skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but they literally read the wrong numbers. They read operating cost as net revenue or growth as total revenue or some such nonsense. Haha! Some dumbass out there reading Bloomberg probably believed it too. Sucker. Not only did I have insider info, I also knew the public source from where they got it and how they misread it.

And yeah, I'm also sure there's at least one car out there with a J D Power award that isn't crap. Maybe not two, but maybe one.

I actually enjoyed the linked article - though I don't know how true it is. Just finished it. To butcher a famous quotation: "God made America a superpower and Vietnam a small jungle state. Sam Colt made them equal".
How Snackpass got their first 1000 customers?
Loose Lips Sink MIPS
Sounds great and kudos to you for trying an alternative to the rat race!

Was it hard to negotiate or was your employer positive to the idea from the beginning?
I mean, not if one is oilprice.com, but yes. Hopefully demand never rebounds.

Unfortunately, cheap oil does have repercussions on the value proposition for electrification of transportation. However, electric cars are now mature enough that they have other selling points: quieter, not dependent on gas stations, better performance, better resale price (at least in the case of Tesla). Buying a new gas car in 2020 seems downright foolish.
Actually i think a lot of the arguing is because of people's conflicting interests. For example you will find that european workers are more warm to remote work, while a lot of SF workers are not. There is a large percentage of people who are invested in SF properties for example, and they are unconsciously biased against changes that will cause those values to drop.
> data to be stored within the CPU

I don’t know anything about CPU design. Am I wrong to read this line and be worried about memory access vulnerabilities like have been found with Intel CPUs?
One trick I learned a long time ago is take a walk around the block in the morning before walk, and do the same walk in reverse in the afternoon.

It tricks your brain into saying "this is my commute". Ideally you have a work laptop or some such that you can take out in the morning after your walk and put away at night before your second walk.
Yeah, there really aren't any. The cheapest option is two unwieldy independent Baofengs.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401929
And there's generally no exception for old things. Like many products, ours almost never permits breaking API changes, but an exception was of course made (at significant cost) to strip out public facing fields named "whitelist".
I don't think the technology behind it was particularly new or novel. It was simply arranging known technology to a new application.

Given the lack of research, but perhaps the high experimentation, millions make sense.
Yes, but at least a in principle testable fringe theory. (And by penrose!)
Yeah I’ve been thinking about joining a small company like that. But they can be quite hard to find since they generally don’t put up any job postings. Congratulations to finding one! :)
What is definition of useful?
Many successful projects are not necessary useful, but still they create wealth, and many useful project never succeeded to make money to become sustainable...

For example many paintings have huge price tag, and we could live without them. Many CO2 removal could devices are very useful but not financially sustainable ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23593014
That's not maturity, that's soapiness.

Or rather, to tell it as it is, it is a mix of the fragility of spoiled brats and feigned offense to be used to advance one's self...
Just like a two-year old enjoys their newfound power over their parents by screaming in public until they are appeased.

So too do students with authority issues enjoy exerting newfound power over the authorities they oppose by complaining to their risk-averse boss.
Show HN: I built an app that helps amplify the voice of the customer
I mean, it's super sexist but it's loaded with cultural influence. A good man is loyal, works and sacrifices for hard nose causes like the military and at his worst fights for a shilling with no reason to question it. A good woman is pious, devout, and sexually restrained her unchanging hair is a testament to her helping others more than giving any mind to fashion or alluring others. A woman at her worst dons a haircut that's provocative and alluring. She doesn't change it as she ages because she doesn't believe in growing older and dressing, grooming, or behaving in ways that reflect her age. She's interested in sex and partying and despises aging.

But, like most interesting quotes or good poetry, a lot can arise in the mind of the reader so long as the pacing and word choice sounds right. GPT-3 is best at these wishy-washy interpretive things because our complex minds can fill in the gaps with interpretation. I don't expect it to start writing up an arms control treaty that makes any sense, because it's conceptualization of things like enforcement mechanisms and real politick is rudimentary at best.
He's a white communications professor from USA, so no not really
Yes and aaaaaaaall this that you say and even if you write a 5000 word essay still is more than zero. And people need to know there is more than zero.
Incidentally in Portuguese “curva”, pronounced exactly the same, means curve.
I mean using QT or wxWidgets or something lower level that will not require a browser
this is on my bucket list! I have managed to get by using either simpler libraries such as chart.js or adapting the data of an already-made chart so far.

What would be a good resource that helped you get to that aha moment ?
Try camping, even with all the work to do, you'll be surprised how (pleasantly) slow 20 mins can go! :)
How does this happen though? Like, policing counterfeit physical products in an environment full of third-party sellers is actual work, because you have to somehow figure out how to inspect or filter a bunch of actual things from many, many, people.

By contrast, there aren't that many sizeable publishing houses in the world. Manning obviously isn't huge, but they aren't tiny either. They've been around for over 25 years, they have hundreds of titles---they're at least a medium-sized, serious, commercial press. And Amazon has been in the book industry for forever.

So: how hard would it really be to maintain a list of authorized agents for serious, commercial presses, and not sell e-books for works currently in print from those presses, unless the person selling them is one of those agents, or can prove that the e-book is authorized/in the public domain? This does not seem hard at all. Like, not even a little bit. Hell, I'd go so far as to call it easy.
Sounds like a good deal.

Are you a developer or some other role?
Support for openat2() and close() was merged during the 5.6-rc period. So it's only been in stable kernels for about 5 months.
Is this just a native way to prevent interrupts on specific cores?
If his background were in selling used cars, would his opinion receive any traction at all? I think it's fair to question the relevance of somebody's background if their background is the root of their supposed relevance.
A similar problem in Le Mont Saint Michel. Tides in flat muddy bottoms are deceptively fast and dangerous.
It might be more honest and less surprising for the title to read:

"Offshore path through tidal flats has killed 100+ people"

I also recall another similar place in France where the path has small artificial posts/concrete piers built so that anyone caught out can climb to safety.
Is there a greater principle behind all of these pitfalls, a mental model that I can learn and use to avoid these kinds of mistakes? Or is it sort of like CSS where years and years of ad-hoc development make it an exercise in memorizing edge-cases?
Someone should make a Gary Marcus GPT-3 generator just to drown out his noise. the guy has become an annoying strawman-attacking robot
As soon as it says "here or there" the writer is clearly trying to make it binary again. It isn't "here or there" but a function of probability between those two "places." It's an infinite number of possible "locations," but we narrow it down to a large number of decimal places because otherwise we wouldn't be able to make use of it at all. If things were as written here, you could do all quantum calculations with a straight up coin toss (although some might argue that can with an adequately tiny coin, but that still only gets at the most basic understanding of "spin" and only becomes an accurate analogy if the coin is flipped randomly in zero-g).

Our higher level concept of gravity (at least in the classical sense) has been known to break down to the point that it doesn't apply to quantum mechanics for quite a long time now. The writer should just google "quantum gravity" to discover what a complicated subject that becomes.
那個 is a verbal filler [1] as common and as harmless as um, like, you know…

I remember hearing it as the punchline of a joke highlighting a linguistic and cultural mixup. Never imagined the mixup would be taken as a serious offense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics)
I have many books on on robotics and AI from Stanford and MIT from that era, back when I started to get deeply involved in the field. My son is about a year away from graduating with degrees in CS and Robotics. He was quite surprised to realize that much of what he is learning today isn't new at all. Tremendous work was done decades ago in both domains. Put simply, you can only get so far with neural networks when your only option is an 8 bit microprocessor with 64k-bytes of RAM and a a megabyte or two of non-volatile storage.

One of the key differences between now and then is the monumental improvement in computing power, sensors, hardware in general and energy storage. As a result the devices we produce today look far more impressive. Think about it this way: I don't think there's anything in a Roomba that did not exist in the 1980's other than far greater computing power at a very low cost.

It is an interesting exercise to look through the Old Robots site (www.theoldrobots.com). One of my favorite's (because I owned one and still have a couple of arms on the shelf) is the Hero 2000:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/hero2k.html

Check out the specifications here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_(robot)

It took an Intel 8088 processor and 11 Z-80 8 bit processors to run this thing in the early 90's. That cost thousands of dollars. Today you can to a thousand times more with a $5 to $30 single chip processor.
I love it. Tachikomas!
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109316

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=932956
Went to Penn and had no idea! On a related note Vijay's students are really bright, and he's quite a savvy administrator.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has zero credentials and has contributed nothing of note on the practical side, and yet I frequently see him touted as an "AI expert" (here and elsewhere on the internet).

There's no barrier to entry to posting your opinions on the internet, and (to the degree possible) it's usually better to judge the post on its own merits, rather than the author's.
Or you could, you know, evaluate things on the technical merits
Turbulence that would push an aircraft up or down will have the same effect on either design.

However, turbulence that would typically cause a plane to roll quickly (such as hitting some sort of vortex or wake from another plane) should have less effect on a plane with a more widely distributed mass. On the other hand, once you start the big V plane rotating, it will be harder to stop rotating (take longer, unless the rotation energy is so great that the comparatively short wings simply cannot compensate).

We are at the point of fly-by-wire where there is usually a computer between the human and the control surfaces. This enables truly unstable aircraft (like the awesome F117 stealth fighter) to fly when they are inherently unstable designs. But as evidenced by the 737 Max debacle and the long ago A320 (320?) issue, sometimes the computer makes an unfortunately poor decision and does a bad thing. Point is, we are already there, so we might as well allow the computer to make a V fly wonderfully and save a lot of fuel and cabin noise.
didn't yahoo have an awful lot of directors? (or was it vps?)
I think that’s where it’s use ends. It’s always been a niche word, but with todays common assumption it’s racist few will want use it at all.
The art of finishing incomplete projects and tasks
I wonder about that. Quite a few twitter replies about this being stolen technology. Not even replicated. Stolen.
Not the OP but I personally enjoy lewd humour and, at a previous job, would crack jokes at some of my female colleagues. At my current job that would be considered altogether inappropriate, Despite the fact that that I only make those jokes around people I specifically know to be like-minded and give as good as they get, and avoid doing it around (or even within earshot of) people who are not ok with it.
Only used 1.8.7 or later versions. That seems to have been released in 2008. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/
Shellcheck is, in general, one of the most undervalued dev tools hiding in the bushes. Especially as everyone has to shell at least a little bit, in particular linux newbies.
> I cant wait to see a SSD Controller with this tech.

Not sure I understand your angle, because as I understand things the lags and stalls experienced on (usually older) SSDs stem from the controller either having to re-read a page many times over to reconstruct it or for the controller to have to perform housekeeping RFN because some buffer is full. To that end, because of the virtually addressed nature of SSDs with the "page tables" (if you will) being stored on the SSD as well you run into similar issues as kernels do under memory pressure, causing thrashing.
So any topic that I don't like I downvote even if other people like to discuss about it and it's about science. Cool I guess HN is not fairing better than reddit here.
Yeah it could perhaps be easier if I manage to transition to a niche (or two) that is in high and stable demand.
Ivan Sutherland worked on something like this. Seems related?

http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-six-legged-hy...
DIY IoT door monitor with ESP8266
You will also see this referred to as "parbaked", which I am assuming is a contraction of "part baked".
It was never crazy, just a wildly disproportionate knee-jerk reaction that ignores the real underlying issues, cultural and legal.
Lucid Motors releases details about its electric drivetrain technology
Absolutely this. With the culling of most corporate R&D groups over the last 20-30 years, DARPA pie-in-the-sky research projects seem to be one of the last real sources for investigating anything that can't be immediately and quickly monetized.
Algae provide blueprint for super-efficient future solar cells (2019)
Tightly coupled memory is basically a cache, except it's explicitly mapped at an address. In MCUs it's faster and also more "secure" in a sense, because, just like a cache, you can't DMA into TCM, so peripherals can't write garbage or shellcode into TCM. The upside of TCM over a cache is that it doesn't need the quick logic to for cache lookups and the storage for tags (so smaller, lower power than a cache), while the downside - it being explicit - is less of a problem and sometimes an advantage in embedded systems.
Yeah, I also noticed that Americans tend to handle every taboo word like "Voldemort". From when I was kid I always found it so odd how Americans use all of these one-letter variants of their taboo words (n-word, f-word, etc) even when everyone involved in the conversation is an adult and should be able to handle a bad word. It's one of the weirdest parts of their culture to me.
I stopped after the introduction convinced me to prioritize buying a Macbook
I think the choice of an object in this comparison is interesting, altough it doesn't affect the result that much, of course. The 5-franc coin is ridiculously big: measuring 31.45 mm (1.24 inch) in diameter and weighing 13.2 g, it's one of the largest circulating coins in the world.
Azure AD App registration, an introduction
30 years in geopolitics and in history is nothing...

And I guess many Russian would feel the West, NATO, USA had been expansionist, as they "aggressively" expand their area of influence (colored revolution being one tactic) in Russia backyard, at the expense of Russia and Russian influence...
Yeah it would probably help if I get better at identifying work that is actually high-value. It’s kinda easy to fall in to the trap of doing busywork that demands lots of hours but doesn’t really produce so much value.
You sound like an anti-vaxxer.

Maybe you're right, but you're missing the point.
Yes! I am a female in the tech industry, and we are inundated with warnings about going into a male dominated field. I’ve noticed it gets to a point where some women can’t even receive criticism because they think “he wouldn’t talk to another man like that,” even if the criticism is valid. I can see why it happens though. We hear over and over about being harassed and put down that we almost subconsciously get a chip on our shoulder about it.

I’m not saying that racism or sexism doesn’t happen. But I am saying I see how a person can also take something as racist or sexist just because it’s something you’re told to expect.
California hasn't voted conservative since 1988. The cities are deep blue, though there are some red areas outside of the cities.
You mean like the rebuttal the article gives? There is little more to Gary Marcus's position to rebut because his position is so weak. If he had a more relevant background then perhaps his opinions would have more substance and, consequently, warrant more substantial responses.
Ha! The identification is the delusion we are all afflicted with! If you were your body why can't you tell it to live forever?
Deploying chemical warfare against theft. We are 100% in the capitalist cyberpunk dystopia the 90s predicted.
Does steaming stale bread (and then maybe toasting it again) bring it back to close to the desired state? Can that re-inject the moisture? Anyone tried? or is "staling" a non-reversible (at least to the tongue) process?
> In my company, someone objected to the terms “male” and “female” adapter ports or connectors for physical hardware equipment in our data centers, stating it was both offensive to gender non-binary coworkers and also fostered an aggressive general sense of violation of female genitalia.

This reminds me of people hiding and covering table legs in the Victorian era.
Oh, that thing. Back when I was into legged locomotion, I found out more about that machine than I ever wanted to know.

The designer was really into four-bar linkages. The leg mechanism is set up so that one actuator moves the leg in X, one in Y, and one in Z, with a four-bar linkage encoding that into the leg position. This simplifies the control problem, while complicating the mechanics. I suspect they wanted to be able to get the thing home by manual control of the actuators if the computers crashed. It's not towable; you'd need a crane and a flatbed.

It could only walk on flat ground. It was supposed to be able to cross a ditch, but that was manual. The driver had to drive it up to the ditch and stop. Then lock five legs, and, using a joystick, move one of the leading legs across the ditch and set it down. Then, with support in place, move the vehicle forward slightly with no leg lifts. Then lock five legs again, and place the second forward leg. Repeat until all six legs had made it across.

Cool, but not useful.

In the 1990s, a company in Finland got this right.[1] They built a six-legged walking timber harvester. It's impressive. Deere bought the company But it's not better than 8-wheel articulated timber harvesters [2], so it was never produced as a product.

[1] https://youtu.be/CD2V8GFqk_Y

[2] https://youtu.be/BwCTDXatIYA
I agree with you it's not for the "average joe".

I.e. yes you need to be really careful not to touch the uncured resin, cleaning up is a bitch, and you need really good ventilation when you're developing with isopropyl alcohol.

But for folks who do manage to somehow get a room dedicated to this craft, of a hobbyist hackerspace with a dedicated spaced, it's probably fine. And, I think arriving to the point of being able to make a good print (modeling, slicing, etc.) is a good enough filter -- folks who can do that will and should understand you need to wear gloves when operating this thing. And I do believe if you get a printer it comes with a few gloves so that is made pretty clear.
Unit testing in PowerShell, introduction to Pester
The Logo screenshot used in this article was created by me for my own blog post here: https://susam.in/blog/good-quality-dosbox-video-capture/

I contributed this image to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_LCSI_Logo_Circles.png, so that it could be added to the Wikipedia article on Logo at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language).

It is fun to see this image being reused in this article!

By the way, the article mentions that Logo did not provide a very good experience to the author. However, in my life, Logo has had a significant impact on me. I have written a detailed comment about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374341.
In my times of being bullied, it wasn't the bullying that angered me the most. With a lot of self education there's enough to understand bully psychology and how they work - bully minds are very solved at this point.

What really astonishes and angers me is the entire crowd too cowardly to even admit something happened. I believe a big part of reducing the bullying that happens is correcting the enablers and getting them the ability to stand up for what they believe is right.

Bullies really will be bullies and in my experience have no capacity to think outside of their thought patterns. You have to treat them as mechanical alpha-males and "kite" them appropriately. But their supporters do the real work and go very far to protect the bully so that in many cases make it next to impossible to take the bullies down. Why is it that we can't seem to do anything about Trump? I think its time we start placing responsibility on the supporters for the actions they support and attack them with near equal retribution as we would the bully lest we find ourselves in a world where cult leaders and abusers consistently bubble up the top of our social hierarchy.
The team behind Pony are also the main designers on Project Verona, so they are taking up on those learnings as well.
It's not that he is a psychologist, it's that he doesn't have any idea about what he's talking about in ML. It's important to have results when you want to change other people's opinions, he has only opinions. Let him do better than GPT-3 and show us how it's done.
I am very impressed by this electric bike that optionally comes with a theft insurance that will simply return your bike or otherwise replaces it: https://www.vanmoof.com/en-US/peace-of-mind (not affiliated)
IMHO - you would be wrong. It is a perfectly good word.

This horse-shit has to stop.
The next version of the Apple Watch is also probably going to include blood oxygen level monitoring with the ability to alert users if it drops below a healthy level, similar to the existing min/max heart rate alerts.

Though, really, I think the biggest benefit of wearables expanding into this space is that they're not 'old people products' like Life Alert. A generally healthy 60-year-old person who doesn't want to 'seem old' is going to be far more comfortable wearing an Apple Watch or similar device, and far more likely to do so consistently.
My sister froze bread, but it always came out soggy and gross from condensation. Maybe it was the type of freezers we have in the U.S., but whenever you thaw things there's going to be condensation and that doesn't work well with bread.