skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These lessons have been chucked out the window by second tier (e.g., GM/Cruise) and third tier (e.g. Tesla and Uber) competitors, who have recognized that the only way they can hope to catch up is by gambling that what happened to Uber won't happen to them.
C is hard.

Very very hard. In fact, as a teenager I tired C++( I know it's not exactly the same, but lower level languages are difficult) and found it so hard I stopped trying to learn programing for years.

JavaScript, specifically Unity's implementation was my first programing language. Even today, it's my go-to language to get something done quick. Anything larger, like a video game for example, I'll use C#.

Even of C was amazing 30 years ago, we have better tools now. You can make 200k writing C#, Python or JavaScript. Why make life hard with a low level language !
> I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads.

'murica

No, seriously, when California decided to increase reporting requirements a few years back Arizona reminded everyone you could run any shitbox with no requirements.

That same year, Elaine Herzberg would be run over by an uber self-driving shitbox, in Arizona.
It's great to see good wasm frameworks. I know the DOM interaction still requires js bridging, but I'm still interested in knowing rendering performance relative to yew (another wasm framework) and reactjs.
Also last time I tested, the release bundle sizes were quite big, has there been any improvement here?
one instance of doom compiled with wasm on electron, but only if you lower the resolution to get it to run smooth
It's in reverse: Russia has a 1 year long mandatory military service for men aged 18-26 inclusively; roughly 30% serve it, guess which part of the IQ curve doesn't want to spend a year painting grass to green during winter.

The first tier of reserves are anyone who did it and are under 35, as well as officers under 45-60 dependent on rank, the other 2 tiers are either unfit or older. The average Ivan in the first class reserve is pro-government, poor and without higher education.
You can create a political party in the US with exactly the same amount of effect on future politics that such an attempt would have in Russia. Compared to either of those, influencing the political scene by creating a new party is vastly easier in many other parts of the civilized world. For example, there are parties in my country's parliament that didn't even exist a decade ago. It would seem that the last time a non-Democrat, non-Republican party had a seat in US Congress was around 1950 or so - seventy years ago. That seems like quite the difference in political culture to me.
Most browsers have a Group Policy setting to disable Incognito Mode. Seeing this post raises an interesting question in my mind. Such a setting is obviously useful to domestic abusers. Does it have any legitimate use cases, though, or should browser makers remove that setting and always allow it?
Great point! It's an ecosystem-wide problem. I'd go even further to argue it's a problem baked into the very psyches of software developers. Your remote storage service should not be changing, particularly in ways that break backward compatibility. Nobody should be dropping IPv4. Nobody should be rewriting a library in such a way the new one is incompatible unless the old one retains support. Nobody should be forcing you to migrate to some crappier version that looks like shit.

Stop changing things just to change them. But if you're actually changing for a good reason, consider the downstream effects of your changes.

I can take a bash script from 20, maybe 30 years ago, and know that it will still do what it's supposed to do, and all the standard commands it calls, like sed, awk, and grep will also do what they are supposed to do. Bits don't rot by themselves. Careless developers in the ecosystem make changes and don't consider backward compatibility, and we euphemistically call it "bit rot."
> Despite paying more than any restaurant I am aware of, no one wants to work
LOL, sure. That's why everyone - 4 left, because you paid more. I wonder if the staff that left is working now in another place that "pay less".
>And the whole "believe science" thing? I’m sorry, it’s complete bullshit. Science is not something to be believed or trusted. Trust is antithetical to science. Show me the data, and let me decide for myself.

This 1000 times. I keep having to tell people this and it's frustrating due to the fact that people who parrot "just trust the science" are acting more like religious zealots. "Trust the science" is just another way of saying "just have faith".
Tesla’s “FSD” is only a little bit better than drunk drivers, whom we punish severely whenever caught, even before any accident occurs.

The fact that enforcement is patchy is irrelevant — drunk driving is deemed serious enough to be an automatic infraction.

Also, most of the time drunk drivers are not actually that bad at moment-to-moment driving. That’s why almost everyone worldwide used to do it! You can still do the basics even when reasonably drunk. That doesn’t make you safe to drive. It’s still incredibly dangerous to do.
Wow, had not seen that before--$1200 for a new car is incredible.
At surface level, Redis isn't currently on this page, but will be there when the 4.0 version comes out: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/cache/

However, it seems this will enable the community to establish using redis as a best practice. So it will be a bigger deal than adding just another cache backend.

This is good because the default is local-memory caching, and redis can easily beat that. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/cache/#local-me...
I would use it for CI runners.
2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop
Kudos to the WSJ for running this expose series. Yes, this article could be a little clearer with dates and the timeline of what's being reported, but the point stands regardless.

Some choice quotes from the article:

> Mr. Zuckerberg has long espoused the belief that Facebook’s role connecting people makes it a tool to help solve the world’s problems. Former executives say that optimism left him and his company repeatedly ill-prepared when people used the platform in ways it didn’t anticipate... [Former FB VP Brian Boland] credits Mr. Zuckerberg with getting Facebook to work quickly on health initiatives during the pandemic but said his focus on connecting people created a blind spot for company leaders. “There was not a lot of discussion in our circles of, ‘Hey, are people propagating harmful messages on the platform?’

Surely Zuckerberg knows this is his blind spot by now? Isn't this the story of Facebook for at least the last five years?

> Employees improvised, and by late February, two Facebook data scientists came up with a rough way to scan for what they called “vaccine hesitant” comments. They wrote in memos that “vaccine hesitancy in comments is rampant” — twice as prevalent as in posts. One of the scientists pointed out the company’s ability to detect the content in comments was “bad in English, and basically non-existent elsewhere.”

From the other writing / context in the article, this quote is referring to February 2021! After nearly a year into the pandemic. Facebook should have dedicated an entire team to not only tackling this issue. I wonder if medical workers can / will sue FB for negligence.

> In August, the company said it had removed 20 million items that violated its Covid policies.

This feels very double-speak to me. 20 million might seem like a lot, but at FB's scale, it's probably very small. Do they have an estimate of the total amount of content that violates it's Covid-19 policies?
A good coach or mentor is always worth it. If they're fun to be around it also helps build that habit!

This is great advice. I'm really happy to hear you found a coach that worked for you.
If visiting New York City, must one also visit the Adirondacks and Montauk as well? How long a vacation are we talking about here?
It certainly isn't when your 2021 rent is 40%-120% higher than your 2019 rent.

Those are the lucky folks btw. Beyond them are folks who are competing with hundreds of other rental applicants - likely because their rental was just sold. Folks with cash in the bank are facing homelessness.

ref: C.Fl Renter
This is Fifth Ave and Lenora in Seattle (about a block away from Amazon Spheres). Lenora is a one-way and you can take a right off of 5th onto Lenora (basically heading toward the water). The signage (and road in general) is confusing because of the monorail pylons.
You can visit Philadelphia by train from New York.

I'm actually planning a trip with a friend through the Northeast Regional. You can start at the White House / Smithsonian (seeing all of the history there), hop on a train to Philadelphia to see the liberty bell + the original capital of the country, then hop on a train and continue to NYC / Broadway and watch Hamilton.

No car (or airplane) needed. 100% trains / metros.
Just want to say that DatasetSortable is awesome - I once implemented the same functionality (saving the state of sortable checkboxes) and it was a nightmare.
The problem lies much more in the realm of politics, rather than technology and science. We opted to wage pointless wars instead of modernizing the energy mix.

There are also instances when politicians do want to change something, but their cluelessness shows - solar freakin' roadways anyone?
It would help to avoid thinking on the individual level and more so on the system level of what we could do to encourage certain behaviors?

For example, Netherlands was able to completely revolutionize their cities and optimize them for bike travel. Now biking is the main mode of transportation.

A lot of the changes we want to see individuals do, the system discourages it or makes it hard to do those changes.

Electric cars have dubious benefit for the environment as well, so I don't think using that as a solution is fair.
Generally the approach is fragment caching... so you're caching some block of HTML that would otherwise hit the DB (Think something like a block of configurable sidebar links, or a "latest posts" block.

HTML, not assets.

Some such setups (like one I wrote for a busy Drupal newspaper site way back when) can support clearing relevant cache entries on DB write, so you're essentially never serving stale data, but can save _substantial_ DB load - and possibly webserver load too, depending on how computationally intensive the HTML generation is.
I grabbed SLS off a BBS in mid to late 1993. I was 12 and had a 386 with 8mb of ram and a monochrome display. I didn't at all use X11 at the time, but I loved that I could switch between virtual consoles, had real multi-tasking, and had a C compiler.

Funny side note... we had just watched Jurassic Park, which sparked a conversation with my dad about Unix. Dad mentioned that Linux was like Unix and was free. I had no idea Linux (or Unix) was a thing until this conversation, but I had to check it out. When I discovered that it had a C compiler... I was absolutely hooked.

This was such a pivotal moment in my life and was a major contributor to my eventually becoming a professional programmer.
Have you use impossibly, domainsfortherestofus, or namemesh?

They're great tools, but all went offline for sometime now.

And that's why I build a desktop app
What’s behind China’s video game restrictions?
I wish that anyone caught breaking a law that they voted for, signed, or otherwise contributed to passing in an official capacity, would get 10x the punishment that everyone else would get for breaking it.
What makes you think the US would "use all its power" to prevent oil and coal from being extracted and used? The US government is the largest single polluter in the world. Everywhere there is waste and pollution, there is the approval of a government.
A slow, steady increase over millennia of a couple degrees Celsius is fine and possibly even on net good (more agriculture in the northern parts of the globe, which contain a lot of land).

The same increase over a century is disastrous, because infrastructure and capital doesn't change or move nearly so rapidly.
When any of the above mentioned have disagreements, won’t they try to recruit support from the remaining shareholders?
For non-Australian companies, yes. But for Australian companies, it's the standard. It'd be like saying, "My employees in Spain are falling asleep in the middle of the day! It's so juvenile and unprofessional!" despite a seista being a cultural aspect of the country.
Also, do you know the song(s) already, and do you know how to play the particular instrument requested?
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There are currently no lockdowns, but we had an eight-month long one last winter and plenty of people are afraid of having it repeated.

Indoor mask mandates yes, I think there's only one state that lifted it, but could be one or two more, I'm not sure.

Vaccine isn't mandated yet, we currently have the same system as France where you need to show proof of vaccine, recovery or negative test to enter restaurants, bars, clubs, cinemas, gyms, etc. Tests are free as of now, but will have to be paid out of pocket starting on Oct 11. There's a lot of talk about dropping the test option, i.e. make the current system a vaccine/recovered only one, so basically vaccine passports. Many people expect this to happen (or a vaccine mandate) after the election. Some states have implemented a system where venues can choose whether or not they allow guests with negative tests, and if they opt for vaxxed and recovered only, the remaining restrictions (masks and distancing mainly) are lifted for the venue. This regulation is currently in effect in five or six states I believe, and others might follow.
There was a Tesla-like company that stripped everything away only to discover that Hydrogen is not economically viable for cars: Tesla. I don't know how much of the original "manifesto" documents of Tesla survive at this point post-Musk's takeover, but they were very public early on about pointing out Hydrogen as a huge red herring that traditional car companies threw way too much R&D money at and treated as a sunk cost to recuperate, and that was most clearly a direct "subtweet" of Toyota. Stripping a hydrogen car all the way down: In addition to an expensive to build fuel cell and an expensive to maintain "tank" for liquid hydrogen, you've got an electric motor and a need for a large battery. Why carry around the weight of an expensive fuel cell and an expensive to maintain "tank" when you've already got the ingredients for an okay BEV (electric motor, large battery)? Everyone without the sunk costs of say Toyota's massive multi-decade R&D effort should look at that on paper as a massive red herring and that you should just optimize your weight distribution for a better/higher density battery rather than waste weight/space on expensive fuel cells and tanks.
everything is subjective. especially laws.
Yes most people on hn will not experience much issues through climate change the other 100million and more will.

They will loose land, health, money etc.

People whoms homes will be burned etc.

We will experience future animal diversity reduction. This is something very depressing but depending in the Person how much you care for such things.

Also we will experience more dramatic Events as well. Like droights and lots of rain. The Impact on you might range from 'not leaving my flat today' to 'I lost everything'. Your surroundings will slowly change. Woods will start looking different.

And still we are not very certain about all those things. It could get much faster much worse through tipping points.

It also forces future generations to already plan their future accordingly: they will know that they will experience an increase of sealevel of 60cm and more.
I'd like to point out when I was a kid in the 70's, I remember Hot Wheel's cost more than they cost today. This is not even accounting for inflation.
To echo this, as someone who has done some work with formal specifications, I have to say it seems like the self-driving car folks are taking a "move fast and break things" approach across the board, which is horrifying.
>> One theorist even told me the lack of experiment was "good" because they had space to keep churning nice theory papers without having to worry about being shot down.

"Scientists" are forgetting the distinction between hypothesis and theory. They're also constantly looking for "new physics" and using the word "novel". Nobody seems to care about using what we have to explain what they see.
> Average temperature has been up by much more than that at times in the last few thousand years.

That is simply not true. Global average temperature has been stable for 10,000 years, since the end of the last ice age. It is that long-term stability that made the rise of human civilization possible.
I don't count devices part of Google's walled garden as being representatives for the Linux desktop.

IMHO, schools should focus on running only Linux and OSS SW and avoid getting kids hooked from a young age into ecosystems from Apple, Microsoft or Google. They can have those at home.
I'd apply not just for that but the access to group partners who know your business in and out is worth a lot to me. There were several instances where I needed advice from people who had experience my group partners helped.
Man I prefer that.

But I can think of all of one trip in the past 10 years in the US where I felt like I was someplace where I could rely on public transportation.

It's just not viable for most trips in the US I think.
According to Google [1], they keep client IP addresses and DoH headers for up to 48 hours and then strip them after that, and don’t use the logs for any personalization.

Everyone else here is assuming you can’t trust what they say, but it’s worth pointing out that, if they’re telling the truth, none of the rest of this privacy discussion matters.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
I've been considering small ATX gaming build but Im really worried it will heat like crazy after a while, even if it doesnt have 80 cores. Am I completely wrong?
As Sprig was shuttered after 4 years and $56 million in funding, it doesn't seem like it was a good test.

Being able to cook meals and deliver them doesn't seem like a test. Thousands of restaurants do that every day, and national chains do it at scale. The test needed to be is there a market at the price point necessary to sustain the kind of meal he envisioned and I guess the answer to that was no.

What would have been enlightening in the article are examples of negative tests -- something one of the firms he was involved with tested and failed at, which led them to reevaluate.
Rental car prices being slightly higher due to supply shortages doesn't make the economy seem fragile. In fact, if that's one of the worst after effects of a global pandemic, I'd call it extremely robust.
> Why make life hard with a low level language

Because I'm designing an operating system. None of those languages can do that.

Also, I'm a maintainer of 2 of the top 10 packages on npm. Javascript is not a language I usually jump to when I care about performance or (extreme) portability.

Lastly, C++ != C. They're similar and somewhat compatible, but entirely different at the same time.
>Genuinely curious: how would you even go about advancing autonomous driving without testing it in the streets?

Genuine response:

1 don't let customers do the testing, especially if you don't train them (I mean real training about failures not PR videos and tweets and some small letter manual with disclaimers)

2 use employees, train drivers to test, have some cameras to check the driver to make sure he pays attention.

3 postpone testing until the hardware and software is good enough so you don't ignore static objects.

4 make sure you don't do monthly updates that invalidates all your previous tests.
People will do what is economical for them personally. Effectively no one would pull carbon from the ground if they could get cheaper energy from somewhere else. The answer is to develop the technology to produce that energy and give it away if that is what it takes to undercut the fossil fuels.
An interesting story about this from MIT technology review :https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2021/0...
Paying someone to plan a trip for you is definitely not a product, so not a MVP. Running a course is closer to a full-fledged product (more than a MVP) for a company that sells courses to students, but Maven is a platform for creating courses...

By the definitions laid out in the article waitlists and crowdfunding campaigns would be MVTs to address marketing or "building something people don’t want" risk.
Presumably you are aware that the visualization you see in any retail car is old software, and several iterations behind what the linked video is about (FSD Beta v10). Plus the visualization is quite a bit different (and in many ways simplified) versus what's used for the actual piloting in retail vehicles.
I've successfully used mine as a more visually appealing showcase of my sideprojects. https://maxilevi.com/projects

Regarding the stack, it's just a simple NextJS app hosted on Netlify.
As a seldom bicyclist I've seen this as well. But it's gotta be a lot less frequent to see a driver make eye contact and then proceed to almost kill you versus one that yields. Even as a seldom bicyclist (and as a driver even) if I'm approaching a four-way yield if I can't get eye contact with someone else approaching the intersection I'll just yield to them by default.
I don't know what you do but I maintain 3 projects based on create-react-app and have done for 18 months. Together with a couple of senior guys and some younger devs (both guys and gals) I keep them updated, build new features, rewrite stuff to tsx (we got the projects handed down) and with one single exception I never even thought about the build system.
With four times 10Ge, so many cores and memory I can imagine this is perfect for web hosting or virtual machines.
"A restructuring that prioritises homebuyers might not leave much for other creditors, with offshore investors likely to be the biggest victims, analysts said."

I am thinking of the fact that European banks were some of the ones hard-hit by America's real-estate bust in 2008. Is it possible that large American financial firms are heavily invested in China's economy, and are about to get hit by a dose or karma?
To be fair, it still felt like magic. My car would drive me 20 miles without me really having to do anything, other than make sure it didn't kill me at an interchange.

And I'm now trying to remember, but I think autopilot was initially free (or at least was included with every car I looked at, so it didn't seem like an extra fee). Auotpilot is now standard on all Teslas, but FSD is an extra $10k, which IMO is a joke.
Ok, sorry for saying "badly". I don't think you really addressed my point (2). Given your experience, I just don't see what you have against implementing some 20 line algorithms for people, if it's what they want, even if they shouldn't want it. Just a little compromise, and like I say, they're a beautiful corner of software engineering. And that little compromise is all it would take for the team of actual adults, doing actual serious engineering work, behind the silly interviews facade, to get to work with you. I think they'd like that, and you'd like that.