skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to try to convince you you're wrong. You can change you own mind about this, but it takes investment. Many, many people have found that journey toward "getting art" to be life enriching.

I'll say that for me, what blows my mind about modern and contemporary art is the willingness of individual artists to follow a conceptual idea waaay beyond what is reasonable. Whether the destination ends up being critically acclaimed is beside the point. You have to at some point be able to not care in order to play, because artists, more than anybody, know just how much of a crapshoot it is to get commercial attention.
I share your cynicism. I'm not sure that's a comfortable position though but it's better to live in fear than ignorance I suspect.
I kind of agree with you.

I was thinking of people perfectly able to do/finish the job. If that's not their job to begin with, they have another one, and can be evaluated on it. If it's just that their time is too precious to do it (and it can even be!) and they will actually bring value in another way, then so be it, but let's not overestimate the value on dev on that project compared to people actually doing the work. Because we are not talking about design vs production, we are usually talking about rough-high-level-design vs high level refinement/debugging + all-level-design + QA + iterating, rince and repeat...

And like I said: ideas are cheap. Fundamentally. Well, most ideas, but this would need a case by case judgment to recognize remarkable ones out of the mass, so I'll continue with my simplification that "ideas are cheap." If I say that a micro kernel still makes a lot of sense and should be the future of new OS / VMs / etc, well it is controversial, and maybe Linus won't agree, but maybe if just enough people put some efforts to develop an excellent and very successful system from that, maybe Hurd done right, while I simply get to my next idea, maybe if the system is eventually successful I should not be overly praised for that. Maybe the people who did the work should. The mere idea bringers will be judged on other aspects anyway, and it does not retire anything from all their contribution everywhere, maybe other activities, etc... I'm not trying to declare the superiority of development vs other things. I'm trying to explain that development is to be judged by development criteria.

And so in the end, counting the number of commits (or whatever), yes it is kind of an idiotic metric but maybe not as much as some people seem to think. I see it more like the estimation of complexity via the number of LOC approach: it's rough, you may need to apply various adjustments here and there if you look more closely, it may be biased by various non optimal feedback loops, it may lead to a few false positives and negatives, but it is still an interesting metric to begin to understand what is happening in a project.
That would break down in short order. Wood isn't suitable. The crankshaft and axles would snap from stress if they didn't wear from fricton and vibration. The frame would be subject to horrible vibration and shocks; it would quickly be shaken apart. Bicycles are a product of advanced metallurgy and precision machining, particularly for bearings and races. We didn't develop them until that technology was established.
> The actual scenario is backend / js / "fullstack" devs can copy/paste from many available tailwind "blocks" such as a login screen and it "just works".

It's that, but also something more. Tailwind blocks are exact opposite of black-boxes. You can clearly see everything they are made of, tweak it and experiment with it in a fully localized manner.

CSS imports and SASS syntax are the least of the problems Tailwind solves (I don't actually think they are problems at all).
Take from the 99.9% give to the 0.001%.
Maybe that trade-off should be more flexible and dependent on the "league" a given player wants to play in. The criteria could be more strict for the "pros" where cheating can lead to significant gains, like professional athletes who have to pass regular anti-doping tests, but you wouldn't expect the same invasive checks from (for example) people participating in a charity run.
Oh yes. DCS is an absolute hog but Falcon runs very nice (albeit looks a bit shit).

If you haven't been keeping up with the scene, the game has been greatly expanded by mods - e.g. improvements the flight model
> There just aren’t good reasons to live here anymore for so many of us

The majority of people that say this are also the exact reason why the city is blackhole of culture and fun. You aren't in traffic, you are the traffic.
My intuition is that Waymo and Tesla dominate in the amount of data available to them.

Waymo seems to be closest to a robust 3D lidar based solution, but Tesla maybe be closest to 'a' solution, but the community is split on whether their 2D approach will work.

Then there seem to be a laundry list of companies that entered the market late, and are propped up panicking car companies which aren't sure which one of these companies is the real thing. So, they hedge their bets by taking a piece of all of them.

The solution will come out of 1 of the following:

1. A slow race to making a more and more robust vision system that is eventually good enough to get through regulation. In this case, the earliest to start and one with the most data will win. So, either Waymo or Tesla. By the time others get there, they will have captured the market and made billions.

2. Some smaller company has an 'a-ha' moment. Waiting for an a-ha moment doesn't sound like the most prudent investment decision, but the one that finds it will become a billionaire overnight. This change is so important (like Mapreduce) that it will quickly be reverse engineered and one of Google/Uber/etc. will release a self driving hardware kit + api or come pre-installed in cars like android auto. The solution transforms the vision field with a reach far beyond just cars.
Stateoftheart AI: open-data free platform to facilitate collaborative dev of AI
On Android, I can transparently use a third party messaging service that also delivers phone calls and messages to my computers. I don't even need my phone with me to do what rendezvous does. This just isn't possible on iOS due to its restrictions on APIs available to third parties.
The point that you started out arguing was based on policy, though. Support in San Francisco and West Hollywood does go much, much deeper than it does in Midwest cities -- and much, much deeper than in most cities in California.
Would you go into more detail about this?

How much do you invest in content? How do you pick niches?

What those the turnkey niches site have in terms of content, custom theme, domain?
Being notable for something doesn’t make you credible in everything.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Even smaller towns, like Asheville (where I am now), have a huge LGBTQIA+ presence. I moved from DC, which was pretty gay, and I feel like it's even more super gay here.
As a LGBT member in a red state (Florida), the idea that California's protections or perceptions of LGBT people are unique is just absurd. I'm in my early 20's and have never faced any discrimination that would warrant an interaction with the police. Amongst my friends, the police have always been extremely helpful.

The only divide that exists is between cities and rural areas. Virtually every city is going to have a large LGBT population with its own anti-discrimination ordinance and essentially be indistinguishable with SF. From the LGBT rights in Florida wiki:

>In addition, several cities and counties, comprising about 55% of Florida's population, have enacted anti-discrimination ordinances. These include Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Tallahassee, among others. Conversion therapy is also banned in a number of cities in the state, mainly in the Miami metropolitan area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Florida
Ok thanks for that.

Stripe: 100/second seems like perfectly ample headroom to support their payments. At $10/payment, that's $1K/s which is $3.6 Million in one hour.

If that's 'The Stripe Limit' that every Stripe customer has, wouldn't it kind of imply that's plenty enough for even much bigger customers?

As 'FaaS' scaling - as far as I knew that was the entire point of Lambdas - that they could scale quite quickly.

The alternative, EC2s would need to also 'scale very quickly' and could very well run into the same 'prioritization' problems, no?

In reality, I don't think there's a problem here with Lambda - while possibly not the most ideal option - I think that AWS has ample overhead to supply this little company with their little burst.

Amazon accommodates some pretty big workloads. A call to AWS support may very well have supplied them with the answer as to the real limits on scale.
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Oh the court says you can do it in 1 exception? That same rulling will be used to allow it to happen to everyone.
There’s a running refinery in several of the films that is a stronghold for a clan usually. It’s better than the Walking Dead Tv show having cars run for years after industry shuts down , or they siphon gas from some rusted piece of junk.
I remember I talked to a writer friend, and said to her how I had a lot of great ideas of stories, and I'd perhaps one day quit my job and become a novelist. Back in high school, I wrote quite a bit of short stories and thought myself as pretty okay. I was encouraged to actually write something about it, a scene, an outline, a beginning, anything.

I tried for a weekend, scratched my head through it, and came up with an embarrassing draft for a chapter. As I tried to translate the ideas in my mind to actual words, all the flaws, holes, and awkward characters suddenly showed up. My ingenious ideas were not a blueprint of grand palaces, but a pile of ugly rocks scattered all over the place. I barely managed to connect them in a circle.

She told me, that the fact that I had a scene written was already better than most people who regarded themselves as "wanting to write".

There is a mismatch in people's expectations. Without going through the actual work, many people regarded their vague concepts in their imagination as genius. They are often not.

That's why I've stopped listening to people who say "I've never done XXX, but how hard can it be".
Most companies prefer logistics/pricing models to be profitable. Being a pump-and-dump for VCs isn't something they can license out.
Closing fossil fuel power plants in the US may cost less than anticipated
Valid point. As much as I want this to be true I do agree it needs to be heavily criticised.

Just for fun in entertaining the idea, maybe they've already been doing their own secret tests throughout history and are trying to slowly start interacting with humans now, and starting on Mars with governments could be a small first step?
If aliens existed and we knew about it, who would know? The head of Israel's and USA's space defense programs.
OK, let's say you have a "styled box to hold a blurb of content" and in Framework A it's a single class: "callout". But in framework B, it's called "box".

You can switch your element from "callout" to "box" and likely move on.

But if your element is nothing more than twenty utility classes, good luck with that.

Similarly, if you have a custom class in your stylesheet using normal CSS properties you wrote alongside Framework A, you can use that same custom class with Framework B with little to no modification because it's "real" CSS.

If instead your custom class is twenty "@apply" statements using utility classes, good luck with that.

So again I say: Tailwind is fundamentally incompatible with every other CSS framework/no framework.
Show HN: Teddit Redirect, a tiny Firefox addon for redirecting Reddit links
So are you saying the 1968 flu was worse, because per capita across the world it killed as many, or up to three times as many, people in a younger world? (so far, covid19 is not gone yet)

It was pretty bad. The flu has all the long term complications for some people that covid does - the lung problems, heart swelling, brain problems, etc.

I talk to people who were alive in 1968. It just wasn't really on anyone's radar. Rarely made headlines in the U.S.
> I always answer: fuck off; we're full.

Actually being from SF, I have never once given any transplant any shit (mostly because at any given party I am the only local).

It would never occur to me to be nativist in my own country, how does this shit fly elsewhere?
Currently (beta) it only works at the registered address (30mile radius I believe). However, this is certainly not a technological limitation, since SpaceX has demonstrate use in airplanes already.
If I find myself in a situation where, if I don't get X, I prefer to leave, then an ultimatum is an obvious course: "give me X or I will leave."

It can be to my benefit in negotiation for the other party to think that I am in such a situation, and so I may still say "give me X or I will leave."

If I do not intend to follow through, I am clearly bluffing.

If I intend to follow through, but absent this gambit I have preferred to stay even in the absence of X, I think we can still call it a bluff in a weaker sense - I am not misleading about my future actions, but I am misleading about the strength of my preferences.
Yup --- in most of the south bay Sonic is leading AT&T for its fiber.
Remote access to macOS on AWS demonstration
As I stated, "Yes it is tiny in the global scale of what is being shipped". Yes, the reuse of containers is impressively highly efficient but more and more industries are at the scale or significant pollution/externalities comes from small proportional failures. This isn't like dropping 0.0001% of requests on global web servers, dropping the same rate of containers from global shipping means apartment size building being dumped in the ocean every year.

Yes, energy is wasted on servers at large scale but this can be/is being mitigated as energy sources move faster and faster to renewable energy. Mitigation is much harder in physical world and should be costed in to resolve/clean up so there is a market to make environment better rather than just treating as an externality to increase margins.
I created a trial account and went on the account page. Smiled on reading this under the section "Delete your account": You think I'm going to try to dissuade you? I don't even want you here!. Hahaha
> it's really hard and no one is actually that close to useful AVs

My suspicion is that the thing everyone's going to founder on is that a large part of safely operating a motor vehicle on the public roadways consists of observing and then predicting the behavior of all the drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. So you need to either have true AI, or somehow get all the humans on those roadways to stop behaving so erratically. The problem is, one of those is currently impossible and the other is currently infeasible.

(I'm not sure which is which, and I'm not sure it matters.)
What do you think about Aztec (zkRollup L2 for Ethereum)? I tend to get really excited about it as it looks like a private by default system that supports smart contracts (including calling L1 in some cases), inherits Ethereum's security, and is interoperable with DeFi and Ethereum's ecosystem.

It sounds fairly perfect for us cypherpunks but I just know there's some blemish that I'm missing. If there's not then it makes me very hopeful for our future.
Everything works without any fuss if you use Glorious Eggroll fork of Proton. I've played 100s of hours of AOE2 DE this year on Linux. Before it took manual steps, but I recently switched to a new distro, used GE, and needed nothing more: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Thanks that's a very good point and definitely a new perspective
Can anyone tell me what the symptoms of this would be?
Neobanks and Status Signaling
if you really have self-driving taxi and it is cheap, I don't think it is difficult to acquire customers, since customers are not loyal to taxi brands, they are loyal to price
With the current satellites it can’t work in the middle of the ocean due to a lack of ground stations.
Needing a client that supports those features seems like a big ask, though. You're right that Conversations is about as good as an XMPP client can be, and it's a joy to use... but it's one of very few.

Among other things, my server has message archiving configured for MUCs, but Conversations is the only client I've ever been able to get to sync that history locally. That's something I just don't ever have to worry about with Matrix. (Not that I don't have other complaints with Matrix.)
Yes, indeed, we have plenty of real-life cyberpunk around us already, may it please be the time when earlier space SF finally starts to become real, too? :)
The person you’re asking kind of gave all the information needed to verify. Second rule in crypto: don’t trust, verify ;)

OC sounds legit but if you look at peoples credentials as proxy for trustworthiness you will get burned. Just look at the sketchy endeavors of David Chaum, for one.
We are AT&T in SF Bay Area, and our service has been flaking out for weeks. Inability to get DNS, machine claims invalid security certificates, download/upload drop below 1 MbS. All we could get is our modem reset.
Don't conflate the virus with the lockdowns. Knock-on effects of the lockdowns - which were a choice by governments, not some inevitability - are projected to have far worse long-term effects.
Hey Jerrod here, CEO of Codecov. We live in coverage world every day and I agree that there is work to be done.

Fundamentally, no one ever said that coverage had to just be a binary of 0 or 1 as a "hit" line, though it is definitely the branding that code coverage has today.

As some others on this thread mentioned, how is something being tested should matter:
- Unit vs. integration vs. end-to-end test vs. other testing
- Flakiness of test (non-determinism)
- Accuracy of test (E.g., mutation testion / fuzzing)

Also, What is being tested matters:
- How important is this line? How is often is it actually being called in production?
- Are their errors / exceptions on this line that we can see?

I do not believe that 100% coverage is the goal, nor should it be for all teams.

Do you have feedback here? I'd love to talk more about this.
Sure. “He’s full of it” is still an option, though. I’d argue it’s the likely one. People have been killed for revealing lesser secrets.
Definitely have been having this issue, for weeks.
Ethanol?
5) A variant of 4. She gave notice. Google must have put her on gardening leave. Firing her would just give her a chance to sue. Google wouldn't make that mistake.
That file name is a classic, but still glorious.

I’m loving the consistency of it all.
Nah, companies on the brink of collapse will keep saying cruise control is self driving. Companies with a foundation keep calling it cruise control.

All about risk.
Yeah, same thought here. That'd definitely be a majorly useful UI improvement. :)

Turns out this was requested about two years ago, and hasn't been responded to by the developers. :(

https://github.com/benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata/issues/2...

Looking at the project commit history, although there was a minor commit (changing a URL) in 2020, the newest commit before that was 2014.

Seems like a dead project. Oh well, the idea was good. :)
I doubt many will. It's not subtle.
> The engines are the most advanced ever made (arguably).

Maybe not arguably. They embody a technology that's been considered for a long time the Holy Grail of rocket science - the full-flow staged combustion cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_combustion_cycle#Full-f...
Is this what is actually happening? We should look at the statistics as to where people move to.

From what I can tell, people are actually mostly moving to other tech hubs (but lower priced) and to high end vacation areas. Think Austin, Denver, Park City Utah, Lake Tahoe, etc... The underlying dynamics are still at play (even tech but to a lesser extent).
Section 230 needs to go.
Walking 10 miles is pretty miserable too :)
the definition of 'tech' has been hollowed out for a while. Almost all software 'tech' companies are actually just market-makers or middlemen rather than actually driving deep process innovation that delivers extreme efficiency gains. Uber, Airbnb's etc.. model is basically regulatory arbitrage by externalising costs that taxi companies or hotels have to take on themselves to the detriment of workers and the environment.
> We don’t know. What we know is the percentage of respondents who identified as male. We know nothing - not. one. thing. - about how many % of GitHub users are male.

Ridiculous. We know the survey has error bars. Maybe they're large. But it's still information.

> What if 80% of female users simply didn’t bother to respond to the survey?

Then Github users would still be at least 84% male.
The next prototype is already built, so if this one lands nose first they can just fix any issues and try again. Elon really is building rockets like a software engineer.
That's an interesting thought experiment.

At the high level, Amazon is also primarily a logistics and pricing company.

They could also license their tech (or white label it a la Shopify) and make a lot of money, but they realized at some point that owning the user relationship was key to unlocking more value than just owning the tech.
Show HN: A chess repertoire builder written in Rust
Most drivers suffer from this. There's nothing special about anti cheat drivers. It's probably much better tested than the random driver that a hardware manufacture might provide to control some random fan LEDs.
Probably they're using Revolut / N26 / Monzo (which are known to do single use disposable credit cards)
And Boston and DC. I wouldn't live in SF without a car unless I was a biking enthusiast.

Also I find that many people who proudly refuse to own a car in SF just end up ubering everywhere.
Pandemic Scaling Adventures at Nearpod. Pushing Redis to It’s Limits, and Back
Yes -- I didn't think it was one. But I see now that I was mistaken.
During the quarantine, I've been sharpening my tactics and studying endgame theory, but lately I've been wanting to learn some openings. In particular, I wanted to get a little practice with some crazy openings that the streamers [1] I've been watching play before trying them out in actual games.

So I built this CLI tool. The intended use case is to 1) download the games of a chess player from a website like openingtree.com, 2) run the program on the fetched PGN file to generate an opening repertoire, and 3) import the output into a study tool like lichess or chessable.

This has been my first foray into Rust and I learnt a lot while coding. One thing that particularly gave me trouble was modeling the opening tree given how stringent Rust's requirements are when it comes to lifetimes & mutability. Fortunately I found out about arena allocation [2] in a blog post [3] by Niko Matsakis, a Rust core dev, and inspired by the approach he advocates I was able to implement it in a fairly straightforward way. Although pruning the opening tree results in a leak as a consequence of this impl, I don't think it causes any safety issues in this case.

[1]: Shout out to Eric Rosen, Jonathan Schrantz & the chessbrahs.
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
[3]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/04/06/mode...
> ... how it's done now

Intro section has no context, especially how this relates to Crockford's "the good parts".

Is it inspired by it, in conflict with it, a superset, a subset? How did newer standards affect it? how is 'modern' defined? How is 'now' defined?
You're optimizing for the wrong thing there.

Given 10 positions you need to fill anticipating these hires will stick around for 3-5 years each.

Pick one:

- [ ] 10 "less experienced" developers for 3-5 years

- [ ] 9 "very experienced" developers for 3-5 years + 1 "no experience" developer for a few months which you'll then have a 90% chance of replacing with a "very experienced" developer