skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the Corps are getting bolder with it and the skill level needed to circumvent it is growing.

And in some cases it’s getting impossible. Even a good self hosted voice assistant can’t really keep up with Siri and friends
Commit history only tells them when you do commits... these tools tell you what people are doing between commits. There's no way a single tool's history gives more information than logging every keystroke and monitoring the screen... At best it's a less noisy stream but doesn't contain nearly as much information.
> but you might run into a catastrophic failure (main seal leak or similar)

That's hardly a catastrophic failure, it'll just leak oil and you can schedule repairs at convenience. Having replaced a few, it's also a cheap part.
Looks like we HN doesn't like Seinfeld.
Not everything has to run Linux. Many applications of small CPUs have no OS at all, while others run under a relatively simple RTOS such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS, both of which work on RV32.
Ok, I've switched to that link above (from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8). Thanks!
My take: it's cheating at jenga.
If you have one piece of rotten meat in a perfect stew, you still have a disgusting dish. Good sensor fused with garbage in is still garbage in. That was one of the major points of the talk - the vision-only system is more accurate than the one with other modalities thrown in, even though the latter has more data. We intuit that the fusion network should just learn to ignore the bad sensor when it's unreliable, but this rarely happens in practice.

If anything, knowing when to reliably ignore a sensor modality is the kind of intuition more associated with general AI.

A similar paradox occurs when trying to fuse multispectral imagery. You'd think early fusion of RGB and IR would be better since it gives the higher-resolution filters access to more data, but it does worse than late fusion. My understanding is that late fusion forces the network to "work harder" to solve object detection using IR only, and then once you've wrung what you can out, then you fuse with RGB detections.

Since radar is "one pixel" there's essentially only one object detector possible: object or nothing. If yes-object, fusion tries really hard to make sense of the RGB filters to figure out what partial detection looks like an object, which is almost always a false positive.
The real loss was the independence of the South China Morning Post when the ownership changed in 2016. They'd been the newspaper of record in Hong Kong for over a century.
I'm not sure I can think of a team I've worked on with more than 10 people on it where someone didn't get let go for noncriminal bad behavior that wasn't simply work incompetence. Obviously, it happens all the time. That there are extreme assholes that manage to retain (or even improve) their positions isn't evidence against my argument, because it's not my claim that there's a consistent standard; in fact, the lack of such a standard is part of my point.
It's unlikely that a dyno + all the associated infrastructure would be lower cost than a 150kW charger - they cost ten to twenty thousand dollars apparently.
You'd be surprised. Having 2-3 gifted students who can explain basic concepts to the "average" kids and help them with assignments takes a significant load off the teachers back (who can then focus on helping kids with serious learning difficulties).
That everyone would have a personal web page with their own domain name.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27584719.
Upstate and Western New York are overlapping regions. In addition to "upstate" being extremely vague and huge.
OK, give me some latitude when reading this comment, while I have been thinking about it for a while, it's still a bit raw.

For starters Amazon's policy is similar to GE's in the 90's, where every year they would let go the bottom 10% of the workforce.

Either way, we need to decide whether the part of the workforce that is let go are bad workers or a mismatch with the company.

I want to believe that there are very few bad workers, and that the majority of cases are a question of mismatch.

If that's the case, parting way is the best outcome for both the company and the workers; so that they can both move on and seek metter match.

Maybe we need to embrace more this practice, and - AT THE SAME TIME - fix the hiring process that is broken beyond belief.
I expected RISC to overtake CISC much sooner than it did.

I expected IPv6 to be adopted quickly.

I expected 6GB to be more storage than I could ever fill.

I expected Windows to be quickly dismissed and Unix to become the standard.

I expected to have a screen built into my glasses by now.
Stores/entertainment venues we've 'lost' (though they've found ways to survive sorta but diminished) that feel like real, societal level losses: pinball halls, arcades, bookstores, music stores. Tech was supposed to make the barrier to be a book author/musician much easier, and it has to an extent, but not without costs. Like would modern media be where it is if newspapers and magazines hadn't gone through the 00s-10s?
Docker hub appears to be down
What if you did this with passengers instead of a truck load of rocks? Carry passengers down a mountain, go up the mountain with an empty tesla.
Please don't perpetuate tedious flamewars.
Its not necessarily the payments either.if the bank can't afford to have that debt, they also need to foreclose
> I get that there have been some positive applications, but I'm just not sure it is possible to avoid much of the bad (which IMO outweighs the good)

If people could just grant everything else and get right down to this point, the discourse on this issue would be so much more useful and interesting. And much harder. Thank you for a thoughtful comment.
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A friend of mine recommended I watch this video after I was asking him about the limits of these things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJL9MasBFvM&ab_channel=Engin...

I attempted to summarize below:

"ah yes, it's because the batteries take up a vastly large percentage of the vehicles weight. For towing (hauling?) this is a critical figure, whereas it generally doesn't matter for a passenger car.

That said, IIUC, this is equivalent to range, it's just that many gas cars choose to sell lower percentage weight tanks since they go plenty far already, and that way you accelerate faster."

Sorry for the strange comment style.
People can do whatever they want with seccomp-bpf obviously, but is it really that uncommon to use it for whitelisting? As for kernel vulnerabilities being a weakness of sandboxing in general, if anyone still doesn’t understand that by now it must be willful and I don’t know if they can be helped.
It’s not a documentary, but Spike Lee’s movie about Malcolm X has some stirring scenes where the Panthers are marching with rifles.
You build up and down.

Have a look at Hong Kong - it's amazing seeing the 1960s building, the 1980s building and the more recent buildings next to each other and the height increase.
That Javascript would not survive and would be replaced by something else
Recent and related:

HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27546138 - June 2021 (231 comments)
Why do you think the last 1% is dependent on LIDAR versus any of the other multitude of gaps between today’s autonomy and L5?

If the only way it becomes practical to achieve L5 is to use LIDAR, Tesla can obviously add it. But if they waited until LIDAR was cheap and practical, they still wouldn’t be shipping any hardware doing autonomy today, and not collecting the data needed to train their models and delivering value today.

Also, with vision based systems, it operates in somewhat an intuitive fashion given we have eyes too.
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> Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?

Well if you ignore the one and a half second delay before typed text appears on screen, it's usable :]
Energy Vault is a startup that stores energy using big concrete blocks. Pretty close to your idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Vault
Nah, we saw what happened with No Child Left Behind. They replaced education with test-prep. The schools who performed poorly got their funding cut or closed altogether. The schools who performed well got more funding. They took resources from the kids who needed help, and gave them to the kids who were already succeeding.
> How do you define a neighborhood characteristic? Usually it's nothing but an arbitrary snapshot in time that some folks decided is ideal and should be frozen.

Usually so, but sometimes not. What are the characteristics of Gion Kyoto, for example?
You're wrong on that. LIDAR is used for object detection in every self driving car company that uses LIDAR. There's tons of research on it.

Previous generations of LIDAR were not great at classifying small objects and road debris but it works great for detecting cars, pedestrians, etc.

https://paperswithcode.com/task/3d-object-detection

Next-gen LIDAR has great density, and I bet it would do a decent job differentiating between a plastic bag or a rock in the middle of the road. In addition to depth LIDAR also returns intensity and several other metrics, which can be used as input to an ML model. It's why you can read the lettering on the side of the semi truck in this video of Waymo's next-gen LIDAR.

https://youtu.be/COgEQuqTAug?t=11601
You can't do this here and we've banned the account.

Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - and please don't create accounts to break them with.
It probably means you need to get someone to tow you halfway to a town. But there isn't that much advantage over towing you all the way to a power outlet. And once you are asking strangers for help, just toe you to a residence that is happy to power you up.
Yeah. The CCP has strategically used proxy businessmen to purchase HK (and Taiwan) newspapers for couple decades.
Clarify is not the same as diffuse. Of course an an apology does not diffuse
It'd be nice if those vehicles also were hybrids that could use the gas power plant to regen the aforementioned batteries.
How are you growing this wheat? Making the seeds out of clay or something?
Simple thought experiment. Firms will continue to hire until wage = marginal productivity .. otherwise, you leave money on the table. Usual BS assumptions on perfect information/competition, cetrus paribus, and all that stuff.
Glitch.new: make a new, live static site by loading a page
8 Bit Guy did a video on this. I pretty surprised how easy it was to do on an inexpensive compact TV set from the 90’s.

https://youtu.be/DLz6pgvsZ_I
Is that literally their intent or is the writer assuming that is their intent? The publication is trying to push a narrative to appeal their audience, that is why that isn't quoted from the school board itself.
I was hoping for more even better UI's designed by programmers
One big problem is how to deal with a key getting revoked. That means every commit signed with that key is no longer valid. As I understand it, re-signing the commits requires rewriting git history, and would probably be a huge pain even if it didn't.
I've had fully awake brain-surgery.
1990
I was under 16 years of age.
I had a tumor causing epileptic seizures.
I had my right-temporal lobe completely removed.

I was talking to the surgeon while he worked on me.

They needed to communicate to (a) make sure they didn't affect my speech center, and (b) try to manually trigger a seizure (aura) to test if they were close. I smell burnt toast Dr Penfield.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUOG2g4hj8s ]

The most painfull part of the procedure was getting the needles under my scalp to numb the skin (a local anesthesia) before they drilled in.

The mostly used hand-tools.

2 holes were drilled (using a hand-drill). They created a large reverse question mark, going from infront of my ear (in my sideburn), up around the 'corner' of my head, and then back towards the back of my head.

They used a hacksaw, and then the flap that was left over was laid back onto my head.

I'll be happy to answer any questions that anybody may have.
Customer-Based Valuation
The generated names also work for your new band.
Get out if you can
Seattle is doing the same thing (see https://reason.com/2020/01/27/seattles-school-system-wants-t... and https://reason.com/2020/03/26/seattles-school-system-has-beg...). This is all in the name of “equity” (equality of outcomes) and “justice”, and is in lock step with the political movements we see in other highly progressive cities like Portland and San Francisco.

Looking at local dialogue on this from activists, politicians, and educators, I am seeing them label gifted education programs as white supremacist and discriminatory. But the reality is that the separation of good students and bad students is not avoidable. This isn’t a question of unequal resources. Seattle currently spends north of 23K per student per year on its public schools, and despite funding going up dramatically (nearly doubling) in the last decade, parents see no tangible improvements (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/20000-pe...).

The reality is that unequal outcomes are a function of parenting, core values, innate motivation to work hard, and innate talent (genetics?). This movement to artificial hold back the best students, who deserve something better, is just sacrificing America’s competitiveness on the altar of progressive “justice” agendas.
Absolutely. I tell people that to think of Rochester like Pittsburgh, only delayed by 10 years. Lately, it seems like the real estate market agrees with me. :-)
Can anyone with more expertise comment on the use of cryptography.hazmat which is apparently (1) a frontend to openssl, (2) "full of land mines, dragons, and dinosaurs with laser guns"?
> And with types now in Ruby that's one less reason to pick Crystal over Ruby.

The story around types in Ruby is very early. There are "competing" ways to do it and they are really not dev ergonomic.

I think Ruby has a loooong way to go with typing to take it off the list of things to use Crystal for.
NYC – The Secret History of the Great Subway Map Debate of 1978 Revealed
no problems unless you are willing to be upfront about it and pay a premium for this 'feature'. Its highly unethical otherwise, especially for immigrants who may be putting their legal status in jeopardy. Cynical part of me suspects they want to use this kind of engineers to create work-slave like culture for everybody.
In Taiwan it had a sensationalistic reputation ... and not everyone thought that was a good thing.
No matter how you mask off attack surface for the kernel, you're not super likely to want to disable io_uring, is the point I'm making. It's easy to find recent threads here with people sticking up for shared-kernel multitenant isolation.

(Be forewarned that I'm talking my book a bit here, since we have a commercial thingy built on multitenant VMM isolation).
When you're stranded, energy efficiency isn't the top concern: any solution that works could be an acceptable one. And it's probably a lot easier to tow a car on a long straight road for awhile then cut them loose than it is to tow a car through intersections and into parking lots to find a charger.
Given rob's disdain for academic research and the literature in general, I'm not sure he'd be my go-to guy for analyses about this, but I agree that we don't see the kind of OS research we saw in the 90s.

I think a lot of the things we were seeing at the OS level in the early 90s are now feasible to do in user space. That, plus the fact that it is prohibitively hard to talk to devices [1], has reduced the innovation in this area but also moved it elsewhere.

Having dealt with the pain of writing OS code, or libraries that have to function in one or more OS's, I can see why people prefer to innovate elsewhere if they possibly can.

That being said, there's a lot of possible "systems" work or work that could be described as "operating systems" in the broad sense that isn't in-kernel, and that work seems to have tailed off too.

[1] My favorite data point on this, which isn't even one of the more complex devices: back when I TA'ed CMUs "build a preemptive kernel" 15-410 class, the students wrote a kernel that would really boot. We had an old machine for their kernels if they wanted to see things working on a real machine not SIMICS. However, it had to be an old machine with a PS/2 keyboard, as the complexity of talking to a USB keyboard (or so I was told; I never verified this) was roughly equivalent to the "build a entire preemptive multitasking kernel" - and obviously far less pedagogically useful.
I am not sure why but I always assumed Amazon was easier to get into than Google, Facebook and Netflix. Microsoft/LinkedIn is probably same difficulty as Amazon. Just anecdotes and people I know I guess.
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this, but here goes: during this procedure did you experience anything that you feel you could not have experienced absent someone physically poking your brain?
Learning Logic Programs by Explaining Failures
"Systems Programming" from a Application Developer's pov involves knowledge of;

* Low-level languages, compiler runtimes, toolchains and libraries.
* OS system call apis.
* Concurrency.
* Networking.

You need books/papers which will teach and walk you through sample idioms and applications in the above domains. A prerequisite is fluency in the C language. With that in mind the following are recommended (some are old books which you can buy used and cheap wherever possible);

* Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Hallaron.

* The C Companion by Allen Holub. A gem of an oldie.

* ELF: From the Programmer's Perspective; a paper by Hongjiu Lu.

* UNIX Network Programming by Richard Stevens. Initially, get the old 1st edition since it contains TCP/IP, IPC etc. all in one volume.

* Advanced UNIX Programming by Marc Rochkind.

* Advanced programming in the UNIX Environment by Richard Stevens.

* UNIX Systems Programming by Robbins and Robbins.

* Programming for the Real World, POSIX.4 by Bill Gallmeister.
The truth is that Marx is a boogeyman and it's easier to summon a century of propaganda than formulate sound criticism of a policy.
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Maybe I'm missing the connection, but shouldn't this incorporate Conway's game "Sprouts" [1] if it's going to be named SproutLife?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)
Some main seal leaks happen slowly, some all of a sudden. If it happens suddenly, and your engine runs without oil, it is catastrophic.
RMSBolt: Supercharged godbolt compiler-explorer for Emacs
Microsoft will build native Xbox games for the cloud, led by woman behind Portal
> But people generally don't call actors liars for doing their job.

That's a fair nitpick, actually. What I meant to emphasize is that the truth should have no bearing on your performance, except to the extent that it affects which performance you elect to give. As the saying goes, on the internet, no one knows you're a dog, nor should they.
Should be illegal – Manufacturers are swapping SSD components
I think this is more an argument for smaller class sizes and more individualized instruction, not necessarily eliminating honors classes altogether.
> That's whats killing these old cars.

Matter of perspective.. the only thing you list that I'd consider a concern to investigate is the "dash lit up like a chrismas tree". Everything else you mention is cheap replacement work.

The warning lights could be just a few cheap sensors but could also be very expensive ECU replacements. So that one I'd have to dig deeper but the rest wouldn't bother me to buy such a car and fix it up in a weekend.
Absolutely. From them, there is no such thing as redemption.

They want to look good on Twitter (with added outrage) for playing the hero and cancelling the 'villain of the week' with their insults and libellous accusations until the target is deleted everywhere; including their livelihood.

By not apologising, ignoring or saying anything (I mean anything), they get bored quickly and the whole story falls apart with the heat dying out. You have to waste their time enough for them to give up to move on to the next victim.

It is in your favour if you don't apologise in public. Otherwise it is in on the record that you are finished and the mob will make ridiculous demands such as: 'If you're truly sorry, do xyz...'.

See where this goes?
but why we should care about this?

insanely fast NVMe M2 disks are cheap, let alone normal SSDs.
WHO removes recommendation for children C19 vaccinatio
> High-school is a terrible place to learn calculus (or anything). Online resources are often far better.

This is pure, steaming bullshit you're just making up post facto to try and pretend your beliefs are consequence-free. I was never particularly strong at math-- nowhere near smart enough to get a math degree and so I went into engineering instead-- and I had two years of calculus (AB and BC) in high school, which was an enormous asset in engineering classes.

Single-variable calculus should be considered the floor of what the highest-achieving students can do in math by the end of high school, and here you're saying it shouldn't even be the ceiling.
Why not just let them? If an appropriate coalition is formed, China won’t risk it. Even if they do, it’ll motivate everyone else to build up and hedge against them, which will be incredibly damaging to China in the long term.
Wow, thanks for sharing that!

Hearing him name drop terms like markup language, stylesheets and internet is mind blowing. If only the promise of “no delay in response” had been achieved :-)
I'm an ex-Amazon software engineer who worked in AWS for a couple years and pretty much everything in this article and comments rings true to me and lines up with my personal experience. I won't say much about the PIPs and the brutal oncall rotations because that has been written about enough already, but I do want to express that working at Amazon was devastating for my mental health.

I was more stressed than I have ever been in my life. I had to start seeing a therapist specifically to help me with the constant anxiety I had about my job. I had to see a doctor to get anti-anxiety medication. I tried all the things people suggest: diet, exercise, therapy, medication, meditation, nothing was helping with the escalating stress and anxiety I had about the job. After a lot of internal debate I quit with nothing else lined up. I just needed to get out.

I took a 30% pay cut to join a new company and I couldn't be happier. Sure every job has its occasional stresses and pain points, and this one is no different, but I'm learning that constant stress and anxiety about your job is not normal and at least for me not worth the money.

I still have a small heart attack every time I hear someone's ringtone go off which is the same ringtone I had set on pong paging.
My hindsight also shows me that I trashed the WWW as "yet another system like gopher and WAIS that probably won't amount to much", so I should not be trusted with predicting the future, or even possibly the present.
I get the frustration, but how do you actually keep a team aligned on the same goal when they're all working in different locations? I can think of two tools:
- Task managers, like Trello or Asana or Jira or whatever. They use text to describe tasks, but over time people start to mean different things with their words and then they're no longer aligned.
- Yes, we could all get better at writing, but the problem is that we often don't know which parts of our writing are unclear and which ones are actually A-OK.
- Meetings, where we use speech and gestures and interactivity to spot miscommunications and correct them. They take time and are emotionally difficult, but on average the team leaves more aligned than it came in.

Any other tools for alignment? Or ways to avoid drift with async formats?