skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the correction, was formulating the sentence and somehow "wasm over the wire" injected itself in there. 100% transfering wasm in the binary format is a more efficient transfer than js.
Not after becoming adults, unless you need something specific, or take the flu vaccine, the majority were not having vaccines.

Don't know why, can be some kind of study, or a drill for a biological war
This entire exchange made me think of Blade Runner. Maybe I am not even human after all. How would I know...
Ok :-) me too (typescript)
"We’ve shown that your 3% claim was misleading as presented."

Lol where did you show that? The 3% claim is only misleading because you are applying a context to it that it was not intended for. The point is that additional federal gun laws will not be enforced because the government does not enforce the current ones, and doesn't even have the resources to do so. If anything, you have been the misleading one by presenting false information and failing to back up your (trolling) claims. You can go back to the root comment to see that they are approaching this from a light that additional federal gun laws would not be effective since the current ones are not being enforced.

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

Then, please, get to the point and tell me what is wrong with it. Stop draffing this out with unsubstantiated claims, twisting words, and flat out lies. Not all my questions were data related, but also conceptual - yet you ignore those as well (for example, you still haven't defined the 'illegal' gun purchases).

Good bye, troll.
When you depart from your usual intake, some departures are a lot more powerful than others. Sometimes you watch something new and YouTube spends days pushing similar stuff into your face. Other times you watch something new and only see one or two relevant recommendations mixed into your usual fare. My hypothesis is that YouTube knows that particular topics and particular content are associated with usage patterns that make money for them, and the algorithm is alert to any possibility of pushing users into those patterns.
Honestly, I have no idea what you _are_ trying to say at this point. Something something censorship is all I'm getting. And long words like cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps it is lost in translation; I'm not saying the fact that someone is driving drunk only matters when an accident happens, I'm saying that right until the moment a driver decides to get drunk, the law doesn't do anything. If at the beginning of the day someone decides to start drinking and when they are drunk they get in to a car and start driving, that's when the violation occurs. Not before that like PreCrime would.

The same can't apply to FSD because it isn't consistently 'driving drunk'. That analogy doesn't hold because it is not fixed software like a GPS-based navigation aid would be. Just like humans it does have more or less fixed parameters like the amount of arms and legs you have, that doesn't tend to change depending on your intoxication.

One could make the argument that it's not as much the "haha it is just like a drunk driver zig-zagging", but the uncertainty about the reliability. If a car with some autonomous driving aid drives across an intersections just fine 99 times out of a 100, and that one time it doesn't, that doesn't mean the car software was dunk 100% of the time.

Why FSD is not held to some standard, I don't know. I suppose that depends on how it is defined by local law and how the country it is in allows or disallows its use.

The problem with prevention and detection here is that like humans, the system is not in a static state. The trained neural network might be largely the same with every release, but the context in which it operates isn't, unless the world around it stops completely in which case two trips can be identical and because the input is identical the output can also be identical. Humans do the same, even if well-rested and completely attentive, knee-jerk reactions happen.

Holding FSD to a standard of a drunk driver isn't a valid comparison due to the non-static nature of the state it is in. This isn't even FSD-specific, even lane guidance/keeping assistance and adaptive cruise control isn't static, and those are based on pretty static algorithms. Even the PID-loops used on those will deliver different results on seemingly similar scenarios.

Perhaps we should stop comparing technology to humans since they are simply not the same. The static kind isn't and neither is a NN-based one. We can still explore results or outcomes because those are the ones that have real impact. And let's not fool ourselves, humans are far less reliable in pretty much every man-machine combination. But in human-to-human contexts we factor in those unreliabilities, and with machine-to-human or machine-to-machine we seemingly don't, which is pretty much the same problem you're describing.

This will be an interesting field of development, and if we simply take death toll into account, keep in mind that for some reason seatbelts were thought to have 'two sides of the story' as well when they were first introduced and later required. As with car seats for children and infants, a good idea might start out one way and over time (with the accompanying bodycount) it gets shaped into whatever we expect of it today. Same goes for aerospace, boats and trains, and that's even without taking software into account.
"Clever" code reminds me of Cowboy Coding [1] where people do something similar. But I wonder if there is more to "boring" than what not to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding
Well, the bet you're making is that the side effects after 5 or 10 years of Coronavirus, a disease that causes literal brain damage, are better than the side effects of the vaccine.

I was also pretty unenthusiastic about taking an experimental vaccine, but I was more unenthusiastic about getting coronavirus or, worse, giving it to somebody who was more vulnerable.
Most of the new encoding tools split videos by scene and then run parallel encodes from there, such as av1an.

For a decently sized video (say a TV episode) there's usually like 100 split points to divy out to encoders.

https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
FAA Releases Draft Environmental Assessment for SpaceX Starship Launches
> it ate through about 4GB/s of garbage

Perhaps a nitpick: 'moving' garbage collectors [0] like Shenandoah don't 'eat through' memory occupied by now-unreachable objects. They work by copying/moving the still-reachable objects. Their performance is a function of the number of still-reachable objects, and their size, rather than the unreachable objects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection#Mov...
There's a predefined table called User that holds user accounts: https://github.com/cabalamat/frambozenapp/blob/master/app/us...

There are also predefined web pages for logging in and out, and listing users. A real aspp might want ot customise the pages: https://github.com/cabalamat/frambozenapp/blob/master/app/lo...
They killed themselves when they converted their fleet from Smart cars to full-sizes Mercedes. The new fleet was impossible to park. It was such an obvious mistake even at the time. Their users loved the smart cars.

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/car2go-dropping-smart-cars-sea...
> One consensus is that Carvana/Vroom/Shift are buying cars at a loss to try and capture market share.

They absolutely are. Where I live, these companies are (and have been before COVID) paying well above market rates for newer used cars from private sellers. On the flip side, all of your typical auto sales rags and sites that used to have listings from private sellers and used car dealerships are now mainly carvana listings.
This industry is already employing subs albeit with people aboard [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine?wprov=sfla1
Yeah that was my point, unless it’s contractual you can’t rely on it.
Make sure to work through problems without the answer handy

See if you campus has math tutoring available as well

I used both resources to get back up to speed myself. It was actually the tutor that showed me that site.

There is good lecture series content on YouTube as well
Except…are most apps that creative? Let’s face it, a lot of programming is boring variations of CRUD. Yes there’s creative code and I’m sure Rich Hickey does a lot of it, but there’s a lot of boring, banal code that we shouldn’t be real precious about.
What happened to you that you decided replying to this with a emotional strawman was worth your time and energy?

It's a particularly dumb strawman too because we already know AI can generate solutions to mechanical engineering problems that humans normally would not. https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-l...
Get out.

Revenge of the Sith was good though.
I currently use markdown and vim to document work and my thoughts. For general todos, I have one big file that has each day as a new header. Kinda like this:

## 2021-09-17
- personal
- [ ] walk dog
- work
- [ ] catch up on email

## 2021-09-16
- personal
- [x] meal planning
- work
- [x] fix bug
- [x] recreate locally
- [x] write tests
- [x] submit PR

For big tasks that take a ton of time, I typically create a file dedicated to that to just work through my thoughts around the task. I would link the file in my daily todo file so it's easy for me to find if needed in the future.
> The artists can just make music at home and bootstrap themselves, no investment needed.

The barrier has never been lower indeed, but it's the barrier to get started and it's still easily a many-thousand-dollars affair - a good recording and Soundcloud isn't everything you need to make money, especially not on a scale you'll be able to make a living from. Production of physical media (especially currently en vogue vinyls) is expensive plus there is a very real "inventory risk" (aka, the risk of being stuck with a truckload of vinyls no one wants to buy). Events and concerts are expensive AF to set up if you want more than your local community center or pub, touring is even harder to pull off (and the bigger the venue the more expensive the upfront, non-refundable costs go).

Most small cover and indie bands barely make ends meet, most work full-time jobs to finance their band hobby and spend sometimes their entire weekends and vacation time because they have to do lighting, rigging and sound system setup themselves wherever they get a gig. And corona has raided everyone's funds dry.

Not to say big studios aren't a bunch of unscrupulous, exploitative vipers because they are, but unfortunately their business model is far from dead.

(Source: know people still in this business, did myself a stint as a stagehand and as a renter of my small scale sound/light setup a couple years ago)
LAPD Social Media Surveillance [video]
I read a about a study which considered how scientists and engineers who wrote code thought about their programs. The scientists considered their code as an extension of their own thinking, whereas engineers were mainly preoccupied with how the code could fail.

There is probably also a virtuous cycle which reinforces how the scientist and engineer view their code, so it may be hard to untangle how much of that thought pattern was "innate" vs learned.

I think your question is interesting and I wonder if it may depend (in part) on one's motivations for writing software.
Ruby Sorcery Part 1: Pattern Matching
I think I would agree, but with the caveat that the hiring companies need to change how they view credentialization. Right now many companies will just toss your resume if you don't have a BS+.

I have a BS an MSIS. Most of the information isn't used in my job.
Yep: https://huey.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Listening to the panel, I was struck by how big the gaps are in our knowledge of the vaccine. For instance, members of the panel raised the following issues:

1. We still haven't been able to correlate antibody titers to protection.

2. The vaccine's effects on transmission are not clear.

3. It seems there is virtually no meaningful data on memory B and T cell responses even though we know this is a critical part of immunity.

Even more striking to me was how weak Pfizer's presentation/argument for a 3rd booster was.
Driving this thing at 80 km/h in normal car traffic is, IMO, suicide.

The only thing that prevents me from riding an e-scooter to work every day is bad weather, so I would actually love if we aimed even lower for personal city mobility. Make the vehicle weigh around 120 kg or so. Make it go 30 km/h tops, that's still plenty. Make it have a single seat, a roof, windshield, two front wheels, one rear wheel and a 1-2kW wheel hub motor.

A vehicle like that that could use [some of] the bicycle infrastructure we already have and would be significantly cheaper and easier to operate and maintain than a full-size car, while still offering acceptable comfort for <1h commutes.

(I live and work in Prague, Czech Republic, Europe.)
NJ Bureau of Securities Orders Crypto Firm Celsius to Halt Sale of Securities
They have some leverage- if Apple starts banning all the apps people use they'll be furious.

Facebook could make news that's negative of Apple trend more than positive news.
I only use the Subscriptions page. The frontpage is a cesspool of imbecility.
Honestly, what would change your mind? Really? Like if the oceans were literally boiling and you could be outside without a thermal suit, would you still be saying it was just a little spike? At what point would you say, "we need to do something"?
I'm not who you're replying to, but at least for me, I've found a way of keeping the recommendations on check.

https://i.imgur.com/XIRW4U2.jpeg

When opening videos that are sent to me by others, I always use a private window, so my main account is pretty low "variance".

When I find a creator I like, I do a "fake binge", by queuing all their recent videos and some old ones too and playing them unattended.

I also try to minimize my use of the recommendation sidebar, since it usually shows content related to the current video rather than the more general recommendations of the home page.

When something foreign sneaks its way to my home page, I immediately click "not interested", paying attention to not hover the thumbnail.

Overall, Youtube has got me trained pretty well, but at least I get some nice recommendations out of it, so much so in fact that over half the recommendations I get are usually videos I have already watched (even if Youtube thinks I haven't yet for whatever reason).
I raced as a Category 1 USCF racer and worked on increasing a lot of thresholds as I climbed up the ranks. I would get my VO2 max tested every year and saw some improvements based on training, but I hit a limit. Other teammates also hit limits, but their initial test values were just higher than mine and I wasn't going to train myself into those higher levels.

Improving my lactate threshold, losing as much weight not related to cycling muscle mass and periodization kept me competitive. Training smart, sticking to a game plan, avoiding fast paced group rides, good sleep and nutrition was also vital.

The reality is that you can build upon your genetic platform, but you are going to get to level where you simply can't compete against someone who is doing everything you are doing, but just have better genetics. Sadly, this is why a lot of elite athletes turn to doping, even in the amateur ranks. They are training just as hard as you in addition to the EPO, steroids, HGH and who knows what else.
Please omit swipes from your posts to HN. Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Me, within reason.

A major version change (eg UI rewrite or API breakage is an exception).

I don’t get the constant breakage the rest of HN seems to get, so there is no reason to pay the cost of manual updates.
Great post. This is a reality that a number of no-code and low-code tools bring to the table, including Budibase - an open source alt to retool, mendix, outsystems.

If you are interested, check out the repo:
https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

It's used at Amazon, IBM, F1, Deloitte, NHS, and more.

I'm the co-founder of the project and I hope you don't mind me posting - it felt relevant.
OECD Releases “Education at a Glance 2021”
Sharepoint will put my team out of business any day now /s
I have viewing history tracking disabled and 90% of videos I see are new/popular videos from channels I subscribe to. It's not so bad, definitely less clickbait.
I keep hearing things about emacs org mode that sounds awesome but I am afraid how much of a time-sink it would be to switch from my current process. I currently write all of my notes in markdown and in vim.
Meh, I disagree, except for that it would be nice to have better access to a car right now. I could buy one if I had an income, but I'd only do so reluctantly.

Living in a rainforest-like climate in Vancouver, I couldn't be happier. Ya, I could use a little more space than my studio. Ya, it sucked so bad when the pandemic hit, but much much less so than in suburban areas. I still only walk 2 mins to a bar or where I buy groceries. Transit is the same. Mountains aren't far etc.. To say urbanites have been set back decades is ridiculous.

That said, idk about living right downtown, but I've always hated it anyway because it's a boring landscape with boring people.
So what about the folks out there who don't have access to formal education ?

I do definitely see your point, I've had times where I'll write so much code and then later I'll realize it would have made much more sense to carefully plan out what I actually wanted to accomplish.
They're still in a vastly more controlled environment than cars and moving at much lower speeds as well. If an auto taxiing plane has to avoid another airport vehicle something has gone massively wrong. Judging by this video [0] I'm not sure they're even worrying about collisions and are counting on the combination of pilots and ATC ground controllers to avoid issues while taxiing. It looks like the cameras are entirely focused on line following.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TIBeso4abU
You should look into Discourse. It's great for internal use aswel as public usage. Real example on their own meta: https://meta.discourse.org - I even use selfhosted instance for personal stuff.

Lots of customizations possible to make it to suit all your needs.
I disagree that this is a good analogy, because you're referring to a financial barrier to entry and the GP is talking about effort, not money.

Of the genres you mention, only punk could reasonably be considered a low barrier to entry genre in that some of the biggest punk bands were famous for hardly being able to play their instruments. But it's also the single genre missing from your "Today," paragraph, indicating that yes, indeed, making good hip hop or electronica is hard even with a fantastic computer with fantastic software.
i don't know, people here like to complain about google, but google still works pretty well for me.
What would be useful is an "Excel for web apps". The spreadsheet runtime model is much better adapted to the way non-developers think than what VB6-style visual programming provides.

Having code and actual application data allows people without programming experience to build data types and simple to average functions and debug errors in the business logic, whereas with classic code they can't get pass the parser to get their poorly written syntax understood by the compiler.

Developers tend to think that writing simple code makes application development easy, but actually learning the syntax and runtime model of classic imperative code is usually the hardest part to newcomers.

The functional-reactive execution of the spreadsheet together with the intermixing of data and code provides a simple mental model of instant evaluation and exploration, similar to the benefits a REPL provides to a seasoned developer, minus the syntax errors and deep nested structures.

Notebook-style development environments like observablehq.org are almost there (specially those with a spreadsheet-like semantics), though it still keeps too harsh a separation between the code environment and the "runtime values" environment - i.e. its cells are "too large" when compared to spreadsheet cells.
Is this comment itself a contrarian idea?
I was surprised when they shut down, because it seemed to work well in Denver. There was always a car within a couple blocks, and it was so much cheaper and nicer than Lyft IMO.

I once drove a car2go from downtown to my apartment near the university. This was after they started using Benz instead of Smart cars. I parked it outside and went and took a nap, had dinner, etc. About 6 hours later I left the apartment and noticed the car was still out front…running. I had put it in park and forgotten to turn it off. Customer service gave me a bit of a deal on the cost I’d racked up. I still laugh about it.
The Honda Fit is on its 4th generation and is still sold in the US. I think it's a hybrid now. Mine is a 2008.
Barrel processors still need to be programmed with parallelism and cache behavior in mind. And if normal imperative code can't be reused with minimal modification, than such a device holds little appeal over GPUs (as Intel found out with Xeon Phi).

"There are quirks to designing software for these systems, but they don’t involve safety."

Parallel programming is intrinsically racey. Even if hardware could enforce safety like you're saying (which it can't, even in a single thread) it would imply a sequentially consistent memory model, i.e. the antithesis of any parallel machine.
>I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test.

Any sampling bias would apply to all countries, not just the US.
> Did they pay for that exposure or what

Kind of. Mr. Beast videos make Youtube tons of money. Shouldn't be a surprise that Youtube pushes them harder than videos that don't make a ton of money.
I just booked a car in the US this week. Same prices and availability as before covid
Hell, Specialized has an electric assisted mountain bike that goes for $15k.
So it is an HR problem. They need to extend the cancelation periods in contracts..
> I was struck by how big the gaps are in our knowledge of the vaccine.

Most of what you describe is not just "knowledge of the vaccine", it's "knowledge about how immune systems actually work". For example, we still have no certain knowledge about how measles manages to wipe out your immune system.

Most of medicine is (although often very good!) guesswork.

> 2. The vaccine's effects on transmission are not clear.

Indeed, but the vaccine's effects on infection are clear. Less infected people automatically means less people transmitting the virus.
The article is not clearly written, but they say these things:

1. it will run at 50m depth in trade routes

2. it can work in shallow waters where container ship can not

So I think the idea is that it does not need deep-water port infrastructure, but will get deep and out of the way when it's out of port. So a big ship would never see it.

And it can potentially go under the polar ice.
I thought it was a new version of https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
iPhone is useless without Facebook’s Instagram for most of the regular people.
It is also somewhat easy to enter the market. You do not need a hundred million dollars upfront investment to build a competitor, at least in terms of functionality of provided services. A good example in my opinion is how BitMart is eating up Coinbase US market with many of my friends moving on to safe money on the fees since "crypto is crypto". From their IPO coinbase is 25% down as of today, and I don't see any compelling reasons for the stock to rebounce.
The politician's syllogism comes to mind: "Something must be done, this is something, so we must do this."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism