skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Yep, Waymo is a moneypit. I don't know that Alphabet actually cares/expects it to make money. It feels like a halo PR project; attract and retain smart people so they don't work for others, and maybe some stuff will fall out of it. I'm sure the connections with automakers help with Android Auto, at least a bit, etc.

2. Solve the easiest problems first, as opposed to what? Even the easy problems are hard to solve, trying to solve everything at once is going to be floundering around with nothing to show. Is an automated vehicle that can only do the easy parts super useful? Not really, but it's somewhat useful. In a model with human controls, this is tractable, assuming there's a safe handover --- either directly with appropriate advance notification and acceptance, or by parking and switching; without a safe handover or human controls, it's pretty limiting, but some areas would have most of the year coverage, and some areas have tourist populations that overlap with fair weather, so it's something.

3. I don't think this is a big problem, if the vehicles are driving the routes, they can update the mapping. The road map is finite, and most places don't change that often. Again, safe handoff is critical, though.

4. Yep, it's expensive. But mass produced, less expensive lidar is plausible. Given this thing is still several years from mass deployment, constraining to today's inexpensive tech is too limiting. Figure out if you can do it, and figure out how you can do it with unlimited budget, and then figure out how to make a working system with less.

P.S. I can't believe I'm defending Waymo here. Usually I'm the staunch negative against automous vehicles. On the other hand, Waymo's serious errors have been more amusing than dangerous (let's try to merge into a bus at low speed, cause it'll certainly move out of out way)
That post is referring to the Hunter Biden situation, but the comment I linked to talks about total bans on certain domains which posted about Hunter Biden, including articles which have nothing to do with Hunter Biden. The sites are banned outright from reddit at the moment.

Check the second link -- there hasn't been a submission from zerohedge on any subreddit in over 48 hours.
Asking developers to remove code is ridiculous. It reads more like "Bad cop/good cop" routine rather than genuine help.
> It's interesting that the same company can produce both Teams, being pretty bad, and VS Code, being very good.

In huge companies like Microsoft teams working on completely different products can be as separate as if they were working for different companies.

It's not inconceivable that the first link between those teams is at executive management level.
In a just society, their "rights" stop at their network interface.
Microsoft made exactly the same mistake years ago with SMB.

Once the 3rd-party open-source client, Samba, was written, it emerged that SMB access restrictions were only in the Microsoft SMB client software not the SMB server.
Samba users could do whatever they wanted.
paywalled... However, giving up on human discourse is fatal to civilisation. It appears to ruin democracy, too.

We become human through other people. It isn't always easy to grow a mind.
"It's well within their rights as a private company, right?"

To do what? What does that mean?
Unbelievable. So now they want to prevent people from helping others share what appears on their computer screens?

And they have the face to even WRITE IT!

Just say no.
The world would have been a very different place had Facebook or other big companies built the internet.
I am not familiar enough with gaming jargon, but I must say I am not happy with the trend of businesses deciding to change the meaning of a word and everyone else playing along. For example:

- Unlimited data plan: it means you can use it until you hit 10GB, then the speed will be cut to 40kbps. But hey, you can use as much of the 40kbps speed as you want.

- Lifetime updates: we provide updates until we decide the device has reached end of life, which is approximately the same time as we stop selling that specific model of the device. [0]

- Native application: a web app packaged with Electron

- ...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258408
Self-Driving Cars Can Also Self-Design a Whole New Traffic Code
>That is why credibility is a thing.

https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/desmogblog/

"On February 14, 2012 DeSmogBlog posted internal budget, fundraising, and strategy documents from the free-market, anthropogenic-climate-change-skeptic think tank Heartland Institute which were stolen from the organization, one of which was falsified. Others may have been altered.

Six days later, Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick admitted to stealing the documents by impersonating a board member, and receiving the materials via email directly from the Heartland Institute."

"In 2007, Lefebvre pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to handling billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds through his company, NETeller."

"Littlemore admitted to Mann that DeSmogBlog is “all about PR here, not much about science."

http://leftexposed.org/2016/08/desmogblog/

>Here is where credibility needs to be established to sieve out self-interested propaganda.

Do you believe that there are no moneyed interests on the other side?
> - if your paths have white space in them

This is probably my second biggest complaint about Make.

> - if you change your Makefile, nothing will be rebuilt

Heh, there’s a common trick for that: just slap Makefile on the end of prerequisite lists. I’ve worked with more complex projects that extend this to versioning the makefile with a `build/.makefile-v${MAKEFILE_VERSION}` common prerequisite so that you can bump the version if the change is such that you’ll need to rebuild everything.

> - if inkscape writes out a partial file because full disk and you fix the problem, the partial svg will no be rebuilt

Or the more common form, you run a fallible program and it produces errors but still produced a file (e.g. if you used piping, `> $@` instead of a `--output=$@` command line argument that only creates the file after processing has succeeded).

I think “build errored but produced a file” is probably my biggest complaint about Make. You can work around it in a few ways; `|| (touch --date=@0 $@; false)` is probably my favourite, which I used in https://chrismorgan.info/blog/make-and-git-diff-test-harness....

> - if you install a new version of inkscape nothing will be rebuilt

I’m curious: would Ninja rebuild on a new version of Inkscape? I’d be pleasantly surprised and view it much more favourably if it does.

In the scope of Make, prerequisite satisfaction is all reckoned with timestamps, which is a thing I’m not always fond of, so you definitely can’t do this properly. I think the closest you could get is generating a file containing the versions of all your prerequisites, and arrange for it to only be updated when they’ve changed. Basically a slight variant of the MAKEFILE_VERSION trick discussed earlier, though definitely much more involved, especially if you want it to have one filename always rather than just being a hash of all the versions.

And yes, all this is supporting your point that Make is not the best thing in this space, which I quite agree with. But for simple things I reckon it’s often still worth using despite this.
My Node.js (well, Typescript) static site generator that I wrote for my blog is carefully written to be fast enough for me. I am considering rewriting in Go too, "for science", but I'll probably continue to use the Node.js version if only for the npm packages I use.

https://github.com/mh15/neanderthal
No, I'd consider them a standard and a candidate for implementing the case study. When I started the study I was thrown off by this: https://caniuse.com/?search=components - and very huge polyfills. In hindsight I'm not sure if I dismissed WC too quickly.

This is probably thin ice, especially since I've never built anything with WC, but they always seemed slightly over-engineered. I will try to learn about WC a bit more and maybe elaborate on my reasoning here.
While the requirement is there, often it falls through the cracks. A recent example is the wrong mapping of the Starliner thrusters. This wasn’t found until the simulator changed due to brownouts after it was already in orbit. Just by luck, the new simulator was of sufficient fidelity to catch the mapping error.

Had 1) they not missed the correct orbit due to a different issue and 2) not had to switch simulators it could have potentially collided with the space station.

So yes, the requirements are there but often not followed but luck was on our side
Did any of your family members search around online while you were talking to them?

What led you to the discussion of cereals in the first place?
Url changed from https://9to5google.com/2020/10/23/google-chrome-shopping-new..., which points to this.
there is certainly room for savings/efficiency. I've 100% made my mind up, but my mailbox has been BOMBARDED with giant-format postcards promoting the candidates I'm already voting for.

These can not be cheap to print and deliver, and as such they are an enormous waste of money; money that could be used to educate/inform/persuade voters who are undecided or registered with a different political party.

I wonder if a thousand years from now, archeologists digging tough landfills will see a 4-year-periodically-repeating-layer (like a geological sedimentary layer) of these mailings and wonder "what was that all about?"
> Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things.

This doesn't mean it has a "fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today."

There has been no evidence to suggest that is true. An NCC Group audit found no significant flaws: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...
Towards Accountability in the Development of Computing Tech and Creative Media
Truecrypt was mysteriously shutdown out of nowhere. Rumours abound that it was because of a national security letter or some other governmental interference. TC was never proven to be fundamentally insecure, but the original developers abandoned the project with the incident and the project was forked by others as VeraCrypt, which is now the recommended solution for local encryption (on Windows at least).

audit: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

final audit summary: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/02/truecryp...
Teams is a Slack competitor not Discord. Slack does have this.
What Is Fuzz Testing
It doesn't do anything most modern languages do.

Oberon is one of the confusing family of Oberons that come from a confusing family of Modulas that comes from Pascal. Most of them come from Niklaus Wirth or try to build on his ideas.

The reason I say confusing is that, for example, there's no one Oberon. There's Oberon, Oberon 2, Active Oberon etc [1]. They differ in things like

- they may or may not have things like for loops

- they may or may not have various OOP features

- they may or may not have pointers

- they may or may not have three different types of looping constructs with different constraints (you can exit a do loop, but not a while loop etc.)

and so on, depending on ... well depending on nothing but Wirth's ideas of what a programming language should be. There are at least two OSes built with Oberon: Oberon and Bluebottle.

There are fans of this family of languages, and I've even participated in discussions (on a Russian programming forum) where people would defend to the death the choice of three different loop constructs with different semantics (you can break inside LOOP, but not inside FOR or WHILE etc.), or the difference between procedure and function etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS
Very few of us are equipped to evaluate arguments about epidemiology. Most of us are making a decision based on trusting someone we think is an expert.

If some experts turn out to be unqualified or they have some undisclosed conflict of interest that makes them less credible.
Nobody wants to discuss things anymore. Here on HN, if you don’t like an opinion..you can downvote anonymously. Why discuss things and understand others POV when we can live in a Black Mirror world?

I don’t understand why HN can’t institute a vote on the basis of a comment. Users are already anonymous here. You can downvote if you engage. Even if it’s one word. Or walk away.

On other social media, it’s even more comical. Because the techbros and start up founders are themselves products of institutions aka public schools that believe in homogenous mind lumps, it’s like having your best buddy who thinks and walks and talks like you as the hall monitor. This is leading to not just a closed ‘hive mind’ online but also shutting down of any nuanced or in depth discussion and dissection. It’s like the clowns have taken over the circus.
> I can understand that, having experienced something similar myself. The problem with users wanting things is they're often things that aren't really compatible with your vision, so you have to compromise and eventually, if you "succeed", you end up being a giant mess that everybody complains about like ANSYS.

Yes, unfortunately that is exactly right as I already am getting the heat. No matter what is wrong Matlab, meshing, OpenFOAM, FEniCS etc it always comes back to me even if its from an external solver or component, leading to lots of support. So yeah, I know many things could be much better and I'm far from what my "vision" is, but I don't have such resources so I have to try to do the best I can.

> Supporting multiple solvers is surely going to mean having solver-specific features, isn't it? Which would eat away at what seems like your vision. Or are you able to keep it abstracted from that so they really are interchangeable?

I have so far kept it abstracted with a minimum set of features, but some solvers only support some physics, models, or features so as you allude to sooner or later it will begin to become specialized modes or so for each solver, which is not ideal and I'm not yet sure the best way to move forward.
https://archive.is/nzQ9j
Nobody else had a phone with them. There where only the two devices I mentioned above. Both connected to the same WiFi network.

That’s a good question. Boredom led to the convo, I wasn’t using my phone at the time but even if I was “googling”, I would’ve been using duck duck go.
Waymo also do substantial amounts of testing around Alphabet's HQ in Mountain View and the surrounding area
The Windows client is really really slow. Nearly every time I click on it and start typing I get about 10 characters in before it pauses and does something for about 15 to 60 seconds, and then I can finish my message when it's done.
Apparently they created software that someone else installs and then uses to share info they saw on facebook with them.

This seems like a pretty big stretch.
GPT-3 can do classification. For example you can give it a prompt like "Hacker News is a website. Excel is a Windows program. Visual Studio is a Windows program. Safari is a Mac program. CPU-Z is", and even GPT2 will complete this with "a Windows program" (with GPT2 you need to try multiple times, discard useless results and average what's most common, but it works and is straight-forward to automate).
I'm pretty sure make does that too. The problem is that most people don't know how to write a proper Makefile, even for a simple project, so make ends up doing more work than it should. For small projects, I've tried ninja a while ago, and frankly the effort seemed unjustified, since (a) I already could do the same things with make, and (b) make is already available on most unix-likes.

Ninja seems to be better suited for big projects, where make's slowness in dependency resolution shows. Ninja files also look easier to generate automatically.
AMD is holding the RDNA 2 reveal tomorrow: https://www.amd.com/en/events/gaming-2020

AMD has historically undercut Nvidia, but at a cost of power consumption, heat output, and feature set. Let's see what they have.
You're welcome to downvote this, but in the interest of objective and logical responses to Facebook:

Facebook can get Zuck'ed ... just another corrupt, bullsh!tter company. If you work there, you've sold your soul for cr@ppy smiles around the food counter or the drinks cooler ... but your life is being zucked dry. I pity you.
Guy makes website in 25 min with Webflow and No-code
I think failure to report digressions of severe enough circumstances are digressions. Eg. calling people "bitches" much to laughter in the workplace isn't acceptable. If it ever got out to the media, a glassdoor review, etc. that the company did nothing to a whole department laughing and calling people "bitches" the company would be in major, expensive shit.

Trying to take it further ("report days"?) seems like a slippery slope fallacy to me.
Which limit are you hitting. There's no inherent size limit but uploading 100Mb would take a minute or two.
Ouch :-p

I didn't say it's closed, but I have deferred the announcement so as to prepare something that conveys the design intent to a broad audience. IOW no 2nd chance at the 1st impression :-)
Resistance is not as black and white as you suggest.

https://litfl.com/minimum-inhibitory-concentration/

It’s more of a spectrum of concentrations. A resistant bacteria is one that doesn’t grow above a certain threshold. But longer exposure or higher concentration will change the effectiveness.
I've found it too. It's really easy. Just look at the Network tab.

Here's a really simple site that can do it: https://en.savefrom.net/1-youtube-video-downloader-4/ There are tens of others.
Sure you can, youtube-dl even has the `-g` flag to give you the URL
Yeah, I mean, screw IE11 users. An unsupported srcset just means that they will not benefit from this enhancement but they will just download a standard size. This is perfectly fine.

As for the syntax, yes, it’s better to always have some generator to create it. WordPress has been doing it for years with a plain `the_image($id)` call.
:( that sucks dude
Spam bots as a form of attack is OK when you are desperate to prevent someone from being elected. At least that's Twitter's official policy.
Interesting! Thanks for the reply! Is the laser intensity much lower with optogenetics compared to infrared neuromodulation?
When Handbrake first came around, it installed DeCSS since it was meant to convert DVD media. Because of that, I was not allowed to use it at corp job. At some point Handbrake changed to not include DeCSS, but if you had VLC installed it would use the library provided by the VLC install. This met our lawyer's approval and allowed us to use Handbrake vX.X and higher only.

Just an anecdotal story about how software that offends lawyers can become acceptable by making certain changes. I hope the suggested changes to YT-dl will allow it to pass lawyer's smell test.
> that requires some access that isn't possible through the browser

It is possible:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...

Google Hangouts allows screen sharing from the browser.

Even if it isn't supported across all browsers, I'd much rather download the latest release of Firefox or Chromium than a proprietary client by Slack.
Teams is pretty crappy software but it works really well as an integrated chat system and it fits nicely in our organization.
Furthermore, if you view the IRC logs in question, he is only willing to reinstate the project if they remove the code the RIAA alleges violates Section 1201.
Dendron is also available on VSCodium :)

https://dendron.so/notes/9134f160-31a6-4ab0-a640-1fce466f952...
Most likely explanations:

> Confirmation bias

> Coincidence

> You left other traces on the internet (searches, whatever) which fit into a pattern of people liking specific cereals
MemSQL Rebrands as SingleStore
Facebook says it's a privacy issue. So it doesn't make sense to go after individual users - users can violate their own privacy if they really want - but it might make sense to go after the researchers if Facebook thinks they're tricking people into giving up more privacy than they expect. (I hate to sound like a broken record, because this comes up truly constantly, but the Cambridge Analytica scandal was caused by an academic researcher collecting voluntarily shared data.)
There is a huge difference between trading binary options or spread betting and holding a portfolio of FAANGS stocks. It’s very unlikely that you will lose 100% of your money if you’re holding more than 1 stock. Even ‘dead’ stocks like Boeing are pretty resilient on top of various bailouts and speculative hopes.
I have a 5 year old who's going to try it once the release is out, but he might still be a bit young to get much out of it. I'm really curious to see how it goes.

Thanks for the kind words!
Having both Teams and Skype, we are slowly depreciating Skype, the one feature I miss most in Skype is that it is very easy to have just a list of who is active and who is not where in Teams you have a list of people you have chatted with but that is different than keeping track of people by favorites.
So I checked out the git branch for Next.js Commerce (https://github.com/vercel/commerce/). Aside from the missing documentation, there seems to be a lot of touch points where the code is tightly integrated with BigCommerce's npm library.

At this point, it does not feel like the headless ecommerce part swappable. I'm sure that with time, the team will probably extract this out so that it's more plug and play (https://github.com/vercel/commerce/issues/2) or will require the libraries (ie. for Shopify, etc) to follow a certain pattern.

If anyone on the Next.js Commerce team is reading this, the other thing I noticed is that this requires a BigCommerce account. Would be great to have a functionality where one could test out all the end points without needing a third party service in local development. I happen to have a sandbox BigCommerce shop, but there's quite a few steps to get one set up.
No, permafrost was removed, not thawed. And it was construction related, not climate.

Construction removed the permafrost, and heat from electrical systems and occupation have prevented it from reforming.

But this also implies that no liquid water was expected, which is false. Even places with permafrost experience surface thaw and runoff.

The fact that the vault design included a drainage system proves that above-freezing temperatures were expected.

The problem was rain/runoff/melt water freezing too fast once it got passed the entrance, and creating ice dams and similar blockages. Combined with an entrance that is warmer (sometimes above freezing) than the deeper facility (always below freezing), and you start to see the problem, since liquid water flows down.

When those problems occurred, the drainage system couldn't function properly, which caused addl flooding.

Ice dam removal required humans, machinery, and work, which added heat, which made the entrance warmer... And all of a sudden you have a double feedback loop.

It was a bad engineering design, but not because they assumed the wrong temperature(s).

And nothing to do with climate change. Climate change is misleadingly implied by the absence of permafrost.

Ironically, slightly warmer temperatures might have solved the design flaws, if it prevented ice from forming and allowed water to drain before freezing.
Possibly in the future. Right now we just want to store it so you can sort by journal, author, etc. That and you can search for those too. The issue is some researchers have a lot of PDFs and this metadata helps them manage them.

We might be able to manage bibliographies inside of Polar but we don't have plugins like Zotero so that it would work in MS Word or Google Docs, etc.