skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Springfield is a famously common place-name in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States. According to the U.S. Geological Survey there are currently 33 populated places named Springfield in 25 U.S. states throughout the United States,[1] including five in Wisconsin; additionally, there are at least 36 Springfield Townships, including 11 in Ohio. Database studies reveal that there are several more common U.S. place-names than Springfield, including Fairview and Midway."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(toponym)
Yeah, with hindsight I should have picked a different word.

The message I'm trying to get across here is that I've found office hours to be incredibly valuable, and other maintainers should seriously consider adopting the same trick.
It's rare, but I have occasionally seen left hand drive cars in Australia

https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/registration/register/left
The only specific version they mentioned was pulled because it wasn't annotated. I don't know what specific version you mean.

Most people wouldn't call a version with just a disclaimer annotated. I assume annotated versions of Mein Kampf refute Hitler's claims.
I wonder if this kind of tech will ruin the stock photo industry - all it takes is a recreation of a model like this with a completely open license and someone willing to host it.

"Type what you want to see and get a drawing of it" is very powerful, even if its scope is still limited.
Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Generational Garbage Collection
Not for 'Earth', the energy came from outside.

The sun hitting the planet at a given moment is on the order of 100 petawatts. Human energy utilization is on the order of 15 terawatts. It's a really good thing that it isn't zero sum.
> talk about things like “autopilot” instead of “driver assist”

As stated countless times before, autopilot in planes isn't even geared towards handing most flight scenarios or challenging conditions. Tesla is technically correct to call it this, even though this naming is confusing to consumers who think "plane flies itself" and think it means their car can drive itself in all conditions and avoid at-fault incidents - which most likely will indeed lead to more deaths.
I really miss the anti-copyright radicalism that used to suffuse hacker culture in the early naughts. The Seuss estate should have the same power to limit publication of these books as Shakespeare’s heirs would have to stop publication of the Merchant of Venice.

And if that sounds like it’s going to far can they at least have no say in the right to resale?
Sorry maybe I don't have my moral sensors tuned properly today but would you mind explaining what makes you feel uncomfortable about it?

Is it more because RedHat carries itself like a consultancy than other large enterprise businesses? Is it that the possibility of being let go after a large project that you performed a relatively specialized role on feels just about right for a consultancy, but not for a business that carries themselves like a long term player? I feel like I'd expect this behavior from Pivotal for example (not implying that they'd do that).
For a cool 1 billion dollars!?

They're going to trot this thing out for years!

How much do you want to bet they make major discoveries and need another few billion to continue the research!

Meanwhile in a year it's going to be completely out of the news and there will be infinitesimally small numbers of medical reports of it.
Does this have anything to do with CSS? Or is it just another bug in Safari? Or do I misunderstand?
> Google has promised that the vast majority of FLoC cohorts will comprise thousands of users each, so a cohort ID alone shouldn’t distinguish you from a few thousand other people like you. However, that still gives fingerprinters a massive head start.

This is far fewer bits than one's IP address (> 32), unless you're using a VPN or have some weird ISP doing NAT for its users.
Yeah that was an especially confusing part.
A short film about what happens in the programming community
It’s been three hours? Did you guys avoid getting nailed?

I met a lot of folks from Christchurch traveling and they had some stories about New Zealand earthquakes let me tell you.
My goal with Datasette is to grow a plugin ecosystem that provides a wide range of extra feature which I didn't have to build myself - so in my case I have a strong incentive to attract more users for non-vanity reasons.
i wish we could keep “comments about downvotes” out of HN. Reddit is a better place to dramatize these things.
I am seeing Python becoming the go-to language for many academics because it's easy to hack something together that somehow works.

Unfortunately most of those developers don't care much about efficiency and Python is out of the box inefficient compared to other high-level languages like Java [1] or C#. OO Java courses circulating in academia lack modern functional, and to be frank educational, concepts and must to be refreshed first.

I personally would recommend to start with Java and Maven because it's still faster than C# [2], open source, and has a proven track record in regards of stability and backwards compatibility. Plus quickly introduce Spring Framework and Lombok to reduce boiler plate code.

For advanced systems programming I suggest looking into Rust instead of C/C++.

And last but not least the use of IDE's should be encouraged and properly introduced, so aspiring developers are not overwhelmed by them and learn how to use them properly (e.g. refactoring, linting, dead code detection, ...). I recommend Eclipse with Darkest Theme DevStyle Plugin [3] for a modern look.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[3] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/darkest-dark-theme-d...
Honestly, I’m not well educated on Chernobyl’s mode of failure or political incentive structures. I’d probably agree with your implication that if procedures can’t be followed consistently/successfully than that is exactly an engineering failure, but as I said I do not know this circumstance
Makes me maybe want to revive Sleep.fm - The Social Alarm Clock... still think its a good idea.. communicating thru the drudgery of our morning alarm tone(s) with something fun & nice ... yet about 100 or so followed and none stuck.
Using AI to Identify Cancer
This is under a thread of using "guys", which is what i'm specifically referring to, nothing else. Its common use, and dictionary definition even, is a nonderogatory nongendered word. So I personally feel taking it as gendered or as disrespect is disregarding the meaning of the word, and asking me to accept whatever yours is. Just as me asking nobody to use r words is asking the world to comply with my preferences.

I'm not going to argue right vs wrong or with you directly, I'm just explaining my comment and thought process.
> this ride

Oh the places we'll go.
20 years later, looks like they are taking RFPs for re-engining:

[PDF]
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11413

I guess he was right about the engines.
Fuck Me Now
https://sites.google.com/view/meet-for-sex69/home
You mean multipart/x-mixed-replace? https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch06_06.html

I once wrote a prototype video surveillance system with that, sending multiple still images, before video streaming was a thing. 1997, that was a long time ago...
The article is terrible at describing it - and really, the entire level scale is terrible - but there is a real important distinction between level 2 and level 3.

Level 2 means that the car automates several different parts of the driving task, but that you must be ready to take over at a moments notice - you still have to keep your hands on the wheel and your attention focused on the driving task in case you need to intervene. This is what Autopilot, and the FSD beta is. You can turn them on but you have to keep your hands on the wheel and your attention focused. This also means you're legally liable for any accidents, since the onus is still on the driver to intervene.

Level 3 basically means that, in certain situations, you can take your attention off driving completely and play on your phone, read a book, etc. The car might still need you to take over in certain situations, but it will warn you in advance and give you enough time to transition back to driving. Companies have largely shied away from pursuing level 3 system because it puts the legal burden on them - if the car gets in a crash when it's operating at 'level 3', the onus is on the company, since the driver was not told to be ready to intervene.

WRT your point about how they could 'surpass' Tesla, two things:

Level 3 can be pretty restrictive - I'm not sure on specifics, but they could offer this on, say, only the ten largest interstates in Japan, and it would still qualify as level 3 self driving. The 'levels' aren't really a strict progression in capabilities. A level 2, 3, and 4 solution is really three separate problems to solve, not succesively better versions of the same system. It's conceivable to me that a legacy automaker could focus on getting this working on a few major interstates and have a system they're confident in after a few years, since they don't have to worry about nearly as many edge cases as a general highway ADAS solution.

Tesla's data/fleet advantage is overstated in their messaging. Most of the stuff presented in their autonomy day presentation doesn't actually exist (follow some Tesla reverse engineers for more info). Self-driving/ADAS is not, by and large, a data problem.
I remember a Ray Bradbury story in elementary school I read. Don’t remember the short story title, but it was an automated house that did all its chores under the reader’s assumption all the automation was happening while the owners were out at work or running errands. Turns out that all the humans were wiped out by an atomic bomb as I remember the story describing irradiated shadows/outlines of people on the side of the house.

Your comment reminded me of that story.
Try
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Christopher+Columbus+genocide...

I'm not being facetious in giving you a let-me-Google-that-for-you link (normally when one does that it's to sort of hint at someone they are too lazy to look up a technical question).

But in this case it's an honest invitation to do some basic research yourself. If I gave you specific links it could be cherry-picked links to highly skewed content to people with ideological axes to grind.

History (outside of government-sponsored and civic-minded textbooks) tends to be pretty grim and filled with bloodshed and injustice and this is no exception.

Your original comment doesn't state it's position clearly. I'm parsing it as a kind of exasperated disbelief in someone perceived to be making a ridiculous claim.

If instead this is a debate about the exact meaning and semantics of the use of the word 'genocide' feel free to ignore this.

Edit: updated link
Thanks for the link to the talk! Putting it on right now. The summary for it mentions open firmware in the generic sense; on the Sun note, will Oxide be reusing OpenFirmware/OpenBoot? It's one of Sun's most fantastic accomplishments, I think, and it would be a shame for it to die off.

I love Sun! You can never get rosy enough, unless you're talking about many of its executives in the last twenty years of its life...

I'm glad you guys are taking after Sun on the hardware part (and hopefully avoiding replicating its actions in driving SPARC to the ground with RISC-V)! It will be extremely welcome to have another contender in the hardware space!

Can't wait to listen to new podcast episodes!

And thank you so much on Spring! Any bit of computing history that can be preserved is a win for our field!
I think paying an artist is not so straight forward. The artist must set up a bank account. Now they must sign somewhere to accept credit cards. Now they must have art that is friendly to said card processor, or else you get deplatformed. Seems we found one use case.
There's always a small percentage of people who have side effects from any biological changes to their body.

People have permanent side effects from taking medicine.

It seems strange to focus on Covid specifically, when all manner of biological changes to people's bodies cause a small subset of people to have permanent side effects.
The consumers are not techsavy like Tesla or HN world. Every word used for marketing should be wisely thought or we will end up with consequences
I've often wondered why we haven't been spending some effort developing optimized test areas which integrate helpful elements for self driving cars into the roads. Obviously, we wouldn't want a car that couldn't go everywhere, but it seems like at a national level, we could implement something into the highway system that would make it easy for interstate self driving vehicles.
You have to go deeper and trace the products to the source of creation. Land, Water and Sun is limited if not by total supply then by rate of availability.

Simply by obtaining these resources others are deprived. The people who are deprived are the losers, the people who aren't are the winners.
> I find it peculiar and I'm aware "they are coming for the trade unionists next" but I think I can navigate this reality and stay out of the re-education camps.

How? I think they'll get to you next. As commenters above pointed out, there is a "long march" through institutions before it starts trickling down.
This isn’t even that theoretical. Born again Christian Kanye has expressed regret for some of his older secular music. A lot of Kanye fans live in fear of him suddenly deleting his back catalogue from the streaming services. If the major resellers of physical media start respecting the wishes of rights holders then we’ve really swung the pendulum too far away from open culture and the public domain.
PON doesn't require asymmetry. It's just a way of coupling to fiber without requiring a power.
Tesla Model X ?
So Titzer is doing philosophy here? And making a rather relevant point about philosophy’s difficulty in coming to consensus, such as whether consciousness is a physical phenomenon. So it seems you don’t have to be a certified philosopher to do it!
Who Wrote Your Favorite Song? It’s Complicated
What are the rules to this "technically correct"?

It's not even flying the car!
At first blush, it sounds crazy. I don't know how to make it workable. But in the large, tech industry hiring is super bigoted! The problem you'd be correcting is very real.
I literally haven't been to the doctor in four years, because the last time I went in for an X-ray they charged me immediately, and then later sent a bill for some more charges on the same X-ray.

My insurance and medical provider are the same entity, which I thought was supposed to avoid this exact situation.

Now I just avoid any medical treatment unless it is completely unavoidable, because I have absolutely no trust that the costs won't just be suddenly upgraded afterwords.
Lets be fair, "If I ran the zoo" is pretty blatantly racist.
entire paper on the subject here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-h...

> In 2017, the “okay” hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters “wp,” for “white power.” The “okay” gesture hoax was merely the latest in a series of similar 4chan hoaxes using various innocuous symbols; in each case, the hoaxers hoped that the media and liberals would overreact by condemning a common image as white supremacist.

> In the case of the “okay” gesture, the hoax was so successful the symbol became a popular trolling tactic on the part of right-leaning individuals, who would often post photos to social media of themselves posing while making the “okay” gesture.

> Ironically, some white supremacists themselves soon also participated in such trolling tactics, lending an actual credence to those who labeled the trolling gesture as racist in nature. By 2019, at least some white supremacists seem to have abandoned the ironic or satiric intent behind the original trolling campaign and used the symbol as a sincere expression of white supremacy, such as when Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant flashed the symbol during a March 2019 courtroom appearance soon after his arrest for allegedly murdering 50 people in a shooting spree at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

> The overwhelming usage of the “okay” hand gesture today is still its traditional purpose as a gesture signifying assent or approval. As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a trolling or, especially, white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention. Since 2017, many people have been falsely accused of being racist or white supremacist for using the “okay” gesture in its traditional and innocuous sense.
On my understanding is that level 4 is full self driving, but not everywhere. It will refuse to drive where it can't, and will stop safely if conditions change. So you can safely sleep.
I'm not sure but I bet it's perfectly legal to drive a right hand drive in North America.
at the stand-up everyone should sit together?
> I kind of wish the next generation of my family wasn't having thier young minds and perception of tech shaped by the corporate dystopia net.

My approach here is just stay off the internet. Go outside. Play board games. Imagine there was a world before computers and people entertained themselves just fine
Yes, though salaries are a factor as well.

When I ran the numbers on some offers years ago my estimate was that moving to Silicon Valley would be a financially sound decision if I lived frugally because I'd be less exposed to the high cost of living. But once you start factoring in things like owning a home, childcare, etc the salary premium compared to cities like NYC, Boston, Seattle, Portland, etc just isn't sufficient.

So it makes some sense that the area attracts young people looking to strike it rich but pressures them to leave if they haven't won the startup lottery and still want to have a family.
> Entire fucking history of USSR is littered with different power-hungry people using noble goals to chop their competitors' heads off.

Which is where I'm pretty sure the memetic tools came from to capture and wield this power over people. Where exactly? Marxism. Not it in and of its self, but along with the French Post structuralists a universal solvent of philosophy has been weaponized and let loose (and encouraged to grow) in North America... and sadly seeded to the rest of the world.

To me this looks like the end game of a small but clever team of cold war era Soviets. 1970's USA was in no way prepared to fight an idea war.

Though the country that launched it is no more, the fall out will, I fear, kill us all. How? These power game playing people will continue to ascend until they get to the top. Then, there, they will implement absurdist anti-sense anti-science policy. When? Two more generations tops. Let's say 2060, that's a nice round number, and we'll see wide spread famine and a new kind of gulag in North America.

But that's worst case scenario. Maybe it'll all fade away? I hope so. Previous washes of political correctness have come and gone. And, like I love to tell myself, from Obama's lips 'Reality has a way of asserting itself'. And these bizarre, predictable power games are tethered from reality.
There are also places in the US where schools require that book to be read.
> "How out of date was the outfit in the 1930s when the picture was drawn?"

It's kind of a stereotype of rural farmers in China. If you do a Google image search for "rural Chinese farmers" or even "Chinese peasants" you can still see the same type of grass hat being worn today. Then remember that in the 1930s the industrial revolution hadn't reached China yet; it was very much an agrarian society (much like the US a century before then) and nearly everybody was a farmer like that.

Is Dr. Seuss's cartoon offensive? Meh, it just feels dated and out of touch with what modern China has achieved, culturally and economically. I personally don't find it any worse a stereotype than what one sees today if they do a Google Image Search for "Texan", "Frenchman", or "Englishman" but YMMV.

(Actually, the GIS result for "Frenchman" is rather amusing; perhaps Google owes France an apology for being "offensive".)
Nope, he's right. He maybe shouldn't be right, but certain convenience features are still missing from Standard Library components and the language that could someday make him wrong.

It is sometimes right to hold your nose and use std::piecewise_construct.

But most usually it doesn't matter, and worrying about it will distract you from what does matter. So, push_back() unless you know you have a good reason not to. And, you might never encounter one.

Good C++ and naïve C++ are not so different. Both are much better than fake-smart C++.
> while pretending to enforce an always alert driver.

To be fair amongst automakers, not many other mass-market car is different (right now) - they only auto-steer if the user applies torque to the wheel periodically and beep at the driver if torque isn't applied every 10/30 seconds (30 seconds is only set for interstates from my experience). Only sometime this year will the Ford Mustang Mach-E get an optional $600 upgrade to enable hands-off-the-wheel driving which uses hardware (already installed) in the steering wheel to monitor the driver's road attentiveness[0].

0: https://www.slashgear.com/ford-active-drive-assist-mustang-m....

e: no other -> not many other - apparently Cadillac has eye tracking
As someone who has worked in Project Management of Bridges, Enterprise ERP transformations and everything in between, there are definitely benefits in certain use cases. It really comes down to the type of "thing" being delivered and how to deal with the inherent risk.

Agile works best in environments where the scope or execution methodology can not be discerned up-front or where it is crucial you need assurance that expectations are aligned. Your risk profile is much higher due to the number of unknowns, so a lot of time is spent doing work "around" the design and delivery of said thing to mitigate all that risk. As such, it works well for mostly corporeal endeavors such as building new software, or things that . This helps operationalize a feedback loop of try, test, re-align, try, test... etc. across stakeholder groups to help make small rapid course corrections until you get to where you need to go or abandon at an optimum time without marching like lemmings to a cliff.

It also works well in technical environments where there is a lot of collaboration and interfacing between different specialized groups. Forcing everyone to come together and be accountable for their dependencies to each other reduces those instances where blockers, compounding delays and finger pointing send things off the rails.

Estimating, assigning, controlling and monitoring, what you would typically term "earned value", in a project management sense is extremely difficult for these types of things. If the scale of work is large things naturally land on amounts that aggregate up to something useful

The two things I often see in agile projects/organizations that are often done poorly and lead to failure are:

- Maintaining a proper understanding and separation of the delivery risk (risk associated with building, creating) and the delivered risk (the risk you've baked into the "thing" by aspects of its design)

- Not allowing for or tracking risk mitigation, or how residual risk is trending

- Thinking because every project is unique that they are unique and therefore need a unique way of managing the project (i.e. re-inventing basic project management methods)

- Thinking your business is unique (it's not, less than 10% at most) and that therefore everything you do, including how you execute projects is unique (you don't).