skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note, before we get to self-driving cars I really wish we had un-crashable cars.

They have systems like active lane keep which are supposed to increase safety but do the exact opposite of what's safe. For example suppose a driver falls asleep or gets a heart attack. The lane keep will beep a few times quietly and disable itself when the car reduces speed to under 40mph, causing the car to then go straight and crash, instead of aggressively lane keeping until the car comes to a complete stop while increasing the beep volume the whole way, and then putting on emergency flashers, which would be the safe thing to do.
I cancelled my Prime last year because the "2 day" shipping was consistently taking 4+ days. The final straw was my Halloween mask not arriving by Halloween lol.

Between late deliveries, bait & switch 5-star reviews, and being able to find cheaper prices elsewhere, I now only use Amazon if I can't find a product anywhere else.
As the other HN Buttplug Poster who is also having problems making money with their product, I salute you.

(And yeah this is why I stay in software, manufacturing even on non-tech toys is still $$$$)
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For the most part they accomplish the same goals, but in very different ways.

Linear types have a simpler mathematical underpinning and are much easier to prove things about. However they are notoriously difficult to use for actual programming, especially in larger projects.

Rust's borrow checker is approximately affine types plus regions. Its proof theory gets very complicated if you spell out all the details. However mere mortals can actually write large, complex, and correct programs with it, as has now been empirically demonstrated many times.
They gotta feed those clams with something valuable in return to their service to really restore the balance.
That's very close but not quite right (unless I misunderstood what you wrote). See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...

As long as a relinkable form of the closed source executable and/or sources of the LGPL library/ies it uses are provided in an acceptable way (per LGPL terms) then distributing a closed source executable should not be problematic.
"analysts" - lol!

I know a HR director at a multi-national. He'd had enough of Excel and liked the look of this Python thing. I showed him R as well for balance but he wanted Python. I showed him how to install a Python distro and MS Code on his Windows machine, wired them up and off he went a few months back.

The board are in awe of his presentations. He is not an IT bod at all but a Uni. degree in Psycho. involves a fair amount of stats so a fair grounding there. He grabs huge data dumps from payroll etc and performs analyses that are complex but just work.

I think one of the benefits of using Python is that you instantly divorce input data, calcs and reporting. Fire up Excel and the first thing you often do is write a title. Using Excel properly requires a lot of discipline - I wrote a Finite Capacity Planner, with forecast and labour planner for a pie factory in Excel with quite a lot of VBA. It ran my P60 hard but did the job iteratively in about 2 to 5 minutes. Easter and Chrimbo needed a fair bit of tweaking by a Planner but most of the time my model told several supermarkets what they would be ordering back in the mid 1990s and they mostly faxed or EDId our forecast back as an order.

My brother (cough) is absolutely not an analyst in the normal sense. That a non programmer can bolt together enough Python to perform analyses useful to his job is testament to the power of the libraries and examples and documentation available. I've seen his code: suck in data, process it, spit out results, report results. That's all he needs and not a OO abstraction in sight.

My two examples (me and my FC Planner with Excel and an HR bod thrashing some data to a report with Python) are different things and each uses the opposite "tool for the job" discussed in the OP. However, it is how you use a tool that is important.
How is taking away an ability my computer had, without my consent, not threatening my freedom? (I'd like to see the EULAs for the affected Windows and Flash versions, too. I don't recall reading licenses for on-prem installed software that talk about the licensor being free to arbitrarily disable or remove features.)
Anytime I've ordered from Walmart for pick-up, I always seem to receive the item with the worst experation date and most banged-up box.
Swank/Slynk clients are generally preferable to LSP clients when doing Common Lisp. LSP infrastructure in Lisp (notably, the cl-lsp library) is relatively young and not widely used, whereas Slime/Swank is thoroughly battle-tested because it has been widely used years before LSP has been created.

As a side note, this also means that Lisp programmers have been enjoying the functionality nowadays provided by LSP decades before it started being cool. :D
(Un?)fortunately, Boeing apparently didn't use Ferrets as furry little cable runners

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/71461/did-boein...
Ah, I excluded Asia on purpose. Foremost because I do not hold as much cultural understanding for its recent history, but also because I understand that there are key differences in long standing societal values.

HK is certainly an interesting point to consider; I'll have to think on it. Appropriately it was a Commonwealth member for some time.
ActionScript only "existed" on the authoring side. Scripts were compiled to (proprietary) bytecode before being embedded in the SWF file.

Besides, there's a lot more to SWF than the scripts.
Goodbye, old friend. When i was at school i made a nice counter with you and a page loading animation. Your date and text API awed me with its sophistication. And i still have the flash 5 book that i bought with my saved money. Your prophet - 2Advanced, was an inspiration for me.

It's nice of corps to be able to do whatever they want with your PC. And MS is really sunshine and lollipops compared to the mobile space - where not only you don't own your device, but at best you actually rent it and are at the complete mercy at the feet of the master. All for the privilege to actively work towards generating ad revenue for the company you rented it from.

Most tech in 21 century is something out of those shitty 80s low budget cyber dystopian movies with post apocalyptic undertones. It's bad.
"humans have emotions"
Why are we pretending there isn’t a strain of black supremacy that’s been attacking Jews?

https://forward.com/opinion/436335/the-silence-surrounding-v...

Let’s also not forget what so many prominent black Americans recently promoted: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/blacks-jews-paul-packer-hers...

Oh and there’s a history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_riot

Who thinks these guys are completely sane? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites

The levels of kookiness approaches Scientology. Louis Theroux did a documentary about these guys if you want to see with your own eyes: https://youtu.be/h1qTKgMUbOY
Please don't take this as science. This is a marketing gag.

I am not a virologist but not far away from it. It is well possible that the virus escaped from a lab. But never claim maliciousness for something that can be easily explained by stupidity. When working with Chinese in the lab I experienced them as never working very clean (e.g. with radioactive stuff).

"There is some weak evidence regarding lax security and procedures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." No, there is actually strong evidence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

This alone shows the guys don't know what they are talking about.

There is no evidence that the virus was artificially altered (But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).

This being said, it seems to me that Corona COULD be used as a weapon. China is coping much better then the EU or the US with the virus. We know this now. How about 3 more viruses in the next three years? Will the west survive this? While I STRONGLY believe that China is not really to blame for the outbreak, I am sure the development has raised eyebrows in China.
what do you think of teamblind.com?
Well, "to" would imply it was intentional, which I don't believe is the case here. :)
The net psychic cost of lockdowns might be more than if we'd taken the Swedish herd immunity route. We don't have a good way to account for such non tangible costs.
Well, if everything is deterministic we might as well scroll to the end.

I think I’ll go with random quantum please.
"wasn't able to be used as a surveillance tool as effectively as Javascript can be."

Flash cookies, anyone?

These were the only mainstream way to keep tabs on you across different browsers.
Apple and TikTok booted an iPhone app promoting secret large, indoor parties
Looks very similar to https://globekit.co/

I recall Stripe's globe was built using that.
Why not support lowering crime rates even more? Comparing the crime rates in Baltimore to other western countries, there's still plenty of room for improvement.
Some actually did, back in the day of point and click adventures. But nowadays games obfuscate everything as much as they can for DRM and anticheat purposes. If you consider your own customers your enemies, of course you wouldn't open anything to them
This is true.

I talked with a fellow electrician friend of mine: At his job they're organising their on-call rotation via Facebook. I was horrified. Refusal to use Facebook in this situation would be very difficult. I very much suspect this situation is not unique.
Atrazine causing feminization in frogs is an undisputed fact, but the statement as given ("they put chemicals in the water TO turn frogs gay") is absolutely not. Atrazine is used because it's a cheap and effective herbicide, frog feminization is a side effect which doesn't factor into decisions about its use.
Its just as if someone paid them good money to not compete with Chrome!

(I'm not saying that is part of the deal but I don't know what more Google could realistically hope for...)
Demise and Fall of the Augustan Monetary System (2006)
This.
Might as well use xmlrpc/SOAP for it and it will be only slightly less ugly.
After the crash is where I'd be concerned. While the windshield has a lot of negatives, one positive is that it's relatively easy to break and pull someone out of the car in a crash.

IDK, probably still safer, but it's something that'd deserve some aggressive crash tests to make sure we aren't making a pinto mistake.
I don't think being led / managed by someone younger is a big deal, but this is a weird story. The author was just 6 months into his first job then made a leader of three much more experienced employees. That makes me think someone up the chain wanted those three guys gone.
archive.org seems to have a copy of this article

https://web.archive.org/web/20201230222606/https://www.polis...

EDIT: the other article linked is unavailable in the EU because of GDPR. Thankfully, archive.org has a copy of that article as well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200721190853/https://www.bayjo...
That's a big reason what makes HN successful: a blanket ban on emotional content.

Edit. I've been thinking of an idea that for us knowledge sharing resembles neuron connections, based on my limited knowledge of that topic. Each of us watches a few channels of information and makes a choice to forward/retweet a piece of information so your subscribers would see it, ignore it or block a channel if it sends you bogus data. Every time we do this, we adjust the rating of the source. So I've been thinking that if we could set up such a network in a more formal way, and if the network would grow to at least a few thousand "neurons" (that are people), would it exhibit some unexpected higher level effects?
> I think android had flash working for awhile, but they eventually dropped it too. (Probably for the same reason.)

Yep. Between the performance issues and interface hangups (touch screen = no cursor = no mouse movement events), Flash for Android was basically unusable for most applications.
> What are you talking about? Zoonotic origin is the source of the majority of viruses:

This makes the hypothesis very plausible as a starting point, but afaik there is no confirmed reservoir for SARS-CoV-2, the pangolin and bat hypothesis have not been confirmed.
That's what gives me the crushing sadness. It's never going to rise to the level that individual consumers will care.

Only the "diehard techies" will care. Based on how many of my technical friends have knuckled-under and normalized these kinds of affronts to freedom apparently there are fewer "diehard techies" than I thought, too.

I wish that I could just "turn off" my love for computing and computers. Instead, I get to see my hobby and vocation die a long, painful death.
Not everyone hates global warming. I'll have -30° C tomorrow, give me that warming please.
> Everything is just inline, except when messages can be recursive (which should be rare for most protocols).

Many messages are have lots of optional sub-message fields, and set only a few of them in any given message. These messages would be huge if everything is inline (especially if the same thing happens in those sub-messages).

I agree that inlining all sub-messages works great for dense schemas, but it assumes too much about the schema to be a good design for a general-purpose proto library I think. Also maps and repeated fields can never be inline.
Try ExcelDna it lets you hook up .net to Excel
Because AppleArch64 is not the same as Arm64.
A service that swipes on dating profiles for you by leveraging AIs and your specific granular preferences.

I’ve made some but not sure how to go about marketing it, especially in foreign markets.

I’d post a link here but idk if it could lead to a c&d although it’s not much different than those dumb autoswipers.
Sorry it was working for me when i posted it, is there a way for me to edit it?
Ah yes, technically the chemicals are being put in the water and are turning the frogs gay but you see, they only intended to put the chemicals in the water and didn't specifically intend to turn the frogs gay.
I've been noticing some of the same with The X-Files. There are seemingly random shots with lower quality, and any shot with heavy VFX looks original, but most of it now looks quite sharp.
While I'm not a fan of busybody groups in general, most of that subreddit come off as massive jerks for having any answer other than "just tell them it's not abandoned".

How hard is it to have basic human communication with strangers, jeez.
Because I'm not talking about when it's snowing. I'm talking about the entire season of winter. The snow doesn't disappear when it stops snowing. Even when plows come they're not getting down to asphalt half the time. It's still obscuring the curbside and road markings for weeks or months.

Yes, freeways, highways, and major roads might have their curbs and markings restored to full visibility within a day or two. But most roads do not.
Just to be clear, GS-15 is the absolute highest pay grade for regular federal employees. A GS-13 is supposed to require at least a Masters and a GS-14 a PhD. If you got 13 after a year, you have very little potential growth for the rest of your career. $107k really is not a very high wage relative to the labor market for high end engineers, especially in tech.

Again, why would a good engineer work for the government? If the government can’t and won’t hire engineers, how can they create informed requirements for contracts or provide technical oversight of their contractors? You can see this playing out in boondoggle after boondoggle. The government poorly specifies a contract, a contractor bids on the contract, the government changes requirements over and over because the lack of technical expertise implies they have no idea what they want, the contractor rakes in tons of money due to direction changes, and eventually the contractor delivers something shitty because the people at the government also had no idea how to evaluate whether the contractor was meeting milestones.
Not a biologist, this is not a biological question per se - all viruses and bacteria mutate over time during replication. It's a question of statistics rather... When you have 100 infected individuals and a virus that mutates in 1% of infected people (note: this is a random number, no idea what the actual mutation rate of coronavirus is), you'll end up with one mutated version. When you have 100k of infected people, you'll end up with 1k mutations that are spreading out and (essentially) self-selecting. And when you hit 1M of infected people... it's 100k mutations.

That is why it would have been important to keep infection rates down until there's a vaccine - because it is more than likely now that there's a strain of coronavirus somewhere that has a different spike protein and so is not caught by the existing vaccines.
Eeeesh. No. "Chemical castration" does not equal "gay". Also who are "they"? And define "put".

Is it concerning that endocrine disruptors are leeching into waterways? Yes.

Is there a plot to turn frogs gay? I doubt it.
Seems like a great example of why a bioweapon like this is a terrible idea.

I don't think more disclosures would have helped a lot of the countries. China locked what 10M people in January and lots of the world essentially went "huh". There were reports of welding people into their homes when UK rates were in double digits. We seem to have done little with the already very public information so what would have happened with more?
Maybe vanilla capitalism isn't the way to go then.
> Based on the average post you see on Hackernews, it's a virtual certainty he means "snooping on users of a program". I can't explain why, but it just bothers me that this would be considered so obvious as to escape mention. "Telemetry" means something, and it meant something to aerospace engineers for a long time before somebody at google started using it to refer to something incredibly narrow.

Did you even read the post? It's obvious OP works at Datadog ( they mention it and mention the work is for their employer), so telemetry as in OpenTelemetry ( the new standard around metrics, traces and logs).
That sounds almost exactly like bors-ng: https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng#a-merge-bot-for-github-pu...

There was also homu, which predated bors and also did more or less the exact same thing.

Does your thing have any features that differentiate it from what bors does?
How's that any better? You might as well scroll to the end there too.
TL;DR: New team lead learns that "leadership" isn't about giving orders?

I agree with the other commenter who says "Sounds like he did it right." Leadership isn't ordering people around. It's more like steering a ship in the proper direction.
When anti-lockdown protestors were vilified as granny killers and murderers, only for the media to flip flop weeks later, it’s hard not to apply the same contempt.
It depends on how much your time is worth to you. If you’ve got nothing better to do than hang out at the office and take it easy on casual Fridays, then you might as well get paid for it.

If, on the other hand, you’d rather go home and put your 3 day weekends to better use taking care of your household, spending time with family, engaging in a hobby, travelling, or relaxing at the cottage (if you don’t own one, you might try renting one), then your Friday is more valuable to you than the money you lose from taking the day off.
That's true, but in terms of 'fully free' days it does apply.

For example, I'd bet most people would be unwilling to smooth over their 40 hour workweek over the course of the full week of 7 days, working 5.7 hours a day. Of course that's nice in a way, but having no fully free days and perpetually working forever, is agonising.

In that sense you can't just compare cutting a working day to simply having more discretionary time (which you have after workdays, too). Fully free days count a bit differently.
Bret Weinstein, who has a Ph.D in biology, claims it's highly likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was man-made, rather than naturally occurring. So it's definitely possible it was a test that went wrong (and let's be honest, the Chinese government has a less than stellar safety record).
Except that those guys later went on to be on another team? I don't know. It does seem weird, no matter how you slice it.
It is really this: "No one wants to read your shit"

https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-th...
Ultimately all the even lower level self driving cars will just pull over and stop.
Is this a tool you believe would be of any use at work? Mainly in remote companies?
Man! I just got this book for Christmas, but I guess I didn't need to...

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-...
Public sector vs. Private? What's a private employee?
Or zero animations, even better.
That's a common misunderstanding of his argument. He's not saying that there's requirement for a soul or anything, but that a digital computer and a biological system are not necessary equivalent. That is, not everything is 'computational' simply because people keep saying that it is.

He demonstrates this by showing the difference between semantics and syntax. A pocket calculator can solve mathematical equations, but the calculator does not understand them, it is simply manipulating strings. It could be playing chess or poker or anything else, it cannot and does not distinguish what it's meaning or intent is.

Searle points out that biological systems go far beyond this, we have an actual conceptual understanding of the world which we express in syntax, but we also have an underlying model, and understanding of what it is we're expressing.

And the important thing to notice here that it's not Searle who appeals to a 'soul' (he is simply taking the very materialist viewpoint that brains and computers are not the same thing), but it's the "everything is computational" crowd who have almost supernatural belief in some higher realm of mathematics that is completely decoupled from physics or biology.
One question that's been on my mind lately, is if we find this to be true, if we even can; should we hold those in power responsible for their actions?

Many leaders have taken Covid-19 as a free "Do whatever they want" card, with little regard to the hidden negative repercussions of their decisions.