skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big part of needless complexity in programs comes from management. Most things I've done in enterprise software for various companies whether financial or food related are fairly simple underneath all the industrial specific uses. What gums up the works is many things management demands or misunderstands as feasible. First thing that comes to mind here is how often management wants a feature or a product and they want it sooner than what's feasible for the team or the amount of existing code available to achieve the demand. Then there's management's misunderstanding of what programs can do as I've had non-technical people tell me to write a program that would magically anticipate user responses to their inputs and I asked them how we would determine that? And there answer wasn't exactly clarifying. To me it was like they wanted Johnny Carson in a blue turban predicting the future. And finally, I've had management complain that our software doesn't look like a specific product which I told them we could mimic the style but not outright copy it due to potential copyright and trademark infringement. It really turns into a mess when devs and other people with relevant skills (even lawyers, artists, and designers) aren't allowed to do their job.
That's not a great comparison, since our focal area is different than that of cameras. I'm pretty sure anyone looking at the camera feeds in a Tesla wouldn't be confused either; this is a software problem.
Those two problems sound like they could differ substantially in perceived business value. Maybe it’s not how hard management think it is, but how valuable?
> Who has the mora authority to declare that Toyota should roll over and die to attain some goal that may or may not be achievable?

False dilemma. Toyota could start making EVs instead. If they decide to (stupidly) refuse to do that, then their death would be the result of their own stubbornness, not a declared death sentence from someone else.

And as far as who has the moral authority? Anyone who stands to face the harms of global warming and not profit off it.
I'm curious, would it be a violation if they instead invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect other contents of the laptop not acknowledged to exist?
No, having one less child makes sens as the first element on the list, as it's estimated to be up to 60 times more efficient than any other action when it comes to fighting global warming.

In fact, having too many children appears to be the single most destructive thing a person can to do to the environment.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
Ah my bad!
Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans: study
It's perhaps worth mentioning Mandos for unattended booting of servers with encrypted root https://www.recompile.se/mandos
You know, deep down, this makes you a bad person, right?
> This is exactly what reddit told its users to do

I'm not on reddit much these days but when I opened it just now I was able to downvote without choosing a reason? So I do not think it is using the system I described.

The ability of each user to chose what downvote categories they want to respect would be an important part of making the system harder to "game" (to the degree that one is "gaming" a voting system by voting).
Aye! That's it usually- electrolytes.
Thank you for your support and message.

I've never tried it myself but there several option to build a background jobs in serverless mode: Amazon EventBridge and CloudWatch Events. You can check the documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/S...

So, no need to plug any external service.

I'm totally bias but I love Serverless, you can do everything. Background jobs shouldn't stop you using Serverless ;)
Have you noticed that the whole purpose of life as a phenomenon is self-sustaining and proliferation?

Forcing lower numbers of humans is not unheard of; usually this is considered cruel. Mass killings aside, take a look at policies enforced by India and China in 1970-80s.

Choosing not to have kids is myopic: if your genes make you more conscious and thus caring about the planet as a whole, removing them from the gene pool lowers the chances that next generations would share these traits of yours.

The best medicine found so far is exactly what the ultra-green do not like: urbanization, education, higher standards of living, minimal numbers of people doing the traditional countryside agriculture. This puts reproduction rates safely below the replacement rate all over the world, no matter what culture and religion.
That does kind of look like a traffic light in haze or fog
But in foggy or dark situations, a yellow light can indeed appear as a floating yellow circle.
Why it doesn't just calculate moon's position given current date, time of day and coordinates?
Which of the above would solve this problem?
ESP32 doesn’t impress me by the things you said. The most impressive thing about ESP32 is the ESP-IDF and the amount of effort Espressif has put in to make it accessible, developed in the public and amazing progress over the years. Compare that to TI or ST, they look like they’re stuck with management issues and not getting out of the rut. It boggles my mind that HALs are still developed in isolation and not open source. WTF are these companies thinking. Microchip PIC platform is another dumpster fire.
most probably not really. Sane founder/s in a good market is a much better bet.
Great idea. While it may seem like XCode is complicated for young students, and PlayGrounds limited, the tools are very well done. The level of runtime and compile warnings while doing SwiftUI dev is amazing.
Train Neural Network on Cloud with One Line of Code
What Does Saying That 'Programming Is Hard' Really Say
Paul Le Roux probably isnt satoshi, but he is a very interesting person. The article series "The mastermind" goes into some depth about what he was up to:

https://magazine.atavist.com/category/Mastermind/
Recommended reading!
These "invisible disasters" are an almost daily occurrence in software, even within a single sector or geography. Multi-hundreds million dollar projects that are either severely malformed when launched or that collapse entirely before being placed in the hands of a user. I wrote a little about them in a previous post. Have things improved?
Silly question.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17844712
Could get by provided they had the right skin. If you read American novels up to about 1960 and pay attention to those high-melanin people you'll see a lot of "being stuck in a dead-end job".
> Tesla’s vision/ml systems are amazing

More importantly, they're the only ones accessible to the average consumer. Waymo/Zoox/Daimler all have equally if not more impressive systems.

A real issue with tesla is that they want to be vision-only, which is going to make getting to level 5 first almost impossible.

BTW - knowing where the moon is happens to be an extremely solved problem.
Remember that Dante is a continuation of the conversation started by The Iliad and The Odyssey (8th or 7th century BC), then continued by Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC).

Virgil was considered a prophet during medieval times, since his poem about a boy's birth ushering in a golden age was seen as a prediction of the birth of Jesus. Thus as both a poet and a symbol from Christianity, Dante used him as his guide.
Elon can't afford to put LIDAR on cars and sell them to a large audience. It's still too expensive. So instead, he makes excuses for why they don't do it while rolling out objectively worse perception systems.
They are distinct, but the ego’s attempt to rationalize what they are experiencing is often part of the same framework. Paranoia, delusions of grandeur, narcissism, me-against-the-world (victom-playing).

Drug abuse, criminality, and to a lesser extent - sheer failure at something, also lead to this framework. I failed this class because the education system sucks, I’m burnt out at work because my company sucks, etc. It’s so difficult to explain what’s happening, but somehow, across a variety of circumstances and pathologies, a similar framework emerges.

It’s curiously a human crutch.

I don’t envy shrinks, as they are confronted by the same framework by wildly different psychological explanations. And, it’s there job to find the dangerous ones that show up, needles in the haystack.
I wonder why nothing is said about the nuclear energy. You cannot just immediately abandon coal and switch to renewables.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
As I understand it Pfizer announced future booster business as COVID becomes endemic in their call with Barkley’s last spring.

https://s21.q4cdn.com/317678438/files/doc_downloads/Transcri...

“ what we believe, what I believe is as we move from a pandemic state, from a pandemic situation to an endemic situation, normal market forces, normal market conditions will start to kick in. And factors like efficacy, booster ability, clinical utility will basically become very important, and we view that as, quite frankly, a significant opportunity for our vaccine from a demand perspective, from a pricing perspective, given the clinical profile of our vaccine. So clearly, more to come here. But we think as this shifts from pandemic to endemic, we think there's an opportunity here for us.”
Veracrypt is not a contender for a commercial solution.

There are several different products on the market, and a variety of ways that native solutions like Bitlocker can be configured.
Lidar can be embedded in the headlights or on the rear view mirror; there is no need for ugly protrusions.
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The New Leaders of Remote Work Event – August 11
What's your source refuting all of these studies - c19ivermectin.com ?

+ Ivermectin mechanism: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422....

Quick Google search finds that.
Linkerd is now a CNCF graduated project
Swisscom as a older RSP probably is sitting on a huge block of IPv4 addresses, whereas newer RSPs usually have much smaller blocks. Hence older RSPs tend to continue with IPv4 as they have enough addresses to do this, whereas newer ones are pretty much forced to migrated to CG-NAT/IPv6 to conserve their IPv4 space. I see this here in New Zealand too: Spark, which was previously the state owned Telecom New Zealand, has so many IPv4 addresses they have done nothing at all in regards to IPv6 because they have no economic incentive to do so. In contrast, many of the other RSPs here have much smaller IPv4 blocks so CG-NAT/IPv6 is becoming the norm now for the smaller/newer RSPs.
> Computers sleeping with 11.5w

"Sleeping" is not the same as idle.

> Computers sleeping with 11.5w of power draw are banned (100kw/y depending on configuration), not 100w. That is more or less pushing a high end graphics card for 20 minutes. So a drop in the bucket for a workstation or gaming pc.

Even assuming those units are watt hours, I have no idea where you're going with this. Specifically the second sentence. What is a drop in the bucket for a workstation or gaming pc? Is what the power draw during sleep compared to total power draw, or are you comparing some of the other quantities you brought up?

> But regardless I agree these regulations are a good thing.

That's not what I was trying to say or did say. My post was supposed to give people an idea of the general magnitude we're dealing with.
I know this is not usually a welcome question but... Why is this flagged?

It seems like legitimately concerning news many HN readers would want to know about, and I only barely caught it before it was banished from the front page. I really can't see a reason.
>There isn't a single ICE car in the same footprint with that much storage space or forward visibility.

That is demonstrably false. The size of the Tesla is the about same as a Volvo V60. The V60 has >500 l of storage volume compared to the 385l of the Tesla. Similarly the Seat Octavia has also more than 500l storage volume (even in the sedan version). So yes there are plenty of ICE cars of that size which have the same storage space, in fact most ICEs of that size have more storage space.

Also the model 3 according to the ADAC [1] in the standard version has an efficiency of 19.5 kWh/100km and around 300 km range, in comparison the Hyundai Ioniq has 14.7 kWh/100km so the Tesla is not even close. The VW ID3 has 19.3 kWh/100km so very similar to the Tesla, it is quite a bit smaller and it's storage is also smaller at 315l (however much easier to get to). So it does not seem like the Model 3 is one of the most efficient.
I was working at Google when it came out, and that they were tapping our private inter-dc links was a huge update. Before I think it was something like "I guess the NSA could do that a bit, but it would be a prohibitively costly to do much" and then suddenly it was "we have to encrypt all of this as quickly as we can". There was a huge internal reprioritization.

(Speaking only for myself; I didn't work on any of this directly)
Pin + Yubikey. Not certain whether you can use a Yubikey without a pin, but I think it's important to specify: something you have plus something you know.

The reason: the newer yubikeys don't ever leave the usb port. Mine is almost impossible to remove. And if this attack is based on a stolen laptop then chances are the yubikey comes with it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HBDX2CM
You can learn about their systems by watching talks by Andrej Karpathy. As a robotics engineer interested in vision, their architecture is inspiring. This talk [1] is a good overview but each talk he gives is a little different so search for more if you want to know as much as possible.

But the big thing is that their autonomy computer can be programmed to look for odd scenarios and send them back home. Tesla uses their fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars to collect edge cases like this, and then they have a kind of compartmentalized neural network system that breaks apart disparate tasks. With their collected examples they can create unit tests to ensure that the moon stops activating the stoplight detector. Once trained, the unit tests presumably help ensure they don't end up with future regressions.

So basically every time you see a Tesla do a weird thing, there is a good chance it will stop doing it soon enough. At least if it's hitting hacker news.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8
When I close my eyes I see "snow", and yes the same thing with my eyes opened in the dark. But this is normal, no? It seems like seeing pure black is abnormal. There will be some kind of noise on the optic nerve, it's hard to imagine it being hard "off".
And what if the moon is not visible but there's a traffic light where the moon should be?
> UI/UX matters.

A perennial issue for GIMP, at least their branding is consistent though :)
Who is "we all"?

(ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27989385)
> the implicit return

It's not magic, it's a regular feature of functional programming languages.
it's not really a conscious thing for me. But I can definitely feel it when it happens. Hope I'm not the only one.
As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come.

There were only a few instance types, and they were all slow and small (by todays standards). Everyone's EC2 instances were mostly publicly pingable/ssh-able from the internet. EBS was horribly horribly slow (our DBAs set up a super convoluted RAID 0+1 configuration for our MySQL databases and even then we needed massive sharding to keep up with growth). EC2 instances were, in general, very unreliable (I recall something like 1 in 500 instances failing _per week_), and especially so in the leadup to Christmas (where the rumor was AWS kept the best instances for themselves).

This is pretty much the first time I've heard of AWS really deprecating something, so I have a feeling it will _hugely_ simplify things on their end. From reading the post I also get the idea that it won't be _that_ hard of an operation from their side. I bet few people (by AWS standards) are still using EC2 classic heavily.
So tesla just needs to make the cameras on their cars swivel around, Thomas the tank engine style?
Lidar could make this false prediction less likely.

That said, the computer vision is still far from human level. It lacks a common sense around how the world works.
As I understand it, pretty much the only people who aren't eligible for vaccination in the US are those who've had an allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine or one of its ingredients specifically and under-12s, though there are some additional observation requirements for people with a history of certain other allergic reactions. The former is quite a small group and children are at really low risk: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-only-0-005-of-covid-infe...
Can irrational fears be addressed? There is sufficient information on the 'Net to prove/disprove anything you would like re: vaccination and vaccines. Are you capable of evaluating which is (more) true? I would think it obvious that the risk from vaccination is much less than the risk from Covid, but a fully-vaccinated person would say that, wouldn't they...

I would also think that people's willingness to help others should drive them towards vaccination (as it's coupled with self-preservation). But then, life keeps proving that while people talk about altruism a lot, it's not common.
LIDAR.

You'd be able to tell there's no object anywhere near the car and disregard the light.
Home computer use is limited to my phone and tablet on the couch or in bed. Haven't had a gaming PC (or any Windows computer) since around 2013. I get enough desktop computing exposure at my day job, thank you very much!

It's true that PC gaming is as popular as ever, but I suspect its rise has been at least somewhat countered with a decrease in desktop computing at home as smartphones became ubiquitous.
> as well as 'evil maid' attacks

Coworkers of mine did a recruiting trip to <untrusted country> and were told by corporate: do not bring your laptops. We'll provide you with laptops when you get there to use for the week. Any laptop you bring stays there because we don't trust that you didn't leave it alone in a hotel room at some point. And if that happens, we presume it's compromised.
That's right.

AWS brings more out-of-the-box.

But stand alone solutions are usually more polished.

Currently, I'm using Pulumi, which is like the AWS CDK, but for more than AWS.

I built some resource providers for unsupported services, and it worked like a charm.
Am I missing something or is this as dumb as it looks? How's that different from using 0?
I had DSLite and it sucked because games like Terraria don't support ipv6.

I just googled Terraria IPv6 and this is the first result I got:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/cytn2w/terraria_p...

Yeah, people ask you why you are using IPv6 as if ISP customers get to make that decision...
The dreaded 3 point story that takes 3 weeks.

...yeah been there.
No, I mean its to the point that mail with this signature is almost always (multiple 9s) spam.
I'm having serious problem with this sort of reporting and Reuters should do better.

Focusing on sales data is not helpful for vaccine and it would be better to look at doses / patients treated to measure impact.

Sales without looking at expenses are meaningless. Whatever one believes there is a huge cost to this ramp-up. Everything was expedited, expenses secondary.

The cost structure and the risk / reward discussion is required as this is anything but free market. Almost all contracts were involving governments and unusual terms. Typical expenses for drugs like marketing and trials were only to a small part paid by the company.

The rollout of the primary vaccine is still ongoing. If a booster is found to be desirable then it will require similar production capabilities as the vaccine. The sooner this is know the better and the more cost effective this capacity can be ramped up.

Without sufficient planning we may see a conflict of third world vaccines competing with first world booster for production capacity.
Radar and Lidar perhaps, being based on reflection of radio waves/laser off surfaces.
Not the person you were asking, but I have a Smart Keyboard Folio which is super thin and light, and that folds back and out of the way so I can use my iPad like a normal, bare iPad when I want to.
Great article indeed.
'easy' and 'perceived' as easy are different things.

Things that are perceived as hard, usually are way harder, and you're set up to fail.

Since corporations don't like failure, even when it's expected, it's a tough choice that mingles up the author's logic.

I'd argue the 'easy thing done' counts more because you 'got it done' and the complexity is a second order factor.

It's one of the things I'm always on the lookout for actually, is to try to ascertain really what's going on.

The added challenge, is that sometimes 'bad devs' make things necessarily complex out of stupidity, and 'brilliant devs' often do the same out of adding on unnecessary complexity.

It takes a lot of oversight to tell, and it's almost impossible to guess at from the outside.
I'm not an expert, but I'm guessing Tesla's version of lidar wouldn't detect the moon. It's probably a bit out of range.
I do, for some reason it fits my brain more than OO.
> But with covid, we're still not even sure what to test for!

For natural immunity, reinfection incidence (e.g. two positive PCR tests more than 100 days apart) would suffice? There is robust data on this now.

And yes I realise the Google mandate is not about immunity per-se but the relationship between transmission rates and immunity, but this link applies to both natural and vaccine induced immunity.
It's entirely cost.
> “If we just gave people a very simple, frictionless way to say, ‘I disagree with this,’ you would probably reduce a massive amount of the sort of negative swaller that exists inside of social media.” — Ashton Kutcher

Is "swaller" a word? I've never heard it and don't see it in my dictionary.
Charles Barkley: ‘The only people who are not vaccinated are just a–holes’
Yeah, this is what I do when I drive. Otherwise I think it's a traffic light and I panic.
Ok thanks I got it
I worked as a lifeguard for a few summers in high school and college, mostly as a supervisor in the latter years.

You're trained to develop a scanning pattern, and to not overly fixate on potential problem cases. Otherwise your tunnel vision might cause to miss something important that you hadn't noticed beforehand. I found that I got a pretty good intuition for things not looking "right".
It's really fun seeing how Mozilla.org use this pattern (they started using it long before I tried to coin a name for it) - they distribute a SQLite DB file containing the site content to all of their application servers, and you can download a copy from their healthcheck page: https://www.mozilla.org/healthz-cron/

Paul McLanahan wrote more about this works here: https://mozilla.github.io/meao/2018/03/28/bedrock-the-sqlite...
A lot of wisdom here. The hard things are almost always more fun than the easy things anyway.

> To get away with postponing, you need an excuse: other supposedly urgent work;

This is shockingly easy in “shared resource” environments where team lines blur and management expects people to pitch in “where ever”. Just take on a tasks for manager A and B and play them off of each other.