skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree we are likely spiraling toward our collective demise, but there are still some ways to try to attack the problem. One thing we can do is shift the economics of energy production by increasing research funding for alternatives. I would argue cost effectiveness of modern panels is the real reason solar installations are becoming more common. They are a solid investment for individual homeowners. We need better storage and transmission technologies to lower the remaining barriers to running a grid on renewables.

Once renewables become the most cost effective option, people will switch regardless of their politics or location.

I would argue the huge investments needed to conduct modern fossil fuel exploration and get the remaining (and least accessible) material from the ground may become unjustifiable if demand drops sufficiently.
This assumes FSD-to-drunk-driver analogy means FSD has to be a drunk driver (or a student driver as commented elsewhere) all the time, so always making the bad judgement and slow reaction like a drunk driver would.

I think that some form of responsibility has to be assigned to the FSD in some way (the manufacturer? the user? some other entity or a combination?) regardless but I haven't found any clear case of how that would work.

It also makes me wonder how we would measure or verify a human driver with intermittent drunkenness. Imagine 5 seconds out of every minute you temporarily turn into a drunk driver. That's plenty of time to cause a major accident and kill people, but on the other hand that would mean that the combination of a situation where that would happen and the right timing to not be able to judge that situation has to apply. We do of course have the luxury of not having humans constantly swapping drunk and normal driving, so it isn't a realistic scenario, but it would make for a better computer analogy.

Besides drunk drivers we also have just generally crappy drivers that just happened to get lucky when doing their driving test (although there are places where no meaningful test is required so that's a problem in itself).
What would you suggest as an alternative for a new project?
> God exists

> AGI is a mirage

This is a contradiction. If God exists and He created us, then we are AGI.
No, you're simply not the target market, which is the reason why your criticism is discounted. The target market appears to be people who want an app that will still work if OP decides at some point he no longer wants to build/operate the service. They can still fire up the electron app. It's a valid choice that you needn't agree with.
It seems likely that navigation is momentarily seeing the straight-ahead as obstructed and trying to route around using the street on the right? But the car really needs to respond more calmly when doing navigation changes (see especially the car in the OP video - no safe driver changes course in a split second in the middle of an intersection, not at that speed).
Pretty much every S1 ever has similar language. Do you refuse to use any public company products?
I feel you. I was about to sell my car right as the pandemic started but now I'm glad I didn't. Uber/Lyft quickly went out of the range of using for ordinary everyday things post-pandemic.
>Lastly, C++ != C. They're similar and somewhat compatible, but entirely different at the same time.

I acknowledge this, but they're both very difficult if you're starting with that. To reframe my argument I'd say no new programmer should use a low-level language as it's so difficult you might just give up.

The vast majority of jobs will not require you to build an operating system. I think it's a matter of what your goals are. If you want to build a website or a game, use a high level language, get it done fast and move on of your life. If you want to find a job, you're going to have much better luck using higher level languages and you'll still make just as much as an embedded C engineer ( if not more).

For your specific use case,yes you need something like C.
MongoDB and Twilio have both done reasonably well haven't they?

Which developer tools have not done well?
You wouldn't call a building fragile just because it got destroyed by a thermonuclear bomb. I wouldn't call the global economy fragile just because it falls apart when every government at once imposes draconian lockdowns for months to years.
“Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the alliance risked "severely damaging regional peace... and intensifying the arms race".”

For the good of the planet naturally.
It is most definitely not low latency for heap sizes as big as what the OpenJDK can routinely handle (up to a terabyte).

Go’s GC has it easier due to the language having native support for stack-based allocation which can sometimes be used in otherwise garbage-heavy places.
Google and Apple had been asked by the Council to visit the hearing 2 days in advance which is not enough to prepare for anything related to "the offense on the sovereignty".
> The whole point is that this sign on yard analogy is just not relevant to real world circumstance. Facebook and Twitter have outsized control over how I socialize with others.

So? They only have that kind of power over you because you chose to give it to them.

If I have cool friends, and you decided to organize your social life around visiting my house to see them, it's not my problem if you don't have a place to socialize if I sour on you and exclude you.

> Clearly there is a line to be drawn, and falling back on "it's their private property and thus their right to filter it however they want" is not sufficient in the 21st century, in the age of platform companies and extreme corporate consolidation.

My perspective is compelled speech or compelled cooperation with political speech is just as bad as censorship, so if that's your solution, you have to find a different one.

> Garbage? It was new, previously unreported information.

If the NY Post has a picture of Biden shitting on the toilet, that would also be "new, previously unreported information." It would also be garbage. Those categories aren't mutually exclusive.
Can we get a button to stop recommending videos that have already been watched? On the front page out of 12 videos listed, I've already seen 7 of them and have no need to watch them again.
> Our business has experienced rapid growth. We generated revenue of $81.2 million and $152.2 million in fiscal 2020 and 2021, respectively, representing growth of 87%. We generated revenue of $63.9 million and $108.1 million for the six months ended July 31, 2020 and July 31, 2021, respectively, representing year over year growth of 69%. During this period, we continued to invest in growing our business to capitalize on our market opportunity. Our net loss was $130.7 million, $192.2 million, and $69.0 million in fiscal 2020, fiscal 2021, and the six months ended July 31, 2021, respectively.

Another buy in my books after calling CloudFlare [0] and DigitalOcean [1]. Looking forward to the listing of 'GTLB'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707306

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26262799
GPT3, is that you?
Aside from maybe chips and PPE, I don't really believe so. The media just focuses on problematic areas, but if you consider how little goods disruption there was overall we fared fairly well.

Rental companies sold off stock when demand decreased to stay afloat which was rational from their perspective (and something they've done before). Problem was that when they went to re-purchase inventory, there was a car manufacturing bottleneck caused by a chip shortage (both supply chain disruption, and vehicle manufacturers voluntarily giving up their limited fab slots to consumer electronics companies because they predicted incorrectly a decrease in demand).

PS - And some seeming supply chain disruption was actually caused by panic buying instead e.g. toilet paper, water bottles, generators, etc.
The data being cached does not need to be related to the web framework as much as the application logic.

E.g. results from external services, calculations, anything that an application might want to cache.

Am working on a somewhat large Django system, and there is a ton of different things we cache in Redis.

Also HTML template results as another comment mentioned, but mostly something else entirely, related to the application logic.
I deleted my first question so that I could read on the subject a little to make sure the question wasn't a stupid one. After doing some reading I still have the same question so here it is again:

Does wasm app save memory significantly at runtime? If not why should one choose manual memory management outside of porting existing code?
Powell, other officials owned securities the FED bought during Covid pandemic
Folks that support American urbanism have been set back decades.

Smaller apartments in dense, walkable neighborhoods have been pretty miserable places to live for over a year now.

The bargain was that you don’t need a house with a yard when you can have an apartment surrounded by parks, restaurants, and bars; that you don’t need a car when you have transit; that you don’t need a home office…

Then all of that was taken away in a heartbeat with little regard to its effectiveness. Suddenly owning a house and a car were critically important again. It’s going to take a long time for people to come back.
Once they have ported it to Electron ...
There are many scenarios.

There is also: 5% of a high growth, negative profit, thriving company that can rather trivially raise additional capital to keep pushing growth faster.

Hundreds of start-up companies have fit that model over the last 10-20 years.

See: Facebook, Airbnb, Zoom, Twilio, Square, Stripe, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Fastly, DocuSign, Teladoc, Datadog, Coinbase, Etsy, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, Okta, Zscaler, Hubspot, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Workday, ServiceNow, The Trade Desk, Snowflake, Roku, Unity Software, MongoDB, Robinhood, Palantir, Roblox, Veeva Systems, Wayfair, Peloton, UiPath (Romania originally), Anaplan, Qualtrics, Asana, RingCentral, Zendesk, Dropbox, Appian, Bumble, Smartsheet, Stitch Fix, C3 AI, Affirm, JFrog, Box, BigCommerce, Sumo Logic, FireEye, Qualys.

Along with dozens of other prominent and smaller companies. And although not US companies, Shopify, Atlassian, Elastic, Wix, MercadoLibre and Spotify are also in that same bucket (and were funded by US venture capital). China also has a ton of thriving companies funded in a similar model (Alibaba, Pinduoduo, ByteDance, Didi, JD, Tencent, etc).

These are significant companies that all followed that model - to one degree or another - and have IPO'd in the past decade (even Tesla's IPO was just 11 years ago, they exist courtesy of the same model).

Salesforce lost money for a very long time. They were founded in 1999, and didn't reliably turn an operating profit until just a few years ago. In a few years they'll be larger than SAP.
It's a specific edge case that the driver was testing. It has issues around those monorail pillars.
God bless you public transport boosters but the idea of stringing together 3-4 different types of transportation to get around doesn’t seem like a very relaxing vacation to me. Renting a car is just so much easier…
San Francisco having a functional public transit system is news to me.
It makes one despair that a few lines from a Clash song are used to discredit an entire scientific area of study.
Yes! We could consider JavaScript, HTML, and CSS as the set of instruments. Then by creating the Conductor framework the author has not only "practiced his instruments", but shown proficiency and created a nice performance.

As for those who wish to use his framework, it's probably not enough to use it alone. It's mostly just another instrument that can be played solo, but to orchestrate some web apps, one will have to include the JavaScript, HTML, CSS and probably a few other "instruments".

Apologies if I strained that analogy too much.
FSD without LIDAR/radar is a fool's errand. Camera-only systems just do not pull in enough data to drive on real roads around real hazards.

For one they do not actual approximate human eyes since our eyes themselves are gimbaled in our skulls and our skull is gimbaled on our necks. Our eyes can switch their focus very quickly and return to scanning very easily.

Not only are we processing the visual information but also feedback from all of our body positioning and other sensory inputs. Driving heavily relies on our proprioception.

Fully autonomous cars need a lot of different sensors and processing power. Even driver assist should be using a lot of sensors. Autonomous driving needs more and better sensors than humans because it needs to deal with humans that are both smarter and more irrational than the automation. Besides conscious abilities humans have a lot of inherent self-preservation instincts that might be locally optimum for survival but globally poor choices.

Tesla scrimping on sensors because their boss is an egomaniac is the height of hubris. A web service moving fast and breaking things and choosing cheap but redundant options is fine. Usually the worst that happens is people lose money or some data. Moving fast and breaking things in a car is literally life and death. Musk's hubris around FSD is sociopathic.
yeah it's a real shame for the folks with equity to finally have liquidity.

I'm not really seeing what's shameful about a public exit. They're a great company with an amazing product. This is good for GitLab.
I still have an InfoMagic 6-CD set from April 1996 and a retail copy of Red Hat 5.1 among my old disks. I'm almost tempted to try one of them out in VM for old times' sake.

On the InfoMagic set, there were:

* Disk 1: Slackware 3.0 and Debian 0.93R6

* Disk 2: Red Hat 3.0.3

* Disk 3: Sunsite Archive

* Disk 4: GNU and Kernel Sources

* Disk 5: tsx-11 Archive

* Disk 6: Demos and Red Hat for Alpha
Like Atlassian? (Now at a $100B valuation on the public market)
So you use cron whenever you want to launch an executable? This "UNIX way" seems terribly convoluted.
Nuts, I was hoping that this was an evolution of https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops which uses Redis to cache and invalidate ORM result sets by an abstracted representation of filter values. It works, but has a lot of magic (as is the Django way) and takes some tending-to in production.
Maybe someone can explain in kindergarten terms for me --

A root cause of this problem is that the rental car companies sold off a lot of their fleets thinking that the pandemic would absolutely crater demand for >1 year.

Am I misunderstanding? Those cars went somewhere -- they didn't go into the dump. Wherever those cars went, why are they not causing some cushion / surplus in a different place that relieves some shortage? They got locked up in a warehouse and are inaccessible? Sold off and can't be bought back?

Reporters in their simplistic descriptions make it sound like those cars just evaporated.
There was a popular Hacker News thread on this video too that was removed somehow without being marked dead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28545010

It was on the front page and then a few minutes later not on the first 5+ pages.
>Is fatalism (in an all too unfortunately literal sense) all we have left?

If you wish to keep 'the world as we know it'? Yes, that ship has sailed. What we're fighting for now is the degree to which the world we know will be destroyed.
> A friend of mine bought the RedHat 5.2 distro from Best Buy

Ahh wow, this brings me back.

I bought, or rather had my parents buy, this exact same package from Best Buy when I was in high school or maybe the end of middle school. I remember thinking in the store that it was impossible for there to be something that wasn't Windows or Mac, and the packaging was so cool.

These were also the "10,000 Best Windows Games" shareware CD-ROM days (anyone remember the Aztech Cube pack? [1]) I was fascinated by the fact that Red Hat came with thousands of "packages" that weren't shareware. And that thicc documentation, wow so sexy. A printed catalog with info on each package. I remember feeling a sense of limitless possibility while flipping through its pages.

Installed Red Hat on a Pentium 1 Baby-AT tower that I picked up from Goodwill for $20. My friend and I spray painted it that summer and I slapped a 52x Creative Technologies branded CD-ROM drive with a cable that connected directly to a genuine Creative SoundBlaster sound card for music CD playback. I remember thinking how cool I was to have a Creative CD-ROM drive working with my Creative SoundBlaster playing Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want" on Linux. All I needed was a KVM switch to play Civ 2 on my junkyard Win 95 Gateway pizza box sitting next to it.

Wild times.

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/company/aztech-new-media-corp
How to Go Passwordless
Even if they go broke and get taken over by a completely evil group tomorrow they will have left behind a very nice open source project.
Did not know a train station in a forest could be so pleasant to listen to
I just got the chance to listen to this podcast and I want to thank you a lot for mentioning it.
What, are they going to monitor employees and search through their medicine cabinets?

I mean ffs nobody even needs a religious exemption bc nobody has a right to force someone to inject anything into their body, especially through coercive means.
...I am still baffled by the continued existence of the legacy systems of units. Every single other country (well, except the rest of the British Commonwealth, and the US, I guess) managed to switch to SI without crippling their economies. Nope, our situation is unique, no can do.

Yes, I get it that it's expensive and laborious but unless the UK economy shrinks to 10% of what it is now, it's not going to become cheaper and easier, it'll only become more and more expensive. As the saying goes, "the best time to plant a fruit tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is right now".
This article started out talking about what good signals are to drive a recommendation algo, but it ended up concluding with all the different ways YouTube goes against those signals to censor videos or otherwise manually tune your feed instead.

The meaning of "recommendation" seems to have shifted from "what we think you want" to "what we want for you."

It's not a wrong use of the word, just different from what you might expect.
Shocking price of gas? I’m in Europe and have hoped for gas prices to climb at least 10x since I was in high school. We have a relatively good public transport system yet the last 5-10 years have seen insane car ownership growth and even the small town my parents live in is now jammed with cars every morning.

Everyone should not own a car, it’s unsustainable both for the planet and for the road system.
"Car decides to turn for no reason and in the process fails to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk."
> You don't seem to understand how the law works. The Federal offenses are not prosecuted. The State offenses are. My statement is true.

It’s only true in a narrow technical sense. You were clearly trying to give the impression that people were simply getting away with these offenses, when what is actually happening is that the federal government doesn’t see the need to prosecute people who are already being prosecuted by the states.

> It's a sloppy way for the people in power to ignore equal application of the law by picking and choosing who deserves it, which to me undermines the very principle of rule of law.

Prosecutorial discretion definitely undermines the rule of law, and is a well known people, but it’s everywhere in every justice system and has nothing to do with the government’s approach to guns.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

As for the Kendi definition, I was using black in this example because most gun control laws disproportionately affect black people. Substitute other races if you like.

I don’t need to refute your position with data - that’s not what’s wrong with it.

We’ve shown that your 3% claim was misleading as presented.
> There are plenty of companies out there which ARE NOT like this, no matter how much you try to say that employers are not your friend.

You misunderstand. These employers/managers/etc can be decent human beings, but at the end of the day you are a resource to be utilized to further their goals in exchange for an agreed-up sum of money. As long as things are going well, everything's great for everyone involved. However, if/when things start going sideways - for example a round of layoffs are needed, they're going to make hard business decisions based on what's best for the company - your personal situation/needs will not be taken into account.

Don't mistake professional behavior and cooperation at work for friendship. They're not your friends.
Source? Look at MongoDB, Okta, Datadog, Elastic, etc... they wanted more capital, I'm sure their staff wanted liquid equity, this seems like a win for everyone.
Even just in the US, there are some cities that can be fairly challenging for an experienced human driver, especially one unfamiliar with them. And there are plenty of even paved mountain roads in the West which can be a bit stressful as well. And that's in good weather.
The car is going way too fast towards the crossing. No safe driver pretends to drive straight and then suddenly tries turn and sneak in front of pedestrians on a crossing. A person driving that way is a jerk :)
> We have been a 100% remote workforce since inception and, as of July 31, 2021, had approximately 1,350 team members in over 65 countries. Operating remotely allows us access to a global talent pool that enables us to hire talented team members, regardless of location, providing a strong competitive advantage.

Will be interesting to see how many publicly traded companies are fully remote in 5, 10, 15 years.

Especially since many new startups are starting as fully remote (and will probably stay that way and eventually IPO) and some publicly traded companies have shifted to fully remote (Coinbase, Square, Twitter)
I built this 22 years ago and quickly realized that it was a terrible idea. Funny to see it get recreated.

https://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/
It's common for folks to have tightly constrained moving choices.

We recently moved into our one and only choice. We beat lottery odds to get it and it was one more choice than most here have (doz-100s applicants for each listing).
You're probably right, but from your tone you seem to be implying that this is in any way an acceptable way to develop safety critical software, which is a bit baffling.
The site claims:

> The Ampere Altra Q80-28 SoC with 80 cores runs at 2.80 GHz and consumes around 175 Watts.

175w is nothing to scoff at, but also isn't completely ridiculous. GPUs will end up consuming more than that in a typical ATX gaming machine.
Happy to chat with anyone. :)
That mirrors my experience, too.

In fact, I rarely find YouTube's recommendations to be useful. Occasionally, yes, but typically I just get that "more of the same" problem.

However, that may be explained by how I use YouTube. The article is pretty vague and hand-wavy about how the recommendations really work, but it's possible that the fact that I don't drive my YouTube viewing from the recommended videos list makes the video recommendations worse for me.
How would giving the punchline cause more bite than an undefined outcome?

If that was the case you wouldn’t see titles like “you won’t believe what happens when you X” and instead you would see “nothing out of the ordinary happened when we X, save yourself 10 min”.

This title is clickbait in the sense that you see it and you have to wonder “oh crap are they selling out? Let’s click and find out”. If they said “Mullvad is not selling and we tell you why” there is no bait.