skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This harms the credibility of Amnesty International. There are many criticisms you can lay against Israel regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but "apartheid" doesn't pass the laugh test.
I thought type hints in Python were dumb until I combined them with VSCode. Holy cow the autocomplete and tool tips are incredible, there’s no way I could go back.
> to execute transactions, eg. to swap ETH for NFTs or ETH to WETH like in the OP.

It could apparently only swap from one kind of crypto-"currency" to other stuff.

> But yeah the ability to send the directly to the address is stupid.

Isn't the problem raher the ability to send the wrong "currency" to the address?

If it can only change from one kind to others, then the correct behaviour is obviously to accept only that kind, and reject any others. This is basically an online version of a physical currency-changing ATM, where you feed in dollars to get euros (or other currencies?) in stead. If you feed in euros or pounds or yen by mistake, the ATM should obviously spit it back out. This online version just swallowed the wrong currency. You don't have to know how ATMs actually work internally in order to determine that this is invalid behaviour not only on the user's part, but definitely on the ATM's too. If the ATM can only change from dollars to other currencies, then it should only accept dollars.
Ubi would go into homeowners. Hell at some
Point they will raise rent by the ammount of the ubi because they know people can afford at least that
AFAIK far enough infrared is not very efficiently reflected by white paint or by metallic foil. If you can lower the efficiency of the cover layer from 99.9% to, say, 80%, this may be enough to degrade the mirror layer, create a dark spot or a cloud of plasma. After that most of the radiant energy will be consumed by that spot, it will overheat and degrade everything around it, while also changing the aerodynamics of the object enough to veer it way off course.
FormData and Blob/File support?
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Won't the cats swarm over you while you're filling the hunting feeder or dispersing them through the house?
FWIW, you might want to search for project naming conflicts. Mine (an AGPL knowledge manager that stores arbitrary knowledge in a single data model, using postgresql & scala, hoping to move to rust and sqlite) is at http://onemodel.org (though nearly stalled due to health issues; I plan to continue in future though), and I remember finding some unrelated commercial project once, maybe onemodel-sys.com or such.
Great questions! I'm not a database expert either but I can try answering these:

1) I think databases like to manage pages directly because the db can make more optimizations than the OS because the db has more context. For example, when aborting a transaction the db knows its dirty pages should be evicted (i'm not sure if mmap offers custom eviction). Also I believe if the db uses mmap, it loses control over when pages are flushed to disk. Flush control is necessary for guaranteeing transaction durability.

2) What you're describing here sounds similar to a LSM-tree database (e.g. RocksDB). They are used often for write-heavy workloads because writes are just appends, but they might not be great for read-heavy things.

3) This reminds me of PRQL[1] (which was trending on Hacker News last week) and Spark SQL. I'm not too familiar with this area though, so I can't really say why SQL was designed this way.

[1] https://github.com/max-sixty/prql?utm_source=hackernewslette...
This is cool if you are running Windows and want to test some Linux command immediately...
Does Cruise plan to try compete with Uber, Lift, etc.?

If feel like this tech could have a massive social impact if you sell it to local goverments so they could offer a highly efficient subsidized robotaxi service to their residents. It would democratize access to transportation and enable so many classes of underserved people to gain access to reliable transportation.
Rust devs are commonly called Rustaceans, so users of this transpiler could circle back to the term Crustaceans.
>Safe to say the quality of tech recruiters in New Zealand is even lower than those elsewhere.

Can vouch for this. Made that mistake. Never again.
Hopefully people here can do better than get into a flame war when provided with context for weapons technology news and if they can't then they should be down-voted and possibly flagged.
I recall feeling a lot of existential dread when reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future ... and this video just dug all that up again :)
> Today we are opening up our driverless cars in San Francisco to the public

I doubt that means what they hope we think it means. So your employees have been taking your carefully designed ride and now you've let a couple of non-employees ride the course. If it means more than that, especially allowing random rides with random passengers, I'd be very surprised.
As it can't solve this in 2022 (video at correct time):
https://youtu.be/wTybjJj0ptw?t=238

Or even worst, just managing an empty intersection
(video at correct time):
https://youtu.be/wTybjJj0ptw?t=280

At which point releasing software so bad, becomes a criminal liability? Another one at correct time:
https://youtu.be/wTybjJj0ptw?t=652

There are simply no words...Correct time:
https://youtu.be/wTybjJj0ptw?t=722

Should not be allowed out of the labs...
> I've been using Google Maps a long time

Sunk cost didn't bother me when I uninstalled Google Maps from my phone. Good riddance.
This is a great paper.

Its basically saying "wow DeFi is amazing".

at this point I'm not sure who else other people need to hear it from, but let's see.
So what? If the total deaths per mile for Tesla is lower then it’s better for everyone.
In Lex fridmans interview with George Hotz, hots talks about why he thinks radar AI is a non starter and predicted that even though Tesla was still adamant about using their radar, they would eventually realize they only needed cameras.

Hotz is the founder of comma.ai which is doing open source (I think?) Company.
> It's mind blowing to me that Israel is targeted with this kind of rhetoric without relative comparison to surrounding nations

> Not to mention the PLA and Hamas literally want to genocide the Jews and have repeatedly rejected more than fair solutions.

This reads as whataboutism to me.

Israel is held to higher standards in the west and in particular the US because it is an extremely close ally and unquestionable support for Israel is treated at a litmus test for public life.

What is deemed as “fair” is dependent upon one’s point of view. And while I can sit here and defend hamas, I am not aware of the PLA advocating anything genocidal at any point in the past.
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Google Maps doesn't make money using wifi data. It makes money the way it always does: through ads [0,1].

[0]: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7040605?hl=en

[1]: https://ads.google.com/hotels/
The argument that is being made by the article is "natural immunity is better than vaccine acquired immunity because unvaccinated and previously infected people get hospitalized when they are reinfected less often, so vaccine mandates are bad" - and my point is - that's an absurd comparison, because you're not comparing apples to apples. The people who are the most likely to end up in the hospital in both populations (65+, multiple comorbidities), are also the most likely to die when they are unvaccinated _the first time_.

A more accurate way to frame that would be, "If you don't die from covid because you are unvaccinated, you are less likely to end up in the hospital the second time you have it, compared to people who never had it and didn't die but did get a shot" - and we would then compare the absolute mortality rate for unvaccinated individuals and vaccinated and see the obvious numbers that vaccinated people are less likely to die. It invalidates the argument in the article.
If at some point it hinders their main biz (ads) they will. Just like they did with rss
> The horizon is ~3 miles away.

Interesting, then, that standing on a beach it is possible to see ships 12mi out to sea. I think your distance-to-horizon source may be inaccurate, but it does not affect the validity of your excellent point.
This is why I live well below my means. Gap in contracts? Cool, time to work on side projects / marketing. It's an opportunity, not panic stations.
Use 'mtr' to monitor packet loss on the network and see where it's actually originating.
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It's funny how all the machinist youtubers share the same sense of humor. Like, you'd think Quinn and This Old Tony were siblings or something.
It's a gameshow. You win by being in the last two people and getting more questions right. So, you need to be better than at least one person and then eliminate other competitors. Being "The Strongest Link" just makes you a target for everybody who suspects they can't beat you in that final head-to-head round.

So the game can resolve to two devious but not-so-bright people who've schemed their way to the final two, and then one of them gets lucky with the topics.

If you want to watch something where people are just ludicrously good at general knowledge try "Only Connect" (even the title of the show is a relatively lesser known reference) but note they don't win prizes - why would they, they enjoy quizzes, they're not here for the money anyway.
It’s amusing in a sad moving kind of way when non rich people applaud the rich when they give away their wealth. Nothing to see here.

I dislike the ugliness of desperate demands of those who covet what isn’t theirs with determined entitlement. It is very unsettling. Even if there is a tinge of sadness to it.

True greed in its unadulterated form resides in those who want what they didn’t work for from those who did…I haven’t seen greed amongst poor people..only desperation. These people need help. Those who only want to separate the wealthy from their dollars don’t..You can’t beat compassion out of the rich. It will never work.

OTOH, in America, I only see lazy greed amongst those fattened by the hard work, blood, sweat and tears of others. And then there is the virtue signaling upper middle class who indulge and crave to be wealthy while publicly disowning the truly rich.

And of course…there is the sneaky stealthy rich who are protected by trusts and an army of lawyers while they work behind the scenes to transfer all the tax burden to the above mentioned middle class..who frankly probably deserve it. It’s like a rodent circus performed for an audience of honey badgers on a stage that is really a pit of vipers. Brava!!
Agree only because of how the post was titled.
At this rate we’ll try again in another 53 years?
They might be willing to offer 1.4x. If you tell them you want at least 1.2x, they're probably not doing 1.4x. If you ask them what the range is and they tell you a range, you can at least ask them for the top of the range or more. Worst case they just say they can't do X but can do Y, and then you have more info to negotiate with. Way better than not knowing and leaving money on the table.
People can't see in that weather either
When my late father moved into the nursing home they stuck him in the basement which had long hallways and at the time was mostly vacant. He had a walker and it didn't dawn on us it would ever be a problem.

But then he had a fall and couldn't get up. Anywhere else in the facility a staff member would have found him within five minutes. After a half hour and multiple failed attempts to stand he remembered his cell phone and called a Lodge member who took another twenty minutes to get there and help him up.

He didn't call me because he didn't want me to know he fell. But his Lodge buddy ratted him out to me and I was able to get him on a list for the first available room upstairs. A device like this could have alerted someone at the facility that he had fallen, this is a very big deal and it's going to save lives.
Better question: will it blend?
The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster
This is exactly how I feel. I'm not against paying for hosted email, but that's not what they're trying to charge us for. They're trying to charge for hosted email + a million other 'Workspace' features we don't want or need.

If Google introduced a "Legacy GSuite Mail' plan at say $20/yr to retain all existing mail functionality and accounts, and disabled every other Workspace feature, I'd gladly pay for that.
Testing the Limits of AI Face Changing
Most map providers include some fake roads to fingerprint their map and Google probably does something similar for the businesses on Gmaps, so if they scraped the data it would be easy to prove they did it
An arms race generally benefits the side with more money.

> My best guess is the long term solution (if there is ever one attempted) will be more related to why people are motivated to launch rockets at their neighbours.

There's been plenty of attempts to have peace conferences and what not. There's a wide gap between attempting and actually getting something to stick.
> In neither case, despite what many deniers and apologists proclaim, was the war "winnable" by the military

Basically, to win that war the US military should have been able to previously educate its politicians (i.e. the US politicians) and remind them that as "war is the continuation of politics by other means" so in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq a greater focus should have been given to politics before trying the war thing. After all that's what a guy like Clausewitz did, a general and military theorist whose work ended up educating lots and lots of politicians.
Am with you on the strong dislike. I posted the article to see if anyone had critiques on the analysis it offers, actually.
I used to deride bluetooth but then I tried a modern BT device and I was hooked.
> C-beams glitter in the dark

Exactly because it is a high contrast one. My eyes are pierced by the extra bright white (or green) text on a black background. Especially if I'm sitting without any other light source in the room.

I do the same thing I do for the regular, non-night mode: tone down the overall brightness A LOT (sometimes down to 30% of overall) and depending on the needs - turn the contrast down 10-20%. This is not only helps a lot, it is often the difference between just being tired [after hours] but being tired AND having a bloodshot, painful eyes with the symptoms of an oncoming migraine. High eye strain can trigger a migraine for me.
White House praises Spotify's new Covid disclaimers
What provides ‘bash’ on your system? Other shells will choke on its array syntax.
At high enough power density, the laser beam's electromagnetic wave rips the electrons right off the atoms of the air, regardless of wavelength. The air does get hot, but heat is not the main issue. The current method of preventing breakdown is to expand and focus the beam with a telescope mirror so the power density near the ground is reduced.

See: https://www.rp-photonics.com/laser_induced_breakdown.html
I disagree, my interpretation of the quote is different.
Unless you have a conceptual AI with causal systems understanding reacting in real-time to a spacetime model of the world based on current and recent events, people are going to get injured and or killed by unusual real-world events riding in these autonomous cars. Although cats and dogs have great perception, we don't let them drive our cars for a reason.
It is amazing how long it takes to recover from a rough product roll-out, isn't it?
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This is the key case I wish HN allowed editorializing the title. Regardless how good the article is (or isn't) when they have titles like this it's inevitable the conversation will be about how the title was overreaching. If people were encouraged to make titles like this into something like "Making a simple DNS resolver with miekg/dns in Go" or even just "A DNS resolver in Go" when posting we'd avoid this multiple times a day recurring problem.

Or maybe it already is encouraged and people just aren't aware this counts as "misleading" or "linkbait" since it's not well described what the cutoff point is.

Either way both titles like this one and discussions of have long gotten old.

Edit: looks like the article moved to "A toy DNS resolver", excellent choice of wording IMO.
Please check your chemical equations H2 + CO + H2O != H2 + CO2
The US lacks the state capacity to tell who was going to have trouble with COVID-19 closures, and who wouldn't, so a whole lot of money just had to go to people that had no need for it whatsoever.

Regarding PPP, every local tech staff augmentation company got a few months worth of payroll out of it. For those of you not in the know, their model involves hiring developers at $x an hour, and then placing them at large enterprises for $x+y, often for years at a time, as those companies would rather have contractors than employees.

So where does the money go? Straight to the owner's pockets, as lockdowns only changed staffing needs in a very small number of companies. So if your sole proprietorship staffing company employs 25 of those developer-contractors for, say, 180k and a couple of HR staff, you could get million dollar "loan", that would be forgiven in a few months, as you didn't fire any of them.

Needless to say, the people in charge of that kind of company were very happy about the PPP program.
What if it meets the higher standard of “being more safe” but not the higher standard of “obey current traffic laws that aren’t enforced against humans”?
I'm hoping your question isn't serious but just in case you don't know the difference between the two:

Luck - success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.

Privilege - a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Hope this is helpful
You guys ever think about selling your LIDAR data?
Achieving the “don't own a car” future doesn't require automation, as much as urbanization. No car technology would help reduce the climate crisis we're facing, unless that technology eliminates private transit (as in rides not shared by multiple people, not as in private ownership of said transit)
The most noticeable example of activism at work is the difference in coverage (and condemnation) between January 6th and the CHAZ/CHOP event. While both events included the occupation of a government building, one is seen as an insurrection and the other is more of a protest. I don't want to start a tangent comparing every aspect of the two, but needless to say, there are some big commonalities that are covered in a very different light depending on one's partisan outlook.
An individual person can't point at something they don't comprehend and rightly claim it is meaningless. I'd argue the same is true in the extreme: if something can't be comprehended by _anyone_, that doesn't make it meaningless.
Hmm. So assuming the whole 250GB he mentioned was downloaded (I guess there must be some decompressing and automatic file generation going on, so probably not, but this is not a very accurate computation I'm doing), that's in the general ballpark of 10% of month's bandwidth usage?
Exactly; I have friends who buy a new laptop every other year; they are not concerned with longevity or upgradability so the framework could only attract them through increased customization options, which is a harder sell.

If they buy from Dell, and I buy from Framework, Dell sells 5x as many laptops.
What’s your view on whether self-driving cars should automatically be 100% liable for any accidents?

I ask this in the context of machines being governed by classical deterministic physics, so there is an argument that there is no such thing as an accident involving a self-driving car: only a design flaw.

This is a genuine question, as I can see that companies with self-driving systems that work, and who do serious fault analysis and rectification, might be in favour of 100% liability. 100% liability would stop cowboys from entering/surviving in the industry and sullying the reputation of self-driving. A company’s system would have to perform well enough that any residual risk of injury could be covered by an affordable insurance policy.
Organic Maps is the best FOSS mobile mapping solution at the moment as far as I can tell

https://organicmaps.app/
Indeed, most people are very surprised that a stick of dynamite has just the energy equivalent of a Snickers bar. Spread the energy release over more than just a few microseconds and you have a very different profile.
What problem is this solving exactly? Talk about a waste of human potential. Great job putting more drivers out of work—- if this thing is even safe.