skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was and am always too lazy to go back after the recording. But I found that for me, my half-learned dialect of Teeline shorthand is enough for me to keep up with speakers...when they are not speaking especially fast. I'd speed up more if I got used to cutting out vowels and doing phonetic spellings and brief forms like the Teeline Fast book says to do, but like the sibling comment says, that can slow me down even more as I try to figure out what is being said -> how to make it phonetic -> oh crap he's moved on, lets jump back to the newest offset.

I'd do Gregg shorthand but with my handwriting being so poor as is and the apparent risk that the writing can be ambiguous later, I went with a phonetic shorthand. Works for my 'threat model', write it down now, review now or in 10 years and you can translate it back.
I agree with your assessments, and your reply makes sense in the context of the above comments. Simply so that any readers arriving here that didn’t read the article arrive here, I just want to remind that these are not the fundamental complaints of the actual article itself, and are also unrelated to the proposed solution.
I have to disagree with your blanket statement.

In some cases what you say is true, the cheap clone is piggybacking on the R&D of someone else. Yet the situation is definitely not so clearcut in the case of many development boards.

The heart of a development board is the MCU. Assuming a genuine component is being used, the software stack is typically provided by the vendor of the MCU. The supporting circuitry is either well known or provided in the vendor's datasheets. In the case of basic boards, there is not much R&D happening.

It is also worth noting that the software stack for many boards is open source. Let's ignore the compilers. They're typically based upon GCC, thus open source, but they are typically supported by the MCU vendor which is supported by MCU sales. Consider something like Arduino and MicroPython. Some board vendors undoubtedly invest in them, but it is open source. Others can use the products of their labours. Equally important, others can contribute to them. The board vendors who invest in the software also benefit from contributions.

On top of all of that, Chinese firms aren't the only ones making clones and Chinese firms do more than create clones. For example: I haven't heard anything about Espressif parts being clones of original brands.
With an AOT compiler a lot of work is done at compile time, but with JIT it is done at runtime, which makes these programs slower to start. But for programs that do run for a longer time, like servers or IDE's the performance is quite decent. But Java is a memory safe language which means that it has to do a lot of checks that unsafe languages do not have to do, which means that it will always be slower that unsafe languages. In some cases the JIT can eliminate those safety checks, but that is not always possible.

Java always had (and still has) an AOT that compiled to byte code. Adding JIT was a major improvement.
In one of the technical videos a Tesla engineer presented, I remember the (paraphrasing) quote that the car has no memory and sees the same intersection for the first time, every time. It sounds intentional, as part of their strategy to not rely upon maps etc.
Reminds me of when I was in high school. I found a terminal emulator for my HP48G, built a serial cable to connect it to my 2400 baud modem. I was able to use it to check my email in physics class. Of course I was only able to do that once; the modem was three or four times the size of the calculator with lots of blinkenlights on it, and trailing a phone cable half way across the classroom isn’t very subtle.
The problem is the court system is too inefficient and expensive so you can't reasonably sue any company who does you wrong without having an 8 figure + bank account.
reason why we link bonuses to documentation weighted for responsibilities for business continuity. but we make junior devs break the back of the writing (long form not code comments) precisely to develop understanding and appreciation for the scope of inadvertent misunderstanding and errors. we paid overtime rates for sick days used to produce documentation until it was rather taken advantage of by post commit blow out hangovers leveraging the difficulty with getting really hard problems out of one's head following a real impasse - this encouraged a post mortem culture of celebration of heroic failures of increasingly marginal prowess, although I would have liked to keep the practice with a little bit more review or limit.
Well I needed to pipe the output to dd either way. You’re correct gunzip piped to dd works just as well. I’m a reason useless cat is a thing. =)
> I was like "yeah, im doing well professionally, making money - but at the end of the day, it was just "we produce nothing of intrinsic value"

I think it depends on what you work on. For example, I once created a small program to split some file for my mother. She uses it every day at work and saves ~30 minutes of manual work. It's a source of pride for me. She can use that time to work on more substantial things, maybe come out of work earlier sometimes, and in general avoid some mind-numbing work. Many people use computers these days, and by being programmers we have a lot of power in our hands. You can reason that saving a bit of time will amount to nothing in the end, but it usually generates lots of positive feelings.
The right move is to route the coolant lines away from harmful road debris or add a shield or deflector. If the coolant line is the protection for the case, that sounds like a big mistake. The owner is indeed lucky that the bunge snapped off rather than crack the case, spilling gallons of toxic coolant all over the place and resting his un-burnt flesh in the failsafes of this battery monitoring system.

It really smacks of someone who hasn't designed a lot of cars. Not that I have designed even one, but of all the things that can go wrong, coolant line damage seems pretty obvious.

Teslas are full of weird stuff like this.
As pointed out in another comment, I think this is a case of US / UK difference in insurance jargon. Debris damaging the undercarriage would not be covered by the closest UK equivalent of collision insurance (CDW on rentals), as I understand it.

I also think insurance is a bit of a red herring here. You wouldn't claim on insurance for a flat tyre either; some things are just bad luck. It's the quality of engineering - what I do think is on topic - which controls the risk.
oh thanks for the shoutout!
Where do The Residents fit into this list?
The first paper detailing the Alcubierre drive required exotic particles with negative mass to achieve a spacetime bubble (soliton) which is an issue since particles with negative mass have never been observed. The next big paper figured out how to do it with regular matter and it brought the requirements down to the energy equivalent of four solar masses. That would put it squarely into the realm of a type II or III civilization (1 solar mass worth of energy is in the same ballpark as the amount a star puts out over its entire lifetime).

If this paper is correct, it brings the requirements down to a tenth of Jupiter's mass, which is probably somewhat achievable for a type I civilization. The Enterprise would be the size of a small gas giant to hold an equivalent amount of matter and antimatter. It'd be able to enter warp once.
Reminds me of this automated aquarium controller build from a now defunct personal blog!
https://web.archive.org/web/20140313035949/http://kill-9.me/...
C isn't in my mind close to the metal but potentially lets you be more sympathetic to the metal. Thanks for your drawing attention to this, I'm looking forward to reading.
Rossmann got a resolution! He posted an update video an hour ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKSt0RrrtdA
Google Facing yet Another Antitrust Lawsuit
This news distressed me. However, I'm glad to report that 14 states never stopped and/or restarted Cursive lessons according to [1].

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachussets

Mississippi

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

West Virginia

https://mycursive.com/the-14-states-that-require-cursive-wri...
I just want to point out that the article mentions the session issue upfront only to get it out of the way, and follows the session issue with its own set of interesting complaints.
The menu seems to be broken in mobile.
Same story for me. I remember him teaching me how to play as a kid while I stood on a stool between him and the machine at the local arcade.
Bush is long gone, but Obama and Trump continued the war.
Thanks for sharing this sentiment, vegetarian here who's been trying to read what I can about ecosystem restoration and such and it's really led to more balanced view around animals/meat consumption.

From your experience is it possible (in a farm context of a fixed amount of land) to just let the larger animals graze in such a way that they can live their natural lifespan? or are there concerns of species overpopulation (and ecosystem degradation) akin to deer on poorly managed land?
That's the thing. The software shouldn't have to "learn" fundamental basic real world shit like that. We KNOW that things don't just flicker in and out of existence. The system should be built on that premise from the start.
Couldn't the lease holder just buy the car from Tesla if they want to do weird stuff like this ?

I know I wouldn't want to buy an electric car if random guys been messing with the battery pack.

Edit , isn't the bigger story the insurance not covering it ?
Every spot of urban green space counts
I was thinking that originally, but in the 1930s?
Yeah... using Euler geometries to generate warp fields always seems like the obvious solution at first, until you wind up stranded in hyperspace with gimbal lock. That's why you need to use quaternions.
Are you sure that plants don't go through pain? How do you feel about the small animals that cows eat when they graze? I'm sure those little birds and insects feel some pain when the cows chew them up.
This makes me want to move out of CA as soon as possible.
Even this, for me, seems like a lousy excuse a politician would make. Even if true, a good politician should be able to convince the general public that this is a good idea. So far politicians that advocate for public transit as a remedy for our inevitable step away from fossil fuels are hard to find.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bears mentioning here a one of few who does. Among my local politicians, state senetor Joe Nguyen goes a step further and advocates for public transit as social justice issue (as well as a climate one).

The badies are easier to find. California Governor Gavin Newsom stresses the importance of tackling the climate crises, yet is not funding necessary infrastructure project which would make the transformation easier. Europe is also full of the Gavin Newsom types. And this is sad because most people are in favor of radical climate policies. So convincing the public of a good climate policy should be easy (this is also [probably] true of the west coast states).

In my opinion, if dealing with the climate disaster is as important as these politicians correctly claim it to be, then they should commit to it. Failing to do so reflects how bad they are at politics and honestly they should probably find a new career where they will do less damage.
> Sure, the people in your tribe may do bad things, but only in response to extraordinary circumstances.

Attribution Error gets doubly dangerous when combined with another cognitive bias, the Out-group Homogeneity Effect[0], which leads to the Group Attribution Error.[1]

This latter error leads people into thinking the characteristics of an individual group member are reflective of the group as a whole, so "When someone in my tribe does something bad, they're not really in my tribe (No True Scotsman / it's a false flag)" whereas "When someone in the other tribe does something bad, that proves that everyone in that tribe deserves to be punished".

I think the author is not exaggerating by suggesting that solving Attribution Error could dramatically change the outcome of human civilisation, but just identifying it as a problem isn't even half the battle. Perhaps the best we can do for now is develop some sort of polite shorthand for saying "You might be Attribution Erroring", which can be used for calling out bad news reporting, bad social media posts, and unhelpful framing of issues when people are having conversations. Then we need to train our brains to always be looking out for this problem, like a bad "code smell" when doing a code review.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_attribution_error
Handwriting notes is better when studying for a test….

study according to myself finds
Agreed on the restaurant part. I would actively avoid any restaurant that wanted me to use my phone to order.
Checking in with a TI-30X Pro and get the equivalent (sqrt(6)-sqrt(2))/4 also in mathematical notation. All of my work is saved when I turn the calculator back on. Plus I can just set a flag for imaginary mode without a separate complex app so everything works the same in both modes. The screen is higher resolution and the multi-tap entry is pretty darn sweet.
This kind of trouble is exactly why Rust's channels feel much more intuitive to me than Go's.

With channels in Rust, the channel is closed when either all senders or all receivers are dropped. This means that doing the default obvious thing is also correct, for a much larger set of tasks than made easy by Go's API choices, and it stays correct under refactoring.
I first heard of nomograms on Project Rho's page about calculating spaceship missions: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php#...

In addition to being practical calculators, they're amazing higher-order visualization tools.

http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/ has more info on how to create them in the context of tabletop wargames.
These engineers are actual ex-Tesla technicians, so it's a bit more than half-assing it.
As someone that decided to stay (even after getting visa sponsorship offers), not necessarily (although Uruguay is probably a "higher income country" these days).

Although the good contractors are SWAMPED for work, I definitely have to up my rate.
> 4 orders of magnitude less than the sun's mass does sound like a positive development - still a lot but less than before, right?

That’s something like 10^43 joules. Still not achievable anytime soon.
That's still N=1. He uses a single example, product search for t-shirts, but doesn't look at all the ways search actually got better. It's cherry picking.

There are firms which evaluate search quality by employing a huge corpus of queries and human raters. I trust those more than someone running a single query for a commercial search.

The reality is, the Web didn't stay static. If Google 2020 used the same exact search algorithm as Google of 2000, the results would be worse, because of all of the massive amount of noise and spam that's been added to the web since then, to say nothing of adversarial attacks. Google of 2020 is doing a hell of a lot to maintain freshness, index an exponentially bigger web, and defeat pretty much an army of blackhat SEO adversaries from spoiling it.

It's like saying Email spam is worse in Gmail or other clients. Compared to what? 30 years ago, there wasn't much spam being sent and spammers were unsophisticated. The fact that you see almost none these days, but still a few slip through, compared to standard IMAP in 1993 is irrelevent, because the email population was tiny back then.

I'll admit that the product search category in queries has over-the-top ads. But then again, this is the one area where even going back to 2000 era, Sergey and Larry justified ads by saying say that serving up keyword based ads is in a way, satisfying query intent. If I type in "toyota cars" and I get ads for 3 toyota car dealerships nearby, why is this completely wrong? It's very likely a strong buy signal.

Personally, when I'm doing product search, I go straight to Amazon, or I use Shopping.google.com (or Froogle back in the old days)

I can do my own cherry picking. For example, when looking for actual information, especially long tail information, Google search is way better than it was in the early 2000s, and unmatched by things like DDG.

Compare long-tail search vs DuckDuckGo. Try for example "the movie where a robot kid flies a spy plane". Google returns D.A.R.Y.L as top item. DDG doesn't even have it in the top 10. This is way bette than it was in 2000.

"who wrote the c64 game mule". DDG just gives me Wikipedia. Google gives me the Answer + Wikipedia plus related games to explore.

Or try "what is the moment of inertia of a disk", on DDG the snippet displayed in the first result is far less useful than the snippet Google displays. Plus Google shows actual diagrams in the results too.

Look, I'll be the first to admit they increased the # of ads for some queries (mostly product search, real estate, travel, etc) and are using questionable dark patterns that make ads harder to discern from non-ad content. But quite obviously to me, the non-ad query results have gotten ALOT better from 20 years ago, and it's just false memory nostalgia about how queries use to work on a much smaller, and non-commercial web, that thinks they were better.

I've been on the internet/web since the 80s. It was a marvelous time in the old days before commercialization, but also in many ways, it was far less useful and worse.
Mindfulness, Capitalism, and the Ethics of Compassion
Stargate is Defender 2. Some marquees even said Defender 2. It's by Jarvis and De Mar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(video_game)

Legend has it that the reason Stargate is so hard compared to Defender is because the one of the early test units ended up in an arcade where one of the best Defender players in the country hung out; when it came back to Williams with his scores filling the high-score table, they assumed this was because it was just too easy. So they fixed that.
The IRS is way understaffed. I imagine they aren't looking too hard.
All of this is wrong. Leaseholders are holding out for higher rents not because of taxes but because of property values and the corresponding loans they have.

If they rent out something for a discount, it will read to a reevaluation of their entire property, which would then lead to them being underwater and impossible for them to borrow more money.

This is true not just in New York but all of the US where property owners are heavily indebted and rely on debt to both grown and maintain their businesses.

Having to default means that they basically can’t borrow anymore and can’t continue their businesses.

It has nothing to do with taxes, which would drop if they rented out their property for less.
I still have my G1G1 XO-1. I don't know what to do with it in the long run, but to me it's still a fascinating tech footnote to play with.
Doesn’t the higher population affect both numbers? More UHauls are leaving CA than entering, even if both numbers are large. I think I see what you’re saying, that if you normalize per capita, they could be anywhere in the “net leaving” cohort. But it’s still a high number of UHauls going out for 5 years running.

There might be other factors. Maybe people leave CA with more belongings than they arrive with. Maybe new CA jobs pay for relocation, then people eventually do a self-serve move out of CA.

Still, I found it to be an interesting data point. The UHaul outflow date starting in 2016 corresponds to the SALT deduction reforms and the worsening annual fire conditions. Both seem like plausible “tipping point” factors to kick off an exodus, among other commonly cited issues.
Yeah, I didn't see that. I can't imagine what that does for accessibility.
> if you rent a car

Renting and leasing are different. If it really is a rental they should be able to return the car at any time and stop payments at no cost. They should not have to foot the bill for repair unless it was due to negligence. That's the whole point of renting.
$150 diagnosis fee.

$50 for the repair and overhead ($5 supplies after markup, 1/3hr labor to include testing the system for leaks after the repair)

$200 for being the only people able and willing to do the repair.

$300 because they know how much the only available alternative costs.
I personally do because my cursive is unreadable, even by myself.
There's also the counter-perspective of "wow, you must be rich" which is something I feel (but don't say) when someone has enough free time to build anything frivolous. I work full-time and freelance on the side because I have no financial support system and it's terrifying. I've burnt myself out a couple times and the only reason I kept going was the inevitability of financial ruin.
This is not even true.

New York is not dead last in recovery. It’s definitely in the top half of not better.

And to the extent the NYC economy has been damaged it’s entirely because NYC faced the brunt of COVID in the beginning snd because a larger part of its economy than many others is dependent on tourism and service industries that were most affected by Covid.
I LOVE this challenging thought experiment. (I was on "commenting too fast" restrictions (Shakes fist @Dang)...

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With that said - I love this question!

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The premise, as interpreted:

**"A self-teaching application which can adjust behavior and performance with minimal input"**

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Proposal A: [NMAP/PRISM/ETC for AI/ML systems] ((I'd be sure Palantir has this covered...))

This one will be long winded and off-the-cuff based on some work we did with tracking software in the past (people places, things, things-that-kill-people-places-and-things, etc)

I would like an AI awareness layer whereby an AI/ML system can locate adjacent 'other' systems and either silently learn - or actively map/learn etc...

We have had netmon tools for decades. I'd prefer a single firewall device;

I plug it in at home - and its my VPN/PROXY that ALL my familial devices run through. ALL.

So its just a simple VPN etc - all my mobile devices in the family of devices only route through my home device - which in-turn also keeps a small constellation of other nodes several hops out - such that BGP is sorta accomplished - cant get to primary node, go here instead.

I've designed SDNs on mass-fiber btwn HK, JP, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc...

Its doable (this is when Palo Alto Networks was just coming online with their product line...)

Doing this in a manner which utilized AI/ML/etc to more intelligently setup these systems...

Yes I could lead a team that does that....

Lets think this thing out into the zeitgeist and if its lame, then let it die - if it is not lame - then I will work with anyone who may want to explore it?
lol... I wonder if they have less crazy laws in North Korea...
Ah yeah. In the US, collision also typically applies to single vehicle collisions. (With the frequent exception of animal collision)
I was quite good at it in the 1980s, but I tried playing it a few years ago and was awful at it... and even after about 10 games, it wasn't coming back to me.