skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in cities. Nobody in rural areas or the suburbs is going to not buy a car because of self-driving rentals.
Otherwise it’s just advocating for a technocracy

A technocratic republic, maybe where we got to pick who ends up on legislative subcommittees ourselves[0], might actually be a good thing.

[0] Obviously we can imagine many other forms for a technocratic republic to take; this is just the most similar to the current system, and thus maybe least unreasonable in a path-dependency sense.
Ifs and type checks are not a substitute for the visitor pattern, at least in statically typed languages, because they don't give you compile-time checks (exhaustiveness checking, as you say).

The visitor pattern doesn't require you to have a hierarchy of operations. It doesn't even require the sum type options to form a public type hierarchy. For example, the following Java code implements the typical binary-tree sum type:

public abstract class Tree<V>
{
public abstract <R> R apply(Visitor<? super V, R> visitor);

public interface Visitor<V, R>
{
public R whenLeaf(V value);

public R whenNode(Tree<? extends V> left, Tree<? extends V> right);
}

public static <V> Tree<V> leaf(V value)
{
return new Tree<V>()
{
@Override
public <R> R apply(Visitor<? super V, R> visitor)
{
return visitor.whenLeaf(value);
}
};
}

public static <V> Tree<V> node(Tree<? extends V> left, Tree<? extends V> right)
{
return new Tree<V>()
{
@Override
public <R> R apply(Visitor<? super V, R> visitor)
{
return visitor.whenNode(left, right);
}
};
}

private Tree() { }
}

This is what I'm describing.

(Incidentally, that design also allows you to replace the implementation by a tagged-union approach. The result wouldn't be the full visitor pattern anymore, of course.)

EDIT: Another way to put this: The visitor pattern abstracts away the case-distinction mechanism into a single implementation. In your code example, every operation (like sumTree) has to re-implement the case-distinction mechanism, that is, the ifs and the type checks. The visitor pattern decouples the case-distinction mechanism from the concrete case distinctions.
What's the necessary resolution in each eye needed to be "retina"? Once we reach that will it be the end of the "monitor era"? A lot of interesting things can happen once you no longer need monitors. Though sharing with others will still be a practical limitation so I doubt they'll go anywhere for now.

Once you no longer have monitors I think there will have to be a UI and UX shift around how you interact with things. Windows made sense because you had a fixed set of boundaries. If the boundaries no longer exist it probably doesn't make sense to have windows in the traditional sense anymore. You could have an infinite set of context sensitive menus that appear as necessary.
I'm not sure I really understand the advantage to AL in this context. Sure you get better performance earlier, but if you want the best performance you still appear to have to train with the same amount of data. Given the training -> example identification -> annotation -> training loop is going to be much slower than just continuing to annotate data and then running all the data at once (for a variety of reasons), I think if you were to do an honest total time and total monetary cost comparison you would probably come out with AL being more expensive overall... Am I missing something here?
I gotta be really honest with you, the title is very catchy but when I open the website, I don't find any detail regarding how this would work, what exactly is this. All I know is it's got some algo trading modules but what next?

Like, what is this thing? Is this legal? Is this just more like a compilation of strategies that tell the user what to invest in or is this like a bot like it says it is in which case, the users would need to trust this thing to invest using an algo-trader bot deployed by a venture no one's really heard of.

If this is a project, then great, the concept sounds pretty cool but if this is more like an actual startup, then the path is gnarly, since there are well-trusted platforms already out there including:

- https://www.algotrader.com
- https://www.quantconnect.com, etc.

And if you're referring to "no-code" platforms :

- https://www.algogen.io

- https://www.quantreex.com

- https://streak.world

I'm not trying to say your platform is not good per se or anything but if it's meant to be a startup, then it's not doing a particularly great job at it as of now.

It'd be great if you could answer this for me ( if this is a startup and not a project for fun ) :

Are you aware that in order for your platform to be trusted, it doesn't need to be slightly better than the competition but better on a large magnitude? If you know so, then what makes your platform way better than other platforms out there?

Thanks!
It is literally an Apple Reality Distortion Field.
Maybe the lawsuits will get this terrible reality of voting machines aired to the public in a way that affects government purchasing and election operations.

For example, machines that give you paper but internally tally the votes can give tally whatever they want, not what they showed you. That’s super attractive for abuse.

I agree that paper only is most obvious and most reliable.
The first time my co-advisor said "you're going to take the derivative of that code by the end of the day" I felt like I'd taken a wrong turn into crazy-town. I enjoyed reading about & understanding Tapenade — such a great piece of code!
Yes, Musk is overly optimistic. On average you can double his predictions. And his missed predictions on self-driving are extreme even for him.

But Tesla is making progress. Maybe even more importantly, the world is making progress on fundamentals of machine learning. If you want more reliable estimate than Musk, then you can check forecast aggregators with established track record [0]. I've asked "When will Tesla self-driving taxis be available to Metaculus users?" [1] Metaculus being the forecast aggregator. Community predicts 25% before 2024, 50% before 2026, 75% before 2029, 95% before 2035.

I'm personally more aggressive and predict 95% before 2030.

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/track-record/

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5304/widely-available-te...
Startups especially benefit from Active Learning: https://www.slideshare.net/nrubens/1-of-40-recommender-syste...

A slightly deeper intro: https://www.slideshare.net/nrubens/active-learning-in-recomm...

p.s. am the author of the above presentations; great to see Active Learning (AL) to finally get proper attention (I've been working in the AL area for 10+ years).
No but look, they're blocking connections country-wide. Apparently they have government boxes installed on the outside lines. If you're looking at IP headers and deciding to drop or pass based on that, it's trivial to collect the IPs you don't yet know, check if they're running a proxy (Signal, Tor, I2P, whatever), then add them to the block list if they are.

If it's trivial to figure out (by doing a nice handshake) whether something is a certain kind of proxy, then the cat-and-mouse game is reduced from finding lots of mice to updating the cat system to test whether passing animals are mice and instantly wiping out the mice population.
> I think there's some truth that code has value, and there is some risk that making it available can cut into profits (See: Redis, Mongo, etc, changing course after open offerings became available on AWS/Azure/GCP).

An example like that is only valid if you argue that there was a reasonable chance that the company could have 1) developed a comparable closed source version of the product and 2) somehow prevented a competitive open source version of that product from existing and being used by competitors.
also notable that they did try to save money on the things like the actual ice cream making equipment.
I'd be interested in that article - be great if you could re-up the footnote :)
Ample Hills had a pretty ice cream parlor on Vanderbilt but I never liked their ice cream very much. Blue marble was way better.
While I agree with the comments about predatory lending, I kind of feel that it has more to do with being more financially aware before agreeing to such loans. Payday lending is closer to the predatory lending practices, but I see the same kind of attitude among borrowers at lower interest rate products as well.

Borrowing when you know that you will not be able to repay the loan (or with the intention of not repaying) is also wrong.

> In the second scenario the worst case is that the payday lender becomes insolvent, the company collapses, and the workers go and find other jobs because they're not the ones suffering financial stress.

In this case, the employees of the so called lender are rendered jobless and they don't meet their financial obligations and might become homeless themselves.
Marketing has reached new levels
Be careful what you wish for. I think the old media is super-happy with their new-found resources but they are missing the forest from the trees. Google might have been forced to do this, but I think there will be some surprising unforeseen consequences.

Not only your traffic is now tied to Google, but also your revenue. You are double screwed as a single organization. As soon as many organizations are in, it'd be hard for them to speak about any Google practices (guess where the money comes from). Then, it's only downhill from there.

Old media had a last chance to re-invent their business model. Now they are officially dead.
You literally can’t give any. Handwave “must be stopped” or “aighta be a law” all you want in your fantasyland of no consequences.

I’ll take a tour of things at the top of my head:

* North Korea: we have nada, nuke horse is out of the barn

* Taiwan: prop up the post-KMT status quo and hope for the best

* Hong Kong: nada

* Nine dashed line (S China Sea): pray Navy doesn’t get shot up and apologize if they do [0]

* Tibet: lost and forgotten neverland

* India: duking it out for itself

* Uighers: an “internal matter” Holocaust, see also Christians and the occasional Jack Ma

* Global Warmer: the former industrialized nations exported their industry and pollution to places like China, what are we going to do, pay them to produce the same stuff but not pollute? Could have done the same with internal industry instead of outsourcing

* Endangered species: slightly bright spot for some well loved species like rhino and elephant, too bad about the sharks and fisheries tho

* Industrial espionage: ok, there’s room for work that might not make things worse

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
C# gets more and more features from F#, for example you can now declare immutable records in a single line:

record Book(string Name, int publishYear)

and there are millions of jobs worldwide.
You don't actually know this.

You're uncharitably assuming this, without any basis.

Apple's custom silicon, which includes the Watch line, has the best performance / power ratio in the entire business.

That might be important here. Do you know that it isn't? Of course you don't.
I'm not sure - I guess it would depend on the volatility.
"I would like to see your supportive reaction if an Iranian company offers hosting to Parler. "

This is a hacker forum and not a US foreign ministry praise board, even though it is mainly US based. In other words, I doubt the reaction here would be rage, if a iranian company would do that. Hackers usually are not in favor of censorship or information restriction.

So who do you mean, with "you"?
How is ET diagnosed separately from PD?
No but that is a fascinating thread, so thank you
Isn’t this a clear indication that Apple will have its own stand-alone GPU line? This plus the car news from earlier this week made me think Apple already has its own GPUs to rival or surpass Nvidia.

Edited for clarification.
- you're still very very young

- having several years of professional experience at 23 is really valuable

- you're overestimating the extent to which ageism plays a role in software

- you don't need to spend your whole software development career in one company (you're implying that you might do that)

- provided that you have the aptitude, you can pick any field at this point; there are no options that it's too late for

- a bachelor's degree is 3-5 years; you can have a bachelor's and a master's (if you really need the latter) by your late 20s. If you start now, you can be a doctor by your mid-30s. That's the "longest" option and it's still at a very young age. Your age absolutely isn't a factor in working on your education, provided that you know what you want to do.

Overall I wouldn't be so down on your future either as a software developer or in any other field. What you probably need is some direction because you're still considering options that are very different from each other. But it's aboslutely not too late in any way.
Having done IT work, and helping debug PLCs, for two food startups let me tell you it was a big eye opener. I had this impression that in factories you buy equipment, hook up conveyors and away you go.

In reality the equipment is just a starting point. Getting it to produce the end product needs a LOT of trial and error. The smallest adjustments in timing, parameters or recipes can result in a completely different looking, tasting or mouth-feeling product. There is a loop of adjusting the equipment to fit the recipe, then adjusting the recipe to fit the equipment. Then repeat.

Lower-end manufacturers also lie about their product specs, lie about the availability of spare parts and MTBF. Saving money ends up costing a lot more, just like it did to Ample Hills.

Maybe if you have a department of chemists who are working closely with high-end equipment manufacturers you can better predict the outcome with less trial and error ... but I doubt it. Look at Tesla and the manufacturing issues they are having. The best engineers that money could buy spent a lot of time trying to speed up the production line only to find the hard way that shaving two minutes off time on the line resulted in the paint not having long enough to dry.

Food production is a lot harder than software. If you ever want to create a large scale food manufacturer, hire people who have a lot of experience doing it.
That's already been done to a great extent:

$ LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 cat asldkj
cat: asldkj: El fitxer o directori no existeix
$ LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8 cat --help
Forma d’ús: cat [OPCIÓ]… [FITXER]…
Escriu la concatenació de tots els FITXERs a la sortida estàndard.

Sense cap FITXER, o quan FITXER és «-», llegeix l’entrada estàndard.

[...]
> its just the fact that it goes on your wrist and has an accelerometer plugged into a computer

That's incredibly underselling it as just an accelerometer, but missing the fact that it's not an off-the-shelf accelerometer and that there's a very capable computer inside it (plus an even more powerful computer in a pocket not too far away) to do the heavy data-processing required.

> If apple actually cared they would create a new device for this particular use case.

This theoretical device would have a smaller user base and would also cost an order of magnitude more. The magic of the Apple Watch is that it's a fairly inexpensive (and hence accessible) multi-purpose personal device used by millions.
The article doesn't make any claim or assertion that President Biden "is the most popular politician in US history".

I see nothing in your comment to substantiate either your slur of dementia against the President or to stand up the claim "that triggered every red flag of a rigged election there is".
Many of the people who believe in election fraud do so because the leader of their tribe said there's election fraud and social psychology leads people to tend to believe the things that the leader of their tribe says. This is a human condition issue, not an evidentiary issue.
Above all else, Apple must do one very, very important thing to make this product succeed:

Do not let Robert Scoble take a photo of himself in the shower wearing this.
I think the author makes a great argument, and would add network effects to reasons why code is worthless. Let's say I build an exact clone of Facebook, do I take away any value from Facebook.com? How about Office 365, I offer an exact copy of their cloud, except the sync doesn't work because OneDrive is built into Windows and won't authorize with my clone.

I guess before everything sync'd and auth'd to the cloud I could pirate Photoshop, but as the author points out, cracked software has always been a different landscape that carries malware more often than not and has no stability or feature updates, so why worry, it's no real competition if you're actually innovating your product, not to mention tech support!

As for throwing out code, I'd have to do some digging but there's a talk, maybe Dan Geer, outlining that every 1000 lines of code you write there's a certain number of security vulnerabilities, and you'll never find them all -- and the longer the code stays the same the longer those vulnerabilities are able to be prodded and discovered. So say you have an adversary with access to your source code, they are trying to figure out the "weird machine" of all the bugs in your code. The best way to foil this adversary is to keep changing the way your software works, always switching out one set of undetected bugs for another. Again, having a development team that understands how to change the code is infinitely more valuable than having access to the repo.
I am stealing all your shit
Slightly misleading title. "A Python interpreter written from scratch in rust can now run 'pip'" is more accurate. The standard pip does not use Rust.
The "facebook-esque anecdote" was intended to point out the failings of acting as if scientific institutions are practicing science in a pure, non-biased way and blindly trusting the humans in these institutions to not be subject to corrupting influences. My stepmother's god-like idolatry of the scientific method was conflated with the very flawed humans who were supposed to be using the scientific method.

Your original point is a fair one, but you probably aren't aware of the fact that, on this specific topic, the leading scientists in the human nutrition field were extremely aggressive in crushing all dissenting voices, including destroying the career of a researcher at Harvard who was relegated to obscurity despite later being proven correct.

Dissent against Keys' lipid hypothesis of any form was career suicide in the human nutrition community. The viciousness of the attacks against dissenters was particularly remarkable, due to the fervent belief that undermining the "fat is bad" narrative would kill people.

They were wrong, and your point of view assumes that it's self-correcting over the long-term, so don't argue. In the case of the lipid hypothesis, it wasn't self-correcting at all. It's been a decades long fight to try to get a bunch of smug asshole academics to admit they fucked over the public for decades with their hubris.
The role of containers on MLOps and model production
Thanks and congrats on your launch. Another set of questions I had when looking at the website and your response

1. Are you targeting commercial insurance or personal lines?

2. Looking at US or international markets?

3. How are you reaching insurance carriers? e.g. referrals, direct connections for standard products, borrowing comparative rater APIs, agency or MGA or other capacity arrangements?

4. How are you dealing with producer licensing requirements? e.g. acting as the agency, getting your embedder partners licensed, some other referral scheme?
8k seems... optimistic. The PPI of such a display would be off the charts. Not to mention the kind of hardware required to run such a device. The NVIDIA RTX 3090 can barely run a 3D 8k game at 30fps, let alone in 3D for VR.
What would you even connect such a device with? Displayport and HDMI wouldn't support two 8k streams.
Most of these type things (quantopian is one I've tried) offer "paper trading" that is just that. You simulate it on "paper" until you gain confidence and use it to invest. I think the docs for this says they do as well
The ad only ran in two geographic markets, not nationally. So your guesstimate is probably closer to the national rate.
I lived there in the early 90s and loved it. Coming from a small Canadian city, the idea that I could get somewhere good that wasn't rural and return home in a day, on a train, was just mind blowing. I also made 4x my Canadian wage as a cook. I was only there for 18 months but I seriously considered renewing my visa and staying. Ended up moving to Anaheim, CA. Big mistake. ;)
It seems to me that people are completely misunderstanding this. It's a product that already existed in some other countries. It has nothing to do with showing news sites in search results, or more generally with that Australian law.

Though I am a bit confused, because it looks like they already said two months ago that they had Australian publications signed up. What's actually new here?
“RustPython is a Python interpreter written in Rust. RustPython can be embedded into Rust programs to use Python as a scripting language for your application, or it can be compiled to WebAssembly in order to run Python in the browser.”
off topic: is it common to have a litter box in a bathroom? According to the things I've read, cats prefer to have their "scent soaker" in more common areas, so I've not ventured there...
Is the waste product Magnesium Oxide?
Having pedestrian only downtowns is not really relevant when it comes to having a pedestrian friendly environment, so I’m not sure why this is a relevant counterpoint.

Most people in downtown Toronto or Manhattan are not solely walking to work, but the walking environment is still pleasant.
To be fair though the Liberal party is hardly “right wing” and is more like the centrist faction of the US Democratic Party.
Before scrum and agile, there was MS Project, Gantt charts, Excel spreadsheets, bugzilla, etc.

Basically, there has always been some (project) management overhead that you need to pay lip service to. The trick is not to take it too seriously, you can play along with it, provide updates here and there... but still just do what you think is right, in the order you think is best.
Not sure if it can help but check getfindster.com.

It works without cellular. It has two modules, gps on a dog which emits some data RF signal and a receiver in your pocket. They claim 3km range. I can confirm 1.5km. Didn’t test further. Quite magical actually
levels down for me?
the day i need to look at salaries is the day levels goes down :(((
London's Dreadful Visitation: Death Statistics During the Great Plague (1665)
They're fairly rare compared to Android in most countries, actually, also rich countries. That it doesn't work on Apple devices being seen as a blocker was the last thing I expected when clicking that link.
Fairfax is right-leaning. Schwartz Media certainly at least publishes some leftists and progressives.
The US government’s $44M vaccine rollout website was a predictable mess
I think a better example for AirPlay would be a third-party AirPlay server that (either maliciously or incompetently) exposes content streamed from the user's iPhone on the Internet publicly.
with 8k in each eye and passthrough cameras these will probably feel like glasses.
Plutos killer feature to me is that it is not mutable. It can be challenging to adjust initially, mainly because it forces you to write extremely DRY code. The benefit is it makes your code much more stable/reproducible than jupyter and interactivity stronger because anytime something changes in any cell, all the dependent cells, regardless of the order in the doc, are updated.
I'm not opposed to collection (it's your right after all) but what would you describe as a reasonably high APR?