skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is flying a helicopter on Mars arrogance? Launching reusable space launch vehicles that boost back to the landing site arrogance? I don't believe so. These are engineering challenges to be surmounted, just as safe robotic vehicles are a challenge, and its reasonable (I'd argue) for us as a species to drive towards solutions (no pun intended).

Silicon Valley isn't going to suddenly become less arrogant, but that doesn't mean the problems they attempt to solve don't need solving. Incentives are important to coax innovation in a way that balances life safety with progress, and I concede the incentives in place likely need improvement.
I work in ML (medical diagnostics) and own a 2020 Tesla w/ FSD and do not trust it at all. I also happen to be a cyclist, currently living in SV. My regular road ride takes me past Tesla HQ. The more of these FSD fails I see, the more I wonder how many Teslas passing me are running in FSD mode. Scary.
I highly recommend "The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making" by Scott Plous. It's a concise, 260-page survey of all the research into cognitive biases. It cites a lot of other research than Kahneman/Tversky and gets right to the heart of the topic without being dry.
I think you are on the right track here, and its important.

In the context of work with developing nations, the defense of good intentions is increasingly dismissed out of hand. Good intentions are often deeply problematic and can cause more harm than good - including capture/transfer of resources that could have been used in some other way improve conditions for people.

c.f., many NGO projects to improve stove design in less developed countries [0]

[0] https://nature.berkeley.edu/er100/readings/Crewe_1997.pdf
Apple is super pro patents, they never go for patent invalidation. Case in point they got sued by S3 for S3TC, despite S3TC being stolen Apple QuickTime Road Pizza patent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26758884, and caved in without much fight.
If we're going to build what amounts to new infrastructure, shouldn't we build transportation infrastructure that does away with the need to own cars? At least for transport in urban and suburban areas.
Ask HN: Note and Todo lists for scatter brains
Hello,
I'm very busy and highly motivated. I'm starting to need a more unique style of note taking & todo list with dates and repeat tasks.

I find myself using different things all the time.
I admit I am a high functioning scatter brain. I'll do the same task two times and do it different both times. Saving a project file for example.

Wondering if there are any unique tools methodology to help with this.

I need to split items up into personal, rental properties, and my side business.

Thank you!
Hm, I suppose USB serial is fine too, but we should make it support something simple like "gcc --arch=esp32 somefoo.c; cat a.out > /dev/ttyUSB0". Would be awesome if gcc can auto-fetch the cross-compiler like Docker does if you tell it to docker run <something you don't already have>.
At least with respect to the developing world educational tool for children goal, it was probably filled by smartphones far more than Chromebooks.
Can you please not do that here? It's off topic, and even more so if you've been doing it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's kind of the "selling point" of running this experiment on non-consenting public, that it will learn over time and something working will come out of that in the end.
> In fairness, simultaneous use of multiple IDs is rarely handled well by modern UI'd desktops and remote services. All systems assume you have one ID, and if you have the temerity to want more, then you must log out and log back in again, an idea unchanged since mainframes stalked the earth.

Slack handles multiple IDs flawlessly IMO
As much as people like to ridicule the CC deniers for pointing to unusually cold conditions the same side loves to do it when it supports them. For the Colorado River specifically, we established "normal" during an atypically wet time and now that we've gone through actual normal to a dry cycle it's a crisis. It's the normal cyclical behavior of nature and not really Climate Change that's the issue.
I've been using Go avidly since 2012. I still run into deadlocks and panics (writing to a closed channel) when I try to use channels beyond the simplest use cases. Error handling in a parallel context is also hairy with channels. I've learned to minimize my use of channels and prefer mutexes as my default concurrency primitive.

It really only means that CSP looks nice on paper but (at least as implemented in Go) doesn't work out well in practice. There's lots to like about the language even if the CSP theory didn't pan out.
I can't find the link but there was some discussion about mem.ai on hackernews. mem.ai doesn't sound very privacy friendly.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/06/note-taking-app-mem-raises...

> The broader hope of the founders and investors behind Mem is that the team can leverage the platform’s intelligence over time to better understand the data dump from your brain — and likely other information sources across your digital footprint — to know you better than any ad network or social media graph does.
Seems prudent to point out this isn't the product of a disgruntled's weekend project with fancy webdesign.

This is a product from MSCHF which is a $100M+ startup [1]

(feels like they're getting a bit of an astroturfed free ride of prime PR on HN because folks may not realize who is behind this)

[1] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/279769-42
Originally when Tesla was on the verge of collapse, the self driving technology waa high risk, high reward tech that will kill someone but the company was in the negative. If that killed Enough people, declare bankruptcy and investors lose money.

However today, isn't Tesla profitable now? They already have created a Veblen good, what benefit does Tesla get out of a high risk feature?
>Some people can take questions for what they are, an actual quest for understanding.

When your question is accompanied by the suggestion that you know better than the developers how they should be spending their time, it doesn't come off as a quest for understanding.
Easier to understand video about this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
If you are a farmer your entire life revolves around planting your crops with heavy machinery[0], fertilizing[1] your crops with heavy machinery, harvesting your crops with heavy machinery, and then transporting your crops to storage/processing by truck, rail, or barge. All of which require massive fossil fuel inputs. So I would say "completely upending their life" is a fair assessment.

Edit: Would love to hear your detailed alternatives though.

[0]: Requires lots of fuel.

[1]: Fertilizer is a produced from natural gas or mined using heavy machinery.
They would need to do something about housing, but that’s not as big of an issue as the other infrastructure. The last time it was a tiny bit of a fiasco with the U of U dorms/housing, but I’m sure AirBnB would be a huge hit.

SLC is a no-brainer for winter sports, I’m not sure if it’s still the case but olympic athletes used to also attend Westminster for free too, so a lot of athletes lived there year round anyway.
Anyone know if property rights in India are weak or solid?
Application virtualization is a godsend for Windows - the only way to escape DLL hell or isolate authentication domains in apps that make bad assumptions.

Think Docker, but for desktop operating systems and not as complicated as Docker.

Microsoft bought the granddaddy - SoftGrid - SoftGrid's technology is the underpinnings of App-V, which is a great solution for Windows software deployment for enterprise Microsoft shops.

There are a few other solutions - one of the more promising is Sandboxie: https://sandboxie-plus.com
Well worth looking into if you are having issues like the OP was raising.

Yes, you probably shouldn't have to resort to solutions like this - but at least there are potential options even if they are sub-optimal!
It's on par with local options when it comes to ease of use.

As for the sellers, I either know them due to their other online presence, or I select them based on how good the descriptions are on the items they sell from a technical perspective. Reviews are also useful, especially those with more text, photos, and some technical comments.
It's mostly high margin vegetables and spices. Look up gotham greens for a successul and properly done indoor ag startup.

Generally tomatoes and maybe peppers have enough margin and volume to be justify indoor settings.

Things like nuts are a no-go or any sort of wheat/cotton/maize/soybean operation (even specialty applications like edamame have severe uphill battles to profitability)
DYOR (Do Your Own Research), don't fomo into coins just because they are pumping in price. Read through their code (or how many contributors, how much contributions it gets, etc) which is something that you can't do with current financial system and if any of those projects don't open source their code, stay as far away as possible. Inspect the on-chain data to see how much is it actually used, etc. Look at Google Trends, look at their community sizes, etc.

There's a lot of datapoints that you can use or you can find reliable people and rely on their judgments. Also, if you're simply looking for investment, you can't go wrong with BTC/ETH portfolio, they have been proven to work over many years now and most of the remaining altcoins are correlated with them in price anyways.
the FOIA documents paint a different picture than the blog.
If this persists annually, it could result in another selective event like what happened with peppered moths in Sheffield during the Industrial Revolution:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36424768
I believe they keep bare soil under hazelnuts because they harvest by collecting the fallen nuts.
Epubs Gratis
What Does It Take to Be a Tech Giant?
>> To request this information yourself, visit FOIAonline

Apparently link has been changed since article publication.

https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/request
Wait till you read the stats and see videos of what humans driving cars regularly do!
>coolestcooler

The hyper expensive cooler segment of society is one I never would have predicted / don't understand.
If we’re talking about developpers, “navigation” would be straight bribing I guess.
Copyright infringement isn't theft or stealing. It's copyright infringement. If you could walk down the street and make a copy of any car you see for free you wouldn't deprive the owner of the car of his property. By copying you deprive the designer of the car the right to the scarcity of cars with his design. The problem is that we need to pay designers for R&D otherwise they stop designing cars.

>Stealing software is just as bad.

Stealing software the same way people steal physical would require the thief to delete all copies of the codebase. This happens through ransomware, not piracy.
Axiom.ai (YC W21) is hiring an automation developer (remote)
The fact that a presumably average or not too far from average human can <clutches pearls> "weave at 90 mph through traffic yesterday, swerving back and forth between lanes inches from other peoples cars" should tell you how wide of a gulf there is between human operators and current FSD tech, which will dodge road debris only if it looks like a car, person, cyclist or traffic cone.
That Elizabeth Holmes cherub! OMG best part of my morning.

https://deadstartuptoys.com/_nuxt/img/cherub-animate.319d6a4...
Ask HN: What happened to the zedstore and zheap projects?
For reference:

https://github.com/greenplum-db/postgres/tree/zedstore

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/zheap-reinvented-postgresql-storage/

I have been really excited to see some new implementations of storage engines in Postgres ever since the new pluggable storage api was introduced. There has been quite a bit of excitement around these two projects in particular, and I was looking forward to being able to use them myself. However, I ran across this interview with a Postgres contributor, which claims that development has virtually stopped.

https://postgresql.life/post/daniel_westermann/

Is anybody here involved in these projects? Can you comment on their progress? Have the projects been abandoned?
8 weeks of lifestyle behavioral could reverse epigenetic aging
Yea, that's the major problem. I'd prefer just some sort of inline helper that could point directly to documentation, topics, stack overflow answers that might be helpful for whatever I'm developing. An enhanced "Intellisense" or something. That to me, is better, because ultimately it's up to the developer to place scrutiny on the solution. You basically can't blindly accept the implementation which makes this just a constant code review, of yourself? I dunno. This just seems half-baked
Another (modern) example: SIMD instructions.
It will be interesting where we draw the line on "good enough".

I think people will naturally be much more critical of a car than human drivers even if "overall" they are statistically safer.
> I don't think Apple currently does this for pods?

There are comments on Reddit by Apple store employees who claim there's absolutely no repair policy for Apple pods, That they go straight to the bin.
> Our ecosystems out here in the west won't withstand another couple of decades of this.

Which is unfortunate because even if we dropped emissions to zero tomorrow, we would still be in for a few more decades of escalating climate crisis.

In the grand spectrum of what's already be chosen as far as climate change goes, this is just the very, very beginning. Our chance to act to prevent what we're seeing now was 30-40 years ago.
But I started this thread talking about students pirating these cheap textbooks, which got hijacked to feed the expensive textbooks narrative.
same, I like go and I like channels in theory but they are too primitive in practice. I am much more likely to use waitgroups and errgroups than anything with raw channels
Guardianship: The most undercovered issue of our time?
That is not the option in front of us as voters, or as a nation.

The poor and first nations communities have not been well served by the current paradigm, and in fact the best outcome for them is generally left leaning policy that actually honors seniority of water rights, enforcement of environmental laws, and policies that support critical first nations fisheries and other resources (stop damming salmon runs, displacing the tribes and selling the water and power to large corporate farmers would be a great start).

It is the political right that has largely trampled the poor and first nations into the dust over the past decades, on both sides of that border.
You guys can downvote?!
Taking selfies in an apple store reminds you of child murder? You consider these things the same, or even similar?

Hrm, yeah, based on that I'm not going to consider your opinion very important.
The art collective behind this project, MSCHF, has done some pretty interesting stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF
Less talked about is CBL-D, a Deb packaging based Microsoft Debian distro that powers Azure Cloud Shell. https://rasmusg.net/2020/12/01/updates-to-cloud-shell-docker...
I agree with your analysis, but there's a little more to it. Indirectly, there are two important ways in which end users benefit significantly:

1. Higher likelihood that the app will be available at all on their platform.

2. Companies/developers are able to direct resources more to features end users are actually interested in, vs spending on rebuilding for multiple platforms.

I think both Discord and VS Code are pretty solid examples of this. The rate at which they delivered their extensive feature sets to mac/win/linux felt like something totally new: I don't recall any other case of seeing such high quality, complex software show up for multiple platforms so suddenly in that way. (Of course I'm very intentionally saying 'felt' here—I have no objective measure)
US government I assume.
The links between hibernation, poly-unsaturated fats, and obesity
There are also third party solutions like https://sandboxie-plus.com

If you are a Microsoft Enterprise customer App-V is pretty amazing (technology they got when they acquired Softgrid)
>Sure. Worth mentioning cars are also insured, so there is no loss for the owner as they get a "refund".

The owner of the copyright infringed car would just download his copy of the car again from the manufacturer. Why would insurance be involved?
This is pretty sweet, was always looking for a way to compare prices across all platforms to find the best value deals

Seems like its mainly for luxury / higher end cars right now, any chance of doing a lower to mid tier price range for some decent cars?
No one's saying it will be fun. They're saying it needs to be done
> World’s largest solar plant goes online in China

And the irony is that such a power plant is an extreme strategic and economic resource. During wartime you no longer have to worry about how to import ever dwindling fossil fuels. During peace time, you have limitless negotiation power.

Majority renewable energy would likely push a country into a realm that is far beyond a superpower. And China seems to have caught on to this - they have probably realized how much money they are burning while securing coal reserves around the world (e.g. Zimbabwe).
If you're a UI/UX designer, and this area excites you, please drop me a line.

We're tackling this exact problem at Yard Stick (https://www.useyardstick.com/) - developing a new way to measure soil carbon that is fast, accurate and affordable, with backing by ARPA-E and in collaboration with the Soil Health Institute.

Later this week, I'm going to post a contract-to-hire position. In the meantime, email me at evan@useyardstick.com
OLPC was far from the least effective charity though. It could have diverted funds from an even worse charity.
The stuff I linked above I thought was good.

Unfortunately, as is becoming more and more true in our pretty weird modern inter-connected world there's no substitute for getting your own hands dirty, reading primary sources and trying to understand what's true and what's bullshit yourself. Only then can you really evaluate who is worth listening to and what is actually interesting (I found the above stuff I linked to be good, but you should judge them for yourself).

The 'investment' bit is kind of secondary (https://soliditylang.org/), I personally think BTC, ETH, and Coinbase stock are the main long term bets - other stuff has extreme risk and requires a lot of attention to know if it's worthwhile or not. I do think the ZCash privacy model is cool.

Basically, I wouldn't invest unless you're going to sort through the nonsense yourself. Though like any investing the stuff where the value is harder to see is also where the bigger returns are (and the bigger failures).
I'd be happy to hear a third option. How do we have a working democracy if so many people believe fake news and we don't ban it?
Let's talk about how pirates affected the development of Los Angeles
Maybe not: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/greenl...
This has been a common assertion about Tesla's "leadership" in the field - that they can learn from all the cars, push updates, and obviously not have to experience the same issue repeatedly.

It's far from clear, in practice, if they're actually doing this. If they have, it would have to be fairly recent, because the list of "Oh, yeah, Autopilot always screws up at this highway split..." is more or less endless.

GM's Supercruise relies on fairly solid maps of the areas of operation (mostly limited access highways), so it has an understanding of "what should be there" it can work off and it seems to handle the mapped areas competently.

But the problem here is that the learning requires humans taking over, and telling the automation, "No, you're wrong." And then being able to distill that into something useful for other cars - because the human who took over may not have really done the correct thing, just the "Oh FFS, this car is being stupid, no, THAT lane!" thing.

And FSD doesn't get that kind of feedback anyway. It's only with a human in the loop that you can learn from how humans handle stuff.
...and most Right to Repair proponents aren't dying on it.

The majority of Right to Repair is about preventing artificial restrictions. Such as contracts with suppliers that prevent them from selling parts to third parties.

Very few people are talking about changing the design of products to be more repairable. This is Right to Repair, not Right to Products Designed for Easy Repair.
I’d be curious to know what benchmarks you’re using on which O0 is only 5% slower. I suspect your program must be almost entirely IO-bound, if this is the case. In that case, Python, Ruby, or shell probably wouldn’t be much slower either.
So, really, you agree that science cannot justify the cruelty of fat shaming? As you said, it’s value neutral.

Which part of my comment says I’d like science to spare people’s feelings?

Show me the science that justifies fat shaming and inappropriate behaviour.

Fat shaming somebody because “science” doesn’t make you any less of shit person. In fact, you can’t really use any science to excuse poor behaviour.

So I think we might be in violent agreement? Do you talk to your mother like that when you misunderstand her? Wow.
Using a British chip architecture.

I don't think a sudden Apple competitor is at all likely to appear either, but not from any country, nothing really significantly making it more or less likely from the USA or UK (or Germany or Canada or ...) IMO.

With the exception I suppose that perhaps it is more likely from China than anywhere, public perception really soured but you could imagine Huawei (or Xioami or whatever) phones could've gotten popular. (They can never seem to get fonts and branding 'right' though? I don't understand why they don't hire 'western' branding consultants, even dirt cheap students, just to get some feedback on the way things look. It wouldn't take much to be able to charge a lot more for the obviously identifiable tat on Amazon (and also all over AliExpress).)
In which world were people content about the current forms of expression? The boundaries of it were pushed since time eternal.
Full transparency is in the "DNA of crypto" imo, and shady dealings being out in the open is definitely a check against "crony capitalism." However, beyond the surface, claiming that crypto will clean up corruption is laughable.
>This seems to be the input-level dual of the meme that reading from physical paper leads to greater retention than from a computer screen. I'm curious as to what the cause could be for this one, as it seems less intuitive than the writing case.

One of the possible reasons would be that we consume text content on paper differently than on the screen.

Another reason would be that when you read text on paper you engage with a unique physical object. Engaging multiple senses and adding more cues/anchors helps with creating stronger connections in your brain and improves memory retention.

That's also probably why writing things down with a pen helps you remember more and for longer--more parts of your brain are involved in the process of note taking.
The Olympics are usually money losers unless they are overcommercialized like the Atlanta/Coca-Cola olympics in 1996.BThisbmeans you have fewer non-Oligarchs willing to host them.
That was a neat one.

I never thought it would go anywhere because who would buy hardware just for that? But I did kinda admire that they tried.

One of those 'oh man great idea ... oh no I don't think it will ever work' kinda situations.

It was very much a fun early mass consumer days of the internet kinda shot in the dark / fun to me.