skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why this observatory fires lasers at satellites"
https://youtu.be/vdvIY0CJaXw
Ah but it is a gotcha because it is you who have not been paying attention!

...see how that doesn't actually move the argument forward? I might as well have just said that colorless green clouds are dreaming smartly.

You're welcome to make a counter argument but you need to actually make it.
Would make everywhere so much quieter, less polluted, and more pleasant.
React Admin works really well with Hasura:

https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura
I don't really care about website's design, as long as it gets out of the way of me reading it.
It won't be worse for either Cook or Pichai though.
Meditation is an amazing thing. Its impact on your mind and your understanding of your mind can be profound.

Sadly, many of the people who could most use the practice find the whole concept to be laughable.
Seems pretty clear to me that this isn't designed to build scalable apps. And that's okay—it's still a very thought-provoking exploration into a different paradigm of persistence.
I'm originally from Ukraine. My mom's internet connection there is 100Mbit/s and she pays $9 per month ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I dare say its safer than turning into a crosswalk of pedestrians.
It's a rabbithole, and you might not be personally satisfied with the standard of evidence. Here is a start for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571653

And since the link to [2] in what I linked above is broken, here is the archived version: https://archive.is/iZ2l2
That's horrifying on such a deep level. There should be mandatory civil service for programmers, but you just get sent somewhere cold and you gotta write scene demos and motion control software for a year to get your head on straight. :P
Yeah I'm finding it hard to get a coherent count.
It's not an illegal right. That sign is for the left lane.
Ask HN: Care to share your personal site?
As embarrassing as it sounds, I've never really understood the advantage of having a personal site over the possible downsides.

On one hand, if you're a professional, you have a reputation to build, but on the other hand anonymity never really was a problem for me professionally.

At any rate, I'm considering giving making a personal site a try, I just am not convinced what the pros and cons really are. This actually may be hard to ask of others, as I know many of us here do prefer to remain anonymous, to greater or lesser extent.

I appreciate anyone whom does share their site, since I'm curious what a personal/professional programmer site might look like. Or if anyone whom just has solid advice about my questions is welcome to share it.

I know many of us just use github, more or less, as their means of building a professional reputation--but a part of me distrusts social media, even if it's github of all things.

But I'm also curious about what stack was used to make your site. I've looked at static site generators, but none I found felt right to me. I guess it's one of those cases where if there is no clear winner, then the problem hasn't really been solved yet.
See my child comment below.
> I think C++ is more like the French Horn

Excerpts from https://houghtonhorns.com/why-is-the-french-horn-so-hard-to-...

The French horn is widely considered to be the most difficult brass instrument to play.

The modern-day double French horn is actually a combination of two horns (F, Bb) that share a common mouthpipe and bell.

Because the partials (available notes in the harmonic series) are so close together in the third octave, the horn’s most comfortable range, it is fairly easy to miss or “crack” a note. Conversely, the partials that occur in the trumpet’s most comfortable range are comparatively more spread out, allowing for a bit better accuracy and more control.

Another reason for the horn being difficult to play lies in the fact that it has the widest range of all the brass instruments: nearly as high as a trumpet and almost as low as a tuba. Additionally, the horn mouthpiece is small and deep, requiring fine muscle control and embouchure development. The mouthpipe is long and slender, creating more resistance for the player to overcome.

Because the horn faces backwards–as opposed to the other wind instruments–the horn player must work extra hard to balance and blend with the other members of the wind instrument family.
Road2Elsewhere. Noticing: Day three in Paris, 1978
And this is the WORST possible combination

One of the attributes of human perception is that it is TERRIBLE at maintaining persistent vigilance without engagement.

Even at a very low level, the nervous system is designed to habituate to constant stimuli; e.g., when you first encounter something that smells (good or bad) it can be overwhelming, but after a few minutes the same smell barely registers. More on point, spend some time looking forward at speed, or rotating (e.g., in a swivel chair), then stop quickly, and watch how your visual system creates the illusion of everything flowing in the opposite direction.

Now, scale that up to higher levels of cognition. The more the car gets right, the worse will be the human's attention. When a car here does almost everything right, people can and will literally read or fall asleep at the wheel. Until that one critical failure.

As a former licensed road racing driver and champion, I find the idea of anything between L2 and L4 to be terrifying. I can and have handled many very tricky and emergency situations at a wide range of speeds on everything from dry roads to wet ice (on and off the track) — when my attention was fully focused on the road, the situation, my grip levels, the balance of the car, etc.

The idea of being largely unfocused while the car does almost everything, then having an alert and having to regain, in fractions of a second, full orientation to everything I need to know then take action, is terrifying. 60 mph is 88 feet per second. Even a quick reaction where I've squandered only a half second figuring out what to do is the difference between avoiding or stopping before an obstacle, and blowing ~50' past it, or over it, at speed.

Attempts to say "it's just fine because a human is in the loop (and ultimately responsible)" are just bullsh*t and evading responsibility, even if human beta testing is fantastic for gathering massive amounts of data to analyze.

Among high risk and speed sports, it is almost axiomatic for us to draw distinctions between "smart crazy" vs "dumb crazy", and everyone knows the difference without a definition. The best definition I heard was that it's the difference between [using knowledge, technology, and skill to make a hazardous activity reliably safe] vs [getting away with something]. You can 'get away' with Russian Roulette 5 out of six times, and you'll probably get a great adrenaline rush, but you can't expect to do so for long.

Although this kind of "full self driving" has much better odds vs Russian Roulette, it is still unreliable, and the system of expecting the human to always be able to detect, orient, and respond in time to the car's errors is systematically unsafe. You will 'get away with it' a lot, and there will even be times when the system catches things the humans won't.

But to place the entire "legal and moral responsibility" on the human to 100% reliably operate a system that is specifically designed against human capabilities is wrong, unless you want to say that this is a [no human should every operate under these conditions], like drunk driving, and outlaw the system and the action of operating it.
This is just hitting the market so it will be interesting to see where it goes.

If the vendors were ready for something like this on the software side, this would be great for edge compute when low latency response is required - remote utility substation handling and reacting to a large array of sensors feeding at 60 data points per second. In some use cases going to the control centre and back would be too slow to benefit. Basic grid control is well handled, but I could see optimizations benefiting from this. Vendors and utilities are way behind on this though.
(but Bezos on the moon)
I doubt it. Otherwise, they would have disabled SMT / Hyperthreading on E1 cores.

That's the confusing thing: they have the tech on one core, but not the other.
Surveillance capitalism is fascinating to me. It essentially incentivizes companies (and government groups) to monitor as much as possible about as many people as possible. This blog (https://choosetoencrypt.com/news/what-is-surveillance-capita...) gave me an even better idea of how surveillance capitalism is essentially driving the internet in a scary direction. Until we find a new way for websites and content creators to monetize their work, surveillance is only going to get worse.
Migrate TOTP from GAuth
Risks for cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and of course diabetes, are all significantly increased with obesity. Risk of getting severe covid-19 is significant increased with obesity.

I know plenty of relatively wealthy people who are fat or even skinny fat (arguably worse condition), it's not only about access to reasonable nutrition.
Everything is becoming more remote friendly, YC isn't fighting against that trend. And their track record and prestige speaks for itself. "It's not what you know but who you know". But why ask that question on this site? Do you honestly believe someone will say 'No', give credible information, and not be down-voted or shouted over to oblivion?
Something I do not understand:

there are keys difference between automation in e.g. aircraft, and what Tesla at al are failing at,

e.g., how constrained the environment is; and what the exposure is to anomalous conditions is; and what the opportunity window usually is to turn control back over to a human.

The thing I don't understand is, we have a much more comparable environment in ground travel: federal highways.

Innumerable regressions and bugs and lapses aside, I do not understand why so much effort is being wasted on a problem which IMO obviously requires AGI to reach a threshold of safety we are collectively liable to consider reasonable; when we could be putting the same effort into the (also IMO) much more valuable and impactful case of optimizing automated traffic flow in highway travel.

Not only is the problem domain much more constrained, there is a single regulatory body, which could e.g. support and mandate coordination and federated and data sharing/emergent networking, to promote collective behavior to optimize flow in ways that humans limited-information self-interested human drivers cannot.

The benefits are legion.

And,

I would pay 10x as much to be able to cede control at the start of a 3-hour trip to LA, than to be able to get to work each morning. Though for a lot of Americans, that also is highway travel.

Not just this, why not start with the low-hanging case of highway travel, and work out from there onto low-density high-speed multi-lane well-maintained roads? Yes that means Tesla techs who live in Dublin don't get it first. Oh well...

IMO there will never be true, safe FSD in areas like my city (SF) absent something more more comparable to AGI. The problem is literally too hard and the last-20% is not amenable to brute forcing with semantically vacuous ML.

I just don't get it.

Unless we take Occam's razor, and assume it's just grift and snake oil to drive valuation and investment.

Maybe the quiet part and reason for engineering musical chairs is just what you'd think, everyone knows this is not happening; but shhhh the VC.
After my accident, for a while I blew so much money on Lyft to travel to the office and back, which was a fairly straightforward 10-mile trip one-way.

Later, after the pandemic started, I watched the movie 1922 (although I don't really recommend). Having been through the previous ordeal, the simplicity of the family's unassuming farm truck was not unnoticed. For all the money I spent on Lyft, I would have much more happily dropped it on a car similar to the one from the movie, even if it meant open-air cooling (no AC) and a top speed of 35mph.
More reference: https://ecocult.com/trying-find-ethical-sustainable-bank-one...
> I find that less experienced developers are often less
> than strong when it comes to basic “file ops” now days.
> I blame IDEs, black box build tools, etc.

Also phones / tablets. Those things do an amazing job of hiding the underlying files from users so nowadays you can use a computer (phone/tablet) without ever needing to even think about files.

And you know what else is wrong about tablets? Well, let me tell you, - wait, hold on, I gotta go shake my cane at some kids on my lawn :)
Rate limiting is a very valid engineering solution. It's implemented in all kinds of controls.

Above everything, the car's driver assist should not be making moves that human does not understand if system requires human to supervise it.
total number of names "total", not total number per wallet
Yes, and Mexico has even more restrictive gun control with many times more murders than the USA.

It's pretty clear that gun control is not the most significant factor.
> Right, nothing should ever be built unless it can be 100% correct immediately.

Right, a strawman.

How about this compromise: Let's call it "Poorly Implemented Self Driving" until it improves, and we won't try to sell it years early too.
I think it's more the case that the linux ecosystem has gotten too complex for a university student or professor to wrangle on their own.
I'll fight on the first one, don't care or know enough about Rust for the second and will agree on the third.
D2 Cube - A unique interactive and visual D2 companion experience
Hail to you, Champion.

Preparing for D2 Resurrection, I am getting ready to launch `d2cube`. Would love your feedback!

https://www.d2cu.be/

D2Cube is an unofficial non-profit Diablo 2 fansite and is not affiliated with Blizzard. It takes an interactive and inquiry-based approach to deliver a unique D2 companion experience.

Get ready to head East, always East.

Related
- Discurd: https://discord.gg/un5jMHVR
- Github: https://github.com/d2cube/d2cube
I've been noticing that a lot of work in web development is boilerplate. For me Django has made that almost magic, with Generic views, automatic form and view generation and almost self generating APIs. Add to that a lot of community resources and templates (like cookiecutter), and you get an almost fully ready app in a matter of hours. I'm sure that is also the case for Spring, Rails, or other "older" frameworks.

I still haven't found tools that match those for SPA or PWA (React or other), and it seems that this is almost what the author is trying to go for.
Inspectify (YC S20) Is Hiring a Product Manager in Seattle
Lisbon Meetup This Saturday
The golf cart tuk tuks are usually relegated to the slow lane (25km/hr, usually seperated from main traffic with a median strip, shared with bicycles and ebikes alike) they're also really uncommon in cities, primarily seen in rural areas.

This car looks like it's about halfway between those and a smart car so the safety features are going to be pretty critical if it's sharing the road with full size cars full time.

China's traffic is generally slow and always feels dangerous, moving much more like water compared to Australia and the US where it's fast and feels safe all the time until it's suddenly fatal. Due to the nature of traffic the safety profile requirements there don't quite match those in the west.
Quick exit button floods browser history hiding URL of Domestic Abuse Support
I don't think a DMCA notice is what "take ownership of your mistakes" means.
Not if I scream louder. I automatically win in that case.
A law doesn't prevent anything, it only applies after the fact. You could argue that the prospect of being prosecuted might scare people into not doing the thing that they are not allowed to be doing, but with all the people doing the things they are not allowed to be doing anyway, I doubt a comparative legal argument helps here.

You could make a law that states that your FSD has to be at least as good as humans. That means you have the same post-problem verification but now the parallel with drunk drivers can be made.
How would you feel about unlimited with an enforced minimum?
Interesting analysis, but I'm not clear on the motives of the troll farms in this case. Just sowing discontent among different groups of people? No real analysis on what disinformation was being spread or for what purpose. Facebook trolls have previously been associated with Russian Intelligence and thus Trump...and maybe with the Christian American group I could see that happening. However I don't see a dozen or so African American groups being used to help Trump in his 2020 election.
New House-Proposed EV Incentives Benefit Lobbyists, Not the American Taxpayer
Startup Colossal Biosciences Wants to Bring Woolly Mammoths Back from Extinction
GC pauses can be hundreds of milliseconds. You could perhaps use a particular GC scheme that guarantees you never have more than a couple millisecond pause, but then you have lots of pauses. That might have unintended consequences as well. I'm also not sure that such GCs, like golangs, can really mathematically guarantee a minimum pause time.
Cars are vastly more complex to do navigation for than planes too so we need to be even more careful when making auto autos. Plane autopilots are basically dealing with just the physical mechanics of flying the plane which while complex are quite predictable and modellable. All of the obstacle avoidance and collision avoidance takes place outside of autopilots through ATC and the routes are known and for most purposes completely devoid of any obstacles.

Cars have a vastly harder job because they're navigating through an environment that is orders of magnitude more complex because there are other moving objects to deal with.
they are linked through the "target" attribute which has a default value. since there is only one source and one destination in the demo, it can be omitted entirely. (5:03 in the video)
Seems there is a price for everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
Interesting to read in light of Ginkgo going public today: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ginkgo-bioworks-s14-is-going-pu...
I actually consider myself a staunch (little r) republican.

That said, Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy (a seminal republican text) was quite clear that republican mixed government does involve mixing a bit of democracy with a bit of authoritarianism/autocracy. I do think it is "authoritarian", but I don't think it is necessarily bad.

My question is merely: why can we extend this sort of support to mixed government in our country, but seemingly consider many of the other forms of mixed government in action as pure authoritarian tyranny?
The no right turn sign appears to be for the other side of the street, since at the intersection itself, there's a one way sign indicating right turns are possible, and no do not enter signs.
In the context of manufacturing, W.E.Deming said something similar: "that which gets measured, gets improved". His conclusion from this was a little different than McNamara's, though. Since you will inevitably want to track your progress, make sure you track as many things as possible, because anything which is not tracked will get sacrificed to that which is. Up to a point, it's true.

One issue is that some things, like vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, are intrinsically harder to track because they are based on rare occurrences. Thus, they will tend to get sacrificed in favor of measures which are more frequent, leading to an emphasis on short-term strategies.
There are many reasons - (1) the halo effect for future rounds of funding, not to mention Demo Day itself; (2) access to absolute god-tier advisors in areas that even though you're not a first-timer, you may not have experience with (e.g. you founded a B2B SaaS company before but now are trying a B2C thing); (3) help with hiring (YMMV on this). Also the nature of a highly focused sprint for 90 days to see if something is ready to take-off can be a great forcing function too (maybe on its own that's not compelling enough, but across these various items it seems reasonable to do it again).
Bcoin: An alternative implementation of the Bitcoin protocol in Node.js
Video Games’ Sensory Revolution: How Haptics Reinvented the Controller
The ignoring of this law in software development is referred to as Scrum.
"As was determined in 1989, dismantling would begin after approximately 30 years in safe enclosure."

30 years waiting time before one can start to demolish the reactor. That shows how dangerous this technology really is.
To connect is to have power.
And if you like both quilt and git, then there's stgit https://stacked-git.github.io/
Look at the screen. It is going rogue, the line on the screen shows where the car is supposed to go, it abruptly decided it was going to take a right turn.
Right. You can get 56-core, 112-thread in one socket, and in terms of performance that's going to be much closer 112x than 56x: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/194146/...
Is there any legitimate, ethical reason to ever use Fuchsia when Linux is an option? Isn't its sole purpose of existence to allow proprietary drivers and forks?
>(including now that I think about it, inside of atoms, which could cause some weird stuff???).

If the distance between electrons and protons were expanding over time, that would be hard to square with quantitized energy levels for electron orbitals. Not sure if you could get around having material and chemical properties changing over time.
Do you mind sharing an alternative?
What about remote address correlation? DNS is transmitted in plaintext. Transit providers could evasedrop on your traffic and short circuit your work.
> I hope I'm wrong judging by a short video but it's a bad look for Apple.

Is it implausible that the lawyers were coerced into looking weak to provide a propaganda victory for the regime?
I seriously think we should be doing a great number of things:

1. a space-based-seed-vault

2. firing seeds at planets (like Mars)

We should be shooting things to mars constantly if we want to colonize it, and deposit resources there, and allowing for 'seed-bombs' to hit it and attempt to thrive... and place weather satellites around it.
There is no subjunctive mood in the title
...and it is obvious that it will actually ever get more than incrementally technically better, absent AGI.

The problem is too hard for existing tools. Good job on the 80% case; let's look for problems for which the 80% case is good enough and back away from unsupportable claims about "just a little more time" bringing FSD in environments defined by anomaly and noise, in which the cost of error is measured in human life and property damage.
> What’s better?

4 providers, at the same time, all times.

It is wasteful but you can run the alarms when responses don't match.
What first piqued my interest in them was a watch and clock show in my town. I remember really thinking they were marvelous engineering, but I also remember that number of $1000 as an average for a working one.

However it's kinda iffy buying one that you can't actually test first. It's been too long since I've purchased anything on eBay so I don't know what the return policies are.

The guy at the show mentioned "always test the _one_ slider. Those go first"

Edit- spelling