skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but notice how weakened this entire process is as a result of revolving around money. In terms of manpower and expertise, none of these changes really need to happen, but since everyone is chasing a buck as a matter of survival, a bunch of stupid stuff occurs.

I don't have any brilliant solutions to bring about the Roddenbury-style economy, but it is infuriating to look at a scale problem you describe and trace the major causes back to the money. Are the cars going to vanish if the debts aren't paid for a year? Are the physical Hertz buildings going to crumble if the banks aren't satisfied? No, currency changing hands has nothing do with reality passively changing shape! And here we are, watching people sell off rental car fleets because assets will be seized unless the money changes hands in the right way.
In general I hate how YouTube is now filled with videos from high production studios. And most of these aren't even full-length episodes, but rather ~2 minute excerpts. I miss the old YouTube when most content was produced by individuals.
I like The Prequels.
I did not know about this feed. It's a HUGE improvement over the algo, really what many of us wanted all along, a feed of the most recent videos published by our subscribed channels. Tx
Not even that, I bet. I've heard a lot about how YT is used for music by many people (myself included, sometimes), and recommending the song you just listened again probably has a good click rate.
Yes, Gitlab has been leading the way for a while now, consistently introducing new features that Github eventually copies. It's a real testament to the power of competition. I first started using Gitlab due to free private repositories, which Github eventually added. Gitlab had free built-in CI/CD first, and Github eventually followed. I'm still on Gitlab these days despite Github catching up, and still enjoying features like organizations with subfolders that Github lacks.
I would assume it falls under fair use. I had the same reaction until I realized, as cool as it is, you only get the cover. Every article on a page ends with a "turn to page A9" type of prompt and since those pages are not part of this they're not distributing the whole article.

My $.02, IANAL, etc., etc.
I think Django needs to "fix" serving static assets in production without the need to muck about with witenoise or nginx settings.
Artists have always been able to make music and perform by themselves. But all of that other stuff needed to make it big is expensive (marketing, paying for venues, logistics, recording and producing masters, distribution, etc.), and few artists have the trust fund money needed to handle those costs themselves.

Even Justin Bieber, Lorde, and Billy Eilish depended on record labels to actually profit from their music, though they all broke out on social media platforms on their own.
You would have liked BASIC09 on motorola 6809 CPUs running OS9 in the early 80s.
They are pretty much identical. Seed has better docs, Yew has a promise for multi-threaded stuff, but its not very well documented (or even working). I've tried projects with both and the nice thing with Yew is that the syntax for HTML is kinda compatible with the actual thing (think JSX.) Seed however is macros only. Both seem to compile in the same time, but I would bet there would be differences on bigger projects (which there are none atm?)
Yeah. Tons of other frameworks do it better. React for instance. Any framework that actually follows [semver](https://semver.org/) and really cares deeply about backwards compatibility. I've hit backwards incompatibility on almost every upgrade. Not just major 2->3, but each minor release.

I still love love love Django, but I do wish upgrades were easier.
Agreed, as a resident of Portland, when we have guests in town, we spend about half their time in the natural areas around Portland. Granted getting to wine country or beautiful waterfalls can be done with various public transit options, sorta, it isn't easy. And you certainly aren't going to get off the beaten path.
Very cool language! Is it open source by any chance?
Still sounds like more hurricanes because if the increased intensity of cyclones, no?
This article isn't targeted at a US residents, but your comment seems to imply it should use Fahrenheit.
Design Patterns vs Design Principles: Iterator, Mediator and Memento
A decent e-bike costs that much. Somehow pricing in mobility is really confusing
A coworker finished up a trip a day early. Got hos flight changed, then they said "there's no rentals to take you from the airport home." He ended up taking an Uber to a nearby relative's house, as the airport was two hours from his house.
The Ethereum merge is now scheduled for "Q1/Q2", so I think even "early 2022" is extremely optimistic and 2021 is right out.
The government might have only pretended that it really tried to block Telegram. The app was never removed from stores, and since both G and A did comply with such requests before abd after, I suspect that such request was never sent in the first place.
Humans are not humans in cities. “Who survives in NYC without amphetamines”, I remember from a movie when I was a kid. Now I understand the sentence: With no connection to the earth, city dwellers invent an idea of ecology and relation to nature that is in total disconnect with people in farming.

For my goddaughter, killing ants is the top of all evils. Ecology should be able protecting cute things. For me, terraforming kilometers of arable land to build her colonies on Earth, that was the real crime. Cities bring the illusion that humans are legitimate in unfathomable numbers. Cities hide away nature’s constraints.
I was helping prep my high school kid for his evolution quiz. One of the concepts was "punctured equilibrium". To get his attention, and make it relevant I used:
"global warming is puncturing the equilibrium today. What do you think that looks like?"
synbio.. wow, talk about flashbacks to genetic hacking cyber punk scifi
Probably not. Having citations is simply (a la Wikipedia) a reasonable-enough proxy for being "actually researched" as opposed to arbitrary fluff.
> we still run it with an incredible robust infrastructure to have a human oversee the tech

Airplanes are responsible for 200-300+ lives at a time, so it’s quite incomparable to road vehicles. Of course it makes sense to have human oversight in case something goes wrong.

On the flip side, the average car driver is not very skilled nor equipped to deal with most surprises - hence the ever present danger of road traffic.

I’m not sure why AI drivers are held to such insanely high standards.
shade satellites, let's go!

also, olivine beaches.
I also used Coherent for a bit. Its documentation was excellent! I remember the book with the shell on the cover: http://gunkies.org/wiki/File:Coherent_4_print_ad.jpg
I've ran it for years and never had a deadlock. How big were your code bases, how many users?.. idk if that is even the reason why
How ACOUP made me a better programmer
> This sounds like prioritizing cars over people.

The cars are used by people. If you prioritize for cars, you are prioritizing for those people.
It genuinely sounds like an absolute piss-take to me.

If you need to be generous and tolerant towards users of traditional measurements, that makes them very narrow-minded and stuck-in-their-ways, doesn't it?
This "obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in" is a good concept to have around, and it's something that's been tickling the back of my mind for a while.

In particular, I believe that this effect is strongly present in the Cult of Text Processing - there's a large group of programmers who believe that Text Must Be The Answer because it's just so easy to write `ls | grep` - never mind that each UNIX text-processing tool actually has its own bespoke input and output formats (it's not actually plain text), and so anything nontrivial quickly becomes a fragile mess riddled with edge-cases and liberal use of sed/awk. What's even more interesting is that because of the perceived ease of immediate understanding, even those that have deep experience with this paradigm (and should understand how inefficient it actually is) still defend it.

Although, I don't think that powerful tools necessarily have to have a high barrier to entry. For instance, maybe you could teach new programmers in Racket without type annotations, then introduce typed Racket as a way to allow them to much more easily learn static typing than adopting a whole new language? Such an approach might have made Rust easier to learn - just disable the borrow checker to learn an easier Rust, and then re-enable it gradually (starting with the easiest parts of your code and then moving to the more complex bits) to ease into what is usually the hardest bit for new Rust users.

Tool- and language-developers should focus on making things that are both easy to pick up (Python) and scale well (Common Lisp/Rust).
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Are you married to Python? Ruby on Rails is mature, with a large set of useful libraries.
Python is way too complex and fiddly. Nope, today's best equivalent of BASIC is Go.
Indeed - one thing insurers are good at is gathering good and relevant data! In this case, a quick skim shows the Tesla often more to insure than the regular car, but not a ton. What I'd want to see is the data for only the models with the "Full Self Drive" option.

Not necessarily more, but we do see some really horrifying ones that humans would rarely do. E.g., the car in FL that just full-self-drove at full speed straight under a semi-trailer turning across the road, decapitating the driver, or the Apple exec that died piling into the construction divider on the highway because the Tesla failed to understand the temporary marks on the road.

I'm fine with Tesla or other companies using and even testing automated driving systems on public roads (within reason). Ultimately, it should be better, and probably is already better than the average human.

My objection is ONLY to the idea that the human driver should be considered 100% morally & legally responsible for any action of the car.

Aside from the fact that the code is secret and proprietary, and even it's authors often cannot immediately see why the car took some action, the considerations of actual human performance make such responsibility a preposterous proposition.

The maker of the autonomous system, and its user, must share responsibility for the actions of the car. When there is a disaster, it will, and should come down to a case-by-case examination of the actual details of the incident. Did the driver ask the car/system to do something beyond it's capabilities, or was s/he unreasonably negligent? Or, did the system do something surprising and unexpected?

In the present situation, where the car started to make a sharp & surprising turn and almost ran over a pedestrian, it was Pure Dumb Luck that the driver was so attentive and caught it in time. If he'd been just a bit slower and the pedestrian was hit, I would place this blame 90%++ on Tesla, not the driver (given only the video). OTOH, there are many other cases where the driver tries to falsely blame Tesla.

We just can't A Priori declare one or the other always at fault.
Counterpoint: we've moved to GitLab internally (from SVN, granted), and while GitHub would have been easier because it's far more widely supported in tooling and integrations, GitLab has been great for us so far.

I would have preferred to switch to GitHub if we had an internal hosted GitHub Enterprise kind of situation, but so far Gitlab is doing fine for us.

It could be a matter of scale, though; perhaps for larger teams, larger repositories, or pre-existing Git-based MR/CI workflows, it's a dumpster fire, but that's not us so we can't speak to it.

Who knows though, maybe in a few years I'll regret writing this comment.
I've been building wasm powered apps (compiled from Go) for almost a year.

Main issues:

- the size of your build: you need to check what packages you import and possible trim them down

- resource usage and performance(due the lack of DOM).

- bugs/implementation: the browser may stop working/freeze after a while. There were some issues with the scheduler, I'm not sure if it's still the case. If you develop an UI for an embedded device this is a big issue.

It may work for Desktop apps (electron based) or some enterprise apps so it has its niche but you definitely can "feel" the difference between a wasm implementation and a pure JS implementation. As a client you will prefer the JS version. As a developer you will love the Go version

All that being said it's great to be able to use Go in browser and as the devices are getting faster along with the network I guess it will work just fine once 5G becomes mainstream.

Hint: If you process HTML, always use the DOM/JS interface. Any processing of HTML (i.e. via x/net/html) in Go will make your app VERY slow.
Also, it is regrettable that cars don't have the FAA-required electronics, software, or integration processes. When I read that a Jeep's braking system was compromised through its entertainment system it was apparent that the aircraft lessons had not been taken aboard by the auto industry.
No, both the buyer and the seller must be residents of the the state providing the incentive.

Tribal land is not state land, so sales by tribal dealerships do not qualify for state incentives. This is decades-old established law across the U.S.

This is just another example of Musk thinking he's found a clever loophole without realizing why nobody else was doing it in the first place (hint: because it doesn't work, and Tesla would have learned this spending less than an hour consulting with someone who handles tribal law).
> just presenting my own anecdata that I personally have not run into gun ownership issues even with my own mental health trials. Nor has my brother, who like another commenter got put into a 72-hour involuntary hold and continues to own and purchase firearms without issue.

Ok, so your point is, that making laws which stigmatize mental health (which is what it is) have no impact on people seeking out mental health counseling?
Well yes, it doesn't change the algorithm. It just drops that particular video.
The latest Facebook [leaks](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039) by the WSJ has made it clear that these large social platforms have the intent and actively do shape public opinion. YouTube is no different. It's clear that they have political/ideological leanings and intend to use the platform to bend the world to their views.
I'm the opposite actually. I do all my dev on Gitlab, and mirror on Github for the exposure.
Does Tesla use a neural network for sensing and scene recognition/the observe-orient steps? For parts of the decide-act steps?

That particular kind of black box is very black; it has hundreds of thousands to millions of inputs feeding a hyperdimensional statistical model.
This is not a fever dream in my opinion, just replace Rust with your favorite language if that language targets WASM. Eventually, JS will be just another choice in a field of languages that would target WASM... then it is just a matter of preference.
> A self-driving hydrogen-powered submarine is among the winners in a UK government competition to tackle emissions from shipping.

> But what kind of cargo will the submarine be carrying?
"That's what we're going to figure out over the next few months," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.

> The creators say it will also collect micro-plastic from the water column and feed the data to researchers.

I think it's an interesting concept but selling it as a fix for emissions for shipping seems like greenwashing to me.
What happens if USD is no more in 2030?
If you're doing a day hike, that's what car shares are for. There's plenty in the East Bay and SF. I only started owning a car when a friend gave us their old beater, but before that and through the earlier portions of the pandemic I used car shares any time I wanted to go hiking.
I have seen a few of these Rust front-end projects, they are all really great except for the fact that very few support SSR. This is especially important given the fact that it is much slower sending wasm over the wire and instantiating the module and the wasm environment vs plain js

I'm not sure if this is because of the complexity of the undertaking (I imagine it would need some sort of virtual DOM) or just lack of interest
Yep I won't disagree that the actual consequences are far more severe than turning up the A/C and not going outside.

Depending where you live though, adding 5-10°F isn't entirely ignorable. If you live in Texas, that's taking a 100°F day and making it sound even more brutal. Or as a Coloradan, it's experiencing temperatures you never thought you'd see in the mountains, and being able to intuitively associate the increase in temperatures with the increase of wildfires.
I think that's mostly because you're used to it. I know that 18-22 °C is comfortable because that's how it is, but that's just out of habit.
A 10 degree increase in the average summer temperature would probably mean tens of thousands of deaths per day in less developed countries with humid climates. The human body doesn’t tolerate wet-bulb temperatures above 95F.
Gitlab is one of the pioneers of "remote-first" [0] and "building in public" [1], to the extent of sometimes even live-streaming CEO meetings [2] and sales pitches [3]

Gitlab, I believe, informs the common strategy behind most other source-available ycombinator enterprise startups: the buyer-based open-core model [4]

Congratulations Gitlab. You're far from a copycat and deserve all the success for relentless execution and radical transparency, if nothing else [5]

[0] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gOp4lKSCulI

[1] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vCiLMLC2Rhs

[2] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uUwmlJfim6U

[3] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XcqloQezOUg

[4] https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc...

[5] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/
I think you're making a pedantic mountain out of a molehill.

For Mr. and Ms. Average Person, what do they gain in understanding by you saying "smothering" or "warming" over "heating"? Do you think that will lead to increased activism? More efficient activism? Or is it solely to satiate the scientists who already understand the difference of heating vs. warming?

While I think precision in speech is a good thing, there is a point where it really just doesn't matter anymore - because the end result remains exactly as intended.

When I'm explaining security concepts in a security awareness presentation, for example, I sometimes make a non-perfect analogy to get my point across. Anyone who understands why the analogy isn't perfect probably doesn't need the talk. Anyone who doesn't understand why the analogy isn't perfect probably doesn't care about the nuance. The average person doesn't care if it's a gigabit or a gigabyte of data stolen, they just care about the end result - data was stolen. The same applies here.

I personally don't care whether the earth is technically "heating" or "warming" - I only care about the end result and what I can do to help.
Compulsory education that assumes each kid is a uniform widget to be produced is a terrible way to develop people. People think so little of children and their capacity to learn, engage, and understand that they compel them to spend some of the most dynamic years of their life learning about things they don’t care about that they promptly forget in adulthood. Kids are natural learning machines and we murder that natural curiosity and capacity for mastery through school.

I think there are better ways. We cannot, for example, teach kids about democracy in environments that give kids often less agency than prisoners in prisons. Democratic schools like Summerhill, Sudbury or unschooling are good starts. Kids at those schools have control over their schedule: if they want to keep a more structured schedule, they can, if they want a more relaxed schedule, sure. Each kid also has a vote in how the school is run, including in a judicial system for administering discipline.

At the very minimum, ending age segregation policies at schools would be a good start for more dynamic learning.
Repeat violent criminals should have the option (and be encouraged) to have elective castration to reduce their sentencing. This will hopefully reduce their violent impulses and reduce their progeny.

Relatives should be somewhat culpable for the repeat violent crimes of their parents/children/siblings, anyone who shares at least 50% of their genes. With, of course, escape clauses if they're distant, estranged, or never heard of them.

Religion should be as personal as sexual behaviour.
The climate wasn't that different, just a little wetter. Also we don't know what wild dromedaries were like, given that they are extinct for 2000 years now.

And the depicted ones were almost certainly wild, given that dromedaries were domesticated only 4000 years ago, well past when the first pyramids were build.
How did you turn 2.7C into 5-10F, when 2.7C is less than 5F?
Contrarian you say.... Brexit is about introducing friction so that Tory party donors etc can have the opportunity to create companies that aim to 'make things and more frictionless' and then profit.
Serious question: How does YC work with companies like this?

It seems like a YC standard-form offer doesn't make any sense to a company like Ginko at the stage it entered YC.
I totally agree, but it seems like everything with a good story is overvalued these days.