skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet every Tesla owner tells me that their car is just one update away from driving itself across the country.

I just drove my Tesla half way across the country and back last week. And based on the performance of Autosteer and the neighboring car visualizations they're nowhere close to Level 5 self driving.

Love the car and am a big Tesla/SpaceX fanboy. But I won't believe it'll achieve Level 5 until I see it.
I still don't understand why the Python steering committee decided to switch to this format for package configuration instead of the perfectly serviceable and existing setup.cfg. Packaging is already a pain to setup, now you gotta learn three (3) different ways to do it (if only to translate from one to the next) because everyone's split. The choice doesn't even matter very much, just settle on something whatever it is
I also cringe at that phrase, so you're not alone. It seems particularly prevalent among police officers. I guess it's just part of "police English."

Every group has its own language and jargon, used to signal group membership. It doesn't have to make sense grammatically or logically.
Did you report it to customs? That's almost certainly where it got swapped.
Good points.

To my point though, you mention that you noticed a "consistent" max of 2hr. Meaning the consistency was the interesting part. You probably consider this issue to be more important than some other hypothetical issue that caused, say, literally a single request to have a 2hr latency on Tuesday.

In other words, if you monitored over a period that was long enough to establish a statistically significant p99.9 or even p99.99 and then measured those percentiles, you still would have not only caught this issue, but also distinguished it from the other hypothetical issue. Monitoring your maximum and worrying about consistently high maximums might be a more effective mechanism, but in principle, you still care more about top percentiles.
One nice thing about INI is it's really easy to modify programmatically (without eg. losing comments).
I think one place where Abrahamic religions steered us wrong ethically is a philosophy that being a good person is a lot of work and being an evil person is easy.

When I look around, it seems more the case that being a better person or a worse person both take a lot of work. "Chaotic neutral" is probably cake by comparison.

If you want to be a billionaire you have to practice, practice practice taking more than your share, and some days that'll count for a percentage of your goal. Or put more simply, it's not about the $50k, it's about the muscle memory.
Not sure I have a favorite motto, but my favorite amalgamation of mottos is Tohuvabohu by KMFDM.
>Business decisions and climate are also the driving forces behind literally everything a company does.

This is the extent of the "conspiracy" in Chomsky's opinion. When things like the Amazon firing of a union organizer happen, the reporter set to cover it is going to have more connections to the corporate side and a be accustomed to writing stories that will please corporate sponsors.

If a reporter is overly critical, the story will likely get a less favorable placement and that reporter won't get similar assignments in the future. There is no overt conspiracy, but there is editorial pressure.
Knowing that the stock price will increase is never something a company can promise its workers. Elon calling Robert Reich a moron because the stock price happened to increase while he cut workers' pay is disingenuous. It could have just as easily decreased, cutting wages even more.
The supreme court is of the opinion that general welfare "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments."

And i have to say that’s a good opinion, if it was any other way you could basically make it mean anything. Wanting the constitution to mean that your position on one topic has to have broader considerations... if X is allowed with this argument what else would be?
Do we have any real evidence that hobbyist servers are significant hitters when it comes to DDOSes? The idea that hobbyists shouldn't run a server is, IMO, misguided, and dangerous to the health of the internet.

A simple debian VM + nginx + $app_server with automatic updates turned on is not rocket science, and I struggle to see why one shouldn't run that as a hobbyist.
I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what short sellers do (which is where most of the "fraud" accusation comes from). Some short sellers DO claim fraudulent behavior, e.g. Enron was famously predicted to be fraudulent by Jim Chanos.

However short selling at its core just involves the belief that a company is overvalued. In the case of extreme fraud, the "correct value" is $0. In most cases, the short seller just believes it's some amount less than the current share price (but above $0).

Tesla falls into the latter category. I'm sure some do claim fraudulent behavior, but Tesla is an interesting case because Tesla's PE is ~200 IIRC, compared to the 20 average for the automotive industry. For comparison, Amazon's PE is 120.

So if you think Tesla is ultimately a car company, or even just a "regular" tech company, it's not insane to think that it's incredibly overvalued. That doesn't mean you think it's a fraud, of course, but the subtlety obviously gets lost by many (and short sellers often make grandiose edicts that don't help their case).
I teach computer networking class with lab using Linux Switch Appliance (LISA) and Quagga router (based on Zebra) on embedded computer running x86 CPU with multi-port Ethernet. The embedded router need to be dual-boot for its specific function because LISA is based on custom Linux kernel but Quagga is just using normal/vanilla kernel.

I am looking for a "layer 3 switch" than has switching and routing functionalities without rebooting. If anyone know any software based open source solution for this it will be very helpful. Preferably with Cisco IOS like user command interface but it is optional but not mandatory.

Based on the article, it is explaining router internal based on P4. Perhaps I should try to use P4 for the above mentioned requirements?
There's a difference between "didn't need treatment/medication" and "no treatment available". A fever/cough don't require prescriptions or a hospital visit, the same as a flu. If things get significantly worse it does, same as a flu (just more likely to happen than with the flu).

It's also important to note treatment isn't the same thing as a cure. Treatment is any medical care for the illness (i.e. things that help keep you alive through it) not just things that make the illness go away (bit of a rectangle/square thing).
Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes puts mental state at issue
Kind heart. Kind thoughts. Kind words. Kind actions.
Since when did it require a Google login to view?
Once the marketers discover people are doing this, they'll ban email addresses from this service as if they were fraudulent. Wouldn't be surprised if companies started disallowing everything except gmail.
i mean i came across gb pricing for mobile
Were the people being shady not also stock holders doing shady things to keep the stock price up?
To counter your anecdote with my own, I've been working for 10 years on a team which has seen Network Engineers, Systems Engineers and Software Engineers come and go, and I've seen three(!) very arrogant Software Engineers who as it turned out didn't know what they were doing. But the same goes for other disciplines, we've had a straight up antisocial Network Engineer who only worked from home and never answered his phone (he did excellent diagrams though). We've had an arrogant Systems Engineer that refused to document anything. These people were fired, but my point is that you should blame the person rather than the discipline.
Virtudyne:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Virtudyne_0x3a__The_Gatheri...
That's linking to a specific reply, here's the main reply: https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/RUegaMg-iqc/m/wFAVxa6...

Looks like it requires a Google account now though, I can't get it in incognito.
> GUIDs, IP Addresses, and byte arrays.

In what situation is it not suitable to store these as strings, byte arrays as unbounded hex-encoded integers? 0xabcdef123400000000

As for your csv-example, I’d propose that if you have multi-value entries in a list like that large enough that it becomes unwieldy to repeat the property names every time (like in JSON or yaml), it really doesn’t belong in static configuration but in some kind of data store.

(And in the odd situation where that’s not the case, just use csv like you seem to prefer?)
> requires a gmail login

https://archive.is/pqLgW
Are you an expert? If so I defer, but if not I think you're repeating an old understanding of the process. From a bit more reading a substantial portion seems to dissolve, but far from everything.

Here's a paper tracking the metamorphosis of painted lady butterflies in considerable detail:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2013.030...
Really? I feel like I could easily most of the videos I watch and still understand what the video is about.

The first few minutes are the intro, a message that the video is sponsored and we will find out about them later, last 3/4 minutes is always the "Like, Subscribe" and a sponsorship message usually. This means that both the front-and the back can be cut out easily without any affect on the actual content.
I played all Civilization games from I to 4, and even played a little bit of the 5.

Unfortunately, what was once a revolutionary concept, faded into something more ordinary very quickly, at least for me.

Every game is essentially an improvement and refinement over the previous one, with no "revolutionary" concepts being introduced. (an exception is Alpha Centauri, which you can consider a spin-off in space, and which introduced several interesting things).

It's a pity. I admire Sid Meyer and his work, and Firaxis. But it's a pity that they essentially milked a successful concept without inventing anything truly NEW for about twenty years.
My "favorite" set of bullshit videos is "How to pronounce" videos.

They're really long and typically use text to speech instead of a human.
If you're using gmail, plus-suffixing is a low-effort but effective countermeasure: username+servicename@gmail.com gets delivered to username@gmail.com.
Previous discussion of original source (CNN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431959
What I Learned from Creating a Million Dollar Amazon Business
This is actually a very huge deal. Crypto is now on its way to being a world currency similar to the dollar, franc and the other world currencies. Bitcoin is the de facto standard so a bitcoin earned anywhere in the world has a guarantied place where it can be spent and by default it will be the only one that will keep its value since there will always be a set number that can't be increased. Look for it to be a store of value even more important than gold.
There's not much to learn. It's basically .ini on steroids.
Flying Saucer Intelligences Speak by Ted Owens (UFO,Mensa,Nature,TimeSpaceWarp)
So?

Why does this need to be in the language when both major REPLs already support it? Why must this be yet another alternative way to accomplish the same thing as the way that’s existed since the first days of the language?

There is no argument in favor of this addition. It doesn’t allow anything new, it provides a pointless alternative to the current way of doing things, and the one situation where it’s useful—REPLs—there’s already a feature that renders it completely unnecessary.
Not trying to make money from this!
Have you written parsers in any other languages? Can you contrast?
https://www.cinera.net

It's a KickStarter, so I guess "coming out soon" is pretty speculative, but that's the link for it.

Interestingly, I googled this and the permalink to this comment was actually the top result, 1 hour after the comment was made.
So glad to see this mentioned! I am a bit anemic, which I suppose makes me more sensitive to the lack of oxygen than average people. And so often, when there is a meeting, the organizers choose the least ventilated room in the building (I guess because the better rooms are already taken), pack it full of people, and make them spend an hour sitting and listening to... whatever super imporant thing couldn't be explained in a short e-mail instead (because for the extraverts talking is so much more fun than writing). The windows are closed, sometimes impossible to open, the oxygen level is dropping... but it will take 20 more minutes until other people become sufficiently uncomfortable.

Working from home, the windows in my room are widely open. (At least during the summer.) Who needs air conditioning, when you can have actual fresh air instead.
I am careful with conclusions about dehumanization. Be careful with what you write about whole groups of people.

The culture we're born into is NOT a choice. Whether you're in a red-state culture, a blue-state culture, a Chinese culture, a Middle Eastern Muslim culture, or a Peruvian culture is up to your parents. Religion, political ideology, beliefs about male-female relations, beliefs about parent-child relations, and a whole slew of things follow.

Most people from all major demographic groups are good people. You may disagree with them. But most people are basically good. Every major group has a psychopathic minority. That's common to ALL of humanity, at least as far as I've seen. In most cases, members of the in-group will say that someone is not a "real Christian/Muslim/feminist/etc." about those psychopathic elements. There are also toxic elements to any culture, and being on the inside, it's very hard to see them. It takes work and engagement with other cultures. It's easiest to see this historically. For example, look at how we treated [insert minority group] [insert number of decades ago].

Yes, there are toxic beliefs in red state cultures. Yes, there are toxic beliefs in blue state cultures. They're no worse or better than, for example, mainstream views in China on Tibet or Taiwan. As much as it might seem that way, neither side is Nazi Germany.

There is an old joke where a man is about to commit suicide, and another man tries to save him. They have a conversation, where they seem to be building empathy through a series of questions, coming to the conclusion that their both Christians, Protestants, Presbyterians, and so on. At the end, one asks the other if they're from the reformation in 1938 or the reformation of 1948. It ends with one being pushed off of the bridge with a scream of "Die heretic!" I recall it being funny when I was a little kid, but I can't find it with Google, and can't tell with a good punchline.

But that's sort of what's happening here. Most American liberals are pretty well able to engage with people from all around the world, despite the well-known toxic elements of those cultures. See the defense of Muslims post-9/11 (whom I mention because they share so much similarity to many red state cultures along the lines liberals care about). Somehow, that can't happen close to home. Empathy goes away. Hate comes. We can read and cite Chinese government media objectively when trying to understand that culture, but we're bad people if we do the same with US right-wing media.

Take care.
You could but Zig does not.
is it me, or does the photo of broccoli look decidedly unimpressive in the article!
Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades
"age is 42" may be a statement while "is age 42" may produce a boolean.

And I don't see why a statement can't describe a mutation.
What are these issues? I've been using YAML comfortably for years
Muad'Dib fears the jihad he himself would unleash on the universe, and can't find a way to stop without ceasing his own quest for power.

The 'great enemy' that Leto tries to forestall is sometimes called Kralizec and isn't necessarily explained in detail, although there are hints it would be some kind of Ixian hunter-killer assassination machines which run out of control, and hunt down all of humanity which is within view of prescient sight. Hence, the Scattering and Leto's breeding program to create humans invisible to prescience so that humanity could never again be vulnerable to extinction from any such threat.
just created an issue on Github to keep track of this :)
... and it's useful how? It obscures the assignment at the end of an arbitrarily long statement instead of giving the value a name right up front.

It feels a bit like a new method definition syntax that allows you to put the name after the `end` for... reasons.
It can't be that bad, right? No. 5
This week’s issue of the project management newsletter: Creative Leadership, the EU's PRINCE2 PMO, TED, and the dreaded Black Swan.
Go is hugely popular? That's news to me.
That was my experience with a spikey server that I had behind an ELB. It was better to just eat it and run a medium server all the time behind a CDN than to try to scale up and down from small to large when a traffic spike came. The scaling isn’t worth the effort.
Jazz pianist here. I had a weekly gig for a couple of years where the singer would choose songs and put the chord chart – | Eb C-7 | F-7 Bb7 | etc. – on the grand piano so the bass player could read it, and it was upside down for me. After a while, it almost seemed easier for me to read chord charts upside down!
"𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗲, 𝗧𝗶𝗯𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶, & 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻

This is one of the clearest and most respected statistics books ever written.

I personally owe the start of my machine learning career to this book!

You will find so many people around the world (online and IRL) who consider this the bible for statistical learning.

It is so readable, and yet filled with gems and insights from one of the world's most preeminent statisticians.

Free PDF: http://ow.ly/v5Uw50obzpO

Datasets & code: http://ow.ly/a8UZ50obzpN

R Code: http://ow.ly/EEdf50kXUBS

Videos: also available at various sources.
For me, this was sadly hilarious (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-06/it-s-a...):

"More impressive is that Nikola’s revenue for the second quarter was very small ('immaterial,' Nikola actually calls it), just $36,000. Most impressive, though, is how they earned that revenue:

'During the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 the Company recorded solar revenues of $0.03 million and $0.04 million, respectively, for the provision of solar installation services to the Executive Chairman, which are billed on time and materials basis. During the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 the Company recorded solar revenues of $0.08 million and $0.06 million, respectively, for the provision of solar installation services to the Executive Chairman. As of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had $3 thousand and $51 thousand, respectively, outstanding in accounts receivable related to solar installation services. The outstanding balance was paid subsequent to period end.'

'Solar installation projects are not related to our primary operations and are expected to be discontinued,' says Nikola, but I guess they are doing one last job, specifically installing solar panels at founder and executive chairman Trevor Milton’s house? It is a $13 billion company whose only business so far is doing odd jobs around its founder’s house."

Edit0: formatting.
https://archive.is/y4czy

https://outline.com/6zrkHy
Its the first tech social app i.e. Facebook, MySpace and the like from China, a country that is not America. That is all there is to it. America realizes that China is catching up, and considering there are a billion Chinese, it is inevitable that China will be a foremost power that either competes with or simply overtakes America.

The current foremost power, America, doesn't like that.

At the very least, this whole thing has made clear that principles that America repeatedly espouses are forgotten quite quickly when it wants to retain power.
databases:
db01: 10.1.2.3
db02: 10.1.2.4
filers:
user01: 10.3.10.1
user02: 10.3.10.2
Big discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129698
This is a table.

Let's see it do a tree. (And not an adjacency matrix. That's cheating.)
Link or it didn't happen.

The article has too few details, like the name of the person. And 2013 is far enough to be verifiable. It would be nice to have a link to a reputable news source or a wikipedia article or something that can verify the story.
Same, but I doubt it. It's been around for many years. I had to migrate services away from it recently, even.
You'd be surprised how helpful having a REST API for config reloads is when you're serving more than a simple static site.
I used to think that way too, then changed my mind.

I'd rather get random, un-targeted, irrelevant, and even annoying ads from companies that have no idea who I am or that they're even advertising to me.

Less creepy that way, also more likely to result in the serendipity of learning new things outside my filter bubble/what the algorithm predicts for me.

Sometimes in order to find the real signal, you have to accept that a lot of noise comes with it.
I bet it looks good at 100%
Third world vs First world as well. People in America don't want to see the content made by folks in rural India.
It's part of the whole ~30yr trend of infantilizing adults and assuming you know better because you're the professional. Nobody believes people can make their own decisions about want they like and dislike anymore.
Every server config ever requires an IP address entry which in itself is a non trivial proportion of all the user edited config files in the world.
Possibly some scenarios in RL where online learning is involved
What both shorts and longs are hoping for are profits on their investment. I doubt either really cares about businesses/people succeeding or failing.

If you promise a bunch of long holders that a particular short trade is guaranteed to make profit, would they not take it out of concern for people?
We seem to be getting by with shoes, coats, gloves, hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen just fine
I've never worked on drivers at NVidia, so on the one hand I don't know the answer, but I can speculate with an educated guess.

Porting, testing and providing ongoing support for an OS is very costly. If there's not enough customer demand for it, it won't be done because it doesn't make business sense.
> If your office was next door to your house and all your colleagues were there you wouldn't go?

The office is 5-10 minutes away from my house, and the answer is no. Some people prefer to be alone.

But of course, commute makes it even worse.
Address (n): "a place where a person or organization may be communicated with"
On the other hand, the USA is not the only United States, so if you're not going to call it America because that isn't specific enough, then you shouldn't call it the US either...
GM was snookered. I doubt that Nikola has IP worth that much work
> I am always shocked when I get logged out and am on the default main page

Yeah no kidding. The stuff that's popular on Youtube is like it's from another planet to me. I stick to my subscription page.
You should hear the story about how we got the Twitter handle. It starts and ends with Argentina...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Unboxing and Gallery
Is it though? At that point in his life, perhaps late twenties, how much accumulated life savings could he possibly have? If he lost it all, he would probably put himself maybe 10 years back, sucks, but not unrecoverable. How often does a moonshot come around? What other point in his life could he have taken such a risk? Maybe there’s some wisdom here, it’s not all luck.
But to use it without steam you would have to develop VR software for your desktop. I think there is some open source stuff but idk how well it works. The PC software end is a much bigger job than the hmd.