skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only social media I use is HN and IRC. The only chamber I need to yell into is right outside my door, full of snow with the roads covered. Any car using absolute positioning of self and road will drive in the wrong lane. Why? Because they humans aren't using the right lanes and what the humans are now flocking to as a lane is now the correct lane. And it's not like the sides of the roads remain absolute either. This is not some hour long transient situation. It's for 5 months at a time. Unless an autonomous car can follow the emergent pseudo-lanes (there's no real distinct visual markers either) and make the wrong decision like all the other humans it's going to hurt and kill people.

And that's why you only hear about autonomous car tests in arid warm regions. All the ones in cold climates so far have failed or used special roads with embedded sensors, or a car with many TB of pre-recorded ground penetrating radar scans mapped to road positions. And those absolute positioning based navigation systems would be deadly if mixed with emergent human lane behavior in winter.

I can understand why people who've never driven over a real winter can think autonomous cars are ready. But they'll have to achieve near human emulation of purely vision based driving to make the same errors humans do in winter. And that's a long, long way away.
Not really? I suppose what I meant by that was that, if you make a struct, it should represent a concept that makes sense outside of the context of passing it to one function in particular; you're signalling that this collection of data represents a concept in your program
Programming your phone from your phone
Working on cancer treatment discovery. Hoping to pivot into technologies for early detection and screening.
Seeds for the torrents can change and, although not recommended, in terms of bloating the Tor network, using Tor will also help. With the recent attack on exposing Tor users, it may not be a bad thing if everyone starts torrenting on the Tor network actually.

Everything, of course, can be blocked at some point, but the thing to remember is that there are other kinds of contracts that existed long before smart contracts - and these things are already leveraged in society.

The internet isn't going to disappear tomorrow, but I would agree there are longer term risks, so let's build today.

There's been a lot of talk about decentralization lately, and Cypherpunks write code. So I wrote code instead of a blog post.
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> because you don't have the lab or tools available.

I agree, that's trivial. What's not so trivial: Where does the "experiment" start and where do the "conditions" end?

In theory the scientific method is easy, in practice (i.e. state of the art research) you are studying highly complicated phenomena, that are, per definition, not well understood. Often you don't know the mechanism of action, let alone the factors that influence it. I don't blame you - if you haven't done scientific research, it is very difficult to appreciate.

So again, from the failure to replicate a result it does not follow that the result is wrong, or that "it's not science". That's a misunderstanding of the replication crisis.
The code is GPL, but the official Oracle binaries are not (since Oracle owns the copyright, they are free to release under multiple different licenses) and they use Oracle's predatory "free" licensing - you când download and run for free for 6 months, but you owe them money if you keep running those binaries after the moment the new version is released. There is no explicit enforcement mechanism - it's up to you to be careful, otherwise their lawyers will notice at some point and bill you for all the times you weren't.
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3G has been mainstream in the US since the mid 2000s. Granted it depends on when you purchase your car, but getting almost 20 years out of the technology is pretty good. Most cars will be scrap after that long. I'm not sure where you came up with 5 years.
It's almost as if now that SCO is fully defunct, they are trying really hard to take the crown of most litigious and absurd *nix related software company in the USA.
Have you ever "shopped around" for health insurance? Maybe ACA people do, but amongst 2 or 3 giant companies on the exchange..whose prices, features, benefits, etc. are basically the same.

Further, most bigger companies self-insure, and only use the insurance company to provide services. So F100 company partners with Blue Cross Blue Shield just for billing, administration of the plan, etc. What does BCBS care how much surgery costs? They are getting Admin fees the same whether its $5,00 or $10,000. Does a F100 employer really have the time and energy to question whats going on? They just look at the cost last year, raise the price for their employees by %XY and march forward.

Even further, health insurance is incredibly regulated, on a state level. If you have a good idea to "disrupt" the industry, its such a slog to get anything done. Your best bet is to partner with an existing insurance company and go from there.
Languages 10 years older than C have proper strings, in a certain sense there are some design decisions common to Go and C, regarding adoption of common features.
There's a reason I don't use instagram - but also a reason I am forever thankful to my pi-hole.
> and because lots of people at that income definitely do get diseases from poor living conditions and diet

Many of the poorest countries today have life expectancy as USA in the 1960's, and every country in the world today have much higher life expectancy than USA in 1900. That isn't perfect, but they aren't dying in droves.

I think most in the west really underestimate how far you can get on very little.

Edit: I think that western labour puts the poverty line way too high. They put it so high that you basically need a population to work full time to maintain it, or rely on other countries poorer population to work even harder and not get paid for it to maintain it. I very much prefer to have a slightly lower standard and work way less than what modern western labour says we should.

Of course it ought to be higher than hut and food, but I'm not sure why it can't be on the same level as modern China for example. Poor people in China get educated, live long etc.
The relative difference in pay between US and UK docs is 3x(in favor of US docs). In most cities across the US Drs live in the wealthiest neighborhoods, they don't need housing help. The main problem in the US is headcount, there just aren't enough Drs to go around, as such salaries are driven sky high.
After it's deleted, you can spin it back up again and it'll keep running. Think you can even reuse the same boot volume, but I set mine up again from scratch.
Not sure why they delete it in the first place though, maybe due to capacity issues?
> One of the people on my team wrote a very “contrib directory” version of that for internal testing

If that is open-source, could you please share a link to it?

I'm curious what advantages this "stack-graphs LSP wrapper" has over existing language-specific LSP servers for an editor/IDE, maybe lower memory usage or better performance?
The author prefers his amazing art to stay unused and gets mad at unauthorized distribution by a tiny media site in Spain. Also gets a kick of sueing people. I respect this.

But also, no need to be lile this.
It’s night and day. The debuggers in those two tools were very easy to use, very visual, but surprisingly powerful.

I cry a little on the inside when I see developers using Visual Studio and resorting to printf statements (or the equivalent) because they’ve never even tried to use the debugger, ever.
Log4J Zero-Day Attack Threatens Minecraft and Other Apps
The UK has recorded 448 new Omicron cases in the latest 24-hour period
Yet JOVIAL, NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, PL.8 among other Algol dialects managed it.
When did TV lose? In the UK the most popular show on a non-traditional channel is in tenth place behind BBC and ITV shows.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/30/squid-g...
They don't have to demonstrate YoY growth. They would like to but they certainly don't have to. This is especially true for profits derived from acts of god.
Thank you! I believe it's somewhat scalable, but one thing to note is that DHT itself is not as fast as using a tracker.
Borland was losing over a hundred million in revenue while Microsoft was offering seven figure signing bonuses. There's no way they could have paid more than what MS was, since MS was using their war chest to kill the company.
I can understand why the op was down voted, but just assuming that a civilization was "not smart" simply because we cannot find evidence feels dumb.

> The real bigots are the conspiracy nuts who think ancient civilizations we know of couldn't have achieved the many things we evidence of, and think it must have been aliens

You are not presenting any evidence that it was otherwise. I am not saying that this device was presented by aliens, but neither you are that it was not.

> So should we assume they had such things? We simply make the best estimates we can and adjust when we find wonderful surprises like this one.

We have evidence that they had it. How they had it is a separate question.

I assume the next "civilization" might not be able to figure out how/what out machines are doing and they would have a similar discussion.
Hi got into ray tracing back in the early 1990s as a teenager. The community back then was very small and we all had ridiculously horrible computers. But it was still a lot of fun and I remember doing cool things such as adding a fog command to the ray tracer, which taught me a lot about programming.

For some reason, it’s just really captivating to build a scene using declarative code, rather than doing so visually in an editor like Blender.
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This one is big. As a parent it is easier to turn on Cocomelon than actually spending time playing with your child. And when you actually turn off the TV and you decide to play with them, you cannot do this for one hour without checking your phone.
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Speaking of Steam and OTPs... enforced OTPs.

In order to sell crap I get out of CSGO crates, or even to give gifts to friends on Steam, you have to be enrolled in "Steam Guard". Which is their (of course proprietary) OTP - which displays a notification specifically to allow the code to be viewed on lockscreens 'cause that's a great idea. But then half the times it doesn't even display the notification until after I've unlocked my phone and opened the Steam app and opened the menu and gone to the Steam Guard page.

And then not only do I have to do that whole process every time their servers are down and the client logs me out because hurrdurr timeout means lost session right?, I also have to do it every time I want to log in to their website (say, because someone sent me a link to a game I want to buy).
You pay for the children your children go to school with, and for their parents. You might do it with tuition, you might do it with property tax.

Maryland has one school system per county. In Montgomery County the schools are very different between the more prosperous and less prosperous areas. Years ago there was an eye-opening chart of the percentage grade needed get an A in algebra at various high schools.
As someone who doesn't like working with hardware, I wish there was exactly this but for software. A curated list of fun, do-able, interesting projects with wide-ranging use cases.
This is correct - and it's sad at how far I had to scroll to see a comment like this.
Wow that's a big huge dollop of nihilism, of why even bother. It's very unclear what your slam even means, what you are trying, technically, to express as the problem. Which makes your rejection even harder to handle with faith & respect.

I also don't think it's accurate. Handshake is a cryptographically certified way of establishing identity . Since torrents are now mutable via handshake, it seems like webtorrents can be updated & moved as needed. Further, peer-exchange processes mean that having the initial seeds up probably isn't even a requirement. Even if one particular ip address or site gets cut down, the swarm can use other webtorrent trackers to re-spawn & carry-on.

Aside from your criticism being either inaccureate or misleading, I'd also say the use case doesn't need to, imo, be 100% perfect in every way to be worthwhile. I'm glad someone did seek better, & bothered. A decentralized, updateable, browser-based torrent is incredible leap for a web of data, for interconnection. Even if it's not 100% completely uncensorable, it's many leaps in the right direction, towards decentralization. Especially decentralization without coordination/consensus, which I think is great & vast improvement over the harsh & strict type of computing that *coins have dominated the field with. This work is far more interesting to me.
> where everyone keeps reinventing the wheel and complexities just keep growing

Cue XKCD "Standards" comic. People look at an existing framework and declare "this is total shit, I can build a better, easier to use version!" They then start building the better-easier and realize why the old version is so hard to use--because it's a difficult fucking problem begetting awful complexity + shitty code.

This repeats itself every 18-24 months, giving us the current clusterfuck of JavaScript libraries. Lather, rinse, repeat for the past 30 years (n.b. XWindows Athena -> Xt -> Motif/Lesstif -> ...<aeons pass>... -> Qt -> Electron)
Music on iOS. How old are iPhones and iPods before that? Why is it that I still can't import a library of CD's I own and play the "Dark Side of the Moon", "The Wall", "Brandenburg Concerto", "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or Mozart's "Requiem" from start to finish as one complete work?

To be fair, I haven't checked in a few years. Last I checked this was still impossible. Years ago I tried and it was an abysmal waste of time and effort.

I have an extensive collection of CD's and none of them are on my iOS devices because I can't listen to albums as albums, in order, as indivisible units.

I don't understand this. What do Apple employees listen to? One hit wonders?

This was worked just fine on Windows Media Player from day one, literally decades ago. If MS brought back Windows Phone and the media player behaved just as the desktop versions does, I would switch from iPhone in an instant.

This, BTW, is the reason I no longer buy iPads. A Windows-based tablet is a perfect travelling companion. I have unrestricted access to the file system, USB ports, HDMI and more. I can carry my digital books (which are 100% in PDF format) and my music and videos are easy to manage and can be played back in sensible ways. On top of that, they are great business machines for presentations, etc.
Google has never meaningfully "pushed" Go. From Google's perspective, Go is just a backend language that's a good fit for some internal Google applications. I don't think they care tremendously that other people use it, although they certainly don't mind. On the other hand, Google strategically wanted a robust frontend ecosystem (hence investing heavily in Dart and V8) because getting more applications off of PCs and onto the web meant more user data up to collect and more opportunity to serve ads.

In particular, I don't understand how Go is more Java-like than Dart.

Feature | Java | Dart | Go
-------------------+------+------+----
jit compilation | yes | yes | no
inheritance | yes | yes | no
classes | yes | yes | no
nominal subtyping | yes | yes | no
native binaries | no | no | yes
static artifact[0] | no | no | yes
static typing | yes | opt | no
value types | no | no | yes

What other features do Java and Go have in common that they don't also share with Dart?

[0]: For sanity's sake, we'll assume this means "are static artifacts common/default" and not "is it technically possible to produce a static artifact" because for some sufficiently broad definition of static artifact the answer can be yes for any language (e.g., Docker images).
Any idea why there aren't more people training to be anesthesiologists? A salary like that is a strong incentive for people to enter the professions. Or is this more of a training lag problem where it takes 12-14 years for a labor shortage signal like high salary to start being satisfied by new anesthesiologists?
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It's part of a bunch of laws and IRS regulations, but the biggie here is probably the good ol' USA PATRIOT ACT.

https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/usa-pa...
A reason to live
Otherwise I have to say I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the interface and the speed of the IMAP connection. Scailer is much more performant than Mailbird, which I currently use, and that in turn is much faster than Thunderbird and derivatives that I used before. So, great work on that.

I'm missing an option to define how many messages to download, and which IMAP folders to watch. The defaults seem to work for now, but I don't feel in control.
MS was trying to pivot away from their 90s platforms, and Borland was a potential destination for customers jumping ship from stuff like VB.

It was a different time. Even dinosaurs like IBM were still
competitive in some verticals.
I always thought that chargeback was the rule of Visa and MasterCard networks, so if you used that for the transaction, you are eligible for it. I wonder what's the extent of my confusion here.

It is also a proper legal procedure.
Please, you must not be pedantic in this way, it's clear that I mean there's no install wizard and OS-native interactions the user must go thru, they just provide a string URL and immediately begin application-style interactions after a brief load
> Most likely not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_ore, it's almost 50% iron in the worst case and can be up past 70% in the best case.

FWIW those are the ratios for the oxides themselves but the formations are not necessarily huge piles of pure oxides, if you go a bit lower to the "sources" section the lowest-concentrated formations viable for exploitation are

> Banded iron formations (BIFs) are sedimentary rocks containing more than 15% iron composed predominantly of thinly bedded iron minerals and silica (as quartz).

However that's only for post-industrial societies, at least if you have alternatives, as it requires churning through ridiculous amounts of materials.

When you don't have alternatives the ironsand article (which would be used in places with no good or accessible ore deposits e.g. japan, famously) quotes

> Sand used for mining typically had anywhere from 19% magnetite to as low as 2%.

though much like gold panning the ironsand would be sluice-separated to a concentration of 30-50% before it was further processed.

Most ironsands deposits are not considered financially exploitable to this day though, with the exception of NZ's where the iconic "black sand" beaches of north island are extremely rich in magnetite (up to 40%).
America has also changed its opinion about whether children should travel around town alone. It used to be that children could ride their bikes around town, knock on doors, and find kids to play with, and it would be okay as long as you were back home by dinner.

Parents today are worried about their kids being hit by cars, going lost, getting abducted by strangers, or simply having something happen to them that gets CPS involved. If something happens to my kid, then I'm the bad parent. Anecdotally, I saw this happen in my town when a 7-year-old girl was taken in her own front yard. Parents chimed in online to say, "The mother should go to jail" and "I always know where my kids are at all times."
I do think that the best critique of "web3" is that it's shifting the trust into a different and less well understood space. There are advantages and disadvantages to using computers instead of analog processes to resolve conflicts, but biology is kind of unavoidably analog. In the long term I'm bull(ish) on blockchains - I think they have some uses, but most of the excitement I'm seeing now feels like it's scammy or mistaken.

I'm very skeptical about any claims about the correctness or the health of the blockchain ecosystem because, if you're interested in using flaws to take money, it's obviously much easier to scam people than to go after the fundamentals. Imagine you're a Superhacker who Only Cares About Money and you have found a flaw in crypto. You could make some money breaking the whole system, but you can probably make a lot more money taking crypto from poorly setup exchanges or individuals and maintaining the value of the things you took.

We are well aware of the problems of using legal and social systems to adjudicate disagreements. People feel excited because we have found math that helps us adjudicate disagreements in a new way and I also think it's exciting - but it all feels too early.
How does that not break your hand?
Why is it better? Non-profits don't have the efficiency incentive that for-profits do, as far as I understand it. I've read a few things that indicate non-profit hospitals are full of fiscal bloat, because there's no incentive to act otherwise. On mobile now, but can search for a few sources.