skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, am a software engineer dealing with researcher code on a daily basis, and I'm also the person that oversees most of our research compute hardware [sysadmin in a past life]. Some of my other favorite gems:

* "I need a terabyte of RAM"
* "50k samples ran in the blink of an eye. 100k ran in an hour. 1 million took a week. I'm about to do the full 50 million observations, I expect it'll take ten days"
* "This code is always slow... that's a lot of math it does"
* "Profiler? Never heard of such a thing"
* "Big-O? What's that?"
* "I only have ten days' money, and it took me that long. Afraid I can't afford your time to dig into this"
* "AWS will fix this"

Generally I'm dealing with the intersection of two or more of these.

I do think, though, that the last paragraph is a bit unfair. Literally everyone I work with is incredibly smart; just their background isn't the same as mine. Things that I find incredibly tough are idiotic to them ["Can't I just take the average and be done with it?" "no"].

So, for most of the people I work with, it's not "common sense"; they literally lack the frame of reference to even know what's awry. I never hold it against anyone, and nor should you.

My favorite example is from many years ago, a guy who had some code that took a month, "because that's just complicated math, it's how long that takes". I ran it through a profiler, and after about ten minutes work, it ran in seconds. I came out looking like a hero.
I think you're saying "alienation" means a specific historical technological transition about moving from hand-looms to industrial looms. I googled for it but I don't see that definition supported. In the sources I found it seems to be a broader concept than that. It seems still applicable today afaict, not hard to understand in modern context.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alienation/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
One million new electric plug-in cars on European roads during 2021's first-half
The fact that you view an international space as belonging to the US is precisely what's weird and objectionable. Most countries don't do that sort of thing and most intranational companies are happy to use a domain from their own country, except for the US.

(Most of your list are multinational corporations which is a perfectly reasonable use for .com).
IMO, Tesla is a bit worse, but I agree with this in principle. I've had other cars phantom brake in similar situations.

The worst phantom brakes that I've had from AP were cases where a car really was creeping into my lane a bit. Its just that hard braking wasn't the right fix for the situation as a slight swerve was safer.
Human drivers aren't perfect, but their failure rate is known and predictable. The right software update, though, could have a bug that turns the whole fleet of autonomous cars into murder tanks overnight, invalidating all prior collected safety statistics and expectations.

There's nothing that could make the whole population of human drivers unsafe all at once, we know the upper bound of the destruction we can cause. We've spent a century earning that predictability. With software, we'll never have it.
It's great that people are starting to wake up to the costs of using Facebook as a primary platform. I unfortunately have to visit the site from time to time due to a couple of groups - like my gym or my gaming club - having a page there, but I wish people started finding better solutions (which by now is anything, most social media platforms would do, and Facebook literally doesn't have a single service those pages need that isn't available on a dozen of other platforms).

On that note, does anybody know of any way of exporting FB group content outside FB - as RSS or whatever else feed? I couldn't find any obvious way and I don't have enough free time to develop an unobvious way from scratch. Any help (even getting 80% there) would be greatly appreciated.
5 years ago my therapist handed me a sheet of paper titled "Checklist of Cognitive Distortions." Ten negative modes of thought. I didn't immediately grasp how ingrained each one was in my mindset and habits - it took years and I'm still learning.

And one thing I've learned is that there is a wide incentive to embed cognitive distortions in the news, stories, and attitudes which comprise culture. Telling people they are victims of more powerful forces beyond their individual control.

Victimhood mentality is the worst mindset a person can have. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemies.
I think this only works if it isnt opinionated and finger-wagging prescriptive to masses. I'll provide an example, I'm pro-cylcing. I rarely drive and mostly cycle to work, or use mass transit during rain/snow.

...but, some of the anti-car pro-cycling rhetoric I hear in my hometown of NYC is insane -- there are calls to ban cars on large sections of the city and have people bicycle. I say insane because it suggests people have never been around elderly folks. What are the disabled supposed to do? What about those with infants? What happens if you are carrying groceries? What about those with bad knees? What happens on the day when all the bikes have been borrowed and there are no options but a cab?
How often do you get a phantom brake > 5-10mph?
> I'm not convinced. The bug is rare and requires a specific set of circumstances that not many people are going to perform.

I don't think you would say the exact same thing if this happened to closed-source apps like WhatsApp or Discord and open-source apps like Telegram or Element. All of these apps have funding behind them and lots of resources to urgently address security issues when reported or discovered.

The same goes for Signal and they knew about this issue and left this open and unfixed for months. They have $60M in funding, fully open-source, full time engineers working on it and the priority was a secret cryptocurrency project over a critical security issue.

No matter how 'rare' the bug was is pointless. There is no excuse for not prioritising for critical security issues and leaving them unfixed for months as these issues risk ruining their main selling point on privacy and security.

> It does propose an argument for more audits, more eyes, and more care.

Yet despite having a string of audits, it seems the priority for Signal was 'cryptocurrencies' last year and creating a new coin to be listed on an exchange for that purpose, instead of fixing this 7 month old critical issue that they knew about.
The others claim that you can drive without your hands on the wheel, despite the fact that the time required for takeover can be milliseconds.

I'm really not convinced that is objectively better, even with whitelisted roads.
Epic lol - it goes up. It goes down. “The hardest part of my life was pushing the single button when a random timer went off- fortunately I have a lot of free time” rofl
Calculus (Derivative and definite integral) is taught in some areas, It's elective 2-2. It does not involve Limit although number sequence is taught.

My province, the NCEE had Calculus, linear algebra and inequality and it's choose two from three.

Students tend to choose this (if it's availble in that area) because it's generally easy.
And if you're like me, not good at computing numbers, you would choose inequality (mean inequality and Cauchy's Inequality in most cases) as you only need to do some transformation to the problem.
Some students will do matrix if they cannot solve this quick enough.

These were my experience, I do heard that recent education revolution was moving inequality to compulsory but removed Cauchy and so on.

BTW, I don't understand how analytical geometry can be replaced by calculus and linear algebra.
> statistically significantly reduce

And how does one prove something is true "statistically"?

By doing it many times. So many times that you can be statistically confident of the result.

Statistically, there is ~1.4 deaths per 100 MILLION miles driven.

To prove, statistically, that software is as good, it would have to drive at least 1 billion miles. And yes, it would kill 14 people in the process (or more, if it's worse than humans; or less, if its better).

Tesla is already doing what you say car companies should be doing i.e. statistically testing the software

Except you don't like it and think there's a magic fairy test that will show something "statistically" without driving statistically significant number of miles.
sure I do. as another comment pointed out, the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one could find.
Read the original [0] Lisp: the good news, the bad news, and how to win big. (Spoiler: they didn’t.)

[0] https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html
It feels kind of wrong to use "child's head" as the unit of size for a tomato.

Maybe because of all the slicing and chopping we often do to tomatoes before we eat them.
So what's the difference between this and mentioning in the future fusion drives will run your car and provide unlimited energy for a lifetime.
OK. It is far more likely to happen by the programs being executed by companies like Waymo and Cruise, who are deploying vehicles with far more sensors and compute capability than Tesla, operated by trained safety drivers. Waymo has already deployed cars logging Level 4, which are giving rides to people in Phoenix every day. Tesla, meanwhile, logged ZERO test miles at anything above Level 2 in 2020.

As I was driving home the other day, heading west down the highway, my Tesla Model 3 duly warned me that its front-facing cameras were blinded by the setting sun and temporarily non-functional. If the car had been operating in Autopilot, it would have disengaged and put me back in command. If it had been operating in Level 3 or higher autonomy, perhaps driving my kids home from school, I have no idea what would have happened. I do not believe Tesla will get to Level 4 or 5 autonomy with the current cars on the road, despite what Elon has promised.
Twitter is even worse, TBH, but nobody expects much from it anyway.
This is so not important or even mildly interesting. ML to identify people whom you presumably already know... on your on phone? Why? First of all, neither you nor anyone else will look at most of those pictures ever again, a side effect of us all having phones and our photo albums around all the time. The photos become throwaways and, effectively, go down the memory hole.

If Apple wants to do some on-device ML (which I'm certainly more in favor of than centralized ML which is just a honeypot for abuse), can't they come up with something actually useful?
I understand your point, but I would frame it stronger: Indeed, we, as a community, have withdrawn our consent to share the road with intoxicated drivers. You break laws if you drive intoxicated. That beta software doesn't break any laws, but maybe it should.
Folks who overgeneralize like that are incredibly easy (and unsatisfactory, due to the predictability of a negative response) to troll. Merely be pedantic, provide a counter example, or suggest a thought experiment in which their generalization may not be true.
And Metaverse soon, whatever it means. Maybe it's an alternative reality where Facebook doesn't suck?
It's roughly a logarithmic progression in size an frequency. So: 10x larger -> 10x rarer.

Tunguska-size impacts are roughly 1x century.

Distributions are pretty much random. God may or may not play dice with the Universe, but the Univers plays dice with Earth.
Guess that merchant never heard of toggle buttons (whose cross section is not the main feature).
Ah, those numbers are from the Viasat earnings calls and some rough estimates. Each Viasat-3 satellite will have about 1 Tbps capacity and have a lifetime of 15 years. I don't know about cost, but Viasat-2 was in the neighborhood of $300e6, so, I assumed the same for Viasat-3. Viasat-4 is claimed to have a capacity of 3-5 Tbps and I assume a similar lifetime.

Now, these numbers are all well and good, but they don't include the cost of the ground system and the terminals, and I don't know what those will be. But, I would expect them to be cheaper, most crucially because GEO gives you more flexibility in where you place ground stations (vs LEO) and once you aim the dish, you pretty much never have to move it (LEO dishes spend their whole life slewing to match the satellites; it turns out that requires some parts that aren't so cheap.)

Anyway, I don't know what Starlink or Viasat's pricing will be in a few years, but I think Viasat will have a competitive edge in terms of overall cost.

Latency is definitely an issue for some users and some applications. If you watch what Hughes has been saying for years, it's that the future is hybrid, where a terminal uses both LEO and GEO, for what they're best suited for (i.e., interactive traffic over LEO, big, cheap bulk bits over GEO.) If you Google a bit, you can see the Viasat press releases alluding to this same capability. I don't know if/when that tech will make it to residential service, but I would expect that if there's unmet market demand, they'll get it out there.
Tesla represents that the current cars they are selling will achieve these functions with a software update to be delivered at some future date. I do not personally believe that to be true.

To be clear, Tesla is representing that a car you can buy today will one day drive itself. It would be very hard to represent that a car sold today will someday magically develop fusion capabilities. Again, I don’t happen to believe that current Tesla models will achieve what is stated in the marketing copy.
Mine has a so called "active anti-collision", I've seen it in action once when I forgot my chair was still rolled under.

https://www.zenspacedesks.com.au/product/professional-series...
Well, there's always Waymo's FSD program.
Worse is better and excellence are not at odds. Worse is better applies at one side of a shearing layer, and excellence on the other.

In software, a worse is better API imposes designing for modularity upon the applications that depend on you. An excellent implementation means your internals are clean and efficient.
I ended up settling on Roon https://roonlabs.com/ (It's paid, not Open Source) after having tried Ampache, Subsonic, and many, many others. The UIs on most of the open source music apps are terrible, and they don't do well with a large music library and were always crashing on me. Roon's apps feel a lot more like Spotify and it can do multi-room lossless audio across many devices.
Smuggling opportunity! Having legalized weed was a major blow to the unorganized carriage trade, I guess this counts as stimulus for that all important sector of the economy.
Sorry, no. Cars are the problem. The reason why other transit modes are a solution isn't because they in particular are the best option, generally it's because they aren't cars.

Cars aren't individual choices. They are a societal choice that costs a trillion dollars a year to make work. The issue is cars. No matter which way you slice it, we need to remove cars, and that will necessarily mean making driving a car worse.

I don't think that hiding your goals or intentions is politically a good option. Don't argue something you don't believe in. If you (correctly) identify that cars and car-supporting infrastructure is one of the biggest problems in North America, you have to call it like it is.

We don't actually want other options. We want better other options. The only way to get that is to de-incentivize cars. That's the reason why cars suck to begin with, the proliferation of cars makes every other mode of transport worse, except for inter-city rail, if only by sheer mass effect.

Now I agree that we shouldn't other people by putting them in categories and identifying them with the car. That doesn't mean that we stop opposing the real policies that make cars a good personal option and counter them with policies that make alternatives better, generally at their expense in some way or another. I agree that inter-personally the matter can be approached better, but that does not carry to changing your policy positions or goals, and that should never justify lying about what those are.
EU commission calls for the collection and recycling of light-EV batteries
When the lawsuit story was posted on Fox News, it got thousands of comments. I scrolled them, looking for one person who admitted that this was taking place and had been for a long time. Not one. The thread was full of posters proclaiming that scouts were great and nothin' bad never happened to no kids while they was there. Your stats and the lawsuit itself would seem to decry that claim. The denial surrounding that organization is reaching the levels found in the you-know-which church.
Yup, that's completely stupid: 1. Join Facebook so you can keep up with what your friends are doing 2. We're not going to show you random half of what your friends are doing because we need space for those ads. WTH is the point then?
Prior to the last update my M3 w/radar would emergency brake anytime a semi truck got even close to the line. Not safe at all when doing 85 down I5. They did fix it but now I don’t trust it at all.

Yesterday while on navigate on autopilot is veered to the left on the off ramp and almost crossed the line. It took a lot of force to stop the wheel. They’re making it really aggressive which can be good but it shouldn’t rip the wheel out of your hands.
The issue that there is no single solution to cars, and the problem is indeed cars. So unless you mean "Don't be anti cars, instead be pro-everything-else in a way that is detrimental to car operation", I have to disagree.
Two of the comments now :)
I don't know why you're being downvoted, what you are saying rings true. I spoke today with my rehabilitation practitioner and even her, as a super Olympics fan who is glad the event happens in her country, find strange the games has no spectators and that the opening ceremony was disappointing. There was opposition to the games (even without covid) to begin with, so it's no surprise there is even more in this particular condition.
> anything productive as a moral stance

If Disneyland is harmful, it isn't productive

> rest of the economy

which this guy is also dependent on
Have you never written a migration in development that broke halfway through and required you to manually repair it?

Because I used to have to do that all the time seemingly before I finally got to pick my toolchain and I chose Postgres
As an American virologist, i find this intellectually dishonest. It is no mystery that the Wuhan institute is and always has been a GoF sandbox, comprised of NIH funding.
For me, the Fairphone would be a no-brainer if they sold outside of Europe. Seeing as how the Framework laptop doesn't have that constraint, it at least has a leg up in terms of customer base.
Should tutorials be expected to teach people sufficient security? Should code snippets be production-ready to put on the Internet for the general public? I tend to think not. Is this just me?

So here's a partial list of issues you'd need to deal with:

- sanitizing input

- Escaping output

- SQL injection

- HTML injection

- XSS

- CSRF

- CORS

- Clickjacking

- DDoS and other resource exhaustion attacks

- Various timing attacks (eg password hashing)

- How to store passwords

- Depending on language, buffer overflows

That's... a lot. You can take this even further: you should assume you're going to get compromised at some point. What are you going to do to detect a breach? Or an active attempt to find a breach? What's your strategy for handling a breach?

Here's an analogy: we can tell you how to treat Poison Ivy without having to add a disclaimer that you're not qualified to be an attending dermatologist.
Nevada is a state controlled by utilities who have fought to make rooftop solar unviable. So they come up with solar projects to soak state and federal subsidies.

nimbys are probably an astroturf group funded by a competitor.
There's a lot of people who live in suburbs and commute by car into cities. Most anti-car proposals are all downside and no upside for these people. We should look for proposals that give them appealing alternatives to cars, rather than just making their lives worse.
I wouldn't regard anything that Hubbard said or did as a proper scientific enquiry or trust his word on the results.
> We don't have a choice between "safe and unsafe" way of developing self-driving software.

It's also entirely possible Waymo hasn't achieved peak perfection in its software development practices despite doing better than Tesla, and that another entity could do it more safely.
It would be awesome if you somehow could notify the person: hey, you are this guy/gal favorite person.
nah. just because some drivers do stupid things does not mean that we should allow this "FSD" travesty. The thing is: if you're a human driver and you screw up you pay the consequences. It's codified in the law and you are fully aware that there are consequences if you don't follow the rules.

Now, if you drive one of these "FDS" cars and it ends up in an accident where people die, who is responsible? Are you responsible? Is the car manufacturer responsible? Do we just write it off as a freak accident with 1 in a million chance of happening again?
Because Tether lied about it.
Tesla is the big fish here. If Uber has one instance, then given the size of their program, Tesla may have hundreds.
>this was because they were purposefully trying to create a rallying cry or something akin to a religion to better sell their wares

> they came up with "extreme programming" and knew that a lot of it was kind of bullshit, disagreed with each other on the details

Money quotes!

I had attended a presentation by Kent Beck on "eXtreme Programming" well before the Agile/Scrum movement started and came away with the exact sentiments listed above.
It isnt a given that we will ever get to l5 self driving, or that it is possible without a comprehensive infrastructure overhaul
Wow I used this in had to be like 2012 or thereabouts. It’s been around quite awhile.. remember liking it but then just kind of transitioned to GPM.
CPU_rec run against Linux-firmware
If you buy a dev license, you cannot delete your personal AppleID data forever
Classes and inheritance shouldn’t really have an impact on pointers though.
How, exactly, would this be achieved? You'd have to filter every internet packet looking for bitcoin transactions and, as soon as you start doing that, someone will figure out how to bury them so your snooping doesn't work and Bitcoin will go right on running.

One may not like decentralized currencies (and I certainly don't like the scammy ones and the crappy exchanges) but that first word in their name makes 'em really hard to stop.
All that's remaining is to become an Astronaut.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Isn't his unwillingness to provide for his family a lack of responsibility and integrity, therefore rendering his thesis invalid?
I'm pro working from home.
If you guys stuck some where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDH7IRIN2Q
This is like banning a Bugatti Veyron (worldwide production about 30 per year) because the gas mileage is too low. Priceless Puritans.
You're making the perfect into the enemy of the good.

Should every tutorial be an entire 200-page course on all web security practices? Of course not.

But should every tutorial that inserts a user-provided value into a SQL statement ensure it's escaped? Of course. There's essentially literally never a situation where you shouldn't do that. It's not just to be "production-ready" -- it's so basic as just to make sure the query will still even parse if the user includes a quote character in their input.

So why on earth are you defending this mistake?
Fortunately for the tomato, L. Ron's audit determined that it was a suppressive person (well, suppressive plant) and wouldn't let them join the cult.