skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is the best one-liner here all week +++

me: art, philosophy, religion, culture -- avidly

me on youTube: Rizin/UFC re-runs, live concerts of commercially successful bands, D&D themed games
You made my point for me. Even New Zealand, the one country everyone likes to point to as having beat COVID, has lockdowns today.
Yes VO2 Max tests for the same athlete will usually yield scores that differ by a few points for cycling versus running. I know at least one pro cycling team tried to identify potential new riders from outside the sport by recruiting athletes from other sports who had exceptionally high VO2 Max scores. Race results were disappointing.
> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't?

You could start a company that builds rockets to go explore Mars.

In other words, you could do something great.
> when we find any gaps at all — which sometimes we do — we close them

I'm finding this hard to believe. They suddenly raise somebody's pay - by a lot - without offering an explanation? After all, they can't really offer an explanation without opening themselves up to all sorts of trouble: "hey, we found out we've been underpaying you for the past couple of years, here's a 15% raise". Seems like that would open them up to all sorts of litigation.
> it crashes all the time, features are so amateurish (vs teamcity especially) that we're struggling just to do basic things.

Do you have an on-prem instance? What sort of features does teamcity have that are not there in Gitlab CI?

Teams in my org are currently switching from Gerrit/Jenkins combos to Gitlab and I have been pretty pleased so far. I do wish there was a nicer way to experiment with different CI configurations from within the browser to prevent a bunch of pointless commits messing with your config YAML; but, otherwise I have been pretty happy with the flexibility.
No? The point is just that revenue for subscription models recurs whereas build cost does not (handwave).
The web is a collection of terrible, short-sighted engineering mistakes that all compound each other unnecessarily. HTTP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript could probably all be scrapped and replaced with better standards. The only problem is that Google is probably the only organization capable of pulling that off, but Google's interests do not really overlap with the interests of most web users.
> I don't know quite why they keep recommending videos I've watched recently

You probably don't have kids.
UK sponsored, in the Irish sea? Is the UK smuggling stuff over to northern Ireland to circumstance the EU Brexit treaty?
> a being not subject to the laws of the universe

This is only one possible understanding of what God may be. The OP did not say this was their understanding. But you make a good point anyway.
> I also had female managers who took 3-4 months of maternity leave.

So when you say 'manager' you mean someone like a team lead (line manager) and they kept their teams? At least that is what I would expect when you write 'wasn't a big deal' and judging from the other stories I am not sure that is the case.

How about male managers? Did they take parental leave too?
I work from home and I've had a standing desk for twelve years now. I also start each day with a fifteen minute routine of static exercises: situps, pushups, squats, chinups. Both the standing desk and the morning exercises are now so embedded I'd feel a loss if either disappeared.

My around-town travel preference is a bicycle, and my schedule gives me brief windows to make a quick dash to the shops when I want something. I treat these outings, usually one or two a day, as if they were a time trial. Additionally, if I'm thinking through a design issue I go for a walk around the block (or half a dozen blocks if it's particularly gnarly). My partner and I go for longer walks on the weekends.

I'm a female in my mid-sixties, I've been coding for 30 years, and this combination works well for me.
Another way to think about this is:
Traditional IPO underwrites are fairly risk adverse. They will value "high risk" companies in certain ways. E.g. How would you value a self driving company with 0 revenue? For bankers? pretty conservatively.

However the "market" has people that can and will value these companies more than IPO underwriters. Spac sponsors are essentially glorified "venture" style investments, that also happen to take the company public (and take a fairly large cut in return).

An alternative might be to have a "direct listing" without underwriters, however companies are unable to raise funds in a direct listing.
Pretty sure that comes and goes.

Comes, because statistically those youtubers are able to latch on to some viewers and this drives engagement. I believe some of that has been pay-to-win stuff, where the youtubers actively advertised and paid directly for engagement. Some of those folks are subsidized by outsiders.

Goes, because YouTube knows from studying its own business that they're capable of driving more engagement by turning people into video-obsessed alt-right Nazis. And if it's too obvious, they'll be called on it, or actively punished as a platform over essentially selling themselves out as a propaganda bullhorn to whoever's able to pay.

That being the alt-right Nazis, and those who fund them.

So it goes back and forth. YouTube doesn't always do this. It does as much of this as it possibly can, but is systemically aware that running with it causes other problems, and dials it back to stay out of trouble (and because some of the people minding the algorithms are not, themselves, alt-right Nazis).

YouTube always wants to find an algorithmic answer for everything, and is not afraid to go meta and look at larger contexts for what they do. It's a google thing. So they want, and don't want, the 'own the libs' paid-for content. It's both simple capitalism, and looking at it on a larger systemic level where there are risks to allowing their ad buys to stoke outright revolution of the country YouTube is based in.
Additionally, unless I'm missing something, we don't actually have the economics at scale to produce "green hydrogen" right now - it's definitely cleaner than oil, but it's still rather environmentally expensive to produce.
... and it hasn't actually flopped. It just reached its level of... usefulness. As others commented a few weeks ago in a different conversation, Swarm had/has significant utility for smaller deployments, but K8S has sucked the air out of the (marketing) room. So life goes on, as does docker and Docker Hub. Many of us small potatoes users will continue to use docker until we can't, and then probably wind up on podman, or lxd. That will be OK too: as long as the work gets done. We survived the demise of Solaris Freeware, we'll survive this too.
Assuming that a large part of the reason they 'stay there' early in the day is because people are at work, doesn't that mean that they'll naturally be distributed back to where they were when people return home?

Traditional rental car services seem to have figured out how to make it work, why can't pay-by-the-minute places do the same? Something like demand-based pricing seems like it would work well for this.
I guess I've tended to be more focused on how much I can produce and the quality of the ecosystem vs that level of syntax. My limited experience is that other frameworks, languages and ecosystems allow for more productivity overall. The few places I know using Django are not as productive as the orgs I know using either Laravel or Rails. There may be some 'chicken/egg' stuff going on, but... if lack-of-braces means that much to you, that you'll cut off using other tech stacks altogether, so be it.
Haha you got me there.
Which part?

Czechs have a half-millennia old, entrenched gun tradition, with amusingly even stronger protection on gun ownership than even Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic

The only times this was suspended was during German and Russian occupations.

Homicide rates is easily accessible public information, from various sources including world bank and the UN?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5

Year by year chart: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czech-republic/cri...

Their gun culture is certainly an outlier in Europe, compared to even the Swiss. Very permissive, and yet murder rates are essentially on par with entirely gun-less Asian countries vaunted for their "safety".
Depends on the project size and the details of the company risk.

As a rule, when things are broken it's the best time to go out fixing them. But yeah, this has a non-zero cost that maybe can destroy the company.
There is a whole industry ready to throw money at a vehicle which does not need humans to operate, can evade detection, can be cheap enough to be discarded after transporting a highly valuable cargo.
Freedom of speech is problematic. The spread of covid misinformation today is as bad as shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and the people doing it on social media or in public should be held criminally culpable.
Yeah a mast or tethered transmitter probably they way to go, but now you have the problem of operating both a submarine and a pseudo surface vessel.

Nothing insurmountable, but it's not as simple as running under everyone which is what the article implied (to me atleast).
Definitely not looking forward to 99% of any group being out of jobs.
The pandemic was definitely extended in the US due to politics.

Every attempt at curtailing the spread was rolled back or defeated specifically due to politics at the highest levels of the US Gov't, from not implementing travel bans as appropriate to blocking masking mandates, to state level gov'ts re-opening economies and lifting lockdowns during surges. The current hot-spots in the US are almost perfectly aligned on US political boundaries.

Even now it continues as masking and vaccination continues to be politicized with one side spreading obviously unfounded FUD around the vaccine and inflammatory messaging that masking children is "child abuse".
A key difference: Inuit have time, and this parenting concept requires lots of time (waiting until tantrums pass, to tell stories, and to process emotions). In western societies however, parents rarely have adequate time for interacting with their children - it's why so many kids are parked in front of screens: it gives parents the time to do household chores without being distracted.

If we as society want to raise our children in better conditions, we have to limit work weeks and raise wages so that a 20 hour work week is sufficient to raise a family on.
For anyone interested the Monto Carlo Tree Search used for the planning (that the tentacle shows) is described here (from the AI day video, at the 1h21m50s):

https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=4910
Just please give me some options!

I want to be able to select exploration/discovery vs sticking with familiar grounds.

It boggles my mind that there
are zero explicit user settings and the only option is somehow game the recommendation system.
I don't know how people move into appartments where they aren't allowed to drill holes in the wall. This would make an appartement unusable for me.

Unanchored furniture is extremely risky and kills infants every year.

Yeah, there's a risk that you might drill into a pipe. In the last 20 years that happened to me once, and it was annoying, since it cost 200€ to have the pipe fixed, but it's not really a big deal.
Yew and Sauron also exist which use the MVU pattern like Elm. Percy might also, not sure about that. Seed has a less React-inspired interface.
Sure and in my opinion it’s a better system for me personally and if I had an in-person business my balance sheet would prefer it too. All to obscure an incredibly important point that their death toll has been minimal, under 50 as far as I can see. USA is nearing 700,000.
Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer
From what I understand, upgrading a 2 wheel drive EV to a 4 wheel EV isn't a horribly hard thing to do.

Driving on snow/iced doesn't require power, it requires good tires and an understanding of how to drive on snow and ice.

I do wonder if the engine in it could get up Seattle hills though, my family's old Geo Metro had problems, so something with a fraction of the power could prove problematic.
What to you mean, "OSM was fading"? When?
Unfortunately they're not propagated through different channels
Which Pandemic got resolved in span of 18 months, I would like to know. The medieval ones took decades to burn through the planet and the spanish flu took 50 million+ and last more than 2 years.

Systems built without taking the Pandemic risk into account are the issue here, Pandemic itself we know it was coming.. we also have movies about them.
The musical instrument analogy can be taken the other way, though.

After you’ve spent years learning to sight read, you can play almost anything right away if you have the sheet music, even if you’ve never heard it before.

Or after you’ve spent years learning to play by ear, you can play any tune you know from memory, or jam along to almost anything.
oh, this is exactly what I want! thanks so much for taking the time to answer. :-)
For the site (including wasm) -
(over the network) 597 kB transferred
(uncompressed) 2.3 MB resources
Ha Tom knight is back
The good(?) news is that this has helped me get over my instinct of, "I don't want to use this language because it sucks".

You want me to use Java? OK, as long as we're using Java in a situation where the specific way in which Java sucks is a smaller issue than the specific way in which any alternative language would suck.
but in your analogy, there is both positive and negative news about white and non-white people.

the reader just goes to the sections for positive news about white people and negative news about non-whites. He tears up the rest.

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Is it not like one goes to breakfast at his local diner, and every day, eats a plateful of bacon. Should the server knowing his patterns take away his bacon?
When I open youtube, 10 of the 12 videos displayed are ones I've already watched. 1 is a live steam, and one is from a channel I subscribe to. The non-viewed video is recommended to me frequently, but I've never had any interest in clicking on it. What possible "system" could they be using to come up with this being the best 12 videos to show me?

FWIW: I pay for youtube music, which comes with youtube premium included so I don't get ads, but the recommendation system is pretty much useless.
Safer doesn't mean safe. You still need to be disciplined about operating them, and the way China has handled other kinds of power plants in the past makes some people (specifically in China) nervous.
IMO there's no way around building real production apps starting from the UI. Design has to begin with data model. It's like building a House not from the foundations but from the facade.
It also depends on which company. The budget rental companies, which I assume Dollar Rent a Car would fall under, are notorious for doing stuff like this pre-pandemic as well.
Very fun! Is it possible to remove the '-' symbols once a new path has begun? They were blocking previous paths, which also may be the point.
This makes me smile and think back to the time I wrote business logic in pure SQL.

How free from most of those things my days were.

Just pure declarative logic. I have A and B, what is the shortest path to get to C?

But eventually I got tired of that too and back to what you describe.
If they can keep them going a year or even two it might be worth it for them in the current supply crunch - food for thought. These won’t be sitting in someone’s garage 90% of the time, they’ll be on the road.

That said, not looking forward to having to rent a car and dealing with mold or more frequent breakdowns on the side of the road!
All-Electric Lucid Air Just Received a Staggering EPA Range Rating of 520 Miles
The type of consultancies and firms which actually pay out profit based on equity are usually LLP's / partnerships (part of the reason why "Partner" is a title in finance, law, etc.

Tech companies are usually corporations (often C corps in the startup world.) What equity gets you in the two scenarios is completely different.
Might be my luck then as all rentals I have rented did not look like they had been maintained at all, least by professionals (in car maintenance).
Spending too much time on your phone? Meet Shilling
Powershell cmdlets return objects that are suitable for reuse and also have their textual representation suitable for (human) use. I think the concept is beautiful, but the execution is awful.
Sending a response within 5 microseconds of receiving a packet seemed like a very HFT thing to me.

I don't even know how you came to the conclusion that I think that "everything has to be either manually submitted order or HFT" but that's on you.
As a recent parent of two kids, all this stuff is very intuitive and I think all parents deep down instinctually know this true. The hard truth is that you can't take shortcuts with raising your kids. You pay the cost now, or you pay it later. But easier said than done when you're exhausted...

We've tried many things with our first child. He was, for all intents and purpose, one giant A/B test. And the data consistently shows that neither rewarding, disciplining, scolding him or timeouts work. The only thing that works (actually works) is (1) finding creative ways to playfully diffuse the current situation, (2) listening to them to identify the root problem and (3) turning the lesson into a game (inception). This takes A LOT more time and energy than simply yelling at them. It's a full time job.
The claim that self-driving cars are being held-up to a higher standard than human drivers is simply false. Self-driving cars so far have a far worse record than the average of human drivers, which is remarkably good. Human accidents are measure in term of "per million miles driven". Self-driving cars have driven a tiny total distance compared to all the miles human drivers have driven.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
I have been working on a virtual DOM library which will enable a few of these projects to support SSR. But, partly due to lack of interest, and partly due to lack of time on my part, it’s been going slower lately. Still, the effort is ongoing.

https://github.com/rust-rdom/rust-rdom
Vaporize. What an objective and sensible term to describe something that I’m sure you are totally unbiased about…
I actually agree, though I would personally add stuff to C to make it a better foundation. I also want a boringcc C compiler, like djb asked for.
Computer-vision-based self-driving is a mistake. Self-driving cars should drive on their own roads with no non-self-driving vehicles. Other vehicles, traffic lights, road hazards, route changes, etc should be signals that are directly sent to the vehicles rather than the vehicles relying on seeing and identifying cars and traffic lights and road signs.

We know how to make computers navigate maps perfectly. We don't know how to make computers see perfectly. The other uncontrollable humans on the map just make it worse.

Yes this'll not work in existing cities. That's fine. That's the point. An inscrutable black box "ML model" that can be fooled by things that humans aren't fooled by should not be in a situation where it can harm humans. I as a pedestrian did not consent to being in danger of being run over by an algorithm that nobody understands and can only tweak. Build new cities that are self-driving first or even self-driving only, where signaling is set up as I wrote in the first paragraph so that a car reliably knows where to drive and how to not drive over people. Take the opportunity to fix the other problems that old cities have like thin roads and not enough walking paths.
Most of these cars were used exactly for this purpose. In Seattle they would drive people from all over the city to Amazon's offices (in South Lake Union) in the morning, and back in the evening. However, the cars being used twice a day for 10-20 mins isn't exactly a winning business model for the company.
I have a few problems with your comment.

First, how do we know that FSD is safer than most drivers? From Tesla's marketing material? Who are they comparing to: the general public, or a matched control group? How are defining safer: number of crashes, number of deaths, property damage, something else? I work as a data scientist, and I'm hugely skeptical of the claim that FSD is safer because I (and I'm sure you too) know how to scam statistics.

Second, I bought an M3 last year and have put 23k miles on it traveling through 18 states. I didn't buy FSD, but I regularly use autopilot. It does some crazy shit, including trying to drive me off the road in Wyoming, trying to drive into opposing traffic in Marin, phantom braking sometimes quite abruptly, etc. And while I agree with the assertion that 99% of the time it does reasonable things, that 1% is horrifying and dangerous. And it's definitely not truly context aware-- as a human driver, I'm aware when someone is tailgating me or when a driver appears to be distracted or if there's a hazard on the road. Tesla, on the other hand, forced me to drive over large debris on 101 because it thought my evasive maneuver was a lane departure. It's a nice thought that people might just be scared of new technology, but I really don't think this technology is actually ready to be doing anything without close human supervision.

Third, I disagree that we have to ban all cars. The current standard is how humans drive. Humans are culpable for their negligence while driving. When the laws catch up to make Tesla culpable for damage caused by its algorithms, and when regulations exist for standardizing algorithm behavior and testing/quality-control, then I'll be more supportive of tools like FSD.

Finally, it'd be nice if we could acknowledge that individual choices often have direct impacts on the safety and wellbeing of others [you didn't say this, but another common response I've encountered is "if you don't feel safe with FSD, then don't use it"]. Just because someone might feel more comfortable "driving" from the backseat of their Tesla[1] does not mean it's actually safe. If someone wants to do reckless things that could get themself killed, then on some level that's their prerogative. However, deciding to put other's lives at risk because your gadget is nifty and usually right is really misguided. Further, Tesla shifting the responsibility for the safety of their product onto the behaviors of its users is shameful.

1: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-13/tesla-dr...
It depends on the location. Orlando has plenty of reasonable rates. If you want to pick up a car at Portland, however, not only does a quick search suggest you're 7 or 8 weeks from any availability at all, but it's twice as expensive as a last-minute rental in Orlando.

A colleague that had to visit Seattle recently ended up renting a U-Haul truck out of desperation.
Not all thoughts are concise and straightforward. That's not a problem that can be solved.

Concision by itself is not something to optimize for, since it usually leads to misunderstanding at scale.
> Also, it's a fallacy to think the CPC simply ignores popular sentiment.

That's what I meant by:

> While China isn’t going to face similar voter pressure, one accident like Fukushima could make things really chaotic quickly.
They pay to be seen. Several different entities have a reason to fund that.