skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me think of something I hadn't considered before - whether we'll first see automated driving, but only when the vehicle is empty. e.g., you drive yourself somewhere, then the vehicle moves on to another job. If the vehicle is privately owned, it would park or drive home for your wife to use. If part of a fleet, it would just drive on to the next request.

Cars in that mode could be constrained to a less dangerous speed to limit damage in an accident. I don't want to drive to work at 20km/h, but once I'm out of the car, I don't really care how slowly it goes.

Of course, it wouldn't necessarily work to combine too broadly differing speeds on the same roads. But it would remove a bit of the "I'm not putting on my VR goggles to do work and trusting this car to drive to the office" fear.
Don't think gzipping helped much with video data?
Well the rainbow background meme was already "appropriated", if compared to the original definition when meme term was coined. Barely even related to it, that's sort of how language works though.
Dehumanising HK people by calling them racist. I really have to ask, who is the racist here?
Here some more interesting points regarding the issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXdilrbujM
Then you also need hefty wires and adjacent infrastructure on whole track to collect all this electricity.
One part of that is mismatch between road and speed limit.

Roads designed for 30, 55 and 85 miles are completely different beasts with different lane width, straight segments length, turn radius, traffic calming elements, etc.

Puting an autobahn and plunking a 50 mph limit there is a recipe for all-out "speeding."
THe fact that Newport only rarely finds writings that displays serious thought speaks more about him than the state of the culture.
Git does too. It's garbage collected after 90 days or so. It doesn't amount to as much as you might think due to Git's data model.
“First time OBE been here”

Shouldn’t a pilot have been everywhere during training, before he takes charge?
Yes, first "deinstall" HAL, then reboot.

Then deinstall all your cpu's (if the number of cores changed), thats no joke...deinstall your cpu's (all of them), then reboot.

Update all the drivers...that's it.
Gathering more data than you have capacity to process/store.
None that I'm aware off. But Qualcomm promises to release desktop CPU soon. I don't have high hopes and it probably won't surpass Intel, but I think that it'll be competitive enough to be interesting.
They were probably spoiled. Canned beans are pressure cooked.
Some other things I rank above version control: Programming language compiler, runtime, etc. Email and similar communication tools, phone, chat, whatever. Web browser for documentation, Q&A, etc.

Some sort of basic version control is definitely important.
No, you're wrong. Study more. There are a ton of resources out there on how git works.
Yes. That sounds bad, but consuming less would actually be a benefit. Remember: reduce, reuse, recycle, and reduce is probably the most important part.
Huh, press the "Find a Server" button, I can see in Developer Console it tries to connect to random IP addresses over http, returning "address invalid" or "address unreachable", I guess until it hits a valid IP with a live computer.

I wonder if some ISP's heuristics will flag someone's computer as part of a botnet...
Comment thread [1] from post "Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor" [2] from about five weeks ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145911

[2] https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/external-protocol-flooding/
I agree, but I end up using `pull` anyway just because the alternative is so tedious. I wish there was a short command that did the same thing as pull without fetch: merge the remote-tracking version of the current branch's default upstream into the current branch.

Essentially the whole concept of "upstream" is weird and non-orthogonal. Another one that bothers me is that as far as I can see there's no way to globally turn off setting an upstream on newly created branches (I can pass a flag to the specific "git branch" command, but that's tedious and error-prone).
Unitree's Go1 is currently $2.7K. I commented on the HN thread below that if walking robots have any use/future - A company like Unitree could become the DJI of the industry and make Boston Dynamics even more of a niche player than it already is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569631
In fairness, there really hasn't been any delivery on those promises. It's 2021, people still work long hours in boring jobs and live in houses. TVs have gotten bigger and flstter and everyone has one in their pocket now. But if anything people have less leisure, disposable income, relationships or fun than they did back in the 80s...
> If you think that the judge is going to rule against Apple, in any way at all, no matter what, it means that you agree that some of Apple's actions are illegal, currently right now.

I find it difficult to believe that you can't see a distinction between what I predict the Judge might do, and what I believe the Judge should do. This is so beyond disingenuous that I'm no longer interested in this conversation. I have deleted the bookmark to this thread and will not be returning in future.
> they would try to stop it if the law allowed

What law? They locked down iPhone and law does not care. How is it different for Mac? The could've locked down their M1 Macs, but they deliberately chose not to.
Through the looking glass: Data visualization in virtual reality
What's the advantage of having Discord installed instead of using it via browser?

It seems so odd to me to install programs that still need an internet connection anyway to work.
Electronics, Fruits or even raw materials, I do think there are a lot of products where import plays a role in the supply chain. A product manufactured in the UK (I assumed as you used £) might have a price increase if the required materials has now a 2x shipping cost.

I think that 70-80% of the food in the UK is imported so I don't think the impact is that negligible. While most of the money is spent on local things as you said, if after housing / healthcare / education / ... you are left with a fixed amount of money to buy groceries, a 50% price increase is huge on your QoL and purchasing power.
>he sold his bar, and moved to Narashino, a small town in the largely rural Chiba Prefecture

It's a dense suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, just in case anyone was falling for the romantic falsehood this line was selling.
We are already there, to be honest. 20% every two years is negligible compared to growing inefficiency of software.

I have to replace my computer every several years due to performance degradation, even though my workflow has remained the same for over a decade. Even editing simple text documents has become painfully slow on my 2013 Macbook Pro.

M1 gives me a few years breathing space, hopefully, but I'm sure it won't be able to open a 1KB text file instantaneously in 5 years.
India Coal Power Giant Nearly Doubles Renewable Energy Target
> Have you noticed a big difference in coverage?

An obvious turn to media manipulations.

SCMP is the only HK media with access to state events most mainland government media can't get access to.

You always see them getting very oddly timed "leaks", and "insider interviews" — things for which people get firing squads in the mainland.
It's not THAT good, just good compared to how I drew before :)

Here's a gnomish submarine I drew for D&D campaign I run. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51263880414_ee12f5cc5d_o...
Yes, I actually dual-boot.

I know this way of disabling mitigations on Linux (nevertheless thank you, I well might be unaware of this feature, I only learnt it some years ago).

However, I doubt you can disable microcode-level mitigations this way. I believe it only affects the kernel level.
Going to guess none of that is in there.
Qualcomm already has that Microsoft Surface X1 chip and it's terrible. They acquired a player in this space recently but from what I saw that's two years away from launching.

I'd have higher hopes Samsung pulls something off with their fab but still skeptical. Apple seems to be generations ahead in this space.
What is ne?
Yes, the implementation lacks behind a bit. Project's been stale a few months
Great. Abolish all debt (student loan debt, mortgages, credit cards, business loans, bonds). Make it proactive too. Have the government automatically pay off everyone's credit cards every month. Infinite wealth for everyone. True justice and equity.
Points for honesty. Obligatory XKCD [0].

FYI: `git reflog` saves your ass when you accidentally delete a branch locally, only to then realize there were valuable commits yet to be pushed to master! How it does it is another matter.

Systems enabling high usefulness with little education (i.e. shallow learning curve, at least initially) and then incremental education are ideal. This isn't essential, just desirable. Git can err a little on the steep learning curve/mystery black box side of things a bit. But it is still a damn fine tool.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1597/
Ah I just can't get into the CDK. I much prefer just writing the JSON Cloudformation and executing it via the cli...
Horologist Dr John C Taylor decides it's time to reduce his clock collection
I tend to agree with that. I work on a personal project and the fact that the time I can allocate to it is constrained makes me extremely eager to work on it when I can. If I could work on it 8 hours a day, I think it would become a chore after a few week and all my creativity would be replaced by boredom.
NIO puts advanced silicon carbide technology into its electric drive system
You should change the way you work with git. Commits are cheap. Really, really cheap. Commit all the time. Make "WIP" commits to remind you to squash them later. Your working directory is just like any other place on your filesystem. You can lose stuff if you do the wrong thing.
> I have deleted the bookmark and will not be coming back to this thread again.

Don't worry, I'll remind you. But, I fully expect that you will come up with an excuse, when the judgement happens, as for why the judge is wrong to declare that at least something that Apple has done, is illegal.
Some people would that's what a standard is. The IETF's mantra of rough consensus and running code is one way to describe the processes of creating and using a standard, what you say there is another. A little snide or unkind perhaps, but not really wrong.

I've written eleven RFCs, I've seen how the sausage is made. The sausage is good.
> It s easy now to speak like a freedom fighter, but in 2019 Apple Daily was insane. They d encourage you to attack, I havent forgotten.

And they did a very good thing doing so.

And now you are in such a rut because you failed to heed this call.
It's sad to know that Home Assistant is such a project. I should consider alternatives. Partially I can grasp them, but the attitude in reply is really looks bad.
I visited HK in 2018 for a conference. All I can say is that I am glad that I went with my white friend, and speak English all the time. Otherwise, I would be afraid of walking on streets.
Automating Attendance Recording on Moodle Using Selenium
What else would you suggest as replacement? Sms is ubiquitous and cheap.
How do you get rid of the hostile programs?

If one could get rid of the hostile people, we wouldn't need passwords. Login is enough. Much easier to develop webapps. But we can't get rid of the hostile people and we can't get rid of the hostile programs.

The only semi-successful way to get rid of the hostile programs is Apple-style walled garden. But even there malware happened. And giving up all your freedom for that kind of safety is like going to the jail voluntarily to be safe from the outer world. I don't think that this approach would work for everyone.
Can someone explain a bit more on the long term applicability, or maybe other use cases that might be easier to appreciate?

The reason why I ask is that it seems very challenging to generate the training data for such systems. Could someone explain how this can go further than to just replicating X? So, if assuming some creative freedom, could you give an idea of what the long term application of this would be?

NB: please take my questions at face value without thinking I'm implying this isn't cool for what it is. I'm all for people having fun. I'm all for projects not needing to tackle some grander issue.
> But that’s the current state of the world.

True, but the difference is who's carrying the financial risk of the buying the car. Right now it's the individual consumers, who are mostly forced to do so, because better alternatives are not available.

Leasing companies would never buy a fleet of cars that would sit mostly unused. Their cars needs to be on the road most of the time.

This puts us back in Uber vs. taxis. Uber works because (depending on area and regulation) there cannot be sufficient taxis to handle peak demands, that wouldn't be financially sound for the taxi companies. Uber tries to fix this, by taping into idle cars in the driveways. A company that maintains a fleet of cars that you can just order on-demand, would always have to few cars for rush hour.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462371

You are being disingenuous in your interactions. It appears you have form in this regard. As this other person said, you seem pretty intent on deliberately misinterpreting as strongly as possible.

I'll leave you to it.
Maybe lookup panel data and repeated experiments. Those techniques are applied when the data is "tabular"; there are often relatively few observations on any individual time axis, but there are many instances of these experiments. It's a branch of linear forecasting (least squares), but it's tailored for example for biological experiments where you have several sets of results - related but maybe not performed in the same lab - which you want to amalgamate.
That's an absurd statement. OpenPGP _is_ the legacy cruft. It's made for _emails_. It makes no sense elsewhere. The encoding for clearsigned signatures is overly complex.

And Rust is inappropriate in any case for now, it's not allowed in Ubuntu main.
Thankfully, this doesn't seem to affect my Haswell machine. A microcode update was installed on 2021-06-09, but the microcode loader reports its build date as 2019-11-12. Does this vulnerability not affect older microarchitectures, or does Intel no longer bother updating them? I couldn't find any details in CVE.
I think, though I don't know how good the actual support is, that you can start the download from an arbitrary point so if you already have the thumbnail, you only need to download from that point on. If you are 80% sure people are going to click on the link to zoom, you could preload medium and then only load the final quality after they click.

One of the surprises of progressive loading, and why it's so good that JPEGXL has it, is how quickly you get to "good enough" and showing that before you get all the way to perfect.
Install Software with Windows Package Manager
Effective editing of multiple files in Vim
The Future of Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
Strongly disagree. Never rewriting local commits is great for the same reasons that never rewriting published commits is great; if you rebase you lose the ability to fearlessly work on multiple branches in parallel that's the great advantage of git.

Pushing merges is great. Pushing random (unreviewed) local commits directly to master is bad, but it's no worse when those commits are merges than when they're not. Conversely, rebasing master (which is quite easy to do if you're inexperienced but have been advised to use git pull --rebase) and pushing that creates a self-perpetuating mess that is very hard to fix (because even if you fix what you did, any other user who did a rebase-pull of master in the meantime is going to reintroduce the problem). Using rebase also trains you to force-push which makes messing up published branches much easier.
Your surgeon is not your hairdresser. He cut away what he needed to cut away, if you want to cut away more later you can do it yourself.
I do not want to spoil your sprouting fun, but please remember this: https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/ehec_outbreak_2011-186689.html
Isn't the solution there to use software that puts more emphasis on efficient use of resources? The corollary to Wirth's law is that as time goes on, deleting crap from your machine becomes more and more effective -- I was using Neovim on a Thinkpad T60 at work in 2018, and loving it.
You're talking somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but my situation is that I need to use Microsoft Teams. Composing a message, I would say at about 300-500 words with some formatting it starts becoming unusable.
> if you have to look it up in the excellent documentation, is that a failing

Yes, if we ever want version control to become mainstream.

Version control is a very practical, day to day concept.

It's just almost unusable for regular folks.

And regular folks for sure won't use CLIs (unless you point a gun to their heads).
Based on the actual opinion the title seems completely wrong. The ruling simply makes the decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reviewable by the agency director. The law was originally written to make the decisions by the PTAB non-reviewable unless the PTAB itself granted review. The Director of the Patent Office could not review and/or reject the decision, only nominate members of the PTAB. Now Smith & Nephew can appeal the decision of the PTAB to the Director of the Patent Office. Then if they don't like that ruling they can appeal to the courts again. In practice it seems unlikely that the director will actually overrule the board but in theory they could.

The principle being that someone must take accountability politically for executive decisions - either the President or a Principal Officer confirmed by the Senate. Anyone else is serving (at some level) under the Principle Officer who can review and/or override the decision. The President can then review the decision of the Principle Officer and/or fire the Principal Officer if necessary. The ultimate check on that power being voters electing the President. There are some nuances but the theory is you don't want the Executive Branch to be issuing unaccountable unreviewable decisions. In practice you might not get a review but there needs to be some kind of process that isn't completely impossible. It also means if there is a major screw up or scandal someone needs to own the ultimate decision. That doesn't always happen but it stops Congress from converting every government department into an opaque unaccountable "board" that continuously makes bad decisions yet there is no one who can be blamed.
More logical than the appeal to tradition fallacy would be to say if one needs A, B and C to do the work D should not be required, D should not even be part of the conversation.

One need a place where one can work [at home] if one fails at that for whatever reason a remote place might be an option. Just like proper training for a job one has to organize that themselves.

I work a lot of night shifts. My employer doesn't provide a place to sleep during the day. Productivity is regularly hurt by peoples children, construction work etc etc Should the employer now provide office style bedrooms and expect everyone to sleep there?

The office primarily exists for clients and investors to marvel at the marble floors, the fancy decorations, the smoothly shaved men in expensive suits, the open floor plan and many other D type rituals that after examining the price tag can only be considered a cult.

Why not replace some of that with parents playing with their kids? Or should that be: Show kids how work is done? (if we for laughs pretend nothing else is important) Which kids would end up more productive?

There is an expression in the Netherlands: "Dad is the man who cuts the meat on Sunday".
I don't think Google or Microsoft have the culture to compete with Apple in consumer space. Microsoft is all about milking enterprises and Google seems to be geared towards launching random projects and then getting them stuck in limbo or killed off.

This is sad for me because I hate how locked down Apple ecosystem is, I constantly get rubbed by their store policy that I stick with Android, but life is much simpler in the Apple ecosystem and none of their competitors look like they have what it takes to compete (eg. Samsung software is a joke even when the hardware is competitive).
The entertainment electronics are in the headrests so that the kids behind you can regularly hit your headrest for your convenience.
Auction for original WWW source code
Sir Tim Berners-Lee auctions a NFT of his original code for the web.
It took me a surprisingly long time to understand the word "disablable". The spelling "disableable" is slightly better but still not a very nice word.

The Linux kernel mitigations can be disabled easily. But with microcode this is the problem with having it as an opaque blob. You have no idea what's in that update. Maybe it's good for you, maybe it's bad.
It means you can't fearlessly pull from other people's feature branches. So people mostly don't bother looking at each other's feature branches (because there's nothing you can reasonably do with someone else's change-in-progress except wait for the branch to hit master), so you collaborate later and end up with more conflicts.
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You can disable the fixes: https://make-linux-fast-again.com/
Report, Machine Learning and Cybersecurity; Hype and Reality, cited in Schneier's post:

https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/machine-learning-and...
Ideally it should be no different to the current situation; you cannot push to a branch that has been pushed to since your last pull - the difference being that changes to the parent are also considered.
There were times, when no new features were included and polish was the main goal. I don't think it was 6 months, but their FF seriously is a recommended read. Just about how problems manifested and the approaches to solve them. Not only interesting for game developers.
Tumblr is Down atleast in India
I've read a fair bit of Murakami and I think he's at his best when he's deep into the surrealist, magical realism stuff. South of the Border only really touches on that. Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World are books of his that I rather liked. I thought The Wind-up Bird Chronicle was a bit flabby but there is an excellent section of the story about Japanense soldiers in Manchuria during World War 2 that makes up for it. I know a lot of people that just don't really connect with his work though so there is that.
So Apartheid. Separation was precisely the core of South Africa's Apartheid policy; the word "Apartheid" literally means "apartness" or "segregation".
People have been beating this drum for decades. The last time it got big, my state (Illinois) began requiring such a class. It's been required since and people think it doesn't exist. I wonder if such courses have quantum properties of some sort.

The course teaches you things like paying your taxes, writing a check, how to vote, etc.

People still complain it doesn't exist. I still have old classmates that make this same "They didn't teach practical skills in school!" posts. They even took the damn class with me. It's maddening.
> Technically impossible? Really? I don't think anyone held doubt

Yes, so many people were citing latency would make it unplayable, etc.

> You work for Google; there may be some bias here.

If I was stating an opinion, maybe. In this case, I am merely pointing out the counter example: Stadia, etc.
Reading this makesme
Nitpick: While bookmarking it I had to type under whatever I wanted to save it, because it just said 'Home'.

So maybe changing that for convenience? (Browser Fireofox ESR, 78.something/Desktop)
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Maybe different parts of the country? I’d never seen one until I left the US.