skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, are you trying to contribute something meaningful to this discussion? It sounds like you're just here to disparage the author.
Its unethical for a lawyer to do things not in their client's best interests, and even if Uber is paying for the lawyer, their client is who they are representing.
I use the serverless framework for simple REST APIs. This is especially beneficial if you're hooking into other cloud provider tools (such as S3, SQS, ect. with AWS).

The main reason is speed of deployment and overhead. I can push the code to a repo and boom -- a working backend with basically no infra config.

I've found this works very well for internal glue tools that aren't majorly affected by cold starts.

One nice example was building a quick and dirty internal tool for L3 support staff to alter certain client records. It wasn't appropriate to hand out DB access and it wasn't a high enough priority to create a new feature in our "real" support system, so I build a few basic endpoints (with strict rules) and passed it off to the team. They're using Postman to make the changes as needed (using a JWT for auth from our main application).
My idea is that retailers should have to pay for the collection and recycling of any waste created by the products they sell. Thus creating an insensitive to retailers to stock products with cheap collection and easy recyclability.
In conspiracy theories he is the inventory of COVID, in order to sell his vaccine, which is used to inject microchips into the population in order to control everybody.

For people who take a serious look he is a respected philanthropist doing lots of funding of polio research and other related topics.

The average won't know much about him, he is the Windows guy, rich ... that's about it.
This is nonsense.

I use an AppleTV every single day and their streaming offering is nothing more than an app that I have hidden at the bottom of the screen. At the top I have a dozen streaming apps e.g. Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime.
Arachnid robots would be ideal for household vacuum cleaners. Roomba's are useless if you have cables on the floor, lots of equipment and furniture, stairs that need vacuuming, roughly surfaced floors, or a variety of other conditions.
I think they need a Qualcomm modem more than they will ever miss a Nvidia GPU.
> non-open-source Linux-drivered gpu

I have seen this concern countless times, but not why that matters to them. I can understand it matters from Linus' perspective as kernel maintainer, but from users perspective I can't really get the issue. Anyways, not all code that runs on your system is open source. Why not demand your bootloader manufacturer for open source with the same intensity. If say NVIDIA wants the driver to contain malicious backdoor, open source is not going to stop them.
Half of All False Convictions in US Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct
> Even Apple for example benefits in part and has benefited from open source software that wouldn't exist without people who valued software freedom.

Let’s not get into the free vs open source issue. Apple has benefited from open source, not from free software.

My point is that if free software produces better software, then great—that’s something people care about. But that’s far from clear, and the fact that it’s free won’t make up for it being worse. It’s just irrelevant for almost everyone.
The problem is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act absolves the platforms from having to regulate decency on their platforms.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230#:~:text=47%20U.S.C.,of%20t...).
> http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest

From that page:

> We can't understand why so many people "fail" the Fizz-Buzz test unless we understand why it is "hard" (for them).

But the article doesn't even talk about the environment, which is what it's all about.

It's hard "for them" because they're being asked to write the code on a whiteboard, with a job/income on the line, with stress and anxiety dialed up to 11, with someone breathing down their neck watching, while expected to simultaneously provide cheerful ongoing commentary to "show how they think".

Under those conditions, I totally believe close to 100% perfectly competent developers will fail at it. But of course it has nothing to do with the programming part.

Most of us have heard of FizzBuzz while chillin at home reading articles and immediately thought "that can't be hard" and tried it and indeed it is laughably easy. So we can't understand how "they" could fail at it because we didn't experience it under interview hazing conditions.

So the "them" is actually all of us.

To me that is the key takeaway of FizzBuzz.
What's the Serbian version of the proverb if you don't mind sharing?
> If all you have left to fight with is improvised weapons, then it continues with that.

and see how well (or poorly) that work. Look at afganistan. Look at iraq. Insurgents continue to fight, and the usa just cannot completely win.

A war is won on ideology, not weapons.
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I find the support for inheritance taxes surprising. HN loves the social democracies, but most of them don't have inheritance taxes, with many abolishing them in the past few decades - Australia, NZ, Canada, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Slovakia, Portugal.
More akin to Encyclopedia Dramatica, but point taken.
> How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?".

On the receive side, sample the current time, subtract 2 seconds, and adjust the message time stamp to that.

The recipient of a message from a celebrity has no idea when it was actually sent; they are not engaged in a real-time chat with that celebrity via another channel.
I think it’s useful not to label this person’s job “driver”, but instead “fall guy”. Their job is to sit around all day doing absolutely nothing. But in the rare event where the car fails, they need to suddenly become alert and fix it, or take the blame for the machine’s failure. I think it’s less accurate to describe this transaction as a form of labor, but instead as an indemnity, an assumption of liability, paid for via a wage.

For train conductors with a similar challenge, a solution has been invented requiring them to pass various visual attention challenges that detect if they aren’t alert. Such systems weren’t present here. The system wasn’t designed to work - it was designed to protect Uber by shifting the blame for failure.
What would "community" even look like in this sort product?

What's nice about community in IRL group classes is that you see the same people every week which I don't see how you could replicate in this sort of thing.
but those are wars that are isolated to a region, not a region-wide war like the WW.
Hah, that's an interesting point. How exactly do you expect to get people to change their attitude?

I don't own a home and I've spent a nontrivial amount of my net worth paying rent in HCOL areas, including the Bay Area. Renters want prices to go down. Homeowners want prices to go up. And the world is round.

Perhaps some legislation and removal of zoning restrictions would help.
Boston Dynamics probably does some form of force control. That is controlling the force applied to the ground by the legs in addition to just the position the leg is moving. The actuators here appear to be purely position controlled.
Yes, having only been doing this twenty years, I'm unlikely to be versed in doing that.
With great respect to Bill Gates and his accomplishments, a bit of skepticism toward anyone whose expressed intent is to “change the world” (and who has the means to do) is not unreasonable. That certainly doesn’t justify insane conspiracy theories and I’ve no interest in aligning myself with any of them, but it is possible to find such ambition disconcerting without assigning malice.
> Intent matters.

Only to a crime whose required mental state is intent, which rules out crimes of negligent or recklessness (or strict liability, for that matter.)

> The state has to provide criminal negligence, which in most states requires very risky behavior.

“A motorist can be convicted of negligent homicide for causing the death of another person while driving in a criminally negligent manner. A person acts with criminal negligence by unknowingly doing or failing to do something that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk to others. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would use in like circumstances.”

https://www.drivinglaws.org/resources/arizonas-vehicular-hom...

I don't think that that's a hard fit for the publicly-reported facts of this case.

> Driving while watching a video certainly qualifies normally, but purely hypothetically, if Uber had internally said it was totally safe to drive distracted, then maybe she has a defense.

No, if “Uber” said that there is an even greater case than there already is under simple respondeat superior for the actions of the driver alone as agent of the firm for Uber to be charged with negligent homicide, manslaughter, or even 2nd degree murder.

But I don't think any representation by Uber could reduce the standard of care owed by a safety driver to members of the public to something below “not watching a video on the phone while supervising the safety of the operation of a self-driving vehicle”.
I still think general AI (i.e. AI so advanced that we would consider protecting each instance as we would a human life) is a prerequisite for truly autonomous driving on our complex roadways today. This is the kind of game theory that would make me feel more comfortable sharing the road with these kinds of cars.

I completely agree with the assertion that the grey area in between is where a bunch of people are going to wind up dead.
> I fall heavily on the Pearl side of this debate, because I'm interested in scaling to thousands to millions of variables, and though graphs are not a great tool, they are pretty much the only one that I think we have for scaling that direction.

Are you able to elaborate?! It'd be really interesting to hear what/if tooling exists for these graphs. I just found the book recently and am listening to the Audible version. It also reaffirms my desire for a "Bayesian inference" spreadsheet like tool. Something that'd help organize a few dozen thoughts ideas for researchers/engineers.
Your definition of freedom is just anarchy

How do you go from "it's no ones business how much wealth I accumulate or give to my children" to "anarchy"?

That's not what the OP said at all.
She wasn’t a “user”
>the ihuman Chinese

Chinese people as a whole, no, but the Chinese Government is literally putting millions of people in in humane concentration camps. I believe the criticism China gets is well beyond justified.
> Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder.

I think the context here is the question of what "kinds" of writing GPT-3 and similar technologies can and can't do as well as humans, so when I talk about "usefulness" I'm really talking about whether GPT-3 can do its thing of generating passable text in response to widely varied prompts. If it can't do that in some domain, then it's not going to replace writers working in that domain.

That doesn't mean the output won't be interesting, but it will be far less relevant in the ways that make GPT-3 notable in the first place.
Microsoft already had the opportunity to bid for Red Hat and didn't so there's little reason to think they'd be interested in the much, much smaller Canonical.

I doubt Shuttleworth would consider selling anyway, least of all to Microsoft.
The URL points to the middle tweet, the one before and after are needed for context I think:

1/ When I spoke to Katie Jacobs who is on the board of Vivendi we decided to create a “Y combinator” for the music industry so artist have the power and transparency to to be in control of our future ... no more shady contracts ... no more life long deals

2/ The Y Combinator started companies like Dropbox and Airbnb. For the first time, it cleaned up contracts and made venture capital transparent. It empowered start ups with the tools to succeed and grow their businesses. It changed the Silicon Valley game.

3/ Contracts in all industries need to be simplified now. Complicated contracts are how businesses, music companies and sports take advantage of talent We will expose these contracts and make them transparent now support new talent, startups and amend all old contracts
The alternative is Facebook being the arbiters of truth. I wouldn’t want them to be that, and they probably don’t want to be that either.
It seems you find the bugs in V-lang 'easy' to fix and you dislike the authors 'hacks' and believe he isn't properly learning the craft on how to write a compiler.

Perhaps you could show him the way by sending in a pull request or patchset to the project to verify your expertise in fixing these 'annoying' bugs and properly writing a compiler.

Patches are welcome.
> You can have a table or view of all the ids across your implementations and FK into that.

That's just moving the problem around. That table would have to have a bunch of nullable columns, and there's no way to express the constraint that either these columns are non-null or those columns are non-null, or these columns are non-null when this enum has this value.

I'm guessing you've never seriously used a language with first-class sum types. Yes, you can use hacks to represent sum-typed data in languages that don't have proper sum types, but it's always going to be a hack. It's like saying C has OO support because you can always construct virtual function tables by hand.
> dump the expertise now

you'd imagine they, upon acquiring said expertise, would write it down so that it is permanently available to others. What happens to the expertise if the person with it dies in an accident or old age?
I did a cursory search and it seems that involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide are the same thing in some jurisdictions but in others (most?), manslaughter ranks lesser in severity than negligent homicide. One reason I can think of that they would charge one and not the other is that it’s easier to convict due to not having to prove criminal intent, especially when the possible punishment is similar.
He's not saying that in the least. This is a conversation specifically about inheritance taxes. Where do you get libertarian paradise from?

Plenty of countries don't have an inheritance tax and aren't libertarian in the least.
Even for moderately complex designs the synthesis times are way too long for that to be feasible. Unfortunately, a lot of it is inherent to the problems/algorithms involved. So getting rid of the clumsiness of proprietary synthesis tools won't be sufficient, you are going to need another breakthrough.
I don't know why MPLv2 doesn't get much love. It's the right blend of both hard and soft copyleft IMO.
Maybe they’re hoping it’ll make it look more premium. Or they’re just including everything at that tier.
Spot on. It's so bright, glowy, and kitschified. there's none of the dark intrigue or aesthetic depth of something like blade runner
Like, on purpose? If you know what fizzbuzz is, then you can probably whiteboard it. It’s literally:

```
case $input
when $input % 3 == 0:
“Fizz”
when $input % 5 == 0:
“Buzz”
when ($input % 3 == 0 && $input % 5 == 0):
“Fizzbuzz”
end
```
Any decent language designer should know the Halting Problem and how that translates to static analysis (Rice's Theorem). But more than that, it's quite easy to design typechecking algorithms that exhibit combinatorial explosion. A naive language designer could promise fast compilation speeds and robust typechecking with inference, assuming that typechecking could be sped up with caches and a fast implementation language. However if the typechecking algorithm is O(n^3), no matter what, compilation speed will be slow.
I still haven't heard a good reason for them to not have also been running Volvo's system in parallel. Considering that the system is clearly not so hair trigger that humans hate it it shouldn't hobble their AI and it seems like all upside and no downside to me.
> Pointing out that someone is white is about race, and I don't see why we should bring race into this.

OP didn't point out that anyone was white, they pointed out that although Apple included a variety of races in the video, they believe that this is a service which will appeal to upper and upper middle class Americans, which means predominantly white Americans.

They are talking about class, and noting as an aside that they believe this service caters to a predominantly white audience as a consequence of catering to the upper and middle classes.

The point is inane because ultimately Apple sells luxury consumer goods which are affordable only to the upper and middle classes, and as you point out Apple rightly has no interest in fighting for equality through its new fitness service.

I agree with your point, I'm just saying that OP's point, whilst unintentionally clumsy, did not bring race into it in a meaningful way.
Filecoin: Crypto System Meant to Rival AWS
If you give more money to the government, doesn’t that implicitly mean you are giving/donating about 15% of that money to the military industrial complex?
It's fair argument but I also check karma point is high so it looks like legitimate account name in this case.
I think GP is talking about the OEM system that shipped with the car. Considering that their false positive rates are so low as to not annoy human drivers I don't see why they disabled it.
Speciesism
reliabrary
That's wonderful and not relevant to whether giving away an amount that still leaves you with everything is impressive.
I believe it is useful for Chromebooks, replicating dev setup especially for opensource projects.
I don't see anything to suggest "it's most of the world's wealth". Do you have another source?
I'd like to learn more about formal grammars and parsing in depth. Can anyone recommend a good textbook?
Agreed. Going for popular third party apps like that can and probably has to lead to developers avoiding their platforms. It looks very uncompetitive.
Putting a driver into the Linux project presumably means better integration with the rest of the kernel?

Also: less package management work.
That's a fair perspective, but there are also many essential or mundane aspects of life which don't lend themselves to competition.

Local roads, for example. You can have companies compete for contracts to perform the work, but ultimately the asset needs to be owned by the people, otherwise you inevitably get rent-seeking behaviour—which effectively replaces an elected Government with dozens of smaller unelected ones. Same goes for water, sewerage, and electricity distribution.

Public healthcare service delivery is another example. You can have companies compete for invention, manufacturing and certain boutique services, but for dealing with measles and broken arms, the profit motive does a hilariously poor job. Wealthy people get the absolute best service on this planet; poor people seem to get the most expensive service on this planet. (Yes, that's after factoring in the "cost" paid through taxes.)

Society works best when we all have healthy bodies, clean water and a decent education. Whether we all make good use of these resources is entirely up to the individual—Governments shouldn't mandate equality of outcome—but a functioning society is one where everyone has the opportunity to get a good education and not be a walking disease vector.
The most stupid fact about those conspiracy theories is that people carry a smartphone with GPS, microphone and camera that is unlocked with fingerprints, and take pictures of their faces every day to social networks, yet, they're absolutely terrified of "being tracked by microchips injected via vaccines".

If someone wanted to put something into your bloodstream they could simply put it in your food, your medicines, your eyedrops or your deodorant or whatever. Or sell you clothes with the stupid microchip in it, all of which is unnecessary since they have your phone.

Even if you turn GPS off, it is possible to locate you by triangulating your phone using cellular network antennas, or via Wifi, since the WiFi networks you can see have an associated location assigned to them by wardriving cars (e.g.: Google Street View cars).
I will pull up a chair and watch the fields near me get sprayed for an hour. It’s like a free air show.

That said, in ten years this will probably be all drones. The ability to do precision dosing, safely fly a few feet above the target, lower noise, lower capital investment, no need for commercial pilot, little to no overspray, high automation potential, simultaneous high resolution monitoring, etc etc etc.

Big limitation now are the meager payloads and flight times. Drone delivery is going to open up the market for manufacturers to start pumping out drones that meet that demand and it’s going to be mothballs for the old guard in quite a few places.

Hopefully companies like Air Tractor get on board and adapt their product lines, they have way too much valuable experience.
Sure, or it could just not be used by people who subscribe to this silly notion that the last commit has to have been 5 minutes ago.
Facebook gives in to pressure on climate-change myths with ‘science-based’ hub
I acknowledge inefficiencies in the system but I also suspect that grand juries usually consider the most basic relevant facts of the case.
It's not any more responsibility than any other low wage work would have as a driver.

You can put someone in a car without collision avoidance or even anti lock brakes, and it's okay to ask the driver to use their own skill and judgment instead.
It's the pre-emptive foreclosure of discussion I find objectionable, negating the attempt rather than exploring the problem space.

I would personally reduce the private property privileges substantially since a social network by definition derives its value from the number and variety of people that use it. I'd like if FB were at least as searchable to its users as to advertisers, for example; arguably FB knows more about many of its users than they know about themselves.
I understand what you're trying to get at. I listened to the DNC. They kept repeating that this moment is more critical than any other in history. I don't buy that. After Japan annihilated our fleet in Pearl Harbor, and Nazis were rolling over one country after another in Europe... that must have been a very scary moment, and critical. Today... important, but not as much.

But I digress. My honest answer to what you're asking is:

The difference is that at this point in time, the staff of Scientific American is in a media bubble more than at any time in the past. They have lost touch with the common man. The man on the street who does not have a college degree. They don't realize how negatively that man is going to react to this endorsement.

That's honestly why I think they did it now, and not over the last 175 years.
> Wikipedia is notoriously useless for learning anything even vaguely mathematical. It's too bad there's not a "Wikimath" for people who aren't mathematicians.

The nlab and wiki2.org are nice for the subjects they cover.
Likely your db configuration is very different from what FB uses in production, so they have no incentive to investigate or fix.