skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree completely, though, I also don't feel like this sort of (awesome) thing is what anybody is talking about when they discuss cultural appropriation!

Cross-pollination like this is, I dare say, universally loved and recognized as vital.

Generally when people speak of "cultural appropriation" it's a situation where you have a majority and/or oppressing group capitalizing on the culture of a minority and/or oppressed group.

Think of the difference between two prison inmates building on each others' ideas is collaboration, and a prison guard stealing their music.
That first link has some weird repetitive text about the litter box. Odd.
> very dependent on Google being nice with Chrome

Replace Apple/Safari+Google/Chrome with Google/Gmail+Microsoft/Outlook and you currently describe e-mail. That situation is still preferable to the tons of messaging walled gardens. And the web is getting new feature albeit slowly and unevenly in a way that mail is not.
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Some products take much longer to develop. A drug or medical device can easily take 10 years from concept/ip filing to hit market.

Other products have slow uptake. If you make a novel product with growing users, Google shouldn't be able to clone it at 3 years and push it to a billion of their users.
Do they? I've ridden plenty of ubers in the past year and haven't noticed any such disinfecting.
I’d love to have a chrome person comment on the actual stats of web push usage because no non-developer I’ve interacted with has ever intentionally accepted push spam.

I think all developers think that their site is somehow unique in the value of their notifications, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Google will make free G Suite accounts pay for its office apps starting in July
Any foil will do, just as the JWST's sunshield is effective against all the wavelengths coming off the sun. Gold or silver is best, but aluminum foil from the grocery store is extremely reflective across all wavelengths we would call laser. Just giving the metal rocket a good polish would make a significant difference.
It refers to deliberate ambiguity. The Google statement is clearly different from the statement falsely attributed to them. And its by the addition of ambiguity (equivocating) that this false attribution is being defended.
If you look into folk music traditions, one recurring theme you'll find is it's generally not clear who wrote a tune or lyrics, and multiple songs often use the same tune. That's the natural state of music, and the current system of so-called intellectual property is an aberration.

We don't know who wrote "Rolling Down to Old Maui" or "Drunken Sailor," other than that they were popular in the 19th century. They both share tunes with other songs that predate them, just like how there are multiple songs that use the same tune as "The Wearing of the Green." Countless people have performed and rearranged them, and the world only benefits from it.

Everything in art is inherently memetic, building upon the work of others and evolving.
Hey, do you mind pointing me to some learning material regarding firmware? I have a totally unrelated background (I'm a chemist) although I picked up some coding during my PhD (the usual "science stack": Python/shell scripts). After that I learnt C and fell in love with its simplicity and power and firmware/drivers always seemed like magic to me so I'd like to understand them a little bit better.

Thanks and have a great day!
> Tesla also has an option to override the speed limit, you want to remove that too?

Yes. The Alternative is to encode “break the law” in software and that makes for a very bad option. Stick to the law, computer.
And the goal of PEG's empolyees is to get bonuses by hitting the metrics set for them.

Metrics are the only goal that means there. It's all about making the numbers look pretty.
Native American tribes reach $590M settlement over opioids
Also… just like in 1875… time to try again again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention

> The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre,[1] is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela).
This is awesome. And if we don't like what the public company does in 6 months, someone can fork the codebase, call it monikadb, rinse, and repeat in a few years!
> People roll stop signs all the time

Those people are called bad drivers.
FlexAsio – A flexible universal ASIO driver
There's a smaller YouTube channel I've been following - 'Traxploitation', that did a great video offering some good insights into the history behind the riddim, and it's inspiration from a certain pop star, worth checking out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Hko8LRdyo
Sure. But the actor gains something valuable from this, so it would be a very convenient bug.
They are wholly owned by GM are they not? Starting this way doesn’t preclude them taking Tesla’s vision only approach in the future. Even Tesla initially had a radar vision combination approach before moving to pure vision. The real question with whatever technique being used is can they drive the hardware cost low enough that it can be widely deployed.
Labor is the most expensive part of a taxi.
That would seem to indicate that 54% of "software developers" are white.
The safe dose of MSG is significantly higher than the safe dose of table salt so I wouldn't worry about eating too much.
I just grew tired of listening. Nothing specific. I was at a time in my life where I needed less distractions & it was easy to cut him out.

I did find him kind of repetitive at that point. He always made the same arguments, same stories, etc. Not much growth on his part.
I've switched to Apple Maps and it's been an improvement. Much better UI on CarPlay (subjective, but I find it to be easier to quickly read/decipher while driving). Still missing the "Yelp" part of Google Maps, there's not as much of a community there.
No, most users are not aware of how much data they give up about themselves in order to get the whole functionality of the app.
The mass of the solar system is moving in the plane of the galaxy in a rotational direction. If our solar system was accreted by a black hole the solar system would add to black hole's dragged frame rotational energy in the galactic plane.

What a few puffs of dust that have not reached an energy minimum yet do isn't important.
My problem with responding to recruiters - especially FAANG - is that once you start a conversation it's hard to stop. I find it very hard to leave if I'm in the middle of a big project.
Care to elaborate on "couchdb has fallen out of favour"? Currently evaluating it for the very case you describe
It's gotten better but I wouldn't say it isn't bad. A big part of the problem is not having an easy way to access it.

Similarly, -ProfileManager has existed for ages and that experience is also bad.

If I have to go to the lengths of about:profiles or using the -ProfileManager or -P command-line switches, why not just sandbox the entire thing?

It definitely needs a useability upgrade.
Maybe stupid question, but when would someone choose this or rqlite over something like Postgres?
A long time ago, I wrote something similar (
https://github.com/htcat/htcat) to assist with Heroku's efforts to speed up moving the tar formatted application releases around. It's pretty old, it doesn't integrate tar archival itself, it probably can stand improvement. Or given its small size, even a rewrite.

My favorite hack in there (that also made it work with pre-signed S3 urls) was not using the HEAD method as is customary to determine object sizes, but instead doing a regular "GET" that, for small files, would execute on its own...but for larger would simply be abruptly closed by htcat once it reached the bytes that had since been fetched in parallel by a range-based request sent immediately afterwards. The goal was to have htcat not offer a penalty on small files so it could be used on blended workloads without thinking.

It also found a bug in S3's range implementation. We had a problem with some object or other, I wrote in about it, and was told that upon investigation a bug had been fixed. No more problem.

Some kind soul packaged it for Debian, so it's easy to get if you need it.
Guess Donald himself was one of the “unknown unknowns”
OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/ - open source, offline maps. Really great for outdoor sports, and has profiles for running, biking, skiing, etc, way better than Google Maps for that. Driving routes often give the same route as Google Maps for me. Some things are better on Google Maps though, such as live traffic and address lookup, so it depends what you want to use it for.
The VM cannot have full TCP/IP stack, so any data research tasks are likely to need a special code paths and support for downloads. No SQL databases, etc.
I love userscripts! Decentralized extensions, with all of the trust concerns that it brings.

I have a bunch of scripts here that I use: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/userscripts
Not in the current implementation, but absolutely possible with WebRTC. We have done something equivalent some time ago: https://medium.com/p/29fbbc62c5ca
Whoops, forgot about the DDR PHY one. I was just thinking about the optional blob to get HDMI working. My bad!
So, this is a reimplementation of the Linux ABI and no Linux kernel source is involved, right?
C2rust: Transpile C to Rust
> The actual riddim sounds completely uninteresting to my American ears

ok, let me try to make it more interesting.

you seem to think riddim is something from the past. you may remember the music from "run the world" by Beyonce. that riddim is called "pon de floor" riddim. it was created by diplo. (warning nsfw video).

riddim is essentially coding patterns for music. since each riddim has a name it creates a DSL that lets DJs and MCs go meta with the music and focus on making the most catchy sound.

another interesting aspect is it's free from intellectual property. it makes for a good example of the impact of free culture on creativity.
Absolutely loving FF containers & their VPN.
Mozilla VPN integration was the reason why I gave their vpn service a try, and so far it’s been an absolute blast. I completely forget that I got an VPN running in the background, that‘s how fast it is.
I made containers for all of the big tech companies. With the VPN settings per container, Google now thinks I moved to Swizerland lol.
Great, easy to understand example of a statement of 'fact' without context.
The question is do the economics of self-driving cars work when you have to add and integrate all these additional equipment. Correct me, if I am wrong but aren't LIDAR cars supposed to cost you $200K+ ?

Tesla is imitating humans in a way that removing LIDAR and relying on the compute to make up for them and build more accurate picture.

Also, isn't Cruise owned by GM - who are the VCs here?
Cruise is interesting insofar as they are not simply looking to sell their technology, but they also want to monetize it as a service. Not only will they not need a driver, they will also be able to buy the hardware (the car) at cost. If it's successful, their margins will be much higher than Uber and Lyft by a long shot.
> ...no weird routes to tack on extra fees.

At first. They will optimize that later.
This isn't a great article IMO (I say as someone who is a big fan of qualitative user research, mixed methods, etc).

Per the first example, many types of attitudinal data can be quantified and conflating attitudinal data with qualitative data is itself a fallacy. It's possible that there were quantitative attitudinal signals that could have been captured or created as inputs to a more accurate model.

Per the second example, this is more a question of data validity than the metric itself. If the metric could be validated through better design and gamification prevented then it would likely still be a helpful indicator. Granted this is a very hard problem.
Nice to see some heads on HN! Great list, and RIP The Spaceape.

You can find proper sound system culture in the states, though not much is happening since COVID. Tsunami Bass has an enormous PA and Reconstrvct hopefully will be back one day. Analog in Brooklyn did have a whopping home built system but it was sold off and the club is under new management these days.

Here's a glimpse into what this sort of stuff is like at a show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8037wYWZkU. That's the Dub Livity system.

The DJ cuts (low pass) out the bass line, teasing the crowd, until the 2:05 mark, as the MC toasts. The bass shakes everything – you can feel it in your bones. It's visceral. You can see why it was, and is, and continues to be a spiritual thing for many people.
The human driver is the one that told the car to disobey the stop sign[0]. Should every cruise control on every car with speed limit detection forbid the cruise/adaptive cruise to go above the speed limit?

0: the chill setting doesn't roll stop signs https://twitter.com/cooperlund/status/1488549356873695232?s=...
And yet there is no evidence that self-driving systems are any safer than human drivers, or that they'll ever even be as safe as human drivers, let alone safer than them.
We all do, including you.

It feels like you want to make a point and I feel like I know what it is, but I could be wrong.
Does not work on Android Auto, sadly.

And they did a rewrite a short while back and it's not as good. I used to love it, but not so much anymore.

Am hoping for Android Auto support to come to Organic Maps.
So how about OsmAnd[0] ?

Supports fully offline mobile navigation.

[0] https://osmand.net/
Deepnote (Y19) raises $20M for its collaborative data science notebooks
Multisig wallet or common treasury – is there something outside crypto?
I'd like to create a common treasury for me and some friends. We committed together to a project and whoever misses the weekly call is fined from the deposit they put in the treasury. At the end of the committed period all get back their funds - fines.

Do you know of some tools?
Alpha-Omega Project Aims to Secure Open Source Ecosystem
That's not how sanctions, or realpolitik/geopolitics work, yet of course you are right. Western politics is reduced to ~2 year cycles. At best there are overarching themes that continue for a decade, then the next crisis somehow erases everything, and some new thing captures the imagination, that we of course fail to carry on to fruition.

Despite cheap money (pension funds are chock full of cash due to aging retiring population and they buy government bonds) and slack in the economy (youth unemployment) every "developed" country is full of idiots (ahem, pensioners and soon to be pensioners) clutching pearls about how spending will ruin everything. Sure, they want to play it safe, but this has an enormous cost on the current and future generations.
why would the JVM be involved?

Literally the expectation was you'd be a web app - html + js.

Everyone said that wasn't acceptable so they added native apps, and now everyone says native apps are terrible and everything should be web apps. It seems like apple can't win.
Omicron hit Southern California much harder than the Bay Area. Here’s why
At the current power level, this laser is mainly useful against drones.

There is a limit to how much laser power you can shoot through the air. When the threshold for breakdown is exceeded, a high density plasma is produced which is opaque to visible and infrared wavelengths and thus absorbs the laser radiation.

The moon does not have this laser power limit, but moving Tel Aviv to the moon would quite expensive and you would lose the mediterranean climate.
Have their been any large projects that used this as a starting point for a port? I would be curious how it works out in practice.
> It’s not serious at all imho. People roll stop signs all the time, it’s part of driving culture

This is a terrible line of reasoning.

If Tesla ever releases their vaporware humanoid bot would you expect them to program it to rape women in cultures where women rape is part of the culture?
Great comment and thank you. It has only popped up sparingly in my industry thankfully.

What you're saying makes sense to me in that you should never fall into the "this is how I've always done it" trap, but putting a complex beauracratic process around that is just going to create a whole new problem.
Sounds like a ripe for abuse on a competitor’s site. How does Edge identity the reporting users?
They are betting that hardware combination is the fastest to market, given the constraints of today software.

When the ml stack is capable of leveraging purely camera sensors, Cruise and others like them, own the fleet and can swap out the hardware. Tesla does not "own" the fleet per se. So perhaps its different bets on which cars will still be on the road when the ML threshold is crossed.
As it stands, this is the report that the article uses as it's primary source:

https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Ped%20Spotl...

To start off with, 75% of pedestrian fatalities occur in the dark. If we can increase pedestrian visibility in the dark by doing something like saying "Don't wear dark clothes in the dark" that seems to me like something that may go farther in reducing pedestrian fatality than any car sensor.

Also, page 20 talked about how driving while intoxicated is a factor in half of all the deaths. A car sensor isn't going to help with that (and a breathalyzer is a massive invasion of privacy and a huge government overreach for people who don't have a history of this), and there are already all sorts of regulations that say "Don't drive after drinking" not to mention all sorts of public awareness campaigns. What car sensor is going to solve for that? There isn't one, there's just better enforcement of existing rules about driving drunk, which I can tell you already needs a lot of work.

In addition, pages 22-23 talk about a massive increase in light truck sales (page 23) but there is no corresponding fatality increase shown on page 22 and no fatality decrease for cars despite a massive decrease in sales. So I don't see how there can be a claim (not saying that you made the claim) that large vehicle traffic is causing more death.
This is awesome. Really. Props to all the Leaning Tech team (creators of Cheerp, an alternative to Emscripten)!

I believe it will be possible to achieve similar state in the future just using Native Wasm/WASI (so no transpilation from x86 -> Wasm will be needed), but we are far from it given how slow the WASI standards move.

The shell is impressive: https://webvm.io/ (only downloads ~5Mb of resources for a full Debian distro)
MAFFI's "Bad memory" riddim seems to be a variation on the sleng teng, for example here with Peter King's vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZo-EPEOIo
18+ is reasonable since it's still a dangerous experiment.

I actually would love an automated version of this that goes at 200 or 300 miles an hour, the ultimate thrill ride. Have it run on something like the Autobahn. While it's impossible for a human being to drive at that speed, computers definitely could .

It would be like sky diving but on land
I like Organic Maps, just hoping for Android auto support.
Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results
Click-bait title. Tesla was forced to remove the rolling-stop option when the driver is using the beta version of FSD in the "Assertive" mode. No-one has reported any injuries or problems with this feature. Seems to me having this option is good to have. This behavior is expected in many locations, saves time and energy, and is often safer than coming to a full stop. Cops should feel free to ticket these cars when they do this if they think its not safe, but NHTSA shouldn't be involved in this very important emerging technology at this low a level.

"Tesla said as of Jan. 27 it was not aware of any warranty claims, crashes, injuries or fatalities related to the recall." It is good for automatic cars to behave similar to humans for safety and social acceptance.
Letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee on App Stores
Google has been explicitly conditioning access to some features on users agreeing to share data [0]. This is perfectly in line with that strategy. Bugs which happen to work out that way aren't bugs.

[0] https://bgr.com/tech/google-maps-forces-you-to-share-locatio...
can't wait for someone to implement a rendering engine on top of this :-)
which actually makes sense, as there is a fundamental difference between "installed as an app" vs some random website spamming users.
Wars might have unclear objectives and mission-creep, but I don't think anyone is fighting to lose.
And supports off-line navigation IIRC.
Tesla itself has marketing material that's even worse[1].

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
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Programming ceases to be a hobby for anyone and you can kiss the make community goodbye. There will be no more masterpieces out of left field and all programmers are factory workers.
Why do we have to discuss Tesla whenever self-driving comes up? Cruise has this technology. Waymo has it. There are a smattering of niche players out there with various levels of self-driving. Tesla emphatically does not have it. They are not in the race.
Firefox on Android has had extensions for a while now. I'm using them everyday. It's just that you can't use all extensions on it as of now.
Why would you? Presumably they don't do it while you're there.
Safety is measured in accidents per mile driven, lower being better. While there maybe a loose correlation strict obedience to the law is not in itself a measure of safety.