skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was assumed essential, but with the success of homeschooling in other countries, the assumption is likely incorrect unless Germans are a different type of human?
No one is on Mastodon or Matrix.
> Tech companies don't know what to do with all their money (although Intel perhaps a bit less so).

Lidar has high computational needs, which directly influences accuracy, and both spacial and time resolution.

Post-processing steps also have high computational needs, such as infering structure, do coregistration, handle point density, etc.

Also, practical applications often demand and depend on meeting constraints such as low power requirements and size.

If a company such as Intel managed to leverage their know-how to provide
Lidar hardware that was competitive in both performance and price then they could as well develop a machine that prints money.
> but try to put yourself in Steve's shoes. It is very hard to publicly criticize some of the behavior of a group you are a member of without burning bridges or deeply harming relationships.

In another comment, Steve said he was not a member of the Rust Foundation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514771
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I've seen a handful of articles and conference talks where the main thrust is "why isn't functional programming more popular". Apparently it works well and is "intuitive" for some people. I think the first thing we should do is recognize the amount of neurodivergence amongst programmers.

The WISV-IV GAI tests for verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning. It provides an estimate of general intellectual ability, with less emphasis on working memory and processing speed. My GAI is 124. Which means I'm fairly intelligent (sic. "superior") when it comes to understanding language and reasoning. It makes me a fairly good problem solver. I'm an ok programmer (judged against the hundreds of programmers I've paired with through my consulting work).

That said, I've tried to learn Haskell three times and given up each time. The functional model of D3js kicks my ass. I cannot grok LISP.

It turns out my WMI (working memory index from Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) is BELOW AVERAGE. This makes holding lots of recursion or abstraction in my head at once quite difficult. I also suffer from adult ADHD.

I love long functions in a procedural style. I'm quite proficient working that way. There's not too much abstraction and behavior hiding (why I grew to hate OO). You can see how my neurological makeup impacts what "good" code looks like. I also understand that James Gosling has a kind of synesthesia and that impacts the structure of his code to the point of causing problems for others (see Lex Friedman interview).

I said all that to say this. What makes code understandable/readable/clean is in the eye of the beholder. There's quite a bit of neurodivergence in our field and we need to account for that when deciding on how to critique code. After all shouldn't code be written first and foremost for humans to understand and only incidentally for compilers? (paraphrased from SICP)
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I went on a philosophy bent for some reason years ago and read a bunch of popular philosophy reads to get a sense of what that space is. I still read a lot of philosophy but much less obsessively.

One of the things it did to me was totally transform my perception of animals, humans as animals, our relationships, and cause to me to realize I have no way to verify that animals don’t experience life in a way that’s as meaningful or as sentient as mine. I can’t even properly define those things. I do know that I share a LOT with mammals especially and they appear to possess a lot of the faculties required to feel good, suffer, have temporal awareness, relationships with other animals, etc. That’s not what was taught to me as a child.

I like to go spear fishing and that’s a very changed experience. I learned how to originally so I could be more selective about food and where I harvest it, reduce bycatch, etc. So I cared before to some degree. Now shooting a fish involves this internal struggle of deciding if it’s necessary, if it makes sense, what it means about me, what the experience will be like for the fish. It feels a lot more like killing someone rather than something. I guess that sounds silly.

It’s a rabbit hole. You can go down so far and maybe not turn up much that’s very useful. I think animals aren’t very discernible from human animals in the big picture though. I’m basically a murderer, but the legally sanctioned kind. I bought the license.

I strongly prefer to eat the food I murdered myself now. I occasionally eat farmed meat, but it’s rare and comes from local farms with unscalable high standards. I’m fortunate that I can do that. I mostly do it to appease my family - they feel weird when I skip dishes at special meals.

Anyway I wanted to share that because this thought experiment about the experience of animals in farms means a lot to me lately, and I find it all fascinating but important as well. Like you, I’m increasingly uncomfortable with it.
Aren't you effectively describing lab meat?

Bio-reactors are pretty stupid.
I think the feet-dragging comes more from the dealer network than from automakers themselves. Ford, GM and the like will still make plenty of money from offering parts for their EVs. Dealers however continue to show distaste in EV sales. Part of that may be the reduced service needs (no oil changes, transmission rebuilds, engine maintenance, etc.) that will lower their income, part may be from the sales side. That's been Tesla's argument all along for selling and servicing direct, and I think anyone that's tried to buy an EV from a Chevy dealer might agree.
> 1) Quarantine in a guarded quarantine hotel for two weeks in a sealed room
or
> 2) Quarantine in your home with facial recognition and GPS tracking and random pings that send the police to your home if you do not respond within 15 minutes
> This is not a choice.

What's your alternative? Just let sick people loose into the country, exponentially infecting everyone? I'm in the US, and that strategy did not work out very well. 660K deaths and counting. Quarantine has historically been a sensible, effective way to deal with deadly communicable diseases. I wish the US took it as seriously as Australia and NZ did.

EDIT: Crap, I just realized I responded to the article's submitter, someone who's already posted the same ax-grind 30 times to the article's threads. Guess I've been had.
>a break and oil change is a simple DIY task

Agree, the argument is that many tasks on Teslas should be simple DIY tasks but Tesla has engineered away access so that they are no longer simple DIY tasks. As you quoted FTA: "Many basic repairs are impossible to do on its cars because of software locks"

See what some Tesla owners reported for bills for bills for brake replacements, which should be cheap and DIY-able, about $8500[1]

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ouch-first-huge-repa...
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Maybe in all the empty office buildings :)
I quit FB and Instagram by making it very difficult to login by changing my password and not saving it.
However I still use Twitter with one useful trick: I make lists of Subjects I care about: COVID research, Real Estate, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5CTxckRywg&t=2543s
> and they weren't called in front of Congress recently over antitrust concerns

Congress hasn't exactly been a hotbed of anti-trust activity over the past 40 years. I wouldn't take the absence of action here as anything particularly meaningful.
For those who are not up to reading music at Bach's level,
Stephen Malinowski's Musical Animation videos are eye-opening, e.g., from the Musical Offering mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYouXtuk0T8

Toccata and Fugue in Dmin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

I was directed to Malinowski's work by Edward Tufte (you may be able to figure out why) and feel I should pass it on.
Thank you for clarifying, that makes a lot more sense.
If it goes well enough for Microsoft, I'd expect Google to change the license/stop publishing and Microsoft to fork from there.

The point of the chromium name is to provide a name that's not the general product name. I haven't looked at the license, but I don't think Google can take that name back; but if they do, Microsoft would just change it to something else, no big deal.

Google has already turned their back on open-source development; so much of Android isn't in AOSP, and I don't think it's coming back. Chrome so far has stayed open-source, but whenever it becomes inconvenient for that to stay, I expect it will. Such is corporate life.
Be the change you want to see, then?
> The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating).

And yet how much do you pay year after year for healthcare via taxes?
Not sure why this is downvoted, many parents believe this.
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Fully functional programming (e.g. Haskell) isn't popular because it isn't ideal and computers work imperatively.

Even in a "functional" task (e.g. compiling) sometimes you just want an imperative algorithm. And while Haskell allows this via state monads, they're clunky.

Meanwhile there's practically no tradeoff to writing functional code in an imperative language. In fact there's lots of functional code in most C++/Java/Python programs. Most "imperative" languages are actually hybrid functional and imperative, supporting "functional" constructs like lambdas and pattern matching.

99% of the time a functional program will get executed sequential and strict anyways. The other 1% of the time, in an imperative language you can explicitly encode functionality (e.g. generic stream operators which work concurrently and on lazy streams).
> the only parents that want to home school their children are those with extreme religious or political opinions they want to foist upon them.

I was homeschooled K-12 from mid-80s to late 90s, part of the first generation of the modern homeschooling movement.

I'd say 80% of the families matched your description, but I'd guess it's lower today as it seems to be more mainstream. But I bet a least half still match.
I stopped using FB and IG a long time ago. The "likes and followers" appeal didn't apply for me, as I rarely posted.

But I did feel the FOMO and when I closed the app, I would get this feeling that my life is boring, like a web page with the default Wordpress theme. Feeling as if nobody would be interested in clicking around and getting to know anything about me.

Yet, despite abandoning these apps, I am somehow still constantly on my phone (not during work), trying to find something new to distract me from the boredom I feel in the evenings after work. Reddit or Youtube are my biggest addictions.
No you did not read that right.

IDENTIFYING the problem is done by the $100 charge for 24 hours. They did without.

Solving the problem was costing tens of thousands of dollars from Tesla if using their "certified" network, while they did it for 5k.
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This is whataboutism.

If you have a legitimate response to the original poster, then you should directly argue with their post, not tell them their entire post is invalid because of some other thing.
I certainly wish people were on Mastodon (haven't tried Matrix yet). I ran a Mastodon instance for some time. The experience was decent but discovery was terrible, and discovery is what makes Twitter (for example) so compelling.
I use Zola for my project website. As someone who had never built a website before, I tried several static site builders but only really succeeded in getting a tweakable theme working with Zola.
> Engagement on Twitter

> Official Discord chat room

No. Not at all. Many very popular OSS projects don't use Twitter or Discord. Any time you say "all OSS projects use technology X", be it GitHub or Twitter or whatever, the only thing you can be sure of is that the statement is wrong. Some projects may, sure, but that's different.

Probably the only "technology" you can say they generally use is a web page.

It is reasonable to say "they have 1 or more ways to interact, and that's clearly identified on their web page". But assuming that everyone uses the same communication mechanism is demonstrably false.
I live in Canada, so I actually get to pay for these people's healthcare.
I agree with some of what you're saying, but I don't think it makes any ecological sense. If you're aiming for a low carbon lifestyle, living in a flat within walking/cycling distance of everything you need is far better than having everyone spread far apart
I agree that can be annoying; did you try submitting a bug report?

I sent one once through their "Send Feedback" thing and someone actually got back to me (several months later, but still).

FWIW, I'm using wireless headphones that have the same 2 options (for calls and for "gaming") but never had the issue you're describing (though they're not Bluetooth, they come with a custom usb dongle).
> If an ordinary persons account got 100 reports a minute it would be taken down. Neymar’s won’t be.

Why does this disparity exist? By your own account, the number of times this happens for normal users is significantly smaller than for high-profile users, so why is Facebook incapable of having sufficient staffing to deal with this case for all users? _This_ is what has a lot of people annoyed.
Doesn't the article say he died of a cardiac emergency? Not covid.
Well, it depends on a lot of factors. Are the domains long established .com or do they dovetail with emerging trends in the market? Do they have high engagement despite low revenue? Lots of eyeballs being poorly monetized by one party doesn't mean another would extract the same value.

The valuation of a website, like any property, isn't going to be purely about the revenue its earning currently but about speculation about what could be made by interested buyers in the future, no?
For React-based projects, I would advocate for Next.js…but yeah, unless you know you need React for very specific reasons, it's definitely overkill. =)
Probably they are just overworked and understaffed. Possibly also lacking money for more/beefier build-servers?
Yes. When they’re too young to understand that you’re earning money from their work, and not paying them.
My dogs tag-team my gate and its latch. It's a very simple latch, with a loop of wire that goes over the top of the fence post.

One dog noses the wire up, while another dog pushes on the gate itself with her paw.

I had to start latching it with a carabiner where the loop cannot come over the fence post.

I don't know if they learned it from watching me, or by trial and error, but I certainly did not train them to do it.
Red Alert 2's was pretty great, though not to the same level as C&C's.

When it started it blasted out at full volume, "WARNING! Military Software Detected!" which, at one friend's house, caused his mom to yell up the stairs at us "WHAT ARE YOU BOYS DOING???"

Edit: hah, beaten.
> My point was not that at all.

Sure it was. You said in reference to 'liberals' who support covid vaccine mandates (but presumably wouldn't support measures to restrict 100% of other risky behaviors): "Their hypocrisy is staggering."

My point, which you continue to ignore, is that the societal cost of other diseases or risky behaviors is irrelevant to the current discussion. The COVID-19 vaccine mandate discussed in the OP is a matter of workplace safety. Cancer, heart disease, HIV etc are not threats to workplace safety. If there are other circulating diseases that present an equivalent scale threat to workplace safety please feel free to present them. Addiction may be, however in the US employers already have wide latitude to test for it and terminate employees in violation.
I use Pandoc and a few lines of nodeJS code.
I doubt the $100 for the access is the issue. It is probably the NDA and ULA you sign so Tesla can sue your ass I you do anything they don't want.
Odd because I was just thinking that Advance Wars was one of the worst offenders for being unbalanced. Most scenarios give the AI anywhere from a huge to an enormous resource advantage, one that immediately disappears the instant you abuse the AI brain damage to run infantry over to their capital and completely own everything because the AI never thinks to defend its capital.

But also if you play with anywhere near balanced resources between the sides you will crush the AI. It's so dumb.

The crazy thing is that to get a good score (that coveted S rank) you have to abuse the absolute ineptitude of the AI to do a commando raid on its capital. The game designers balanced the game against abusing the AI stupidity. Strategy and tactics are mostly there to delay the AI and it's 50x production advantage while you rush an APC around the edge of the map.
”Lock free” has a very precise meaning in computer science, and it’s this: ”given some number of threads of execution, an algorithm is lock free if in some finite number of steps, at least one thread is guaranteed to make forward progress”. When using mutexes, this is not guaranteed under any amount contention: the scheduler is perfectly free to preempt a thread holding a lock, which means no threads make progress.

However, if you use a CAS loop (like this code does) to update some value (i.e. a while loop that repeatedly tries to execute a compare-and-swap), that loop will only fail to make progress if some other thread DID make progress. This means that such an algorithm is in fact lock-free: if thread X didn’t progress, it is necessarily because some other thread did. In addition, a scheduler preempting a thread at any point will not stop other threads making progress.

Whether an algorithm is lock free or not is not a matter of opinion, it is a mathematical statement. The fact that it annoys you is… weird.
This isn't attacking a scapegoat, this is a false comparison of two separate issues, a.k.a. a "whataboutism".

It's like when a kid says they're not hungry and don't want to finish their plate and a parent says that there are starving children in africa. The new information doesn't address the issue, instead it adds a burden of guilt on top of the original problem.
Because hospitals have unlimited budgets.
Yes, but if independent shops can either do this for $5k or do it with a faster/easier diagnosis for $5.1k, that’s not a bad situation for either the shop or the car owner. It doesn’t sound terribly far off from the indie-vs-dealer choices I make as an ICE auto owner.
I think you're probably correct, but the page you linked does have this line:

"For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic."

Most of our hires were word-of-mouth, so it might raise those red flags. However, we have all open positions listed publicly, so maybe that doesn't apply.
I understand the issue. I do a lot of non-IT (and non-consumer) related searching. Google quoting started getting worse for me probably ten years ago.

And by "worse" I mean that before that, persistent searching could often "summon" better results. That is if I kept checking back with the same search terms, the results would tend to get better. Sometimes right away. Sometimes after a few hours or even days.

In other words, poor searches would tend to get better and my mental model was that the index I was hitting would change based on my search and lack of interest in previous results.

On the other hand, Google's results for technical topics (aka "things Google engineers value") has always been much better. I suspect this is because, search results require a lot of hand tuning of the "did you mean JPL" when "JBL" is in the search (not saying that's an actual example).

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I went over the dunes and sat by the Pacific after my last comment. I have a plausible theory for the recent dropoff.

There's only so much hot memory on a server. Everything Google might return is there: Ads, the web page inverted index, AMP pages, etc.

Google is pre-rendering more content for uses that are or look a lot like AMP. That means there's less space available for other things. The business decision is between ads and inverted index space.

Your query isn't about a product you are about to buy. There's no money in it. And what are you going to do, use Bing?

It's an engineered system. Economics are part of engineering. Google is a for profit business. You are a user, not a customer.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

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Not just to spot issues but to make sure other developers on the team understand what else is being worked on. Spread the knowledge.
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That's the result of profit driven capitalism.

If you try to change it, it will be demonized as socialism and govt control. Guess which partisan side is behind both things.
> Everybody likes to hate on "big tech" these days,

Yeah, because they're the Standard Oil and Aramco of this story.

> but if there's anyone that knows the dangers and all the ill effects but ignores them to make a profit, it's content creators.

That's like blaming the owners of mom-and-pop filling ("gas") stations for the ills of leaded petrol ("gas").
Closely related, I wish we had a better way of saying a library or product is now feature-complete. We use recent commit activity as a proxy of viability, but all of that churn could just as easily be an indication of immaturity. It's okay for tools to achieve their objectives and just live on as stable code with maintenance releases as needed.

To my mind, Jekyll is feature-complete. The only changes I've needed to make to my Jekyll site are dealing with breakages from backwards-incompatible updates. I've been hosting with GitHub Pages for the past 12 years and I largely don't even have to think about it. It's nice.
If cant play watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06vtANbGCE
Is individual membership even an option?
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/info/become-a-member/
doesn't seem to contemplate it.
‘things like teaching kids that the US founders were slaveholders and that owning slaves is a bad thing.’

When I was in high school the dialog went a step after and implied that the idea of the united states is therefore forever irredeemable. This latter aspect is what most are fighting over, because prominent writers on the left have doubled down on the idea that the U.S. is always destined for failure in that regard.
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I'm not a parent, but I did know of some homeschooled kids growing up. Honest question; where do these kids get to socialize without their parents present for long lengths of time now?
Absolutely. Me and other teenagers interested in Math all attempt to get through it
Excellent. Now I would recommend looking at the rate of change for each country in recent years to see even more clarity.
Sure but the quote was hand picked by parent, the core of the article and the meat of the (cost) complaint is not the toolbox access but the part replacement.