is not sustainable at scale, clearly density is necessary. But, there is a legitimate case for protecting private property values, creating density where it makes sense but not where it doesn't.
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Yeah there’s a certain irony living in Palo Alto and seeing all of the black lives matters signs while the owners here do everything in their power to prevent any housing from getting built. Housing that would actually make this area more affordable to a larger audience.

Who are the signs even for?

The feeling I get is, “black lives matter but they can stay a town or two away from us - like in East Palo Alto.”

It doesn’t look better when the history had explicit racial constraints on zoning.