skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK is a special place. The government has historically never entertained the notions that capable of thinking for themselves.
Your URL thing doesn't accept https://GitHub.com but does accept https://github.com. They are the same URI, though.
All consensii are equal, but some consensii are more equal than others
The issue isn't about what you want them to do, the issue is that you are expecting a bunch of non technical people that have no vested interest other than monetary gains through staying in office to create some sort of regulation that notionally protects people from themselves based on the supposed advertising of a piece of tech, and that is an incredibly silly position to ever take for multiple reasons.

Tesla clearly outlines what the autopilot is and isn't, and is not forcing people to use it. If you don't wanna beta test, don't use it. Simple as that. No need for any regulations in the first place. If someone thinks that autopilot means they can go to sleep being the wheel, and they crash, its is 100% their fault, not Teslas, or regulators. You don't blame mountain bike companies because someone decides to take their bike of a jump, go tail up nose down, and smack into the ground, even though their advertising often shows people doing big jumps on said bikes. Be consistent in what you believe.

Also, as far as self driving goes, Waymo isn't as much as pushing for safety as it is burning through VC cash in a giant scam. It started 13 years ago and has zero products. Meanwhile, startup shop Comma AI managed to get self driving highway autonomy system out in 5 years that you can actually buy, on a fraction of the budget.
TikTok is essentially a mobile-first reincarnation of YouTube. I’ve yet to see any users use it to socialize with friends and family they know in real life. I’m hesitant to call it a “social network” when there’s little to no socializing there in the first place
A friend of mine had his company grow and basically was able to increase his profit by the entire $1,700,000.00 his company received.

Maybe we shouldn't have had mandatory lockdowns to start with? Free choice and small government sounds nice right about now to me.
I was employed for 6 years at company in Toronto until 2000. The company was a consulting business oriented towards delivering complete solutions (products for clients). I saw their ad and just walked into their office. Chatted for a bit with the receptionist who'd also doubled as assistant to CEO got her interested to the point that she brought me to a CEO (company was very small by then). When they hired me, I very quickly have progressed from a developer to a lead architect. While working there I proved myself as creative solution provider and the stuff I've done impressed our clients (those included guys like Bell). All of this came at a price. I got sort of burnout and have decided to do it on my own. Since I already had a reputation and have met many people it was not long before I nailed my first deal. Somebody recommended me to a self-funded startup who knew the business had an idea for a product but had zero experience in developing. We've met. We liked each other. I hired another programmer as single me was not enough and have delivered first prototype in 3 months. The rest is history. I just kept going like this. I've had ups and downs. I gained money, I lost money but overall, I am doing ok. I also have my own products that bring me some money. If you are looking to get a job / contract I am 100% ok for a current contract so no help on that side unfortunately.

Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
The problem is bad enough that it killed someone; you don't need to use exaggerated made-up numbers.

In the example video the car starts turning at 40 seconds and passes the barrier at 47 seconds.
Did China benefit from Covid-19?
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Maybe try some of these

https://genius.com/web-annotator

https://www.getpoint.co/
In the same way that frameworks lead to bloated more poorly performing applications than we had in the past. Recent backend engs asking me to send two requests to upload just a single file because their framework somehow made it difficult. They didn't want to have to write a SQL query. So instead keep the code "clean" by every time requiring two requests instead of one, objectively providing something crappier than what we've had for over a decade and more. The youthful bent to software dev only exacerbates this.
This, along with all the replies down below is the most un-HN comment I have read for the past 10+ years. Facebook is doomed and crap was the accepted norm.

Especially during pandemic when I get to see update from my friends. Their new born, or kids finally going to school. I have a suspicious feeling many of the negative and politics went somewhere else like Twitter. And the rest are there you could easily filter out. The place is now a lot more calm than it used to be. Although this may be confined to US and UK? My AUS friends are still on Facebook for political battle for some reason.
Businesses can't stay true to their vision once they take investor money. Now the investors are in charge and they want maximum return on investment.

Never take outside money unless there is simply no other way.
Because math isn't science, so there is nothing to replicate. If the analysis is sound, that's it, there's no question of whether the physical results the analysis was applied to are fraudulent, measurement error, due to improper setup, etc.

Why is this even a question? Analytical and empirical fields face fundamentally dissimilar challenges.
Nevertheless it is a Japanese cultural artifact.
xenimus.

not necessarily because I think that it's a good game (I do, but I no longer find myself playing much of anything anymore) -- but the whole single developer thing over decades of time is supremely impressive to me as a developer myself.

I can't imagine the heartache of being the employee running an mmorpg.
Power in is directly heat out (that mechanical motion of fans twirling just isn't giving more than a rounding error).

You can only get so much cooling density. And loading up a rack can use a signifigant portion of cooling.

Its pretty easy now-a-days to get 18kW into a rack, which will require 5 tons of cooling. Ie. enough cooling to handle a 3,000 ft^2 house.
There's a shortage of truckers, but TuSimple thinks it has a solution
Right now, there's a shortage of truck drivers in the US and worldwide, exacerbated by the e-commerce boom brought on by the pandemic.

One solution to the problem is autonomous trucks, and several companies are in a race to be the first to launch one. Among them is San Diego-based TuSimple.
Founded in 2015, TuSimple has completed about 2 million miles of road tests with its 70 prototype trucks across the US, China and Europe. Although these are simply commercially available trucks retrofitted with its technology, TuSimple has deals in place with two of the world's largest truck manufacturers -- Navistar in the US and Traton, Volkswagen's trucking business, in Europe -- to design and build fully autonomous models, which it hopes to launch by 2024.
Here's one example - https://www.newsweek.com/bitcoin-millionaire-zaryn-dentzel-b...

and another - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/01/29/uk-crypto-trader...
If they didn’t formally verify the smart contract in a way that covers all edge cases including known “exploits” they kinda deserve to have their ethereum transferred to its new holder. Code is law.
> and how therefore useless/wasteful it is

My suggestion here would be to think about the purpose of the conversation. The goal of cocktail party conversations is not to create working solutions to real world engineering problems. It is to create connections between people, and to have fun. Speculative but uninformed discussions about hard problems are indeed useful if they fulfil this goal. Let's face it, if all the "amateurs" in the room had enough insight to produce workable solutions, it would still be a "useless" conversation on a practical level because those people, working in unrelated fields, do not have the means or the opportunity to put their theories into practice.
In the only US Presidential election which has ever featured a female contender, she won the popular vote.

I'll bet that this trend continues, and that that every US Presidential election featuring a male and female candidate, there's little or no gender differentiation.

We have dozens of elections to test our height thesis and other data as well such as income.

I searched for the data (it was on BI some years ago) sorry I couldn't find it, but I remember distinctly seeing for that females, they were paid more if they were taller and thinner (and punished for being heavy) whereas men were paid more if they were taller and bigger (i.e. 'girth / total mass').
I hiked the Camino de Santiago about ten years ago, taking ~6 weeks to do 600 miles. Exhaustion really isn't the issue, you reach a steady state. The bigger risk is repetitive stress injury - I came back with a numb spot on my hip that took a few years to go away. I also came back married, but that one hasn't gone away.
NFTs. $3000/hr
I have seen zero hate speech, but I mostly use FB to share pictures of my kids.
> …which, depending on your timezone, means that you can't access it.

Certificate expirations are encoded in the certificate as UTC, so everyone would see the expiration at around the same time.

(That of course assumes a certain amount of client clock accuracy, the same cert being served to everyone across the world, etc.…)
> How much ground do they each cover?

https://starlink.sx/
Patent trolls are looking at your employer or your business. They will sue and take whatever money they can get, which will come out of your pocket.

Abolish the patent system and let human innovation leap forward.
It helps to realize the USD values of the amounts involved are mostly bullshit. Things like NFTs wouldn’t be worth a small fraction of what they supposedly are if people had to buy them with actual USD.
Self-description, based on an Xkcd comic
Starlink Coverage Tracker
This is a remarkable summation of what I've been saying since, like, April 2020. It's pretty shocking that I just found it, and it's nowhere discussed in Western media. The only thing I'd add would be that China happened to also have a lot to gain (besides on the foreign stage, besides in their conquest of Hong Kong's protesters) by simply eliminating more old people than young people. It would be conspiracy thinking to guess that even if they had studied the virus in a lab, they would know that killing more old people would be the outcome. But as the article says, there was a lot of serendipity involved.
> technically speaking a peace treaty was never signed and North Korea is in the state of war with the United States. So is it really a crime to attack a hostile state?

that seems to be standard US foreign policy. it's probably actually worse in reality; where the US even 'intervenes' even if it does have a peace treaty with them. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Meta shares plummet 20% after posting rare profit decline
The overall crypto market is already down 50% in 2.5 months with no sign of slowing. the problem of crypto crime will fix itself as the market keeps crashing. This market is propped up by air.
Bingo. I'm done. It's over. No matter how much I want to hop on and rage about the current issue of the day, I just can't and it's not worth pinging my former teammates there for the Nth time trying to fix it.
You're in Pakistan, but you're a Japanese national? Does this mean you immigrated to Japan, and went back, or that your parents are from Pakistan but you were born in Japan?

I know there's a community of Pakistani-Japanese (I am Pakistani-American myself), but pretty random to see one on here.
I'm not sure what they are actually using this for.

All Starlink customer traffic egresses via Google's network, and all their ground stations are along Google fiber paths.
The site is working for me. Per crt.sh, it looks like a new cert was issued not too long ago (https://crt.sh/?id=6097757307); it must now be in production.
This is a really interesting set of observations by Vitalik, but (as I’m sure we all know) it wasn’t a 51% that did this hack.
The prices have risen a lot since you last checked. It's getting close to $40 per IP these days.
> fully settling on the blockchain is slow and costly.

That depends on which blockchain you're fully settling on. There's more than one, Ethereum != "the blockchain".
As long as I get paid, I don't really mind who writes the checks. ;-)

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to give up any of the flexibility I currently have, which includes both absolute veto over customers and projects, and "best effort" availability which ranges from "reply within 5 minutes because I happened to be checking my email" to "I'm busy with the baby today while my wife plays an orchestra gig" and in the extreme case "I'm tracking down a FreeBSD bug this week; hopefully I'll get around to helping you next week".

This may be incompatible with being contracted out by an agency.
Teen's Tesla hack shows how vulnerable third-party apps may make cars
The internet is a lot more like this. The web isn't.
This is a duplicate of at least two front-page HN articles right now.
I have been using Beat Saber to clear my Apple Watch exercise rings. I am curious what games or apps you use to do HIIT.
I can't see Brad's face anymore and not have nightmares filled with

CAN'T BE HUSHED HERE

CAN'T BE HUSHED HERE

CAN'T BE HUSHED HERE
CAN'T BE HUSHED HERE
To be fair (to myself and my feelings about walled gardens) I updated the post in 2018 but first I wrote it in 2012 when Medium was this cool new anti-wordpress blogging platform and it proves my point exactly.
The Engineers in Defence look at all other Engineers like this. FAANG to me means your a sheeple who trades off dignity for aspiration. A Defence contractor just means your smart and well meaning and get unlimited budgets but ultimately your just a pawn in a large bureaucratic nightmare paid to keep your secrets secret along the way loosing all sense of self and freedom.
I get the point instructors need to have above-average empathy, and be able to deal with stuff that happens that occasionally happens in group settings. That's always been a given in higher education. And yes, students did have personal crises and occasionally untoward interactions did happen. (Outright bullying does seem kind of strange, but I distinctly recall how relieved I was that had completely disappeared when I hit campus for my freshman year. Really, that's HS and junior high level stuff -- and the selection process for a reasonably serious school seems to be quite effective at weeding out that kind of behavior. But no matter, that's a side topic).

But you know what? Stuff happened and the instructors, provosts and other staff were able to deal with it based, again -- on their capacities for empathy, common sense and elementary decency. Without having to produce a lengthy statement of their "understanding of the dimensions of diversity", "organizing and speaking at workshops" ... and all the other positive signals candidates are supposed to generate to avoid coming under suspicion of being either deficient in their capacities for treating other people decently (or worse, perhaps secretly harboring bigoted attitudes).

So this all gets back to the original question: Why are these DEI statements necessary? Why is it simply presumed that instructors are deficient in their understanding of "ethnic, socioeconomic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and cultural differences" (quoting from the UC rubric) ... until they produce a carefully constructed attestation of their ... I know you're going to hate this term, but there's really no other term to use: virtuous awareness of the importance of these issues?

BTW I didn't drop the "v-" word just to tap in to the current hot-button debate about the pros and cons of virtue signaling. There really is something about the some of expectations in the UC rubric that is just ... weird, very weird, and in controlling, authoritarian way. For example the part where it gives as an example of a "wrong" answer to one of its sections (where a "wrong" answer can easily derail your candidacy, and hence, depending on the job you're applying for, effectively hobble our career):

Explicitly states the intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and “treat everyone the same.”

This is perfectly decent position for someone to have, in my view. In fact, until very recently, it would been seen as a very enlightened, principled position to take.

But in the current climate -- it is of course absolutely unacceptable to "treat everyone the same". You have to be aware of their presumed "difference" as based on observed characteristics and (inferred or presumed) group identity -- and factor this into your interactions with them at all times. Otherwise, you are clearly lacking in empathy, and completely incapable of understanding the fact that other people have different backgrounds and different perspectives than your own.

And any class you teach will be "14 weeks of chaos and confusion", waiting to happen.
New research project: a solar roof for the autobahn
I did not say that "no CGI was used". Rather, I stated that Nolan uses practical effects whenever possible. The author of the article was arguing that modern movies (since approximately the Star Wars prequels) have been ruined by too much CGI. I was pointing out that Nolan has not jumped on the trend described in the article and rather only uses CGI when necessary (some would say he doesn't use enough CGI).

To learn more about Nolan's film making process, I recommend you watch some interviews with him.

> Everyone conflates CGI with doing a shot/scene entirely digital. Some films do that, but most don't.

The article does not conflate these things. Rather the author decries "excessive" CGI use in shots that are not entirely digital.
I'm not sure if Google put a stop to it, but in my area there was an issue about 6-8 months ago with the business hours listed on Google being changed by competitors. Usually they would alter opening or closing hours by an hour or two, so it wasn't obvious.
Dual booting isn't so bad, I've almost always had a gaming partition somewhere, while my current install doesn't even run 32-bit binaries. That said, attestation should be possible with user-locked bootloaders, not just vender-locked bootloaders. I suppose Magisk provides something close to this currently with bootloaders that can't be re-locked for custom roms, so more power to it.
Is there enough security that would prevent downloading a binary / full and running that versus downloading JS / WASM?
> I remember playing an mp3 would make my computer stutter in other tasks in win98 even on a then-new Pentium 4

Really? I don't remember that combination being that bad. I was using low-latency Creative drivers and Reason on a low-end eMachines desktop about that time, with a full instrument rack including 5+ samplers and 3-5 synths, and 6-8 effect units, making music for CD-ROM titles.

At that time I didn't experience crashes or freezes even once a week...though later on my roomate with Windows Me and some girl dancing on his taskbar was a different story :-)

Platforms were really key back then, too. '90s Linux was really rare outside of tech circles. You could get a basic OS, a desktop _probably_, bonus if you knew your monitor's modelines (fingers crossed), some desktop choices, but the desktop and server software scene was mostly out of the question for Windows power users and even OS/2 power users. Not only was choice a real issue, but documentation and things like dependency hell were serious issues...

So if you had some desktop software you liked, let's say you were a Delphi person who could make anything, the platform really owned you...but the platform also had basic affordances for things--driver rollbacks for crashes; antivirus software to scan your stuff, and multitasking really depended on what you needed to multitask. There were options.
Wow, they really want to keep the liquor, tobacco and pharmaceutical industry going as long as they can. There are a lot of professional workers that smoke marijuana, business owners, successful artists, etc. The devil's lettuce might not be for everyone, but how can these people be anti-vaccine mandate (pro-choice) while still trying to prevent marijuana legalization?
Some states only publish claim numbers for prizes over a certain amount. For prizes below that amount, I estimate using the % claimed of all published prizes.

If 25% of the prizes greater than $30 have been claimed, then I assume 25% of the prizes lesser than $30 have been claimed. Everything in the low numbers has large enough data pools for it to average out accurately. It's not until you get to the $600+ prize level where things would be really inaccurate.

You'll also note there's usually a lag for prizes $600+.

When you look at aggregates across states, you might see something like 25% of prizes below $600 have been claimed but only 19% of prizes above $600 have been claimed. I figure that's because $600+ has to be claimed at lottery headquarters and go on taxes. So people might delay, try to hide the money from their spouse, wait for tax reasons, the headquarters has to manually process it rather than the automated machine at a retail outlet, whatever...
they are going to oversubscribe it. they're only slow to add users because they can't make terminals, not because they're trying to maintain an unrealistic QoS.
Invite some subset of users to become beta testers. Create a Slack channel for them and engage there. Invite users for 45 min 1:1 calls where you ask them to do a few tasks they usually do using your product. Observe them, take notes, ask them why they do stuff the way they do, brainstorm about new features, etc. Pay well for these calls.
So, how long until we get a proper hemp paper industry? As the legal issues wane, it seems like the only remaining obstacles to higher quality paper at a lower price are industrial process and marketing issues. Seems like an industry ripe for disruption.
Was your page full of actual hate speech such as "exterminate the jews" or was it full of "hate speech" such as criticizing politicians who happen to be minorities?

Same question regarding fake news: was your page full of actual fake news suh as "Elon Musk has died", or was it full of political speech you don't like, such as "wearing masks is not worth the inconvenience"?
Yup. You’d think they’d wait until they had an actual product (heck, even a janky demo) to unveil the metaverse. This whole thing feels like a grift.

It’ll keep the investors distracted for a few years, which will buy Facebook some time to actually put together a real product (who knows if it’ll be something anyone wants to use)
I had a similar experience. I quit in 2009 when I was 24 and let's just say that was a great way of finding out who my real friends were.
In my case, I'm happy to engage Autopilot even though I'm under no illusion that it makes me safer. It's just a very useful convenience feature.

OTOH: Tesla could still claim that if you replace all the distracted/drunk drivers in beat-up cars with new Teslas running Autopilot, the roads would be safer.
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