skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things here:

1) Binding arbitration. The arbiters know which side of the bread is buttered, you have to have a pretty extreme case to win in binding arbitration. It should be nuked from orbit.

2) Comingled inventory--there's no mention of whether he used it or not. If it's used and someone else sends Amazon counterfeits that get sent to your customer you get blamed for the counterfeit. The only reason they can be sloppy like this is because of #1.
IMHO, Tesla seems to be stuck in a pretty unfortunate local maxima.
Removing carbon from the atmosphere is a fight against the second law of thermodynamic. To win a fight against Entropy one needs energy, and typically a lot of.

My question is simple: where do we find enough energy to capture the carbon that was emitted during the 200 last years? Because we consume already too much energy i fear..
The only mantra about code organization I subscribe to is that it should be as simple as possible. Sometimes it means using several layers of abstraction like in this article. Usually it means just writing the damn thing in the most straightforward way because simple implementations are easy to adapt for future changes.
Yeah, learning C then Rust seems good to me. There's no reason to learn the complex beast of C++ if you aren't interested.
Roughly 38k people a year die in human caused car accidents. ADAS systems will kill people, as all systems can and will fail. Six people (the number of people killed while Tesla vehicles had Autopilot engaged) seems within a tolerable amount if we expect progress to reduce human caused vehicular deaths. NHTSA and adjacent regulatory bodies allow Tesla to continue to sell Autopilot functionality, and allow it to remain active on sold vehicles. Their opinion counts far greater than that of Consumer Reports.
This won't save them, the local newspaper is doomed. Local papers have always functioned as a sort of news aggregator. They aggregate local news together with national news and serve you that as a sort of localized feed of information. It's similar to Reddit; the NYT and national news are like /r/worldnews (purely in topic, not content) and local papers are like your city's subreddit. Letters to the Editor are like comments.

Theyre actually so similar that Reddit et al are killing them. Reddit even often has local reporting from Redditors; I find out about lots of happenings directly from Redditors.

I think national news will likely survive in some form because of the investigation required (and the legitimacy granted by an organization like the NYT reporting on it), but local papers are going to go the way of the pay phone.
Generally if it's twice as fatal it'll probably makes people twice as sick so they're more likely to go out less, stay home more, and less likely to infect other people.

However if it did damage in a way that doesn't manifest for a long time this wouldn't necessarily be the case. But that would be the exception more than the rule.
Enhanced Rock Weathering was discussed recently[1], and that is cost effective at something like $100/ton. I don’t think there is any question about whether it’s thermodynamically possible (trees do it, as you say), it’s more whether it’s economically possible; without a carbon tax there is no real incentive for most producers to offset. (If we are relying on demand from “ethical consumers” I don’t think we are going to shift things very far.)

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreadin...
DST does not, can not, and would not change the amount of light anyone receives in a place over a 24 hour period.
Twitter, Facebook, Alphabet Executives Testify in Senate [live]
I think you can go with your gut and learn Rust, because even if you discover that's a mistake and you need to switch to C or C++, there's probably going to be more transference than you think. Switching isn't free, but the knowledge gained on the "wrong" path will be valuable on its own, so it's not that big a deal.

Similarly, if you decide to go with C++ now, it's not a commitment if you later read about an awesome Rust DSP library or something.

It only becomes a commitment once you start writing real, production code in it.

It is also perfectly sensible to just set aside a week's spare time for each language and give them a try. You'll learn more real stuff from that than any amount of questions asked online about which is better.
AMD customer GPUs have SR-IOV disabled too.

If you want to use your customer-grade GPU on both the host and guest, there's only a single option: Intel. However, the current product on the dGPU market, Xe MAX isn't exactly the top-end GPU that people are searching for.
Uranium?
The rest of the world is rife with small, rural towns that nevertheless have great public transit systems, or at least ones that are more effective than what we see in the US. The major difference is that these places are willing to invest in the public sphere, and they're by and large willing to permit construction that is not car-centric (i.e., no parking minima to subsidize drivers).
Not so long ago I decided I wanted to learn some C++ and ended up getting some cheap micro controllers and starting with Arduinos and learning from the examples in various libraries.

Now I'm having a lot of fun, still learning, while programming the ESP8266 and especially the ESP32 (via PlatformIO). Playing with Wifi and Bluetooth too.

The best thing in my view about learning things with micro controllers is the 'tangible' result. Seeing things happen or move. (or not! and why.)

I thoroughly recommend it, along with all the other responses here.
I'm not an expert baker, but when you type "sourdough" into Google images, 99.9% of the results you are getting are photos of bread made with refined (white) flour.

As far as I know, you are never going to get a big, airy crumb with 100% whole wheat bread. Based on the article, I believe the Emmer flour used is not refined. The bread will always be denser than when using refined flour, but that doesn't mean it didn't rise properly. I bake whole wheat bread (100%) exclusively at home, and the crumb looks exactly like Blackley's.

Even if you type "whole wheat sourdough" into Google images, you'll notice that virtually all of them are only half whole wheat.
Unlike sin, CO2 is fungible; if you put it in here and take it out there, the net really is zero.
Northridge used to be prime gang territory 20 years ago. It’s changed for sure recently.
This is the most interesting article I've read in recent memory. Thank you for posting it.

> At the moment, there are no regulations in the United States or in Europe that would stop a researcher from creating consciousness.

Wow. I don't know what to think.
> Websites are totally diluted with ridiculous amount of useless blabla become SEO is the way.

Can you rephrase this sentence? There's a point you're making in this sentence that I'm not getting, and I would like to. Thanks
Hard and enjoyable sometimes don't go hand in hand. When you say hard, does it mean it's not also rewarding or enjoyable? I ask because I have been pushed to start working towards the management track by my managers but have always rejected it. I still don't feel the want/need to manage.
Sounds like you should be running Red Hat, not Fedora. RHEL has a 10 year support cycle, so you can wait for technologies to mature before you migrate to them.
There is a "user facing front-end" as well. UserForms give you customizable dialogs for displaying/prompting the user.

I frankly haven't used vba for a couple decades at this point, but if you dig deep enough its pretty much all there. Combined with sharepoint/etc you can probably get a lot of the UI to be web facing as well.
According to Tesla battery day they are going to use the same production line to produce three different batteries, varying the cathode. Iron Phosphate for low-cost or full-discharge use cases, Nickel Manganese for mainstream and Nickel for high performance.
They probably use the free Open Source option, which gives access to the top tiers for free.

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/
I really don't understand how they can be viewed as anything but crutches.

1. What happens when there is unexpected construction or an accident? The geofence isn't going to be updated fast enough. Same-day updates are considered extremely fast in the mapping world.

2. What happens when there is rain or snow? LIDAR becomes useless, so the system can't be used in rain or snow. If you want an all-weather self driving car, you can't depend on LIDAR.

Edit: Humble request. Instead of just downvoting (I don't mind the downvotes), why don't you write a comment to tell me why this is wrong?
SDCs will never be 100% safe because at the end of the day, the underlying task is still to push around a couple tons of metal on heterogeneous roads at speeds requiring dozens of feet of stopping distance.

But if it can get to half the fatality rate of human drivers, that'd be a huge win. And unlike human drivers, every fatality involving an SDC can become a fleet-wide software improvement to, ideally, prevent that failure from ever happening again. That's not something we can do with people; nobody but traffic engineers and wonks read NHTSA reports to find out how accidents could have been avoided.
Do you know what an A/B test is? It has a control group by design.
Why not? Just make sure that structures that are responsible for various forms of suffering are absent in the blueprint.
Major new paleoclimatology study shows warming has upended 6500 years of cooling
Nah, mostly for spare parts
That's hardly a fair comparison, given how many people are driving vs. how many automated driver systems are out there.
Haven't they had a 4GB kit out for a while? Why is everyone excited about a 2GB kit?
I think there will always be a trade-off where charge/discharge rates need to be comparable to the durations of peaks and troughs in supply/demand or else capacity must be over-provisioned. If peaks/troughs last N hours and you have K times the minimum capacity needed, then each cell needs to charge/discharge in N/K hours.
It's really not obvious how much of ‘Socrates’ in Plato is actually Socrates and how much is Plato trading on Socrates' name.
I'm not sure how GitLab is a better option. China could pressure them too.
I also absolutely love the kj style, but it's so different from basically everything else that I have a hard time incorporating anything in my daily work in the cess pit.
This is a common misconception about "coupling". Decoupling is making something truly independent, not making the dependency injectable. Making it injectable is the last resort when you can't make it independent.

The real thing you should be thinking of is, look at those libraries and their documentation / READMEs (depending on library size, smaller actually preferred). Can I make my code modules more like that? Will the API boundaries I define make sense?
If you're looking for the "professional" quality ones, I believe Lego Mindstorm is probably the way to go. That's what schools use.

If you're just looking for something simple and fun to expose your child to concepts, something like a Code-a-Pillar, programmable R2D2 toy, or any of the dozens of similar products would work fine.
Deeper job cuts at Boeing as Covid-19 pandemic throttles air travel
you'd get the exact same amount of light over a 24 hour period no matter what the time on your clock said.
SparkFun À La Carte
LCOE of batteries is 10x the LCOE of generation from my understanding.
How do you explain Apple building Maps then and forgoing a huge chunk of money they made there?

Also no reason they couldn’t sell ads so long as they don’t use personalization, people almost forget that invasion of privacy and ads need not be coupled.
Clips gets its biggest update ever
Who exactly is that company? One of the first steps in arbitration is for both parties to agree on a choice of arbiter. Looking at Amazon's webpage it names the American Arbitration Association which appears to be a pretty big non-profit. Step two in their road map here includes the arbiter choice step:
https://www.adr.org/sites/default/files/document_repository/...

If amazon is just insisting on "their guy" then I would think that should be pointed out in much bigger letters. From Amazon's perspective I can see lots of incentives: faster, cheaper, no appeals, no class-actions, probably no giant punitive judgements. But they may not have any better chance of actually winning them.
GitLab is open source and can be self-hosted by Wikimedia.
I would highly recommend the microbit driven cutebot.

You can use block based programming which I find is much easier to get kids started on.

There is even a Scratch interface for microbit, if you want to start a little slower. A new version of the microbit is coming out in November. You can do quite a lot with the new version see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763120
That's not exactly true. Bus systems are viable for low-density urban areas. Indeed, prior to the mass adoption of the automobile, buses and streetcars were fairly ubiquitous, even in such heavily urbanized areas as Peoria (population at the time: 70k).
According to their pricing page: "We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions. Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source and GitLab for Education program pages."

I'm sure Wikimedia has the dosh to pay for licenses themselves, but it's hard to see how the per/user pricing model would work for any open source project.
Is it though? Do you mean that running `next build; next start` as described at [1] no longer works?

[1] https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment#nodejs-server
I agree with most of this, except for the unexpected rapid-response examples you list - I would expect an autonomous collision-avoidance system to react faster than a human being when faced with a deer in the road or someone running a light (otherwise - it's not a very good collision avoidance system!)
Here's a quick way to figure out if Rust is for you: https://tourofrust.com/
Something here is unrealistic, that's the point. I'm not so sure it's the reliability threshold for self-driving cars though. I'm more amazed at our continuing acceptance of the risks in driving. Having two pilots, air traffic control, maintenance standards, etc, are all regulation driven. Why do we have all those regulations if we're willing to accept 1000x worse in cars with much more lax regulation?

> OTOH, I doubt a self-driving vehicle will be all that better at dealing with a deer jumping out in front of a car, unexpected road debris, or black ice all that much better than an alert human driver. (And possibly worse given that a human driver may pick up on certain cues that an automated system might not.)

I'd expect the opposite actually. Humans are incredibly slow reacting in the best of circumstances and they often drive distracted. They also suck at reacting even when they do which is why we now have automatic systems to reinforce braking in presumed emergencies as humans don't consistently apply full brakes in emergency situations. Collision avoidance in a few milliseconds with reliable reactions should make quite a few of those scenarios much better.
Importance+Of+God+As+An+Holy+God
> It's possibly the most sophisticated hacking campaign when social and technical aspects combined.

It’s the most sophisticated one _we know of_
Thanks for this link. From the article she states:

“Mutations that alter any of the following can lead to a new strain:

pathogenicity
virulence
immunogenicity.”

And

“ Another way that the term strain is used is when a particular variant of the virus (the virus with a specific set of mutations) ”

This sounds like the mutation referenced in the paper could be considered a “new strain” given the above?

“ Until there is clear evidence supporting functional or immunogenic differences among the variants, it is appropriate to consider all of these lineages of the same virus.”
The problem is, we don't have a definition nor a test for consciousness. So these discussions usually go in circles.

i am aware of three definitions of consciousness, used often without clarity:

a/ consciousness = intelligence. By this definition, a lot of AI has some level of consciousness

b/ conciouness = being awake and alert. A lot of studies for instance that compare MRI of alert vs unconscious humans focus on this aspect.

c/ consciousness the way we humans experience the sense of self awareness ("watching a movie from inside", etc). This must be more than an illusion because for instance right now I am writing about it so that "sense" is affecting my actions. But how do you even define or test for it?

It's likely you have a lot of (a) without (c), and you could have a lot of (c) with little (a). We can test for (a) but not for (c), so for now it's all philosophical speculation.

Until we can define and test for (c), I don't see much progress being made here.
Not terribly impressed. This wouldn't pass my code review: https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/aaa855815ab484d5bd09...

Function is 200 lines long, with 8 or so levels of nesting. Also "goto breakout"

To address the objections below, the function reads from a file into a pixel buffer. It's not some tricky in-place update. That's a great candidate for a more functional style.

Here's more ick:

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/aaa855815ab484d5bd09...

Surely that could be factored better.

Down-voters go read Carmack's own article:

https://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pr...

I think it's funny that people disagree here. This is exactly the stuff a modern linter would flag in an automated code review.

Sure enough, here's a linter. I think this is essentially the same codebase:

https://lgtm.com/projects/g/Edgarins29/Doom3/context:cpp

"Code quality: D" (on an A-F scale)

And by the way, I have the utmost respect for Carmack. I just wouldn't hold up this codebase as great.
Here's a hobby-grade GSM modem dev board you can add to any 'offline' device for $40.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1946
And never use USB devices (see: BadUSB).
They're selfhosting.
At the end of the day.. WE can drive with only vision, in unfamiliar terrain, so it's a bit silly to suggest that LIDAR etc and geofencing strict requirements for full self-driving.
Propose an alternative comparison that is not so outlandish as zero deaths ever. We're currently at six deaths with almost a million Tesla vehicles sold and 3+ billions of Autopilot miles travelled [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio...
Given that you already use Python, have you considered writing C extensions as a way to take advantage of what you already know to learn something new (C language)?

You can do the same thing in Rust, but it's a bit more work.
There are some problems with Consumer Report’s methodology. They prioritize premapping as if it’s essential to being considered safe (even though relying on premapping for safety is potentially problematic!). The safety assessment is based on CR’s opinion on features, not empirical results.

I will say that warning drivers of potentially hazardous and/or uncertain conditions ahead is a good feature of SuperCruise that ought to be emulated widely.
Not being able to turn on autopilot on some random rural state highway seems like a fair trade for knowing a regression won't put me into a barrier on a major interstate I commute on.
I was just wondering how to size the imaginary Apple Community Trust (ACT) fund.

Provisionally assume peak journalism in the 1970s was 200,000 reporters.

Let's low ball double that for production and support (proofreading, factcheckers, web masters). +400,000.

Add 20% for admin overhead. +120,000.

So aspirational "full" employment is 620,000.

Guesstimate $120k yearly benefits (salary, healthcare, coffee).

Punt on expenses (phones, laptops, gas, office rent).

So it'd cost $74.4b / year to have "full employment", in the USA.

ACT has the goal to seed 1% of all journalism, of whatever variety.

Like most others, they want to share the risk, meaning they'll seed and match, but rarely fully fund, and typically max at 25%. (Successful fund raising is good social proof signal of merit.)

$74.4b x 1% x 25% = $1.86b

So ACT commits to ramping up to granting $1.86b per year. Some funding channels will ramp up quicker than others.
Agreed, but self-driving cars would enable self driving buses and they could be great.

One problem with buses is that paying the drivers is expensive. As a result buses need to be big to amortize the cost of the driver across lots of users. But big buses don't work well in low demand times of the day. The only option is to run them less frequently, which sucks for users. And big buses don't fit down small streets. And fewer larger buses means fewer routes. Self driving buses could solve all these problems.

I'd still prefer to walk or cycle, but I'm probably biased because I live in a warm, dry and flat part of the UK and don't have kids.
I've had some fun with Cozmo by Anki, with the caveats that the company recently went under and the required local wifi setup with your phone and the robot is incredibly clunky.

But I did manage to train a computer vision model using photos taken by the robot: https://www.charlieharrington.com/teaching-my-robot-with-ten...
Pine64 and Bouffalo are two different entities. The former tries to ship open-source compatible hardware, the latter manufactures the chip.
Envoy is one of the best samples for networking I've had to deal in my career.
I've been on the front page of HN a few times, and my site has never gone down due to the hug of death. My setup is a simple low spec VM running under Microsoft Hyper-V on an aging twin Xeon tower server. My site is Apache+PHP on Debian with no SQL backend; the PHP uses templates and flat files. Rock solid, and can really take a hammering.

I'm starting to think that it's time for people to stop using WordPress+MySQL and move over to something more performant.
Apple, just invest a lot of money in DDG so that they can build the search engine and we can all benefit from that.

Not everything needs to be proprietary.
Twenty years ago I interned in a small robotics company, and one of scientists there was a Phd from Berkeley. He had done his thesis on dynamic controls for autonomous vehicles. I was asking him a bunch of questions, and at the end he just said that it's a moral question, and that they've already solved all these problems -- "you just connect the cars together physically, and it's called a train". I thought it was pretty funny and insightful.
That's one of the myths created by media.
The article presents an example where we basically know that it happened with Juniper Networks.

As you say, the hardware/software industries have enough difficulties with security acting on their own. They don't need the NSA purposely making more holes.
It's always good to see someone take a big swing and try something new, but I'd love to hear the VC case for this service. I have trouble believing that 1) many people will want this 2) churn rate won't be murderous.
Is this photo of a road detouring around a tree authentic?
You have, but general adoption of Linux-lineage OS's is focused in the mobile tech space. Desktop adoption is still exceedingly low.

Statscounter shows Linux installs about on par with ChromeOS installs [https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide]. Both are beaten out by the "Unknown" category; there are literally more people running we-can't-tell-what OS than a Linux-derivative OS.

I think these days, the roadblock isn't reliability; it's Linux being off-mainstream. Network effect, essentially. Most of the (non-Internet) stuff the average person hears about in tech media and by word-of-mouth is not guaranteed to be available on Linux and is basically always guaranteed to be available on Windows, MacOSX, or both. Linux archs have done a decent job of solving the "Can I see my screen with the latest graphics card" problem but are still behind the curve on the "Can I buy Photoshop off the shelf at Best Buy and run it on my computer" curve.