skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer, my thoughts are of my own and not of my employer. I work in the SDC industry as well but on hardware so I wanted to share my thoughts. I'm guessing the author does not work on the hardware side of things because the safety and verification processes is transparent and obvious.

I agree with the premise that humans are great drivers and replacing humans will be a tough challenge (which makes it fun). However, the idea that SDCs cannot be verified and the rockets vs SDC analogy is incorrect. Let's go even closer and just compare cars to SDCs. What makes your standard cars that has 150+ of HP safe? Better yet, most of this energy comes from explosion of fuel! Any of the mechanical failures in a car can lead to death (brake calipers breaking, ECU malfunction, pistonhead cannonball, etc). But yet, how often do you hear in the news someone dies because their car exploded while using it?

The reason why cars are robust is not because it's mechanical, deterministic, some sort of inherent physical laws, or manufactures test every single part coming out of the production line. But rather cars are safe because there is a robust safety system that heavily incorporates a verification and validation process with a promoted transparency process that mitigate risk. A good example of this is ASIL (ISO-26262) [1] and FMEA processes [2]. Other industries like rocket/military (like you mentioned) and medical both deploy the same type of model to make their product safe and robust.

There is no glaring technical barrier that prevents SDC. The hardest barrier for a product has always been cost vs profit (likewise for most products, economics of it always comes first).

[1]https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:26262:-9:ed-1:en
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...
Why the online speech moderation debate is irresolvable, HN as a model to fix it
Don't forget Ada where interop with C is baked in the language spec and interop with c++ has been muuuch improved some years ago.
I'm trying to establish the link between shitty behavior and intense anxiety - which I assume most people in the mental health world would agree that intense feelings of anxiety underlie most bad behavior. I'm not saying if you've ever felt anxious you need to take all the drugs.

But this type of intense anxiety, from which most workplace abuses manifest, cannot be easily healed. So if you see abuses at your company, fire the offender or leave. Don't let HR think they can simply heal the abuser it won't happen as every study has shown.
Sure, here are some from my HDR Dell monitor:

https://ibb.co/M25sXX1

https://ibb.co/RcM62TD
There's really no accounting for taste.

I like Battle Royale, and Seven Samurai is good, for an action movie. I hated Citizen Kane and Tokyo Story, and consider both to be highly overrated.
This is why I have turned to libgen, torrents, and Usenet for my books and other media.

I would pay for my content if I actually got to own it. But no, ironically I have a greater sense of ownership by obtaining my content via alternative means than the traditional legal means.

The only media that I still have on streaming services is music. Spotify is just so damn convenient. I need to find a way to move off it though, as over the years I’ve found many of my favorite albums just disappear as Spotify ends licensing deals or whatever.
That's the worst of it. If I wouldn't need ... site:reddit.com so often, and need some reddit-exclusive communities, I would cut this cancer at dns level for good. Reddit is way to addictive for me to only take the good bits. At some point i _will click 'all' and hate myself for it later.
That’s an interesting point, because I guess nothing stopping an author from publishing their book wrapped in an ereader app and getting the commission discount, although they lose some of the market discovery benefit. Different contexts and ecosystems. The tech behind it has very little to do with the business/production and user end use.
Thank you for correcting me. I had not idea. I assumed it worked like drowning.
I did of course

Did you ever lived outside of it?

Not as an occupant of course, because that's what usually Americans living abroad do

The point is to prove that "freedom of speech" said by American corporations is ridiculous and nobody should believe it, on the contrary, everybody should start to worry
It would act like some sort of telescope that would allow one to view academic papers. I assume it would be called "Science Hubble." </humor>
Git uses man by default (except perhaps on Windows).
Thank you. When I initially came to that paragraph, I went from being super impressed to being super concerned. Now I'm soundly back to impressed!
It is not. My network is configured to block DNS traffic from anything that isn’t the PiHole. Tbh, when I saw how much traffic the TV was spewing out I just blackholed it all together.
To add to that, not all software is written by those who identify chiefly as software-engineers. In, e.g. the embedded world, software is often written by those who are electrical engineers by profession, who use assembler, C, C++, FORTH or Python if they are lucky and rarely venture further. Consequently for some MCUs available tools are only for C/C++ (and of course assembler). Often those engineers are more concerned how much the MCU costs or how much power it dissipates, rather than how elegant the language is they are programmed in. It's a pity, but part of reality.
Please explain why you think that.
Can you recommend a guide for setting it up on something like a mac?
If that’s true, why is it so rare? Why is this secret undiscovered?
book market things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price

They prevented what happened to music so nothing will change ever.
Best, most precise and accurate comment. Thank you.
The idea that conspiracy theories transported via the web cause so much damage ("wreak havoc all over the world", according to the article) is in itself a conspiracy theory. And one that makes for good newspaper articles.

9/11 happened in 2001 - was it already the result of internet conspiracies? Are there really more incidents now than before?
> Yes, cause otherwise you'll link to something and when I do "ctrl+F taxes" it wouldn't lead me to something that argues against your point ;)

Yep, I underestimated your unmitigated pendantry. I suppose shouldn't have assumed that you would know that the New Deal involved raising revenue. Concise data from the 1930s isn't super easy to come by, you are going to have to look at broader economic trends and make your own conclusions.

> Literally everything you have mentioned is several times older than something from 1990. Also... it was introduced in 1984, 1990 is when they reversed it because it was so bad.

* Sweden GDP, 1984 (2020 dollars): $108,000,000

* US GDP, 1984 (2020 dollars): $4,000,000,000,000

The U.S. also has much greater reach into the financial markets since we control a lot of them. Older is better - more time to see the long-tail effects of policy.

Regardless of whether FTT would work or not, it's a single tactic (small picture), when we already successfully tax wealth in various ways (estate, property taxes). The big picture is breaking the power of concentrated financial power, and taxation is an obvious method. Nit picking specific policies seems to be a favorite bad-faith tactic to avoid acknowledging that the issue is an issue, which would then require the nitpickers to suggest ideas themselves, instead of just criticizing.
Won’t help. Raising prices helped somewhat. E-Cigarettes already helped many quit smoking. The main problems with cigarettes was the carcinogenic cocktail that smokers and those around inhale when a cigarette is being smoked. The nicotine in E-Cigarettes is addictive, yes, but not as harmful and one can easily taper off with diy kit - put less and less nicotine in the mix. Plus, the main addiciton is psychological not physical - one can’t help wanting a puff with coffee, in social settings, etc That pleasant habit dies hard
Maybe they don't want you to block spying/ads on them.
It's the Daily Fail, with lots of all-caps in the headlines. A poor source for anything except clock-bait.
A long-form piece about farming in the UK, from the perspective of a farmer, and their observations of the ecological collapse
Landscapes of bacterial and metabolic signatures and depressive disorders
I think the argument is that so much of safety and risk is about whether a risk is acceptable or not. If you work in a foundry you may run a very real risk of being burned by hot metal. But the question is whether a pedestrian simply walking past the foundry should bear the same risk should there be an incident. What makes a risk "acceptable," in other words? And it strikes me that much of that depends on the individual experiencing the hazard, the nature of the hazard itself, as well as the risk of an incident involving the hazard.
Look at the history of how Facebook dropped their mobile web application in favor of a native iOS application. In the process of doing that, they also invented GraphQL as a replacement for REST API.

Purely anecdotal reasoning, but it’s worth mentioning I think.
Ask HN: Should I donate to Wikipedia? Why?
Lately, every time I visit Wikipedia they show me an ad asking me to donate money. Since I get a lot of value from it, I've considered it. But I can't help but wonder if, as an organization, they really need the money.

What do y'all think?
Can someone point me to any examples where Bayesian neural networks are successfully used for any practical applications? Like where they are better than regular non-Bayesian NNs? By better I mean better accuracy.
I'm really enjoying this series, mostly because it's by the same person responsible for the best Haskell reference ever, in my opinion:

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/index.html
I would absolutely love to have control over HTTPS traffic on my network, specifically to enable my Squid proxy to cache HTTPS pages, but unfortunately not every device or even program supports custom CA's. I'd be the man-in-the-middle between the internet and every device I own.
I'm legitimately curious about whether a physical hard limit exists for what AI can accomplish. A few decades ago, people often assumed Moore's law would continue indefinitely, but now there's some doubt as to whether it is physically possible to keep up the pace without some amount of marketing tricks.

We don't believe AI would ever be able to solve some classes of "impossible" tasks, like breaking crypto. But at the same time, we say AI will just keep blowing past all hurdles in some slow singularity-like fashion. Those two ideas can't both be right. I'm curious where the lines converge at.
How many years is 'decades'? About 4 or 5 years ago I took apart a freezer that was about 10 years old. The compressor seemed to be switched by a thermostat; I found nothing that would have firmware.
I’m interested to know the outcome of the case (if it’s not sealed, or something) next year because I think you have a good point - the NLRB seems to be making a really broad argument.

I’m assuming that their logic to support that claim is more nuanced. I don’t know, of course, but my read of the document is that it’s charging google with violations and not necessarily outlining all of the exact reasons that support it. Akin to being charged with any other crime, perhaps - all of the prosecutor’s evidence and arguments aren’t laid out from the very beginning.
I’m confused because this isn’t stated clearly in the comments, but shouldn’t you create a merge commit (for the feature branch) that combines both master and feature branch code before running the tests? And then change master to point to your newly created merge commit once tests pass?
I imagine most people capable of rooting a TV would already have better alternatives at hand: an Apple TV, an Nvidia Shield, a PlayStation, etc. There’s not much daily incentive to tinker.
It’s actually pretty difficult to find a TV like that. Most stores don’t even have “dumb” TVs.
It’s probably in the range of $1 to $10. For example Verizon asked for $1 or $2 per phone to preload an app. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/verizon-has-a-plan-t... Twitter makes about $4 per set of eyeballs per year.
How as a programmer and data guy I can help?
They never seem to be in a huge hurry when on foot.
> It's worth doing because we drive a remarkable amount. Even at human safety level, more than a million people die every year in car crashes.

I'm not sure. Why is this so? To save time? Sure, but I think the self-driving proponents that I have seen have not addressed the new problems that will be brought by self-driving cars. I don't think reducing crashes is anything but a marketing ploy because the real goal of self-driving is to make companies a lot of money. I think accidents will simply be transposed and not reduced.

One problem is the initial rollout period where there is a non-homogeneous mix of human and automated drivers. This impedance mismatch will be problematic and likely lead to more accidents and congestion.

In general, it's my belief (I don't have facts or research, just a hunch) that automated driving will actually increase congestion and traffic. We saw this with Uber and Lyft, where these things plus accidents were increased where these services were deployed. I've seen it first hand that the cars causing issues are likely to be Uber or Lyft. I will be very surprised if this is not the case with automated drivers. For example, consider the case of an automated car dropping someone off in a busy area, probably one of the most wanted use cases for automated car. This is because it could notionally drop the person off and then drive off and find parking. But that seems like an insanely hard problem because such a maneuver is actually difficult for humans and very tricky in busy areas.

I truly don't understand the actual need for self-driving cars. There is a lot of hype, for sure, but I personally see that it will generate more problems. Basically the only problem that it will solve is reduction in human time driving because I doubt it will be actually safer such that it's a major difference from now. I feel our society would gain much more benefit in concentrating on better transportation and urban design: planes, trains, automobiles, bicycles, and walking.
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I've had a few harrowing driving experiences and fortunately, no serious crashes. The difficult driving experiences where just so rare that I would be surprised if a self-driving vehicle would know what to do.

* I once had a car driving way above the speed limit approach me from the rear, it passed me by jumping the curb driving on grass and sidewalk and swerving back onto the street in front of me.

* Another time I was driving back to a rental house in the Aspen area and the snowstorm had gotten bad enough to completely cover and obscure the road on the hillside I was driving on. My wheels went off the road, fortunately on the side away from the drop off and I was driving slowly, but then I couldn't get back on the road without using enough power that I feared I would swerve off the road on down the hill. This required a bit of puzzle solving before I could safely get back on the road.

* I've had bad GPS data that kept me circling my destination without every getting me there.

I just think that such unusual situations are going to be difficult for autonomous cars to understand very soon.
I find it interesting that as the industry moves closer and closer to smaller, less complex, microservice style codebases, languages are moving in the opposite direction and creating more and more features and complexity designed to help handle large and complex codebases.

It’s almost as if language maintainers are removed from the practical applications that their language.
I meant the workflow where you rebase your changes on master, let tests complete, then “merging” doesn’t result in a merge commit with unexpected changes.
Using Docker on Apple Silicon with a remote Docker engine
I read this and yeah, pretty much. Its nice though because I can black hole their DNS lookups in my Pi-Hole and keep my TV from reporting on what it does. The only tricky part was having the 'firmware update page' (which was an HTTP! request) to return 200 OK so it won't complain about firmware.
That would essentially force people to buy two devices - one for receiving content to display and a second to display it. All your solution does is shift the problem on to the receiving device. It wouldn't fix anything, and at the same time it'd increase the cost and complexity for the user (by a very small amount admittedly).
Yep. My state has no inspections of any kind. No safety, no emissions, nothing. Insurance is mandatory, but not really verified in any reliable way.
It's usually prudent to ask your users. Maybe their concerns are not your concerns. Maybe they would like to occasionally access your app on their mobile.

Would I download your app, rather than hit a web page? probably not. However I'm probably not your target.
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The one exception... it is really convenient to be able to use my phone to control the tv, even if it is only to change inputs.

And that's how they get you.
The inimitable and ever-present Markus Triska has a fantastic site [1] and he's making some really interesting videos [2] all about Prolog.

I got nerd-sniped the other day by the Interval Tree Clocks post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25243376 ) and wrote a crude implementation of ITCs in Prolog[3]. The code is gratifyingly short and closely follows the structure of the notation in the paper.

(As an aside, it's weird and a little absurd that that notation, which Guy Steele Jr. calls "Computer Science Metanotation"[4], has no official name nor standard. He mentions in that talk that he took a stab at mechanizing it by processing the LaTeX in Prolog! That seems like something worth pursuing.)

[1] "The Power of Prolog" https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFeNyzCEQDS4KCecugmotg/vid...

[3] https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Prolog-Junkyard/tree/master/misce...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473199
I am a developer. If any One needs help then just contact me via my profile. I am into Python, data and a few other things. Happy to work on challenging tasks.
I’ve had the XDR Pro Display since June, and use it primarily for dev. I just trusted Apple in their focus on this direction. Suffice it to say I am very happy with it.

What I like about conclusions of this piece is it points to how strategic Apple is thinking in its leverage due to the breadth of distribution of advanced hardware and software.

Apple is able to set entire new standards of expectation for customers that are _very_ hard for competitors to follow.

While competitors fixate on some single feature like night photo quality, Apple is also subtly chipping away at something like this.
I admit that when I read something like this, I'm always thinking about whether "framing" is in play. Sure, 100 million miles is a lot, but at 10k miles/y and 50 y/lifetime, that's 200 lifetimes. Is something that will kill you in 200 lifetimes considered to be "remarkably" safe?

Granted, I'm certainly not downplaying your conclusion about the challenge of designing a self driving car.
I think that is a pretty user-hostile attitude and I suspect you probably wouldn't really love it if every network operator was doing that kind of thing.
Do you have an example of a truly exotic programming concept? I'm really interested in weird PL stuff.
Nope. No. You 'should' donate to the Internet Archive instead. Wikipedia has more than enough money. Their donation-drives are just cash-drives, compared to other lint-filled pockets. Wikipedia doesn't need a cent more.
I use streaming apps on the TV all the time. I don't see any real justification for this luddite mindset. If you don't like data collection that makes the TV cheaper that's a separate issue.
Still amazing that they brute force generated that onion address.
Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy
Bayesian network is not Bayesian neural network
Tesla U.S. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report [pdf]
How have I never heard about this?
I did a quick web search, but this list is indeed my subjective opinion, not a scientific research. Though I've formed it through my lifetime experience and learned it the hard way — by making mistakes.
Even if people are not interested in the theme, they should read the guy. He can write.
Not answering your question, but just to point out to readers that this article is about graphical models, not Bayesian neural networks.
You can’t change or reorganize the behavior of the real thing without changing everything that using it all at once. This is challenging enough without elaborate handwritten mocks, but much worse with them. Most people don’t have the sort of stubbornness it takes to overcome this sort of adversity. So you’ve locked in your tech debt even harder.

If you have one function simultaneously using large parts of another chunk of code, such that you feel like you should write logic instead of stubs to simulate it, you already have a huge coupling problem that you should fix, instead of shoveling more code after bad. That’s what I mean by “it should hurt.” The friction is not a bug, it’s a feature. Slow your roll and look at your busted architecture, instead of cementing it in place with a layer of tests.

The other difficulty with mutating your mocks or otherwise changing testing tools is with negative tests. The changes can and sadly do end up creating tests that can’t fail (evergreen) but still increase coverage and confidence. Like a safety railing that has corroded, or a broken smoke detector. Simple mocks that exist entirely within the test, or the suite at farthest, are more amenable to change. Our job is change, when you get right down to it.
The question though was what they had personally done.

I am a bit surprised haircut was so high, not because a haircut is likely especially risky but because--to me--it seems so unnecessary, especially without being out and about a lot. Going to a dentist for a cleaning or whatever is maybe higher risk (more contact but medical professionals) but it also seems more important to stick with your schedule than getting your hair cut is.

(Their answers also are presumably influenced by how frequently they would normally do the activities in question as well as the degree to which they're available at the moment. During normal times I'd be much more likely to have recently flown someplace than gone to a wedding or even a live sporting event.)
It’s almost as if microservices are a fad and like all fads will be forgotten when the cool kids jump on the next bandwagon.
The first space 'garbage truck' will be Swiss
> More than 1 in 15 Chinese people are not part of the Han ethnic group

Are you jocking right?

1/15 is about 7%, did I say or did I not that ~92% of the people in China are from Han ethnic group?

92+7 = 99 so yeah, there are mostly the same people in China

I never said that the other ethnic minorities are uniformly distributed or that they do not exist.

For example anybody would say that in Italy the population is mainly formed by Italians.

And that would be true even though Italians in Italy have dropped to around 90% of the total.

Less than the Han in China.
Small Nuclear Reactors
There's a huge difference between playing devil's advocate in your own mind and doing it publicly.

The former may be useful. The latter is usually just annoying.