skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally,

> [the] Great Attractor look[s] like the intersection of a toroidal knot

What? Please explain.

> the galaxy seems unusually bound

Discovered features of our galaxy is about the best evidence for Copernicanism that we have. Up to the limit of current observation, there is nothing at all physically special about the Milky Way for any practical purposes.

We would therefore expect to find filamentary structures in other spiral galaxies in our sky, and be surprised (which is great for theorists) if they were not there when we look.

What do you mean by pulling our galaxy apart? What's the mechanism?

Here is where you should write down the maths you are hoping someone will check, and here is where you get to satisfy your complaint that nobody has ever answered you seriously before.

In particular, and please forgive me that I can't think of a politer way of putting it, I think you need to demonstrate that you have any idea at all about what you are talking about in your numbered paragraphs in this reply-comment's parent.
I really love the world of reggae and dancehall. The way riddims are covered and updated and repurposed and remade over and over in different styles by different artists.

It feels natural and organic. Human creativity building on and growing what came before.
Pathetic by the police - you can see how disrespect builds in these cases.

They ignore rampant theft and violence and are busting people on empty cross roads in middle of nowhere for not coming to a full and complete stop.

I continue to support policing, but I wish they wouldn't get sucked into this type of work where they basically make even normal people hate them.
Sure, here you go:

https://imgur.com/a/iTuuc94

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Did you notice the same behavior before Marijuana was legalized?
It's a crime what Mark Zuckerbot did to Sir Tim Burners Lee, same thing happened Nicolas Tesla when he invented a way to wirelessly transmit power to break the monopoly of the utility companies but Edison lobbied the government saying it was unsafe. Good thing is today you can easily print your own coil and become part of the revolution.
I'm not so sure about that.
Most likely, there will be a burden of proof on whoever makes a claim of this type. Just think about how many various lib's are involved in one application. If the problem lies in one of the libs, they'll hunt down whoever made it.

I have mixed feelings about a law like this but I can't say I don't agree with something like this as a principle for paid software. Maybe liability will reduce the number of backdoors in software that we pay for.
As for FOSS projects on github and such, there is no contractual obigation of any kind as long as you don't see lic's or stuff like that. That being said... I've heard some horror stories that defy common sense so wouldn't be surprised by anything.
I would love a Framework phone with the option to have Graphene OS pre-installed.
Sort of a merge of some of the concepts of Substack, Patreon, and old fashioned fan clubs from the looks of it.
This seems untrue.

There are also genuine uncertainties about the future: things that neither side knows but will impact the outcome. Because of that, there is always a range of outcomes for a conflict, and so both sides would still have an incentive to carry out the war.

Consider, for instance, if there are two countries (A and B) looking at conflict with perfect information. Given their relative strengths, the war will cost both $1 billion, but A will win and reap $1 billion + $1 in plunder. In your model, B will always surrender and give A $1, but the reality is there is a big spread about both the costs and the gains. Lots depends on how well each side fights and responds, even with perfect knowledge of the other.

So...you know, if it's the US versus...the Philippines[1], then sure, the uncertain range of outcomes is small enough that rational thing for the Philippines to do is surrender. But for countries that are even reasonably well-matched, they would want to fight with the goal of making the conflict unattractive for the other side. Probably the best historical example of this is the USSR in Afghanistan.

[1] I am sure the US would never invade and occupy them just because the US found it convenient ;)
(wrong thread - you're looking for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269)
I expect in my lifetime insurance policy will get to dictate software practices and only certified software engineers will be allowed to program software. I also think anyone who believes this won't be applied to free / open source is fooling themselves.

Other profession had hundreds of years to mature, but software will not be allowed time to grow.
This is a very urban-centric point of view though. A large portion of the US doesn't live in cities. In more rural and many suburban areas biking/trains simply aren't viable.
This is the 'who is hiring' thread. I think you meant to post this in the "who wants to be hired?" thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269
Is it even a question of difficult books? I find that plenty of people will read, or say that they have read, a book but will look blank when one points out absurdities in the text.
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> The team is now planning to implement other materials into the battery with the aim of significantly increasing the battery’s cycle life.

Well, the devil is in the details.
I don't understand this insanity stuff. We have a $35 chinese brand (Ugreen FWIW) bluetooth adapter in our car. If it connects to my wife's phone when I go start the car (or opposite), all I have to do on Android is to pull down the notification drawer, long-press the bluetooth icon to open the bluetooth settings, then click the name of the desired device in the list that comes up. 10 seconds later it has connected correctly.

This $35 dongle also has pause/play and skip buttons, and you can use those to answer calls as well. The buttons are tactile so you can use them without looking.

Honestly, the only bad thing is the built-in microphone delivers pretty bad audio when you use it as a hands free. But for $35 I cannot complain.
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Interestingly, Tesla’s earliest autopilot software (made by Mobileye) could read and respond to speed limit signs, but MobilEye patented that ability and so when Tesla switched to their in-house software, they lost that ability.

Seems insane to me that you can patent reading a speed limit sign, since reading signs is what signs are for and is necessary to obey the law, but there we go… “with a computer” seems sufficient grounds to make something patentable.
Who do you consider responsible for the code in products we ship?

Is it users? It can’t be. They aren’t engineers, and even the users who are don’t have access to our source code.

Is it the government? No.

Is it … nobody? That sounds like a terrible idea.

The only people left are us. The company or team who ships a product.

This is the same as everything else in civilisation. I’m responsible for food I sell. If I sell you poisoned food, you can sue me for the harm my food caused. If you hire me to build a house, I’m responsible for making the house safe. If the house falls down and injures you, you can sue me for damages. The general principle is that we are responsible to our neighbours insofar as our actions could foreseeably hurt one another. Lawyers call it Tort Law and frankly it makes sense.

Why should software be exempt?

As for opensource - if you pull in a random (free) MIT licenced piece of code on GitHub, one of the license conditions is that you take all responsibility for the software. The opensource dev isn’t responsible and (I am not a lawyer) almost certainly wouldn’t be held liable for bugs.
People intuitively understand the capabilities of cruise control. Can the same be said if FSD?
Honest question for the purposes of being able to express myself more clearly next time: what makes you believe I think better machines with more sophistication are the answer?

I get the feeling (and that's fine!) you're uninterested in detailed argumentation whether in support of your position or analysis of mine; I won't try to drag you into a flame war - but I simply don't understand your response. I must have said something that triggered this belief; if you're willing to point out what I said that could be read that way, I'd appreciate it. After all, being misunderstood is a waste everyone's time.
If you get accepted to YC, you instantly own 93% of a $1.7m worth company, so you’ll be an illiquid millionaire (on paper)
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McNamara basically admits this himself in the documentary The Fog of War:

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

It's worth a watch but it's very soft on him and his role. Still a very good documentary.
Same here, when replying to someone in a thread and upvoting their comment in close succession.
> this funding unlocks categories even more ambitious than our first one.

A Framework car with open source ECM would be quite an ambitious project!
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I would be happy just to try it out without saving if I don't have to create an account.
I've seen some go into medically oriented startups. I worked on a project for one oriented towards using machine learning to read medical notes. Look up my email in my profile and I'll see if I can get you more info about that.
The interesting bit

> The two samples were divergent enough that it seemed highly improbable that vaccinia, the current smallpox vaccine, was descended from cowpox. This left Downie and his colleagues with an unsettling question: What on earth had they been injecting into the arms of millions of people for the past 150 years?
There is a community on Reddit called "BuyItForLife"[1] with such focus.

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I'll give you FSD, but autopilot makes sense to me as someone familiar with aviation.
Holy crap.
Thanks for this.
It doesn't look like this can be tried out by users, so it's not eligible for Show HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. You're welcome to come back and post a Show HN when there's something for people to try out. That is—assuming it's your own personal work, since that is also a Show HN rule!
Here's a mirror if anyone else needs one:

https://archive.is/42K8j
Oh, according to Tesla, not so. Their perspective is that you're absolutely and solely liable in either case.

Their legal department works studiously to handwave away every marketing statement.

"The driver is only in the seat for legal purposes. The car is driving itself." - "You are entirely responsible for driving the vehicle."

"Use Summon to bring your car to you while dealing with a fussy child." - "Pay attention to vehicle at all times."
Note that OpenBSD recently rewrote it to enable performance increases.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704
It seems to be one of these AI-complete problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
I've been using Google Maps a long time, and during all of that time I have only used GPS for location tracking on Android.

Depending upon the version of Android, I've had different things disabled. Wifi scanning. Bluetooth. Cell location data. Etc. Always with one single goal -- GPS only for location.

And further, this is always, especially with newer versions of Android, restricted in many ways. For example, only allowing when an app is active, and so on.

Google has always played games with Maps, using dark patterns. For example, with the versions prior to the current version, if I wanted Maps to zoom in on my location, I'd hit the tracking button.

It'd first say something like "To continue, turn on device location". Of course, device location is on, but it's only for GPS, and google so badly wants that (apparently) vital, and sweet wifi + bluetooth + cell tracking data.

Yet you could cancel this before, and it would then zoom in on your present location. Because, of course, GPS works fine for that.

I could also use only GPS, leaving wifi and bluetooth and so on scanning off to use navigation. I've driven all over North America and Europe that way too, and yes with Maps. Tricky dark patterns (ie, lying) about needing wifi scanning to find a route is just insulting, and absurd.

Now, enter a new update. I can no longer navigate with Google Maps, unless full location tracking is on. Comments in Play Store indicate others hit the same wall. Yeah, right Google, driving in the middle of the country, with GPS, is helped by scanning wifi while I pass farmer's fields?!

Google has now drawn a line in the sand. Give us all your local SSIDs, local bluetooth connections, with likely even more detail, or they now refuse to allow you to use Maps to navigate.

I immediately installed Organic Maps, and I'm sure there are loads of others as an option.

Google wants that wifi data so bad, that the only thing I can equate it to, is a used car salesperson. I get the impression that the Maps team is channeling Sméagol, and just shudder.
Quick story: I was the CFO for a company that sold to a private equity group (PEG). I took over as the CEO as the founders retired, leaving me to deal with the PEG. It quickly became apparent that the PEG managers looked at everything through the lens of an Excel spreadsheet. These guys were brilliant attorneys and analysts but lacked experience building businesses and managing teams. Ultimately, they couldn’t add much value in terms of operations or strategy, but they were great at financial modeling/quantitative analysis and forcing us to justify expenses. That may sound good at first—eliminating wasteful spending—but it ultimately led to the gradual erosion of the company culture and employee loyalty. It’s easy to cut benefits and pay given that many workers lack the leverage to do anything about it, while it’s much harder to reduce hard costs like materials and equipment. That meant employees just kept getting squeezed, and it was surprisingly difficult to quantify the impact that terminating an employee or cutting benefits would have on morale/culture/performance.

The moral of the story is that people with analyst mindsets play an essential role in our economy, but sometimes giving those people power over large organizations can have disastrous consequences. There truly is a disconnect between measurement and understanding.
Because the European view is that your data belongs to you and using it requires your consent.
Patent trolls usually go after the smaller players, not companies like Apple and Google who have enough money, lawyers and their own library of patents to defend themselves.
I did a quick check and graalvm doesn’t appear to support swift or c++, so I’m not sure why you’re suggesting it?
This is actually really well done. Keeps it simple and fits 90% of the use cases for when I create arch diagrams. You've got me sold.
Where did you get your P100? Everywhere around me has been out of both those and oxygen tanks. It's made welding pretty difficult.

Edit: I appreciate your thorough and patient response to the parent comment.
Presumably because it matches the behavior of human drivers.

If self-driving cars were widely rolled out already, any large manufacturer could probably completely break traffic nationwide by rolling out an update that makes the cars actually follow every law and speed limit. (Just like work-to-rule can be as effective as a strike.)
This is a personal preference, you’re going to get as far as you’d get googling this.
I use an mx keys, someone might not.
I’ve had great experiences with local recruiters who had relationships with the client companies. They will tell you the max salary you can get, the interview process, why past candidates failed, the actual must have requirements, etc.

My success rate from my application being submitted by a recruiter to a phone screen with the client company is 100%. My non rejection rate was close to that.

That’s when I was hopping around in corp dev. I have a specialty now that’s slightly more niche. I am working for by far the largest company in that niche so I don’t really need the middlemen anymore. If I ever decide to leave my current employer, no one is going to ignore my resume.
> and no one will deny that the GDPR was not effective in forcing the industry to adhere to at least some common sense standards.

I suspect that this is intended to be a single rather than double negative, or did you mean to assert that GDPR was universally recognized as a complete failure at limiting bad behavior?
> improving the user experience was clearly not their priority

Basically. Reddit's updates are meant to drive ad engagement. The redesign makes it harder to browse without identifying yourself (requiring an account to see comments, making your online status visible by default). Pushing people to their app just means they can have unblockable ads and better analytics.

Clearly it's working, as 70-something percent of their traffic comes from apps now, and their advertising revenue has become significant enough to start talking about going public.

This is of course a cycle we've seen repeatedly with internet communities -- indie > popular > fully monetized.
Wild. Letting my imagination run free, there's something in the radio data, second poof from the bottom, that looks like... a contrail? That's not right, but what is that thing?
Puts them in good company. Not the first system to get the wrong ideas about the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warnin...
Also, this kind of investment could be far better invested in making cities and (especially the US) far less dependant on cars in general.
No, now they have this overly complicated wheel that's arguably worse than a touchscreen.
If that's the case, would it make sense for US-based companies to switch their ownership structure around so their EU subsidiary becomes the parent company?
Given the crashes with cruise control in bad weather, I think the level of understanding is likely fairly similar.
I'm tiny fish when it comes to hosting (I spend about $50/mo) and I'm slightly between Heroku and DO's pricing.

Northflank appears to be slightly cheaper than Heroku across everything, but its not really worth the squeeze to save $5-10/mo.

If I ever grow out of Heroku, DO's 1GB RAM for $5/mo is way cheaper. In theory, I could host my own redis for $5/mo at 1GB too. I wouldn't trust myself to self-managed a DB though.
I'd appreciate seeing your sources on that.
So it's Teams, but without office 365?
Sounds almost as if "fully self-driving cars" coexisting with human driven cars is not feasible to do safely because it's not purely a technical problem. My contention is simply that Tesla is acting irresponsible so long as they continue to design and market otherwise.
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The issue with an interchange is a sudden change in speed, which is a separate issue from the natural speed of roads.

> When you find yourself driving 45-50mph on a road signed for 35mph, just know that if a pedestrian

Change the road to be a 35mph road. It'll be cheaper too.
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Your dispatcher who sees you are an hour behind schedule for stopping for no reason on the route and fires you
What odd answers. Statistically, most millionaire families in America are due to dual earning couples. Which means if you want to be a millionaire, the logical way is to find a partner who makes just as much as you, and then save as much as possible.

It’s likely to be a lot more pleasant than most of the other options here.
I totally agree with you that this tech needs to get better, but I really want to see apples-to-apples comparison. I would expect Tesla to also stop if a child was running across the movement path in broad daylight.

The night example looks to be specifically stacked against autopilot. Tesla vision is notoriously bad at detecting stationary objects and it needs a lot of light to function well. Lidar/Radar are significantly better than cameras detecting straight ahead obstacles in low light conditions. I would really like to hear Tesla to defend their decision to not use them.

In any case, this testing is great because it lets us know when the autopilot requires extra supervision.
The problem is that companies just lobby to extend how long they're valid for e.g. Disney. The entire system is fucked. I wish a bomb would just wipe out Congress sometimes.
I figured adding in a swappable GPU would be fairly ambitious, which is something I'd expect in a model like this.

As opposed to just taking what they have and putting it in a larger form factor, which, yeah, doesn't seem terribly ambitious.
To avoid speeding. It can be hard to avoid accidentally speeding by 1-2 mph and enforcement is sometimes zero tolerance.
How about "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."

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Really excellent point. The way we try to handle this is by sealing off the part of the system that has any access to customer credentials, and making sure those credential are as minimal as possible (e.g. we can grant and revoke permissions to an existing user, but we cannot create new users or new permissions).
Please make your substantive points without swipes. We're trying to avoid flamewar here, which this topic is particularly prone to.

(I'm talking about "You're spreading misinformation now," which is a swipe that no one here should be resorting to, regardless of how right they are or feel they are.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I knew the writing was on the wall when Samsung couldn't make their exynos as good as the Snapdragon series after the S7. Very happy with my OnePlus 8 Pro now. Samsung likes to sell the rest of world their poorly performing exynos variants and keep the best for the north American countries, a big factor in deciding to go elsewhere for my latest mobile.