skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a biased New Zealander - not only the above, but both New Zealand and Australia have controlled outbreaks twice.
After round one there were breaches (presumably that is the cause in NZ, the origin has not been found) and then new lockdowns followed by control/eradication.

Throwing up your hands and claiming it can’t be controlled in the west for some reason is a cop out and is also incorrect.
Yup, this is part of the reason I just bought a Dacia Dokker. Another reason is that there's no touch screen anywhere.
Tesla Autopilot is already used all over the EU.
Thanks a lot for the in-depth explanation! May I pick your brain a bit more on this topic?

1. Do you know what were the main arguments for and against using typeclasses vs modules for abstraction? It's interesting to read that traits wound up in the language against Graydon's preferences.

2. There's another commenter on this thread suggesting that 'Typeclasses are just OOP interfaces' who has gotten a bit downvoted. To me they seem kind of the same thing, yet at the same time there's this feeling that I'm overlooking something and typeclasses are likely 'so much more powerful'. I just can't figure out what that may be. So, are there any major differences between what interfaces are in OOP and what typeclasses/traits are?
Sydneysider here. Sydney hasn't seen anything remotely resembling an outbreak yet (not as bad as Melbourne's), but people are still wearing masks on trains, we are still getting tested (for free!), and businesses generally appear to be complying with covid restrictions. Life here has been relatively normal so far.

I recognize that Sydney might still be due for an outbreak, but I have more faith that the chances of that happening is low. I am incredibly thankful to be living in a country whose people and its government seem to be doing the right thing when it comes to this pandemic.
I recall that a couple of years ago most browsers started putting a lot of effort into optimizing their string implementations regarding concatenation, so that makes me wonder: do browsers use ropes? Or is there some other data structure that is better optimized for how people commonly use strings in the browser?
In most cases, drugs need to be taken regularly for a period of time to have any observable effect, positive or negative. Sure, it's still much less immediate than a driving decision, but it's also not simply a point-in-time decision.

More importantly though, I believe that the statistical characteristics are more relevant here - I have no idea to how much risk I'm exposing myself by activating the Tesla "FSD", because (1) I don't know how much I can trust myself to switch from supervision to split-second control, and (2) I have no idea how badly this has been going for other drivers of the Tesla, or how likely the Tesla is to make really poor decisions (will it stop before the intersection, or plow directly into traffic? What percentage of the time will it do either?)
> Doesn't "the west" include Australia? I would think Australia and New Zealand count, and they've done a pretty good job.

Politically, yes, but being islands with a significant distance to other countries does make them very different. It's somewhat easy to restrict travel to NZ or AU, but it's much harder in Europe.

Geographic location seems to play a role. Japan and Taiwan are islands, for all intents and purposes, so is South Korea (a mine field inhibits travel). Singapore and Malaysia have much fewer land-borders.

Restricting movement in Europe between countries is more comparable to restricting movement within a country. They don't have hard borders, generally no controls etc. Probably doable, but not without very authoritarian policies which I don't see happening (during the migrant crisis in 2015, the general narrative was that it's literally impossible to enforce borders in Europe).
The old bash.org meme makes this HN material.

"Hunter02" is very nearly "hunter2", which is pretty funny.
You're assuming those sacrifices will not have been in vain. What if Tesla fails to create a self driving system that's superior to human driving? What then?
I really don’t like when businesses contract two words because of a conjoining letter, but this seems like a cool set of case studies.
undefined would be rare

foo
//Uncaught ReferenceError: foo is not defined

if not property access, and it lies

o = { foo: undefined }
o.foo
//undefined
o.hasOwnProperty('foo')
//true

Array is an object, access by index is property access

a = []
a[0]
//undefined

That's unfortunate. In Ruby:

foo
#NameError (undefined local variable or method `foo' for main:Object)
defined?(foo)
#=> nil

o = Object.new
o.foo
#NoMethodError (undefined method `foo' for #<Object:0x000055f2f4e56e78>)

a = []
a[0]
#=> nil

And Ruby enforces method arity and keyword parameters:

def foo(value)
end
foo
#ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1))

def bar(value:)
end
bar
#ArgumentError (missing keyword: :value)

Basically it throws on undefined.

I think reimplementation is a great way to uncover how things work, Ruby "fix" for property access

http://sergeykish.com/ruby-like-javascript-undefined.rb

Anyone knows how to relax arity?
I finally managed to overcome the objections of Mrs VR46 and order some Vitsoe shelving for my office - she thought it was ugly - but after a few months (arguably 10 years) she changed her mind completely and thinks they’re great. I wish I would always have had the money to buy long-term, because you get more satisfaction AND spend less money.
This may turn out to be true but is far from clear.
I use Anki on desktop because it lets me type 1000x faster than on a phone. Hugely important for Cloze cards and language learning.

It really isn't even a comparison...the mobile app is only useful if I'm on the go and have a minute to do some cards. An hour on the desktop version will let you do hundreds, even thousands of cards, while mobile is maybe a hundred, tops, assuming you want to stare at your phone that long.
What's unbelievable is that we started this pandemic by treating people as if we knew nothing not only about this virus, but also by throwing all ARDS experience to the trash.

I will remember our experts telling us to intubate early and withhold steroids for a very long time. We killed a lot of people because a minority wanted to show off. This is depressing.
The bigger problem with these is usually not the vendor of the router, but the vendor of the SoC the device is built on. SoC vendors will usually provide you with a linux kernel that has an incredible amount of frequently shoddy out of tree patches and tweaks which make it very hard to rebase to a new version even if you really wanted to.
Here in New Zealand the virus was eradicated in the winter, then again in the late winter/spring.
Did the US and UK control it in their summers?
Why? I find it quite appalling how you can dismiss about 1.4 million people just like that.
There is though a lot of good research coming out of the US but from my understanding they can be rather expensive. Sweden has probably some of the best hip arthroplasty outcomes but the cost of these is roughly 5-10 times lower than in the states. I think the system is somewhat stacked against you, if doctors (also human beings) spend 80-100 hours/week during their residency, they expect a financial reward afterwards or no-one would agree to that.

Orthopedics is also somewhat of an odd medical specialty with lots of incentive issues and a scarcity of good clinical trials. In a study from Sydney they found that among the 50% of the surgeries that had been evaluated with randomized clinical trials (RCT), only in 50% of the cases the trials actually supported the surgery. It is though much more difficult to randomize people to surgery, doing the blue or red pill is much easier.

I'm pretty sure also that a big part of the problem is us doctors failing to identify if a patient is part of the long tail or not, i.e. does he/she not fall into a particular study's inclusion criteria or not? Hopefully we will be able to shortcut this problem with deep learning tools but as most self-driving-car enthusiast know - there is a big difference driving around in the parking lot from the open streets.
The Typhoon was also built to operate in the Arctic. The bigger it is the more ice it can punch through to fire missiles.
That is not correct. You can open old files with a newer version of Revit, it will upgrade your file to the current version you are using (though not always a smooth process on large files), what you can’t do is open a newer files with an older version of Revit, regardless if it’s one or five versions different. This, for me, is absolutely wrong for a software company to do, only so they can keep you on subscription!
Still waiting for the “Revit killer” app, but sadly FreeCAD is not it.
Same. Also the author mentioned peer review, is that available on substack?
The level of endogamy within Indian sub-populations goes far beyond that. It's been going on for thousands of years (so not the British's doing), and is higher than that of Ashkenazi Jews (source: Who We Are and How We Got Here, by David Reich).
It’s a beta release
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Computer viruses are usually deliberate and typically malicious. But spontaneous forms of computer life are possible. If enough of them are generated one of them might acquire the ability to reproduce. Then there is the possibility, however remote, of evolving a form of artificial intelligence.
Except tons of other manufacturers have SAE level 2 systems that autonomously follow road curves and will fully run into objects that are unexpected. GM Super Cruise will kill people all the same.
I see you capitalize every race except "white".

I think we know where we stand.
Here it particularly doesn't work because th is effectively a unit, distinct from the letter h.

E.g. growthree is more grokkable than growthunt.
Emacs and elisp is the only sensible choice, because gained knowledge will not be wasted.

Lisp is not fun general purpose programming language and tiny examples teach you nothing. Only when you are confronted with huge datasets and enormous problems you might appreciate freedom of expression in Clojure vs Javascript.
In Europe allowing incarcerated to vote is normal. It isn't even a political issue.

The right to vote is valued differently in different nations of course. In some nations it is literally above everything else, while in others it isn't. This "ranking" of rights reflects the values within the societies.

Edit: And to add another commonly used argument: If you don't understand the right to vote as a super-right that cannot be taken away, someone will take it away at some point. Maybe they will just take away somebody else's right first. Probably a minority that nobody likes anyways. But this is a slippery slope which gives governments the incentive to criminalize things based on whether it will help them in the next election or not. Better not to have that incentive and criminalize things because they do actual harm to the public, than making it a political issue.
this was my initial impression, i don't think you're wild OR optimistic but I don't think it'll ultimately be a NAT like solution, which hasn't really been synonymous with security afaik.
> Tesla stats are extremely misleading and deliberately slanted toward favoring Tesla. Unfortunately, it's not really possible to find real stats since they're hidden by individual OEMs and insurance companies.

You realize that those two statements are in conflict with each other right? If they're misleading and favoring Tesla then you need contrary stats to state that. However you state that they're not available, so your previous statement can only be a lie.
Jacobsen v. Later found a lot of interesting things, but the existence of a contract based on what otherwise would appear to be a gratuitous open source license doesn't appear to be one of them (at least in the Federal Circuit decision where that doesn't appear to have been an issue in dispute; there is a passing reference to consideration when discussing another issue, and it's clear that the District Court ruled -- and the Federal Circuit reversed on this point -- that the case should be resolved under contract rather than copyright terms, but it's not clear from the Federal Circuit that the District Court ruled this way basses on the existence of a contract or based on the general legal principle that, but for the areas of legal distinction between bare licenses and contracts, licenses are applied based on contract law. And the Federal Circuit reversal wasn't based on anything which would distinguish those, but on finding that the conditions in the Artistic License were valid as conditions rather the covenants, leaving bare copyright claims available in the event the terms were violated.

Artifex v Hancom also doesn't seem to offer much, since that there was a contract doesn't appear to be a point in dispute.
That is true. Haha. :) Former dcos-ui and marthon-ui developer here.. ;)
Why do we need a website to store a collection of URLs to other sites' articles?
Raw population density can be misleading.

Australia for example has a 25mill population at ~3people per km2. This is effectively worthless as a measure as ~95% of the country's population lives in major cities with population density of 4k-8k per km2.
Pretty sure they wanted to erase you. Changing your name or religion wouldn't have changed that.
Musk is bad person because of the way he treats people who hurt his ego. Making up pedophilia accusations is not cool. Also, the way he treata his workers and attributes himself achievements of others.

Bill Gates, well, the way his imperium came to be was not allright. The war against competitors ans linux was too dirty and merits calling him bad person. And I dont even like linux much.

It is not just what you do when you have power and can play lord. It is also what you do to competitors and how you treat those who don't bow to you.
Yes absolutely, and that is very difficult, but since the people in this thread were already articulating their needs, it looks like they have already acquired that skill?

(Of course, actually articulating those needs on the spot is yet another skill, so it's still easier said than done, but it might be worth focusing one's learning efforts on.)
I considered filing a complaint with the police department, but I'm skeptical anything would have come of it. Ideally, I would have done it regardless. It's true that the root problem will not be addressed if people don't pursue things.

I think on net I do more than my fair share of tilting at windmills though. Ask me about self-storage companies sometime.
And we've seen the result.

If I've learned anything atop my 33 wise years old, is that any political candidate that looks like a clean break from the old guard, is exactly the same if not worse than its predecessors.

And this is just my cynicism: the corollary is that any candidate, new or old, is a bad choice, except extremely rare exceptions.
I wouldn't be so sure, I saw a video of variable infill extrusion and it looked somewhat like this, although over a greater distance but otoh much faster. Speaking of which, it seems to be printing quite slowly.
Can you point me to (or explain briefly) what is second order logic?
IMO it's the ability to be ruled.
I don't recall any incidents where a third party was killed due to autopilot, however, I don't believe it's reasonable to extrapolate the general case performance based on prior special case performance, especially when the prior special case performance did in fact result in deaths that would clearly have been avoided by a human driver.
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Waymo system is limited to a single city that is fully mapped into the Waymo system. Cruise is limited to only work on highways (and not all highways) and is only SAE Level 2.

So you're comparing Apples to Giraffes right now, let alone oranges.
You are talking about eliminating a system that has existed for several millennial , at least 4000 years . That is in other words let’s recreate human society.

Going down to particulars, strip individuals of rights to determine who gets their property and another group of people - through the elected or by mob action , should determine it. This creates more incentive to be part of the group that makes that determination than the group that actually creates wealth.

Secondly, the question of distribution comes up and the question of citizenry. If this is a high minded idea , not one based of millennial of social constructs of nationhood and citizenry , why not share the resources to everyone in the world, why only in a particular “country”.

Would you be happy if you have to make sacrifices to succeed , and I am very sure every success comes with a sacrifice just to give others who have not made such or similar sacrifices .

My assumption is that countries that have high inheritance tax create a disincentive to creators of wealth via aggregations / efficiency or disruption because such wealth would be stolen from them . You make enough just to be comfortable .
This is also why ArrayList is almost always faster than LinkedList in Java.
I also find it quite appalling how people can commit a crime just like that, but here we are.
Not that I know of. The stats are designed to be maximally impenetrable and misleading, and I'm not entirely sure why. Basically the stats that matter are: hospitalizations, ICU bed utilization, and excess deaths. Everything else is bullshit. Yet you won't find any of these stats for most countries, certainly not in an easy to digest form.
Each sphere is a neuron. Together, it's brain.
There isn't anything to type; just buttons to hit.
Liquid is a group of sphere from far
Why are you commenting with multiple very new accounts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TakeMeTo38
Timothy B Lee only posts articles that are negative on Tesla so yes it's clickbait-y. I really wish Ars Technica would bet a better auto writer.
> memory access was not that much slower than the CPU.

Yes it was. 1995 was not 1965.

> This is why a significant portion of the CPU is the integrated memory controller and various levels of cache.

Microprocessor architectures available in 1995 had L1 and L2 caches. L2 was available for Pentiums, so it basically trickled to the consumer market.

These caches were small: misses were more likely, so optimizing for locality was super important.

I remember hearing that same talk in the 1990's: you don't want linked lists: think of the pointer chasing and cache misses, and the storage overhead for the pointers that wastes your precious little cache space (8K in an 80486).

> With regular strings, scanning or copying a string is in order memory access which will take advantage of pre-fetching of the cache.

The point of ropes is to handle very long strings. Scanning a long string, many kilobytes or even megabytes long, is not a simple memory access, though. If you have to copy the entire tail of the flat string to insert a character, but a rope does not, the rope can win in that case. See the motivating statements in the paper: "Common string operations should scale to long strings. There should be nopractical bound on the length of strings. Performance should remain acceptable for long strings."

There are various trade-off levels possible in ropes depending on the chunk sizes: a rope can have a small number of large pieces or a large number of small ones.

I suspect why ropes are perhaps not popular is that people don't care that much about the utmost performance in string processing. A performance hiccup in some string processing isn't going to make video skip, a game framerate lag, or a CNC cutter spoil a piece. A lot of text processing is batch processing, or else non-real-time interactive (like in a text editor). Moreover, the cases where ropes are useful (huge strings) are a niche within text processing. People often don't have long strings so they don't feel the sting of bad performance.
I lived in Montreal a couple of years 10 years ago and I visit it quite regularly. I actually enjoy that city and don't find it depressing. It is a big city but it does not feel oppressive.

A lot of new modern buildings have been erected downtown and the city is quite clean.

As for the corruption, it is very visible on the roads. They are constantly redoing the roads and yet there are still a lot of potholes. The weather is not an excuse, roads are much better in Ontario.

Also I don't know if it is still the case but you could read occasionally in the news some housing construction buildings being burnt.
So what I took away was that the Continuum hypothesis is boring. But this Löwenheim Skolem on the other hand, that sounds like some pretty crazy stuff.
In some (many?) cases, performance is limited on a motor by the ECU because the hardware is unable to cope with the extra wear.

For example same block, heads and intake but different (cheaper) pistons, valves, springs, injectors, etc ... Sure you can easily dial up the power on the cheaper engine to match the expensive one, but at a higher risk of breakdown.
Ahh, the vague smear. What is an alt right medium? Any medium posting any content you are politically not aligned with?

Comments like yours prove exactly the value of having something like substack for journalists like Greenwald.
Not my problem, but I'm torn on my opinion. On the one hand, seems like an interesting idea. On the other, the US is known as being too quick to incarcerate people. Rather than spend energy arguing about letting incarcerated people vote, it seems more useful to make sure that nobody is being locked up for victimless crimes and taking a harder look at why anyone is being locked up for non-violent crimes.

It seems potentially reasonable that violent criminals should be disenfranchised. Some people should not have a voice in society - like raping murderers.
Is it better to plant trees or let forests regrow naturally?
They wouldn’t necessarily know.
By doing what exactly?
> Tesla should follow Waymo's lead and release statistics on collisions while self-driving

Tesla does rely statistics on collisions while self-driving.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

> In the 3rd quarter [of 2020], we registered one accident for every 4.59 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.42 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.79 million miles driven.
The British were scrupulously color-blind in their callousness and let 1/3 of white Irish starve to death in 1847, or white Boer during the Boer War.
> Attack submarines are much smaller than missile subs. I don't understand exactly why this is

Because a missile sub is, loosely, an attack sub with an ICBM base strapped to it. (Yes, technically SLBMs aren't ICBMs, but late Cold War SLBMs had ranges greater than the upper end for IRBMs, and so would be ICBMs if land based.)

> and what the trade offs are here - manoeuvrability, cost?

The boomer trades off maneuverability for the ability to destroy a moderate-size country with nuclear hellfire from thousands of miles away.
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It's interesting, here is a short 10 min youtube documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCoUQy34O7I
Vivaldi’s take on the antitrust case against Google
This article is surprisingly thin on how they fixed the issue. All we get is

> When the www.la engineering team came online, they were
able to revoke the “pending delete” status manually

How does that work, in practice?
The Roma are originally from Punjab in India.
With respect to learning definitions of words for language alone, I wonder if reading books accompanied with a dictionary would be a more sustainable approach. I see two immediate comparative benefits

- Only very few have the temperament and external motivation to practice with SRS.

- Learning by reading texts reinforces vocabulary at exactly the right strength: you learn the more common words sooner.