skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can castrate your phone to remove all the pointless crap. I am really happy with the StayFocusd app. In strict mode, it can block all distracting websites and apps, block settings and changing permissions, block installing and uninstalling apps - it's basically perfect for internet addicts. You still have Google maps, but no Facebook or Instagram.
My favourite example of bad data in for machine learning is the tragic tale of Scots Wikipedia: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

It turned out an enthusiastic but misguided US teenager who didn't actually know the Scots language was responsible for most of the entries on it... and a bunch of natural language machine learning models had already been trained on it.
A very big project; a visual reverse engineering studio.
While I won't debate the facutal differences between the Model 3 and the Mirai, I don't think it's right to judge the potential of FCEV vs. BEV based on the cars on the market today.

BEVs are a relatively mature technology at this point. Tens of thousands (hundreds? millions?) of BEVs have been sold, there are many production BEV models and they've received decades of research at this point.

FCEVs are still in their infancy. There are only 6 production FCEVs and the technology hasn't received nearly the same level of R&D as BEVs.

Comparing the present-day Mirai to the present-day Model 3 is like comparing the Tesla Roaster to an early Prius. If you'd done that, you'd have concluded that BEVs are too expensive and impractical to ever be viable and that hybrids are the future.

Give the FCEVs some time and they'll get closer to their potential.
You can always just thunk down to the text representation and do things that way. Having the structure is a strict plus, no?
haha, thanks. happy with the strength, not happy being 250lbs.
With respect, I just don’t understand this use case. You focus on 42 miles as being a lot of range for most cases, but exclude the ~300mi range BEV because it’s… not enough?

Less than 5% of daily trips are over 30mi [1]. One study found 70+ mi trips are barely 1% of journeys [2].

Also your example of LA-SF as an example of it being a real drag on time is instead perhaps the canonical best route, for Teslas at least. That’s the corridor between where they are manufactured and their largest market, SoCal. SuperChargers are plentiful, including the super fast 250 kW version that can do 1000mi/hr (when you are at low state of charge.) It also has in the PCH a beautiful view that you’ll want to stop and take in.

So there’s no way you’ll actually spend an hour out of your way, but if you do, why would that single hour actually be material, when the trip is less than 1% of your journeys? Why pick a PHEV for your edge cases?

Rent another car for that trip. Or take a flight (SF-LA fact: that’s also the busiest airline route in the country [3] by aircraft flown; second busiest by passengers moved)

I get the whole “I probably won’t, but I like knowing I could” sense of spontaneity but it just seems a waste to have two separate propulsion systems and the associated complexity just for that.

[1] https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips
[2] https://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis.php
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_ai...
Ah yes, "in Japan". Mind you, in very specific parts of Japan where there might be a very good reason for houses to cost nothing. We're talking about abandoned properties that you then have to pay all the "reclaim and rebuild" costs on, and you can't even legally DIY, you have to hire licensed craftsmen to fix it in the traditional style. And you're stuck with it for years and years, too. Not just "ownership": you have to live in it. In a place that everyone else is leaving, so instead of moving into a community, you're moving into progressive isolation and depression, while going bankrupt.

Hey, did you know houses in the US are going for as little as $1? That's an even better deal than $500!
Given that I don't trust lobbyists from the petrochem industry, I won't trust one from the "blue hydrogen" lobby either.

It's all of the greediest, dumbest scorpions in an opaque bottle.
Machine readable roads already exist. They are called train tracks and are already used by autonomous trains. They also allow for far more energy and space efficient transport with better throughput than cars.
I get my jollies using sql for stuff, mostly. Partly keeping skills sharp, partly being deliberately obtuse
Note that your etymology link agrees with mine (via skylark).

OED cites P.G.Wodehouse (for a lark), and J.Krantz (of a lark).
The US have a huge territory, even near sprawling cities and the looong borders, and primary surveillance radars capable of seeing and tracking that kind of targets, even for military applications are not installed everywhere. You can't, too expensive in so many ways.

You're not going to see those targets with long range military surveillance radars either, maybe in the first 10-20kms, maybe. That is the actual problem with drones. Easy to build, very hard to detect with actual infrastructure. Whomever finds a way to track them on the 'cheap' is gonna make a buck. Even if you made actual, existing radars, able to track them (which would be a tall-order) it won't be on the whole range and it won't be reliable, because some of those things maneuver like crazy. Say good bye to your clean 2d/3d-with-realistic-aerodynamics Kalman filters and say hi to very high rates of false alarm...
It's almost as if the news reports current events. 7 stories about the current and past president out of ~60? Must be some conspiracy! :D
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
> Another language-changing paradigm added to C++

I agree. Somewhere in the piled-high-and-deeper complexity of C++ there is one excellent, modern language that could be carved out.

Maybe it is only the subset since C++17.
Note: the UK has long-distance bus services which could get you a lot further. The challenge here was to use only local bus services (defined as those on which people over 65 get to travel for free).
I've seen this in a corporate setting: a machine learning model trained to automatically apply categories to new content based on user-select categories for existing content... that failed to take into account that the category list itself was poorly chosen, so the user-selected categories didn't have a particularly strong relationship to the content they were classifying.
I thought you were joking but there are literally 4 stories about trump.
It sounds like cherry picking bad examples to me. Likewise you could say "programming's foundations are crumbling" by citing all sorts of programming projects that use bad or faulty code.

Meanwhile, speech recognition seems to work extremely well by now (I am a little bit older, so I remember when it didn't work so well).

I am also not aware of any real world cases of AI being used to detect Corona, so that seems to be an example in favour of AI. People tried to use AI, but it didn't work out. So it isn't being used for that purpose.
That's exactly what judges decide to do if certain criteria are met, though.

The person in this case, however, had a criminal history including attempted homicide so the judge decided to opt for detention while awaiting trial instead.

Sounds like perfectly normal procedure to me and happens other countries as well.
Japan is really good about land use, and thus speculative land ownership without development is more often a bad idea. This is a funny case where dealing with the externalities lowers the price, as the thing being sold becomes less attractive by other means.

Good job, Japan.
The term "super long range" is not used by Tesla. They filed documents with Chinese authorities simply stating the range of the new variants. The writer of this article is the one who decided to call it "super long range".
While on one hand, I hear you, but on the other, on some level, the design goes all the way back to 1994: https://programowaniezpasja.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Cp...
I just looked out of curiosity, and it looks like it's doable (not sure about the time frame, just the route options). From Philadelphia city center:

SEPTA 4 to Cecil B Moore Av

SEPTA 3 to Frankford Transportation Center

SEPTA 14 to Oxford Valley Mall

SEPTA 127 to Trenton Transit Center

NJT 409 to High St & Broad St

NJT 413 to Camden

NJT 317 to Asbury Park

NJT 139 to NY Port Authority
Why not go all the way and use a format capable of expressing code and data? I refer, of course, to S-expressions.

They also have the benefit of properly handling numbers. Some might look at the absence of maps as a negative, but I think alists are preferable anyway due to their constant ordering.
An Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs just sold for nearly $800k
If the ifconfig output changes slightly, then it will probably break the thousands of ad-hoc parser implementations buried in scripts worldwide. With this approach, only a central parser library (open source) needs to be maintained so it can be fixed quickly and robustly.

That being said, the goal is that command line tools that output useful data for scripts should have a structured output option like JSON while still keeping the human text output option so something like JC doesn’t even need to exist.
Do you pay for their time during an onsite interview or for a "take home"? How do you pay them? Do you make sure that this doesn't go against the rules of their current employment agreement? Is there any unpaid step before?
What is it satirizing?

Or is this just a post-hoc "its just a joke bro. Y u mad?"

Regardless, its your code, do what you want.
I wonder if there are enough rare earth materials available to satisfy the world demand for electric cars.

There was an article recently where a British scientist declared that to reach just Great Britain 2050 objectives they would need to absorb most (or sometimes many times more) of the world production of rare earth and other metals.

If this is true, and the UE stays dogmatic about it, I suspect that by 2040 driving a car will be reserved to only the most privileged.
I am not suggesting that Tesla has prevented anyone else from building charging stations. I am using the word monopoly in the non-antitrust sense here.
> Specifically, there's an especially tricky road in I-35N in Texas

Why are we ok with streets in such slapdash condition in the first place?

Yes I think self driving cars need to handle it, but I also think we aren't handling it.

Self driving cars have the potential to greatly reduce deaths due to accidents and improve accessibility for often ignored segments of our population. It is sad to see it so close, but held back by reasons like this.
It's really fascinating, great point.

I donate to a bunch of charities. I wonder if it would be ok to donate my payment to those charities on my behalf. I wouldn't get the tax credit I'm assuming but i would feel perfectly happy to stop that donation for the year. A downside for the company is that you could also see those donations broken out, which might indicate they were dealing with a lot of churn. :(

I do really like the idea of having a company pay for my time. It feels really important to ask them to take it seriously. I've been frustrated with various companies over the years who didn't have their hiring teams in order and it was a miserable experience.
I'm working on the air drops at least.
Is it misleading to present a project as free and then have the (A)GPL license? Here I thought it was free, now suddenly there are all these conditions...

The "legal print" in this case is five lines long, written in (contrary to most licenses) very plain english, located in the root of the repository, in a file named 'LICENSE.md'. It's not exactly hidden where a reasonable person might overlook it. "We didn't know" isn't a very convincing defense.
It will be interesting to see what opening up SuperChargers to non-Tesla vehicles is going to do for availability though. I often see the sites near me full or near-full as it is.
I used ClearCase for many years. It was a good version control system. It had a certain amount of complexity associated with it, but I thought it was fine and worked well.

I assume it’s still sold and supported, but I haven’t checked on it in ten years.
After searching a while for the first title I tried the second one (as the plural authors made me question my results).

Did you mean: "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most" by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen, et al.?
and: "Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well" by the same authors?
Or.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Indeed. Only time that happened was in East Germany and it didn’t work out too good.
If you read the article you'll see that Tesla didn't announce anything. The writer of the article found some plain docs Tesla filed with Chinese authorities and decided to editorialise and call it "super long range".
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It’s important to note that that is physician and clinical services. That’s very different from doctor’s salaries are 20% of healthcare spending.

Edit: I noticed that you already mentioned this in your other thread.

Also in the US physicians salaries are also directly paying for physician training thanks to large student loans unlike in many other countries.
they said most, not all
I assume you mean Japanese Knotweed? That stuff is nearly impossible to fully remove.
I think it’s undeniable now that the US did fund reaserch in the WIV, why do I need further evidence for that when Fauci himself has admitted so?

The cover-up was Daszak and co. pre-emptively denouncing lab leak theories as an attack on science and branding them as crazy conspiracies.

The only remaining thing to determine is whether the funding went into gain-of-function research, which Fauci vehemently denies but given his track record of lying it’s only natural to be hesitant in believing him. I’m far from an expert but according to the BBC[1] there do exist experts who believe Fauci not admitting it is just relying on semantics.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57932699
A new book which serves as an introduction to CS in Brown university has been released just yesterday. It uses Pyret.

https://dcic-world.org/2021-08-21/index.html

PAPL - https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2020/ is an older version of the current book.
The value is in owning the customer relationship in most cases for the major players.

The capital scale of these solutions has gotten very to extremely high. That reduces incentives to compete in these spaces.

Apple doesn't particularly care to run a search platform because they can extract much of the value of search in allowing others to serve that market (ie, microsoft or google). Ie, these become high profit plays while letting someone else do hard lifting. I'd expect however they would fight like hell if you tried to take away their relationship with their customer.

Even in places they compete - not 100% sure it's worth it. They are fighting it out in maps at huge expense. You need to deliver a global map to your traveling customer base that is amazing (transit, traffic, local POI etc). This is not a small project. Then you have to monetize it. If you told me a smaller handset provider was going to launch a mapping solution - I'd tell you they are crazy!

That drives cooperation especially if a solution is a high capital requirement. Even intel is probably going to cooperate with TSMC (!!!). Some of these capital efforts are kind of insane - 30 billion per year capex type stuff. How many countries have CAPEX expenditures in this scale (ie, not just on operating costs / staff salaries?). These business are larger than countries in some cases.

Android / Samsung absolutely are competing (and copying) Apple in handset space. Ironically they will first denounce apple (not shipping chargers!). That's ALMOST always a guarantee that they will then copy them next cycle :)! I'm not kidding. I'd love to go back and look at everything from an all screen design (bad email machine), to dropping 3.5m jack (which I hated to see happen) to dropping chargers etc.
Or you don't disclose anything, and the employer would have to find out and prove it.
That’s a good debate to have. I settled on JSON due to its readability and ubiquity in web APIs. It’s something people all the way down and up the stack are very familiar with these days.
iOS doesn't show messages on my phone lock screen until it's authenticated me via Face ID. Presumably on a theoretical multi-user iPad, it'd do Face ID and then show me _my_ lock screen messages and not anyone else's who happens to have an account.

Sharing a computer doesn't mean keeping personal information off of it, it just means you want a device that respects your personal information and keeps it private (non-readable by other user accounts) by default.
Ancient footage, they fixed this bug
If managed correctly there is little point. However it seems that the plants in Israel also use evaporative pools on some of the brine and sell it off to some chemical plants but at the scale they desalinate it just not feasible to pool all of if and you still need to get rid of the salt eventually.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/
> How then do you explain the success of Touch ID on Apple devices and the equivalent systems on other phones and tablets?

Because on those devices the fingerprint is only used as a second factor (the first factor being physical possession of a particular device).

If Apple used fingerprints like law enforcement do, that is running a fingerprint against the big DB of all prints, then they would certainly get some arbitrary matches.
What a great read!

It's now 20 hours on since this story was listed and I'm surprised that I'm the first to comment. Perhaps the reason is that it's a reasonably long read and its title is seemingly a bit 'off topic' - but don't be fooled, there's lots of security and IT stuff (in a non-technical supporting role) and that's just the beginning - it's also a darn good yarn with more to come.

Not only is the article extremely well written but also it holds an element of suspense throughout that will ensure you'll read to the end (not surprisingly as it's written by book-publishing world insider).

If you're like me and know little about the inner Byzantine-like workings of book publishing then you'll find this story both entertaining and an excellent primer.

Reckon it'll be a movie next (that'll only make sense after you read it).
Can confirm, once rented a house with bamboo in the backyard, it’s awful awful stuff and will spread very easily

The only way to keep it from moving further into yards or gardens is to pour concrete trenches it can’t grow thru. impossible to eradicate entirely and while it’s shooting new sprouts up from the ground after its first day or two of softness starts to get more wood like and are wicked sharp easily being able to pierce through skin/clothes/shoes and cause some nasty cuts.

No one should ever plant that stuff voluntarily!
I only ever had a Windows then a Linux machine, but it seems to me that all the cool apps are on Apple.
And remote engine kill. This will be used to prevent upset citizens from attending protests, riots, and other forms of civilian uprising.
I would not be keen to drop half of my life savings into living somewhere I don't remotely have control over. I am owning something to benefit my life & comfort, not contribute towards public charity.

Having a charming weekend getaway is nice in rural Japan. Relocation & living full time with such restrictions in place? No thank you.
Fun with Proxies
I really appreciate his current title of that example video "The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve - The Collatz Conjecture" because the thing that pisses me off most about clickbait is that I just don't know what the video or article is even about. It just creates an immediate dilemma which I personally find stressful. I think it actually violates the principle of autonomy because they're intentionally taking away your ability to make an informed decision. People mention deception but it's a little bit more than that because of this.

Maybe that's me, but I think the worst offenders are the ones who actually disappoint (Veritasium not being one.) How can we disincentivize them doing that? Currently, there seems to be little downside for them completely misrepresenting their content.
He has a short (6 minutes) TED talk on the subject. “The key to effective educational science videos”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaW2bFieo8
> Boeing will never try it [with the 707] because they don’t want to be second
Finally, a plant i can keep alive!
How many people have you let try the unlock your device with their fingerprint? Tens or hundreds of Millions? That'd be a closer comparison for how a search of fingerprint database work.
I appreciate the DD you did and admit to feeling a little hoodwinked, but in fairness the CEO did do a Show HN [1] a couple days ago. I can imagine bootstrapping a startup, not getting any interest on a Show HN, and doing some blog posts to continue marketing. I think really the only thing off here is the lack of a kind of "Try Algora! We automate paid SWE interviews" section somewhere.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28236640
I look at it this way: I haven't had a car accident in over 25 years of driving. Now if there was a 1% chance of having a car accident every time drove, I'd be having multiple accidents a year. This seems bad.
Also worth mentioning for searching the classic web: https://wiby.me/
Uh ... what about when I don't want to load the entire stream into memory before the next stage starts running? Are these implicit json arrays that stream out?

Or do we now have incompatible json shell tools and streaming text tools as a permanent fixture?

I'm excited about structured output ideas, but json? I'd much rather have streams of whitespace separated words than json. That's in that "No type system is better than a bad type system" metaphorical area.

I'll take grepping with a theoretically brittle regex over this jq[1] any day of the week.

[1]
jq -nc --stream 'inputs
| select(length==2)
| select( [.[0][0,2,4]] == ["results", "data", "row"])
| [ .[0][6], .[1]] '
The homophone with lark (the bird) likely reinforced the idiom but was probably not the origin of it. “For a lark” is correct as well, OED does not cite “as a lark.”

The phrase “as a lark” probably emerges as a mixture of “as a joke” and “on a lark.”
It's sort of on you to back up the extraordinary claim that these defects have disappeared in the last five months.

Edit: FSD 9 accelerates across double lines toward bridge support in San Francisco. https://youtu.be/GlIdu7prsAw?t=155
That wasn't the only time.
If the last year taught me anything, it’s how fast people will turn on neighbors if given even slight guidance by the media let alone the government. Pick a topic, it’s all division, and seems intentional now.