skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why one place I really want a driving assist is automatically backing out of spaces in parking lots. Visibility is terrible for the driver. You need to be paying close attention in multiple directions at once, you often don't have visibility at all when you need to start moving (like a larger vehicle parked next to you), and both pedestrians and other vehicles can appear out of nowhere, often moving in unexpected directions. It feels very unsafe.

Computer vision could be making those go-stop decisions for you, much more effectively than human drivers.

Heck, imagine a "smart" parking lot that tracks its available spaces and communicates with your car. You enter the parking lot and hand over control, and the car and lot work together to park you safely in the best available space.
Why does everyone have to look at everything as an "investment"? I bought a house because I wanted my family to grow up in a house that suits us. We all need a place to live. Really tired of everything being looked at from an investment sort of view... people are OBSESSED with maximizing everything and enjoying nothing.
I don't write Lisp myself, but I support SBCL-based apps running in production, and it's a very interesting beast. The REPL and the debugger/inspector are amazingly powerful.

I still find Lisp itself very hard to read, though. I understand the whole homoiconicity thing, and how S-expressions are one of the simplest implementations of that, but it's things like "car"/"cdr" instead of some reasonable memorable name (say, "first"/"rest") that kill me. Just don't seem to have the brain space for it.
Never done a deep dive on BH but I'm very aware of him. It's funny how theory can seek to reduce down so much, the positive and the negative. Kinda like Shankerian, except I would be much more interested in what BH has to say since Shanker was such an terrible person.
I wholeheartedly agree with all your points.

My family is currently renting the top floor of a regular suburb North Vancouver house and we were hoping to buy the last 2 years to be settled & stable as my daughter started kindergarten this year.

If our landowner decides to sell we would only have 3 months to find a new place and could definitely cause us to have to move my daughter to a new school.

The lack of stability and the unknown future in our housing situation is causing a lot of stress our relationship too.
If you plan on living in one place for more than 3 years; buy one. If your investment horizon is shorter than 3 years; don’t.
Seems like Apple's timing on the M1 releases is spot on. Wide availability of the M1 based systems now is enabling developers to port software quickly. By the time the Pro machines are launched, it's likely most of the pro tools will be migrated across.
I may likely be misunderstanding.

I was trying to convey that Google just already tracks all linked email accounts so it seems natural that they would be able to trivially identify or prioritize inbound suggestions from employees.

I also wanted to say that even if they did build a custom system to sort employees, it’s not hard. It’s not a super secret tech, but something I’ve personally implemented in an afternoon 20 years ago, so I think it’s safe to assume that it’s easy to do. If they want to.

I added the “hobo hunt” joke as I think infusing humor in arbitrary engagements makes it easier to engage in serious conversation. And all my serious conversations involve humor. Of course, I seriously doubt that any company executives routinely engage in hunting homeless persons and used something extremely absurd and impossible.
That is certainly a suboptimal shopping experience. One page with variants wouldn't seem to work very well for this either, with nearly 10,000 variations.

Interestingly, they are all sold by amazon directly and are printed on demand so it doesn't seem to be a case of a 3rd party trying to game the site.
Common Lisp is a truly awful offender in this regard, with "cute" slightly-abbreviated opaque names for subtly-varying concepts.

EQ/EQL/EQUAL/EQUALP, PROCLAIM/DECLAIM/DECLARE, and the atrocious PAIRLIS (really??). And not to mention the fact that PAIRLIS returns an association list, which is entirely different from a "plist".

And then of course CAR, CDR, CADR, CDDR, et alia.

This is all second nature for an experienced Lisp programmer, but it makes for a difficult learning experience.
Though still generally necessary if you wish to buy with an LLC, unfortunately.
Chinese characters (In Japan they referred to as Kanji),
are ideographic rather than phonetic.

This means they represent an idea (or concept?) instead of a sound.
The meaning is completely divorced from the pronunciation.
In Japanese each character usually has at least two 'readings' for pronunciation onyomi (chinese-origin reading) and kunyomi (Japanese reading).

But often have even more than that, and specifically with peoples names the readings some times feel completely arbitrary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Readings

Basically, there are multiple ways to get the same 'sound' from different kanji, or get a different 'sound' the same kanji.
Well you need to do these stuff:

> experimentation, discovery, and innovation.

Is the important part, e.g. because of mindlessly surfing around and trying out new cool algorithms/demos made with obsucre tools, I became an expert at testing and integrating things which were not ment to be integrated with each other. That is a usefull skill..

But I can just as often fall into the trap of reiterating cool stories from the internet to other people. That is usually not helpfull. I.e. you need to do your own discoveries as well by trying them, not just share.
I don’t know about that. The physical port is still useful for hard resets and management of a “bricked” device (granted I’ve only needed that on an older device, and never on the model I currently have).
This oddly resonates with this article I read yesterday:

https://pointieststick.com/2020/12/29/how-kde-can-transcend-...

Nate has a look at the cycle of "early adopters, late adopters, and people who come for money and power" in every niche.
I think it’s unfair to judge people by current mores.[1] Johnny was an ‘old foggies’’ comedian. But got me the reason I saw him that way was partly due to “narrative”. If I had been in my own bubble without outside influence, I likely would not have seen him that way.

That said, having seen him dress down Uri Gheller, he has my admiration.

[1] He was not an exception in the US or in the world. There are comedians in the modern world whose society is more like the US in the 1970s in terms of social mores. I can see blaming them if they are aware of progress, but not if they are so imbued in local culture and customs that they know no better. Same for Carson back then. I think it’s forgivable. The same people complaining would very likely have behaved equivalently in that time.
Thanks, you're right. I fixed it just now by also requiring the tokio feature for all the tests in the Cargo.toml.
Yeah, in the climate since 2008 I know a fair few people that are paying less in mortgage payments than they'd be paying in rent for an equivalent property.
I found it hard to unlearn line numbers. Yep, line numbers and by implication GOTO.

BBC Basic let you very easily write structured programs without a single GOTO if you wanted.
This is one of those areas where "breaking up the tech giants" might actually work - Amazon is basically an e-commerce platform, a global post office, a seller in its own right, and a discovery engine.

There really is little reason they all need to be together.

Putting a discovery engine in place that won't make a profit unless the right and decent thing arrives surely suggests they will have incentives aligned with the customers?
Two bandaids that have helped me:

- On a large file, or in a slow project, put the Inspection Level down a notch. (You can get to it from the Actions keyboard shortcut.) You can nudge it back up, including for whatever big file -- when needed.

- Install the plug-in "Automatic Power Saver," which does that automatically upon loss of focus. (Well, maybe down two notches?) I do notice the switch/transition sometimes but it makes my overall session so much smoother (mainly because browser and IDE aren't being slower than their combined slowness)

p.s. I've been dealing with JetBrains IDEs' slowness for 5+ years, have done the same workarounds you mentioned etc. I always have another fast editor set up, lately VS Code. For quick edits etc. I had a coworker who would use their JetBrains IDE only for the last stretch of their branch or ticket -- to get the inspections and other tools. I supposed I picked this up from them.
I regret not entering the housing market in Toronto sooner. There was a brief period of time my earnings meant rent was cheap, but so too were houses. The average detached home goes for $1.2mm, whereas it was roughly $500k in 2010.
Obligatory “can it run DOOM?”

Imagine a beowulf cluster of them.
Writing my first Gameboy Emulator
The fact that we actually know about it is proof that we can't be blinkered about the differences between the west and elsewhere, surely?
Somewhat relevant is Chinese Civil Aviation Administration was the first to ground Max fleet which spurred everyone else to. There's going to be bad blood for a long time.
Practically. The banks can come after all your money if you default. It's unlikely you can organize a debt strike personally. The government has way more leverage when it owes money.
Oh, sorry, I didn't know that. I stand corrected!
Here on the HackerNews, we have a lot of fretting about facebook manipulating the moods of people, the control of people by targeted social networking ads, and many other mind manipulations as a result of our media and (mis)information firehose society.

Yet we get to the effect of ultraviolent gun-worship games, and the reaction is swift to absolve them of any role in our society.

Still smells like "the preciousssss" undercurrent on pot legalization. Which I'm in favor of only because of the failures of the drug war, especially in destabilizing Mexico and Central America into narco mafia states.

America has radicalized around guns and gun violence, to the point they are religions. Sure, go ahead and say there are no effects from violent gun games, then go talk to your kids about the school shooting drills. Sure we can argue that gun manufacturers and partisan wedge politics have elevated gun worship and not 25 years of shooter games.

I get there aren't smoking gun game studies. But we are way far from the days of cartoon Doom.
Hmm. At least in the US, Apple Maps gets their business info from Yelp, so it tends to be about as reliable as Yelp is. In general I find Yelp to be mostly on point -- not perfect, but not worse on the whole than Google.
Terminator 2 also used another set of twins. When the T-1000 mimics the security guard, they're both seen on screen simultaneously in a couple of scenes. Not CGI but identical twin actors.
You can't just compare it that simply, use the NYT Rent/Buy Calculator for a more in-depth analysis. [1]

Renting is generally cheaper than buying, especially in very high COL areas like the SF Bay Area, NYC/Manhattan, etc...

Most people don't consider all costs associated with buying a house which include closing costs (when you sell as well, renting has no such costs), property tax, maintenance, insurance, HOA, etc...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Exactly. We just bought in the greater DC area and our mortgage payment is is only $500 more than our previous rent for a house that is much bigger/better. Given that $900 of our mortgage payment contributes to equity, we are throwing less money in the trash than before. Also, I have essentially frozen the amount I have to pay for shelter for the rest of my life (except for property tax and insurance increases). Even if our house never appreciates, it still made more sense to buy than rent.

The above only applies if you are very sure you want to stay in the same house for the long term, otherwise the high cost of real estate transactions will kill any advantage.
Sorry, I spoke too soon. I've corrected me comment. Thanks for the info!
Metrology is the science of measurement. In context, it means machining very, very precise parts with super-tight tolerances.
I think the idea of a house + mortgage being not-too-risky is obviously predicated on having a fixed-rate mortgage.
And for a link of one such trip (which was also posted on ADVRider at the time - "Sibirsky Extreme 2010")

http://sherrijosbecauseicanworldtour.blogspot.com/2010/08/ol... (There's a part 2 + 3)
Newegg went down the toilet in 2016 when Liaison Interactive bought it out.

Adorama is also good and, like B&H, you can't do any business with them on Saturday.
Also in Canada the capital gains on your "primary residency" is tax free.

I know "lucky" Vancouver couples who bought the right property at the right time and it is equivalent to winning the lottery. i.e. $600K capital gains in just 2 years.

The inequality created by having huge winners in "hot housing markets" acquiring enormous wealth vs others in flat or down housing market receiving absolutely nothing (not even mortgage interest deduction which isn't available in Canada) is insanity in my mind.
> Yet people smarter than me when it comes to finance publish articles like this one. So what am I missing?

They got lucky. There's always a hedge fund that's never lost money, until they do.
"You’re not only getting housing, but you also have an asset that you control that appreciates in value year over year."

This should read:

"You’re not only getting housing, but you also have an asset that you control that _changes_ in value year over year."
All of the Android phones with USB C and high IP ratings makes that seem unlikely.
I used to believe that as well. But it seems that even a "well argumented" idea can get very little traction unless the circumstances are right, i.e. your interlocutor doesn't care much about the topic. There was some study about this a little bit ago, where pointing out problems with an erroneous but established "fact" just caused people to dig further into their position, even after the "fact" their position was supposedly based on was proved to be completely and irredeemably false.

This is the problem with letting idiots and hucksters push out garbage "facts" - they build communities that are uninterested in counter-arguments. It doesn't even matter if the "facts" are somehow eventually refuted, because the attitudes informed by them have already hardened. And, the only way I can think of to prevent those idiots and hucksters from being so effective is to introduce some kind of social restraint - thus, shame.
Cable myths: reviving the coathanger test (2019)
What a sick world. Only one thing is left to say to all those Nintendo fans - "Stop buying their crap!"|
Yes, I agree of course :) The Agora tries to be complementary to these efforts; I hope to be able to make it compatible with every open standard and semantic web project out there, in a way that makes said projects and standards available and useful to its users regardless of technical background.

In a way I think of the Agora as a (hopefully) cheap open integration hub, targeting initially people that are maintaining blogs or notes repositories (a la [[roam]], [[foam]]) and would like to see them integrated within an extra ecosystem; but eventually moving on to the greater task of providing an alternative to some walled gardens.

https://anagora.org/node/activitypub

https://anagora.org/node/rdf

https://anagora.org/node/solid

https://anagora.org/node/roam

https://anagora.org/node/foam

https://anagora.org/node/flanbook
That is very exciting! My old karate instructor owned a sushi restaurant and I got the strong impression that the mob looked poorly on attempts to export. He may have been exaggerating.
> I’ve only seen the movies, but my understanding is that they reasonably closely reflect the books, at least in terms of major themes and plot points.

Arrival is a good movie, but it's radically different from Story of your life, which is an intensely interior novel. It also substitutes a familiar time-travel plot for the, to me, radically novel linguistic approach to (not really but, for want of a better word) time travel that the novel creates.

> The stories are far from identical, but there are lots of similar themes - aliens sharing knowledge with us, the challenges of deciphering their language, world governments and extremists acting somewhat as antagonists, the interleaving of the protagonist’s personal life/family with all this.

I agree that these points are in common (although I'd argue that the role of world governments, while still important, is more peripheral in Story of your life), but they seem like quite common sci-fi tropes to me. Perhaps Contact is the ur-text for the trope after all ….
Kind of like the Swatstika. People (often American) freak out about historical uses of the symbol by Asian cultures, due to ignorance of the Swatstika predating the 3rd Reich. The Nazis appropriation and modification of the symbol doesn’t mean that the swatstika is inherently bad, or that it’s only use is in the service of nazisim.
I bought a house 5 years ago for a couple of reasons.

1. I have to live somewhere.
2. I was tired of living in an apartment, and my mortgage is less than what rent on a comparable house would be.

A lot times I see people mention that you are better off putting the money into an S&P 500 fund. However what they don't account for, is that you have to live somewhere. So you either pay rent or pay a mortgage.

Also you don't have to put down 20%. With an FHA loan you can do as little as 3%. You will have to pay PMI, but if you in a market with decent appreciation you can get rid of that in a few years.

I agree that buying a home is not for everyone. If you like to move around or don't think you'll be saying in an area for 5 to 10 years, you are better off renting. Also if your financial position is not where you can afford to deal with unexpected repairs, you are probably better off renting. I also don't think you should buy a house as an investment. That just leads to over extending yourself. Instead you should buy a house because you want to live there.
I think in general a taboo is something the majority of people cannot see themselves doing. If our civilization evolved in a way where you were rewarded for having as many children possible with as many partners as possible perhaps sexual violence would be a feature of video games.

One way to look at it is violence in video games is a mechanism for “completing a mission” (neutralize those preventing it), financial ends, or survival (whether your pursuers have good reason or not). Those things are tangentially related to our day to day lives but the farthest end of what most people might consider themselves capable of doing in pursuit of extreme success or survival. Plus, death is a normal part of life, so is death by force. It’s normalized in modern life.

But in terms of sexual violence, there’s no real world corollary of survival or prosperity mapped to something so heinous. The real life perpetrator feels some twisted satisfaction over another person, but that’s it. It doesn’t preserve an individuals life or advance their station in life. So it’s not relatable to the majority of folks, even in the deep parts of their mind on what they’d be realistically capable of doing to just live or survive.
You also have to consider any premium for buying compared to renting, the ability to cheaply "rightsize" your living space, and transaction costs.

I remember the NYTimes (I think) had a calculator designed to account for these types of factors.

It often makes sense to put off buying until your family grows or you settle in a semi-permanent location.

But generally your point is correct.
Amazing mentality. Of course, no concern for the externalities...
It is frustrating as fuck when you can't get into a bank, or a post office, or whatever else, because your work hours align with their work hours. Who wants to take a day off for that bullshit because otherwise it is impossible?
off topic: can anyone recommend good solution for text templating like https://handlebarsjs.com/ with full power of common lisp? i have checked the one's mentioned in cliki https://www.cliki.net/templating%20library .
In addition, if you are buying the second home to rent out, then you have to add the rental income as a return on investment. In practice any form of ownership to use yourself is avoiding a form of paying rent, and any ownership not meant for personal use usually involves receiving rent. That’s the thing with property, it is as much a service as an asset, and you can’t make a fair accounting without taking the service side of the equation into account.
You're just not important enough for how hard it is. Why is that so offensive to you? You don't even want it and you're upset no one cares to offer it to you? Bizarre.

Is this like not being invited to a party you didn't want to go to? Okay, then, maybe Tesla's snow driving test will give you the chance to ostentatiously decline.
Practically. If you fail to make payments then they will attempt to recover their money, often with violence.

As a lender, if I expected a debt jubilee then I would stop lending. But I suspect that was the purpose. It's interesting that most religions have an aversion to debt.
How much was original Chinese engineering, and how much was stolen IP? That’s a question that will hang over any Chinese-made achievement.
> if infrequent drivers with little experience that get replaced by robotaxis of average reliability could be a net-win in saved lives.

I don't know if frequent drivers are inherently safer drivers than infrequent drivers. There might be the negative effect of reduced attention due to more 'routine'.

But I seriously doubt that frequent drivers drive so much safer that they negate the effect of being exposed to the risk so much more. Is a person that drives 10x more than the average driver more than 10x safer? Why replace cars first, that don't get on the street a lot? And how do you organize deploying SDCs to infrequent drivers first? Unless those people don't own the cars anymore, but rent them, in which case I agree. That would increase utilizations of these cars.
Well, if you don't have $1m then the house needs to be leveraged too. Interactive Brokers[0] has margin rates lower than my mortgage. I don't think they'd give you the 10x leverage that you can get on a house though.

[0] https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46376
So how does this work? Does the "host" run the emulator and stream the video feed of it and accept inputs, or do both players run the emulator in lockstep or something? The first approach would introduce a delay that's likely to be unacceptable for games. The second one would work better in terms of delay but would require some very tricky state synchronization.

edit: the first approach would also give the host an unfair advantage because they'll have no delay at all.
Everything is based on something that already existed.

You could make the same comment about the web, RSS, WebMention, and ActivityPub (and everything else that's ever been).

Why is this always the #1 post on every Show HN post?

Oh, this is really just something else?

FaceBook was just MySpace, which was just AOL.

Google was just AltaVista.

Amazon was just Barnes & Noble with a crappy website.
Some of them seem like tail risks to me that are unlikely to dominate fatality statistics even if they were to occur and will be quickly patched or recalled if needed. Many of these hypothetical concerns could also affect existing driver assistance systems and aren't unique to autonomous vehicles. Hacking can also happen with human-operated vehicles. Interaction between multiple self-driving ones can also be tested with experimental fleets by concentrated local deployments.