skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I think they're very different languages for different purposes. It's trying to replace C/++, and in those languages you do have to pay a lot more attention otherwise you'll have the occasional use-after-free or unchecked memory leaks etc. They can be extremely problematic and for a human it's impossible to catch everything.

Rust helps lift than mental load because if you're in safe rust then you knows the compiler will catch these problems for you. It also makes quite explicit when you're on the stack or heap.

I also love the explicit mut keyword makes functions very easy to reason about. In Go I find pointers being used for three purposes, to act as a reference, to act as an optional (nullable) or to act as a mutable parameter, and it's impossible to tell which by looking at the function signature and I can't tell you how many bugs that's caused in our codebase
They mean relative to SpaceX. Within their respective fields, it seems like SpaceX is much more ahead of the competition than Tesla is.
For me it is the teacher's fault, given that a large majority never teaches anything related to debuggers.

So we get generations that use vim and Emacs like notepad, create Makefiles by copy-paste and barely know gdb beyond set breakpoint, run, step and continue.

Using C as example, but feel free to extrapolate to another language.

And no I am not exaggerating, this was the kind of students I would get into my lab when I spent a year as TA in 1999/2000, and naturally would have to get them up to speed into good programming practices.
Fascinating read - I must confess I only made it through half at the moment.

I used to play Crusader Kings 2 and there was an event about a “Hole from Hell” which was essentially a bottomless pit. I always assumed that was just a made up thing to add variety to the game. Apparently it’s no so far fetched?
I thought it was a poorly forecasted demand shortage that led to a supply shortage, since auto manufacturers reneged on their purchasing a year ago.
Doesn't it make Facebook illegal?

It causes people psychological harm and uses AI.
They would need to stop doing those things to EU citizens, I guess.
I hear what you are saying now. I had trouble because I don't agree that hoarding Bitcoin and hoarding dollars ate the same. What if two people own all the Bitcoin? How does Bitcoin obtain it's value? I'm trying to understand it, not advocate an opinion.
How much should that digital content cost then? Make a DVD once, never think about it again. To offer digital copy that loses no value over time and must be available forever seems like a bad deal from the publisher's side.

To offer a one time download code seems far more tenable.
If it makes you feel better, Hulu is capped at 480p outside of Edge or Chrome on Windows, and Safari on the Mac.
Hear hear! I wish one day the dev community will understand that its never about the tools and more about the delivery. The customer does not give a monkey if the backend is node, go or PHP. You do not impress anyone by using React, redux, amber, angular ... etc. All people care about is a solution to a problem they have.

However, from my experience, this is not a popular opinion among developers.
RCB Lose and I Too?
A fun read!

> Therefore, it might not be surprising to discover how often legendary bottomless holes have a demonstrated bottom that people simply chose to ignore.

> Even Thoreau’s famous Walden Pond was rumored to be bottomless. He recognized the rumor as a folklore motif common in New England. He succeeded in measuring the depth himself at 102 feet. The locals ignored the finding.

> Soundings in 1896 found a bottom just 20 feet below, but the legend of the pool as supernaturally deep continued. Facts can’t ruin a good story.

Speaking of which: I'm reminded of this image, captioned "Lake Baikal is creepy deep." https://twitter.com/futurebird/status/1381476991975759894/ph... And indeed, the image is somewhat unsettling, though I find it so not for its depth alone, but also for its narrowness (which isn't real BTW). Perhaps claustrophobia and thalassophobia amplify each other.

> [Houska Castle in the Czech Republic] was supposedly constructed in the middle 13th century to surround and cover the hole to hell that had spontaneously formed. … Prisoners were put into the hole and were promised release if they could climb back out.

The SCP creepypasta format is much older than I expected.
Governor of Ohio torpedoed that route IIRC
Also needing to use a particular text editor to use a decent debugger is bananas.
Thanks, appreciate the shout-out.

I'll give a little background how that came about. At the time, I was promoting the use of Rust within Fuchsia. The team was largely composed of badass C++ programmers, who of course were very familiar with reasoning about programs in terms of exactly how things were laid out in memory. The official Rust documentation was at a more abstract level with respect to a lot of this stuff, in many case careful not to overspecify because a lot of the details of memory layout are not normative and may in fact change. In explaining the most common and important Rust data types, I found these kinds of diagrams useful, and it grew into the page you see there.
Some light reading, if interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto

I think Atul Gawande is a talented surgeon, but an even more talented writer. He makes talking about the hard questions in medicine and health a lot more approachable.
You fail to account for change, and time.

As functional languages often do. /s

Tuples have coupling order. That's a fact. So if you have tuple [a, b, c, d], then you can maybe extend this by adding ...e, f] at the end, if your parser can ignore extraneous items.

But even if your parser can do that, you still can't remove b without BC breaks, because then the rest get shifted, and you have a mess.

This is not a problem when the tuple exists only in the confines of some singular unit of code, that gets refactored together. But if it escapes, you have a problem. Because over time, you'll want to change this tuple, and you can't refactor the entire world at once (which is more often than not the issue of functional programming and why it can't scale well).
I guess the way they mean it is not about playing. It's about how, as your eye moves from one tom to the next, you see the bottom of the tom's shell getting lower.
That’s true and what I assumed of summary. Although toggle buttons are fairly useless in plain HTML without JS, which is why checkbox is the more obvious semantic analogue outside the shadow DOM.
I don’t understand the idea of terminating entire accounts anyways. All this companies need to be able to more finely disable access if needed. It’s gotten really bad now that your personal accounts can end up being tied to business services.
A term I haven't heard since reading All Creatures Great And Small, where the local knackerman c. 1930 was described as a walking example of the hygiene hypothesis: surrounded by dead animals, and in the peak of health.
open Chrome task manager (shift-esc), what is loaded in that one tab? does this thing have associated service-worker? heavy on js? webasm? multiple workers running?
Railroads haven’t had mail contracts since 1970s
How do you let go of the things you want to do? I like to think that my side project is something only I could do, that the world needs but doesnt know it yet... so the thought of giving it up sends chills through me.

You seem to have a really nice outlook on things so I'd really appreciate any hints on how to reconcile this and get to where you are! (I dont have any kids yet)
We tried that initially and there was just a bit too much friction involved in them finding the zoom link and then joining and then getting their mic connected and everything. It was easier to just have them join the meeting in the beginning and be muted so it was ~5s for them to hop into a convo.
It's not controversial, it's just Google's search engine has become extremely complex and there is a lot of manual intervention going on already. It is very convenient for them to say they want to keep neutral but it doesn't work this way.

To use your analogy, imagine a wave of murders done only with a specific brand of hammer. As the CEO of the company manufacturing these hammers, at the very least you would want to inquire as to why your hammers were used and if there are ways to modify your product in order to avoid this kind of hammer misuse of your product in the future. At least any decent person would do that. On the other hand, you could argue in the world where the so called "shareholder value" is the ultimate reference, the CEO would see it not as a misfortune but rather an opportunity to sell more hammers.
I think cameras and computer vision are better than LIDAR but the issue will always be the hardware supplied.

The computer for processing the cameras will probably be swapped out a couple of more times before the cameras need to be swapped. The question will be if your 2018 car will get FSD in 2035 by having all of the hardware replaced instead.
Interesting. Other estimates had put it in the “upwards of a year” territory [1,2] so to me this 6-month estimate seems optimistic.

Samsung only recently (end of March) got their fab up and running close to production levels. NXP was a bit faster on the draw, but even still there are likely to still be more issues than normal.

At the end of the day, not much to do except hope for the best and expect the worst.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/global-chip-shor...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/13/intel-c...
Likely all that would do is cause them to stop letting people buy content and push everyone over to subscription services -

Beyond that, there are problems there. What’s stopping me from getting all the latest games on iOS, latest movies as they come out then after a few years spend some time purposely breaking TOS so I can get it all refunded.
The SALT deduction was in place because people are being taxed TWICE. It's very simple. They are taxed on their income by the state, then taxed on that same income by the feds. It's unjust. You can argue all day long who the tax impacts, and how they're all rich or whatever, but that doesn't change this simple fact.
What astonishes me is the abject lying happening by folks such as the Heritage foundation. Check out this obviously false statement: "Double taxation occurs when the same income source is taxed twice by the same level of government." Huh?? What does the level of government have to do with anything? How about this gem: "Double taxation does not occur when your income is taxed at the state level to pay for state projects and again by the feds. Taxes at all levels of government should be lower, but this does not mean the federal government needs to subsidize state taxes and spending." Really?? It's astonishing to me how these people lie, then lie some more, then fabricate with straight faces. Check it out: https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/5-myths-about-the-...
> If we one day build AGI that doesn't skip and dance and draw and make up silly stories for the fun of it, that will surprise me a lot more than the other way around.

I agree, it would be sad if AI wasn't able to play with human culture. Culture is crystallized intelligence.
Apple is strong enough to offer iTunes music without DRM, so I'm not sure why you're letting them off the hook here. They could do it, they just choose not to.
Having just driven a brand new VW Passat that had a lane "assist" keeping that tried to jerk the wheel without so much as a beep multiple times, this sounds like the perfect way to describe it.
Selling comfort increasing drug as a cure for a disease is a fraud and one of the most unethical things you can do.
Not so much if you live in North America. There are a few plug-in options, but it seems like the good ones are staying in Europe and Japan because in 2021, the big automakers still don't think there's a market for EVs in the Americas.

Tesla does see a market in the Americas, so they actually sell cars here. That gives them a big leg up, even among people who don't like them.
Since I hold the more correct stance that these saas products are full of shit and can instantly disappear, I never dared to interpret “buy” as buy to own forever. To me “buy” on prime is “the other more expensive rent option when the cheaper rent is not available”.
The book does cover a lot of basic Javascript material, as its target is actual natural scientists who may not have much experience with the language, but towards the end it does cover things like Data-Forge (which is a data science library in Javascript)
I like the ingenuity of your idea here - my only thought was if RFID readers could detect/register tag information quickly enough to make this work.

You could generalize your idea to a more normal case of 'mix balls of {METAL/MATERIAL} into pavement and equip cars with sensors'

Clever.
Surprised that causing physical or psychological harm (in any way) wasn't already prohibited.

Isn't this just language to make the law more explicit?
Apple got the RIAA to go along with it, they definitely could get the movie studios to if they wanted (the pirates already broke Netflix, Amazon, and Disney's encryption, it's not helping anyway).

I think the bigger problem now is that people don't buy enough movies for anyone to want to chase this down, and if you want to own a movie, 99% of the time I can get the Blu-Ray+digital version for the same price of the digital one, and then the license syncs to like five different video services. And if they all ban me, then I still have the Blu-Ray.
One thing to remember about this book that is easy to miss is that it's not a memoir or autobiography in the usual sense. You may have seen this book, and its sequel, What Do You Care What Other People Think?, described as being "by Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton" or "edited by Ralph Leighton" or "as told to Ralph Leighton". It turns out that it was not written as a book, but his friend Ralph Leighton (son of the physicist Robert B. Leighton) took several hours of (recorded) conversations with Feynman talking to him, and selected parts of them to go into the book.

So although the book is sold as "by Richard Feynman" (which is true in some sense: it's in the first person, published when he was still alive, and he really did say everything that's in the book), it would be more accurate to call it a book by Ralph Leighton, and an appropriate title may be "Things my friend Richard Feynman told me about himself that I thought were fun". (This also explains the subtitle "Adventures of a Curious Character"—this is not Feynman calling himself that, but Leighton describing his friend that way.)

Now consider that (1) Ralph Leighton was not a physicist but Feynman's "close friend and drumming partner", and (2) Feynman was a natural conversationalist, automatically adapting his style depending on whom he was speaking to, whether it was a friend, or undergraduate physics students, or he was talking about computers to a New Age crowd at Esalen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA), and you have this result. The friendly conversational style increases the appeal of the book and gives some insight into the speaker, but the technical detail of Feynman's core work, which was very important to him, gets diluted.

(One of my professors disliked the book for giving the impression that you get a Nobel Prize just living a life of having fun and playing around, while in fact Feynman was known to work very hard, at all hours of day and night. He liked to re-derive by himself anything he learned till he was satisfied he understood it, and that took prodigious amounts of pen-and-paper calculation. This may partly be Feynman projecting an aura of effortless brilliance, but I think it's more likely a combination of the fact that hard work doesn't seem hard if you enjoy it enough, and that going in detail about how hard you worked does not make for very good conversation.)

It is true that many memoirs are written this same way (dictating to someone else), but I think this book shows the effects more than most: including the selection of topics, as you observed.

(BTW the audio material that went into the books is available too, as "The Feynman Tapes", and listening to it may give a different impression than listening to an audiobook of someone else reading the text of a book itself transcribed from audio: https://kongar-olondar.bandcamp.com/ )
I agree that inheriting the `this` for arrow functions is beneficial. To me it seems like you would want to use the normal syntax for global functions for hoisting and to prevent unintentional re-definitions, the arrow functions where you would use lambda functions in other languages, and the class method syntax for methods.

side-note: Most of my JS experience is writing userscripts for myself, so I definitely do my share of 'this' shenanigans.
This line of reasoning is why we have invasive drm that doesn’t work. It’s just another case of drm only hurting legitimate customers and not stopping piracy even in the slightest.
Its not deceptive/contradictory, technically, close to level 5 can be level 2.
The problem is more the licensed content such as movies and music. They likely can't provide it to you in a format sans DRM. So even having the option to download the file, will likely require the media to verify online to unlock at playtime.
Yeah, you might rationalize it that way but the fact remains for the avg European those brands are pretty solidly out of reach. No one said there was no one who can afford them.
> Why do we do things that we consider important?

Fundamentally, to survive. To self replicate. We're self replicators.
> Maybe this is a different class of "ownership".

Except IMO this class of "ownership" should cost substantially less because you get much less value.
I thought of writing a Javascript + tensor flow.js + NLP + web scraping + linked data + etc. book about a year ago. tensorflow.js is especially very cool: well documented with great examples. In fact, it was the great tensor flow.js examples and demos that convinced me to not write the book because I didn't feel like I could do much value add on that subject.
Apparently forcing him to use a lawyer to proof-read his tweets wasn't good enough.
> you need to replace every backslash with eight backslashes and then it will work.

Eight? Eight?

Good Lord.
I have no idea how they can legally get away with this. Seriously, how is this legal?

Charge $10k for pixie dust. Even for SV, this is an unbelievable abuse of consumers.
I find this strategy very close to the lean startup model (MVP). Go to market with something you believe is better than what’s out there early, have rapid feedback and iterate.

Feels like a risky bet for Waymo and others to reach level 4 or 5 only in a limited environment, you might end up with so many untested assumptions
Arriving at Penn Station has benefits if you're traveling for business. Hailing a ride to get to an office within 15 minutes beats the long ride to get downtown from one of the NYC airports.
The Amstrad CPC has been cloned
I haven't seriously looked into it, but won't Orbiter be better than FlightGear for trying this?
For media, Amazon is platform-independent for music, books and movies.
But you'll still end up having fun. So a win, whatever the "outcome". (If such a thing matters then you're probably not at play.)
Your quote stops short of the much vaguer subsection (c):

(c) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of AI systems by public
authorities or on their behalf for the evaluation or classification of the
trustworthiness of natural persons over a certain period of time based on their
social behaviour or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics,
with the social score leading to either or both of the following:
(i) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or whole
groups thereof in social contexts which are unrelated to the contexts in
which the data was originally generated or collected;
(ii) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or whole
groups thereof that is unjustified or disproportionate to their social
behaviour or its gravity;

Consider, for example, a supermarket chain that uses Bayesian inference to determine which products in which stores are theft-prone and need to be locked up. I think there's a strong argument to be made that violates (c)(ii).
Mystical Anarchism – Alnoor Ladha
Or because that environmental cost isn't actually large (if it were large, what would that do to the cost of agriculture and food?)
Anything up or down the web stack is possible.

Front end dev, postgres, time series database, node, data visualization ... there’s much to be done over here especially over the next six months.

Feel free to point me to links or an email if you are interested.
>subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour

Doesn’t this generally describe all contemporary forms of advertisement? Or, for any given advertisement, how would you demonstrate it is out of scope of this qualifier?

> in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm

Physical is pretty obvious but psychological harm seems slippery.

Not saying I’m against the idea, but this language seems like it needs a little work.
I would like to see planned cost of tickets. Last time I looked cost of taking rail as very close to flying.

EDIT: here's an example:

Amtrak NY to Florida: $123 to 200 (21h)

Flight NY to Florida: $69 to 97 (3.5h)

Amtrak Iowa to California: $300 (52h)

Flight Iowa to California: $200 - 300 (6h)
Another query about IRB and human subjects: In the case of software which is not only written/maintained by a community of humans, but used by a (vast) community of humans, do the latter also become "human subjects" as well in such an experiment?
Another interesting one is the Ioniq 5 sister model the Kia EV6. I find that both Hyundai and Kia are really doing interesting design, very different looking to everyone else. And the 800V operation is also quite interesting.
I expect the new 16" / 14" to have dual M1 cpus. It would solve the number of external display issue. Also, it would bump the RAM to 32GB.

Then the next step, a new Mac Pro, would have up to 4 M1 CPU's. Sounds very sweet to me.
By subliminal means?

I guess you could argue that it is abusing some peoples lower intelligence when it suggests relevant groups for them, but that is probably a stretch.
There’s a distinction to point out here. US courts enforce contract law, but the international political system is anarchic. Contractual breach cases have a venue willing to hear their case, your examples of actions taken against nation-states by the US government do not.
This article is a little light. If you're actually interested in scholarship around the topic, Jonathan Haidt has a lot of great writing around how deep seated "gut" feelings like disgust drive our moral judgements. I would highly recommend his books and papers.

The Righteous Mind is a good starting place for this topic.
I'm not 100% certain, their suppliers could concievably have been affected by the same problems everyone else has. But my impression from following Tesla's quarterly reports before and during the pandemic is distinctly that they just kept plowing on, business as usual. No changes in production or their investments for production capacity, apart from production delays due to government-mandated shutdowns.

Hard to underestimate the impact of Musk's leadership when you see that result.
There could be other ways to manage it, like specifying how long the rental would be valid for (I think iTunes started this way with movies), instead of alluding to the idea that you are buying it forever as part if a personal library.