skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the other commenters show surprise about any of it. This is just another generic unfruitful "google bad" circlejerk thread, no one learned anything new from it.

Sorry, I don't mean to argue with you, I just disagreed with the "accusation" against meibo.
I mean, I just flew Delta from JFK and to board I had to use a face scanner at the gate .... instead of just scanning my ticket. There didn't appear to be a way to opt out at the time, and with a few people behind me in line, I just _gave up whatever rights I had._ On my return trip, if I see the scanner I'm going to talk to the gate before I board to see how to opt out.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90274113/heres-a-look-at-delta-a...
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25015/display-in...

Wow it looks like every thread is full of spam comments, really unfortunate.
> women don't prefer the "rat race" as much as men

It's not just that. Money is like make-up for men. It's obvious why men would put more effort (on average) in acquiring it.
> Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.
Not to mention things like e.g. livestreams ala Twitch, all it takes is one long stream at high resolution to take up your entire disk and then you can't archive anything else.
Differential coverage: automating coverage analysis
This isn't even about C# at all, actually. This is about the web application framework ASP.NET Core.

And they don't even have a point in this regard, because nothing is forcing you to use the DI. You wanna make a database connection with ADO.NET and a static connection string in your Controller? Go ahead. You can do that. It's no more effort than it ever was.

You want to grow your app to run it in multiple environments and be confident you don't clobber your configuration during migrations? Use ASP.NET Core's DI.

Every app framework has some "magic convention over configuration". I personally think ASP.NET Core's "magic" is a lot less pervasive than in, say Django, or RoR. When I was first learning ASP.NET Core--coming from WebForms--there was a learning curve. You don't just throw everything into a Web.config XML bag of doom anymore, with a single, static configuration reading tool that reads just that one file. That particular magic has changed. I mean, if you want to do that, you can, just read the file yourself. But it's not wired up by default anymore. And the new way of doing things was easily learned with a couple of afternoons of reading the documentation.

Which you can do, because there is actually documentation, and a lot of it. I think part of the problem might be that people are used to other web app frameworks where the documentation is pretty lacking, so they don't even think to go looking for documentation on ASP.NET Core and think they can just jump in and figure it out. I don't think you could do that going from Django to RoR or vice versa, but people complain when they can't go from ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET Core without learning new ways of doing things.

Don't like ASP.NET Core? You don't even have to use it. You can (rather easily) write your own web app framework. I've done it in the past, and there are FOSS projects for doing it (https://suave.io/, https://www.abp.io/, https://giraffe.wiki/, https://dotnetify.net/, https://www.dotvvm.com/, https://coalesce.intellitect.com/).
Looks interesting, curious to try it with our "assets-centered" workflows!
In Russian "негритянский король" - "king of the negroes"
As I understand it, you can define a docker image, and run your function in it?
It's not the same "intellisense". The UI shell is the same, but Rider's autocompletion is provided by Resharper running out of process.

I don't know what Android Studio uses for Dart, but it's definitely not that! It's definitely not an issue for Java, Kotlin, Go, or even languages with more complex semantics like Rust.
I used one of their MicroServer (only a little bigger than a NUC) and it's a great little server! Not that noisy and it packs a punch with 64Gb of RAM!
I'm sorry if I misunderstand what you mean, but how does Google get any revenue at all from Google Search?

I thought the Ads was the money maker for Google and Google Search is simply supporting Ads to make more money.
Treeman is surely a he ... and a singular person... gosh this rape of language is so ugly
Or

Acorn Electron
BASIC
>_

or whatever, it's a standard prompt if you're old enough!
define 'small userbase'. one million users is small for google but any startup with such number would be an unicorn, or close to.
The Historian Who Sees the Future
A former ecologist seeks to apply mathematical rigor to the study of human history.

Here is the academic paper: https://osf.io/7ahqn/download
I used Angular for ~8 months on a project. It was just about ok. Much, much better than AngularJS (Angular 1.x). But worse than React in pretty much every way. What other people have said about everything needing to be mediated by the framework was the worst bit. That and making the change detection work correctly required understanding the internals in quite a bit of detail. React's approach is slightly slower but much simpler.
What made you think I am dismissive of "the push for racial equality"?
ARM themselves made a half-hearted attempt at addressing this with their Ne10 project (https://github.com/projectNe10/Ne10), but as far as I could see from the outside they never committed any real resources to it, and it now seems to be abandoned (no public commits for three years).
Anything "specific" in writing would most likely be unconstitutional. So you wont find anything in writing anywhere. Not in a law, a regulation or even a handbook printed in this century.

Which is why this is a complicated topic bordering on religion or a general mindset.
I would recommend to listen to the "Black Intellectual Roundtable" with Bret Weinstein to get some general ideas. It's an hour of discussion.
> The first, obvious step would be simply to compare the actual hires (workers) with the available pool... almost nobody actually does that.

I absolutely agree! (And that's also why I said in my post that the percentage should be determined by the applicant pool.)

There's a separate conversation to be had about why the applicant pool is skewed, but IMO that's well outside a given company's purview.
In Brave New World, it's only a meritocracy because they've engineered human embryos to produce the different castes. In the novel, they deliberately induce fetal alcohol syndrome to stunt the intelligence of the lower classes.

The modern reformulation would be genetic engineering or at least genetic screening. I'm sure we're not that far away from the wealthy classes testing their embryos and only implanting the ones that have the highest intelligence, least propensity for disease, etc.
> Also who/what is auditing the drivers attention?

Who cares? The company will put all the legal liability for any and all accidents that might happen while using this system on you. It's all right there in the ToS.

You DO read your car's ToS, right?
>> Ah, that’s another common attitude. I’m white so I HAVE to admit to my racism.

No, but you should admit your privilege, which is a result of collective racism and sexism. This doesn't mean you yourself are racist or sexist. It does mean you benefited from those things. This doesn't mean it is your fault. It does mean you should at least try to empathize with people who are angry about it.

The fact of the matter is this: regardless of what kind of life you have lived as a white man, things would have been worse if you had lived that life as a minority and/or a woman.

>> Why need to strive to a point where none that maters. We treat each other with respect.

There can be no respect without reconciliation. You cannot simply pretend that white people, white men in particular, didn't achieve their economic and social advantages and statuses (which include highly paid tech jobs!) due to immense collective privilege. Pointing this out does not make one a bigot. Complaining about it does not mean the complainer is full of hatred.

You should not apologize for being a man or a white person, but you should at least try to empathize with people who did not manage to get where you are simply because of their race or gender.
They don’t mention speed, so it’s safe to assume it wasn’t worth bragging about.
Is it just me or is this really well done?
It captivates so much. Don't really know what marketing tricks are used to create something like this. Would love to better understand it.
If anyone is going to build this, that would be an awesome DIY project but hopefully you have a printer that works w/o buying one.
A couple of weeks ago, the rural areas outside of my city were hit super hard which caused our big city hospital to be at full capacity despite the city being relatively calm. Small county hospitals around where I live are not equipped for this kind of situation and the big hospitals are the fallback.
Reminder that "meritocracy" came to prominence in a satirical essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

Unfortunately a bunch of folks read that and thought it was a great idea.
That is a default in some current and old Unix systems, as well as the tcsh shell.
I can get into that. You’re now questioning the chicken and the egg problem. Did people always have these thoughts or is it because the internet exists so we have them?

I would say the internet just shed light on bullying etc that always existed so if anything it’s better because of that fact.

Trying to judge the internet is like trying to judge electricity, it’s a commodity not some idealistic sanctum
We can agree both things are bad.

People shouldn't use jokes as a cover for racism, sexism, etc. We know people do this. We should do things to stop it. No one is saying you can't make whatever jokes you like in private with people you know won't be offended, but they are saying that those jokes can be harmful to people they want to have in their community, and that you can't say them in that community. It's their right to do so.

People also shouldn't try to get others fired over things like people talking about dongles and forking, assuming they're actually talking about dongles and forking. If someone approaches you and makes a joke about how they want to fork you with their dongle, well, it's pretty obvious what they mean. If you overhear someone talking and hear the words fork and dongle, well, it's not so obvious and we probably shouldn't get them fired.

That being said, it sounds like the joke was at least in part actually a sexually charged joke about a "big dongle" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 - though the forking seems to have not been intended to be sexually charged. This is perhaps another reason that people should consider their words - if you just made a joke about a "big dongle" and then immediately say "I'd fork his repo," there's a chance it's going to be interpreted in a sexual manner because of the context.

Making a joke about "big dongles" in public is probably not something you should do. Someone being offended doesn't automatically mean they're right, but it's also not a high bar to not make dick jokes around thousands of other people that you don't know and don't know how they'll take it.
Yet apparently he's racked up $3.7B in losses from stock and call options on tech stocks https://www.ft.com/content/0edb7c17-58e6-4ded-acfa-1822440a9...

Hilarious to think he's basically treating his corporate treasury as a Wallstreetbets Robinhood account.
Then you quit and go to an employer who will give you Z.
"the rest of us that do stuff like pick fruit (assuming it's cheaper than having an AI do it) and serve as cannon fodder in the AI armies."

The lucky ones will be shining their shoes, giving them massages, tutoring their kids, cooking their meals, and giving them manicures.

Many will prefer the human touch for things like that, even if they could be done by machines, and having human servants has always been a status symbol.

This is what the non-wealthy among us have to look forward to.
>I've cancelled my netflix account a few times; and I might be about to do it again.

At what point is it "cancelling" instead of "renewing your subscription"?
No snark taken. My counterpoint here would be that HTML is a markup language and that the "equivalent to emacs" would be the web browser itself. My issue with that potential position is that the web is implicitly untrusted.

That's why developers even deign to put up with Electron in the first place, because their app can run with more permissions and, thus, offer better host integration (i.e. "nativeness").

Of course, everyone loves to hate Electron. Who wants to run 6 different Chromium instances? Nobody, apparently! I'm not the first wise guy to suggest a single-instance approach that combines the performance wins of a shared browser instance with the trust of an Electron application. It's painfully obvious that there's a golden medium here, but, of course, if it were an easy problem to solve, it would already be solved!
Industrial agriculture has had disastrous consequences in the form of overpopulation, we just haven't felt them yet. Global warming and every other problem caused by overpopulation are all a result of industrial nitrogen fixation and large scale farming producing enough food.
I think TS on the server is a great choice for all the reasons that make TS interesting -- esp. the expressive structural typing system which is not found in the other languages. What is missing is a better runtime that supports true shared-memory (w/o serialization overhead between workers) multi-threading (for async thread pools or true parallel workloads) like other modern servers. This would be ideal for me at the moment.
The author ignores the difference between personal property and private property. It is true that you do not use either your living room nor your lawnmower 24/7, but your living room is a highly personal space that you customise to fit your own needs and desires, whereas most people are not as emotionally attached to their lawnmowers.
I guess, to re-hash the same conversations people have been having for years -- if the expectation is that drivers must be alert and prepared to intervene, that places them in the gray area of not knowing whether or when to trust the system. Even if the self-driving system is relatively good, is the human+self-driving system really better?

In some sense, the self-driving system gets to be trained with experiences of failure, probably under the expectation that no intervention will occur (i.e. the "policy" cannot include human intervention). But the human driver doesn't get to learn from experience when to not trust the self-driving system (because getting it wrong can be disastrous).

Perhaps a missing piece that human drivers _should_ participate in, but almost certainly won't, is training in a simulator. There's a methodological challenge here -- ideally the simulator training should focus on scenarios where the self-driving system is weakest (i.e. where it's plausible that the driver will need to intervene), but those are likely also cases where we're worst at simulating the behavior of other cars/pedestrians/cyclists/loose object.
I'm in IT and decided to build a homelab for learning stuff and ended up buying an Intel NUC with a 10th gen i7-10710U CPU. 6 cores / 12 threads. Great little unit! Silent and efficient.
Google search generates more ad revenue than the other parts of Google combined last time I checked.
THIS is exactly what happened when they (google) pushed "Google Chronicle" a security offering- which my employer might use (having some GCP and a lot of Gsuite)- I wouldn't even suggest it to the CISO, based on the nearly 99.9% chance Google will kill it and we would be left with a huge gap.
It’s a shame indeed and I hope this site will improve its ability to boost comments with value to add.

There are some interesting and insightful comments even in those under this article though. I find hiding the entire tree once I see a comment that’s just there for the sake of being negative makes it easier to find the valuable ones.
That's correct (as I mentioned below). Paying was not a requirement for google music to do that.
> "the vast, vast majority of Steam users have graphics hardware of a level that was perfectly achievable on a Mac"

Exactly. So it was never really the hardware that held back gaming on Mac, but the fact that from a game-development perspective it's an esoteric platform that has limited or no support for the main industry standard APIs (DirectX, Vulkan, etc).

It was never worth the effort for most game developers to bother porting games to the Mac because writing a custom port for Metal was way too expensive to justify for such a niche market.

But now with Apple Silicon, that all changes. If you're going to port your game to iOS (and that's surely tempting - it's a huge platform/market with powerful GPUs and a "spendy" customer base) then you basically get Mac for free with close to zero additional effort.
you did the work of a consultant. you surely have it in you. take the next step
Many are pointing to the impact of small in-person gatherings between friends/family. These are people who mostly wear masks in public but it only takes one person at one of these gatherings to spread it to others. [1]

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/12/covid-socia...
Dark (https://darklang.com) is a very cool platform for building serverless backend APIs.

The Dark language itself is not what you’re looking for, and I don’t know if I would trust it in production (it’s still in beta). But the platform makes it extremely quick to get a POC backend working.
It’s not just “low-paying, dumb jobs” that are at risk.

AI can also help augment the work of “high-paying, smart jobs”.

Meaning that instead of hiring ten lawyers, you can hire one lawyer and a license to lawyer.ai which will empower the one lawyer to do the work of ten.
That's a key distinction, "the road" is an ambiguity that these car companies love to deploy.
RF Enthusiasts Rejoice – Solar Cycle 25 Has Officially Begun
That reminds me...

>

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241
Thank you for the insights. Wouldnt it be possible to add an @AsyncInput decorator, without ever touching the ng/core?
Same could be done for @AsyncOutput, with observables instead of event-emitters.
It doesn't matter what they say or how trustworthy they are.

The car is Level 3, which means you can still die using this system anytime you might take your eyes off the road and something happens in that moment on the road that leads to an accident.

And Holda will not be liable for it. But if you want to be a "beta tester" of anything prior to Level 5 (and even that is still a pretty arbitrary level of autonomy that will likely be quite different in how it works across car makers) then go ahead. You're only only risking your life.
Even worse, this encourages companies to needlessly maintain office space so as to shift the tax burden onto the employee. So you have the inefficiency from lost income for the employee and inefficiency of misallocated resources.
Wow, I just checked and yeah those prices are pretty insane, especially if you want a better-than-base model. I guess then in the desktop arena, Macs are at a disadvantage, because you can build a similarly powerful PC for a much more reasonable amount.
To be fair there are some very questionable design decisions with ASP.NET Core. The whole way of initialising a Host and configuring things around it is a huge myriad of nested factories and builders which honestly looks like a huge mess. It's hugely overcomplicated for 95% of web applications in my opinion.
That loses your ability to charge them a recurring subscription plan. Maximize profit, acquire currency.
Do you mean evidence or indisputable proof?
1) Macs are harder to consider secure, they're effectively all jailbroken. Cheating/bypassing in app purchases will be rampant, reducing the opportunity for cross play, and the Mac market isn't big enough itself. These aren't insurmountable issues, but they require investment, and the additional Mac market probably isn't worth the outlay and risk.

2) You have to rebuild the UI, which costs money which the Mac version may well not recoup.

3) You have a different version for desktops that costs more upfront with less reliance on in-app mechanics that you don't want to undermine.
For top performance you're looking at high end intel H series laptops (https://www.ultrabookreview.com/20056-core-i9-portable-lapto...) or Ryzen 4000 H series laptops (https://www.ultrabookreview.com/36004-amd-ryzen-7-4800h-lapt...). They seem to basically match the M1's benchmarks though, not exceed it. You will not find anything as thin and light as a macbook air with that performance in the x86 line-up, as those CPU's are power-hungry beasts that necessitate big battery and cooling setups.
It’s bad business if users won’t buy in future because you get a reputation for axing products, and/or you never apply yourself well to any one thing.

It’s debatable whether many people outside HN actually hold a grudge; Google’s overall favorability ratings are crazily high. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Stadia had a rough launch because of Google’s reputation.

Shoes are a bad analogy because there is little switching cost; you just ties a different pair of laces and you’re done. If you had five years of playlists on G Music and now you have to move them to Spotify, that’s a major project. (Source: I did this, and it took me many hours).

Put differently, as a happy customer, you don’t want the company to pivot. It’s usually bad news for all of the existing happy customers. A successful pivot is great for the company, hopefully great for the new happy users, and very disruptive for the old customers. In the best cases the net utility is even positive.
I believe the implication is that AI handles this complicated work
Some sort of dynamic config management existing via spring cloud or homegrown systems like configbus - easier to implement for larger tech companies, but the small and mid sized may benefit a lot f
in their development speed from this off the shelf solution I believe as it evolves further
Tesla Clean Energy but for Humans
What Is a Particle?
Interesting! Given that I subscribe to both then maybe it would save me a few dollars on the subs.
Derisking vs. Unrisking Stories – Are You Trying to Pre-Solve Problems?
Being unemployed. i have over 2 years experience as a content writer for blogs and websites. But I don't know how to communicate with clients as a freelancer. Currently i have no new projects and is depressed. I live with my father and i do not contribute anything to the monthly budget.
AFAIK according to the GDPR, knowing each individual fact is fine. Only the combination is PD.

Hence, installing a camera that counts black-haired people, another that counts people entering some location, a third counting people having a BMW is perfectly fine. Merging the 3 recorded tapes to identify a person is not. Giving the 3 tapes to someone else is only OK if you guarantee somehow they wont do the merge.