skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look at my bills. Sorry to be glib, but it's as simple as that. I remember what it feels like not to be able to afford the basics. That feeling is worse than the burnout feeling for me. If I can remember it clearly I can sometimes flip to going back to work, joyful and grateful that I can.
Could you walk us through the math here?
And if the proof of concept does work, you take all the code that you written, throw it away and rewrite it? Probably not. I've seen too much "proof of concepts" go into production because they worked. Except when someone else had to actually maintain the thing and the person that wrote it leaved the company 1 year before.

There is not proof of concept code to me. Every line of code that I write professionally I write it to the higher standards. That doesn't mean over engineering it, but it means writing it in a way that is maintainable and understandable by others. I can compromise on functionality, of course in a proof of concept I implement only the things that I need, but not on code quality.

Even if I have to write a script that I know it will have to be used once and never again I will write it in a good way, you never know if you need it again, if a coworker does need to do a similar thing and you can just give to him as reference, or if you can take pieces to do other things.
Very D. Hofstadter ;-)
...it often seems like the people at the top were deceiving themselves more than anyone else.

Whose interest does it serve, for that to be a common narrative?
SFGate is an awful opinion blog, not a real newspaper.
> Music is intimately related to math

If anyone had told me that when I was a kid, it would have been a life changing event.

My mom had a piano and played it, badly. She tried to sight read, but had no sense of tempo, or of starting with slow practice (playing in time, but slower). And she liked to play what she called "schmaltzy" stuff. (Think "Heart and Soul" and "Peg o' My Heart" played with a constantly varying tempo, speeding up and slowing down as she worked out the notes.)

This is not to criticize her: she did what she could to instill a love of music in her kids.

But I was happier reading my math and physics books. I tried to make sense of Mom's sheet music, but it just seemed like a bunch of dots and lines.

If I'd known that sheet music notation had anything to do with math, I would have jumped on it!
Now that the veil has been lifted, you will start hearing about a lot more abuses at Apple. Unfortunately before their recent announcement about photo scanning, any mention of issues with Apple would get you quickly downvoted. How much more proof do you need that Apple is primarily a cult?
Really big fan of this company. Saved our team a huge amount of accounting time in the first week alone, and on-boarding was super easy (less than 48 hours and we were running).
Interesting! I'd love to see the SQL version of that though.

CQRS reactive patterns with Flink or Spark computing a result to be send to the client could benefit from it: you could decide to move some aggregation client-side in the same business language.
I'd want a mouse/trackball with proper Cherry Blue (or brown, maybe) buttons/keys. Is such a thing available?
>mortgages on investment properties typically have worse terms and/or are more difficult to obtain than mortgages on vacation homes.

People typically rent out investment properties. Its pretty rare to invest speculatively by just buy/hold without using the property.
They're blaming banks but this was inevitable after the NYT report about PornHub and how they handled user-generated content and reports. But unlike PornHub, OnlyFans hides its victims behind paywalls and the person posting can rake in the cash before closing shop and moving on.

If OnlyFans was willing to hire say 1k moderators and enforce user and content verification I bet this story would be different. But instead it seems OnlyFans has decided it's easier to pivot their business and latch onto investor cash before it all collapses instead of building a verified and safe community. I'm willing to bet we'll see a lot more of this over the next few years on other platforms.
https://archive.is/Aqx8x
Might be a good time for a break if you can afford it. I'm in your boat also - and also 25
How about we start with massive amounts of loan fraud?

https://themreport.com/daily-dose/12-08-2020/the-role-of-len...
> Autonomous driving efforts need a major pivot to start working with concepts, causality, and the integrated space time model of the world we humans use.

Dear god, no. I don't know what you think AV companies are doing past the perception layer, but they would be pivoting away from controls and planning -- you know, stuff that actually works outside of neurips/iclr/&c fantasy land.
Someone in my town (~100,000 people, somewhere on the East Coast) created a "nerd space" where you could rent video game consoles, PC/Macs with pro software, some rudimentary woodworking equipment, a board game/CCG store, and generally hang out. I thought it would become my third place, and for a while it was. I met some awesome people, briefly collaborated on a game that went nowhere, taught some classes, attended trivia nights, etc. It expanded into more buildings and felt like it could become a bedrock of the town. Then it slowly started to contract. I think the only thing left is the donut shop with a small board game collection. The original buildings were demolished in favor of apartments. My guess is they couldn't pay the skyrocketing rent, and couldn't find a good spot in town where people could just sit and theoretically do whatever they wanted. Maybe a library less dependent on profit would make for a better venue?
The factories with suicide nets to prevent "worker" suicide from awful conditions building Apple devices should be more than enough to shutdown Apple. Workplace issues in the US are the cherry on top of the putrid Apple sunday of human rights violations. Antitrust, spying and a litany of other wrongs should be considered before attempting change vs total liquidation.
Possibly to drive between their various houses?
Well, there is one thing that's stupider. There's no cruise control. It's AP or nothing. If I just want the car to do nothing but hold the current speed, like my 1986 Chevrolet Camaro did, it doesn't have that feature. If the cameras don't work for some reason such as a heavy rainstorm, there's no "dumb mode" cruise control as a backup. I find that annoying.
When I was younger I would get road hypnosis, particularly at night.
Don't even have to be tired, just start "zoning out" completely despite doing things to combat that (roll down windows for fresh air in my face and blast music).

I feel like this lightened up a bit in my late 20s.
In any case, I love that I now live in a city where I don't have to drive and do not own a car.
the hive-mind propaganda circle jerk took over, and many dont even realize they are still jerkin'
> ability to drive autonomously everywhere with zero human oversight with a safety record equivalent to the median human driver

I think this statement is off the mark. Comparing to a human is hard. Not many accidents happen because people are bad at driving. Driving is honestly pretty easy. They happen because people are distracted, tired, drunk, or perhaps just an asshole driving recklessly for thrills or for speed.

A self driving car might be a lot "worse" than the average human driver but could still be a huge improvement in terms of expected safety record for driving overall.

They don't need to be better than humans, they just need to be not shit 100% of the time unlike humans.
In other news, China seems to have contained delta, with 0 new active cases today. It does seem to be possible to tame delta, even with a population of 1.4 billion people.
The problem isn't when you're tailgating, the problem is when you're comfortably cruising at 80 mph and all of a sudden you realize there's a stopped car in your lane. It can be surprisingly hard to notice the one car that isn't going with the flow of traffic. There are videos of cars getting totaled this way. Not sure I want to know what happened to the passengers.

On busy highways, if your car breaks down and you need to slow, one of your biggest concerns should be to get out of the way asap before someone rear-ends you.

Whether you consider it a result of tailgating or not, pile-ups are a common result of unexpected action on a highway.
I'm sure the grand poster meant banning human driving entirely in order to prevent human driving casualties.
Reminds me of this short video[1] about an automated house that outlives its owners.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc
You can't really pay your employees or office lease in bitcoin, at some point you will still be interacting with a broker or banking system.
And when you look into thoose reports - the only reason they rank Super Cruise higher is because it can only be used on a very limited number of roads, and uses a camera to detect awareness.

FSD uses a camera, and works on all roads - and is dramatically better then supercruise.

source - test drove both, bought the tesla because of how impressed I was with supercruise.
Hi. Is it possible to use Datafusion remotely, likea query service? Perhaps using Arrow Flight? I would like to query data with different clients. Python in Jupyter, straight to browser and perhaps even something like Nu shell. This way each tool won’t need to open its own copy of Arrow/Parquet data.
> human safety driver to be remote, as is the case in Phoenix.

It's not a remote human safety driver, it's more like a remote human safety coach.

The difference is giving high level directions vs directly driving the car. They don't remotely drive the car because that would obviously be super dangerous w/r/t connection stability/latency.
It's nothing but a feel-good virtue signal boost. Worked for one that fully enabled casual sexual harassments and practiced frat-culture of pressuring workers into drinking alcohol, wouldn't think twice between aggressive cash-burning and laying off workers, severely underpays people who have been with the company for years. CEO blatantly told a journalist to call 1800-EAT-D**.
The fact that such company can get certified makes this program a joke.
Are you sure it was Raymond? Well at least Larry Hastings (the person who was attempting Gilectomy) said something similar, but even then he actually was ok with that as long as multithreaded performance was better, but unfortunately even that was worse. The main problem is Python's grabage collection through reference counting. Changing the counter requires locks, which then require cache flush every time.

There was an attempt (I think in PyPy) to use Software Transactional Memory (STM) which would solve this problem, but apparently it is still difficult to do it and looks like it did not succeed.
Sure, but there's two issues here. The turn signal is on in the other direction. Activation of the turn signal in base autosteer will disable autosteer. Activation of the turn signal in more advanced modes (Nav on Autopilot) will result in a lane change in the direction of the signal.

There might be a way to trigger a scenario like this in an FSD equipped car with all FSD related features turned off, and a really careful sequence of events with the turn signal, I guess? I'd have to try it to be sure, but I think it'd actually take some work to do.

But that last part does have me thinking it might be possible. The weird slowdown that he reported at the end could be consistent with AP finally giving up on alerting the driver and trying to "make safe" by slowing aggressively and probably going crazy with audible alerts. Maybe then the driver perked up and took off the ramp?

But tbh, it all reminds me of a driver that I ran into (thankfully not literally) a while back. They were in an older car, so obviously not on ADAS... just driving that badly and probably under the influence. It happens a lot.
Slightly off topic: We are looking for investors for an arm sleeve that can measure blood pressure (Pressure not pulse, NOT based on pulse wave velocity). If interested post here.

We have a rudimentary, un-inspirational website: http://www.koalasleeve.com/

Just filed the patents.
Since some people might not know the history here, back in the vacuum tube days, you needed to let something like a TV warm up for a few minutes before it would work. Vacuum tubes contain a filament (much like the one in a light bulb) and it needed to heat up the cathode before the tube would start working. Later, manufacturers introduced "instant on" TVs that would keep the filaments powered even when the set was "off". This wasted electricity but you didn't need to wait for the tubes to warm up.
Our vaccination program is ramping up nicely, even with the lockdown they're posting record numbers. Should be done by the end of the year, and if we can get this outbreak under control we'll easily get there before the next one.
My Takeaways from the WebGPU July Meetup
For non native speakers ( like myself ), pissed probably means (very) drunk in this context.
I once had a so called "Radio Roku" where the main service has been discontinued (the website where you could put in your favorite stations etc.), so basically the answer is don't trust no one.
Yes, it's bad populism to talk about crimes and then never bother to explain them.

There's nuance in explaining systematic failure, but not one that most people couldn't grasp if well written in a few paragraphs.

A lot of 'small bad decisions' at the loan level encouraged by an aggressive culture, a failure in ratings, and CEO's to mild to look too intently into the VP Retail Banking's mortgage profits ... and the whole thing can go sideways.

But it'd be nice if the experts gave us more detail when the talked about it.
This is a great example of an HN comment (and also in general why reading HN comments as opposed to the posts, is a poor predictor of anything).
You are blocking a legitimate use of the web platform.

It is as if you set a dns to the other side of the globe, disabled browser cache and then complained that pages now take longer to load.

Tracking is bad, scary, and with worring consequences in how much ML can predict statical human behaviour, but the solution is not "cookies bad" or "ads bad".

If a website as any kind of first-onboarding interaction (be it a video, some marketing crap, asking for permissions, or whatever) and you disable _any_ form of tracking how are they supposed to know it is not your first visit?

Many of those website do not need to track you, many do so with malicious intent, but the concept of the consent modal itself serves a useful purpose
First they came...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Judging from the number of views machining videos get on YouTube, I suspect at least machining will have a chance of growing big again, under the name of "making".
How do I get an invite!? Do you just have to know someone at Waymo?
That is a crazy high requirement. I am planning on moving to Miami and they need evidence that I've had >3 months rent in the account for 3 months. Who keeps that much money in a checking account?
Workers Don’t Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms
nah he just compares two different things.
basically his golang hello world probably had basically nothing while his dotnet version used the "Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web" which basically pulls the shared framework which will load a ton of stuff.
BUT even after that the memory usage might be bigger. however does it really matter? I mean dotnet is not a big memory hog. it's pretty lightweight for what it is. compare it to java and the golang number would be insane.
> All modern investment in this space is explicitly trying to push for better hardware software co-design.

I'm ok with hardware vendors writing their own firmware. The problem I have is when they push updates, and take over control of my hardware.

So hw/sw codesign is fine, as long as it is sold as a hardware unit that I control.

> This is seen as the path forward in light of Moore's law dying.

At this point I care more about having control over my data and devices than about Moore's law.
It's 2021 and .NET developers still argue which coding style they should adopt and how they should enforce it. It's totally mind numbing that team members are split between implicit and explicit variable naming. Contrary, in Go you just write code because those nuances should not matter.
Socialism "for me but not for thee" isn't socialism. That's capitalism, although it does edge toward the super-capitalism that some call fascism rather than sharing any important characteristics with various systems of free enterprise that many people imagine when they encounter the word "capitalism".
The experience of creating and selling NFTs sucks
I don't think most people in the UK who express an opinion on it have ever actually used it.

I used to live round the corner from the magic roundabout. It's actually fine. The best analogy I have for it is juggling, if I concentrate too much and overthink it I drop the balls. If you over-think the magic roundabout it can seem intimidating, but when you're actually there it makes much more sense and you just go with the flow. You're not dealing with the whole system in one go, most people just take it one roundabout at a time.

One of the reasons it seems to work is that people take it easy, everyone is paying attention to what they are doing, and most people take it at a sensible speed.
You're probably right. I've just started watching The Wire and in season 2, the loading dock workers whistle to each other to let them know cops are around.
... because none of them were convicted of crimes, in turn because none of them were indicted or tried, presumably because prosecutors either didn't believe they were guilty of any crimes or because they didn't believe the cases against them were strong enough.

Fortunately, we by-and-large do not send people to jail without that kind of due process just because large numbers of people are angry at them for whatever reason.
This was addressed in the tv-show "New Amsterdam". The medical director of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital identified that barbershops are indeed community centers, after an almost fatal event where a black man almost died playing basketball.

The director figured that it is far more likely that men could get their heart checked if they didn't have to go out of their way to get to a hospital, and that was the right place to do it. He trained the main barber there on how to use the machine because he understood how much he cared about his friends, acquaintances, and the community he had fostered. IIRC he did that in many other barber shops in the area.

Funny enough, this approach also saves a lot of money because health problems can be identified faster than otherwise.
USB HDD firmware isn't very good, and certainly isn't built for a NAS set up. Data loss is a lot more probable.
In Bolo universe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_universe ), there were multiple cases where commander was dead but AI kept its plan.
Yes, we are thinking of supporting SQL
I agree. But consumers has nothing to do with the source of electricity. They're consumers, not producers.

You cannot blame consumer for turning on the light in his place because the source of electricity is not too green.

If we need to change the source of anything from bad to good - that the conversation with the respective governments and politicians.
Do You Forget Things?
Slack isn't free, they sell you history-in effect, you generate the data that they sell back to you.
The book Halting State by Charlie Stross (2007) [1] had an interesting self driving car model, where it was autonomous on simple roads like highways/motorways, and a human driver took over remotely for more complex city streets.

Of course the book showed some failure modes for that, but I wonder if network coverage and latency, as well as "backup driver response time" could be considered good enough, perhaps this sort of model could have an acceptable risk trade-off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
This sounds nice but you should NOT stop on a highway. This could've killed both + whoever slams into them.

People die all the time even when stopped on the emergency lane (you should really step over the barrier to be safe).
Dead people often can’t hear beeping
The torque required to cause it to swerve out of its lane would also be enough to disable Autopilot. This story isn't newsworthy if Autopilot isn't on.
Nelua Programming Language
Income, or even 6mo income history, doesn't predict how likely you'll be to get another job if you lose your job. What lenders really want to know is how in-demand you are in the market, and so what they should predict as the "floor" on your future income.

Add to that how likely someone with your personality-type is to just decide to take a few months/years off between jobs living off of savings, and you've got a heuristic nearly as predictive of loan-repayment as all the rest of the information lenders use today put together.
Socialism is not when the government does stuff.
>the confidentiality of a professional therapist is huge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_the_Confessional_and_t...
You Might Be Being Watched
In a world where children are sent to daycare, Headstart, Pre-K[indergarten] and then Kindergarten all before entering the public/private school system for the next 18 or so years, I have increasingly seen nostalgia for school cafeteria meals from those now in their 20s. Doesn't matter if it's awful quality from the same source as hospital and prison food; they grew up with it as their primary meal source.
In British and Australian English, yes. We don't say it in the US.
That's literally the point. It technically isn't but it straightforwardly is. Hence why they are able to get away with it.
Yes. And we're hiring storage engineers!
https://discord.com/jobs/5411664002
https://discord.com/jobs/5426301002
Try a southern state that has never seen snow before but got half an inch and is losing its collective mind.
Nope, no comment because I don't know what you're talking about. I spent some time reflecting on this little interaction and it really reminded me of when it was going on. I got a call from my grandmother to watch out because she had heard about some really ugly things and these Seattle riots, and was I staying safe? And it was bizarre, because the places she was describing were places I had been, and I had zero evidence for anything she described. It was like she was living in a reality where I was under siege while I was going to the protests that she was convinced were violent riots. Because that's how they were being reported.

Which brings me to talking to you. You've got this world view I can't validate but I suspect was informed by broadcasts that at the time I materially disagreed with, due to them being materially incorrect. You're characterizing the activity as a riot and talking about CHAZ like you know what it was like, but you don't. If you did you'd probably mention the fucking stupid garden people put in that immediately stopped being maintained, or the teargas fired at peaceful protesters, or the mayor promising that wouldn't happen anymore and that promise being broken less than twelve hours later, or that a big part of what was going on was that Seattle was trying to remove federal oversight in the form of the consent decree - Seattle has a pretty ugly history with its police, and a consent decree is a no fault agreement to oversight. Oh or the person who tried being a vigilante peace-keeper, how that didn't go over well, and ended in tears and hugs or any of the other bizarre events.

And that person - they weren't involved with BLM, thats the point. They came in from out of state and took advantage of some chaos. They were not ideologically involved. This is not a BLM equivalent of right-wing terror attacks. The rhetoric in the streets was to be on the lookout for agent provocateurs trying to stir this into violence, that anyone being violent or destructive was actively working against any kind of social reform or change.