skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my doubts that autonomous cars will do much for traffic. Traffic doesn't necessarily happen because there are too many cars on the freeway, but too many cars on the much more limited capacity streets which back up onto the freeways. Everyone taking a self driving car into work isn't going to change the fact that traffic is bad because everyone insists on traveling 20'x5' apart from one another through a dense urban environment, which is the spacing a car gives you in bumper to bumper traffic.

Now autonomous articulated bus that can hold 60 people sitting down in the footprint of 3-4 cars, that's another story.
To summarise the previous 498-comment-long discussion of this article on HN: this is a bad article.

I'd normally try to give the benefit of the doubt and not open with such a negative assessment, but the opening paragraph of the article is so unbelievably arrogant in tone that I really find it difficult.
It's not an either-or. This canard comes up a lot. The US federal government invests in an enormous number of things, think of it as a huge portfolio. NASA's budget is less than 0.5% of the federal budget, it's existence won't harm policies needed to mitigate climate change (e.g. carbon taxes), and indeed, a chunk of NASA's investment helps climate science.
LOL. The data structures I can see, but what algorithms are considered standard will vary from domain to domain. A good engineer can look these up. I dare you to find an engineer that knows ALL of the LeetCode perfectly on the first try.
I'm glad you feel that way. I added the speed options on the homepage in hopes that others would come to the same realization that the voice is pretty good if you're already listening to audio sped up. I definitely know listening to robotic voices isn't for everyone, and I'd love for the voices to get better, but for now it's working well enough for me to enjoy using it.
Generally speaking these kinds of arrangements are made with the expectation that the company managing these copyrights are going to generously sublicense everything to maximize profit. So, for example, Dylan will be selling his songs off to people who want you to listen to them as much as possible. Nobody spends 9 figures on a song's rights without expecting to make 10 figures on it.

The Beatles followed the Disney/Nintendo school of copyright management, where you just hold onto something valuable for the fear that actually making money off the thing you own will make it worth less in the future. This is what gives you shit like the "Disney Vault" where you periodically take old works off the market entirely for the sake of artificial scarcity. In this particular case, The Beatles were a massive hole in pretty much every digital music store's back catalog, so much so that them finally selling digital copies of their songs was considered actual tech news.

Whether or not a work actually thrives once it's been escheated to the public domain is really complicated. You see, the act of reusing something in the public domain also grants you copyright over anything you added to the work. Disney's reuse of public domain stories not only saved them money, but it also took things out of the public domain, in a sense. Yes, all of the old Hans Christen Andersen stories are very much open to reuse, but only if you're careful not to use the bits Disney added into their adaptations - and there are a lot of them. So if your goal is to just keep the work accessible and relevant, something akin to a Creative Commons ShareAlike license might be more appropriate than a public domain dedication.
> If you're seeing much larger differences, perhaps it's more to do with the pot diameter or something?

Small diameter pot, large gas flame. The flame doesn't hit the bottom of the pot at all. I can heat up 2x the water in my pot that has 2x the diameter in less time.

Sucks.

The old fashion type of electric burner in that article is my 2nd favorite, great contact with almost any type of pot or pan put down on it.

The best pot I ever had for heating water was of the dollar store variety. It was pretty much the minimal vessel needed to just hold the water.

Wider diameter pots of course work best, assuming a lid is put on. More bottom surface area to transfer heat to the water.
This is definitely something that varies from company to company. I have been at three companies with untracked vacation where people used the policy well.
"If you disclose our existence then we will [leave/blacklist Earth/blow up the planet]."
:-) I love the scenery here too. I get a lot of happiness just by seeing mountains and the bay even if I don't hike/swim there that often. Just driving down 280 has such a calming effect in a way that no highway on the east coast ever does for me.
Zookeeper is the standard one which has been around the oldest. Zookeeper is not based on raft, but it has similar semantics as etcd. So if you don't care about the impl, ZK may be good as well.
Originally: for each terminal program, pass every file as input. If crash results: document it.

Effectively: random inputs to achieve unexpected results.
It's now come to mean "random data testing of an API"
I worked in the telecom industry, and knowing how much surveillance related regulations was there, I can't believe true e2e encryption is a thing on the internet.

I'm surprised how so many people in tech believe that a messaging application like WhatsApp is allowed to have real e2e encryption. It's impossible for regulators to ignore a platform with substantial traffic.
Ah, you're a vendor of the product, not an in-house shop. Makes sense makes sense.
Money is crazy! Here I am, making less than 150k in a VP role of a Silicon Valley startup living in Mexico. Even though 150k living in Mexico is a great salary, $400k just is out of any proportion I can think of in my wildest dreams.
Do they get ROI on rides or Eats? I was under the impression they were still pretty substantially subsidizing prices on those, though maybe that's just out of date information.
To be clear, abusing children was always illegal.
I can't wait to save the article's screenshots of code blocks to my Pinterest account!
Can't have bicycles without either a railroad or truck nationwide logistics system. They simply require too many specialized and exotic parts. VERY high maintenance demands per mile compared to shoes or automobiles, or even old automobiles.

A decent carpenter working with a decent blacksmith can produce and maintain a horse cart in a village with minimal external commerce; some iron ore imports would be nice, but can be worked around at great effort.

But composition rubber brake pads and steel cables to run the brakes and rubber pneumatic wheels and ball bearings everywhere will require at minimum a nationwide rail network. Even the very concept of national or world standardized screw sizes is a very modern phenonomena.

Also a pretty solid argument for a lack of destinations. For centuries if something was not sustainable with the population inside a walking radius, it would rapidly disappear. Today I can ride to a big box store, a shopping mall, a library... there was nowhere to go for the vast majority of the population in, perhaps 1021 AD. The next village over isn't all that more exciting than mine. Pre-pubescent kids seem to enjoy bicycle riding for no purpose other than the sensation of movement, although in 1021 AD a bicycle would be an unaffordable toy for a child.
True, but I'd expect them to last longer than gasoline, yet that's something some post-apocalyptic hellscapes seem to have plenty of.
I apologize. This was a huge oversight on my part. I could have sworn I'd put pricing information on the page. I've added them now.

Thanks for mentioning it. And as I have in my ToS and Privacy Policy, I will not be using your email for anything you haven't explicitly requested.
Lots of the crashes are fixed but it still needs performance work. Not quite playable but seems to be improving regularly.
Nations are great. Not everyone agrees on all policies. My personal opinion is that I do not want to live in a censored or communist country (Such as China). Having borders and different countries allows multiple ideas to exist and folks can choose where to live.
Substack! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
I'm curious about the correlation though - some forms of cooking, e.g. deep frying, are extremely difficult with an electric stove and create way more particulate matter / fumes than the burning gas itself. Heck even cooking itself is a lot easier with a gas cooktop, so you're likely to cook more instead of using the microwave, resulting in more smoke.
Just CSS and since I'm using React, Styled Components.
> Scholarships are easily obtained with a good ACT or SAT score

Ha ha ha. Having gone to college and recalling some folks I met, and listening to some stories from a friend who is a high school teacher at a public school, I laughed hard at that
except this is impossible:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
>We spent $700 billion a year on the defense budget, and $7 trillion on wars, $1 billion on inspiring stunts like moon landings or mars landings once a generation, are not really a waste

That's because they are framed as a more immediate existential threat. Humans are present biased and don't like to spend lots of money on low-probability events until they are unavoidable (see: attitudes towards pandemic preparations in 2019).
I’ve been watching this guy stream on Twitch and I can tell you that he is legit.

Also his streams are often insanely long, going 7 to 13 hours. So I only ever watch his streams live for a while and then I catch the remainder on VOD.

He also has a YouTube page with archive of past streams beyond the retention of Twitch.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17ewSS9f2EnkCyMztCdoKA

Honestly the knowledge he shares is so interesting that I selfishly did not want other people to even know about it. But realistically speaking I am not going to have time to make real use of the knowledge myself anytime soon.

He puts out quality content and he deserves all the attention he can get. And also, even though competition to find security bugs and earn bounties might become too hard that I myself or you ever get to find one and claim some money, the products that we all use will be more secure the more people in the world that work on finding these bugs and reporting them.
So you're saying LeetCode is only for screening seniors? What about entry level?
There is a lot of money in the federal budget already that could be better spent. Much of it already goes to the safety net - medicare expenses, social security, unemployment and housing subsidies. Yes many of these programs could use bigger budgets, but a lot of what keeps it from getting into people's hands is bureaucratic overhead and bad systems, delays signing up, having to call repeatedly for weeks before you can get a hold of somebody to process your application, etc. Those things shouldn't be particularly expensive to improve if it were prioritized.

The well-documented ballooning healthcare costs make medicare more expensive in addition to hitting many citizens directly, so improvements there would have a huge impact.

Of the rest of the budget much of it goes to the military which doesn't seem to be particularly efficiently spent either in recent decades.

If more revenue really is the answer, I'm not opposed to bumping up taxes more in certain ways. I'm definitely for ideas that make taxes less regressive, for instance getting rid of the lower long-term capital tax rate is probably good idea and a simple way to raise effective tax rates on the wealthy in a massive way.

But you don't have to demonize those at the top so much to get any of this stuff done. Doing so is a major distraction, and I do genuinely worry about the self-fulfilling prophecy of drilling into everyone's head the highly exaggerated narrative that there is no hope for anyone else because the rich have completely rigged the system. And too often these days that seems to be what people focus on, rather than the hard work of making real, tangible improvements in the lives of those at the bottom.
Check-out T-Mobile home internet. 50$/month unlimited 5G & LTE hotspot.
He also lucked out on inheriting fortunes from his parents diamond mines. But, there are lots of people who inherit fortunes and do nothing with it. There are lots of people with drive and intelligence comparable to Elon Musk who don't have the privilege necessary to accomplish anything. Seems we're still a long way away from a meritocracy.
I've played with Polly a fair bit but at very low scale and, to be honest, I hadn't even noticed the price difference till today. It's amazing how vast it is and I can see why you've gone the way you have.

It probably pays to get a foot in the door with this idea now because if the prices do eventually collapse (or, better, high quality open source TTS makes huge advances) you'll be well positioned to take advantage of it.
Austin is good during quarantine. But not for safe, social, walkability.
Yes! I rarely see others mention this. It's always just "licence to call yourself an X." As though the job title itself is something important.

The other thing to note is that certain jobs can be easily offshored. If you can't get a local (data scientist/software engineer/ journalist) to do what you want, you can just pay a foreigner to do it. The same is not true of doctors and lawyers, due to the extra privileges you point out.
I remember one of my math professors ranting about lotteries being an "idiot tax" and that you should never play them. Seems like he should have tried gaming the lottery instead of ranting against it.
This is not an issue that affects the wider tech community. It is specifically relevant to Google and nobody else.

The firing/resigning/petitions are irrelevant.

The wider community important information would be the specific ethical issue she is keen on raising.
My understanding is that they are only required to monitor a single specific mailbox (for which a court order has been issued) - so no preemptive collection.
Helluva down round (the $400M in cash is the most telling in my opinion and reminds me of the kickback that IBM had to pay to "sell" its chip foundries [1]). If Uber's new stake is worth $2.5B, then the equity is worth only ~$2B. Last year Toyota+Denso+SoftBank paid $1BN for 13% of ATG, so by the new valuation their stake is now worth only about about $280M, or an over 70% loss in value in just one year.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/192430-ibm-dumps-chip-....
The hard parts are organization, maintenance, coming up with a unified strategy, playing CSS whack-a-mole when you change HTML, deciding where to define what, finding where you defined what, etc. The garden demonstrates none of that.

100% this.

The moment I started to see HTML and CSS as a holistic system of layout construction, rather than as simply two separate but complimentary technologies, my productivity in both skyrocketed.

'Bugs' in my CSS became infinitely easier to not only find, but also solve. And the benefits of tools that both unified and abstracted layout construction, like Tailwind, became immediately obvious.

Shameless plug: I talk more about a lot of these mindset shifts and how they've helped me finally feel like I truly understand CSS in a book I'm working on called "How To Debug CSS" [1].

It goes over not only the mindset shifts that have helped me gain a decent level of mastery over CSS, but also shows you how to solve the 50+ most common issues that you'll come across when developing with it. Like when you have an overflow on your page for example, and have no idea what's causing it.

[1] - https://gumroad.com/l/Debbg/z823cp8
She's working under another name professionally now, so she's doing okay enough.
Gigabit at ~$3,000 seems like a bad tradeoff compared to 100 Mbps for $1,377.
It was settings. I had a combo of AMD ryzen 2, nvme drive, windows 10, and couldn't for the life of me get windows to discover the drive and install, whether using uefi or bios. I haven't ever dealt with Windows without it just working, so I was unprepared, and my Googling did nothing. I'm not a dumb guy, but I determined with this combo of hardware it was impossible for me to get Windows installed. Combine that with a new kid, and I decided just to get a Playstation 4 (this was months ago) and not have to mess with anything.
What percent of remote workers do their shopping at the local mom and pop vs. online? I would expect this is a much higher rate than non remote workers who are commuting past that mom and pop store every day, where it would be convenient to stop in and grab something on their way to work or home. Remote workers in a rural town have little reason to leave their house and go to town, which in a rural town might itself be a 10-15 min one way drive on unlit (and frequently unplowed in winter) roads that typically lack a sidewalk.
> The author goes to great pains to use words other than cause: "connection" "link" etc.

From the article:

> The cumulative evidence was enough for the venerable New England Journal of Medicine to publish an editorial in January recommending that “new gas appliances be removed from the market.” It was co-authored by Howard Frumkin, a former director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, which is responsible for investigating environmental drivers of illness and promulgating guidance about those risk factors.
> Take it from someone that does this for a living

What do you do for a living?
I preferred monero.
I completely agree words matter. They matter immensely because of what they communicate. That's my point. It seems plainly evident at this point that neither word is aiding communication, because we're arguing about what the words mean, rather than the facts of the situation. A sentence saying she was fired and a sentence saying she resigned both miss too much of the situation to be called clear, honest communication, which matters.
A lot of down votes, but I have yet to see a response to the valid question of "what other scalable solution do we".

Don't attack the person. Attack the argument.
At current catch rates it's very sustainable.
New Improvements in the CC Search Browser Extension
Update: Fix deployed -> https://gitlab.com/gitterHQ/webapp/-/blob/develop/CHANGELOG....
My preferred approach is: the ties are awarded to the individual whose name will show up in `git blame` after this change is merged.
It’s even worse when you realise I spent ten years convincing tens of large angry enterprises why they needed to deploy a registry fix to make our web based software work.

I put the cost of this bug for us just in the $100k range.
As Eastern European doctors will tell you, the traditional Eastern Europe diet is unhealthy. Yes, obesity is low, but heart disease is a problem. That the urban middle class now has access to new dining habits inspired from other cuisines or vegan fads, is considered a good thing.
Probably worth clarifying that none of the posts under discussion were affected by HN moderators—only by users.
Work in cryptography, applied cryptography, enterprise architecture with blockchain, and security architecture.
(playing devils' advocate)

City/population-center living is wildly inefficient for a host of reasons, and a dollar of urban development towards a major metropolis goes much less far than a dollar of urban development for a rural community.

We deal with the inadequacies of living in such big population dense areas because we want to; not because it's efficient.

Turns out it's not efficient to stack up as many people vertically as possible.

It over-burdens local municipal systems to the point of skyrocketing economic costs, creates more job scarcity due to sheer population and high real-estate costs, and creates untenable situations during times where population density is a net-negative, like during a pandemic.

Rural living has major problems too; lack of access to high quality services and travel come to mind -- but these are things that can be improved upon, and by every metric these things are improving.

There is no such game-plan for dealing with the burdens of heavy density populations mid-city; it's considered to be a fact of life.
Black female scientist Timnit Gebru fired: the end of Google top AI research?
Never in my life would I have expected crosscode to be anything like HTML/JS based. That’s one of the most fluent games I’ve played.
I was half expecting the first page to explain what nodejs is and how to install it. Pleasantly surprised by most of this.
This is why I have a separate Windows PC for gaming, that I do not ever put personal information into, or use even to sign into my personal, non-gaming accounts (e.g. Gmail). Perhaps not a good solution for everyone, but I think that's what the world has come to.
..because people in their 80's don't need money for themselves or their family?
Not quite.

The subsidy isn't large enough to pay for all the satellites they need. They have money to launch more satellites and will be doing more launches subsidy or no subsidy.

The subsidy will only go directly to their bottom line.
> Not from what I understand.

What is your understanding?
What issues does TS introduce into a codebase that weren't already there? This sounds kinda like arguing that if we write fewer tests we'll have fewer bugs.
I would guess all my code relating to managing millions of investors' money. Specifically an enterprise-wide upgrade that I was involved in since other teams had to cut over at the same night as us. I even found a bug in the migration playbook that I was able to fix and alert other teams about. Too bad it wasn't appreciated.
Same! Raft is something I've heard about for years and always "wanted to get around to" learn, but this visualization just took care of most of that. Hoping there are other good visualizations like this in the future.
I would argue that if you have code that is trying to remove a non-existent item from a list, then making it silently fail is only giving the appearance of making it work.

It's definitely not right, while probably not really working either. The immaterial performance gain from removing the null check is completely irrelevant.

It's a foot-gun for sure, but it's up to you to not pull the trigger.
I definitely have a “vouch” option for submissions. I think it’s a newer addition than vouching comments.
Clearly not since they're still sitting at a $95B market cap after this news. Or perhaps just nobody else has realized this, so why don't you short the stock?
>The problem is over-run and underestimation

I would argue this is a bug for the taxpayers but a feature for the contractor. Much of their profit comes from change-orders after they win a poorly administered low-bid contract. It seems the M.O. often is "bid low to get the contract, and then argue/nickel-and-dime the taxpayer to pad the profit margin"
Maybe you're thinking of someone else?

“You get really tired of hot dogs and oranges after awhile,” he said. “And of course pasta and a green pepper and a big thing of sauce. And that can go pretty far, too.

“So it’s like, ‘Oh, okay, if I can live for a dollar a day then at least from a food cost standpoint, well it’s pretty easy to earn like $30 in a month anyway, so I’ll probably be okay.’ “

This isn’t the only example of a young Musk roughing it. When he started his first company, Zip2, he and his brother slept in their office instead of renting an apartment. They showered at the YMCA.

“We were so hard up, we had just one computer so the Web site was up during the day and I was coding at night,” Musk recalled during a commencement speech at USC. “Seven days a week, all the time.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/03/2...
This sounds interesting but until it's in ffmpeg and/or obs (being in ffmpeg would put it in obs more or less by default eventually now I think) that'll limit its practical usefulness for a lot of people. Is that planned/being pushed for?