skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a nice guy.

When has letting US Soldiers in ever helped a country?

The "Defense Department" doesn't care about freedom. The State Department doesn't care about freedom.

They are extensions of US Corporations, the State Department leaks showed that loud and clear. Corporations only care about control and extraction. If you let US Soldiers into your country, you are ceding control of it to multinational corporations.

And you do realize that the worst of the modern cartels were trained by the US Military and US Intelligence in the "School of the Americas" in espionage, counterespionage, guerilla warfare, asymmetric warfare?

The cherry on top: US Soldiers in another country can rape and murder with impunity. They are immune to prosecution, legally and practically.

And even if you bring in the soldiers... Look at Afghanistan and it's poppy fields. Our little puppet government was producing opiates for the entire world, controlled by Karzai's family. We setup a Narco state. And you think we'll waltz into Mexico and fix things with M-16s and F-35s?

What Mexico needs is decriminalization of drugs in the USA. I used to be opposed to any degrees of legalization because the most abused drugs are the legal ones. But the US needs to deal with its addiction problems itself, without causing a civil war in Mexico and Central America and everywhere else it sources its drugs.

It's what makes the anti-immigrant stance of the right wing so infuriating. How much illegal immigration is the creation of the right wing war on drugs? You think people are traveling the length of Mexico from Central America because it is an easy and safe trip?
How do you tell if the wakeup is due to the RTC wake event or due to something initiated by the user (e.g. lid open, power button pressed, etc.)? Obviously you want to deep sleep after the former but not after the latter.
He didn't say that. He said they weren't ready to yet. I think he meant legally because his son is under 18 so their insurance wouldn't cover it and also it was employees only at the time so again their insurance wouldn't cover it.

I didn't get any sense he meant that he didn't trust the technology (otherwise he wouldn't be in it either).
This makes the stock price in line with other dow jones stocks, something that Apple did right before it was included in the Dow average. The Dow unlike other indices does not weight by market cap or anything like that it literally uses the stock prices.
Humans would drive better if they could shoot fricken laser beams out of their eyes.
I like your analysis, and it sounds reasonable and true to me. But in it, there are the seeds of an approach to better Turkey Day dinners.

Their reluctance to criticize sounds like a recipe for getting along at large seasonal family gatherings, Thanksgiving, etc. So many dinners are wrecked these days because, "Hey, I just gotta correct Uncle Billy's naive political beliefs." Maybe it's better to let Uncle Billy remember that he loves his seldom seen nephew than to engage him in what may morph into an irritating, demeaning argument in front of the whole clan. People are more influenced by those they love or like, than by those who mercilessly point out the weaknesses of their belief in front of others.
Growth? That's not good for stablecoins
i wonder if it’s a city vs suburbs thing. when i lived in the ‘burbs, doing highway driving, i got super accustomed to spotting the next red light and then coasting to a lower speed, hoping it’d turn green before i got there so that my average speed through the light was actually higher, city driving, you accelerate fast and break fast. once you’re accustomed to breaking with force and breaking often, a hard stop at a four way stop becomes a whole lot more natural than the alternative.

i don’t mean to overgeneralize. i expect there is at least some small correlation between density and how much you break at a four-way stop, and i’m curious what the other correlates are and how dominant full-stops are.
When I was a landlord I found it very difficult to even cover the mortgage, let alone cover association dues and maintenance. I would try to raise the rent a little in between tenants, and it would greatly reduce interest in the listing.
All totalitarians use social pressure to conform as a tool for suppressing dissidents. One day you are the only one with a green bubble in your group, and the next day, when your friends must name a likely spy for the greens, you know who they will think of.

So you either join the sinister cult willingly or you go to the gulag later, it's always like that, dammit.
This ignores competition between landlords though. If I get a UBI to supplement my income, maybe I can take that job in the smaller town instead of working in the big city. That spreads real estate demand over a much larger area.

I'm still not sure whether or not UBI will be a success, but there are some reasonable arguments in its favor.
One of her latest work: visual abstraction of spectrum analyzer tied to a Casio keyboard.

https://youtu.be/y0Oj2ZnlYBQ
Going X-only for a political reason is not a good one, especially if the standard is of a different platform, which had no X at all back when the de facto standard was set.
The issue here is not transparency, it's who the money was directed to. This is a policy question, and what type of currency you use is totally irrelevant. It's already very easy to see who received money (https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/), what we're discussing is whether it should have been given to different people.
I'm pretty sure this is to improve the crowd-sourced database of WIFI AP's.

Google was involved with Skyhook for a while and there's no reason to think they stopped using similar tech. It's really that simple: war drive to build a map of AP to location, remove any that seem to move around (ie trains), and then you can use the database to map an AP sighting to location in the client. Trilateration on signal strength for extra points.

Source: worked with them.

Ref: https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/court-of-appeals/...
I, OTOH, would call a "one way only exchange contract" that doesn't reject "wrong-way" input but confiscates it... magical bullshit.
Earth observation satellites produce an even larger amount of data. It is stored forever in publicly accessible places (a large amount of it, for free).
It's not that interesting, it's just math. A little height goes a long way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon#Examples

The island simply wasn't high enough to be observed from Tonga. We've got video of the shockwave hitting Tonga - https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/01/15/tonga-video-captures-enor... - but video of the eruption itself would've surfaced by now if available.
Because #2 is still close to #1? I personally am glad to read about this stuff and not just the next "point version of {$SOFTWARE_STACK} released today". I mean that's why we get to choose which article to click on. amiright?
This problem should be solvable in software. The car can simply refuse to operate in a situation where maintenance is required.
You didn't work at Rand in the 1960s, did you? :-)

Anyway, the OP may be correct, but is also completely useless since it is impossible to know your own true strength, much less that of the other side.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585765/golden-gates... is a pretty good look at what's going on.
i made a similar tool to learn elixir and it's collaborative in nature, would be interesting to see if you could do a similar twist so people could work on a piece together.
Yeah but the thought of living in a world where they use Ada++, AdaVM, and AdaScript makes me shudder...
Well, you are ignoring the point. The whole differentiating strategy between Tesla and everyone else is the incrementally improvement of large amounts of vehicles versus the magic “hey, we came out of nowhere and now just drive ourselves”. This has been repeated though out tech history and the incrementally improving real life one always wins.
> Disclaimer: The economic research that is linked from this page represents the views of the authors and does not indicate concurrence either by other members of the Board's staff or by the Board of Governors. The economic research and their conclusions are often preliminary and are circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The Board values having a staff that conducts research on a wide range of economic topics and that explores a diverse array of perspectives on those topics. The resulting conversations in academia, the economic policy community, and the broader public are important to sharpening our collective thinking.
I haven’t worked in Python for several years, so my only dog in this fight is interest in the evolution of programming generally. But speaking as someone who previously preferred dynamic typing, and largely switched to TypeScript several years ago, I cannot understand this view anymore.

Static types help to eliminate an entire class of bugs, and encourage significantly better design. If you disagree with those claims, or don’t value the benefits as much as others do… Python’s type system is entirely optional. You are welcome to just not use them. That’s not fracturing the language: they're already a part of the language, and have been for years.

It’s fine that you have different preferences, but I think it’s wildly presumptuous to impose that on others.
How does the adaptive cruise control know whether or not school is in session and children are on their way to/from school? Or does it slow you down even if it's Christmas morning? If your car forces you to go 20mph below the speed limit that seems like a major safety issue
https://archive.is/Kr7d1
Think of the transpiled code as a compiled binary. Have your build system be able to recognize both languages. So developers work in C and Rust, but they don't actually work in transpiled rust. I guess this is similar to using the FFI.
Even if that is an accurate assessment, the l goal if lockdown s was not only to stop people from getting sick, but to them from getting sick all at once & overloading the healthcare system in ways that would have caused more deaths. Getting the same number if people infected over a longer period of time is a useful tactic.
I know a few upper-middle class small business owners (all non-retail sectors) whose businesses weren't substantially affected by the pandemic, but who basically got a free handout as part of the program.

Two mentioned how they were initially hesitant to apply for money, but then worried that if they didn't, their business could take a downturn after it was too late. Then as long as they spent the money on payroll (which they had to pay for anyway), they didn't have to pay it back, even if their business didn't show any losses. I shudder to think of how much the bigger players yanked out of it.
A charitable interpretation is that he's pleasantly surprised the team reached a challenging milestone and they are able to deliver the product.
Hacker News fails accessibility guidelines
Collaborate with me on million times faster software with Squeak Smalltalk software for cloud- and supercomputers. A single virtual machine image with multiple cores and petabyte per second memory access speeds. The software also scales down to M1 Max or AMD Zen 2/3 with only 400 GBps memory speeds. You can speed up simulations, search engines, datamining all science papers, machine learning, pattern matching, reverse indexes, huge in-memory databases, etc. Squeak ports bit-identically to more hardware than Linux and can run at almost compiled C speeds. We can also run it on our smalltalk microprocessor (FPGA or ASIC) to speed it up more than current ARM and X86.
I'm not stuck on Squeak, we use David Ungar and Alan Kay's [1] VPRI research [2] and write entire operating systems and apps in less than 10,000 lines of code by make high level DSL languages in Ometa and compile them to (supercomputer)hardware. Of course we try to get funding but meanwhile we make demo proofs.
Morphle at ziggo dot nl

[1] STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming, 2012 Final Report Submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

[2] https://vimeo.com/82301919
Yeah same type problem here, notification is time sensitive and I haven't figured out how to make sure delivery is fast.
Yep. https://github.com/NishanthSpShetty/crust

CRUST

C/C++ to Rust Transpiler
Returning to a browser tab I've had open for a while, I see you beat me to the "currency conversion ATM" analogy by two days.
> It's 100% politically impossible to raise taxes on the middle and upper 1/3 to to the extent necessary to pay off the bottom 1/4-1/3 of the population to (mostly) do nothing

That's not the idea or reasonably foreseeable effect of UBI.

Rather ambitious near-term UBI ideas aim it right around the Federal Poverty Level, which is the income at which only about 13% of the population would be at or above their current real income if they had no other income, and those people are already largely getting some means-tested aid that would be replaced by UBI.

And, compared to existing means-tested aid, UBI reduces the disincentive to outside income.

You aren't paying the bottom 1/4-1/3 to do nothing.

> but it's far more effective to have people work on doing things of value

That's the central idea of changing to UBI (which allows people to work on things of value without immediately losing side) from classical means-tested welfare (which does not.)
Intel Is Adding a Feature to Its Arc GPUs That Will Delight Linux Gamers
Ask HN: Best 2-player co-op gaming fun for mental health
What are some of the games you've enjoyed playing the most online and cooperatively?

These days I don't get to see my mates much (I live remotely, travelling is difficult).

Looking for an easy-going actionesque game with slick graphics.

Thanks!
No. Firefox is way better. Firefox has profiles & containers. I just wish FF has a better support for PDF.

I keep my NSFW Firefox profile in a veracrypt drive. Using about:profiles I can launch the profile that I want to use, and start from previous session.
"You could maybe argue that Google Maps is part of a package you bought the phone for"

Microsoft lost the case to be able to directly control the user's browser experience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
The motivations for my comment was seeing well-meaning comments being downvoted for no apparent reason. On the other end of the spectrum, and perhaps more importantly, someone claiming the car is so safe that they jumped out in front of it without the driver noticing, and it stopped safely. Does that, to you, seem like a responsible thing to post, even assuming it were true?

As for the breaking of rules, dang has commented, and I’ll take responsibility for my actions.
> Google are just open about the use of data

Will. Never. Happen. GLS is dystopian hellscape tracking masquerading under the fig leaf of "anonymity". Its technical details, pretty much a wet dream of the world's spy agencies, will never be revealed.
Honest question: how many hackernews people are cool with all their purchases being on a blockchain forever that is accessible ad infinitum to whichever party has access to it (and potentially all of the public) ?
I always assumed that cruise technology is behind self driving functionality like "super cruise" (https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/super-cruise), if only because of the name and based on the fact that gm owns cruise. Can anyone clarify?
Wine? Delivered to your door? This sounds really cool actually.
This headline may technically be correct, but it sure does suggest a bit more than what's being offered. "We're opening a sign-up page on our site"?? And (below [1]) Kyle mentions geofences?

How much of the public plans rides in advance, for a limited service area, via the web? I want to hear when these services finally have the capability and capacity to match the experience of Uber and Lyft: get a ride when and wherever you need one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169708
So, in your opinion, the "And then where did the money go?" question is entirely distinct from the "Did those investments have the desired impact for the desired audience, per the predefined criteria for success?" question? Who were we doing capital investment for, in hopes of them raising additional separately-accounted-for monies? https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-25893860 re: https://www.usaspending.gov/
I'm not at all surprised.

The high level of noncompliance we saw made it pretty much useless. Half measures cause economic pain without providing much benefit.

The careful people wear masks anyway, the reckless won't obey the protective measures.
Recruiters and estate agents seem to be the smarmiest individuals I've ever come across. I'm not sure why that is, but the pattern is obvious.

I really don't understand why we're expected to trust the largest transactions in our lives (house/job) to individuals with no real qualifications to execute those transactions. It feels kinda dumb.
Isn't it growth as in usage rather than value? I thought stablecoins were locked to a currency?
> at what point are we asking too much for free?

I am a paying customer for a bunch of other Google products.

We’ve also seen with custom domain grandfathering out that they’re not out of options regarding their services terms.

They choose to make Maps free, and there is no option to pay for Maps outside of the API.

“Don’t complain it’s free.” is not a valid argument when it is a revenue making product from a for profit product company. It’s their choice, not ours.
yes, people ride teslas in some sort of automated mode on rural roads.

I see your point about the larger driving population, but self driving will roll out in wealthy countries with new car models first, and I think solving the problem there will predate a large solution, for many different reasons.

All my comments about self driving are basically limited to urban and semi-urban wealthy countries since those are the groups subsidizing the research now.
Check out chainlink ( https://chain.link/ ). Effectively, third parties are incentivized to run oracles which provide the data, and they all have to come to a quorum.
Agreed - I think the "but can it drive in a whiteout blizzard" question is best redirected to: "can a human?"

I suspect there are operating conditions the AVs won't solve acceptably - some of those conditions IMO are also conditions where we should not accept a human to solve acceptably. In general I feel we have a lackadaisical culture around driving that encourages/excuses unsafe behavior, and is overoptimistic about people's ability to drive well.
I think they couldn’t monetize because of the reputational damage of trying to extract over them. So it would just be defensive. Thus my thinking that they looked it and didn’t think they needed defending.
Not 10c, it's $10 :)
Web1on1 | Senior JavaScript Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://web1on1.chat

Hi, we're a small, fully remote but tight-knit team operating a messaging platform for the Automotive industry in Europe. Car brands and dealers employ our 'hybrid workforce' of agents and chatbots to connect to consumers in novel ways.

We run React on the front and Node.js on the back, with lots of chatbots running on Google cloud functions. If you join our team as a full-stack developer, you'll help shape our product by building bots and enhancing conversational processes, and strengthening our platform API and SDK.

Requirements: At least 5 years of relevant software engineering experience. Can contribute across the full stack. Independent and autonomous. Clear and consistent communication.

We promise interesting work, lots of freedom and flexible hours. If interested, reach out to me (the CTO) at peter.dv at web1on1.chat, or read more at https://www.web1on1.chat/en/careers/
> If you're referring to Columbus with the 600 years ago statement

Indeed I was but not necessarily him specifically, but the average Javascript engineer at the time.

I was just now reading about Eratosthenes[0], to check my priors because I had been taught some people had speculated it way earlier. The article claims:

> By around 500 B.C., most ancient Greeks believed that Earth was round, not flat

That surprised me. But, here I'm stuck thinking how difficult is me to verify that claim. I'd probably need a few years of Classics and then access artifacts that are one thousand years old. I can totally understand how earnest skepticism unravels into madness.

[0](https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm)
Taking the question literally and ignoring environmental factors and other constraints, I would say the minimum answer is pretty simple: a reproductive pair of two humans.

A lot is said about minimum viable population, genetic variability, and inbreeding but these are not absolute and insurmountable problems. You will have more or less challenges based on your two initial people, and it may not be possible with any two. Pre-screening of the individuals could rule out many of the nastiest recessive genetic diseases. An alternative and less savory solution is controlling for genetic disease with basic knowledge of Mendelian inheritance and eugenics.

As a fun side note, the natives of the island Pingelap are an interesting example of a population that successfully rebuilt itself after a bottleneck of about 20 people. As a result, recessive color blindness is common, but their civilization was rebuilt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingelap#Total_color_blindness

With respect to the time required to rebuild civilization, assuming no environmental constraints and the available knowledge for the past civilization, the primary limitation is the economic productivity of the population. If we ballpark the minimum population to produce modern technology at ~1 billion people, this would take 20 generations at 4 surviving children per woman. This is about 500 years at 25yrs per generation.

This seems fast but might not be crazy if you compare it to the to the state of humans and medieval technology in 1500 AD, and the rate of development since then.
Privilege: being lucky enough to be born/raised in the right circumstances
Well, to be fair, Cruise offered me a really low salary ($50k paycut from my prior position) and no liquid equity, so it was a TC-to-TC comparison. I was willing to do it because dream job, but low pay and a 5-day-a-week commute into the city and I just couldn't refuse.
Tesla limited themselves to cameras because Musk said “humans can do it with two eyes”. He also didn’t like the look of LiDAR on cars. Such an idiotic decision. Good to see Cruise is not lead by a mega-maniacal CEO.