skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws are interpreted (eventually) by judges, who are given the solemn duty to exercise common sense in their interpretations.

Computers, by contrast, do exactly what they are told and no more.

This is why it takes an engineer to craft a computer program, but a politician can craft a law.
My wife lets me drive her Model 3 with FSD when I'm good. I drove it quite a bit this past weekend, in lovely Dallas winter conditions. (No snow, no fog, no rain.) While snow is obviously a challenge, the Tesla is so far from being able to handle routine driving in unchallenging conditions, it would be a big miscalculation to think, for example, that Teslas drive with FSD just fine in normal conditions. I would estimate that I take over about once every 3-5 miles in absolutely routine conditions.
A change fee waiver is a very, very small gesture. But you're right, at least it's something.
https://www.thebalance.com/farm-subsidies-4173885 : this is a good intro read: Farm Subsidies with Pros, Cons, and Impact .. it is very simplistic. And doesn’t address that the subsidized commodities are a small percentage of our food chain.

In fact, most of it isn’t even for human consumption.

It would make sense to see how other countries have dealt with subsidies and see how it works and doesn’t work. NZ for example has eliminated them. Canada has shifted its dairy subsidies from supply side the demand side. Etc.

We still have to consider population size and GDP etc. Canadian population is close to California’s population. NZ population(5 million) is half the size of LA county(10 million at least).

2011 opinion piece : https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/dont-end-ag...

2020: https://reason.com/2020/02/29/trumps-proposed-cuts-to-farm-s...

The situation is very nuanced.
> The real problem at root is human/consumer behavior. Turning a logo into a fitting evil character borrowed from childhood cartoon narratives is not real.

If the real problem is human/consumer behavior, then any real solution requires changing how humans/consumers behave.

A coordinated campaign to spoil good-will in any company that uses forced labor is an attempt at changing how humans/consumers behave, no?
H.N. is also a place where one will simply be downvoted for criticizing the methodology, even if the post reveal nothing about whether one support the conclusion or not.

But any place with “votes” has such effects.
I think the sweet spot is machine-assisted translation.

If you can get the output to be 90-95% correct, you can then display the raw and the machine output side-by-side, and have a human make corrections inline. Instead of a team of four working around the clock for a day or two, maybe you could have a translation as fast as it takes to proofread it three or four times end-to-end.

Rev is the same idea in the speech transcription space -- they have humans listen to the audio and fix up a machine-generated transcription.
I make similar distinctions in some of my comments. Without that distinction, the author's point about inconsistencies may not make sense. The downvotes can sometimes be a symptom of that lack of clarity.
To take this even further, with the increasing popularity of games, if violent video games were linked to violence itself we should theoretically see pronounced numbers of streaming personalities (at least those involved in competitive games, which trend towards violence as a win condition) engaged in violent acts. Gaming communities such as Twitch, competitive game conferences such as Evo, events such as Riot's world finals, and establishments such as gaming bars should all have an outsized number of people ready to throw down moreso than their non-gaming cohorts.

And yet gamers remain relatively docile on the whole. And while they may get heated their debates about PlayStation vs XBox are about as likely to result in fatalities as the programming community's vim vs emacs or tabs vs spaces debates.
I have almost the same audiogram as well (hearing loss since birth, 32 years ago). I got hearing aids two months ago. Best decision I've made in my life! Now I can hear birds and I don't get tired when speaking with people.

Maybe you need to lower the gain? That will make it easier to wear them full-time. Now my brain have adjusted to the new sound and tbh I don't think I can live without hearing aids now.

I have Oticon Ruby with open domes.
I love my Model 3, but I cannot overstate how little confidence I have that Tesla is anywhere near to full self driving.

Just this weekend I drove a 600 mile round trip. It was cold weather with some snow on the shoulders, but the actual road surfaces had no snow. I was mainly using just the cruise control, and no auto-steer. Even with just cruise, the car gets "spooked" from time to time and will suddenly jerk to a slower speed for absolutely no reason, even during the day and with no precipitation. At one point it did this several times within the span of 10 minutes, which was such an unpleasant experience that it made me want to stop using cruise entirely. Besides being jarring for the people in the car, it makes me worry that anyone tailgating will rear end me.

Besides that, the rain/sleet that was falling from time to time apparently blocked the camera, so at one point the car wouldn't even let me use cruise any more.

The car is tons of fun to drive and I don't regret the purchase at all. But I really don't like the overpromising on full self-driving.

EDIT: bmcahren pointed out to me that the new FSD beta software merges images from multiple angles, which my software does not do. I don't know much about that, but it sounds like the kind of change that could lead to a noticeably better result than what I experienced.
Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the children TM.

You mean the "millennial generation" that invented "cancel culture" to destroy the lives of people it doesn't agree with?
Canada has both first past the post voting and a multi party system, so no, it's a deeper structural issue than that.
Well... the big reason almost no runtime/vm provides what erlang does is because BEAM will preempt a running actor if it takes too long (uses up its operation budget more or less). Ruby only provides mechanisms for cooperatively scheduled execution. That is to say, and this is the big problem with async most everywhere except Erlang/BEAM, a task will block everything else from executing until its finished and yields to another fiber/thread.

Shrug Having tried like every possible method of async I/O with Ruby to eek out moar good perfz back in the day... including various actor implementations (sup, JRuby and Akka)... nothing compares to just using BEAM if you want the actor paradigm. The cooperative scheduling problem is a really enormous pain in the ass most of the time.
Does the encryption on a Mac SSD work as powerfully as on iOS devices? My understanding is that even government agencies can't decrypt iOS devices without the user's pin and it can't be brute forced. Is that true of Macs too?
Are people cramming hard in Germany or Scandinavia for example?

If you can't clear the German Abitur related to your studies, you'll have a rough time at university anyway. Some filtering makes sense at the door. Else you end up having to recap high school material at university or have tons of extra auxiliary classes to bring people up to speed, who then have this extra load or need to take longer for that reason. Whether I was president of some fancy society in high school has less bearing on how good a physicist I'll be. We don't value the concept of "well-roundedness" here. It's not the job of the university to evaluate people's "character". It's their job to educate people who are capable of getting through the required material. All else is about the upper middle class wanting to push little Bobby in there who has no actual competence versus someone from a poorer background who is good at math or history or whatever but couldn't afford extracurriculars and didn't have connections.
Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale
The velociraptor on wheels is a good name.

I shudder to think what war variant machines will resort to when they are running low on ammo.

Do robots need to follow the Geneva convention?
"except fascists"?
luckily it doesn't wear pants, that could've been embarrassing
Yep, Tesla is placing all their eggs into one basket with purely visual self-driving.
This is victim-blaming.

Security incidents, viewed generally, are the conjunction of two factors: threats and vulnerabilities. It is a massive over-generalization to view all cyber attacks through a lens that focuses only on one factor.

Sure, there might have been vulnerabilities in the software or processes of Funke group. But it's a dishonest analysis that ignore the threat actor (a criminal in this case - let's not mince words) who exploits the vulnerability.
It worth remembering that ruby code already handles async, and threads. For example ActiveRecord database requests have been non-blocking for many years.

This new scheduler interface just gives us a nicer and lighter weight abstraction for handling it rather than, for example, using OS thread.
Isn't the issues that Corellium allows you to side step the passcode brute force lockout? aka...... https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-secr...
I doubt it very much.

Certainly, games aren't to blame for real killings, terrorism, shootings, etc., but they ARE part of the equation whether we want it or not.

Our society still has a cultural foundation on violence. As the time passes it _seems_ to be diminishing - as we can see by the rejection of violence against woman or other minorities becoming ever more common - but our heroes tend to be aggressive, our tales and stories contains death, killings, etc. Again, less than before, but far from zero.

Studies so far are controversial (to say the least) and it's hard to take sociological statistics at face value, therefore is hard to conclude anything. But it's impossible to believe that spending several hours a week pretending to do violence against ever more realistic cyber impressions of life wouldn't have ANY effect on our selves.
The consequences of irresponsibility (or individual choices) are far greater the less income you have. Looking at race specifically, and it the disparity is even higher.

The consequence of a broken tail light should impact every American the same. It does not.

Likewise, the consequence of a DUI should also impact every American the same. It does not.
Every other generation: "A person who happens to be gay."

Millennials: "A gay person."

For some reason, a lot of younger people are hung up on defining themselves by their sexuality, rather than defining themselves by the kind of person they are or the things they have done.
> Can someone please point me to significant leaks from out of china, russia, iran on wikileaks?

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Russia

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:China

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Iran
> The major important players (Apple, Amazon, MS, Goog) want to go ARM and then maybe RISC-V for their own strategic reasons anyway.

Source? I don't think they care, I think they just don't want to be beholden to a single supplier, like they were to Intel for a while.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano
I'm sure the cashier at the gas station is underpaid as well. Is it my responsibility to tip them to ensure they have a livable wage? What about your grocery bagger? Do they get a tip? Why are some jobs given this consideration, but others aren't?
Reminds me of the DJI Mavic Mini. How much does it cost?
See https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

Note: Youtube has similar terms (the Youtube license) granting all users the rights to reproduce AND modify all videos. Now I wonder if you can do information laundering. i.e. "I was granted permission by Youtube" to appeal a DMCA.
> Producing vast amounts before they have been tested at all would have been costly when they had to throw them out.

I'm under the impression that's precisely what the world governments did? There were bar charts going around saying that XX% of each country's supply commitments came from Pfizer or Astrazeneca or Moderna or whatever.
I've never seen that cited as a credible risk by any institutional investor. It's almost all just sanction risk.
My rule for analyzing social science is: “it's bullshit till proven otherwise.”.

The simple fact is that I cannot ever think of any solid methodology to investigate a “link” between these two things and that the man who devises it would deliver a rather groundbreaking idea.

How would a study such as this even work?; it's all Quatsch.
VW’s Ferdinand Piëch Wanted to Buy Tesla in 2013 After Test Drive
> old technologies like Gecko

Gecko is a modern browser engine.
It is ridiculous that it's being argued, but grouping different kinds of human suffering together does seem like it could be a sensitive topic for those that very much see one kind of suffering worse than the other. 'daenz' made the mistake of attempting to group all acts of 'slavery' into equally heinous acts that should be prioritized on all fronts in an effort to rally sentiment towards the cause.

While I agree that this issue should be brought to the forefront of the 1st world public, grouping/comparing these types of things always lead to a misdirection of discussion to semantics in my opinion and comments for stories like these should be focused on educating people more on the problem and brainstorming feasible ways the community can fight against it.
A lot of the comments here are replacing "aggression" in the title with violence. Yeah, maybe people aren't more likely to be aggressive on an individual level from violent video games. A much better (but harder to answer question) is do violent video games cause society overall to be more violent?

Is someone who played COD more likely to support military action? Or vote for a violent politician? Or join the military? These all contribute to violence in the world as a whole.
sound would help, and maybe someone can dig up the real audio version if it is available. because hearing those engines roar and servos buzz, you appreciate there is indeed more going on than meets the eye
I did a comparison of Ava, Mocha, and Jest test runners: https://github.com/scraggo/comparing-javascript-test-runners

Jest is the slowest if running tests in parallel with Mocha >=8. Mocha is the slowest in its default serial mode.

My conclusion with Jest was this:

"Jest is recommended if you want to get tests up and running quickly. It has everything built in and requires very little configuration. The command line and GUI experience is unmatched. Finally, it's the most popular and makes an excellent pair with React."
Same, and I've been working with some of the latest and greatest collaborative and industrial six-axis and SCARA robots. There's definitely a back and forth between innovation and legacy in this industry. For example, FANUC famously refuses to deprecate or drop service for any of its equipment, you'll pay through the nose for some of it but they're willing to keep you supplied with parts, service, and bug fixes for 40-year-old equipment if you've got it. Also, a lot of it is clearly designed for "what's the most we can get an average maintenance tech to understand after a 40-hour certification class", not for programmers and engineers. But with a demo like this, it's obvious that BD is working on a level that the industrial automation competition won't reach for decades.
^^ I read both US and Chinese media. It's mind boggling how BOTH sides try to draw a bad picture of the other side, usually with baseless accusations. The media has definitely become a political weapon. Sad that many people don't realize this. I took all these kind of articles, from both sides, with a grain of salt.
Please help me understand this. We have a collective government that has more money than any other country EVER. Yet they can't balance a budget and are massively in debt. If you have people who are very bad at spending money giving them more money isn't going to solve any of their problems.

We have corrupt officials who are well entrenched in their positions who profit off of it by selling out their constituents to their donors.

More government isn't the answer. Less government better run and regulated is the key.
I like to check what data my web browser shows using.... https://www.ipleak.net
Arstechnica article: [BBC] Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/wooden-satellites-an...

Edited to add [BBC] in title, to indicate that the Ars piece is a reaction to, and critique of, the Beeb's article.
All my idle phone time is spent creating (and answering) anki flashcards. I usually have wikipedia or a textbook open on half the screen, and anki on the other half. Whenever I find something I want to remember, I make a flashcard for it. Not sure if it fits your definition of "creating" content, but it's one of the best ways I found to optimize idle time on my phone.
I wonder what the complete curve looks like. At some point I'd expect the wealth number to be zero (and then head negative). So if you had $1 to your name, you might be richer than the bottom 20% combined.
Driving in general is all about grip. Hell, in every form of racing I would argue tires are first and foremost the most important part of a car.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/emofly/hannibal-food-secrets-janice... : this link has some sketches and images of food. And good reading too. Hannibal food styling was top notch.
The EU created this legislation, Britain nolonger has to have the archaic restrictions of this legislation with other trade agreements, which it is now able to negotiate independently (an actual benefit of Brexit it can be argued). It seems logical to me the agreement between the two parties inherits from the previous relationship, it's the lowest friction option and these negotiations will be ongoing for years as the UK/EU relationship evolves.
Such a chip would enable the phone to act as a base station for a wireless headset. Snom make several varieties of such headsets. It is not necessarily proof of a "bug," could just be additional, perhaps never implemented, functionality for the phone.
They required a copyright assignment as well. They then re licensed everything as proprietary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2281s
Rosling's Factfullness is a great book as well and his 'levels' of wealth really is a great way to look at poverty and past the 1st/2nd/3rd world mindset:

https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/
20 Years Later
Your comment and OP's can be completely true at the same time.
> record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch...

Yawn on the raw density figure, though.

The chip inside a 128 gigabyte micro SD card is a small fraction of a square inch and is cunning enough to provide random access.

You just can't easily and cheaply have a long tape of them.

It used to be the case once upon a time that mass storage media like magnetic tapes and discs based on writing on surfaces with a head had better density than memory chips.
This essay badly misinterprets Brooks original essay. Brooks was talking specifically about the problem of building new systems from scratch.He was speaking about programming productivity. This essay is talking about operational tasks. Of course operational tasks can be speed up with improvements to software and hardware, that's the whole point of writing new software and developing new hardware.

Furthermore, Brooks doesn't actually argue that there is no way to tackle essential complexity when writing new software. What he says is that there is no single technique that will speed up the process of writing code across the board, that is, there is no silver bullet. However, he does make allowance for techniques that allow us to break up complex systems into smaller systems which can then be solved independently. He specifically mentions object oriented programming as a tool which makes it easier for programmers to write software as components but CPAN would have been a better example. He just doesn't allow that OOP by itself would allow for an order of magnitute improvement (something which I think that experience has born out.)

The author of this essay, points out a couple of operational tasks which involve programming were easier for them than they would have been 34 years ago because faster hardware noow exists and because software that already takes care of a subset of the problem now exists when it didn't before. Partially, this is confirmation of Brooks' idea that breaking down problems it the way to go long-term, but more critically, it's a failure to realize on the part of the author that they're speaking of productivity in their role as the user of a computer system whereas Brooks is speaking about productivity in designing new software products.

edit:

I think that the fundamental root of the essay's problem is that the author seems to have misssed what Brooks was referring to which he discussed accidental vs essential complexity. Brooks specifically pointed out that he was referencing Aristotle when he used those terms, and in this case essential doesn't mean unavoidable, but a part of the essential character of the problem itself. A more modern terminology would be intrinsic vs extrinsic. Complexity is extrinsic to programming if it comes from something other than the nature of the problem itself. If my computer is too slow to allow me to write a program, then that's probably not due the the nature of the program itself (except indirectly) and so represents a form of accidental complexity. Feature requirements however, represent essential complexity. You can manage essential complexity according to Brooks by dividing the problem up or avoiding altogether, but it's not something that will go away simply with better tooling or a better methodology, (unless that better tooling replaces software that you otherwise would have written.
I don't remember the beginnings of Medium, but I vividly remember Quora back in the day. It was full of successful CEOs, entrepreneurs, subject matter experts, scientists, etc. It was THE place to ask a question if you wanted high quality responses. Now, it is just a Google spam and growth hacking platform.
I've thru hiked some of the longer trails on your list, here are few others you could consider adding

Colorado Trail: very well marked & established trail, good for beginners who don't mind some altitude

Hayduke Trail: through Utah, not marked at all, and not a beginner trail, but has some good scenery & challenges. Resupply is difficult.
Wouldn't do this unless you have completed either PCT or CDT prior.
It's a shame I can't look at this amazing tech without thinking the same thing. I suspect in reality future soldiers will wish they were fighting these instead of what I assume is more likely in a swarm of flying grenades, though.
Yes, they do. Google geolocates an US-based VPS that I have since 2016 as being in the Ukraine.

I have tried to correct it, but Google can't admit being wrong.
I'm pretty fond of this Jeff Goldblum gem where he explains the qualities of a new PowerBook G4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdOUjIKLSuM
Notice that:

"AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services"

and

"Apple Silicon"

It's not just about x86 -> Arm, it's about bringing more control of the design in house. This only gets more important as we move towards more SoC type designs. Imagine, for instance, AWS doing an entire SoC with Nitro, disc controllers, memory etc on one chip. I'm not sure that they could, or would want to do such a thing with Intel and x86.

Edit: Adding my sources ;)

Graviton quote: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

Apple silicon quote: https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ (for fun, try to CTRL+F this page for "arm")