skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is very subjective.

May I ask, what in a good life can not be classified as another distraction? Or are only human activities that someone from 1000 years ago can do pass the purity test?
Haiku is written in C++ and provides an object-oriented API.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
compare this nearly 30 year old script with the absolute red hot hell of trying to order anything at all through toast,caviar,grub hub,uber eats or postmates and you'll want to check out the latest RCS and build it on X86 before the end of the day.

im serious. compared to the relatively clean, coherent and transparent burrito script, the dumpster fire that constitutes modern online ordering is an unforgiveable travesty.

again this is not delivery...no gig shit this is just simple pickup n go we're trying to do here but at the end of the byzantine transaction you make on a vendors website you've opted into a dozen mailing lists and you're getting menus and direct mailers from any and every local and non-local restaurant and bar...complete with mailers from the goddamn platform itself shilling you to either get in your car and play delivery drone or sign up for endless datamining.

and hell, you might not even be ordering from the restaurant itself. most of these platforms set up the virtual equivalent of a pop up tent in front of the business. If nothing else, this script has pushed me to reconsider email-to-fax orders to the handful of small local restaurants in the neighborhood.
> Anyone wanna bet me that Tesla will be first to full level 5 self driving?

Well, no, because (independent of opinion on the subject of the proposed bet), counterparty risk.

There's a lot better places to bet against (or for) Tesla where that problem is much better controlled.
IMHO, the patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US4813682A/en?oq=4813682) has more useful info than this post:

A television game apparatus according to this invention reads white picture
data from a program ROM (6) to transfer it to a video RAM (8) and displays,
on a television monitor (11), the white picture data, together with target
or other data read from a character ROM (9). When a pistol (4) is leveled at
a target on the screen of the television monitor (11) and the trigger is
pulled, a switch (44) is closed to produce a trigger signal, on the basis of
which black picture data is read from the program ROM (6) and displayed on
the television monitor (11). Immediately after the black picture was
displayed, the white picture is displayed in the next frame in the position
where the target was displayed just before and/or around the periphery
thereof. The light from this white picture is detected by a phototransistor
(41), whose detection signal, when extracted by a filter (45, 46), is used
as a detection signal from the target. Thus, there is no danger of mistaking
the light from an illuminator for the light from the target.

I remember the trigger would cause a flash on the screen.

Or skip the post and the patent and just watch this youtube video: https://youtu.be/Nu-Hoj4EIjU?t=520
Probably one reason is because slower programs are written. Sometimes there are actual improvements in the program, but often it is just slower without real improvements.
However, if you expect that in the future the population will keep growing by orders of magnitude, what does that imply?

A) you're just in an unlikely position

B) the population will rapidly shrink and never recover

C) this is the most "interesting" time in history, and there are so many simulations of it by the people of the far future that we are more likely to exist in this time.
I shared the same opinion, before I saw all of my acquaintances (which are as removed from the HN bubble as you can find) install Signal en masse in a matter of two weeks.

It's purely anecdotal of course, but I never expected this type of reaction to happen so massively and so fast.
At the same time; not everyone became a blacksmith.
A lot of Americans have already stopped complying with public health recommendations. Or they never put on a mask to begin with. It's like a teacher who tells a class to line up so they can be dismissed but someone doesn't go along and drags out the whole process.
If Musk is an innovator, then I guess Ian M. Banks was literally John Galt.
In general, learning to learn and be patient with the process. Based on your specific context, I’d also recommend reading code, a lot of it. There’s definitely a difference between designing and writing software in isolation and jumping into a new code base. Learn about what it is supposed to do and why, then spend a lot of time reading the code to learn the how. Also, beware of being overly critical without the history and context behind things—but, learn from the mistakes made previously and raise the quality bar by example.
I don't mean to be the typical "stick-in-the-mud" HN poster here, but the concept of "proof mechanisms" is absolute nonsense. Anything can be a proof mechanism, and therefore nothing is. See that Benz? It's proof that she's got money. See that guy's biceps? It's proof that he lifts heavy weights. See my clean apartment? It's proof that I just spent 4 hours cleaning it.

"Proof mechanisms" are vacuous. It would be more interesting to see why some social networks nail building feedback loops that give us that sweet dopamine hit and compel us to come back for more (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) and why others suck at it (Google+, MySpace)
Mention the things that make you distinctly you. Even if you think they make you less attractive.

Your goal is to be yourself and attract people who like you as you are. Then you don’t have to be someone you aren’t.

I’d recommend the book Models by Mark Manson.
> I find it laughable for anyone to suggest the US couldn't have done much better with the time and resources available.

Who suggested that?

Anyway, the idea that widespread pandemic denial or refusal to follow precautions is the reason for Covid's spread is just wrong: https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/23/put-straw-man-pandemic-d...

"The claim is a straw man: there is no epidemic of pandemic denial. Polls since March have shown that Americans overwhelmingly aren’t in denial: They believe the threat of Covid-19 is real, they are reasonably good at identifying medical misinformation, and they are largely complying with public health recommendations. Compared to their peers in Europe, Americans are more willing to get vaccinated against Covid-19, similarly likely to wear masks, and no more prone to believe common conspiracy theories about the pandemic’s origins.

The U.S.’s response to Covid-19 has been bungled in many respects, but widespread public denial doesn’t explain why."
I think using new fangled technology for habits doesn't work, and habits that require hacks is not ideal.

What I do these days is focus on habits-efficiency. What kind of self care must I do so I don't feel like shit, and I have a sheet that I use to keep track of what needs to happen. The best part about this is that I get that sweet-sweet dopamine hit from checking a box.

The list of things per day: daily chore, morning meds, morning supplements, stretches, breathwork, squats, treadmill miles, chest exercises, dumb bells, kettle bells, fasting until (noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm), brush teeth at 6pm, resume fasting at (8pm, 10pm, midnight), did I poop, how many bottles of water did I drink, did I adher to the scheduled diet, take evening supplements, evening breathwork, am I heading to bed before 12:30am, and what was my weight before bed.

Such a system (which I am continuing to refine) helps me, a highly randomizing person, get my shit together so I'm losing weight and feeling pretty good.

So, I'm not sure what you mean when you say habits don't work.

I think the key is finding the discipline style to ensure we live well considering our environment is way too lax and permissive of unhealthy behaviors.
I'm not sure it's ever been common for (non-hardware) startups to seek patents.

I think it's becoming less common, both because modern startups are less likely to be producing patentable inventions, and because the US Supreme Court invalidated a wide area of software patents previously considered valid in the _Alice_ case in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...
We need to get out of the mindset that housing should operate like a market. We need to build lots more housing, yes, but to really solve the problem for good we need to change how we think about housing. Otherwise we'll build a bit more and then rest on our laurels until the next crisis.

There are practical steps we can take, today, to incentivize building more housing, such as:

Eliminating parking minimums: use the building's space for people, not cars.

Tax land on its ability to house. It should be a tax advantage to build houses over building a surface parking lot.

Build and maintain low rise, distributed public housing. Ensure operational costs are covered, not just capital costs. Low rises are easier to maintain than big projects.

Rent control -- I know this is polarizing, but I believe housing shouldn't be a constant upward pricing until you reach the limits of what the market will bear. People need live somewhere, and if we continue to turn the screws on rent, they'll have less to spend elsewhere.

There are other things we could do today too, like strengthen tenants unions, improve tenant protection laws, enact right of first refusal laws that require landlords to sell to the current tenants first, and more.

I know folks might disagree with me, and that's ok. I'd ask that you bring some good faith discussion rather than just downvoting and moving on.

(In case it is relevant, I am a home owner in a hot real estate market.)
The way we bet on companies is the stock market. I am neither smart enough nor stupid enough to sell short.
You are looking at it merely from a percentage point of view. 1.24% at Facebook's scale is _massive_. It is not a drop in the bucket, and Facebook is especially worried because it could be a trend. Today it's 1.24% but how many people would switch tommorow?
Why didn’t they just put USB on them when they made the computers.
LingoDeer teachs some grammar as well. I have it used briefly for learning japanese and found it way better than DuoLingo or Fluent Forever
That is an entirely unfaithful reading of what I said.

Convenience features that always work are good. Cruise control and lane keep assist frequently fail, and take control away from you in a way that disallows you from maneuvering to safety.

I can't think of a single instance where Automatic transmissions or ABS misbehave. If my transmission or braking failed in 1/100 instances, then I'd stop using them too.
Why? You can argue that CV is enough for SDC AND add extra LIDAR sensors to make it even better/safer (esp if the cost curve of the sensors make sense for consumers).

Just because I can ride a bike doesn't mean I shouldn't wear a helmet
I completely understand where you're coming from and I've been downvoted for expressing non-popular views here, and I relate to your frustration.

That being said, rest assured that your experience says absolutely nothing about the wider Rust community. It's one of the most helpful ones I've engaged with.

So please don't judge it by one strangely toxic framework creator.
Sounds like an explanation of why labor costs are a employer's largest expense.
> I still can’t believe that such a wealthy area has such a fundamental problem meeting basic human needs.

It doesn't have trouble meeting basic needs despite of the wealth, but because of it.

Henry George observed this fact (that as cities get wealthier, poverty also increases) way back in the late 1800s, and in SF, funnily enough. This is what his book Progress and Poverty [0] covers, and the title is a reference to this phenomenon.

The TL;DR is that as locations get better and progress, much of this wealth gets captured by landowners, because they have an ownership over a monopoly; the supply of land is fixed. This leads to higher land prices and rents, which makes it harder for those on the margins, leading to more poverty. [1]

This problem is worse in SF (and CA as a whole), because Prop 13 restricts how much property tax can be collected, which is the primary way the community as a whole can reclaim the wealth extracted by landowners.

Blaming tech workers for the problems of Silicon Valley seems a little misplaced, given that most longterm homeowners in the Bay Area not tech workers, and they (longterm homeowners) are the ones who benefit the most from Prop 13, and ever increasing housing costs.

The problem in the Bay Area are the landed gentry.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty

[1]: A good snippet from the Wikipedia article:

> George saw how technological and social advances (including education and public services) increased the value of land (natural resources, urban locations, etc.) and, thus, the amount of wealth that can be demanded by the owners of land from those who need the use of land. In other words: the better the public services, the higher the rent is (as more people value that land). The tendency of speculators to increase the price of land faster than wealth can be produced to pay has the result of lowering the amount of wealth left over for labor to claim in wages, and finally leads to the collapse of enterprises at the margin, with a ripple effect that becomes a serious business depression entailing widespread unemployment, foreclosures, etc.
> By that definition, almost every chat app is centralized, especially if you include the step of downloading it over HTTPS.

That analogy makes no sense.

Email is centralized because every time I send an email, I'm doing a DNS lookup.

By contrast, if I use a true P2P solution, I never need to do a DNS lookup. My chats in Signal can't be disrupted by a change in MX records.

> In any case, it would be possible to further enhance email using something like SMTorP so that .onion addresses are used instead.

Yes, but then why are you using email at all? The whole point of email has been that it uses the domain registry as a routing mechanism.

It's like telling people that the WWW is decentralized as long as you use .onion addresses. That's not true because as soon as you get off of public domains, you're not on the WWW anymore.

> The same is true of any system which is proposed as an alternative to email.

I don't think you understand this topic.

There are protocols with encryption schemes built into them. Email is not one of those. From the article I linked:

> "A number of standards exist for end-to-end email encryption, but so far, none have reached critical mass with vendors. Take Symantec. It supports both the S/MIME and PGP/MIME encryption, says Symantec's Kriese. That doesn't mean that the system easily interoperates with those of other vendors."

That is in contrast to Signal Protocol[1], where all clients' E2EE are compatible with each other as long as they're using the same protocol.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol
> I don't care how much "good reason" you think you have, it doesn't make censorship not censorship, or racist policies not racist policies, or rewriting history anything but something straight out of 1984.

> "We are not in the business of rewriting the past, but we want to update the record" - stuff like this just oozes doublespeak.

Man, that word, "censorship," is really getting abused lately. It's almost like everyone's forgotten what it actually means, or can't be bothered to actually take the time to understand what they're using it to describe. As far as I can tell, the Boston Globe is not deleting anything (not that that would be censorship, either), just appending corrections/updates and maybe de-indexing some stories:

From the OP:

> What actions does this initiative involve? Will you delete stories? Will you remove names? What about Google?

> We have a number of options, including updating a story with new information and removing a story from search engine results. We consider every case on its own merits, and take the action appropriate based on the individual circumstances.

> Are you concerned about erasing history?

> We’re considering these on a case-by-case basis but we think the value of giving someone a fresh start often outweighs the historic value of keeping a story widely accessible long after an incident occurred. People’s lives aren’t static, they’re dynamic.

If this is censorship, so is the corrections page and new & updated editions of books.
The "autonomous driving hardware" they have is about the same as anyone else. It's just that those other companies advertise it truthfully as a safety feature rather than pretending you have R2D2 as a chauffeur.
I don’t see any explaining going on in that thread?
That's why we need public resources expended on producing useful and true information and making it available for public consumption.

This can be done through both state-backed initiatives and non-governmental ones like Wikipedia, or speculatively, a public interest DAO that crowdfunds R&D. Gitcoin may be the first iterations of the latter.
I have a model Y and what it has today is 80% as useful as a completely self driving car. It’s mostly self driving on the highway, and the situations it can’t handle are very predictable: toll booths, stopped cars in the middle of the road, things like that. You need to available to drive but you always have plenty of warning before you need to take over.
Vaccines never quite prevent infection. What they do is give the immune system a head start so they can overtake the infection early. Hopefully early enough to prevent symptoms, and ideally early enough to prevent transmission.

But just how early the immune system can win will depend on the strength on the immune reaction and the specifics of the virus. So for this specific one we don’t yet know whether it’s early enough to prevent subsequent transmission.

For example if transmission would require coughing and you never develop a cough, then there probably won’t be much transmission. But the potential for pre-symptomatic transmission suggests that it won’t be that simple, and while in theory this should reduce transmission it probably won’t eliminate it entirely.
What's funny is that this error would have been impossible to make within WP's built-in file editor. It lint checks before letting you save any edits.
My Adblocker won’t let me load the submitted site. I wonder if it’s stats are better than Bloomberg’s?[0] Which shows US & global distribution, also claims over 22m Americans have been vaccinated

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
What you're saying is not a capability that even most commercially available automatic braking systems can do well. Several studies have pitted the half-dozen or so cars available with automatic emergency braking systems on them, and they've all been just about the same. Apologies for a lack of citations on this since I have to run, but we at least have to compare Tesla to the rest of the industry, or compare their actual AV solution (FSD, which is in limited beta and only has been for just a month or two).
Well that’s just awful. Changing the name is the only thing he could realistically do.

Clearing the history is dicey - internet doesn’t easily forget even when the NYT does. I believe it’s the NYT responsibility to not just report facts but to keep track of the externalities and put on work to repair them. In this case they could rewrite the article - still include the original but frame it with the context, the resolution (charges dropped), the layman explanation of resolution, etc.
There is no plans to build a subway or a second BART tunnel. In the US projects like that take 10-15 years to break ground. And ten years to finish. And I'll point out the VC funded tech industry is extremely hostile to mass transit projects.
Thanks for the reply! I know I'm not hydrating enough, getting enough sun early, or exercising, so I'm going to give those a go! I've only ever half-assed the intermittent fasting thing, so maybe I'll give that a real try too.

I think my gut bacteria is pretty good. I'm a nut for fermented stuff, make my own yoghurt, kimchi, saurkraut, kombucha - and eat it all the time. It has been really fantastic for digestion, which had been a problem (pain, irregularity) and now is great. Since starting yoghurt every single day I have a freakin' Iron Stomach. I have zero autoimmunity issues fortunately (knock on wood).
Shutting down restaurants was the right call. But it should have come with a complete shut down of rent obligations as well.
> Why am I being downvoted for seeking knowledge?

Because people are assholes.

As for the rest, I haven't really gotten a straight answer on the vaccine. Seems there are people who say it is the best thing since slice bread, and others who say it will be about as useful as the yearly flu vaccine. No one actually knows.
Oh yes! I was at Adobe working with Curtis Jackson and Ross Thompson when I first saw this thing. And La Costena was the best! The building that Adobe was in then is now occupied by Google. It's the one with the "Tin Man" in front of it.

All the "PostScript" developers then got SparcStations.
Musk has no engineering training whatsoever.
Well in the US, postgrad education is a genuinely interesting proposition.

* Very low pay.

* Good benefits in a nation with poor safety nets.

* Tuition waivers along the lines of $10-100K/year.

* When the Dr. says jump, you ask how high.

If you view education as an investment, it isn't necessarily bad compared to an ordinary job. But it's kind of like a FAANG company; your experience depends on who you report to.
TSLA and Comma.Ai aren't only ones. Ghost (https://driveghost.com/) is funded by top VCs (incubated at sutter hill ventures, same firm that incubated Snowflake) with a highly technical second time founder in John Hayes (first company is the public company Pure Storage).

They're taking the same bet (i.e. CV + ML advances on a large and high quality enough data set are enough). After listening to Hoetz on podcasts, I wouldn't underestimate this approach. People trying orthogonal technical approaches win surprisingly often.
The key difference being they are reliable 100% of the time.

Cruise control frequently fails and lane assist that explicitly the one that take steering control away from you has put me in dangerous situations more often than it has saved me from them.

Lane assist as an alarm to alert you is great though.
Haters can downvote all they like, everything I wrote is exactly correct: Anybody who lived through the '90s will know the difference between M1 and Zen3 is nothing to write home about.

Meanwhile, as opinions go, I don't think HN benefits any from breathless commercial boosterism, and I, personally, would be ashamed to participate in it.
Kay later points to the internet as an example of software that can grow instead of being constructed. And I know that the web is technically not the internet but I wonder if the internet would have grown the way it did without HTML and the browser. There's a lot written about all the better ways that could have been but it's hard to downplay the beauty of what has essentially become the largest unstructured program in history.
The misanthropic, cynical view: Crashes are excellent training input.
Before this, not many people had a reason to even think of having an alternative to whatsapp. Now, that conversation has begun and more folks are installing alternative chat apps. It's not an exodus, it's more of a transition. The main point is, the average Joe has realized there are other options beyond Whatsapp and is more willing to now explore them.
I think the counterargument is that in large projects, you will end up with DSLs whether you meant to or not. The philosophy of language oriented programming (LOP), as I take it or understand it, is that since you'll end up with them anyway, why not approach and build DSLs explicitly.