skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive been saying this for over a decade: we're working on the wrong problem right now with autonomous vehicles. Their chief obstacle is operating on the roads with humans. They need dedicated infrastructure where only autonomous vehicles operate. Anything short of this will be implemented in very restrictive, small, niche areas and never become the new way most people move around. Tesla and Uber, et al have taken this as far as it will go without infrastructure in my opinion.

I think we'll be on the right track when city planners reclaim some of our current roads and make them available only to autonomous vehicles. They'll need their own garages, highways and streets to operate to fully realize it. For example, FSD vehicles can be moved to dedicated streets similar to how alleys work in many cities currently (where they're largely routes for maintenance and utilities -- removing them from normal commuter traffic).
I want one of those soccer balls with an inbuilt dynamo. Or those tiles tested in UK schools that harvest power from footsteps. I'm thinking of a similar website for all the failed products that tried to use children as a source of electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empower_Playgrounds

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/28/the-soccket-is-an-electric...

https://theswitch.co.uk/energy/guides/technology/energy-harv...
Agreed. I got distracted half way through because of how much mindless scrolling i was doing. I had to switch to the sidebar to even get to the end, super frustrating.
On some tasks that’s true. I was making a generalisation rather than defining an absolute.
If you are still buying groceries from supermarkets, it is in your best interest to change that habit and buy organic only. Food co-ops usually tend to store organic only so they are great places to buy your groceries.

Organic ensures that the soil where your food came from had no prohibited substances (most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) applied for three years. Chances are, if you are buying food from supermarkets without the organic label, your food probably came from a farm that uses unhealthy synthetic fertilizers that may attribute to health issues later down the road.

Unless you know your restaurant is cooking with organic food, they are probably not so it is best to eat out sparingly and learn to cook with your own delicious food with your organic ingredients.

If you want to step up your game, you could also buy organic clothes (aka clothes that came from plants / animal) that came from soil without prohibited substances. Your body is covered most of the day so it's better to be on the healthier side.

Obviously, the label "organic" doesn't mean you are getting the best because there is still alot of room for improvement. Organic still allows some form of pesticides and fertilizers and has next to nothing about the organic matter in your soil (which determine how nutritious your food would be).

The article mentions regenerative organic certification, which addresses the shortcomings for organic labels. If we, as consumers, demand for the highest quality food, it turns out to be good for the soil and the long term health of the earth too!

Hands down, if you have a space for your own garden or even pots at home, you could easily grow food that are more nutritious than any food you can find in a grocery store. Optimize for organic matter in your soil. The higher the organic matter, the more nutritious your food is. Most of the agricultural soil that grows food has about 3-6% organic matter, you can easily get it above 10% at home. So if you have time on your hands, you should try growing the food you eat most regularly at home.
atrium was really bad my dude.
Intro to Bottlerock OS, purpose-built for running containers
There is place for ethical discussions in tech, but international standards are not the appropiate place or tool to push your push your vision of ethics.
> Blake runs Thiel Capital, a multi-billion dollar firm that invests in new technology companies, and the Thiel Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that promotes science and innovation.
Dave Montgomery posits that soil degradation has determined the lifespan of past civilizations. At the rate that plowing erodes soil it takes about 1000 years to deplete the resource to the point of desertification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQACN-XiqHU
I think it's because `Either a b` contains all of `undefined`, `Left undefined` and `Right undefined`. In other words, a technicality.
Since bing on Keto for a few months I've noticed a lot of the keto friendly processed foods are close enough to the real thing that it really makes me wonder why companies are not making their products lower carb to begin with. Obviously it costs more, but maybe at scale it doesn't. I suspect companies want higher carbs so people feel hungrier and eat more which in turns means they buy more.

Take for instance this Nick's brand ice cream. It's 7 net carbs per pint and texture and flavor is pretty much identical to 'real' ice creams out there.

Franz makes a wonderful 0 net carb bread (and hamburger and hotdog buns now which are honestly just as good as the regular cheap buns).

Not saying companies need to strive to be 0 carb, that's crazy. If they just stopped putting 50g of sugar in everything that alone would go a long way. Ps: Allulose/Psicose is amazing.
From the site:

"Blake runs Thiel Capital, a multi-billion dollar firm that invests in new technology companies, and the Thiel Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that promotes science and innovation. The Foundation’s Thiel Fellowship Program has paid 225 young people to drop out of college and instead create new companies, which are together now worth more than $45 billion."
I imagine most farmers don't have the equipment to sprinkle all their crops at the same time, normally they'd rotate what's being sprinkled. So they'd only be able to pick a small amount to save
Barring the use of unsafe, Rust gives you more guarantees about containing low quality code behind good interfaces, so in Rust, one should do the thing in the most expedient manner and then can revisit it after the program is working.

Working code can be iterated on, by multiple people. Non-functioning code cannot. Having a repo in state that can be shown functional by a CICD pipeline is the equivalent of achieving a chain reaction and freezing to death. Light that fire.
I actually agree with you. It's purely a math problem. Where can predictable yield be profitable (including loss calculations) and where can it not.

Vertical as it is today is an excellent nursery solution to feed growable plants into float ponds with little to no loss. As an independent production method, vertical isn't mathematically sustainable.

40% of fresh food is lost before it makes it to the end user (USDA data). The loss comes from a combo of unpredictable weather, timing issues where market prices dip below production costs at harvest time, and supply chain issues.

So it's a complicated math problem but it's important to consider in the suite of food security tools we look to.

Absent regen, we're likely to decimate soils over generations. If we flip totally to regen, we won't have enough land.

So a host of solutions is required.
We need infill housing as well. Controlled burns and housing forced into the wildland-urban interface won't mix.
Yes, and teaching such very abstract things is very different from teaching flight.
Silas House is a true American treasure. I’m so glad that this made it to the Hacker News home page.
The little I understood about Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart was really interesting. It's about the effectiveness of simple heuristics sometimes outshining sophisticated methods and really thriving in the unknown. Also, it's a bit weird that Gerd Gigerenzer doesn't usually appear in the same circles as Kahnemann does. His Wikipedia page alone would tell you this and his research really adds a nice counter-weight to the argument of irrationality of human minds.
>I mean I've heard it many times [1, 2, 3].

Opinion pieces in mainstream outlets isn't exactly representative of "the community". The dates for those articles are also quite recent, within the last 3 years or so. Where are all the bitcointalk topics from 2011 (ie. "a decade" ago) where everyone collectively thought it was going to end wealth inequality?
Not sure what led to the downvotes, but page is broken for me too.
Chromebooks simply took over the netbook market which was already established by the time OLPC got some publicity. I think OLPC failed because it became more about proving that tech and "bold ideas" from silicon valley could change the world, instead of seriously addressing issues in the third world – it reminds me of the PlayPump.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/the-playpump-wh...
How do you know the beta drivers did not get training?
Even with e.g. it doesn't make much sense.
Can you explain the risk with regards to no-cors requests? Like presumably an attacker requesting an image isn't scary, right? I'd think the real issue would be the attacker making credential'd requests.
"Open Source" means the source code is accessible, usually to the entire public. "Closed Source" means the source code is not accessible.

Whether the source is open or not does not limit what type of license that can be applied to it. For example, I can write a program and not release it to any other soul and give it an MIT license. Conversely I could publish code on github available to the public and apply a very strict license.
Yeah, but it's true. The period during which white settlers arrived in the American west was ridiculously wet. This presentation is a little irritating, but if you scroll about 80% of the way down you'll see the chart of tree ring data that shows tree growth was at a 1000-year exceptional peak during the 20th century.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/jun/...

Edit: Here's a more accessible version of the graph: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/314/tab-figu...
Twibble Needs a New Home
After years of cruising along on autopilot, it's time to find Twibble a new home. It's either that, or just pull the plug. If anybody's interested, please write me at marc at twibble dot io.
Can't they just transfer their coins to different wallets then withdraw from there?
That's what I did.
needs a kozmo scooter w/matching bag
All this talk of geoengineering solutions seem to miss one crucial detail: who's paying for it? We can't even make people agree on carbon tax.

With any money available, we can build solar/wind farm, which is a proven method of fighting AGW (and it even pays for itself these days!) and we can't even do that fast enough.
Honestly I would avoid asking Internet forums for advice, you paint yourself as a target

HN is probably fine, I just feel bad for anyone who learns about crypto on YouTube and asks a newbie question in the comments - they are swarmed by bot armies recommending “investment strategies” over WhatsApp
If Copilot isn't showing exact copies of code it's seen, how is it able to produce code that mostly work? E.g. Copilot code from the article:

function getPhase() {
var phase = Math.floor((new Date().getTime() - new Date().setHours(0,0,0,0)) / 86400000) % 28;
if (phase == 0) {
return "New Moon";
} else if (phase == 1) {
return "Waxing Crescent";
}
// etc.

It feels like small incorrect modifications to any of the code here would completely break the function.

I've seen stories and articles written by GPT-3 where it will lose the plot and context on the way - in comparison Copilot doesn't suffer from this as much? How?
I get disappointed when I see someone build something cool, but maybe not commercializable, and the comments come in asking: “yeah, but how are you planning to monetize it”.

90% of the side projects I embark in are likely to have no commercial value, but are pretty cool, at least I’d like to think.
UpDown – Website Monitoring, Simple and Inexpensive
Posted it a day ago but only got 8 points hehe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27800381
Hire engineers who care about the product not the code
I don't even know where to begin with this one. Ever heard of IPOs? That seems like a pretty useful utility of the stock market.

Why even compare a "currency" to the stock market? They are two different things.
There are similar laws in some locales that offer similar levels of protection to malfeasance by private firms.
I think it is useful to read Freud primarily so that you can appreciate his influence on the history of ideas. The ideas themselves are not really of any contemporary interest, imo.
Note: I have neither read the book, nor knew about this issue before.

The following articles look relevant:

https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...

Per the following, not all types of priming are under controversy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)#Replicabi...
>This is a recent idea, dating back to the late 70s and implemented through the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. Before that research was research; development (and private research of course) was the province of business.

I don't think federal funding of research is that much older in the US, only really starting in the 50s apart from military research. How exactly were the early QM researchers funded anyway? (apart from Einstein's famous day job at the patent office). I know at least a few of them had fellowships at universities, meaning rich benefactors.
Does the Obsidian app auto update? I ask because that would be an avenue for future evil acquisition co to introduce mandatory syncing. They could introduce an update which downloads from your custom setup and uploads to their servers.

Their privacy policy also allows them to use personal information for the purposes of

> recommending products and services that Dynalist believes will be of interest and provide value to you
It works well for completing lines one by one.
I just write a few characters and it can often complete very well the lines.

Of course it will not write complete functions correctly.
Heh, Google's concern is far more visceral. Most people get an android phone and leave the defaults on, meaning that not only is all their textual data, like search and location kept by Google, forever. Things like their photos are uploaded from their phone to their account.
Woof. I don’t think you could stuff anymore fear and paranoia into a platform than that. “The schools are bad and getting worse”, “ A society that permits mass lawlessness is doomed. We are on that path”, “ Every day, we read about new legal and cultural attacks on our children” (won’t somebody please think of the children!?)

I live in AZ and I’m sure the idea of the strong jawed billionaire ready to lead humanity to a golden age will play well with certain sectors of the state and he may even win. It’s a shame he doesn’t have any actual policy statements especially when he discusses healthcare, where he says the Biden admin is pushing “dumb regulations” but then proposes a bunch of things that would only be fixed by regulation.
> you’ll end up bothering someone until they help you solve the problem

Haha, I discovered that with my bank. Phone calls were just dismissed with "we can't do anything about it" or getting repeatedly "transferred" to a dial tone.

Showing up and sitting in the branch manager's office until he fixed the problem worked. It was a $600 problem so it was worth the effort.
Seattle-area resident here. Fir trees are browned on the top-sides of their branches and native shrubs and bushes have taken a bad beating from the heat. A large fraction of deciduous trees look like they would in fall. Anything near asphalt is close to dead. I measured 162F on our driveway asphalt, sufficient to cook meat.

As a once every few decades event, this is not a big deal, the vegetation will recover. However, if this happens once every 2-3 years, the Pacific NW tree cover is in deep trouble. I can see it changing from evergreen to deciduous over time if the trend continues.
I think it's more human social dynamics. A human taking your photo is an active action, probably a dominance one on top of that, and a lot of human social instincts kick in.

A faceless computer, doing it in the background environment outside of your perception unless you really dig in under the hood triggers none of that. It's the same reason why most humans are not anxious about the footprints they leave in the sand on the beach, because it feels about the same.

A lot of the rich and powerful understand this dynamic well, and use environmental stonewalling to say no to people vs. a direct human interaction.
I don't think that's necessarily true. There are plenty of people in the AV space that routinely drive significantly better than this and are already doing completely driverless service in some geofences.

The problem with Tesla's approach has always been that Elon wanted to sell it before he actually knew anything about how to solve it. It's lead to series of compounding errors in Tesla's approach to AVs.

The vehicle's sensor suite is woefully inadequate and its compute (yes, even with the fancy Tesla chip) is woefully underpowered... all because Elon never really pushed to figure out where the boundary of the problem was. They started with lane-keeping on highways where everything is easy and pre-sold a "full self-driving" software update with absolutely no roadmap to get there.

To overcome the poor sensor suite and anemic compute, they've boxed themselves into having to invent AGI to solve the problem. Everyone else in the space has happily chosen to spend more on sensors and compute to make the problem computationally tractable, because those things will easily get cheaper over time.

I'm fairly convinced that if Tesla wants to ship true FSD within the next decade, the necessary sensor and compute retrofit would nearly bankrupt the company. The only way out is likely to slowly move the goal posts within the legalese to make FSD just a fancy Level 2 driver assist and claim that's always what it was meant to be.
Agreed. Let me drop some references about the relationship between Haskell and Category Theory that really helped me untangle these concepts, in case it might help others.

[1] Haskell/Category Theory https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory#cite_n...

[2] Bauer 2016, "Hask is Not a Category" http://math.andrej.com/2016/08/06/hask-is-not-a-category/

[3] A reddit comment in response to #2, https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4wk0gs/hask_is_not...

[4] StackOverflow, "Is Hask even a Category?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48485660/is-hask-even-a-...
So jealous of you guys south, Up here in Alberta I would love to have some blackberries. We pay about $4-5 CAD for a handful of them in stores.
If the seed is grown locally you can add "has adaptations to local environment" to that list.
I am a refugee from Iran. And reading this webpage, I feel he makes some good points. Throughout my life, I've seen the U.S. bomb brown people. He writes that he wants to stop such interventions. That is something I can get behind. As well as education being more like progressive indoctrination. I wish he would also make a point about the U.S. prison system, which seems deeply flawed and inhumane.
The only place I would agree with you is when someone accidentally shadows an `err` variable. Although, I'd probably attribute this more to shadowing than the error handling itself.

Other than that, I can't think of any way the error handling subtly introduces bugs.
wait until climate-induced mass famine hits them. Literally no one is going to give a shit about languages, cultures, or nations when hundreds of millions are dying of starvation.
>You are using the literal interpretation of the word brick to be ridiculous.

No, I'm not. I mean it in the sense you're referring to and, again, you know that. No one in their right mind would infer that I meant an actual brick. You're so insufferable and dishonest, Louis.
Okay, which part of my comment says that fat shaming should be used to suppress science?

Which part of my comment says that it’s wrong? It IS a simplified view and there ARE many more variables that influence the success of dietary change. And there are even more that influence the wider obesity problem. But that doesn’t mean I’m saying it’s wrong.

As you said, the sky is blue. Is that wrong? No. Is it simplified? Yes, sometimes it’s grey. Sometimes it’s a deep blue. Sometimes it’s pretty much black. But, generally speaking, yeah it’s blue.

Is CICO the solution to the obesity epidemic? No, because it’d have worked to reduce the epidemic by now. It’s clearly _not_ the only thing we need to solve the epidemic. There is a difference between the method to lose weight and the solution to the obesity epidemic. The latter has many more variables in play.

Next time you contradict an obese person who “says CICO is wrong”, make sure they’re actually saying it’s wrong.

I am, however, glad you wouldn’t run up to people and shout “calories in / calories out”. That‘s a relief.
That's not how it works. Climate change might lead to a modest average temperature increase in the northern parts of Canada and Russia but that is not necessarily going to make those places arable because along with climate change comes a dramatic increase in variability.

As we just saw in the PNW/BC heat bubble, climate change is not just an increase in average temp, it is a dramatic and worrisome increase in the standard deviation of temperatures. Which means here in Canada and in continental climates like Siberia there will be dramatic swings in temperature, forest fires, and drought. That is, there will still be extreme cold temperatures in the winter, just not reliably so, and summers could be all over the map.

It's already happening. Heat waves in April followed by very late frosts in May, for example. Hard to farm in those conditions, trust me.

Not to mention melting glaciers and declining snowpack means in the longer/medium term the rivers which provide the water for these vast continental regions dry up or shrink dramatically. See the Columbia Icefields / Athabasca glacier and the Bow glacier in western Canada. Not a good situation. Just came back from the Columbia Icefields and it's... as depressing as usual. Can't even walk up to the ice anymore like when I was last there a decade ago.

I'll just stay here in the great lakes, lots of water for now.
showing my age but the 80s B-52s are one of my favorite bands. The songs are so playful and about different topics. Song about cleaning the house. Song about wearing a wig. Song about Mesopotamia. Song about sex under a strobe light.

I'd love recommendations for similarly fun bands.

Not comparable in style but maybe in crazy topics are They Might Be Giants and Aquabats.
People absolutely get through school and business meetings with smartphones.

If you visit a community college or know someone who teaches at one, a surprisingly high percentage of students do their homework and write papers entirely on their phone. It's kind of amazing.
Hey HN, I'm the author of this blog post.

In my experience there are two types of engineers: ones who care more about the code (code-first) and ones who care more about the product (product-first).

I strongly favor hiring and working with product-first engineers.

Curious what you think.
You mean the Walgreens locations that remain.

Walgreens closed 17 stores in SF in the last 5 years. The on-the-record reason given for the closures, in statements to the city council, is petty theft.

CVS is closing stores in similar numbers and has stated that SF is "one of the epicenters of organized retail crime". In many instances the stores security guards were physically assaulted.
It would be interesting to have a List trait and a cons operation on that trait and one could swap out for different list implementations. A DebugList might keep track of operation on the list and recommend allocation hints or operations that could be sped up.

One could absolutely use a Dequeue or some other optimized structure for a Lisp list, really depends on how the code is written.