skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why it's called overproduction - because there simply isn't demand for research in certain fields.

The issue is society producing an elite with a skill set that isn't needed.
Like you say, FSD beta is new, so, no. The autopilot software has killed people though.

The sunk cost fallacy is stronger when it's not just R&D but thousands of people who paid 10k$ on the promise that their car had all the hardware required... Cars that shipped without a lidar.

And I believe waymo uses lidar and has, as far as I know, killed nobody. They also take a more cautious approach where bystanders are not turned into beta testers, of course :-)
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Thanks!
I am the only one who works on the project. I didn't like my sound on the record and decided to use robot voice.

That's right. I would embed the video on the front page.
I will do it as soon as possible.
As a counter example: As someone that worked for years in .Net and started trying to develop some projects in the Java ecosystem... what a fucking mess.

Days of work to try and get projects to BUILD. Do I have to use Gradle, Maven, or something else? Which IDE to use? The IDE isn't working with whatever version of Gradle or Maven I'm using. Dependency hell. Restarting my IDE repeatedly, re-downloading dependencies, trawling through the horrible Maven site trying to work out what version of a certain dependency I need. Keeping massive amounts of notes because I'm sure in two weeks I'm going to forget which arcane command I need to keep my Java build environment working.

The horrible verbosity of Java making it way harder to read then C#. Realising that there's no standard equivalent of tasks and async and I have to work out which of the 10 3rd party implementations is the "good one" and then realising that the recommended one is again verbose, ugly, and more complex to write and understand than Tasks and Async in .Net.

Having to work out which Java runtime environment I need. Having to register on the Oracle website to download their runtime, then finding out that maybe an open source runtime is better, then finding out nothing is supported for ARM macs. Then realising that this runtime means my IDE ends up breaking. Multiply all these problems if you decide to write Scala instead.

The Java and JRE environment in general is a huge mess in comparison to Microsoft's .Net platform. .Net "just works." There is no confusion of how to build, what IDE to use, what package manager, everything works together seamlessly. I can get a new engineer setup to write and deploy .Net in minutes. Our company literally has to have three engineers gather around someone's computer for half a day to get a Java or Scala environment working correctly and often it ends up working seemingly by magic, i.e. we can't deterministically understand why it ended up working.

Java was actually my first programming language in college but Oracle has radically mismanaged it. I would not recommend it unless you really need some specific library that only exists in the Java ecosystem.
It reminds me of something else : older people seem to feel obliged to answer the phone ( and the door ).
I guess it's frowned upon to try to get on the front page? I feel like as long as it's actually good content providing value, that that shouldn't matter? Trying to be transparent with the whole process of building projects and building an audience :)
This is fine as an anecdote, but it’s not what most US consumers are experiencing. In the last 12 months, food made at home has increased in price by 2.6%, and eating out has increased by 4.6%.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
They do not target x86
Some minor stuff with dispatching to the UI thread, nothing serious. Oh and you'll need a new package to get the System.Windows.Interactivity stuff.
It's relevant to the discussion. No other server with ACME supports multiple issuers by default. It speaks directly to the point being made in the linked article (and other previous articles written by Scott).
> Modern language models absolutely make both sentiment and semantic distinctions

They only appear to because of co-occurrence with pre-given sentiment terms.

A conceptual relation between concept A and concept B isn't statistical. Eg., "Minorities" oppose "Racism" -- not because of any statistical occurrence of any of these terms, nor because of any statistical association at all.

P(Minority|Racism, Oppose) and P(Minority| Racism, W forall words) have no baring on the truth of the proposition.

It is true that in a large enough body of text if we took the powerset of all words and computing relative frequencies (ie., conditional probabilities on all possible co-occurances) we would find that "Minorities" oppose "Racism" more than, eg., "smell" it.

But that fact isnt sufficient to make "semantic distinctions" -- because the proposition isn't true in virtue of that frequency.

NLP systems have no means of generating text other than what is justified by those frequencies. This leads to trivial failures, such as facts in the world changing which invalidates those historical frequency-relationships.

But also to absolutely fundamental failures such as the text generated itself being meaningless: the system has nothing it wishes to express, because there is no world it is in to express anything about. All sentences are just justified by previous sentences, not eg., by that there is -- right now -- a sunny day.

When I say, "do you like the clothes I'm wearing?" i am not generating text justified by past frequencies. I am talking /about/ the clothes I am wearing, and that is what my words /mean/.
What will today's data tell future historians?
I think it was good if they did lock down, then a open source fork of android would have become mainstream
Might be rude if you know them. Missed business opportunity or the need to feel wanted?
> The Installer in BeOS/Haiku doesn't do anything special: it just copies everything from the source to the target.

It's almost like operating systems have gone out of their way since the 90s to overcomplicate this process.

Then again, Haiku went out of its way to overcomplicate its otherwise simple "just copy it" application installation process just a bit too.
I agree with you, but shall we change that to "parenthood"? Since we might as well push back against the stigma against the father being the one who raises the children instead of pursuing a career.
Norsk Data machines?
How Much Does Embroidery Digitizing Cost
Literally every article appearing here has an "ulterior motive", whether it's building an audience, selling something or whatever :) I'm just publicly talking about it
Hello – Ich bin und heiße Simon Freund (I am and my Name is Simon Freund) and I'm creating work like this to comment on the world around us.

Not being a fan of Social Media (hence not having any Social Media Accounts), I have trouble having my work seen and this specific online installation is only fun, when it's seen and used by a lot of people at the same time.

So for one, I simply want you try out the website and test it by selecting a colour of your choice and by clicking ENTER.

But I also would like to invite you to share this work with your network, so it's simply more fun.

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The idea of this piece is to create a utopian place where the available space is equally shared by everyone being present at that specific time.

You can see it as an inspiration how humanity could or should live together. Or simply enjoy the different colours.

–

I'm looking forward to your feedback and I'm thankful for everyone who is willing to share the website with their friends or family.

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All my work is available for free on my website simonfreund.com and I'm not charging anyone for consuming or owning my work.

However, you can become a patron and support me and my work with 1€ per month – you will find how to do so on my website
Now you just have to upgrade certbot every 1-2 years instead, it feels like.
Apple bans the number 8964 in China
Monorepos have nothing to do with arranging files. It's all about making atomic commits to multiple projects simultaneously.
I'm one of the authors of the simplicial neural networks paper cited in the article. Happy to take questions :-)
If Google fetches the images when the mail is delivered (not when it is opened), all the sender learns is that the mail arrived (but not whether the user actually looked at it).

I'm not sure if that's the case though.
In addition to racial discrimination, there is privilege discrimination (on the basis of luck).
This can affect you regardless of race but of course it's likely worse when combined with racial factors.
Privilege discrimination can be quite overwhelming because the media doesn't talk about it and the perpetrators of it don't hold back at all.

Some ways privileged people discriminate against unprivileged/unlucky people (e.g. when competing for a promotion or investment):

- "They are too negative, we need someone charismatic." (In fact, PersonX's exposure to wave after wave of bad luck has made them a critical thinker, a realist, which makes them perfect for the job).

- "I don't like PersonX. They can't build rapport with stakeholders." (Because PersonX's has had real problems in their lives, they cannot relate to the artificial problems which members of the elite class constantly create for themselves).

- "They lack confidence." (In reality, what they lack is overconfidence; they have the ideal level of confidence/doubt to navigate a cut-throat marketplace; overconfidence breeds neglect which can destroy the company).

- "They don't have a track record of success" (Because they were always overlooked and never given a first chance to prove themselves; as a result, they've spent decades optimizing themselves and fixing every tiny flaw and gap in their knowledge and personal character; they are highly optimized and perfect for the job).

There is an inversion of cause an effect in the minds of privileged people which makes them think that they need confident people. In fact, confidence is more a consequence of luck than it is of competence. Nobody likes overconfident people. When you have power, you don't need any confidence; the less, the better. Power earns respect and on its own, it is the best substitute for confidence.
> You seem to have beef with the entire school system.

It's not just the school system. It's the entire way adults treat children (and, to a lesser extent, the way adults treat adults). Ever wondered why autistic adults rarely have “tantrums” in (say) an office environment? There's the “older and more experienced”, sure, but they're allowed to have boundaries – something that most adults deny to most children.

People (usually) afford adults the basic decency they would afford another person, and suddenly the disability is less severe. Funny, that.

> which may be true, but it extremely unhelpful and a pipe dream.

We can change society. We should.

> but we've been a social species with complex social interactions for over 20 kiloyears

That's not what I'm suggesting should change. Rather, we should change some pretty minor aspects of those interactions, if your standard is “having complex social interactions at all”.

This is stuff like making computers have audio-only interfaces, or making it possible for wheelchair-users to get on trains on their own. Small things, all things considered.
>SpaceX main driver is Gwynne and I doubt SpaceX would have been even close to what it is now if not for her. Musk is there more front face for the public.

A substantial portion of the Musk fanbase believe he's the one personally designing rockets and coding the software to land them.
"The newbies outnumber the veterans in high growth. Default culture is not what pre-exists but whatever new people bring with them. Even with careful selection, it’s unlikely that cultural assumptions match up perfectly."

Default culture? Sure. But the "creation" of default culture is what curated culture is not. The former is an accident, the latter intentional. To expect optimal with little or no effort is simply a rookie mistake.

People are hard. Culture is hard. Both are harder than technology. Technology is relatively easy; people - whether team or marketing to customers - is hard. Unfortunately, many see it the other way around, and that's a mistake. That false assumption makes growth less likely, and stagnation more likely.
Communist hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev (1991)
I like the use of the shuf command to randomize the list, very nice!
Are you talking about Discovery? I mean, the first season was rough but doesn't every first season of Star Trek get a mulligan?
> [rationality] reframes [emotions] as evolved game-theoretic adaptations that are part of the iterated game you are playing with your peers, called "society."

Do the rationalists realize that this is fundamentally a metaphysical or even theological argument?
I totally disagree.

When I was preparing to emigrate in 2014, I put an SSD and a big HDD in my desktop-replacement laptop, and the transformation was a revelation. Ubuntu 14.04 went from booting in only a minute or so to booting in a single-digit number of seconds. It was astonishing.
Verification hashes in URLs are fine, as long as accessing the URL does not invalidate the hash yet.
I'm not saying we can't learn from Zimki.

I'm just a bit weary of people claiming they "invented the future" way back before the future actually came.
Dr. Sean Brooks at SW Ohio School Board Meeting [pdf]
Apple is a disgusting explotative company.
> and the government collecting money for churches only

I would be quite a bit richer if the government collected only church taxes. Would have been nice if I could have opted out of paying for that mess in Afghanistan.

> Will the government collect debts that other people owe me?

No, but maybe you could start a movement to have it recognize other, non religious, groups for this service.
1. My sister has a registered emotional support animal. She did this purely because she could as a convenience thing. IE instead of shipping her pet in a crate she wanted to hold it in the cabin so she could avoid the hassle of checking it in. During the process of getting it registered her psychiatrist was 100% aware she did not need an emotional support animal and said that other patients did the same thing. Based on this I'm assuming emotional support animals are essentially a myth, true needs are extremely rare, and most are in similar situations to my sister.

2. I have horrendous allergies to animal dander, and just don't like animals in general. Not life threatening but if I ever encountered an animal on a plane it would probably be one of the worst experiences of my life. I 100% sympathize with this guy. I've met way too many people who treat their "fur babies" better than the actual human beings around them.

Based on this I would support banning animals on airlines.
Haiku relies on ffmpeg to decode videos, so there is no difference between other systems. BeOS used to have yuv420p, yuv444 etc supported colour spaces with supported drivers, and the interface kit BBitmap supported YUV colour spaces via overlays, so you gain efficiency by doing one conversion less. Haiku lacks proper drivers so has to pay the price. For a video editor which needs BGRA colour space, you’d use shaders (SpirV or GLSL) to convert colour spaces. Haiku lacks HW accelerated drivers so it loses there as well (compared to mainstream OS’s). Also, Haiku has no vaapi HW driver so it loses there as well.

On the plus side, Haiku has a fantastic API and with BMediaKit and translators, decoding a video stream is a couple of lines of code (much nicer than raw avformat API from ffmpeg). The async bitmap transfers/uploads are multithreaded so it wins there. Haiku allows efficient sharing of media buffers between apps, so drag/drop between apps is really efficient.

I went overboard with making the video editor as multithreaded as possible. A thread for thumbnails, decoding, audio mixing, opengl, the main gui window, preview window, effects gui, encoding, etc. They’re all threads. The editor is really smooth, and can do 4k editing. I cant wait to see how it will runone day with actual HW accelerated drivers.
I run Word 97 under WINE on a decade-old Thinkpad running Ubuntu.

Opening it is a joy... what was a slow, lardy app when it was new is now lean, mean and fast.
Or I worked my ass off for 2 years, basically for nothing, and then some guy made bank with the app I built :) Depends how you look at it I guess. Like I said, I was young and naive and had a wrong mindset. But what can I say, the whole story is true.
If they insist on keeping the three month limit I wish they'd come up with some better ways to allow you to secure your server.

If you want to use the www auth you need to allow outbound connections to any IP (they specifically won't release the range they use), otherwise you have the DNS option which means giving the server access to modify the DNS records which is also unsafe should the box get compromised.
Suppose that the skill of the elites you produce is a normal distribution. There are only jobs for the best 0.001% of people in the field, but to get enough candidates that reach that 0.001% bar, you have to produce the other 99.999%.

You're sifting through sand to try to get the flakes of gold. There might not be a need for the grains of sand that are produced by the system, but without filling the system with them, you wouldn't have been able to extract the gold that's mixed in.

This is why elite overproduction occurs. Many of them may be perfectly competent individuals, but as long as employers are competing to hire only the best of the best, the system will have to massively overproduce to satisfy that demand.
Why, exactly, do we endlessly trust this corporation to uphold ”OUR” human rights when it’s clear the corporation doesn’t give a damn about human rights?

Is it because we inherently think of ourselves and our systems to be better than ”THEIRS”?
Honestly the only Star Trek I've enjoyed since Voyager is Lower Decks, which is the first one that actually captures some of the fun again. The Orville feels more like Star Trek than any of the recent films or Discovery.

Maybe it's just because I grew up with TNG/DS9/Voyager, but I really don't care about rehashes of TOS timelines, prequels, or any of that rubbish. Or, honestly, pretty much any Star Trek movie. I'm all about the episodic setup that worked so well in the 90s and gave us so many amazing ideas (albeit offset by far too many holodeck malfunction episodes).

I'd love to see some wide-eyed wonder again, and see a true sequel to those 90s shows set in that timeline. Even if it means more holodeck episodes.
Obviously I earned the grade I made in social psy course 30 years ago. Still not meeting the expectations.

On another note I passed a particularly bizarre question about x and y random groups and wanted to go back. Can’t do this, so I ended up taking the quiz over again and screen shot a few of my (least) favorite questions. And I noticed complete willingness to answer differently on some questions and confidently the same on others.

I wonder if I’m more concerned about this grapefruit that’s missing from my fruit bowl.
You've been defending and praising this tool throughout this thread. You work to improve this tool for yourself and others, even though this work wouldn't be necessary if you used a different tool. I can't imagine you are doing any of this professionally.

It feels to me that Haiku is as much a hobby as a tool to you. And if that's the case, I think it's fair for others to express interest in said hobby.
The most vocal detractors, yeah. But that's true for anything. The most vocal people are the ones that draw a hard line and refuse to budge, often choosing to scream people down instead of using actual logic or science.

That doesn't mean they're wrong, just that they aren't even attempting to put thought into it, just emotion.

You can't discount something based on it's most vocal proponents or opponents.
The core problem is that code is always changing, every single day from Monday to Friday. And it gets worse when other code/projects depend on it
> For example, early in ancient empires, many rose in status via winning military battles, or perhaps by building new trading regimes. But later in such empires, status was counted more in terms of your connections to other statusful people. Which led to neglect of military success, and thus empire collapse.

I've always wondered if this was true, or if it's an artifact of the survival of records/histories that over-promote governing coalition members instead of non-governing but wealthly and influential citizens.

I.e., most ruling autocratic dynasties are founded through violence, so it makes sense that official records reference individuals who took part in this. Similarly, most autocratic dynasties are sustained through peaceful transitions of power to the next generation of governing members through the acquiescence of coalition members, so it makes sense that - over time - official records will reference individuals who succeeded through their connections instead of their military merits.

If you assume that autocratic governments are unstable over long periods of time, and if you intentionally ignore the large number of ruling coalitions that came to power through war but failed to survive a peaceful transition of power, the author's perspective here makes sense. However, this doesn't mean that it's necessary accurate.
My source only looked at the US so numbers differ from global[0]. Your source also says 14.5% is all livestock, of which 9.4% is cattle (so about 3x globally compared to the US).

There are of course other forms of pollution, a big one we could easily tackle I think is water pollution by the textile industry [1]. So much clothing today is of garbage quality and completely unmendable (the fabric is too thin to be repaired ):, I tried).

[0] https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2019...

[1] https://www.textiletoday.com.bd/water-pollution-due-textile-...
TIL: I'm officially old
CISO shoud resign and CEO should be put in jail. Plus $50B fine would light a fire under them and others.
In the (excellent) Tech Resume Inside Out book [1], the author mentions that when recruiters perform a search on LinkedIn, you will be ranked higher if you are more closely connected to the recruiter (e.g. you are one degree of connection away), so in this sense it might make sense to accept every request, if you don't care about the actual newsfeed etc. Could do with a "Accept but don't show posts from this person" option, mine is super spammy and I'd never dream of using it as a social network because of this, but I still think it's a good way to make yourself discoverable.

[1] https://thetechresume.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia
So are you able to reduce the cost of a lithium battery by 50% or not? And if so, why are you not just licensing the technology to Tesla?
With the DNS option the machine doing the request doesn't have to be the machine using the certificate though.

I have a separate machine doing the DNS challenge and the cert is then distributed to the machine needing it.

Technically true for the regular web challenge, but easier with DNS I think.
> Also expecting less bugs because it’s a simpler OS.

That's not my experince on late 90's. You sneezed, and w98se BSOD'd.
Plus there isn’t enough space for 40 people, real number will probably be below 20
In the next C# version, you don't need to use brackets for namespaces anymore. Just write

namespace Honlsoft;

and that's it.
> protects privacy by defeating click tracking on marketing emails.

I don't think that's true. It should be pretty trivial to know whether a click came from a user or google.