skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except they’re not unwanted, at least not completely.

I explicitly called them "Unwanted" because the post I'm replying to mentions getting a plain old iPod (with no notifications whatsoever) as an alternative. If you _want_ these notifications, then my argument does not apply.
> Overall, I think exceptions are solid in C#. ... Uncaught exceptions become hard crashes.

Do you see the problem, these two sentences are juxtaposed? When exceptions are not part of the contract you would have to read the source code of every method you call (and methods they call) to know what exceptions to catch.

Even then, a method you call can be modified later to throw a new exception and your code will crash. The only solution is to use the root Exception class which everyone agrees is a bad idea.
SoftBank is close to selling off chipmaker Arm to Nvidia in $40B mega-deal
Huh? I run tensorflow locally with no problem.
You should consider editing the downvote comment away. Wasn't from me, and my advice is to just ignore all that. I do.

Yes, that article is right about the timings. The signal standards were abused in small ways to improve graphic quality, get speed and more.

Similar things happen in NTSC land too. Those deliver 60 fps. Many TV sets will permit further abuse and deliver NTSC with more PAL like timings to get 50fps, but still with NTSC color encoding.

An Amiga and Color Computer 3 can both do this. It is correct to do in some parts of the world too. I have done it in video signal projects.

Whether my comment is incorrect depends on POV.

From the NES pov, and how gaming generally thinks of frames, its fine.

From the signaling POV field is more descriptive.

Consider when there is no interlace, what happens to the concept of a field? There aren't any. Just frames, as in one complete image completely displayed.

Many people think in simple frames per second terms. This is why many, particularly those who grew up during retro times, will say PAL 50fps. To them, PAL does in fact deliver 50 complete frames per second.

Edit, oh yes! I do see where I should have said field early on. Too late to edit now. Basically, when the half scanline is not part of the signal output, fields go away.

When it is, there are fields and they get displayed sequentially, interlaced fashion, one full frame displayed every two fields.

Cheers!
They don't need to have such a clear idea of the consequences to realize it's a bad idea. Not antagonizing entities stronger than you are is a pretty basic instinct.
> The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, Egypt and India.

How dare you grow non-native plants in your german backyard ! This is both a remnant of colonialism AND a danger to local biodiversity.
Imagination announces the first RISC-V computer architecture course
Very interesting! Reading this really makes me think about how difficult Starcraft is for all of the exact same reasons. Interestingly, the “you can’t control your teammates” adds a whole different level that I hadn’t really considered explicitly before (synergy vs sum of skill). In a lot of ways, that specific detail is what has always put me off of non-1v1 competitive games.
> People want you in the office so they can babysit you.

Only if you're doing a commoditized, conveyor-belt kind of work.

Some of us want you in the office so that we can mentor and train you. Teaching doesn't work too well remotely.
I wonder if there is some kind of noise generator that a small boat could carry that would repel, but not harm, enraged orcas. Maybe there's a whale equivalent of nails-on-chalkboard that would work without being loud enough to do damage or require too much energy to be practical.

If there is an attractive rather than repellent sound that would work (a calf in distress?) maybe it could lure the grampus away with a little remote control boat.

But their intelligence might make whatever does work only temporarily effective.
I tried reading "Mere Christianity" by CS Lewis on the strong recommendation of a friend.

Its core claim is that while many of our ideals of morality shift over time, some are absolute and transcend place and time, and therefore they must have been created by something outside of the universe. That claim occupies only the first few pages, and from there he attempts to further conclude that not only is there something, it is specifically the Christian god.
I’d never heard of it nor seen it on goodreads till I made my list. I’m sure it’s popular in some circles, but not mine.
I think the common ones have statistical interpretations (that predate deep learning by a lot). Perhaps the one for the rectified linear unit is pretty obscure. But as I understand it, the statistics concept is called the "Tobit" model. It's meaning is not so obscure though, just a prediction that can be non-negative only, which is pretty common like a mass or energy.
¿Por qué no los dos?

Journalists got to Theranos first, and short sellers got to Nikola first. With both in play, the odds of a timely exposé go up.
It's a laudable approach, but I'd rather have ethical software. Something like what the Librem 5 or Pinephone is doing.
This is extremely common in social science, for obvious reasons (imagine you're a social scientist and need to find 200 people to answer your questionnaire and you don't have any money...), and I wouldn't be surprised if it has some part in the "replication crisis".

A personal favourite example is that meme darling, the Dunning-Kruger effect. In addition to often being an extremely simplified version of the original proposition, which is a lot more subtle than "dumb people think they're smart", it's often presented as if (social!) science has uncovered a universal trait in the human race. But really this effect is based on very few studies, and they were mostly done on American college students. I wonder how well it replicates...
To be owned by an American company (NVIDIA)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-12/nvidia-is...
Interesting to compare against Lucid Motors. Founded thirteen years ago and still not shipping, dismissed as vaporware for so long, yet are now surprising people by getting production versions of their car to early reviewers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkuJY1GWtE
>Changing the battery is not particularly difficult

You don't think disconnecting the whole undercarriage of the car and replacing a very heavy battery is difficult to do in under a minute?

>open to select members of the public.

Bingo.

But, as I said, I don't know if it was faked. I just believe it was.
You're going to have to break the $15,500 apart to answer the question: what's wrong with that. How much is "administrative"?
Terry Fox
Ask HN: Programmer's Foot
I can walk, hike and not have problems with my feet. Sitting all day programming gets my feet hot and bothered in the summer and chillblains in the winter.

I am overweight and had a back injury many years ago. Nothing serious but let's say 25 years on I still need to sit down to tie my shoes.

So putting asides the fact I am a fat lad with possibly some nerve damage has anyone else mastered their foot care in the world of programming?
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
Short selling is just ... selling. Every time a shareholder sells a stock for whatever reason, they effectively short it.
> some are absolute and transcend place and time

Which ones? I honestly can't think of any of the top of my head for which I wouldn't know a civilization which didn't honor them.
If anything it promotes good corporate behaviour. See Steinhof as a good recent example of a company outed for fraud on an industrial scale by a professional short seller
I’m not defending Apple, but I disagree that adding features is the same as innovation. I wish the tech industry would focus on quality over quantity.
> extraordinary, given your list is comparing the US to top ten countries like East Timor, Saint Lucia, Luxembourg and Iceland

Compare that with the resources available and it will look much less extraordinary

It is extraordinary that countries with much less resources, much less competition and orders of magnitude smaller pool of talents to chose from (4 orders of magnitude in the case of Iceland, East Timor and Luxembourg), can rival the richest and most powerful country in the World in modern history

But let's look at the US noble prize winners

19 born in Germany
12 born in Canada
11 born in United Kingdom
7 born in Italy
7 born in Russia
6 born in China
6 born in Austria
4 born in India
4 born in Hungary
3 born in South Africa
3 born in France
2 born in Poland
2 born in Netherlands
2 born in Romania
2 born in Japan
2 born in Israel
1 born in Venezuela
1 born in Turkey
1 born in Taiwan
1 born in Switzerland
1 born in Spain
1 born in Norway
1 born in New Zealand
1 born in Mexico
1 born in Korea
1 born in Ireland
1 born in Egypt
1 born in Australia

for a grand total of 103 Nobel prizes won by foreigners
> Or showing the solar panels on the company’s roof?

Looks like they were installing ~200kWpp [0] in May 2020 over some of the parking lots [1]. Enough to charge a couple of Teslas.

[0] Looking at [1] I estimate a total of 560 (2x 150+130) solar panels, each 2x1m, which might be rated between 370 or 385 Wpp, delivering 207-216kWpp.

[1] https://zoom.earth/#view=33.406358,-111.992328,19z
More than likely the noise of the boats is what is enraging the Orcas.
Researchers working at Bell Labs are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, and S.

Source: Wikipedia page on Bell Labs.

Yes, google does research but not the basic fundamental research that isn’t immediately a product to be sold.
> Not antagonizing entities stronger than you are is a pretty basic instinct.

See, something insects don't get.
Are you asking what's CIA/NSA friendly about smearing news publications which are critical of thr CIA/NSA?

Aside from the obvious it feeds their desire to foment fear and hatred of Russia which is good for the one thing they truly care about - budget increases to counter whatever seems like the most plausible threat.
Lawsuits against shortsellers? Where did we have that just recently? Oh yeah, Wirecard - or as we call it in Germany "Auweiacard"...
To understand the separation of the Americas from African you may want to read about the mid ocean ridge:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-ocean_ridge

Now how that large land mass came to be is an interesting question to me. The globe shown here in the title/link is clearly not homogeneous. The land mass on one side must be less dense than the rest of the earth for it to protrude above sea level that way.
Well as a public company if you aren't really able to prove the state of your balance sheet then you probably do have an issue.
The podcast, for anyone interested: https://samharris.org/podcasts/107-life-actually-worth-livin...

> In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Benatar about his philosophy of “anti-natalism.” They discuss the asymmetry between the good and bad things in life, the ethics of existential risk, the moral landscape, the limits and paradoxes of introspection, the “experience machine” thought experiment, population ethics, and other topics.
Post-WW2, which had remarkably lower levels of inequality, is what made America wealthy. The first guilded age gave us the depression.
Plenty of US military leaders advised against the bombing, prior to the strike, including Eisenhower. But we’re not speaking to legitimacy of hindsight views anyway, instead the lasting, incorrect assertion that it was necessary or justified, which you embraced in your first comment.
I did an internship at Bosch a while ago, and I can say they take software licenses very seriously.
It was hearsay. I know who the person that claimed it is, but I feel as if I might be irresponsible to say more than what I have. It's deliberately vague.

That said, I suspect that many companies have been exploring this. It's pretty obvious that many places are already using AS (Artificial Stupidity) systems to triage applicants.
> You hold a very narrow view of multicultural societies

No, I hold an accurate view of them.

Differences matter and the difference between two Han Chinese is not the same difference between a White person and a Somali refugee no matter how much you pretend it is.

America was not always a multi-cultural society. It was a society for the white man. This was explicitly stated by every president from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson. Our frontier spirit was largely driven by claiming land for the white man away from supposedly barbaric and inferior races. Go read a history of the Mexican-America war if you want to dive into how much racial solidarity played a part in us winning that war. You like others want to make it seem a lot less homogeneous than it was by talking about Irish and Italian immigrants (of which I am one).

Similarly, China is not a multi-cultural society and neither is India. I'd encourage you to actually go to these places. When I went to India I had to stay in a barricaded hotel with bomb checks. I had people requesting to get a picture with me as I was so unusual every time I went out.

And as for why I think America was successful at innovating earlier in the 20th century? I think it has a huge part to do with a tremendous culture of education and learning, as well as huge amounts of investments.

Just to give an example, the Apollo project was 2% of GDP! Just think about that. Can you imagine research investment happening at that level?
A lot of technology demos are bullshit. That's why I respect Apple so much, 99% of the time what they demo is actual working products they launch. This is why I avoid technology kick-starters and pre-orders like the plague. The last time I got suckered into a tech pre-order was the Lilly drone and I managed to shake off their spell and get a refund while they were still in their halo phase and had money to refund people.

Personally, I think the DOJ should get more involved in technology pre-sales and prosecute more aggressively. Pre-selling products you can't produce should be considered fraud.

The big and obvious difference between Tesla and Nikola is Tesla ships products and has been for years. Not only that, Tesla customers love the cars Tesla ships. Musk makes some exaggerated claims—and some truly egregious time line estimates—but usually ships. I tend to agree with you about the up-charge for FSD though. Definitely a bit of a shell game and moving goal-posts.
The biological shortcomings inherent to the species are inherent in scientists and engineers.

Your argument to the contrary is reductionist to the point of absurdity. Emotionally minimizing their set of privileges to “their iPhones are the same!” Insanity. Great we all get the same iPhone. I’d rather have their healthcare. But let them push us into multimedia gadgetry production, not hospital building, by shaping the information we see through the gadgets!

Economics of keeping people healthy is costlier to them than keeping us sedate and distracted from our literal health through the high of new disposable stuff.

Capacity for blind faith is a feature of our biology. If you’re going to peddle science in engineering systems, you can’t wave away the science of biology and say “well in social contexts core physics are arbitrarily different.”

Engineers are carpenters with circuits (disclaimer: hardware engineer with 20yrs in the industry). They haven’t re-invented physics that can’t be re-invented. They’re librarians of knowledge, not creators of unique physical truth in fundamental ways.

And to address the social system aspects, the historical record is clear and easily Googled. You’ve done nothing to challenge the arguments I’ve studied over decades. Social media hot takes hardly wave away decades of measured science and public government files.

More blind faith serving as personal validation.
Good work!
For extracting meta information -- a set of community maintained information scrapers (html, or intercepting ajax) for different websites could be cool. It's hard to maintain all the sites on your own (especially the ones you don't use), and by sharing we could perhaps avoid redoing the same thing twice.

Your extension, of course, Wildcard (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439141), youtube-dl, and possibly many other could benefit from it.
But what do ideologies/forces have to do with it?

The article uses published scientific papers as an example. That's open. That's research results the US is getting for free, from China. Which is awesome!

The only way I can interpret your comment as making sense is if we were talking solely about military innovation -- innovation in China's navies, in its air force, in its missiles, or even its ability to hack and disrupt foreign networks.

But Schmidt clearly isn't talking about that, he's talking about basic scientific and engineering research.

I don't disagree there are people who see it as a competition and want to see the US "win", but that is cheap nationalism to me. Because the fact is, the more research that gets done, the more everybody wins.

Even if it's not the intention, why don't you think that research is, indeed, ultimately resulting in the betterment of humankind? Isn't that what progress is?

Here's another way to think about it: producing research is like producing anything else, like iPhones. The world is better off because China has the manufacturing capacity to churn out iPhones cheaper and better than anyone else. Which benefits us all. Because it's not a competition -- it's progress.
Or it's just you. I've seen some of your other posts around this discussion and you really need to check out those guidelines I linked.
This is pretty significant to me, I live in the a place where viability is not very good and spent almost 2h30m in my daily commute, plus 8h40m working.

Since the lockdown and the "working-from-home" revolution I've had the time to start working out, sleep more and better, cook my own food, not being a complete zombie in the evenings, spend more time with my girlfriend...

Of course I'm in a position to say this because I'm also lucky, I have a beautiful home in a nice place.

I always took the reality of the commute and working in the office for a fact, but my productivity also sky rocketed in this period.

I know that sometime soon I'll be back in the office, but it will be incredibly hard to go back to my previous life and give up all of this.

What particularly saddens me is the idea of how wonderful fatherhood could be working from home, and all the time with my kids I'll have to give up again when I'll go back to spend 11h outdoors daily.
> The authors did not do that; their entire "research" about canine rape culture was simply made up. That's obviously unethical behavior in any academic context.

It was so incredibly absurd that the hoax ought to have been obvious from the abstract; that the journal editors and reviewers could not recognize the hideously obvious hoax right in front of their noses is the scandal.
> They don't need to build anymore, they just import it.

Please stop spreading myths. Germany was an energy exporter for most of the last years and even to France in the last 5 years [1]. And it's not that we just export in summer and import in winter [2].

[2] https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm?source=de_ce&year=...
[2]: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
Soldering Glass and Titanium with Ultrasonic Energy
I currently run a 120 dollar tensorflow device all locally that does real time object detection. I dont understand your criticism.
The venerable 'sysadmin'
Windows on the World
Firebug and or Chrome's similar dev tool is how I design websites for a living. Everything can be changed live in the browser. I start with a bootstrap template change its html/css accordingly and after save it in my html or css files. Just don't refresh the browser though there is a way to have it saved directly to your html file without leaving the browser.
Definitely more cost effective ways, but how many of those can be done by the FairPhone manufacturers while achieving production?

And it's not like FairPhone is creating a negative impact here, it's just adding to the global effort. What would you want them to do exactly while still achieving the production of a phone?
Theranos showed that so many, many people who should know better, don't: https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2015/03/cleveland_clinic...
I see a lot of crazy speculation in these comments. Seems to me they are just attacking a competitor, something almost all animals do in some fashion. They aren't dumb but they aren't human either. They don't have our motivations.
How much is their CEO getting paid vs what have they delivered? There are _definitely_ _a_ _lot_ _of_ red flags.
To dimm willis936's post (cancel culture) is an example for the cause physics is stuck.
Here is another try to give a reason to dimm:

"Density of mass is _not_ the source of gravity. A difference in density is.
There is no difference in density of the Universe (as a whole) compared to 'outside the Universe' since there is no 'outside the Universe'. And therefore gravity does _not_ dominate the Universe. More precisely: there is no gravity of the Universe (as a whole) at all. - To apply the field equations to the Universe as a whole (Friedmann) is nonsense."

It is simple and well known in Germany for years (of course it is still under the regime of U.S.-cancel culture).
It doesn't need another Einstein to know his cosmology was wrong.
http://www.hashsign.eu
> They appear to me to dress up non-functional prototypes and make big events around them, only showing the feature in a certain, controlled environment.

Any evidence for that? That a hell of an accusation.

Since literally the Roaster Tesla offered test rides on all of these vehicles. The Roadster 2, Cybertruck and so on all were driving around costumers all night. They were fully functional. The Tesla Semi is regularly transporting things between California and Nevada.

Now can we prove that the prototype Cybertruck could do the most hardcore rally in the world? No, but calling them non-function is just laying unless you have evidence to back it up.

> How many years now has Tesla claimed that full autonomous driving will be ready by the end of the year?

Elon is overconfident about AI, everybody knows that. If you don't believe it, don't buy it. Also the revenue they get from FSD is not actually realized unless they deliver on the features.

> Even the giga-factories don’t look anything like the designs they promoted. They look like, well every other car factory.

Elon has admired that he was wrong how easy it was to speed up production on Model 3. He took the blame for that mistake and since then they have worked and improved their production capability.

That is not a costumer features, and the reality is for no other company would you ever even get that information. For other car companies they release a press conference 'car delayed 6 month' not telling you why.
nothing legal, however if youre willing to bend the rules a little then there are some options available:

Amphetamines (adderall/vyvanse/amfexa etc): these will easily clear the fog from lack of sleep, the downside being theyre expensive

Modafinil: this chemical was developed for narcolepsy but was soon found to be useful for cognitive enhancement, itll keep you going up to 48 hours with almost no loss of focus or ability and in some cases youll even be better. the other up side to this is that Modafinil is very cheap
This is awesome and will personally save me hours of time! Congrats Javaughn and team!