skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be pedantic but do you have a source? I actually want to know. It seems like such laws would have a reasonable exemption for unexpected objects in roadways. For example, I have a friend who successfully sued the LA City government after running into a downed light pole on a city street that was not visible due to low lighting.
source ~/.bash_history
Sure, it's fine.

But I think there's a bigger point here.

I could change Windows 95. Dark theme, light theme, lots more. See also Linux for even more possibilities.

That's the great big ball of stupid that all of UX presently misses, and fundamentally why I don't much respect it. ALWAYS at least allow the damn user to decide if they want to change something.
I believe there was an attempt to make car to car communication system mandatory in US so that every single car on the road can talk to each other but I admit, I do not know how all of this worked and what happened in the end or if this is still ongoing.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

This is a marketing page, directly from Tesla in 2016. It is clearly misleading and/or lying in several ways, and Tesla has yet to update their direct marketing on their direct website.

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Tweets directly sent by the CEO: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280?lang=...

Are also marketing. And this was a lie of course, "coast to coast FSD" never happened, not in 2017, and probably never. It doesn't seem like the technology is capable of seeing stopped cars in front of it (let alone of a coast-to-coast drive without disengagements).
From Software Engineer to Product Engineer
/r/Cardano

My dumb understanding is that it seems like a better version of Etherium. But it still has the flaws Etherium has like scaling gas fees, plus it isn't as developed.
Pressure treated wood is kinda like that (it uses something other than tar).

[1]: https://www.homedepot.com/c/ab/types-of-pressure-treated-woo...
But you can't end up simultaneously with less and more actinides at the same time. That alone is mathematical impossibility.
The important point you make is that he was 50s and in good health. That should alarm everyone. People who are 50s and in good health should NOT be dying on vents. Why anyone over 40 would refuse vaccination is a pure tragedy and nothing but. It breaks my heart to hear these stories.
> caused by a build-up of bad debt

Why does it build up? A generalized autoregressive model explains that just as well as an oscillator does. The key difference is how predictable the periods are. The more waves you're composing to force the oscillator model to fit, the less likely it's appropriate.
Interesting. I just check for non-ascii on-demand with a tiny macro around occur (because I can never quite remember the regexp syntax for named character classes):

(defun find-non-ascii ()
"Find and show all of the non-ascii characters."
(interactive)
(occur "[[:nonascii:]]"))
I was with him up until “blockchain”.
The only thing that comes to mind is efficiency being the not-rose-colored version of progress. Efficiency of what though? Largely capitalism. Neither efficiency nor capitalism are goals, but rather they are the framework that the 'developed' western world operate within.

So basically there were some rules made up for the game we'll be playing during our lives. Those rules get indoctrinated within us, then we try to fulfill our inner desires and imagined goals using those rules, following them, breaking them, sometimes reinterpreting them, etc.

On the plus side, if we look back several hundred years we like what we have today better, so hopefully in another few hundred years things will be even better.
You need a good physical environment, with control of distractions, a monitor large enough to display the things you're working on in enough detail, a few pads of paper for sketching things out, and a computer fast enough to compile in less than a second.

Back in 1986 this was a 10 Mhz 286 with 4 mb of RAM and 30 Mb of hard drive, running MS-DOS, and a 17" Trinitron Monitor, with a lot of floppy disks, an Epson Dot Matrix Printer, a desk, telephone, and office with a door. Your IDE of choice was probably Turbo Pascal.

Now it can be a laptop and headphones on a beach, or you can go more traditional. As long as your compiler still gives you sub-second feedback, you should be good.
I'm not very worried about the safety aspect, as the safety features are probably among the most explicit parts of the design. These are carefully designed, modeled and simulated and are also the focus of the regulators. Moreover, there hardly has been a lot of room for commercial nuclear designers to the software development-like approach of trying, failing and trying again. Maybe the early experimental and weapon related reactor designers worked like that at some point? These days safety is the first priority for designers and operators alike. One example illustrating the thinking is the EPR core catcher: while the active safety features in EPR mean it's possibly the safest reactor type ever built, there are provisions to minimize enviromental release of radioactive materials in the case of catastrophic failure.
what an insulting hit piece. Journalistic ethics? Based on the context here, that just means "cooperates with the government to hide information"

One of the biggest reasons America pulled out of the vietnam war was americans losing their taste for blood when seeing the violence up close thanks to the hard working journalists of the era. For that reason, the government now restricts what journalists can report.

Assange isn't a perfect person but he was doing real journalism nonetheless. Keeping governments accountable
I've never heard of snowflake relays. What are they?
Over 7k SOL ($1.2M) got lost on Solana NFT mint due to a hack
Genius builds computer inside Minecraft that can run its own games
As the saying goes, "the marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." Bussard ramjets were previously thought not to be feasible at all.[0] Feasible, but ridiculous is a big step up from not feasible.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet#Feasibility
Universal Paperclips is a fantastic answer to your concerns, as others have mentioned. It has an endpoint that takes 1-3 days to reach, and hardly makes for any idling, there are always significant upgrades to buy at intervals that are usually not more than a minute.
far from the most pressing area to economize

$0.50/day seems like a small thing until you're strapped for cash but all of a sudden have to pay $500 all at once to replace your Google mesh network hardware.

That aside, as much as this particular example frustrates me, it's not my primary concern: It's the overall trend of forced obsolescence taking yet another step forward and increasing issue of e-waste.

Mandatory recycling is also problematic. It could mean that products that might have ample community support (e.g., via OpenWRT) would still be illegal, and in general would take away a user's right to support & maintain their purchases. It is also something that would be ripe for regulatory capture.

Separate from those issues is the consumer's ability to make an informed choice: A product with a potential expiration date should be required to market it as such. Google does this with Pixel phones; hopefully after this they will begin doing it with their other products as well, and I think that in general it should be required: MS does this with Windows, plenty of other vendors do it, there's no reason it can't be a universal requirement as part of consumer protection laws.
Yeah, I think this is really fascinating and challenging aspect of AI and self-driving. We have a model of the world in our brain and we're constantly evaluating what ought to be there or not and checking consistency between all the sensory information we receive but don't think AI is quite there yet.
>But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that.

Jim Crow laws were mostly enacted during the late 1800s, after the end of Reconstruction.

There is very little that I can point to during the 1900s to 1920s as evidence of a substantial pro-civil rights for blacks push in the US. Teddy Roosevelt inviting Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House is pretty insignificant compared to, say, the Wilson (probably the most racist president in US history) administration's end of making federal jobs in DC available to blacks, or there being no blacks in Congress between 1901 and 1929.

No, the major reason for those Confederate monuments being built in the 1900s-1920s is because of the increasing number of deaths of Confederate veterans from old age. (Similarly, the US's national WW2 memorial wasn't dedicated until 2004.)
Software development doesn't have one set of needs. Many development workflows don't require much hardware at all. You could use a raspberry pi and be fine. Some require absurd single core performance. Others absurd multi-core performance. Some demand lots of RAM, others don't. Some are very GPU-intense, others just need a display output.

It all depends on what you are doing.
> It costs the Internet Archive $2/GB to host content in perpetuity.

Do you have source/more info than that?

Lets say the internet archive is 100 PB [1], that's 100,000,000 GB [2], and at that rate it comes out to $200 million [3] for the whole thing forever. That's a lot of money, but also a lot less than I was expecting for something like that.

[1] https://www.protocol.com/internet-archive-preserving-future: "The web archive alone is about 45 petabytes — 4,500 terabytes — and the Internet Archive itself is about double that size (the group has other collections, like a huge database of educational films, music and even long-gone software programs)."

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=100+petabytes+to+gb: "100 petabyte = 1e+8 gigabytes"

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=1e%2B8+*+%242: "1e+8 * (US$ 2) = 200 million US$"
Issue appears fixed.
How does the black market price compare to the 'nation state' price?
What is the distinction between the "gig economy" and piecemeal hourly work? I mean, it seems to me the only real difference is that they're billed to the minute which doesn't seem like a difference of kind to me.

But then taxis that bill to the minute are not new either, the only difference is how jobs are assigned, the work and compensation is identical .
I think libraries like Lwt will be the ones to offer the level of abstraction which you're describing. I too would like to see the simplicity of goroutines make it into OCaml 5 ASAP.
"An error occurred while processing your request."
Hacker news proves to be a prime DDOS service with competitive pricing once more.
Well I can give me my case then, I was raised in Normandy by a familly of small shop owners, went to the local college paid by taxes and now work in an investment bank in Hong Kong.

I feel the problem is not that college is useless even if massively used, but maybe the american pricing of education is not aligned with expected returns, as you pointed out. It's far from mandatory in the countries I know to take a big loan for studies. Usually it's even more everyone else struggling to pay taxes for you to go.
There's a big difference between what you've just described, and a system of unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats making decisions for billions of people. Which is exactly what the loudest climate change activists are pushing.
I kind of doubt it, the browser makes a request to blockchain.info to check the balances. If they wanted to do what you are saying they'd make that request somewhere one the backend.
Suggest that to them. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Those feature request intakes occur because otherwise infra teams become bombarded with multiple requests per day. In isolation they're not much work, but the cumulative requests could take years and truly need prioritization.

Being a recently acquisition, I recommend scheduling time with their manager to talk directly about your situation and trying to get on as part of their primary priorities. If that doesn't work, then your manager should be doing a better job getting other teams to be ready to support you.
The author is not arguing that online life is better for kids/people than offline life. She's arguing that it's unhelpful to frame the problems of modern life as a result of a departure from an Edenic "offline" or "wilderness" -- that just as white explorers in North America were not really entering an uninhabited wilderness, people who grew up with live TV and landlone phones were not really disconnected -- that the solution is not to temporarily "return" to an unspoiled wilderness that never really existed, but to bring ordinary life into alignment with the natural world -- not to go on an occasional digital detox that many of us can't afford, but to build an online life that doesn't hurt our self-esteem, attention spans, etc. She's tracing the history of the concepts of "wilderness" and "offline" so that she can deconstruct them as categories.

In general, very few important disagreements are actually about facts. More often, they're about the framing of the issue itself. Is spending on social services "Big Government," or is it a "social safety net"? Are trans women as unfortunate women trapped in male bodies or weird men who enjoy pretending to be women? Is restricting immigration more like redlining a neighborhood or asking an unwanted guest to leave your home? These questions are about attitudes and interpretations, not facts. If you try to change someone's mind on such questions by presenting then with data, you're likely to fail. People who work with words and narratives intuitively understand this; people who work with data and numbers do not.
Can’t wait until we have a global transparent finance system that can easily catch fraud through use of statistical analysis etc.
Yes, that was my original point. But my decision on whether to use a font with ligatures, or whether to allow unicode in program text, is still motivated by the same thing, so I’m not sure I’d say they were completely orthogonal concerns.
What happens if I lose my private keys?
I think the issue at this point is that they've promised - i.e. taken money for - "full self driving" features that are supposed to be delivered using the car's hardware as-is. So they have to either work with the cameras they have, or retrofit a bunch of cars with LIDAR, or just fail I guess.
First of all I love Marginalia, thanks for finishing _that_ project. :)

Project scope seems to be key. I often get into things with 'lofty' goals but I should be more realistic about what I want to get from them. That requires a bit of thinking and self-reflection which, I think, I might be skipping.

Acknowledging that not everything is glamorous is also another big part of it. When you just start something it's all new and shiny, but the bulk of the work is the unglamorous oiling of the gears and small improvements. I should internalize this fact.

> It is absolutely fine to be a generalist.

Thank you for stating that. It's rare (at least in my circles) to see generalists in startups so it's refreshing to see this.
7^2 is 49, 4^2 is 16, all the other factors cancel. Yes, of course the right way to say it is "reduces the energy by 67%," but it's not that hard to see what was meant.
I don't know what your needs are, so I can't help you finding a classification system.
Good thing this isn’t at all Polio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong ?
That sounds like a great idea, cdnsteve. Slik can very easily be integrated with any backend, and we have explored more than 5 different storage backends for the SlikSafe app. Though the current storage backends work pretty well, I'd be happy to connect with the Chia project team.

Do you know anyone in their team? and if so, could you connect me with them? Thank you!
Minimum salary: $10,000 per year.

Maximum salary: $1,000,000 per year.

Legal compliance achieved, while still effectively maintaining confidentiality of salary info.
I think there's inhumanity of a kind on both sides of this question. "Everything you've done will be forgotten, and no one will remember your name" is the sort of thing the bad guys say in movies. But that's what happens to most of us in the end. I think it's natural not to want that.
How is the blockchain structured? Is it shrinkable?

In theory, each user would only have a directory of paths and hashes, and everything else would be accessible via ipfs, correct?

What kind of encryption are you running? First of all, if there's a simple password like recovery mechanism, it's never post-quantum. Second, if you are refering to the _hashing_ mechanism (merkle trees) in ipfs; I would still have my doubts about the claims.

So what kind of Lattice based encryption mechanisms are you running? How do you preserve hash maps to user filesystems, if the data itself is encrypted? If the data itself is encrypted (which it should be), then - by concept - your whole blockchain doesn't make sense because you can literally reuse zero bytes in the whole system.

Either that or you would have to implement a key chain where other users can see my private pics, and have a system that allows multiple keys to access the same data blocks.

So, from your statements in the "whitepaper" I'd argue that this is a paradoxon, and probably bullshit. Either it's not encrypted at all (more likely) or you don't use a blockchain. If you do both, you have no idea what a blockchain's advantages are, which would make me even less likely to trust your product or vision.
You are right. This is observed phenomen not a law of physics. But bond investors are considered smart money investors (smarter then equity investors) so them voting with their money counts...
I think it also got wind because it was just so much easier to compile stuff with gcc than it was to use the vendor compilers, with all of their incompatible flags and extensions. This was in the days before package managers, when everybody compiled open source stuff themselves, a lot of things didn't use autoconf, etc.

I remember compiling almost all open source stuff (emacs, tex, postscript, file utils, etc) with GCC, and reserving the vendor compiler for situations where performance actually matters (math / linear algebra packages, professors' code).

EDIT: I remember a few years where people tended to assume all the world ran SunOS 4.1, just like people assume all the world runs some flavor of debian/ubuntu now.
This report has been written by old-school economist. I would suggest not pay attention much.
Debating the bona fides of someone writing in VDARE (and, apparently, Taki's Mag, too!) is a little like debating the bona fides of someone who gives speeches before a White Citizen's Council. Wait, no, it's exactly like that. There's a level of edgelordery past which you forfeit the presumption of good faith.

I don't doubt your bona fides at all, but this person's good name is a bad hill to die on.

I think we should decline to enter into debates framed by racists, and, weirdly, maybe even more avoidant of debates framed by ironic edgelord racists who may well just be trying to get people to have the dumbest possible debates so they can point and laugh. The rule of goats is dispositive here.
In many ways it’s more difficult. With drug addiction you have the ability to quit cold turkey and avoid the stimulus, with food addiction you still are forced to partake to live. There are posisble things like completely cutting sugar, or switching to an incredibly regimented diet that can act similarly but…in the end food is a massive part of culture in a way even alcohol is not. I’m sure food issues are some of the hardest to deal with.
Y Combinator Changed the World
Thanks-- That's promising then. An easy tool to root & non-techie friendly GUI would be a great thing here. Heck, they seem like a nice piece of hardware on their spec's, I'd pickup a few on the cheap.
Bitcoin solves this!
Foxconn's India Apple plant shut this week after protests for food poisoning
Assuming it can be done at all, it's just going to be like more Moore's law. The algorithms that work fastest have shifted because CPUs got faster faster than RAM and I/O. This will be an even faster CPU.
The US, but most other countries are similar.
I live in command line most of the time, but Sublime Text is always my default editor to open any text files in a GUI file manager on any operating system.

When it notified me about the version 4 license change, I was ready to make the purchase. However, it has been a while since then and, besides the "LICENSE UPGRADE REQUIRED" text on the top right corner, I still can't notice any restriction. The current installation still has my license purchased for v2 applied. I just upgraded to build 4126 today and it worked fine. Am I misunderstanding the licensing terms or is this a bug?
I think you're completely misunderstanding my comment. I was saying that the fact that the model missed the truck can be described as an edge case. It's an edge case in the sense that it could end up being a strange and rare outcome that results from an unfortunate compounding of error at the intersection of a few parameter in the model. Deep learning models (which are undoubtedly involved) are problematic in this way. Of course I agree that this sort of driving condition is not an edge case and should be in the training set. But that doesn't mean that anything like it will always be correctly categorized by the model. We've seen that it's possible to trick some computer vision models with well-placed, single pixels. If anything, I'm saying that we shouldn't be entrusting our roads to deep learning models over a certain level of complexity.
Yeah, I was seeing some of the tweets claiming that conferences had been cancelled over it and I can't help but think "good, maybe they'll learn to be more paranoid about critical projects". Though I assume it's 99% hyperbolic.

To have this be a business blocker, they clearly not only don't have any other standard tools available to prevent this display issue, but they also upgraded their OS, can't roll back to an earlier backup (probably don't have backups), and did all this on the machine used for the presentations, without any alternatives.

That's a shocking lack of care and they deserve to receive flack for it. You test that kind of thing well before the event, and then you do not touch anything. Least of all upgrading the OS. I can't help but assume that these people are just using their personal laptops and hoping for the best on the day of an event. If they are, a small orange dot is the least of their concerns, and serves as a nice canary to their employer.
> Did that system arise from slavery as well? Of course it didn't, and any Canadian suggesting so would be laughed at.

Can you explain why? I probably have a childlike understanding of the histories of Parliament and slavery in Canada.
> it is impossible to write code spelling out what actions to take in all contingencies

It sounds like two economists are struggling with the concept of software and systems engineering.
Interactive maps of Europe in the 19th century
Committing to a daily/weekly absolute minimum looks really helpful. Back in June I committed to writing a blog post a week and somehow, I managed to stick with it even though sometimes the posts ended up being written in a rush two hours before publication.

I should be taking advantage of this system more. Thank you.