skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about aviation culture. I grew up near an airport with planes frequently overhead, and used to read Flying in high school. I attended Embry Riddle as an undergraduate, but didn't take flying lessons. Some people were decent, others yelled "f-gg-t" at my long hair. At this point, I'm never going to be a pilot due to medical requirements.

The pilot in my extended family can afford to own and maintain a small aircraft because he sold a tech company that he founded, so he has no intention or need to work for an airline.

People talk about "environmental justice", it's a thing, right. People who live in the vicinity of airports and presumably are breathing the lead, are often, I think, not the same socioeconomic class that takes a lot of commercial flights, let alone flies private planes.

So what I'm saying is, I don't hate private pilots, but if I was dictator, I would ban leaded gas, with the understanding that there would be consequences and screaming, and be indifferent to it. I don't think it's a hard choice as to what would be better for society even if there are tradeoffs.
Why is this clearly extremely intelligent individual in prison?
He also personally received an obscenely large windfall as a result of this strategy.

Debatable how significant this impacts his decision making but it's pretty hard to argue that doesn't impact it at least a little.
Inductive Biases for Deep Learning of Higher-Level Cognition
As far as I understand those who were infected and recovered are still encouraged to get the vaccine. I’m not sure what that does to their priority in the vaccination queue though.

I think the length of time recovery and vaccination confer are still not really nailed down
I vastly prefer Krita to Photoshop for digital art (though I am just a hobbyist), but to each their own.

It sounds like maintaining print functionality took significant effort, and they decided it was a better use of man hours to put more time into the core functionality and suggest people use a different application to print their output if they need to do that.
(should be) obligatory (now get off my lawngrange)

http://eyebeam.com/1985/index.php?num=45
I recently opened UberEats because I was given an Uber gift card. There was a promo that said "no delivery fee" and I thought, "that seems too good to be true, but let's see." I then saw a promo for a local donut shop that was buy-one-get-one for certain items. It appeared that I could have two donuts delivered to my door for just a few dollars. This seemed too good to be true, although the donut shop is pretty nearby.

I went through to the payment screen and was greeted by several delivery-related fees, including a "small order fee" (which presumably only applies to inexpensive orders) and a "service fee", and a "CA Driver Benefits fee". None of these fees apply on orders that you pick up yourself, so it's pretty dishonest to say "no delivery fee" front and center in the app.

The user only discovers these fees at the very last screen, once they've invested in researching restaurants, choosing items, adding them to their cart, and possibly coordinating with other family members regarding their preferences/orders. Basically, users are much more locked-in by the time they realize there are actually many delivery-related fees, even if the "delivery fee" itself is not applied (when I looked another time, this particular fee was much smaller (1/8-1/4) of the delivery-related fees that remained.
One of the major issues in California is that damn near every massive project is won by Tutor Perenni who always goes way over budget and way over schedule and ends with the final product falling apart and needing repair as soon as it's finished.
I've always suspected that corruption has something to do with it considering how many times they've massively screwed things up.
Convince me. Here's a little library function that turns text into a set of words:

def keywords(text):
return set(filter(None, re.split("\W+", unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", input_str).lower())))

How would this look if strings were byte-arrays? How would `normalize()`, `lower()`, and `split()` know what encoding to use?

The way I see it: If the encoding is implicit, you have global state. If it's explicit, you have to pass the encoding. Both is extra state to worry about. When the passed value is a Unicode string, this question doesn't come up.
Under the ACA Medical Loss Ratio rule, insurers must refund premiums if they exceed a certain percentage of reimbursed costs across a plan (there's a couple different tiers with different limits.)

In order to maximize profits, they need maximum utilization, which takes completing the signup, not just idle premium payment.
I could get behind that. Hopefully we learn to make that distinction without enduring too much in the way of suffering.
Do we need a new open-source license? Amazon vs. Elastic Part I
First, that’s factually incorrect. Second, children can transmit COVID even if they don’t get severe cases. Ever send a kid to school or daycare and then spend a year or two sick with everything every child in that school or daycare had? Kids spread cold/flu like viruses probably faster than anyone.
> The lane keeping in my Subaru isn’t good enough for me to fully trust it, so I monitor it carefully.

Basically everyone with a Tesla says the same thing.
HTML, and the web stack by extension, have their faults, but the advent of the web should've been a humbling experience for Alan Kay. I deeply respect Alan Kay for his achievements, but he appears to have been stuck in "object land" for a few decades now. For example, he seems to hate the idea of "simple data" for philosophical reasons (see [1]), but it's undeniable that "data" is not a bad idea at all and we use it proficuously every day. The fact that a physicist succeeded in creating a worldwide hypertext, and the best computer scientists didn't, should be telling. There is a lesson here somewhere, just dismissing the web as the work of amateurs is missing the mark. I love Alan, but sometimes, he is his own worst enemy.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941656
Most likely never. I can’t see any other way of interpreting this “new normal” idea that’s been so heavily promoted. Based solely on observations of the past, I would expect governments around the world to hold onto their newly established power, and continue to use it far into the future in whichever ways end up suiting them. After 9/11 the government decided that it needed to temporarily infringe upon everybody’s liberties while they sorted the problem out. 20 years later, that is literally just the “new normal” that we’ve been living with since then (some portions of the patriot act actually failed to be renewed last year, but that’s happened in the past and their expiry didn’t last long, so I’d be very surprised if this time was permanent). I would expect any decision to ease restrictions to be an entirely political one, and I would expect them to be reimplemented again in the future whatever ways end up suiting our current and future governments.
I'm optimistic for this area of tech and research in general, but agree we need to stop benchmarking against average human crash rates.

Although anyone can be hit at any time, the distribution of human crashes is not purely random. People who drive compromised, for example, are way overrepresented in those events.

So, theoretically, the tech could get to a point with a lower than expected crash rate for humans generally, but still increase your personal crash likelihood.
While I think it can be good, I can't help its somewhat self serving from one of their editors, who seems to have cleared harassment charges:

https://www.google.com/search?q=brian+mcgrory+boston+globe
For those interested in signalling, you might also check out "Too Cool For School? Signalling and Countersignalling" https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf
R0 (and vaccine efficacy) may change with variants though. It's a moving target and not a static threshold.
> on what he thinks the country is ready to hear

He does have a track record of being dishonest about things. Part of the reason he drug his feet on masks was he was worried about shortages. It makes sense, but I really don't like the "I know what's best for you" paternalism.
.7 * 331m =~ 231m.

If we average 1 million per day, we have 231 days to go, which is Aug 25th.
Kinda weird comment. Not that it matters, but in the scene Iron Man brushed Elon off -- He was "politely rude", and the scene (while serving as an ad for Elon) served the film by giving cred to Stark by having Elon fawn over him.

More importantly though, treating someone "as a peer" is kinda a weird criticism? Superheros on TV these days don't seem terribly stuck-up. When other characters in the films seem honest the heroes usually treat them with respect and dignity.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up that you hate superhero movies, will keep it in mind next time I see one on a plane.
I just straight up think short hand properties the way they are designed are a bad idea. I've been writing CSS for about 15 years at this point, and I still can't remember the order of any short hand, I have to look it up every time, so I just type it all out instead. At least then I know what I'm looking at when I look at the code next time 'round.

I'd rather see something like named parameters, e.g.:

margin: top(1rem) left(2rem) right(2rem) bottom(1rem);
margin: vertical(1rem) horizontal(2rem);
margin: all(1rem);

Or some such – I dunno I'm no language designer.
> Make no mistake: the bill he eventually signed — S. 139 — very much affects American citizens. That bill reauthorized Section 702 original enacted as part of the FISA Amendments Act — a legal authority the NSA uses to justify its collection of countless Americans’ emails, chat logs, and browsing history without first obtaining a warrant. The surveillance allowed under this law operates largely in the dark and violates Americans’ Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/state-union-what-wasnt... link found at https://www.eff.org/702-spying
Frederick Jelinek
> * Herd immunity numbers assume no ongoing vaccination -- they more or less say, "If life went back to normal, would the virus slow down or speed up?"

I'd say ongoing vaccination (after herd immunity is reached) is irrelevant to the herd immunity calculation. Is that what you meant? Though we'd obviously still need vaccinations as much of the world will not have herd immunity for a long time, if ever.

And certainly the percentage needed will differ whether we assume social distancing and travel restrictions are continued or not. Personally I hope we keep a lot of it, at least a long while more. I really hate catching flu's and colds.
I have one question for Tesla customers who trust the company to deliver full FSD.

How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance?

The NHTSA opened an investigation into premature HUD failures because they prevented the backup cameras from working. But the fact of the matter is, the company used a small partition of internal Tegra Flash to store rapidly-refreshing log data. And you are trusting these devs with your life when you enable autopilot.

You're also entrusting my life, and those of my family, to them. But we'll gloss over that, because it's expensive not to.
As I recall from the news around the time the Pfizer vaccine was approved, the results from the people given the vaccine (vs. the placebo) was that it both reduced the rate of people who tested positive for the virus, AND reduced the severity of the symptoms to the point that the hospitalization rate was way down and the death rate was zero.
Unikernels Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Not Containers
I can't blame them. Rent is due on the first of the month even during a pandemic.
Well, given that apparently their other options was to start a wine club and sell it, take it as a sign they really like you as a customer?
Yes, but R0 is likely going up with the UK strain.
Is it possible to capture the natural gas leaking from oil wells like we already capture flue gas? Would that be economical?
That's single dose, so you gotta double it. And account for like 40% of the country that are not sure if the pandemic is real and/or if the vaccine is designed to have Bill Gates track them. And the fact that kids can't get it yet (and who knows when we will know), which would severely slow things down.

Right now we are production-constrained, and somewhat distribution constrained since every state is handling it differently. But soon enough we will be constrained by people's unwillingness to get vaccinated, and then things will get really fucking annoying.
Your comment doesn't feel like it's doing me any favours. It makes me feel like not commenting on HN any more.

My last interaction, which felt similar, and put me off commenting for a while, was with someone who claimed that "most concert pianists and serious competitors have absolutely gigantic hands" then moved the goalposts around so they could be Right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25174394

I guess I should just let vague claims lie. But, well, when something sounds wrong, it sounds wrong.
And don't order used books. Only new books. Used will get rejected.
Besides the terms update, the recent Facebook censorship in the USA has pushed many people to migrate away from WhatsApp just because it is owned by Facebook. BTW, I deleted by WhatsApp for this reason and convinced my family group about it too.

My wife and her family also migrated to Signal for yet another reason. The audio quality of the voice calls is much better.
This is one of the problems with the newly-developed vaccines. It's not clear if they confer sterilizing immunity, so it's not clear if a smaller percentage of people getting the vaccine will stop the disease spreading. Therefore, it may be necessary to get most people vaccinated if we don't want the disease around at all.
Seems similar to spread spectrum radio signals, also known as frequency-hopping. By hopping from frequency to frequency in a way that only the sender and the receiver know, you can avoid both obstacles and eavesdropping.
This is so depressing. I really hate our punitive justice system.

Punishing people for 15 years doesn't change drunk driving. If they were *thinking* before driving drunk, or contemplating the consequences, they wouldn't be driving drunk.

Edit: I think this puts it far better than I can: http://www.cscsb.org/restorative_justice/retribution_vs_rest...
I kind of agree. It may be a weird kind of jealousy, though no one here would admit it or even recognize it for what it is.

The arguments used against Tesla are in fact legitimate if we’re talking about a regular company. But Musk has proven to do the “impossible” multiple times and has been right on so many levels, so at this point you have to question whether he’s catastrophically wrong about this, or perhaps the others are about lidar.

Either way, the confidence that Tesla is wrong is way too high in my opinion.
I'm leaning towards GNU Guile these days, for a few reasons. Mostly because I am a GNU type of person, (almost all of my stack is gpl, for example) and Guile is now not only the preferred GNU extension language, but it is also the core part of GUIX, and a few other tools I really like (mcron, a cron replacement).

So to explain just a bit, often I do a lot of paralysis by analysis of tooling, but as a side effect one of the things I've learned to help me get past it is to filter first based on licensing. I like Nixos, and I think the principles there are going to go far into the future, but I don't like MIT/BSD licenses. So if I want the same kind of tech, but in GNU-land, that leaves me with GUIX (the os and the package manager). Decision made.

Only in the most extreme circumstances do I violate these principles (steam for gaming!) and am always looking for alternatives as they pop up.

I really like the idea of compiled lisp eg common lisp, but most of the gpl friendly versions are not in active development, besides maybe Clozure CL. Clisp website shows last update was in 2010, and for some reason that really rubs me the wrong way.

It's funny because I still really don't know that much about lisp, it's just on my "to get into" list, besides elisp.
Sad story of why he's in prison: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/06/man_sentenced_1...

See also: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/10/crash_victims_f...

> "While he's on bond, he commits a strong-arm robbery down in Monroe stealing a fifth of whiskey," Bredell said, adding that authorities in Monroe eventually dropped those charges because the Washtenaw County case took precedence.

Alcohol has ruined a lot of lives.
Huh, that’s surprising. I’m curious, do you know reason for that?
What Tesla has now, Waymo had back in 2012. They literally had a FSD program they were testing with certain employees, and once they found that that people quickly get distracted and stop paying attention, they gave up on that approach and went for the new strategy of jumping straight to level 4 and skipping level 3.

So either they've been doing absolutely nothing for the past 8 years until getting level 4 driverless car in Phoenix. It's only a level 4 right now, since it does not work in all conditions, but it's still far ahead of Tesla's level 3 which requires the driver's attention.

So far Tesla hasn't shown anything that Waymo did not have at least 5+ years ago.
Yes - I'm a customer who paid for it and I'm happy with it, I know it's a bet on a future capability.

I think Karpathy's talks make sense, their bet on vision makes sense.

I think the comments from Waymo are tedious - we'll see who's right in the end. I wouldn't bet on Google.
Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling. If another comment is wrong, the thing to do is supply correct information. If you know more, please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. You can do that without breaking the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Yes! I didn't know what it was called, but I went and searched things like "red teapot" until I found it...and then I read your comment after I had tracked it down.

This seems like the most HN type of teapot. Goes back to 1975, apparently.
It is a lie a sense, it meant to deceive and give plausible deniability for the telco to do literally anything they want.

In that regard, the whole thing can be thrown out as <fancy word for> trickery.
If anything, technology should make people more responsible, not less. Everything that puts your life on autopilot is garbage.
There are other engineers in the same field with more technical expertise in this specific field of robotics than Elon, and they think that Tesla's path is not accurate enough. Maybe they're right. Maybe Elon is.

The problem is when you hold someone up on a pedestal and a cult of personality forms. That clouds your judgement and you lose your objectivity. It's great if Elon is right, but if he isn't I hope the fatalities, injuries, and property damages can be kept to a minimum and it doesn't hamper better technologies from being implemented.
Decisions like this are never fully data driven, as those "specific thresholds" will be different for different people.
Reminded me of the movie Another Earth. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it
What would you rather do if someone drives drunk and kills two teenagers?
What book are people recommending for Deep Neural Networks?

I’m working through ISLR (starting ch8) so I’ll be done in a few weeks.

This topic isn’t covered so another textbook, with exercises, would be ideal.

Just noticed that this paper is a book. Maybe I have a winner?
Sometimes I try to imagine life without prisons. It seems an inexorable part of the human condition: where society exists, punishment exists. It's a bit like trying to imagine all the foods we're missing out on by them not existing; it's easy to imagine a world without tomatoes, for example, and if you invert that thinking, you end up with all the foods we might have enjoyed if they evolved.

Is there any society with no judicial system? Or is it an absolute requirement of any group of people over, say, 10,000?
I felt the same way. My wife and I bought a model y in November and we love it. If I could get an electric Tacoma I would, but I think I’m going to have to get into the cyber truck if I want an electric truck.
I did something like this for "fun" a number of years ago: https://github.com/magni-/visa-waiver-program/pull/2/files

There was a lot of media noise about this bill, and it was frustratingly difficult to figure out what it actually did.
Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines
Search for 'Bloomberg Vaccine tracker'.
It's tragic to see bright young people in prison like this. Travis (the son in this post) is 25. To be in prison since 19 years old, with the earliest release date in 2027 (latest in 2045)... Goodness. This sort of time in jail is what you get for murder in parts of Europe [1].

Anyway, sorry if it's off-topic. Very inspiring what he's up to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_the_Nethe...

> Due to the strict nature of the sentence, most "common" murders result in a sentence of around 12 to 30 years.

EDIT: If you downvoted me I would appreciate knowing why. What is it that I wrote?
People were only in this together for a few weeks in March and April. I can somewhat understand as losing one's job is losing almost everything in America. Our leaders frittered away two months of advance warning, provided contradictory advice on masks, and botched creating a test. Compare the United States with Korea which had their first confirmed case on the same day.
> Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance

Equally likely is that they do understand but just don't care.

From all accounts, Tesla seems to have a culture of move fast and break things.
A sudden revolution is unlikely anyway. It's more some sort of a gradual process.
To be clear, he was sentenced to 15 years because he killed two kids.
I tried, and apparently failed, to allude to this in my original post. The implication I tried to make is that in housing Americans should return to classical liberalism: the owner of a property has the right to do whatever they please with it, barring any activities that would impede on others general rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Building dense housing in cities with crises of housing affordability and homelessness does not impede on said liberties, in fact we could reasonably proclaim that laws forcing an oligopoly of land and home owners does infringe on the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, by making the human right to housing unattainable by significant percentages of the population. Therefore, we should consider the elimination of that regulation because it inevitably serves to restrict the supply of housing, policies such as zoning, inequitable taxation on land ownership, and selective rent freezing. These regulations are at odds with the liberties our government serves to guarantee.

A simple and fair solution to the housing crisis is to make the housing markets fair, by treating all renters and homeowners the same, and by restricting their behavior only to the most minimal degree that is necessary to protect their life and liberty. Policies that engender the enrichment of the ownership class and the perpetual underclass at the expense of all others, squeeze the middle class into one or the other category, and mostly to the inferior one.