skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't want to speak for OP but they could be talking about the way animals are actually killed for meat. It's pretty barbaric. I eat a lot of meat and do some mental partitioning to just not think about it. Would be all about having a real alternative that provides all of the the nutrition with none of the death and torture.

Note: Personally I don't see veganism as an alternative for myself but I fully support those that choose it.
I'm sure all lab meat experiments have been done in a sterile environment, anything else would just be silly. But no sterile environment remains sterile for very long, hence the use of antibiotics. What I'm wondering is what other technique there is to maintain the sterile environment they've come up with that doesn't kill the desired tissue.

You know, solving the classic Trumpian lung disinfection problem.
Wikipedia was hacked today
> This is why marketing to geeks are like "you are more smart and rational if you buy this product".

Can you show examples of that kind of marketing? I just don't remember ever seeing such a thing, and I certainly don't think I've bought a product based on such marketing.
> I could render the markdown with the Computer Modern font

You really shouldn't though. Computer Modern is a pretty ugly font.

At least use something like New Computer Modern if you really need a Scoth Roman font with maths.
>There were also a number of Taliban leadership that directly aided in the planning and execution of 9/11.

Source? I've never heard that. All we ever heard was "harboring AQ."
I think the fundamental flaw is indisputable. Everyone is aware of in-between stage problems. I don't think it's an insurmountable flaw.

These things are on the road already. They have issues, but so do human only cars. Tweaks probably get made, like some special handling of emergency vehicle scenarios. But, it's not enough to stop it.

Meanwhile, it's not a permanent state. Self driving technology is advancing, becoming more common on roads. Procedures, as well as infrastructure, is growing around the existence of self driven cars. Human supervisor or not, the way these things use the road affects the design of roads. If your emergency speed sign isn't being headed by self driven cars, your emergency speed sign has a bug.
More of an account of reading the book titled as such, rather than a tutorial-style article. Still a good book recommendation, I think.
None. The professional office is not a fraternity. Hazing is inappropriate.

IMO, any prank beyond the most inoffensive and banal are highly inappropriate. For example, you could give a newcomer a funny gift, or sing a silly song at the first meeting. Even then, it's far too easy to cross lines that many "tech bros" don't even realize exist.

Things like deliberately leaving bugs in code is highly unprofessional. Depending on circumstances, the consequences should range from a stern 1-1 with your manager, PIP, or termination with cause.
Does anybody really care what you use to generate your resume? LaTeX produces nice looking PDF output, is semantic (\cvitem{...}) and is modularized (if you're using OpenCV, you can change the layout with one line).
- What is the OS part of your name?

- What is a neo-browser?
Thanks for the comment and yes iOS and iPadOS are on the road map. In terms of pricing we are still workshoping this since we are a very young company (under a year still). Pricing isn’t set in stone, but we try to work with our users feedback.
That might be, but your counter argument is not showing that you seriously engage with the most common criticism (including in this article), which is that there is no sane business model for them to adjust towards.

It's not that they are losing money now, it's that subsidizing rides to be below cost is the only real differentiator they have.

Their only apparent endgame is being able to monopolize the market and then extract rents further down the line. And that's something that needs to be called out over and over again so lawmakers and regulators don't enable them.
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> Uh, duh? Its kind of normal to expect real wage increases over a 20+ year career. If your wages only rose at the rate of inflation, that would be no real wage increase. So, sure, most people could say that and its normal and what would be expected if the official inflation figures were both exactly correct and there was no deviation from the average.

True, I worded that incorrectly. I meant that there would have been no room to accumulate enough on wages to be able to make any big purchases, like land (house), education, or healthcare. Basically, I would never expect to simply work a job such as a factory job and accomplish any goals in life.

> Again, that's fairly normal, even before considering whether your actual inflation experience is above or below the norm; people with rising real wages tend to adjust their lifestyle upward, not just save more.

The point is the expectation of what one can achieve with a wage that does not continue increasing at a rapid pace is much less than in decades past (in the locations I am interested in living in). It’s “up or out”.
I really love this book as it really shows the value if mathematics in programming.

However, it's an intense read. I strongly recommend it, but if you don't have some college level math under your belt, it can be harder to understand than its title makes it seem.
One is a permanent property of our nature the other a choice.
> we registered one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged [...] for those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven

This still isn't the correct comparison. Major selection bias with comparing miles with autopilot engaged to miles without it engaged, since autopilot cannot be engaged in all situations.

A better test would be to compare accidents in Tesla vehicles with the autopilot feature enabled (engaged or not) to accidents in Tesla vehicles with the autopilot feature disabled.
There was a problem with the find command '/' [0] I had for months, so I switched to Vimium C as someone pointed out in that thread it was fixed on C already and had other features. I now see that issue was finally fixed last month.

Reading the updated thread now, I see it turned political, and I guess maybe that's why I was downvoted for linking to Vimium C.

[0]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/3774
It's really hard (for me, and I imagine, for everyone else) to not put myself into my views and opinions. Like, when someone shows me that I'm wrong, it's natural for me to feel attacked, instead of just taking it as a learning moment. Noticing when this happens and working with it has been my main struggle in learning how to be more rational. Those views and opinions really don't need to be a part of what I consider "myself."

Rationality, to me, is really about an open-minded approach to beliefs. Allowing multiple beliefs to overlap, to compete, to adapt, without interfering too much with the process.
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Maemo wasn't the problem, and in fact N900 had a dedicated cult following for years after.

Nokia spectaculary blew its own foot with deprecating Maemo after only a few months - either the stupidest move in history or result of internal power struggles - and force-marrying it with Intel's Moblin (itself a decent mobile OS) to create unholy mess that was Meego.

The book (btw awesome find, gonna read it at the first chance I get!) agrees with my recollection of the events:

> The operating system was named Maemo. As soon as it was
permitted to be fitted on a phone, that first Maemo smartphone was a reasonable success. It attracted a community of open source developers who created Maemo apps. With 12,000 members, this was the largest mobile developer community in the world. Then Nokia did something remarkable. It partnered with the chip manufacturer Intel, and the two companies renamed Maemo to
MeeGo.

Consider Maemo was Debian-based, using GTK, and Moblin was RedHat-based, using QT. It not only meant Nokia had to rewrite its proprietary UI and repackage everything, it also threw all the thriving dev community under the bus.
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The kinematics don't really impact the argument, all it's saying is that the second derivative of the surface does not exist at the peak, which means the change in force with respect to motion is undefined.
My knowledge was about the first iPhone since I swear I sat next to the guy implementing it (I was an intern at the time). Maybe Apple was just writing the FW themselves and I’ve misremembered? Apple devices definitely have better I/O performance than any other mobile device from what I recall.
Yes, you should be ok. But if you aren’t, there is no mechanism for you to fix it or recourse to contest it. You are simply at the mercy of Google and what they decide to tell you and decide to provide to you. Maybe consumers should not have important services they rely on dropped arbitrarily. Maybe consumers deserve more than “Google said they investigated and said it was valid, so case closed”. Maybe rights and protections should not default to the massive powerful company, but to the individual with no a fraction of the resources. Maybe we should recognize that those two entities are not on equal footing and that maybe the burden should be on the entity with an army of lawyers and not the entity with no legal training.
Yeah, my ADHD actually does most of that for me. I literally do not remember 95% of the billboards I've been exposed to today. Never read any words.
Oh thanks for this comment. A little over a year ago I started working for a Seattle based company (remotely), and this is done constantly. I had never heard it before and couldn't figure out if it was a really common thing that I missed somehow or what.

The company does have a lot of ex-amazons as well.

It's funny to see how these new phrases/keywords are born. I've been in the software industry for ~15 years now (longer than some, shorter than others), I always get amused when I see new phrases gaining traction and spreading. It's like a verbal pandemic, from a certain point of view.
Are you suggesting that "smart" people do not irrationally cling to their opinions? I ask because I find smart people harder to persuade as they believe they are correct because they are smart.
WordPress has banned developers from using “WP” in their plugin names
TIL python has a webbrowser module
I am building a LaTex resume. Why? Because I hate working on my resume and doing it with markup and other stuff makes it a bit more... bearable?

Yeah, I know, I am weird.
Tangential question:

I've used both Manjaro and Arch and Manjaro is far away my favorite distribution, because (to me at least) it's Arch for the lazy.

I ran Arch for years before Manjaro and so maybe that's the reason, but I don't believe Manjaro abstracts you away from nuts and bolts layer as much as Ubuntu does?

INB4 the ubuntu comment: I know, I know. You can still do a lot of fiddling under the hood, it's just not in a manner i'd describe as "the linux way". There are a lot of helper layers that break if you try to subvert them, but i will admit that update-alternatives is the only example coming to mind now
Nerds are often not the buyers or the decision-makers. Marketing is oriented to people who have authority to make buying decisions, not the technical implementers. This is why nerds are often stuck with dealing with the crap that the C-level has already decided on. This is why Oracle and SAP and IBM continue to exist.
Nice! Rust as first language. You must be something special.
I suggest employers to check this guy out.
I don’t think I’m going to waste my time disputing your idea.
Perhaps. Why though?

Why aren't HR, accounting or other such tasks more productive with computers than without?
I agree with everything you said. I do hope that eventually the tech gets to the point where it can take over full time. We recently took a road trip for our vacation and the amount of road rage we witnessed was ... mind boggling. Don't get me wrong, not everyone is a raging asshole, but there were enough to make me wonder just why so many people are so freaking angry.
What on earth makes you think it's the minority of people who stop paying attention when machinery is handling some task all by itself the vast majority of the time? There's plenty of research that says otherwise even among highly-trained individuals.
Does that even matter? If the state doesn’t care to enforce its laws against reckless driving, why should the manufacturer be encumbered with that responsibility?
I think the idea is that the majority of the script will be written in pure JS, with only occasional calls out to subprocesses, so “every command” is far from every line.

You frequently see the same mental mismatch when shell-scripters try to use Python, and complain how hard it is to pipe with POpen, instead of using the built in string processing features.
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I think many people have independently discovered and use this technique. My wife once had a boss who would always find points to argue in any proposal she authored. She began adding at least one spelling or grammatical error to every document. He red-penned those, and his inner critic was satisfied. The points that really mattered went unopposed.
QAnon is benign, we wouldn't even know of its existence if it wasn't constantly brought up by press outlets to supply their readers with a desperate need for a boogeyman.
> This author has an axe to grind with Uber for some reason and they’re pulling out all of the old tropes about misunderstanding growing startups. No, Uber is not going to disappear soon when they run out of money.

By definition, yes, Uber will disappear when they run out of money. The money is what keeps them there. People have been foretelling the end of uber for quite some time because the trajectory hasn't changed. They're losing billions every year. What's unique about now is that they're running out of billions to lose. It'll still be a few years before that happens.

> They’re going to gradually adjust their business model to focus on profitability instead of using their investment money to expand and grow.

This is pretty much impossible without a fundamental change in what the service is and who the target market is. Are you so confident that they'll be able to do this? And what if they fail to adapt? If they scale back to only profitable urban areas, at high prices, running trips between the airport and back, for a tiny fraction of their original goals, are they really the same company they were before?

> The entire purpose of investment money is to expand and grow, even at a loss. It’s not some unique bug that Uber isn’t yet profitable.

Everything is relative. They're losing a couple billion per year. Would you say this if they were losing ten billion per year? 100 billion per year? 100 trillion per year? The reality is that the very start of that line is a lot of money being lost for very low prospects of eventual profit.

> That was the plan, and to be completely honest Uber has been executing their growth plans quite well.

They really have not. They've had to withdraw from several countries because it wasn't working. To me it feels they've greatly overextended.

tl;dr

uber has $7.7B in current assets. They had $9.8B at the start of the year.

If you somehow removed 100% of their r&d costs and 100% of their general overhead costs, they would still be losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the past six months. Their financials are tricky to interpret, because so much of their real costs are hidden in "sales & marketing". It makes it look like their gross margin on rides is healthy but they need to shave overhead. The reality is that keeping their head above the water in terms of driver supply on the gig model is extremely expensive.
Whats up with the name? Are you trying to get this thing to be a a complete layer over the OS?
I don't disagree it could definitely be a problem with the US, but so far, with immigration, it's not been a problem. As long as our immigration #'s stay up, the US should be fine.

So far it's been a steady state, but it's unknown if that will continue into the future.
W:ET is the game I've played the most in my life! Such a good FPS!
Fully autonomous cars are already a reality with Waymo in AZ and AutoX, Baidu in China. I don't know how safe the Chinese companies are, but Waymo's safety record [1] is nothing short of stellar.

[1] https://waymo.com/safety
I can't speak to the others in the list, but I'm building Nodewood, and I have heard this worry from other people as well! Consequently, one of the features I'm working on is a deploy process that can target different cloud providers and set up VMs, managed databases, etc for you.

I feel your pain personally, as well, so I built and already have an Ansible script I use to deploy Nodewood.com, but it turns out that Ansible doesn't play well on Windows, so while I'm happy to make it available to customers, I can't really justify making it the default deploy method.
These seem like reasonable arguments, but currently UBER is worth $75 Billion. Wall St. can read earnings reports as well as Doctorow, and can ignore adjusted EBITDA in favor of GAAP if they want. So what's Doctorow's theory for why UBER is still worth a lot of money? Is it just that they're especially skilled at bamboozling?
Plenty of public questioning of Daszak and his associates was censored as “misinformation”.
Nerds do respond to marketing. They just like to think they do not. I think actually most people think they are not being swayed by advertising and nerds are not at all special in thinking they are uniquely resistant.

I know it, because I am a huge nerd and I catch myself responding even when I think I am not.

It would be better to say that nerds respond differently to marketing. You better have something behind your product because nerd is likely to research the heck out of it before he/she pays for it.
I still use a couple of 32-bit netbooks.
Let me preface by saying that I hold no strong opinions on this matter and my comments are purely speculative.

This is kind of a position I've held for a long time but a different aspect of the problem. I think a system similar to IFF in aircraft would solve all of these issue. If every car knew where every other car was at all times, you could easily devise a system that would be nearly flawless. The issue is, there is no incremental path to this solution. You would essentially have to start over with the existing transportation network.
I make no excuses. Those who commit war crimes should be held to account- and they almost always are.

This thread seems to want senior US leadership held to account for war crimes when they never ordered anything illegal.

War crimes are inevitable- war is waged by humans and humans make mistakes or do bad things to one another. Humans are not perfect. It's about what you do about them when you discover them. We have soldiers serving life sentences without parole for war crimes.
Hard to say if all the data collection that happens online is any better
I am not anti-story. But in the context of startups and investors, stories can't be the only thing we have. If we cross the great filter, maybe someday we can go back to a mostly stories reality. Hopefully.
Viruses. Virii isn't the plural of virus.

There's a YouTube channel (1) called Street Epistemology which has a guy interview members of the public and ask them if they have a belief they hold to be true such as "the supernatural exists" or "climate change is real" or "x is better than y".

He then asks them to estimate how certain they are that it's true.

Then they talk. The interviewer asks a question and makes notes, then tries to summarise the reply. He questions how they know what they think they know and at the end he asks them to again say how confident they are that what they said is true.

It's fascinating to see people actually talk about and discuss what are usually unsaid thoughts and it shows some glaring biases logical fallacies.

(1) https://youtube.com/c/AnthonyMagnabosco210
Apple scans your phone (and how to evade it) – NeuralHash CSAM [video]
The OS part is more of the vision for the future of our product and where it can go (as well as the fact sigma.com was taken ;(). A neo-browser are browser that essentially try to have a new take on how a web broser should or could be
limiting != simplicity.

the majority of the arduino environment has literally nothing to do with the complexity of getting your program onto the device itself.

you can have a very complex environment while still maintaining a very simple upload functionality for the device itself. there isn't any reason it can't be as simple as `dd if=/myprog.elf.bin of=/dev/arduinoserial`
And they are ever so full of themselves. They're a perfect embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
67% in 4:39 minutes

I'm bad at french west africa (need to look into that)
That's a very heavy accusation to lob at the US people I think. Who says this and where does the 80% number come from?

And why would the US people want their country to invade a country on the other side of the world, that was no threat to them and was clearly not capable of defending itself against the might of the US army? Why would the US people want their country to invade anyone? And 80% of them? This I find very hard to believe. Maybe the "80% support" was for something else entirely, e.g. killing Bin Laden or destroying Al Qaeda, rather than invading Afghanistan?
More importantly: Trump negotiated that release without consulting the Afghan government last year, while also setting a May deadline for US forces to leave.

The Taliban used that as a recruitment call. We're months late on the original timeline, and they knew we were leaving last year. Of course the Taliban would surge in this timeframe.

The question now is: is it worth to counter-surge to hold back the tide? It seems like the overwhelming opinion is that we should leave, so we're leaving.
To me they are really aids. Of course you keep being concentrated, but I found that it takes out a lot of mental load like keeping the car straight, constantly tweaking the accelerator, etc..

It just makes the trips easier on the brain, and thus, for me, safer overall: its easier to see the overall situation when you've got free mental capacity
> The Taliban have never been the legitimate, much less the benevolent government of the Afghan people. If you've seen "The Handmaid's Tale" you have a general idea of what happened in the 90's

That is because the USA armed and bankrolled the jihadists who overthrew the secular, left-leaning PDPA in the 1980s. Here is Ronald Reagan with the jihadists in the White House

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RWtx8myQc

It's inane for Americans to arm a jihadist insurgency against a left-leaning secular government, and then tear their vestments in some feigned moral superiority that the jihadists would take over the country thirty years later.
iOS also isn't as good at home screen layout; moving an icon causes others to jump around. Despite visually being a grid, the icons are internally modeled as single line that wraps like text. If you add or remove an icon from a higher row, every icon below it moves, including jumping between rows. I can understand how this mistake was made before the app store, but it's bizarre that it hasn't been corrected.