skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This where Tesla is underestimated I think. There is a huge difference between a high volume, sellable product, and a highly priced concept designed for PR. You could argue Tesla has both, but at least they are attempting to place this technology into the hands of consumers.

The unavoidable penalty for this is a longer period of driver responsibility and perhaps never reaching level 3. It's a trade off tesla buyers seem willing to accept.
I don't see this being a free speech issue when you read this:

"Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP, which oversees Dr. Seuss’s publishing interests and ancillary areas, Tuesday said it had decided that six of the famed author’s books would no longer be published because they 'portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.'"

Since the publisher themselves made this decision to brand their books deemed offensive.

Whenever or not books should be sold, if mein kampf can be sold then books should too.
Well, I guess I'm better off keeping a good distance form that NuScrum stuff - I'll be sticking with the original Scrum ;)

And yeah, I'll keep calling the old one just "Scrum", as it always was called, whether or not "the bible" allows me to :P
BBC news used to be so good for a long time but over the last few years it seems to be gravitating more towards advertising and click bait.
This situation quite literally is not using the government. So y’all are complaining about the non-government system working in the way you’d expect it to?

There are surely going to be more voices advocating for removing racist stuff than those arguing to keep it. One side inherently has the advantage. So without the government getting involved, what exactly are y’all suggesting?
From what I remember, Elaine was mostly killed because she stepped in front of a moving car in the middle of the night.

I’m not convinced that’s the best example, since the AI might have actually done better if it had full control of the car instead of defaulting to ‘please take over now’ mode.
It's not practical. Just like how you won't measure the distance between two cities in metres.
I agree with many of the other replies, but I would also add, perfectly serious and with no sarcasm, do not be fooled; computers do not use "math" numbers. They use what they use; machine-word bounded integers and IEEE floats most commonly, unbounded integers, some variants on rational numbers, and sometimes some more exotic things, but they never use real numbers. They're bounded to the computable numbers.

So whether or not there's a -0 or +0 in some "math" isn't relevant, because computers aren't using "some math" but very specific mathematical constructs that must be understood on their own terms. I haven't seen very many mathematical systems that have a reified "NaN" object that can be explicitly passed around as a valid value to functions. (I know of many systems that have a "bottom" but I would say bottom is usually presented not as an object you can "have" but as a property of some mathematical object. Haskell for instance uses this idea; there are some trivial ways to have or produce something that has the property of being "bottom", like calling "error", but you can't just "have the bottom value".)

Moreover, there are mathematical systems in which such things can appear. There are many exotic and interesting number systems in the mathematical world, which even a bachelor's degree in mathematics may only scratch the surface of, depending on which junior/senior level courses you take. Real numbers are without a doubt the most studied, and they do not contain a -0 (though even then you'll still see it show up sometimes as a special notation in limits), but they are the beginning of number systems, not the end.

I mention all this because it's important; it's a very common misconception that computers use the numbers like you learned in school, and it will lead to nothing but pain. The next misconception is that, ok, sure, they aren't those numbers exactly, but they're so close that I don't have to worry about it. This works as long as you don't push your floats too hard, and a lot of us don't, but also breaks down surprisingly quickly. It's important for programming professionals to understand in general that IEEE floats are their own thing. Whenever I use them I do at least take a couple of seconds to double-check mentally that the sharp pointy bits aren't going to stab me, even for simple things like adding durations of a request to some floating point accumulator for metric purposes.
> They made good cars before Elon joined Tesla

Musk became CEO of Tesla in Oct 2008.

As of Sept 10, 2008, Tesla had delivered 27 cars to customers.

That's about as "technically correct and practically wrong" as I've seen.
> the sensitivities of certain people

Can some be ignored or do all have to be taken equally serious?

Because otherwise I'm sure you'll agree there's no end in sight. You're offended by my insensitivities, I am by yours, people start making things up just to silence people they don't like etc

In this context the word lynching clearly has nothing to do with hanging people from trees. Taking those words literally and then screaming intolerance will only lead to more misery.
It was prompted by a school district threatening to boycott the publisher because of these books. Why would you make a claim about it not being prompted when you didn't do the research first?
You may as well say most of those websites are HML. Or Apache. Misused software results in slow websites.
Title should be ‘Fata Morgana sighted off Cornish Coast.’
Ask HN: What Computer?
My company has everyone use MacBook Pros and I’m curious what you use, both personal as well as if your company has a go to machine?
> How does make it harder to determine your encrypted partition exists?

Because it just looks like random data that hasn't been formatted.

> Having an encrypted partition in plain sight offers no plausible deniability at all to me, especially if it contains a default LUKS header.

First, I do use a detached LUKS header. The LUKS header is on the USB drive. The machine functions fine and appears to be a regular Windows PC without the USB drive, with an extra partition that doesn't have encrypted data in plain sight. It would look like random data, which to someone else wouldn't know if I did a secure wipe and that it is waiting to be partitioned or if it is just old data that has since repurposed after resizing. I'm sure they could find out if they pry hard enough, especially if trimming is enabled or if they really started to question why the supposed random data can't be recovered to produce files.
Out of curiosity, what distinguishes studying history from doing history?
BBC is free to UK viewers but ad-supported for international viewers. This seems fair to me as UK citizens are the ones funding it.
As far as I can tell, it’s just a lucky coincidence that the distortion “cropped out” the water in this case, causing an exceptionally clean illusion. Compare with other images of fata Morgana[1] and you can see how it tends to look more distorted.

1: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fata+morgana&iax=images&ia=images
There is a chess game for this machine, with AI, and no RAM pack required! (David Horne's 1K Chess from 1982): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151552
> the Karens and SJWs who make existing work disappear by having it banned from libraries and/or public marketplaces are the main enemy here.

could you provide some examples of what you are referring to here?
The bottom line is that books are being banned.

Sometimes it's because the copyright holders (which are not the authors) decided to stop publishing them for political reasons. This decision is all too easy to make when you are a massive copyright holder like Disney. The result is that these massive copyright holders can decide which ideas are allowed, and which ideas will be banned.

In other cases, these book bans are executed by large book distributors, like Amazon: https://ncac.org/news/amazon-book-removal. These are done very much against the wishes of the author, publisher, and copyright holder.

In still other cases, the book ban is enacted by a secondary market distributor, forcibly preventing one private legal owner of the work from selling it to another reader. This is what's happening here with eBay and the Dr. Seuss books.

This is a multi-pronged attack on the freedom to express and distribute ideas. And yes, it's all legal, much like the commissar control of all book publications under the Soviet regime.
I use NoScript, and the page loaded fine: if you don't load any JS there is no code to detect an ad blocker :-). (This doesn't always work of course, but it does for many websites).

Oh, and the website loaded in ~500ms with a 50kb of data downloaded. The "full version" loaded > 5MB of data in 10+ seconds.
Not so sure about that. Here’s two things you can do (assuming you’re not training huge transformers or something).

1. Test your code with super low batch size. Bad for convergence, good for sanity check before submitting your job to a super computer.

2. Post-training evaluation. I’m pretty sure the M1 has enough power to do inference for not-so-big models.

These two reasons are why I’m sometimes running stuff on my own GTX 1060, even though it’s pretty anemic and I wouldn’t actually do a training run there.

There quite a bit of friction to training in the cloud, especially if it’s on shared cluster (which is what I have access to). You have a quota, and wait time when the supercomputer is under load. Sometimes you just need to quickly fire up something!
EV rollout will require investments in strained U.S. power grids
And Apollo, a wonderful alternative client for iOS.
Underfunding and neoliberal management. There's a fair chance the government is hollowing it out to undermine public perception of the institution so they cang et away with doing away with it completely.
The power imbalance between businesses and their customers?
A simple solution to this would be for a filesystem to say "I guarantee that if RAM allocation fails, I will still be able to extend a swapfile".

In most filesystems, extending an already open file is fairly straightforward - it's usually a matter of writing just a single block.

Since this is an incredibly rare case, there is no strict performance requirement. It could use an approach to filesystems like grub which involves reading and writing just a single block at a time.
> By that same argument, schools should not teach anything that is not widely known by 100% of the parents of each kid. Otherwise, it would be discrimination to those kids whose parents cannot help. I disagree very strongly with this principle.

Not at all what I mean. I mean schools (at least primary schools) should be designed for top 80% or 90% not for top 10% or 20%. You can never get to 100% but resigning from the start and going for 20% makes no sense.

You should expect people taking math at university to be able to solve linear equations and explaining it is a waste of time but you shouldn't expect kids in primary school to be able to do the same and it is your responsibility to prepare them in case they want to pursue academic career.

If public schools teach linear equations it's ok to assume that knowledge at university.

If they don't - it's not.

It should be the same with teaching programming and anything else is just funding rich people kids education by everybody's taxes.

The whole point of common public low-level education is to maximize the number of people participating in the economy. It's much better if everybody can read and write. Whole industries are impossible without this. And so is democracy.

It's the same with basic programming and math literacy. It benefits the whole society if vast majority of people have it.

If you "weed out" 60% or 80% of population just because they happen to be born in the wrong environment or went to the wrong school - you lose massive amounts of money and economic/scientific potential. Then you have to import these people from countries which don't fuck their own citizens in such a way.
I installed it recently on a newly built pc specifically for gaming. I'm quite shocked at how good it works! The only thing holding me back from switching completely is there's some nonsense getting the xbox controller to bind to the pc vis bluetooth. If I can get that resolved I don't think there's anything else holding me back. What an amazing accomplishment!
This will hopefully shed some light on people suffering a very similar disease often described as Chronic Fatigue syndrome. Many also getting this after a non covid virus infection.

The biggest issue was the small sample size the difficulty to diagnose as there is sometimes also a phycological aspect to it. The now large sample size should help a lot in finding out what it really is.
> I think I see what you were going for, about many HN frequenters pining for the days of old. But I don’t agree with the idea that general internet users who weren’t online back then are okay with the current state of big advertising tracking technology.

Yeah, my original post is not very clear about this. I'm not trying to argue that general modern internet users like the targeted advertising ecosystem. Instead, reading through some of the discussions here -- and past discussions of similar topics -- many of them at some point feature one user saying "tbh, i think it's fine if getting rid of targeted ads means losing a lot of revenue, because the old internet did just fine without all that revenue". But "how appealing is the old internet to modern internet users?" is a different question. And it's one where, I think, HN users overestimate the number of people that agree with them. My overall suggestion is that it's good to check whether or not this assumption is getting made somewhere along the way in these kinds of arguments, because I think for a lot of HN users, it is getting made.
I don't think this is shallow. It's part of our core human being to try and propagate our genes, and there are good personal reasons for preferring this over adoption as well.

Pregnancy can make it easier to relate to the child before they're born, at least it did for me (as a guy). I have considered adoption, but I do have a fear in the back of my mind that I might struggle to love the child as my own as quickly as I would love a genetic child. Sure this might not be completely rational, but I think a lot of the decisions w.r.t. children are emotional and more value driven rather than rational.
remoteStorage[1] is already a thing. I don't think anyone's made a full Word-style document editor for it yet, though.

[1]: https://remotestorage.io
It absolutely reads like anxiety to me (except for the dermatological issues).

Feeling short of breath (short of an emergency) can cause headaches, dizziness and random pain as a consequence of breathing too much. Left arm goes numb when there's too much tension in the left shoulder. Palpitations can also be related to excessive tension in the upper body, as can the circulation issues.

It doesn't need acute stress for that, just a steady accumulation.

I hope it's not disrespectful, but this is the most common explanation, although it doesn't usually get this bad.
> they no longer want to be associated with and sell to children

Though you are largely correct, the "think of the children" angle is unnecessary to your argument and fundamentally flawed. Pornography and other materials that ought not end up in the hands of children are available on both eBay and Amazon, neither of which allow young children to have their own accounts.
You need more cooperation from the domains that do the CNAME cloaking. In fact, the CNAME just makes it a little easier to deploy -

The domain server could -- on the backend, without you having any idea or way to intervene -- notify TrackerCompany that "I now see user xyz who registered with email abc@def.com first name "john" last name "smith" claiming to be 43; he is coming from ip i.j.k.l and is browsing /blah/widget/plan.html, a page about widgets"

But the site owners don't trust the TrackerCompany with this much information. And the TrackerCompany doesn't trust site owners to be honest (they have an incentive to provide false/inflated data).

They started eith 3rd party scripts and cookies, which was a middle ground (site owners have to work harder to lie and must leave some trail if they do; trackercompany must introduce malicious javascript if they want more than was agreed upon). Browsers are making this unusable, so it's shifting to CNAME - website owners have to do a little more work, and have to trust trackercompany more; In the trust/power balance, the sites lose power and give trust (both of which go to trackercompany). But they haven't noticed yet.

So, you are absolutely right, it's just a matter of trust and convenience, which is being shifted - but ultimately, all it takes is just one call from the backend server to undo all privacy protections.
It was prompted:

A school district in Virginia said over the weekend that it had advised schools to de-emphasize Dr. Seuss books on “Read Across America Day,” a national literacy program that takes place each year on March 2, the anniversary of Mr. Geisel’s birth.

“Research in recent years has revealed strong racial undertones in many books written/illustrated by Dr. Seuss,” according to the statement by the district, Loudoun County Public Schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/dr-seuss-mulberry-s...
Unless, you know, there’s a reflective truck passing by. Or faulty recognition of lines on the road steer you straight into a barrier.
We had an extensive and wasteful discussion about this at my last company over the summer. It was absurd. The proponents of replacing every word that could potentially be offensive have this superstitious view of language as having inherent power that continues from generation to generation. They really believe that a word can carry traces of evil with it over time. Naturally there's zero science behind this.

It's a religion without forgiveness or redemption. And the high priests of this religion will never allow the language to sit they will always find new words to change and replace and shame us with.
Yep, encrypted swap space is also an added configuration and that too got hosed bad in 5.12 so that’s an issue i’ve yet to file a bug for because i’m still stepping through the kdb.

This is a dedicated data partition that LVM managed to procure a data volume that user land encryption performs on for a swap partition.
No. Ebay is not a monopoly nor does it have special legal protections.
Have you read the manifesto? The whole point of agile is to continuously adapt the process to fit your team. Following SCRUM to the letter is exactly the thing you shouldn't do.
> what's the difference between Go and Java AOT with Graal?

The thing that C/Go authors brought in straight from the seventies: utter garbage naming of identifiers.

But then again, the name of the language itself should be warning enough.
Gmail still allows imap access, although it requires an app-specific password. (Or it has to be allowed on the enterprise side with G-Suite)
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It's a bit of a shame that Valve pretty much abandoned their Steam OS/Steam Machine endeavor, even if focusing on just one component (Proton) is arguably better than just having to deal with an entire distribution.

That said, I'm routinely amazed at how good Proton has gotten at running Windows games. I've still got dual boot for some stubborn stragglers, but the vast majority of my library runs just fine on Linux.
I can remember mine too. I was four years old and VERY interested in calculators. My dad, an engineer, had bought a new calculator-like device: a Radio Shack PC-1, a badge-engineered version of the Sharp PC-1211, which see:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sharp_pc1211-tandy_tr...

He showed me how he wrote programs on it. One of them was a math quiz game.

Later that same year he bought a "real" computer: a TRS-80 Model 16, an absolute beast which could do high (for the time) resolution graphics and even, with a hard disk option, run Unix. He wrote a program in BASIC which plotted the mechanical advantage curve of a piston acting on a crankshaft while simultaneously displaying a crude, 0.5fps animation of the piston assembly. I was hooked. To keep my grubby mitts off his expensive machine, he got me a Commodore VIC-20 for my fifth birthday.
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer
I cannot speak to VR stuff specifically, I have heard of some issues with VR from lurking on other forums but I have no personal experience with them.

As for performance implications in my experience it tends to vary. Some games running on Proton run better than the GNU/Linux native ports and their Windows alternatives. Sometimes the native ports are better when compared to ones using Proton but for someone who is a "casual" I have not seen any noticeable performance difference. Of course this might not be the case if you are running on cutting edge hardware and playing the latest games.
Often neglected are the Scrum values: Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness, and Respect. Values form a foundation for success. When agile principles are ignored and Scrum values not incorporated, Scrum (or any other methodology or set of practices) can become just a control mechanism for Taylor-istic "resource management." Scrum can be a great way for a software engineering team to and operate when they understand and apply the values and use it to self-organize, deliver regular increments of valuable software, inspect and adapt.
I'd be stunned if it were this high. Absolutely stunned. The poverty rate in the US is 10-15%. You are claiming that people born into poverty appear at twice the background rate among techie communities.
None of what this guy is saying is a problem for me. I have no idea what this jagged lines issue is.

I would say this is radically not locked down. You can ssh it!

If they tried to accommodate custom “mods” it could crash their updates. I don’t want them spending dev cycles on such an accommodation.

Besides my desktop computer, this is the best technology purchase I’ve ever made. I continue to use it for practical things.
The submission title appears to be editorialized. Original title is "Open source projects: consider running office hours"

And the article talks about the purpose being for gathering feedback (think UX sessions), not for gratuitous support. Meaning that goal is for the project maintainer to draw benefits from others donating their time.

Personally I think this a really clever idea
Dang is full of shit. Why supress comments of Indians defending themselves from rubbish comments from Americans?
I've seen this optical illusion in person, with large container ships, off the US Mid-Atlantic coast, and it's really cool.

The photo in this article is fantastic. It shows an extreme example of the illusion. The ship appears to be, not just hovering over the water, but actually suspended in mid-air.

In my view, it's worth clicking on the link just to see the photo.
Long Covid is also important because understanding how it works could point to a common mechanism with many comparable post-viral syndromes and with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Our forbidden functions header is similar; it's got about 30 functions including most of the str* family to enforce the use of our safer versions.
Well it can happen if a significant enough open source project establishes a protocol early enough and doesn't get co-opted.

That or a consortium of companies agree on some sort of standard. (See the work on pc buses in the early pc days)

But you are right. When companies run under trying to get as many users locked in as possible during a paid for investors period. This model is precisely the opposite outcome expected as the whole point is to build a moat around the sales model.
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Wylie isn't the most credible witness. He got sued by Cambridge Analytica for using their IP to start up a rival company.

Regardless, this still doesn't prove the original report was correct.