skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://lukesmith.xyz/blog

Luke Smith has some interesting ideas about free software and his Linux/Vim tutorials are very good. However, he's someone who harbors a lot of racist and hateful views. Don't believe me? Watch his livestreams.

His recent crusade to get many people on Monero likely stems from him getting busted[1] for accepting a $30,000 donation in Bitcoin from a French white nationalist who donated[2] $500,000 in Bitcoin earl to far-right groups last year, some of whom were directly involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/far-right-open...

[2]: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-do...
Despite the occasional media spin, Musk isn't waging a war with regulators (the way some well-known startups are). He had a spat with SEC over his dumb Twitter shenanigans, but other than that, AFAIK, both Tesla and SpaceX are mostly on friendly terms with regulators. In particular, NHTSA ratings were always a strong marketing angle for Tesla.
I think most academics studying dark matter are pretty upfront about not knowing what it is. The theories with the most fans tend to not be very specific about the source, but agree that it's most likely an "unknown something" with mass that causes gravity. There are some theories like MOND that instead postulate that there's no missing mass, but that our understanding of gravity needs to be altered at galactic scales.

In any case, it's a placeholder, not a specific theory. There are many candidate theories, but so far they're either untestable or the tests have had negative outcomes.
America's wild housing market has everybody guessing
> The agency said it "only includes check marks for the model production range for the vehicles tested."

It seems pretty clear to me that the NHTSA just hasn't tested this version, so it won't certify them.
Fundamentals of Data Visualization Book
http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/
ClojureScript does not complete in a deterministic amount of time, on account of it being a turing-complete programming language.
Not sure what you mean by "catastrophic" but for example last year some parts of Siberia had +5ºC on average during summer.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/15/climate-...

This is not new and is getting worse.

In 2010, Russian wildfires severely impacted the worldwide price of grain which (some people argue) helped trigger the Arab spring revolts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/201...
The fact that this thing is open source is entirely irrelevant.

It's quite simple. You don't know what Github is doing privately with this tool running in their backend systems.

I still don't understand the praise and the excitement of telemetry (open or not) at all from engineers.

They may think that they are doing this 'tracing' or whatever that is, when in-fact it is still spying.

Again, can I opt-out of this 'telemetry' on GitHub? If I cannot and I did not agree to this, then this is very troublesome.
Back when I did a stint at something NLP-ish for my master's, one of the problems seemed to be that, apart from lack of code, the data was also often non-public and specific to the study. That made it impossible to compare different algorithms even as far as the results reported in the publications themselves go because the testing methodology was all over the place and the datasets used for testing various algorithms might have been all different. You couldn't really make much out of the reported results even if you believed the authors reported honestly and had their methodology more or less straight.

I suppose the situation regarding common datasets might vary between subfields and NLP tasks, so maybe I just saw a weird corner of it.

Of course the code was also nowhere to be seen.

Availability of code would of course be even more important, both because of replicability and general verifiability, and also because that would allow you to do a comparison with any number of datasets yourself.

Glad to hear that code availability has been improving.

> There are still many other problems, for example a big one is reporting of spurious improvements that can vanish if you get a less lucky random seed.

Considering that a lot of NLP is at least somewhat based on machine learning, don't people do cross-validation or something?
The issue with the piece is not 'facts' - it's the characterization of 'looting' as effectively a form of 'legit revolutionary behaviour', actions which are necessary to invoke change.

That's not a completely irrational idea and is worthy of some discussion.

The bigger issue with NPR is not that they carried the piece, it's that they likely would not have carried too many alternative viewpoints. They are 'sided'.
This isn't "lots of science" it's rudimentary software engineering...

Sending data through channels just to implement an iterator seems insane. It's not strictly lazy either...

Why do go developers reject simple patterns that make faster code?
> I kind of wish this was true nowadays. I don't have hours and hours to play anymore, and so tend to avoid multiplayer online since the playing field is heavily tilted to those who have lots of time to play.

Have you considered EVE Online? So many aspects of playing is your character carrying out processes and awaiting countdowns for hours and days – months even, even when you're away.
You've got plenty of scientists as company. There are cute names like WIMP and MOND for different types of hypotheses about what the heck dark matter actually is, or how to explain what's going on if it doesn't exist at all. Each of these is a huge headache for astrophysicists in one respect or another.
They test software changes with different beta fleets long before releasing them. So it could be that the feature is already there.

Also there’s a lag time between manufacturing and delivery, so that gives them time to do a software update if needed. And it’s possible the cars manufactured this way will have the software to support vision only from day one.
itt: The cynics all get together and comment 'wow we really underestimated how cynical we should have been'
infrastructure doesn't grow higher, but the islands grow larger, so existing infrastructure shouldn't have that much risk
Foolish comment, cherry picking random predictions (from who and what exactly, we don't know) from 30 years ago to "reduce their credibility".

Anybody with a brain knows how dumb this is.
Willamete?
I'm going to assume that the vision-only system typically works okayish in Sunny California and in more climate-wise challenging regions, not.
Tesla is ditching radar, not lidar.
Why wait for fusion when we could use fission, a decade old proven technology with risks dwarfed by the problem at stake?
Looking more carefully at the paper you posted is that the filter is filtering too much.

If alpha=beta or alpha=beta+90°, then the number of coincidences is approximately 500,000 (of the 20,000,000 tries)

If alpha=beta+45°, then the number of coincidences is only 1,500. i.e. like 300 times smaller.

Such a difference is would be very easy to see experimentally, and it is not the case. The number of coincidences independent of the angle between the sensors (with some noise, as always).

This filter is picking only the photons that have an angle phi that is very close to (alpha+beta)/2 or (alpha+beta)/2+90°.
Funny you should mention Regular Expressions. In Beads there is a complete rewrite of the syntax for regular expressions, replacing the meta characters with a more readable vertical format that facilitates comments, and offers subroutines. For example, compare the IPv4 address regular expression as done in JS:

```
(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]){3}|
```

with the Beads notation:

```
pattern octet
group or
digit // matches 0..9
set:'1-9' digit // matches 10 .. 99
'1' digit digit // matches 100 .. 199
'2' set:'0-4' digit // matches 200 .. 249
'25' set:'0-5' // matches 250 ..255

pattern IPv4
octet '.' octet '.' octet '.' octet
```

The Javascript version is extremely hard to read. I can't change the underlying engine that supports regular expressions as that is built in to the Browser runtime, but i can at least make notation friendlier.

Unified languages in the past like VB6 and Borland Delphi were beloved, and many people were productive in those environments, and clinged to them long after MS for example wanted to migrate people into .NET, because they were so much simpler.

The current complexity level that people have to endure is unnecessarily high. Never before in history did people write in 3 different languages in the same source code file (as they routinely do in JS + CSS + HTML), where they don't even agree on how comments are notated.

The current situation benefits the large incumbents like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
How do you feel about all this? Do you think Blizzard overreacted or do you think they might have some justification to their quibbles with your anti-cheat tool?
> Tesla will release the new versions (if they haven't already), the NHTSA will test the new models, and they'll grant the "check marks" again.

Shouldn't this operate in the other direction?

Vehicle manufacturer supplies model for testing, regulator either approves it gives manufacturer opportunity to fix then retest?
ML has proven to have incredibly poor results in crypto trading or market trading in general. There is paper after paper published on the dismal performance of this approach.

It seems just very unlikely.
My apologies, I think I entirely misread your response prior and responded uselessly.

I have no response other to say "That's shit". I'm of the mind that a percentage of men who are particularly homophobic are veiling their own uncomfortable position and inability to self-express within the society they find themselves, and - unfortunately - propagate. Small Islands seem susceptible to this.
Hello David! When I posted it had been a while, but I just replied to you on that-forum-not-to-be-named about an Ankidroid issue. The internet sure is making the world smaller.
I don't find iterator combinations hard to read. Especially with postfix methods.

I do find deeply nested for loops with outer variables that might start uninitialized or need to be mutable much more difficult to read.
This is akin to the ability to "de-badge" a car, offered by German manufacturers, where the manufacturer logo is visible but the specific model is not. I.e. a Mercedes SL could be a $80,000 V6 or a $160,000 twin-turbo V12 and unless someone was clued into the differences (like the exhaust pipes) they wouldn't know.

I've noticed anecdotally that in the US, most of the de-badged cars are the low end models -- people don't want to be known as driving the cheapest end of the range. In Northern Europe, the de-badged cars are generally the highest end models. Wonder if there's a deeper learning to be found there.
It is however a very good indicator that the pop portrayal is inaccurate though!

At least this is 'med life style news', arguably not really 'pop', by the time this hits, I don't know, 'ifl science' or whatever, Techcrunch for general science/medicine, I wouldn't count on 'with unstable' in the headline, or perhaps even the body.
This is the kind of shenanigans that a software company would pull. On the surface it seems like a great business decision from Tesla.
A dissident in the US and its buddies, specifically. Iceland is still "the west" and was where Snowden said he'd have liked to move, but they'd have needed to offer him asylum and for that he'd have been required to apply in person and he was just not in the right place at the right time for that to happen (since he had concerns at the time that it would have been easier for the US to lean on Iceland than Hong Kong).
Streets can have multiple names in some cities, and not always for political axe-grinding. I believe that the 1600 block of Crittenden St. NW is also Rev. Jerry Moore Plaza, after the pastor of the 19th St. Baptist Church when in relocated from downtown to the block bounded by the street/plaza on the north. And once in lower Manhattan I saw a "way" apparently named for a cousin of mine (with not an uncommon name)--but it had a companion original name.

I do imagine that the USPS will deliver to the 1600 block of either Crittenden St. or Rev. Jerry Moore Plaza, or to 800 block of either 16th St. NW or Black Lives Matter Plaza.
I do get it, using a lot of water in a very hot and sunny place leads to amazing crop results. The only issue with that is that the water they are pumping probably took decades to accumulate to that level, that strategy will just stop working abruptly very soon.
This looks a lot like baserow.io too; nice to see more projects like this opening up spreadsheet/db alternatives.
The whole point is that it's a problem that is in no single person's immediate interest to solve. Yet it's in our collective interest to solve it, long term.

That you can't understand this simple concept would be funny, except that it impacts those of us that do, and especially our children.
Surviving an In-Flight Anomaly: What Happened on Ingenuity’s Sixth Flight
But in modern science we differentiate between facts/hypotheses/laws/theories. What you're referring to is a hypothesis - and those should be replaced with a more concrete explanation - once we have it. I don't quite understand your point about connecting it to ether though. I can't think of any established theory in modern science that was completely replaced - but I'm not a physicist either.
Dynamic Dashboards and Data Analysis with Data Studio – 2021
Yes the chance of that is almost zero. Either the due is the actual users value (only profile name is changed) or this is some kind of test data being exposed.
I suppose. But they also censored “worn by fops”…
sebmellen, I looked at its repo and it's just the license? Am I missing something?
> every reasonable adult would say that driving on public roads is free, right?

No? I certainly don't. I'm constantly aware of how much we don't spend on roads.

Any conversation trashing the US for not having healthcare that is free-at-point-of-sale is meaningless without discussing the larger system.

What can I say, I get tired of Europeans trashing the US using singular metrics as if they're a meaningful reflection of policy.

You want to get into a more interesting conversation, let's talk about how the US citizenry is essentially subsidizing the universal healthcare that many other countries enjoy. That's not some political talking point, either, it's legitimate.
or if you like it outlined:

https://outline.com/L4Dsm9
Eratosthenes calculated the diameter of the Earth pretty well in 00240 BCE. Aristotle claimed it was round around 00350 BCE, and might have had a correct value, but uncertainty about units of measurement means his error could have been as large as a factor of 2, and the roundness of the earth was still a matter of debate at the time.

Herodotus died around 00425 BCE and probably wrote closer to 00435 BCE.

They were all "ancient Greeks" (and Eratosthenes lived in Egypt, so I guess he was an "ancient Egyptian" too) but that doesn't mean they were contemporary. Imagine someone in the year 04542 CE writing, "If the ancient Terrans knew about nuclear energy (as they did, and had unreliable and inefficient fission power plants and nuclear weapons), then Lincoln could have easily used atomic bombs in the US Civil War!" The timespan from Lincoln to Hiroshima was 80 years, from Herodotus to Aristotle about 100 years, and from Herodotus to Eratosthenes about 200 years. And those were very eventful centuries, much like our own.
Thank for the clarification, this makes perfect sense.
We do something almost like this, but we didn't try to invent any of the hard bits. We serialize our domain instances into JSON documents which also happen to contain the business rules as in-line SQL properties, and then project this JSON document into SQL databases as required for evaluating business logic.

Ephemeral, in-memory instances of SQLite can be incredibly powerful tools for building an extensible business logic engine.
Isn't it the writer's job to make the connection?
Was your son born 'unstable'?
Anti-science, anti-collective responsibility crowd wrong again.

Most recently on the vaccines.

How many times do these people get to be wrong? It should be illegal to be so foolish. Hurting the rest of society by your ineptitude.
> Elsewhere in this thread is a link to a separate organization called "OpenWebDocs," which appears to be an outside consortium that contributes to MDN.

Yes, that's what Open Web Docs is. It's funded by individual and corporate contributions, through https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/. The money goes to pay writers (currently 2 full time, but we are hiring 2 more) to create and maintain independent open web documentation ("open" in the sense of accessible to everyone, "independent" in the sense that it shouldn't represent any one company's view). Currently our work is pretty much entirely focused on MDN, although that's not necessarily going to be the only thing we ever work on. Our 2021 high-level goals: https://github.com/openwebdocs/project/blob/main/2021-goals.... .
I'm skeptical. No matter how good the Phoenician sailors were, it seems unlikely to me that they could have blithely sailed past Cape Bojador[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bojador Maybe if they had small enough boats to stick close to the shore and portage.

Seafaring on the Mediterranean is simply a lot less complex than it is on the open ocean. The European sailors were not able to pass this point till the 15th century CE; not saying they were better sailors, but that 2000 years later maritime technology was a lot better.

[1] I put in footnotes to point out how stupid footnotes are on HN: just past the link into the text up above, it gets highlighted and works just fine.
Can't wait for a better Firefox fork to take its place, maybe bring back browser addons

Improve performance, reduce bugs, stop tying to badly implement existing community extensions. The UI also does NOT need more redesign

Or maybe we just need a fresh new browser
Bangladesh had a GDP per capita of $1855 in 2019, higher than the Netherlands' $1835 in 1966 (measured in current US dollars) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

Naively using GDP per capita as a measure of the average level of technology people can afford, this suggests that Bangladesh should be able to employ land reclamation measures similar to the Netherlands in the 1960s, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder

There might be other considerations (such as differing geography) that make this impracticable, however.
Can someone tell me if SpaceX's tail-landing rockets are vision-only systems?

Street vehicle navigation seems at least as difficult as nailing a rocket landing.
Wait, they name mangled "push"?
It sounds from reading the article like existing cars with the radar are also losing the features though, to be replaced by camera-based solutions? (I assume to keep consistent with newer models on the road without the radar).

I may be reading it wrong - happy to be corrected.
Ubuntu LTS popularity suggests 5 year timeframe is long enough.
If people are happy with that, then why not be happy with Centos Stream which is also supported 5 years?

In all likelihood it'll be as solid as it's ever been.
I've heard a corollary to this. Kids often love to watch/read the same thing because they recognize the pattern and know what is coming up next. This gives them comfort and a routine.
> 'ether of the 21st century'

Or 'caloric' or 'phlogiston'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_theories_in_science
Updating GCC Gnat (Ada) in Pkgsrc/NetBSD
A lot of shallow, smug snark coming into the comments section from people who know what s-expressions are and I guess want to brag about that for some reason. S expressions are cool but that's just _a syntax_, there are other possible syntaxes for expressions, and it's perfectly fine that somebody chooses to embed a language in JSON rather than s-expressions. Everyone suggesting to use Scheme or Clojure or Common Lisp and dropping the meme-quote that everyone eventually reimplements Lisp are missing the fact that this language is designed to be evaluated deterministically, so it does not support looping or functions and is Turing-Incomplete, unlike Clojure/Scheme/CommonLisp.
Was 1/6 less coup d'état and more coup de grâce?
Just ask the Tesla PR team... oh wait.
I find Elon's constant over-promising and under-delivering on the FSD front to be irritating, but I confess I see my optimistic software developer tendencies in these quotes. I think in all 5 daily standups last week I reported that I thought I was going to finish the task I was working on that day ... and then I discovered another case that needed to be handled.
"i think what will happen is that people will start advocating for more and more syntax changes. think of => in js instead of function."

They won't need to start; hit the Go issue tracker to see a whole bunch of them have already been made and rejected. People have been advocating for them for a while. I virtually guarantee that of all languages, the Go team will not change their mind in response to existence of generics for them. Their bar for accepting changes is very, very high. It is not insurmountable, but it is very high.

Remember, Go didn't come out yesterday. Go is now over ten years old. We have a good idea of the velocity of changes it makes. It is low.
- Tesla is lacking radar modules due to chip shortage

- As a result, Tesla can’t make vehicles

- Tesla (as always) is cutting it close to making a profit

- Therefore, sell cars without radar

- This “profit squeeze” is corroborated by this week’s (May 27) increase in vehicle prices by $500-$2,000, the reintroduction of enhanced autopilot for $4,000 and Elon trying to pump n dump crypto again with his “crypto eco-oversight committee”
That Twitter is awesome, thanks!

I was a little disappointed in twitter marking his "happy Hanukkah" drawing as "sensitive content"