skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to be talking about eugenics

I'm talking about having a healthy sense of self-doubt.

History shows us that the imprimatur of science is used to advance hubris-driven, pernicious social ideas of a time.

The take-away is that when you're absolutely convinced that some new trend is moral and liberating, you should at the very least try to imagine the possibility that you're not only wrong but actively doing harm.
Because by leaving on that journey you would be effectively dead to everyone you knew?
”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.“ –Mark Getty, founder of Getty Images

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Getty
How much can you really taint a brand that just went successfully through 75 years of being the odd Nazi propaganda set piece that somehow nobody bothered to stop?

My bet is that it's an April's Fool with the twist that it's technically true. The name of the subsidiary that handles importing and the local factories just doesn't matter that much. They could rename that org to Ford Prefect and still go on selling cars under Volkswagen brand. It's a stunt to remind the public that they have BEV now and releasing slightly ahead of the date increases press coverage.
Aren't they reacting wrong to the DMCA complaint?

Shouldn't Cloudflare have some form where SteamDB could state "we don't infringe on your copyright" and then it's up to SEGA to take this to court?
Sega was the top ranked publisher of 2020. They aren't a patent troll at all.

https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-is-metacritics-top-ranked-publi...
Incidentally this also applies to quantitative easing with similar outcomes.
I really am starting to truly and deeply hate all media. For years we had stories about how the world population was going through the roof and the world was going to end. Now it is that we aren't having enough children and the world is going to end. I bet if we removed the NY Times from existence the world would not end, any takers??
It could be, there's a place for comments on the image posts, but I rarely see any actual discussion.

It might be nice if there were a way to filter by number of comments.
The casual talks and connections made when lining up can be great, but it feels oddly inefficient. However is hard to make that connection virtually even if apple did something online to help this
Gasoline will always come from dead dinosaurs and plants but electricity doesn't come from 100% coal. And the ratio dropping changing fast as other forms get more inexpensive.
Their brand isn’t tainted in the US at all. You’ll see the Atlas everywhere - 160,000 sold in the last 2 years. That’s about half of Ford Explorer sales and about the same as Chevy Tahoe.
>> better performance than the government allowed

My understanding was that this performance came at the expense of more pollution, which is what the gov is regulating?
The same plan John Kerry went for. It's a tremendous strategy. If you can't earn it, marry it.
Or on purpose before the news gets inundated with other stunts.
Fungrim: The Mathematical Functions Grimoire
If I remember correctly Tesla already has plans to incorporate their next gen batteries into the structure of the car
Here Come Hot Desks and Zoom Rooms. And Holograms?
For what it is worth, I have found that the STUN protocol is also an option for discovering this sort of information. There are lists of public stun servers out there [0]. Finding a client is a little more difficult than just using curl, I grant, but not impossible.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/mondain/b0ec1cf5f60ae726202e
Improbable Worlds’ dream of revolutionising gaming is fading
title is clickbait and the article is propaganda

> Everything worth taking has already been intercepted: Our personal data, intellectual property, voter rolls, medical records, even our own cyberweaponry.

> [N.S.A] had held onto a critical vulnerability in Microsoft for more than five years, turning it over to Microsoft only after the N.S.A. was hacked.

N.S.A is gonna scare boomers into giving it more money again.
I'm not sure OP was talking about masters and chiefs (chiefes? Why does that look weird spelled both ways?).

I'm certain s/he was talking about juniors on the ships.
Also, sending wave after wave of your own men at them until the killbots reached their pre-programmed kill limit and shut down.
Absolutely. I’m not at all defending the extent to which they keep throwing more of those things out up there (although they at least seem to have a plan for bringing them down at the end of their life).
Or at least be born at the exact right time in the right country when a new market emerges.

Bonus bragging points if you're born with a certain ethnicity that has no options but to enter in that niech market because the mainstream ones have high moats around them.
Thank you gor being exhibit A

If you bothered reading the link, all of these questions have been addressed long ago by folks are are more knowledgeable than either one of us.

The rules are spesific to each language, and are especially neccesary for languages thay have several alphabets. Without this functionality, efficient search is impossible.

This silly, forcefull and uninformed critisism is exactly the kind of behaviour i was talking about.
Building a Magical 3D Button with Vanilla HTML/CSS
What you say is true - but cancel culture goes beyond this: these people actively try to get the subject of their disdain fired and go further to ensure they are no longer able to speak publicly again. That's what it means to be "cancelled." It's not ignoring you or not associating with you, it's about excommunicating you. Totally different.
I interpret TFA as saying that the space of "the hard stuff" is shrinking over time. So while I agree with you, if the space of the hard stuff is shrinking the demand for people who can figure it out will also be shrinking. A reduction in demand results in a lower valuation.
Rubbish quality of life likely means further investment into mental healthcare so someone doesn't burn out of their shitty life.

And that's assuming nothing happens (literally nothing) that sets you back. Nothing breaks, no emergencies, no health scares, no economic shocks. The likelihood of this is very low.
I felt this way when Apple removed ‘Computer’ from their name. Years later we see that it wasn’t just a name change but alignment to their company strategy.

I’m cautiously optimistic that Volkswagen is signaling a similar change in their mission and leadership’s intent to change.
Echoes of when IHOP "changed" its name to IHOB.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/07/09/ihop-changes...
I'm not sure it remains possible to 'tarnish' a brand when the general public have the attention span of a weasel on crack.
I'm super excited about NextJS releases, but there has been a persistent memory leak issue is absolutely killer for larger projects: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/15855. It's so difficult to debug, but dang, it's just brutal to deal with on a daily basis. Hoping some of these dependency reductions help.
pixelfed.org is another great platform - and it's powered by ActivityPub, so you can host your own and federate it with others.
Isn’t that an implementation detail of whatever tool you’re using for searching for files? I seem to remember most search utilities doing that already?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22357166/volkswagen-name-...

> The proximity of the name change to April Fool’s Day initially raised suspicions that it was just a joke. But VW insists that it’s a real thing, so here we are.
I’m sorry, I use that as a term of endearment. The GP appeared to me to be implying that those who work on Linux prefer convenience I was just remarking that convenience doesn’t always equal ease of use for most ppl.
No, wrong target - big enterprises have lawyers of their own. The target goal here is the 13 year old that published a fan page on neocities. He won't defend himself, the parents will pay, and that the claimed image licensing costs are way higher than what usually can be claimed in such a situation they will not notice.
If the image classifier it's training has learned that mailboxes and parking meters are the same thing, I wonder if there's any way to fix that without starting over!

Now I'm wondering about adversarial responses to captchas that would make unrelated objects indistinguishable to the AI...
What math, anyway? Knowing what a Gaussian is? There's really surprisingly very few math in the whole field and people even refuse to put things in mathematical terms if at all possible.
Supermind – generative customisable music app (free and iOS only)
Hi everyone, we have been working on Supermind for the last year.

It is a generative music app that helps you sleep, relax & focus by keeping your mind in flow while its being played in the background. In our app, you can customize ambient music and natural sounds and find the perfect sound environment that will blend with your surroundings and remove all distractions.

We currently have 12 customizable soundscapes and will add new ones on a weekly basis. The app is currently iOS only, and it's free to use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1517580747

Any feedback is more than welcome. Also, feel free to subscribe to our newsletter to get regular updates on the new features and music we are releasing. www.supermindengine.com
Isn't it the user agent's job to support your preferences?
This is the fundamental misunderstanding of science. Science is a process, not a library of knowledge. You do the best you can with the info you have right now. Every time science changes, it means it’s getting better.

Anything else is religion — wanting to have a single unchanging answer forever. That’s the appeal of religion, and in the short term it might make you feel better, but in the long term it cannot adapt and eventually is out of sync with reality.

Science always wins because it can change.
The AI is gaslighting you. ReCaptcha lets you through with wrong answers. Try it.

The only pattern it seems to block is repeatedly smashing the skip / ok button.
Should help it out by crashing into it
Luck is still subjective.

A good investor does not feel like he is gambling. He just knows industries well enough to make educated guesses that are likely to happen.

Someone else could put up the same amount of money because he overheard a tip in a bathroom. In my opinion, that person is gambling.

But really its all the same and it's all subjective.

The gambler was lucky, the investor was smart, who cares they both won.

The investor is more likely to win again though I wouldn't necessarily call him luckier.
If WV's point is that they are emphasizing their they make electrical cars, and the assumption is that those are better for the environment than all other cars, then it's fair to question that assumption. If 90%+ of our power came from zero-carbon sources like nuclear then it would be a fair point but we're a LONG way from that.
I can warmly recommend Pixelfed, it would be great to get some talented photographers on board.

However, it's more like Instagram and not really suited for uploading a high-quality high-resolution portfolio. It's also not really suited for finding photos for a project.
Pro of icanhazip.com is that you can curl it directly, it returns your address and nothing else; you don't have to parse the result to get the value, which is a big plus when used in a script:

curl icanhazip.com
curl ipv4.icanhazip.com
curl ipv6.icanhazip.com
The price to acquire voltswagen.com just shot through the roof.
Hire some lawyers, have them send a letter back that says "no" surrounded by a lot of words and wait. It'll either resolve itself or they'll win in court, either way is okay.
From the article:

She warns that the positive development may turn once ...society reopens. (Because leaving an abusive relationship) is the setting in which most domestic murders take place.

A lot of people seem to not know this: Leaving an abusive situation is the most dangerous time. You are most likely to be killed when you try to leave.

Abusers don't think you have any rights. They don't think you deserve any respect. They see you as their personal property and it angers them for you to try to take that away from them.

Abusers trend towards feeling like "If I can't have you, no one can have you."

Edited to remove gendered language from the article quote, among other things.
West Coast vs. East Coast: The Workplace War
Cancel-Culture
> "Wealth is accumulated through habits" is a great story to tell people but it seems very often to be complete BS.

I see a lot of these.

One of my favorite examples is https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ebony-horton-paid-off-22....

"How one 31-year-old paid off $220,000 in student loans in 3 years" is the exciting title.

You have to get to paragraph #7 to learn "work at your parent's charity" is one of the techniques. Paragraph #8 tells you another trick is "be gifted a condo". #9 tells you the third one is "have grandma pay your rent".
Thank you for clarifying the idea behind this tool. That is indeed the reason why I wrote this tool. I host meetings for an analytic number theory book club[1] where I use this tool to display math snippets (to elaborate a step in the book, to illustrate a theorem with examples, etc.) during our discussions. Additionally, the tool also supports self-rendering boards [2] which is useful to archive the notes taken for our book club meetings as self-rendering HTML files.

[1]: https://antmeet.github.io/boards/

[2]: https://github.com/susam/muboard#distributable-boards
Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation
aldri for sent å snu
"never too late to turn around"
I love reading articles around biology, micro/molecular biology in particular, and looking for references to agency in the text. 'selects', 'filters', 'checks', 'seeks', etc when the reality is that the whole thing is just a massive chemical reaction.
As a clarification: they are only using this for EVs.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39984/vw-says-its-officially-d...

Which is still…a choice.
Zoom only really requires 1.8-3 Mbps for their higher quality upstream video.

There are definitely cases in which a family would want more than 20, so I wouldn't call 20 more than enough. But it's certainly usable for the average family.

I've got three adults and I run a plex server for my family and my 25 mbit upload is only occasionally annoying.
I've been realising this recently, while I'm a professional programmer I only ever really learned the maths I needed for my degree and even then most of that got forgotten after I graduated beyond what's necessary for my day-to-day work. I did a bit of ML at university and I've been meaning to pick it up again but wanted to avoid half-arsing it by just learning the libraries rather than the underlying mathematical principles as well. One of the mental hurdles has been getting over this idea of "ML maths" as this black box, I've started with some linear algebra courses and while it's very interesting in its own right, it's also showed me I have some pretty enormous gaps in my knowledge!

Next time I'm between jobs (hopefully won't be for a long time) I'm going to revisit maths as its own thing, I really want to get my calculus and trigonometry up to scratch as well as things like linear algebra and statistics. It's interesting how quickly it leaves your head too, I did pretty well at university with ML but having not exercised those muscles so much fell out the instant that exam timer hit zero.
It's still called CC. I am aware of the licenses and their requirements, others who hear about the active scam will only see CC license and be alarmed. That's all I wrote above.
Archived: https://archive.is/ozGKf
ASSets!
So you havent read 90% of the article about languages with mutiple alphabets or efficient search, but you are willing to argue anyway.

Thanks for proving my point.
Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
Learn to rebuild product hunt's #1 products with no-code
Hey,
Matteo here, founder of Superbuild, entrepreneur, software engineer and No-code developer with over 10 years of experience.

Today I'm gonna start a personal challenge.
Every two weeks I’ll pick a #1 Product of the Day, and I record a video screencast of me building a related case study with Bubble.io and other No-code tools.

If interested subscribe here (it's free) https://superbuild.io/newsletter

M
You could probably also get 2x what you're making now in finance. Why do people work for FAANG companies when they could make so much more in finance? A mix of culture, technology, perks, and prestige. Why would someone work for SpaceX for 2/3 the salary? Because they're putting rockets in orbit.

The other factor is that I don't think SpaceX see software as a differentiator. They have talented software engineers, sure, but a lot will be a very different type of software engineering to the typical FAANG sort, lots more real-time and embedded software. I believe their main piece of non-real-time/embedded software is their inventory/work management application which is all on the Microsoft stack. My gut feeling, could be wrong, is that your average .NET dev makes less than your average dev at a FAANG company. The market may just not need the higher salaries.
When I was at IDEO I ran and participated in many wonderfully productive brainstorms that produced great ideas that could not have occurred otherwise. Later, at another job I tried to run a brainstorm with people who had never been in a brainstorm and it was a disaster. Like all skills, it takes practice to learn how to defer judgement and build on the ideas of others and to not be afraid to throw out a silly idea. Some of our best ideas at IDEO were silly ideas that someone else built upon to transform into a great idea. After some experience, my new group started having good brainstorms. You need some creative people who are comfortable around each other and you need to practice.
The author is a money manager, so it shouldn't be surprising he mixed in a bunch of feel-good simplifications and tautologies about rich people.

But regardless of the source of his wealth, the subject still faced the temptation of greed and didn't succumb to it. Good on you, Jack.
I find hard to believe they could ever get the cost of a rocket engine down to less than that of a small gas turbine like a PT6.

That said, SpaceX has made a habit of defying my expectations in the past.
The key parts of SN11 were manufactured before SN9 was launched, obviously it can't incorporate design feedback from that.

SN15 (the next launch) has a tweaked design of engines, but once again they are going to have multiple launches with these specific engines even if data from the first launch suggests some improvements. In fact, they had originally planned to do even more testing with this design (SN12,SN13,SN14 which had a bunch of work already done).
Media Crisis, Border Facts
At some point someone needs to sell the spot though...
Installing Blizzard games through Battle.net regularly comes close to capping my gigabit connection too.
Loose Coupling
A more concrete perspective on the abstract term "loose coupling"
if you want a 3 row suv, the atlas is like 8-10k cheaper for the same amount of car than the others. and it doesn’t look bad. they needed something bigger than the toureg and it works
So we can rule out an attack in the immediate future, and in fact we'll see the buildup for an attack with lots of advance warning. There's just no way to move around 100k plus troops and their equipment without it being observed.

China currently lacks sufficient amphibious assault ships to actually move enough troops to take control of the island. They certainly can bomb the crap out of it, but they won't have the resources necessary for boots on the ground for some time still.

They're building ships fast, but it's still something like a 15 year horizon before they'll have sufficient material, perhaps longer. At the least we can expect them to wait until the 2 carriers they're constructing are done.

Most credible analysts I've read believe a serious attempt at invading the island won't come until Xi's successor. Rick Joe is good to read on this topic. He writes for the major media outlets, as well as posting as PLARealtalk on reddit.
Alice and Bob are common placeholder names in crypto examples
Unrelated but this is Norbert’s account of meeting Albert Einstein:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150426074612/https://libraries....
So which of "inherit, marry, steal" does successful exit as an early employee fall under?
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Considering the 100% failure rate, what was he really expecting to happen?
I think a lot of people's opinions on cars continue to be based on anecdotal experiences.

I owned 2 VWs in my life, my first, a 1999 Golf was an amazing car. It felt solid and was super reliable right up until I T-boned someone who made an illegal turn and it got written off. I drove an Acura Integra for years after that and had just tonnes of quality issues where it was needing constant maintenance. As soon as I was able to, I bought another VW, a 2003 GTI which I drove with only 1 major repair (AC Compressor) in the 200,000kms I put to it (sold it to a friend at 330,000kms, it still hasn't needed repairs).

I went to a Mazda most recently, but I can't say anything about its reliability since I just bought it in December and only have 5,000kms on it so far.

But my experience, and those among my friends (I was part of a local VW enthusiast club) is that the cars are fine. But the kicker is you need to stay on top of your maintenance. If you skimp on the regular work, you end up paying for it in the end. I had to do various work on the car merely due to its age, but ultimately I loved the VW GTI. It was solid and reliable for me.
Sega has had a lot of top tier games in recent years.
About 20% of millionaires inherited their wealth. [0] (It may actually be far less than that, if you interpret "inherited their wealth" to mean "inherited over a million dollars." [1]) Almost 70% of those with ultra-high net worths are self-made. [2]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0810/7-millionai....

[1] https://www.chrishogan360.com/investing/how-many-millionaire...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/majority-of-the-worlds-riche...
I didn't realize banks like Simple or Chime could basically have "fake FDIC insurance". time to move my shit back to my local credit union.
>There is no way I am going to be able to "mine" more crypto than those who started years before me or those who have more "traditional" money than me currently to buy crypto

I have the same problem with US dollars, that some people have more than I do, but I still use dollars often.
Any chance that image is a hint at an AR glasses announcement?
One thing I really like about Online WWDC is how the material are prepared with no timing restriction. Engineers can talk as much as they want to make everything clear without being told trying to fit all within one hour. Or features that only really need 20 min and not try to waste everyone's time to fit in a 45 min slot.

I do wish the future continue to be online video, with a Hybrid in person gathering offline for all sort of questions and interactions.

Looking forward to Safari [1], if we look at their Developer Release Note there has an unusually large amount of work in the past year post Safari 14. I think they hired some of the Firefox developers to Webkit. Hopefully that will speed up certain features implementation.

MacBook Pro M1X, iPad Pro, iMac M1XX?, and Mac Pro

Edit: And you know what? How about bringing back WiFi 6E AirPort Extreme.

And hopefully some App Store policy update.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
No expertise at all and no incentive to get it right. Government infrastructure is terrible and expensive in the USA.