skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I don't like how it sounds in the video, and those weird sound bits (no idea what you call them) is not very friendly for singing either.

Could you describe in more detail which bits sound weird? Of course Old Chinese would sound very different to Mandarin, but I didn’t notice anything actually weird about it.
Long distance driving is going to be a point of difficulty for electric vehicles for quite a while but for most day to day uses, charging will happen at home where everything can be set up to make charging easy for the wheelchair user. But the point about the vehicle floor is indeed something that will need to be addressed.
I’d argue we are just in the era of the Model T with Tesla’s model 3.
I presume they're referring to running Linux on the X220 from their first comment, not on an Apple laptop.
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I haven't seen this, maybe it was done before but at least I haven't seen it widespread but I'd love to:
tutorials.

think that each step is either a branch or a commit. whenever you're done, just switch to the next branch. even if you're git-illiterate, you could have a next.sh for pointing to the next step in the tutorial. same logic for check.sh to verify completion. you have built-in diff for changes between steps, you could work in whatever IDE you like, and it may not be limited to just code, too.
Attacks only get better.

I also didn't mean to imply it was only Trump voters who were subject to this. That's just the most recent and most extreme example.
"The disabled community doesn’t want to drive gas-burning cars while everyone else zips around in zero-emission vehicles"

I do not understand this craze for EVs. The German Fraunhofer ISI found evidence [1] that it might take up to 93,000 miles / 150,000km until you hit a break even point with regards to emissions (58 kWh; compared to Diesel).

Is that also a factor in most buyer's decisions or is it just about the feeling of "zipping around" in a EV?

[1] https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/isi/dokumente/sust...
I've just had BT FTTP installed, and have a fibre coming into the building. They use GPON. It's wired into a modem ("Optical Network Terminal") that Openreach provide, which then presents the connection via cat5. You then plug your router in, which then uses PPPoE to establish the connection.
The weirdest clothing merch with Bezos and Musk
What is stopping us from launching seed payloads to these planets with some way to continually water them? Wouldn't that be a way to theoretically test the survivability of the planet without sending people?
For sake of argument, let’s for a moment go with your assertion that this only impacts weak minded people (despite plenty of evidence to the contrary).

What is your conclusion? “Weak minded” people don’t matter? How do you even define “weak minded”?

Alcohol is extremely harmful to alcoholics. I personally don’t have an alcohol problem, but should that imply something about the experience of those who do have alcohol problems?

> Yea lets blame twitter , mcdonalds or whatever from stopping ppl from living their lives.

It’s funny you mention McDonald’s. Both companies literally have groups of scientists focusing on making their product as addictive as possible. We should absolutely blame these companies - the general consumer doesn’t have a chance against the growth hacking and french fry oil optimization.

That doesn’t mean we don’t each have a personal responsibility to ourselves, but we should not underestimate the power of social media and junk food.
This review is much like Pollan's own writing, loose with the facts and wild with conjecture and speculation.

> so perhaps it is little wonder that the permanently sozzled intellectuals of the Middle Ages were prone to magical thinking.

What? Drinking alcohol adulterated water remained a common practice until the late 1800s. And we don't have reason to believe people were hammered all the time. Generally drink was lower in alcohol content then and it was usually cut with water.

> It’s unclear from the book (and from my subsequent Google searches) whether the spider was given the arachnid equivalent of a single cappuccino or a more Balzacian dose, which makes the comparison with other drugs less helpful, but Pollan’s point is that caffeine changes us more than we realise.

Is there even an equivalent? Spiders barely have what we consider a brain. I'm not sure much other than cellular science is translatable from spiders to humans.

> societies tend to ban those plants that appear to pose a threat to the social order.

That seems pretty suspect. Western societies after all have tolerated alcohol, probably one of the most destabilizing drugs there is, for centuries. It seems to me, they ban what is unfamiliar or rather, they ban anything that hasn't reached large usage among the power class of that society.
Hydrogen as a fuel is one of the biggest cases of successful astroturfing in modern times. It is not an ecologically friendly fuel, and currently the most popular source of hydrogen is crude oil.
We are already in deep trouble.
And that's why there's room for automation to take a lot of the complexity away.

Granted it's not going to be easy to have a platform where every tool can seamlessly connect, but we can start with baby steps such as services that automate multi-cloud deployments like the article suggests.
Just because it’s doa for you, doesn’t mean others will feel the same.
I think you make some really good points here. I had a few experiences like the one you describe: I recall a small side project where I would wake, work for ~14hrs until I slept, then rinse and repeat for a few days until I got the work done.

It wasn't deliberate, I just really loved what I was doing.

> obsession for entrepreneurship, which in turn gave me passion and motivation to push myself to the limit, and which somehow resulted in success that made the whole thing somehow... worthwhile

If you haven't watched it, there was a Diary of a CEO episode the other week with Tom Blomfield. He mentions how he felt driven by a need for success and recognition, and how weird it was that after Monzo this seems to have disappeared.

I think those motivations are quite common, and expect you'd recognise a lot in that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP2_QOCrVO4
Are you thinking of these?

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/2109

They're used in the launch facilities on the ground, not the spacecraft itself.
In the open source space, the term “permissive license” is well understood to mean licenses like MIT and Apache2 and CC-BY, which allow you to do whatever you like with the work so long as you acknowledge the author and license terms.

It sounds like you meant something more like a public domain dedication like CC0, which is about the only way you can go more permissive past the likes of MIT/Apache2/CC-BY.
It’s more of I created a search engine that is context aware. Then claiming that it generates novel code because it can take snippets from multiple sources. Then have a bunch of people not understand what it is then are trying to claim it does x which would make this a general ai.
The legal conclusion of a case where one embeds GPL Code, but doesn't release their own code is, as always in law, hard to predict. However gpl-violations.org documents different court case which ended in publication of code based on GPL'd code.
Funny, there are UI affordances I remember from Lightwave 8 and 9 that I still miss when I'm using Blender. Capability-wise the set of functionality is streets ahead (although if I could find a reasonable approximation to LWCad I'd be deliriously happy), but the UI just doesn't click as nicely for me.
> if I ship a robot which can paint a famous painting, but not the painting itself, I would argue the copyright violation happens by the user of the robot when it paints the painting, not by the maker of the robot.

How is that different than sending someone a jpeg of a copyrighted painting? Or the jpeg and the executable that can render the jpeg. Or the jpeg and the executable and the computer it runs on. Each of those gets closer to what you said.
The thing that gets my goat here is that repos, and individual files, have their licenses. With effort, github could have linked snippets to the files they came from, and used a mostly-automatic process to identify the license and copyright holder of every quoted snippet. Then, as code gets generated, a conglomerate license could be assembled in parallel. It could emit warnings that licenses are incompatible, or better yet, give the user a choice over which licenses they find acceptable and disallow incompatible licenses.

This whole thing could be done above board, and it's pure sloppiness on the part of github that they've chosen not to.
The Planetary Society has these with post processing for better quality:

"Every Picture From Venus' Surface, Ever"

https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-...
It is really uplifting to see so many places, always felt there was far fewer out there.
Here's an excerpt from a comment I previously made on Hacker News:

I'm a Ph.D. student in operations research (OR). My suggestion would be to first build a strong foundation in linear programming. This will introduce you to the notion of duality, which is heavily emphasized in many mathematical programming courses. Here's a good open-source book on linear programming written by Jon Lee, the current editor of Mathematical Programming A: https://github.com/jon77lee/JLee_LinearOptimizationBook

Then I'd suggest studying more general methods for continuous and convex optimization. The book I see mentioned a lot is Convex Optimization by Boyd and Vandenberghe, although we didn't use this in our coursework. Instead, we used a lot of the material presented here: http://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/rfreund/educationalactivities/

If you read the above (or any other two books on linear programming and convex optimization), you'll probably have a better idea of what you want to study next and how you want to go about it. The next natural step would be to study combinatorial (i.e., integer or mixed-integer) optimization. (Jon Lee has another book on this subject; I've also heard good things about the Schrijver book.)
> It shouldn't do that, and we are taking steps to avoid reciting training data in the output.

Seems like he agrees with you that __reproducing__ copyrighted code is not permissible. Doesn't answer the broader point about training with that code.
Yeah, a blog post like this is too casual and generalizes way too much
Mailing lists are great. Better than a slack for long-term discoverability.
Isn't the reason why 3DSMax is so popular(or at least was haven't followed this in decades) because of the abundance of plugins?

I never used any of these enough to understand what the advanced differences were, but 3DSMax definitely seems easier to use than Softimage and Maya. I'd assume one of the reasons why softimage died was precisely for that reason.
I tried salvia divinorum a few times, and the biggest insight I got from it was that the human brain is a machine, and is designed to do a specific thing, but if you throw a bunch of chemicals into it you can convert it into a machine for doing other random things like generate visual garbage and noise. I felt like my working memory had been reduced to only persisting for a half second, and my thoughts were reflected back onto themselves, making me get stuck in a moment in time and making it impossible to hold onto a train of thought, and my visual field was looped back on itself like when you point a camera at its own screen. I didn’t find the experience pleasurable, really.
A friend of mine who fell for the "work hard forever" idea just wrote a lengthy post venting about what this did to her: when you spend all your free time working/studying, and constantly turn down invitations to go do stuff with friends, people stop inviting you to things. And you drift out of friend groups because of this. Your social skills atrophy, you have no idea how to try and make new friends on the rare occasions you pry yourself away from work. Work becomes your life. And even if your work is something you love to do, that never involves a toxic workplace or moral qualms or any other problems, there's still emotional needs work will never, ever fulfill.
This is not necessarily a large constraint and we are just starting to see most large manufacturers offer electronic vehicles. There is one huge advantage to locating the battery in the floor as it brings the center of gravity down which is made even more useful and important by the height of many popular models.
(Over)Designing PPE for a Dog
Ian's tutorials sort of illuminate the path quickly. If you need more details on any specific part there's typically a standard tutorial floating out there about it.
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Const is to state that this module is not allowed to modify. Think on what'const volatile int foo' means.

Mostly seen in embedded space.
Actually, anyone that cares about jobs in compilers should keep an eye on https://compilers.iecc.com/index.phtml

They keep an updated list regularly since the mid-90s.
In my experience it's the other way around - but the difference is not that big anyway. Commercial programs typically imply paid support, which can tease out more details when the user contacts them. The users themselves are also more invested, as they already committed their money.

Open source software faces the same problems about a lack of bug reports. Check out this article and the related HN discussion:

https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/11/02/they-might-never-tel...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427996
You’re lying about CRT.

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CRT is advocated for by major institutions, such as Amazon HR, Disney HR, Coca-Cola HR, and the US DoD.

Eg, Coca-Cola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55B3eLvH-LY

Can you imagine if a major corporation told black employees to “be less black” or Asian employees to “be less Asian”?

That’s racism.

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CRT is the basis for the recently suspended Biden-administration racist farm subsidy — which was blocked in court because its racism violates civil rights laws.

CRT-endorsing Democrats have been trying to repeal civil rights laws so they can engage in government racism.

See WA: https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Referendum_88,_Vote_on_I-...

See CA: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...

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CRT is racists myths in schools that millions upon millions of parents have witnessed for themselves.

Here’s a video of parents denouncing it after witnessing the racism first hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRm8ZXaBd0

- - -

To address a few things you said:

> Now it is mostly a non-existent right-wing bogeyman that YouTube weirdos hype for clicks.

I think it’s telling people have to lie about CRT, because even the proponents know it’s indefensible racism.

> However, some of their better teachers might teach some history that you didn't learn in school.

Making ad hominems that I’m uneducated because you can’t make a positive case for a racist theory like CRT speaks to the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of CRT proponents.

CRT is just apologetics for racism.
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/work-life-balance-and-jugg...

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life." —- Bryan Dyson, then the President and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, delivering a commencement speech at Georgia Tech
I find services like this often work really well with hermetic integration tests:

https://github.com/adobe/S3Mock

It's more realistic than using mock objects/function calls and requires less maintenance.
no you haven't - coz if you did - you know that there were no yt or pdf/html tuts around + the manuals were rly terrible. so you had to tinker with each and every program and ui from scratch yourself to see how it works.

my basic test with every 3d package since then was to create a plain scene, add simple objects, textures, lights and camera to see how it behaves - and the only program that failed this test since 1988 is blender.
I simply was not able to create a simple scene and render it with this program without hours spend on stupid tuts and learing keyboard shortcuts. and yes, the basic 3d principles are the same since then.

So if u were around back then u would knew that even with the original lw & cinema 4d in 1989 on amiga or maya 1.0 on pc you could get results easier than with blender...

...and yes I refuse to use this crap ui for this reason. where blender shines tho is as a converter for some rare object formats, using the free plugins.
Honestly looks really cool, I want to try using Ray.
Watch "Phenomenon". Many countries have experienced similar issues. Soviet Union was very worried about UFO reports near its nuclear sites. Also the NYT story about the F18s didn't really go into much detail but Mexico also had similar experiences.
The whole reply I post here is made from letters that I copied out of a Harry Potter PDF.

Clearly that's not how copyright works.
> I think the most likely explanation is that this was a hardware error caused by a cosmic ray or the like, rather than a software bug. It's just very bad luck :-(

These sorts of cosmic bitflips have been exploited as a security error for some time. See bitsquatting for domain names.

ECC helps and so does software error detection on critical data in memory or on disk. The problem is always that input data should not be relied upon as correct. Do not trust data. It's a difficult mind shift, but it needs to be done, or programs will continue to mysteriously fail when data becomes corrupted.
Hey thanks for touching base. This is just me tinkering at the moment but I'll ping you in the future if it sticks.
Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
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I disagree. Like code, commit history is read much more often than it is written, so care in writing is repaid over time.

You don't even have to take that much care and effort. The vast majority of the time, you only need to rebase WIP commits together into a single commit with a descriptive message. The effort of this is insignificant compared to the value of a meaningful, readable commit history.
With that scheme, I imagine the server would need to maintain a per-client timestamp of when a token was last generated for them, so as not to generate them too often.

But at that point, why not use that timestamp directly, to rate-limit each client's form submissions? What's the benefit of also issuing tokens? (Do you mean to thwart copy-as-curl script kiddies? Parsing a token out of a previous message to add it to a new one is a pretty low bar.)
If we are thinking in half a century, the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903 and Chuck Yeager went faster than sound in 1947.

Sure, some things have greatly improved in the last 50 years.

Color television was a big thing in the late 60’s. Now we’ve gone from analog to digital at 4K on huge flat panels.
For me, often the unaccounted for work is after shipping. Sure, we can ship the new minor feature, but then we have to make sure it is documented, it is one more thing for users to ask about, one more thing for sales to ask about (and ask us to enhance for this one important customer). None of this is programming or development work, but it imposes a drag on the team's productivity.
I'm talking about computerization of the planning process. I don't think PESEL counts. As far as I remember Poland didn't computerize any input/output economic tables or forecast consumption from purchase data or anything of the sort that was proposed in the 50s.
I was certainly hoping so but seems very doubtful
That means that every person who runs the tests needs credentials for that AWS account. That obviously won’t work for an open source project. Even for a company project, how do you distribute those secrets? It adds friction for developers getting their local dev environment setup.

Not only that, but you now need network access to run tests. A network blip or a third party service outage now makes your tests fail.

There is also the possibility that an aborted test run might leave state in s3 that you are now paying for. Someone hits Ctrl-c during a test run and now you have a huge AWS bill.
set to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases
https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
When I am developing a feature, I want to know very fast whether or not my code's logic is correct. It is not rare during the development cycle to run the same test dozens of times because I made a silly mistake (or a few), and obviously if the test takes 30 minutes to complete it completely wastes my day of work.

Having a set of very fast running tests is absolutely necessary in my opinion.

Once I have validated that the piece of code I wrote is doing what I intended, then I want to run other tests that do not use mocks/fakes, e2e tests that can possibly take a whole day to complete and will allow me to see if the whole system still works fine with my new feature plugged in. But this comes AFTER fast unit tests, and definitely cannot REPLACE those.
>Any question in English to a kid who grew up in a home that didn't speak English.

On english exams (here) the question is written in native language
While I definitely don't want to come across as unsympathetic or uncaring towards those with disabilities, I am quite frustrated by tone of this article.

Yes, putting the battery in the floor makes the current ways that disabled people modify their vehicles to be more friendly easier, however, the need to modify the vehicle is not unique to EVs - they were already taking non friendly vehicles and making them friendlier.

> "We shouldn’t just be behind the wheel of electric cars, we should also be calling the shots on how to build them."

I'm also all for more diversity and representation in engineering (what percentage of companies have people with mobility needs on their engineering teams?) however it fundamentally doesn't make sense to take any group brought together by a particular need and have them design something for mass consumption.

It kind of feels like a "hit piece", as the author paints this specifically about how "big EV" doesn't care about disabled people instead of suggesting ways that the situation can be improved.
It’s especially frustrating because the article itself presents the challenges as largely surmountable as long as there is adequate awareness.
The thing that struck me about the Tesla video is that they're still using after market mechanical controls for acceleration and braking. This is very similar to what my aunt used in her car back in the 80s. Since Tesla is at least partially drive-by-wire, it seems like actual controls on the steering wheel without a mechanical component would be trivial to add. Perhaps there are regulatory reasons for this or maybe Tesla simply hasn't been asked for or prioritized this functionality.