skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd rather have a library that gives you the correct answer in important common cases, at the expense of not being able to answer questions that don't have an answer.

The problem is that optimizing for the common cases and ignoring the difficult or meaningless cases is exactly how you end up with 20 different rules for how something should work that all handle the situation kind of well, but interact with each other to create horrible, crazy bugs whenever anything unexpected happens.

Look, Javascript type conversions are a disaster, I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But the reason they are a disaster is specifically because the language was so worried about making everything intuitive that it didn't stop to think about what would happen when the half-dozen 'helpful' type conversions interacted with each other in novel situations.

It's better to have one or two rules that work everywhere, even if they occasionally surprise a new programmer. Beginners will only be beginners for a small, finite amount of time, but they will need to deal with your language quirks and emergent weirdness for the rest of their lives.

If more of the core Javascript language embraced that philosophy, it would be a better language to program with.

It's the "don't worry about the edge cases, just make the obvious case right" thinking that got us class syntax that doesn't actually build classes, and strings parsed into numbers for `>` but not `+`, and basically the entirety of `==`. Because all of those situations had slightly different answers about what was the "intuitive" thing to do, and nobody thought any farther than the isolated, immediately obvious use-cases for those features.
Ah, my bad, I totally misread your comment then. I agree with you, that comment is next-level denial.
Yeah, this was Nancy Leveson's workshop. I was going to go in person but I was able to tune in for quite a bit of the virtual version. For anyone interested, there's quite a bit of material online with, I believe, additional videos coming: http://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/2020-stamp-workshop-agenda/

One of the interesting things to me was the range of industries represented. Definitely not just aerospace.
From a cursory glance at your comment history, it doesn’t appear that you have been (shadow) banned.

When you say your “posts are not showing up”, are you referring to your comments or your article submissions? If it is the latter, showing up on the front page is more about luck, time of day and a host of other factors than about submission title alone.
> He also periodically tries to re-register from the same home IP once a month claiming to be a new account and why is he getting banned? and etc.

I'd be tempted to try to trick them into telling you their personal information if they're doing that. Create a page that pops up only for that IP that asks for name/address for a prize give away or something.
Also batteries are critical for Solar to be viable generally anyway, but not ideal for sustainability.
The Apple code scanner is buggy. I had an app rejected for an alleged call to an internal API that the app does not actually call. I had to appeal to the app review board, who approved my build, but it delayed a critical bug fix.

Friends have seen the same problem, with different bogus API violations reported.
There is GNU Smalltalk, but I don't think it has a big community at the moment.

What you are describing, though, is conceptually easy enough to implement: modern Smalltalks (Squeak, Pharo, and friends) all have robust interfaces to Unix and stdin/stdout. You could easily create a repl. It's also easy to make TCP, HTTP, or WebSocket servers, so you can create interaction that way as well. And of course there is Seaside, which has some tools already for interacting with a Smalltalk image through the browser.

Another approach is Amber Smalltalk, which is a web-based Smalltalk for frontend development (amber-lang.net)
You could have asked the reviewer for the crash report, looked for access to the OS update, looked for someone with the OS update who could test your app, waited until the OS update was released, or simply submitted your app update again in hopes of getting a more lenient or helpful reviewer.

Why didn't you do those things? I've been in similar situations many times and made poor decisions. In my case, I made those poor choices because of poor mental habits and low emotional awareness.

About 5 years ago, I started spending effort to increase my EQ and mental habits. I consulted a therapist regularly for several years, read Marshall Rosenberg's Non-violent Communication, learned meditation at a free 10-day silent retreat, and talked with people close to me about my emotions and mental habits. I occasionally ask people close to me for feedback on my attitude and behavior. All of this effort as paid off. Compared to 5 years ago, I have more stable relationships, fewer and shorter arguments, fewer days lost to playing unhappy mind-movies, and more work productivity.

I urge you to invest more effort in your EQ skills.

EDIT: s/same situation/similar situations/
Nothing exists in a void, duh. My point is that one can strive for fact checkers who are independent of Facebook.
Your centering your criticism of ATS on popularity. Does an investment on PR trumps technical merit?
I dunno. What I posted was a reference to a 20 year old in-joke that poked fun at GP for (in the eyes of his father) conforming to a humorously incorrect cliche of a "computer hacker", that anyone who frequented Slashdot would have been amused to come across again. It's more of a reference than derivative "copypasta".

That all said, I totally get that this kind of thing doesn't mesh with what Hacker News seems to strive for, although in my personal opinion it's worse for it.
Would you mind sharing which bounded container you tried to instantiate and what the problem was?
I still have my @Mac.com email address, and I have a screenshot of the sign-up message showing a Jan 5 2000 date. (I was working on a contract at Apple at the time and got in when iTools first appeared)

I forgot that you can now use the other domains as well.
A 3D artist I follow on Instagram has done similar things in CG, and I find them quite compelling. Admitedly the locations he sets them in are well-known to me, which probably amplifies the effect, but I think it's legitimately interesting work nonetheless.

https://www.instagram.com/sethithy/
> Because people in corporations don't have the incentive to benefit the business but to progress their careers

AKA the principal-agent problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
Your app helps Apple sell devices and their margins are large.
Trump administration forces Facebook and Google to drop Hong Kong cable
Srem Portal
Mitrovacki Srem Portal je internet medij informativnog tipa, sa vestima prvenstveno sa područja lokalnih sredina sa područja Srema. Prikaz informacija kroz jedinstven i moderan vizuelni identitet portala omugućava lak i pregledan pristup sadržajima. Ovaj portal je deo SREM MEDIA.
it's bad that this disincentivizes me from answering people's questions...
Our civilizational message in a bottle, the Voyager Records and Pioneer Plaques will outlive their power sources by an incomprehensible amount. The record is estimated to survive for more than a billion years. The power source for less than 40 before it is rendered unusable.

The message will travel onwards forever, cloaked in dark, dashing the hopes of any recovery. Of bringing joy to alien beings. Of giving them certainty that they certainly weren't alone in the universe at some point in their past.

What if we could create something, some undefined means to generate a pulse ever X years for more than a billion years? Is it possible to make a billion year battery? Oxford's Electric Bell at a cosmic time scale? Could human ingenuity create a device that would make our next message in a bottle more discoverable for those beings who do not exist yet?

Is it possible for humanity, with current technology and scientific knowledge, to transcend its cradle and create something that functions for billions of years?
> We might have found that we prefer to be certain about the future, however grim it may be.

One of my favorite pop-psychology ideas was an idea about managers. Apparently there was some study (probably never peer reviewed or even sufficiently well founded, but what do I know?) where people were given bosses that were one of: "super nice", "super mean", or "usually nice and sometime mean". The result, as I recall, was that the bosses people disliked the most were the usually nice bosses. The speculation was that with a horrible boss you at least knew what to expect. You could plan around someone who is consistently mean. The "usually nice" bosses were unpredictable which lead to higher stress amongst the participants. I may be mis-remembering and filling in more details, but I think this result held regardless of the frequency of the "usually nice".

> Heidegger claimed that the fundamental human experience is alienation, felt as homelessness, anxiety, and a pervasive fear of death

For more on this, Lex Fridman recently had a talk with Sheldon Solomon [1]. They discuss a path from Heidegger toward Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death".

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKyNxfyWbo
That's just a measure for backwards compatibility, so python2-only scripts don't cause cryptic errors when they have a `python` shebang. Many distros ship without python2, but will probably still link `python -> python2` for the near future.
Someone, including a few very big names like Netrlix, Wikipedia etc. need to coordinate an 'app store strike' and pull their apps for a week.

Big brands won't have to worry as their downloads will pick up the week after, though it will piss off some of their customers.

It will however create a massive, international PR storm over the issue, and every press outlet in the world will be talking about it widely.

If the PR is well messaged and coordinated, it can be made into an anti-trust populist issue, which will hit the vein of some Democratic lawmakers who may in a couple of months be empowered to move on it.
Once you reach 100k followers, you only need a 0.1% jerk rate, to always have a 100 people in your comment section that do nothing but troll, rile you up, or demand you defend your thoughts against their stupid uninformed disagreements. Chollet has 210k followers.
> the Rust project is not a fan of rabid Rust over-evangelism (e.g. "Rewrite It In Rust", "Rust Evangelism Strike Force"), and sees it as damaging and unhelpful.

I was really caught off guard by this stuff recently. I was around the rust subreddit a lot back in 2013-2015 and never saw stuff like that. Stepped out while working on other stuff and now it seems common. Super strange.
You were speaking authoritatively about the underlying code of an app that had a review issue related to Touch Bar, and made an incorrect statement that there are no design requirements for that feature. I was giving you guidance on why that item gets flagged for review.
The inequitable aspect of "safe neighborhoods" is they depend on other cities for their existence. The people of Piedmont, as an example, require access to the cities of Oakland and San Francisco for their livelihoods, because there are no jobs, no businesses, and no cultural institutions of any kind in the town of Piedmont. They are purely parasitic.

When you look at Berkeley you have somewhat of the opposite issue: they have the same population they had in 1950, but the number of jobs in Berkeley has doubled in the meantime. The general taxpayers of the Bay Area have paid to build three subway stations and an interstate highway through Berkeley, but Berkeley stubbornly refuses to let anyone enjoy the fruits of these investments except for people who already lived there half a century ago.
I'm sad it's not!
>The safety guarantees that Rust provides are neither unique nor complete,

Well no language can ever have "complete" safety guarantees. But I would like to know what other languages offer the same set of guarantees without GC overhead. This would include:

* the usual memory safety
* no nulls
* no undefined behavior
* no data races

Does ATS guarantee those things?
Well, the actual cost is 73 euros per month but in typical French fashion my employer has to pay for half of my metro pass (also I have the cheapest bike rental plan and trips are only free if they last less than 30 minutes).
A similar discussion was had a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24262757
Intel and AMD settled a suit in 2009 :
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/antitrust-ruling

" ... Intel must not ... Intentionally include design/engineering elements in its products that artificially impair the performance of any AMD microprocessor."
Google Search Results for Blm
look at autocomplete suggestions for "blm is " on google compared to bing. just some manual search results limitations, nothing to see here. try the same exercise for any other organization.
Honestly, I disagree. This isn't a large farm tractor, it's a compact utility tractor. They're more for small farm / rural residential / hobby farm users, not the scenarios you're talking about.

Compact utility tractors like this are really only used for a couple hours. I use mine once or twice a week -- clear the driveway of snow, rototill the garden, spray the vineyard, box scrape the parking pad, haul some dirt with the loader, mow the back field. None of this is more than a couple hours of continuous use.

And if you consider that there's lots of times you're just sitting there idling while shoveling dirt into the loader, an electric tractor wouldn't even be using energy just sitting there waiting for your load. And bonus: not making noise.

I've been waiting for this for a long time, but the price just isn't there yet.

Also, people bailing hay aren't using compact utility tractors like this. They're using bigger tractors. You couldn't even lift a full round bale with this loader.
Pretty soon they'll be arguing for inclusion of JavaScript in the Linux kernel
I thought they had colour pallets that are appropriate for various blindnesses (ex: for yellow/blue blind folks, green, blue and cyan are all the same colour, so you wouldn't use more than one of that set of colours in any given pallet).

I don't need that since I see fairly normal colour in the other eye, and so I have an immediate "converter" to see what the visual difference is between yellow/blue blindness and normal vision. I literally don't even notice unless my right eye vision is blocked. I see a properly coloured world as long as both eyes (or my right eye alone) are seeing it.

I don't think the OS/X and Windows things are emulating what the glasses do. The glasses are filtering out overlapping colour frequencies (as seen by the eye's cones) so the R G and B are more distinct. That's completely different. This is limiting the noise, versus changing the whole colour pallet.

Interestingly images altered to look like yellow/blue blindness look the same to both my eyes, so I'd say they're pretty accurate. There are some small discrepancies, but very few in most that I've seen. I actually find that a little jarring because of course my right eye protests this invasion of missing colours.
Why people care less as more people die
"What about Iraq" would have been whataboutism.

"What about literally everyone else, in all of time" is what I said.
CDC scandal: for 6% of the deaths, Covid-19 was the only cause mentioned
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

########## Significance

COVID-19 total “deaths” in the U.S. are at 168,864.

So 6% is only 10,131 deaths from COVID-19 with no other underlying causes.

The New York Times put out an extensive article on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and how they determine who has COVID-19 or not. The PCR tests are widely used to search for small segments of genetic material that look like COVID-19. If it finds it, the test is positive.

The sensitivity levels of the PCR tests have been set too high. The New York Times reports that up to 90% of people testing “positive” carried barely any virus.

People may have had COVID-19 a while ago but certainly didn’t have it now. Or the test may have detected some naturally occurring genetic segments that looked like COVID-19 but weren’t.

Context: if the medical community set appropriate sensitivity levels resulting in “real” positives for COVID-19, the COVID-19-related genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be anywhere between 100-fold to 1,000-fold the levels that are being used today.

The states and the hospital systems use the PCR data when claiming a COVID-19-related death. If the PCR data comes back and says “positive,” then COVID-19 is claimed as a comorbidity. And we now know that up to 90% of those “positive” tests may in fact be “negative.”

The charts used so widely in by the media to scare us with the spikes in new COVID-19 cases… mean nothing at all.

More than half and up to 90% of those “new cases” are nothing at all.
The economic lockdowns were for nothing.
The two-week self-quarantines were for no reason at all.

Someone or some group within the CDC intentionally gave guidance for the PCR sensitivity settings knowing that this would result in an incredible spike in new cases… and economic destruction, fear, panic, and chaos.

This is a scandal of epic proportions.
How is the current pandemic now causing dread in people? Sure, most people experience existential crises individually, but now we have an event that is causing a lot of people to experience it at once.

In fact, the first time existentialism became mainstream was in the aftermath of World War II, a large scale global disaster that shook people's faith in God and Government (capital G). Is the coronavirus pandemic not the most global disaster since WWII?
Also it would be kind of funny. Where the rust parts can only be compiled by the llvm based rust compiler, but clang(llvm) can't build the C parts.
And gcc can only build the C parts but not the rust parts :)
Amazon USPTO application: Using body surfaces for augmented reality ad placement
It's not only inclusion of the headers. ATS compiles to C, and it can inline C without FFI. The benefit that you receive is the ability to introduce gradual automated proofs around unchanged stable interfaces that are known to be safe. You start with inlining everything but the small core that is proven to be safe. Then you can iterate indefinitely at the desired pace to bring new layers of formally verified API in places of previously unverified C calls without breaking backward compatibility and expected runtime profiles (safe pointer-based memory access [1] and stack-allocated closures [2] as an example)

[1] http://www.ats-lang.org/MYDATA/SPPSV-padl05.pdf

[2] http://ats-lang.github.io/DOCUMENT/ATS2TUTORIAL/HTML/c1267.h...
Thank you for Weekly Robotics, it's an amazing resource
Sometimes, though, you can only get the desired effect with SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory_EX.
Good thing I never claimed that, I just said it was uninteresting to mathematicians unless it has artistic merit!
I'm not sure I've seen this one before. Are you thinking of Tedrake's other course and textbook on underactuated robotics here http://underactuated.csail.mit.edu/ ? I loved that one. Taught me a ton.
It is hilarious to read threads about Apple's app reviews. Every single time there's something about Google Play lots of commenters praise Apple but in reality it is at least just as bad.
The mountable extra battery pack might help somewhat. You can rotate through a number of battery packs as you use one and charge the others back home. You still need someone to shuttle them to and from your tractor.
There is no "empty .html file" in the browser. It's not just a text file, it's a document tree; there are compulsory nodes that need to be created even if you didn't explicitly write them in your file. <html>, <head> (which must contain <title>) and <body> need to exist - and since you didn't create them, the browser must, after it's failed to parse what you were supposed to have included.
How to get famous on TikTok: Deepfakes
You would think we wouldn’t have an endless string of 0-day exploits for operating systems as well but here we are, for the last 25 years. It should be a simple and logical problem as well.
If you were going to use Zen, why would you choose MKL? Why not OpenBLAS?
Computers do some pretty "dumb shit" when they're flooded with data and running bad algorithms. I mean 737MAX didn't need a pilot error in order to do something critically bad.
Discussion about this topic was posted/flagged yesterday, it was a different website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324684

Discussion on reddit about this topic from 3 days ago with 350+ comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/iiedk4/energy_f...
Yeah but Monteral is frigid for 8 months in a year and has so so public transit IMO. It is in Canada though which I dearly love (but not for its weather or its cities).
I think to me a significant part is that one process boils down to a game of pushing numbers around (a fun and engaging game, certainly), and the other process requires physically engaging with the logistical difficulties of the world in a way that produces a more directly relatable story. That story may not be part of the image directly, but is sort of implied, and subjectively makes the photographs more immersive.
Disingenuous framing of data or a laughably fundamental misreading of it? This is akin to trying to gain insight from a bunch of data on a map that simply has a strong correlation with population density.
in some ways, this is how Service Console works in vmware ESX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi
Thanks. I was asking because I couldn't view the video and really wanted to read the post. Looks like it's available now.
You've missed the point. Why is the owner of the car paying if the car is driving in autonomous mode? If the driver has no control, is he liable? That's the question. Talking about insurance is just kicking the can down the road.

If the driver has the option to take control, is he going to be liable for doing so or not doing so in case of an accident?
China announces new rules that could prevent sale of TikTok
I guess nobody's model...
puts on sunglasses
...predicted this event.
I still use mine actively. It can only hope it remains usable, even though I no longer use Mac (iOS only nowdays) and the talk of needing to change settings occasionally is disturbing.

I don't see why they need to kill it. As an aside, I still have a Rocketmail address I use that survived Yahoo! buying them out (so, 1996-1997). I'll never give that up either.
It should try to include the waiting time at signal lights when calculating driving time.
Utility tractors aren't often used continuously, power requirements are very bursty. I've had 16 hour days drilling fenceposts, but the tractor itself would only have travelled a few miles. With a diesel tractor you have to leave it running (not idling) to have power at the PTO to run the auger. With an electric tractor it wouldn't use any appreciable power when the auger isn't running so I would bet you could get a full 16 hours of usage out of it between charges.