skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People don’t make better decisions when given more data, so why do we assume A.I. will?

Because humans aren't computers. Computers are much better at being able to handle processing large amounts of data than humans can.

>we are decades away from self-driving cars

Self driving cars already exist. In college I had a lab where everyone had to program essentially a miniature car with sensors on it to drive around by itself. Making a car drive by itself is not a hard thing to accomplish.

>the largest social media companies still rely heavily on armies of human beings to scrub the most horrific content off their platforms.

This content is often subjective. It's impossible for a computer to always make the correct subjective choice, no humans will always be necessary
Atrium It's time to be honest. justinkan
Fair— I kind of picked one at random. Obviously part of the point of that dude's effort is that this is a difficult thing to get numbers on. Here's some other coverage around responses to a planned vacant unit tax:

https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/02/real-esta...
> If it hasn't been published in nature or Science and passed some gatekeeper then the idea should be rejected?

No but if it's legit they'd take it. And yea, I expect a researcher to be passingly familiar with the most popular research journals that everyone reads. Don't you?
I feel like this is like describing GCC or Clang as "a bunch of ideas taped together". That is more or less true but also fails to capture a pretty big achievement.

Or same with v8 and SpiderMonkey. They have a bunch of different optimization techniques tuned for specific workloads.

That is, regexes are a rich enough language now, with enough different use cases, that I think it will be true for any future implementation.

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I think the articles themselves are great, but they're also pretty dense, and I wish there was a version for regex users, not implementers. It seems like people still have a lot of problems with the backtracking regex vs. regular language distinction in practice.
Authoritarianism and democracy are not mutually exclusive.
My first impression is that these are probably people who grew up reading the Whole Earth Catalogue.
I think they usually don't get anywhere, but i think its important that the general public realizes that science is a process, and one that can be argued about using evidence. I think a lot of harm comes from treating scientists like priests who reveal divine infalliable wisdom to the mere mortals - in a certain way it even promotes the crazies, since once people start treating science as Truth capital T, beyond questioning, its just as logical for them to switch to some other Truth, whether it be flat earth or whatever.
It happened right away, and hasn't improved, even after getting completely vaccinated. I'm not in the greatest shape, but I was able to walk long distances before, the only limiting factor being a bum ankle.
The censorship on vaccine talk, questioning election results, woke speak. Seems like they are ramping up aliens to be the next big thing to fear.

Google and Facebook have way more on me than a telestrator ever could. It's almost God like what they can see. They've made deals to share this with the Gov to bypass constitutional limitations.
Using Scott Adams to defend your position is … yah. Credibility destroyed.
Admiral Gallery wrote about his time in Iceland during WWII commanding the US base and it's sub hunting PBYs in the book "Clear the Decks". He did focus a bit on the humor so the serious parts sneak up on you. He did write some fiction afterwards.
Drugs are a big part.
Not much. A floating GPS antenna on a self tensioner, tablet in a housing. And some buggy code :) Good enough for swim lane mapping and preventing holidays (unsearched areas). Another system we worked with used ultrasonic positioning from beacons, very accurate and covert.
I think you're mostly right, but it's not as straightforward as 1 dwelling per household and everyone just moves up a rung. Market housing could get bought up by people who are currently living with roommates (but would like their own home) or one of the 52% of young adults currently living with their parents.[0] Those spots are then unlikely to become available for the homeless.

This is just another symptom of the major lack of housing in the US, and needs to be solved as well, but it highlights how difficult it is to alleviate homelessness when there are other casualties of the housing market as well. By all means, build as much housing as soon as possible, but some of it will probably need to be specifically targeted at homeless or poorer populations.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
Facebook should stop adding "fake news" to anything and let users figure it out themselves.
Wonderful article.
It looks like this is a web forum, that is supported by user fees rather than advertisers. That's great!

But then I look at the membership pricing, and see that it's $15 per month. For a web message board. And an email address with only 500 MB of space allocated, if you even need that feature.

Is this a for-profit venture for somebody? Or are they using the most inefficient hosting solution imaginable? Why does a text message board need to cost more than a Netflix subscription?
Rust REPL'S do exist, though I don't need it very often because the static typing allows me to know exactly what's going on with each line of code.
(Not directly related, but) The article reminds of a recent article named 'Why Go Getting Generics Will Not Change Idiomatic Go'[0].

Using functional programming in Go... just doesn't look right. Generics are useful, but won't change the whole Go ecosystem into FP. Maybe some uses of Map might make sense, but... idiomatic code will look the same.

[0]: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2955
This is a very challenging interaction. I will try to keep a very even tone in this message.

The parent's last paragraph seems to set up a strawman, an extreme that seems to me to covered by current libel laws. (Is it not? Explain if I'm wrong.)

It is _possible_ that current libel laws don't "accurately delineate that point", but I am looking for a stronger argument in favor of change.

Based on the posts here, I think that the role and power of "viral"-ity is not well understood. In uncertain situations I would like to seek a clearer understanding instead of simply turning to legislative solutions - surely the question that will come up is "where is the line" and if we can't say we're not ready for a law.

@eyelidlessness Thank you for a very measured set of responses; they are beyond my skill or patience.
Most of the nuclear tests by India was done in these regions in underground tunnels. Could this be somehow related to that?
I use vim + LSP because it's generally faster & responsive than VS Code.
The Well was around before the ubiquitous internet - think of it as a historical (but still live) object rather than a new and upcoming service
Vancouver https://bc.ctvnews.ca/10-800-housing-units-sit-empty-in-vanc...

Manhattan https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-h...

Seattle https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/luxury-apartments-whos-bu...

Melbourne https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/ghost-tower-warn...

Boston https://bostonagentmagazine.com/2018/09/11/study-bostons-new...
1> You didn't ask the question in the right place, go and ask your question over in vaguely defined other place

2> You didn't ask the question in the right way, or are on the wrong platform, OS version, etc.

3> The tons and tons of ads.
So many discoveries were untestable at the time. Most, when it was possible to test for them, were disproven. Some were not. Who can say at the time what the future will prove?

When you say "clearly" as to his motives, I might be tempted to ask you for solid evidence of his motives. I'm sure you don't have that. Yet, I believe it is possible you are right. Or not.
It's blatantly obvious that it's satire, and the link makes that clear.
I am all up for first principles thinking, which is what you demonstrated above. The problem with this approach, however, is that you have to think deeply enough to get to the very bottom of each topic. Your analysis didn't touch on the fundamental need of any democratic society to sustain strong economic growth. It's a well-known fact that destabilization of that growth nips away at democratic principles and ultimately leads to totalitarian governance. Just look a the role of economic instability in the Nazi rise to power [1].

So, yes, people may decide that we no longer want a certain type of companies. Heck, let's take it a step further - people may also decide that we want everyone to get a million dollars, no questions asked. But people are smarter than that, which is why we still have democracies.

[1] https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power...
I'm sorry. I can't do that, Dave.
#reprap, #smoothieware and #kicad are all on Libera now

edit: I see kliment beat me to it on 2 of those :)
It didn't happen to me personally, but I worked on a flight simulator. Not the fancy kind which moves around but it still used hardware from the real cockpit, including the stick and its actuators.

And if the controller is not properly initialized, the stick will slam left and back, hitting the leg of the guy in the pilot seat. For men, it can be much worse...

Another bench had a real aircraft gun mounted on a turret that is also controlled by software. No ammunition of course, but it is still a big metal pipe swinging around at great speed, thankfully, that one was fenced because that's the kind of thing that can easily break bones, maybe even kill you on a bad hit.
Collapse of the U.S. military itself will occur after the American empire falls
This is the worst possible take. Yes, there are vacant homes. They are by and large vacant because there is no economic opportunity near these homes. The vacancy rates in cities with high homelessness rates are at or below 1%. Yes, there may be more homes than homeless in these cities but "the homeless that currently reside in a locale" are not the total extent of the stakeholders that may want to move in our out of a city.
Isnt it the quality of ideas, willingness to participate, and other 'cyber' qualities that make a site like that what it is?
Attention whores, all of them, doing it to feed their pathetic dopamine addiction and mask their own lack of accomplishment.
This is true. At the time, there wasn't really a distinction between science and philosophy. In fact, what we call science was called natural philosophy in those days. Newton's Principia is "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," after all. Philosophy still exists around science at the edges (for example, questions about mind-body dualism or consciousness or even the criteria for mental illness, not to mention various interpretations of quantum mechanics or probability, often involve philosophical argument more than scientific measurement these days).

But you're entirely correct that even in those days, Aristotle wasn't some sort of incontrovertible source of truth for natural philosophy, but someone who should not be cast aside lightly.
This is the most stereotype hn comment I can imagine.

Why does your goal have to include putting them in some weird spot where youre holding power over them to teach some "entrepreneur mentality". Most of the temporarily homeless population is embarrassed to ask for money, just treat them like an adult if youre going to offer help.
I think that value for the charging speed is really important enough scale.

Meanwhile, there are a few ways to view battery charge:

- miles of range remaining (the default)

- ideal miles of range remaining

- percentage.

Turns out, percentage is a much more rational way to view battery charge. Charge to 70% or 80% is absolute and graspable.

Charging to range is variable and not really that helpful. Maybe if you are a really consistent and conservative driver it would work for you, but I've found it to be unpredictably inaccurate and leads to confusion.
OTOH, Asimov definitely got the importance of miniaturization right in that series, though he mostly applies it to things like force fields and the like, rather than computing devices (other than the tools psychohistorians use).

BTW, you may enjoy Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis. Well worth reading, it adds quite a few interesting and plausible embellishments to Asimov's conceptual framework.
I don't think that "we don't need to build more housing" follows from "we have more vacant houses than houseless". It seems like the implicit assumption there is we have the ability to move all the houseless to those house, but that sounds really unlikely (albeit an extremely interesting project if it's tried).
To play a bit of devil’s advocate, “beating China at Not-Being-A-Repressive-Dystopia” requires ensuring China’s influence in the world is minimized or contained. It’s hard to beat them if they take over, in other words.

(Note that this also requires defeating the same kinds of forces domestically.)
> A cordless handheld drill is hardly a tool that most people would call 'hazardous'. You turn the trigger, the thing rotates, grab the chuck and you can likely stall it. But that much energy in something driven by code is extremely dangerous, it's waiting for any of who knows how many conditions to take off, a common one is that putting your hands in/on something that seems to be not moving can 'make' a sensor and the machine will take off.

A friend needed a valve cover gasket changed on his Honda, and his wife needed to use the car for her Uber runs that night. He came over and instead of our usual hand tools I put a socket adapter on my 20V drill to speed up disassembly. I handed the drill to him and told him "start on the lowest torque setting, and move up in small steps."

I turned around to grab more tools from the toolbox. A minute later, I heard a loud noise. I turned to see the car's windshield cracked and a shocked look on my friend's face.

My friend was used to his renter's power drill. He hadn't anticipated how much torque a modern contractor's drill outputs and set the torque to the maximum setting. On the third valve cover bolt, the drill had caught on the bolt head and spun my friend around, smashing the battery into the windshield.

There's a piece of paper taped to me toolbox called "List of things <friend's name> may not attempt unsupervised." It gained a couple of entries that day...
He's concurrently the chief legal officer, but his role as president is to negotiate with governments.
I would have allowed HTML to actually mark up hypertext, you know... annotation. You shouldn't have to be able to write to a page in order to mark it up, just specify its URL, and layer on top of it.

Provide a way for linking to multiple URLs with a single link, to provide backups.
Yes, I was relying on your statement that they were all 16 bits; adjust appropriately otherwise.
The author talks about "Computer Organization and Design, RISC-V Edition".

Is the book worth a read even if one read the other (and older) edition of the Patterson book? Can I sufficently learn RISC-V from it, or is it used as mere "reference" architecture?
(It's already happening in current times;) China recently made a movie star apologize in public, to say effectively, 'Taiwan is not a country'.

I don't care what the name is, but that island just a little bit off the coast of the big country known as China, should be recognized by the UN and member nations as a sovereign nation.
Yeah, I have been wondering the same. IMO the project needs a FAQ entry about this.
Are they going to apologize to all the people they did that to?

Because they should.
Can anyone estimate how much it would cost a scrappy private company to provide similar services sustainably? My guess is that it would be far less than $2600/m.
Housing prices in my area have literally doubled in the last 5~ years. Sitting on a house doesn't look so bad with those returns. At the same time flipping is also a housing investment method that inflates prices while often diluting the quality of the housing market, as it's often not done properly.

Let's also not forget the housing crisis saw a lot of money pouring into bad investments. Assuming people only make wise investments is naive. The market is crazy right now with people paying over asking and waiving inspections. A lot of people are going to ride that train over the cliff.
>Isnt it the quality of ideas, willingness to participate, and other 'cyber' qualities that make a site like that what it is?

Maybe, but different demographics produce ideas and conversation of different character.
> cheaper units never flow down to the bottom of the market

“Never” is too strong.

It happened to me in New York. I negotiated down my rent on account of nearby buildings with better amenities opening at slightly higher but similar enough pricing, net effective.

Meanwhile, Brooklyn and San Francisco were busy blocking all new construction, thereby forcing their restaurant workers to compete with millionaires.
A ranger stumbled upon one of the largest fossil finds in California history
> use canvas to render the video, grab the hex value from one of the purple pixels

I suppose that makes yet another fingerprinting method.
If the line is flat then how do you know which way it's facing?

Snark aside, I haven't noticed it. Examples would be interesting.
The title of the piece is:

"One Author's Controversial View: 'In Defense Of Looting'"

To the extent that they identify that the view is labelled with the editorially appropriate moniker: 'Controversial' - I'm glad that people have a chance to speak their minds.

'Covering' a book or a perspective is not overtly 'promoting' it.

If they're drawing from a wide perspective (they don't quite though), then this would be a good thing.
Same in Seattle, my block has a 2017 constructed home that has never had occupants, owned by a non-resident from China. He owns at least a few other empty new homes in the inner suburbs as well.

About once every 2 weeks his son pops by to make sure the house has not burned down or had a pipe burst.
GCC and Clang have phases that communicate synergistically. If I'm working on instruction scheduling, I can get the benefits of an upstream pass that did code motion. Conversely, if I'm working on a backend for x86, I can both share benefit of the front-end generic optimizations with an ARM backend [ edit: and not be concerned about what's going on in the other backend as well ]

By contrast, both Hyperscan and RE2 have a tendency to just throw different, well understood techniques at the problem of matching regular expressions, without necessarily getting much decomposition of the problem. Hyperscan goes further but at great expense and complexity - and many of the decisions we made are very "one size fits all".

One of the consequences of this is that the regex vs regular language distinction you speak of tends to pop up aggressively and annoyingly, even when there are perfectly good possibilities for a solution that integrates automata and back-tracking based matching. RE2 handles this by taping back-tracking to a automata-based approach, and Hyperscan doesn't solve this at all (unless you count Chimera, which tapes libpcre to Hyperscan).

Users probably shouldn't have to know about the underlying engine, but the other problem of the idiosyncratic nature of all of our 'taping' jobs is that each system has weird corners that users can wind up suddenly finding out about (and often can't really control). My dream library would allow users to indicate which tradeoffs they want (potentially telling them to "go away" when they ask for the impossible or unimplemented; e.g. "I want fully general backreferences, streaming and fixed-sized stream state").
I find his arguments very difficult to square with this article from 2015[1].
The prologue of [2] also paints a pretty compelling picture of how this might happen.

Also

> We don’t live in the world of Neuromancer and we never will. 99.9% of everything is mathematically invulnerable to hacking.

Seriously made me chuckle.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligenc...
On the topic of naming, there was thought put into it...

> With accelerating conviction that we would build a company to do this, we needed a name — and once we hit on Oxide, we knew it was us: oxides form much of the earth’s crust, giving a connotation of foundation; silicon, the element that is the foundation of all of computing, is found in nature in its oxide; and (yes!) iron oxide is also known as Rust, a programming language we see playing a substantial role for us. Were there any doubt, that Oxide can also be pseudo-written in hexadecimal — as 0x1de — pretty much sealed the deal!

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/12/02/the-soul-of-a-new-com...
That seems like solid evidence that vacancy is not the problem in the least...
Those houses are empty for a reason.

Usually they are where there is a housing surplus, because population in the area has declined.

I predict offering the people in my Oakland neighborhood shantytowns housing in abandoned rustbelt towns will not find many takers.
> Sitting on a house doesn't look so bad with those returns

Those returns are underwritten by voters rejecting new housing. If that political landscape changes, the incentives for landholders evolve.
I wrote a layoff database for Nortel Networks from ~1998 to 2001.

The way I got my notice of termination was while I was running some tests on the production database and needed a "negative" so I searched for a userid that was not present in the database: my own.

When I saw my name in the list I called my manager and asked him what was going on.

He said "Alex, why don't you head on home for the day and I'll call you there"

I wouldn't say "hurt" though. Nortel went bankrupt and I got a great severance package.
Wasnt there an rfc recommending against the use of X- prefix headers? I guess that didnt hold
I think more pressure needs to be put on the developers in these big tech enterprises. I think the problem is that it's cash and cachet, not fear and torture, that blind them to real human impacts of what they are doing in their day job.
> Exposure to high voltage can cause asystole directly

Yep. This is what defibrillation is. When you use a defibrillator, you're shocking the heart into asystole in the hopes that it will restart itself. Shocking an already "flatlined" heart will not restart it, contrary to what many movies would have you believe.

> The SA nodes are particularly vulnerable; patients may effectively give themselves an SA node ablation

This I did not know. Wow!
General Motors exec: Warming climate calls for shift to electric vehicles
There’s an easy litmus test for news organizations - words. Do they use Latino or Latinx, for example? Illegal alien vs. undocumented immigrant vs refugee. Sex vs gender assigned at birth (usually when talking about a trans person).

NPR used to be fairly centrist, but these days they’re far to the left. If I turn on my car there’s about a 9/10 chance my local station will be talking about some form of identity politics.

That’s all the radio, though. I believe they at least try to approach the center in their online articles.
Another company leaves CA. Who will the politicians tax to death to make up for all the flight out?
Jay Horne's Bubbles
He has already turned over a lot of responsibility. I totally understand why he wants more freedom of his time. Why keep working and die in harness (like an old work horse).
UT Austin already exists and is a top CS school? Why would it need to be Stanford?
I imagine the main reason nobody does this is due to the minefield of legal issues, being accused of exploitation, etc. Not to mention the personal safety risk of your staff, and so on.
$0.20/megabyte for overages on web bandwidth, too. Ow! Better hope your home page never makes the front page of HN. :-)