skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smalltalk, Scheme, ML (the language), and Emacs existed in the 70s. But they were way less evenly distributed. The comfiest programming environment on my mid-80s home computer was Forth.

(My code from back then was lost when the machine got stolen along with my floppies.)
I assume it's not practical at present, but there are places with similar weather where it is practical: https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU?t=36
> Currently AP's "self-driving" features cannot save a life, they have killed people.

That is just not true. Distracted/impaired human driving is a real thing that kills people. Just two weeks ago there was a DUI event where a Tesla driver on AP literally passed out behind the wheel and the car was trivially brought to a stop anyway.

> This is tricky to think about, but consider

This is postulating a two-mode failure! That's just bad engineering. Yes, that can happen, but by definition (involving two rare events overlapping) it's an extremely rare condition and will show only a vanishing frequency in any final statistics.

Never compromise core features (in this case "don't let distracted drivers hit the thing in front of them") chasing this kind of thing. Work on the secondary/tertiary modes once you have everything else down.
> The original package was MIT licensed, so this is totally legal and okay to do so

The MIT license requires attribution. The attribution was removed until the author was called out publicly, so... No. This was not totally legal and okay to do so.
Which is why I love Agent Smith's quote from The Matrix:

"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus."
OK, it's true that you can't do recursive queries to arbitrary depth with standard GraphQL queries, but I think most people who are familiar with GraphQL would consider that a feature: the query and the returned object are the same shape, and this correlation has useful properties that I've exploited in the past.

Nevertheless, there are ways to include arbitrary JSON in GraphQL responses and since the JSON really is arbitrary, you can include any JSON you want, to any arbitrary depth, and the field parameters that drive the JSON query can themselves also be arbitrarily complex.

I'd say that's also a feature of GraphQL: easy things are easy and hard things are possible. But still, if you have a use case that requires this functionality then GraphQL might not be for you, and that's OK. Nobody's forcing you to use it.

I mean, GraphQL is also poor at serving binary data. You can just use a different endpoint for it. It's not an all or nothing thing.
A colleague of mine has spent the last year "interviewing" neighborhoods he's considering living in, moving each month to another potential permanent home. Definitely not for everyone but how do you know where the perfect place is until you've spent a bit of time everywhere?
I think calling it vapor ware is uncalled for, you can test drive a Tesla with FSD and see for yourself the level of autonomy it’s achieved relative to other cars.

More than anything else it’s marketing hype, and I agree calling it full self driving when it has documented flaws is disingenuous. But it’s not vaporware.
Inaccuracies, irresponsible coverage, & conflicts of interest in The New Yorker
the work being pirated is not the code but its place in the library marketplace, the license played a minimal role here (as it was infringed anyway)
I tried really hard to get into Hotline, I still remember the "welcome to Hotline" girl. Every hotline server I tried was either terrible or so full it was impossible to connect or use. Never had a good experience with it. Guess I wasn't in the loop enough.
A webpage, hosted on a Raspberry Pie, still reachable after mentioned on HN #4. Quite impressive, why do we need CDN again?
I started to read the first chapter of your book, it looks nice. If I may ask you, could you also provide answers to the questions you ask? Somewhat hidden, e.g. behind a button "Show me the answer". I often I think I know the answer, but A) my answer may be wrong or B) I'm right but my reasoning is wrong. (So I'd like to compare my answer with yours.) Thanks.
> I dont understand why you keep saying there is thin evidence, we know Covid started in China

I’ve not said that. My comment is in relation to idea that COVID was released from a lab.

> They literally murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people and yet you still defend a dictatorial regime?

I’m not interested in defending the CCP, I just take offence at the idea of the search for the origin of COVID being a witch hunt. People seem to be much more interested in vilified China, and than they are in the actual origin of COVID.

If you wanna criticise the Chinese government, then be my guest, I won’t defend them. But if you’re going to allow a dislike of China to cloud our understanding of where COVID came from then I’m going to make an objection.

We should focus on evidencing the origin of COVID, not finding reasons to further demonise China. If China have intentionally made it difficult to do that, then criticise the action, but it doesn’t change the fact we don’t have strong evidence of a lab release. Certainly the evidence is currently stronger than the evidence suggesting a natural jump.
> Sustainable coffee

Is this code word for "it's gonna be trash"?
I've been doing this for a year or so now. I gave up my apartment, and have been driving around Europe, staying in various Airbnbs. The cost is much lower than I would've paid if I stayed in Amsterdam. This is because I can stay in cheaper countries, but also because I am not paying rent when I go on a holiday, go to my family for Christmas, and so on. I am not lacking any stuff, because I can leave some clothes in the back of my car while I keep the rest in a large suitcase / backpack combination.

The biggest downsides so far are:
1. Periods of loneliness. I don't mind this too much as I can just use the time to work on interesting personal projects. And I make my trips coincide with friends traveling there too, or already living there.
2. As some have stated here: your own bed is better. The biggest problem I have so far is that some airbnbs don't have proper curtains so I am wide awake at 6 am. A quality sleepmask works wonders here.
3. A lack of a proper place to work from. Often airbnbs will list a desk when in reality it's a shitty table with a bad chair. But this has been much better since COVID restrictions lifted and I have a list of good libraries to work from.

The upsides are amazing, and not really worth listing because I think these should be kind of 'obvious' to you if you were to consider such a lifestyle to begin with. One thing I will note here is that there is something amazing about closing your laptop after a good stint of work and walking straight into the most beautiful nature, or an amazing local restaurant.

EDIT: I get that the article is kind of pushing this as a money-saving trick to live in the same area. I think it's probably not worth it for that purpose. But if you care to do so then downsides 2/3 above may still apply.
What are good introductory books for logic (classical and intuitionistic)? For category theory? Do you know any similar representation of paraconsistent logic?
Which is exactly why I do not worry about so called "invasive species" (cats, kudzu, english ivy, ...)

Only humans are truly invasive.
Also, solar powered, don't forget!
Well, 4chan and 8chan had to die because they hosted Nazis, so where did we expect them to go? The notion of "safe spaces" for some and not others seemed a bit silly in the first place.
However 99.9% of communities seem to refuse things necessary things from bus stops to trams to homeless shelters. And frankly, from a homeowner's perspective I fully understand why.
It’d be helpful for anyone downvoting this to point out the factual error that I can’t see.
Paid parking is killing cities. Paid parking incentivises development investors to invest in an outdated infrastructure that does not produce anything, takes a lot of city centre space, while extorting productive people

In Portugal most parking is free as an extension of the businesses, that the owners have to consider. You can just leave home and not think about it while going about your business

In the UK most parking is paid, and there are hundreds of companies to manage parking lots, check the cars, to issue fines, to go after people that don't pay, a 60£ fine that is now 600£ because you have to pay the salary of the goons putting a wheel lock in your car, everyone in UK has paid a car park fine, it is a whole business in itself that is basically just a capitalist cancer
Show HN: My SaaS Business Template
Got tired of having to implement auth and payment on my side-projects.

I'made this template to focus on what really brings value to my customers

What do you think ? What features would you add ?
Ideally true, but not true in practice. When you're on the open road and the speed limit is 55mph, but everyone is going 80mph+, then anyone going the speed limit is a hazard. The speed limit is just an abstract notion at that point. Sure you may be violating the law, but I'm more worried about laws of physics at that velocity.

You'll have people passing you on the left and behind you at +30mph. The cars behind you in your lane will form a queue of waiting to pass you, and they'll be getting into the right lane needing to accelerate from 55mph to 80mph (hard for a lot of cars). This is going to cause the cars in the fast lane to brake, which will cascade through the lane and cause a traffic slowdown. If someone isn't paying attention, it's going to result in a rear end collision and an hours-long traffic jam for hundreds of people.

This is one of my worries with self driving cars: They'll follow the letter of the law even when it's not practically safe.
Unfortunately, small amount of sugar = even smaller amount of useful product. I.e. for all we know the yields/cell densities (not reported) are so low that you need more land to grow sugarcane and coconut trees than to grow the amount of coffea plants needed for a similar amount coffee.
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In fact, a mass extinction would be beneficial to the ecosystem by wiping out humans and allowing the rest of the planet to recover and thrive.
Surely that is circular - if religion did cause less drug addiction (and/or dealing) then you'd expect less distribution and thus availability in religious areas because there's less demand.
We got tired of corporate BS and became pilots
https://twitter.com/equinusocio/status/1441732243727192087?s...

> You should think this "wow, the author of one of the most popular frontend tools of today just used my work as reference. It's an honor."

By far my favorite and most ridiculous tweet I've seen in this thread.
Colorette author here. I put the benchmarks in a CI workflow so anyone can check. Click Benchmarks to see the results:

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/color-bench-test/runs/371243...
Ask HN: Building a relational database system for educational purposes?
If I wanted to build a compiler for fun, I can think of several good, practical books that I could follow along with to do so.

Can any of you recommend something similar for relational databases? I'm interested in writing some potentially restricted subset of SQL, with some query planning + optimization. If it ended up being a toy version of sqlite, I would be quite satisfied.

Thank you!
Yep. It's just feeding the addiction. We're a nation of drug addicts.

Funnily enough, mention the prospect of legal cannabis and everybody goes berserk.
It's both, no?
Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace
Question about a claim in the article:
"If classical logic is based on set theory, intuitionistic logic is based on category theory and its related theories."

I'm no expert, but as I understood it, category theory can be used to construct a semantics for certain constructive logics, such as type theory, but to claim that intuitionistic logic is "based on" category theory seems off. A logic can exist all by itself, regardless of which theory is used to give semantics for it. Right?
Even if Trump had warm feelings towards Wikileaks, the directors of the CIA, NSA etc clearly didn't. So it depends on how inclined they were to lock antlers with each other.

And from Trump's perspective, he may like seeing his rival taking a bullet - but that doesn't imply he'd feel protective of the spent shell casings on the ground.
The sequel to shader-school: Learn the WebGL API

https://github.com/stackgl/webgl-workshop
Nothing will be 100% perfect but computing power and machine learning has drastically improved in the past few years and changed everything.

Also the basic tech you mentioned like OCR and speech recognition is actually so good now that it runs on your mobile device, can tailor itself to the way you talk and write, and can even enable real-time translation to other languages across mediums like something out of a sci-fi movie.
I am terrified at the concept of "self-driving" or anything marketed as "self-driving" even if it is really advanced driver assist. When I talk to my engineer friends they are also deeply skeptical. Maybe its our age (mid 40's) or that after dealing with software development for 20+ years you tend to be jaded. Maybe it's that I know that ML based systems have limits based on the training data and it's not real deep AI. Maybe its that all the training is done in CA and someone will try to use this software where I live in New England and do it when it is snowing at night on a drive to Vermont and the system will fall apart.

I don't think we understand the human factors involved and the the hubris that most people will ignore their role in oversight as the software gets more advanced. If the software is 90% effective for most driving people will tune out. Holy crap that is scary.
What software are you using for the graphics? Is it an specialized program or package, or just a generic graphic program like Inkscape?
Not how it works. If there was a way to prevent all smoke related cancers but it randomly kills 1 million person a year would you say it is also a moral imperative? After all it is a net gain of lives.

Total casualties is not the only the to consider. You have to think about responsibilities, control, separate cases etc.

In addition, currently FSD is NOT safer than manual driving when comparing on equal conditions.
Your comment is one of the reasons why my account is named like this, their dictatorship is absolutely ridiculous, btw they even claim they got democracy and free speech over there[1].

[1]: Simply search "中國 民主" or something like "
中國 言論自由" and you could found various bulls****. here's one of them ( https://www.qingdaonews.com/content/2010-06/08/content_83988... )
This seems suspect; he says "the model can still recognise the racial identity of the patient well past the point that the image is just a grey box". Maybe someone here who actually understands deep learning can shed some light on what's happening here.
He refers to himself as an anarchist, first and foremost. He has what would be seen as very “liberal” as in “progressive” views in US political terms.
While we are at it, is Biden going to pardon Snowden?
I think this is a core question.

I don't believe that religion works if it is sold as a series of fables containing practical advice encouraging pro-social behavior (even if that's how it functions). Religion works as myths that are true and make your hair stand up when you read them.
Thanks! I never heard about "Atomic gardening" before and with that I learned one thing and got one idea:

- radiating plants have actually produced a number of useful mutations.

- idea: can this be the inspiration for why a number of superhero stories include a hero or villain or something getting irradiated and get fantastic properties?
We don't know. That's the point. Very strange that the science establishment is adamant that they do know, specifically they do know it was zoonotic, even if they also admit they have no scientific evidence for such statements. What is a scientist supposed do, absent scientific evidence? Seek for evidence.

OTOH, there is the furin cleavage site issue. Have your read the OA?!

> Since the genetic code of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic was first sequenced, scientists have puzzled over the “furin cleavage site.” This strange feature on the spike protein of the virus had never been seen in SARS-related betacoronaviruses, the class to which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the respiratory illness Covid-19, belongs.

> Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University who has espoused the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab, agreed. “The relevance of this is that SARS Cov-2, the pandemic virus, is the only virus in its entire genus of SARS-related coronaviruses that contains a fully functional cleavage site at the S1, S2 junction,” said Ebright, referring to the place where two subunits of the spike protein meet. “And here is a proposal from the beginning of 2018, proposing explicitly to engineer that sequence at that position in chimeric lab-generated coronaviruses.”

* None of the known coronaviruses closely related to covid have such a feature. There is a lot of FUD in this space, which amounts to saying: Horses and seals are mammals, seals have flippers, therefore that horse with flippers you just saw has occurred naturally. Those stallions might have been quite horny.

* The OA 2018 grant proposes to perform gain of function work and create a FCS in SARS viruses at WIH. This research proposal has not been publicly disclosed by scientists that supposedly are investigating covid origin. WTF?

* The OA 2018 grant proposal mentions a database of 180 coronaviruses that are not publicly disclosed to this day. Apparently WIH stopped publishing coronavirus sequences after 2015. WTF? https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/14160891976650014...

The closer relatives of covid without a FCS at the S1/S2 junction we find, the more damning for the WIH and their American friends. And perhaps we'll find the genetic ancestors of covid in the wild, and the WIH (proposed) work might have been a bizzarre coincidence. We don't know. But the stonewalling and the sneering at the public asking legitimate questions must stop.
"level of autonomy it’s achieved relative to other cars."

Well Theranos machines did exist and provide results, they were just wrong, so they werent vapour ware either. Its just in healthcare there is a clear benchmark they must be able to meet.

There isn't universal agreement for the benchmark for calling it FSD, and there is debate as it's safety. Personally I am not happy with any Self Driving that accidentally drives into a stationary solid object, like a wall or a trailer - that should be impossible.
Juhla Mokka is mediocre quality, cheap coffee.
> mostly bunk

Does this style of post ever work? You are dismissive of all these things but you lack a single reason/argument. Is there a chain of logic that leads you to this conclusion?

It's a bit fascinating to me. I imagine the purpose of a post is to share ideas, to give people a chance to think more like you and that takes a persuasive argument.
I mean that and his hn handle is his first and last name.
I would argue that they're all different forms of "maps" and have their uses, but they are not the territory.

If you start to confuse the map for the territory then yes they can be limiting in some ways, because you no longer see any features that are not included on the map. And the features that have been included seem more prominent.

All we can create as humans are maps for things. Different types of abstractions. And refine them over time as we gain better understanding. But when using these maps it's important to keep in mind that they're just one of many ways of describing the thing you're trying to understand.

Myers-Briggs for me was very enlightening, and started me on a journey of understanding how people can be different (led to greater empathy and awareness on my part). I don't walk around classifying people's MBTI type though.

Zodiac... not so much. That map is a bit old now!
> You cannot bike your 3 kids to schools and hospitals during rainy autumn days.

Where I live, people walk their small children to school. There's also a "footbus" which is basically parents taking turns walking the kids from their block to the school.

17 acres may be a bit small to have a school, but a moderately dense neighbourhood should be able to afford a school within 5-10m walking distance.
> If your training process is interruptible and can be resumed at any time, costs will drop dramatically for AWS and Google (think $50 to $200)

Noob question here: how does that work? Do you run the scripts in the hosting provider's downtime, with something like a nighttime rate? Or what magic is this?
Cannot take seriously anyone who cites Origins of Totalitarianism, inarguably
the most popular and overwrought political screed ever written.
> Theranos Edison device

Please. You can go online and buy a FSD beta car right now. Countless videos on YouTube of the product working or being improved upon release-to-release.
What possible advantage would there be in doing so? Biden would gain nothing but criticism, be accused of supporting a traitor and so on. Doing the right thing is rarely politically sensible.
Not necessarily, rather it means at least double the price. Obviously, since veing sustainable and fair is always more expensive.
Are there any movements towards creating a standard library for JavaScript (or at least server-side JS)?
Why? You could use GPL package in MIT licensed library.
Does anyone ever use speech recognition to dictate a legal document where a milkion dollars hangs in the balance? No, it would be dumb.

So why should that layer, after meticulasly checking this document, trust his life to another ML system, just like the one that just failed him?
As someone who is over one year into doing exactly this…no, you can’t. Airbnb’s are insanely expensive right now and their fees are higher than ever. Availability is poor and you are lucky to even find a decent place in an area you want to stay. Add in parking and internet requirements and it gets even more difficult.
From the site:

> I'm fairly familiar with CSS3 and all the new whizz bang CSS things that I could very well use to make this fancy looking, but I decided to go the simplest route. [...] Also it's basically mobile responsive out of the box.

But then I notice some column layout : https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/#about

How is that responsive? Well, "inpect" reveals flexbox, which is very much modern css.

Still minimalist though.
That's silly. We'd never release any product with ridiculous standards like "Test for 100 years".

Original horseless carriages didn't have any rules like that. We liked them anyway. That seems a more realistic model of adoption, than ivory tower perfect-safety pipe dreams.
A few are pushing things like that. Check out this project in Sweden: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2020/08/31/swedi...
I installed Firefox Mobile + uBlock origin on my Android phone a few days back (after reading this HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28631005) and it's amazing. Not a single ad or video in this page.