skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am reposting my "who is hiring" post - we are hiring remote.

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I don't really care for the L5 definition. Humans can't drive on all roads in all conditions even if their vehicles are theoretically capable of it. There are certainly weather conditions I don't want to be driving in. And there are certainly some unpaved roads I don't want to be driving on even with high clearance 4WD.
It's more a publicity stunt, they have to look like they are doing their thing to help the cause. In this case it's counter productive but that doesn't really matter, they look good.
I think you countered your own counter argument there. Embedded in your argument is this tidbit: "A future where Canada is pro-Russia is unthinkable, not ever going to happen". Canada-US relations may freeze and thaw but even at the deepest freeze, you know Canada is never going break with the US and associate with Russia. What the poster is saying is "IF Canada were to make significant overtures to Russia, US would be apoplectic with rage", which is most definitely correct.

Note: I have no bone in this fight, just trying to clarify what I think is a decent argument.
RIP google
It's entirely possible the passive components they sell are repackaged AliExpress stuff. But I'd guess it's because the passives are the same quality a hobbyist would get from buying on Amazon. Their "secret sauce" is the boards and software they design.
That's certainly not what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989...
I think taking a highly abstract definition of backcompat is not useful. We need a practical definition of back compat. If there are no (or effectively no) downstream consequences of a change, it is clearly backcompat. If there are some downstream consequences, you get into judgment call territory, but it still may be worth it. We cannot create a perfect universal rule here, and Amos is a fool for holding that standard so rigidly.
My understanding is that gvisor supports two modes of execution - one with virtualization and one without. AFAIK the official recommendation is to use the one with virtualization, but I've never dug into it.
Microsoft Teams enabling unprecedented levels of workplace harassment
That video has one of the best explanations of how and why deep learning works.

The argument for analog is weaker. I've tried some stuff with analog computers, and at one time I was into op-amp circuits. The basic problems are noise and inflexibility. However, that may change as people develop ICs that are reconfigurable, like an FPGA.

Flash memory cells as multipliers by a changeable but not dynamic value are a new idea. That only leads to analog ICs that do a pre-trained neural net, though. Running neural nets isn't that expensive. It's training deep neural nets that needs entire data centers. If they can figure out a way to do the whole backpropagation thing in analog, that would be impressive.
This one is tasty! It reminds me of Olivetti Cubic a bit, but definitely has its own distinctive style.
Computer Science Professor Trying to Save His Son's Life (7 Min Video) (2019)
It's worse with snow. I'm in Minnesota, I speak from experience.
I wonder if Ukraine should possibly get any say in the matter.
You use your primary home 100% of the time either to live in or store your things in. It makes sense to own it outright. A vehicle is only necessary for short periods for the vast majority of people.

Of course if it is successful it won’t take an hour because there will be far more and I would expect different price points for different levels of service. I don’t check into a Marriott expecting it to smell like vomit but at Motel 6 it wouldn’t surprise me.

To be clear, I think this is one scenario of many possibilities.
It’s good to see someone else is commenting on this. I bought Doom Eternal on launch, but refunded it because of the mandatory Bethesda account and obnoxiously colorful, oversaturated UI. I’ve never seen anyone mentioning it before, just the general praise for the game.
To be fair Covid-related news disappeared almost completely from the media of my country (Romania) once the crisis in Ukraine starting getting real serious.
Title of new policy paper: Driving in the uncanny valley
For more info about what this commenter is talking about:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen-presenting_cell

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_compl...
I use iThoughts on the iPad. Really is helpful :)
Factbox: The chain of command for potential Russian nuclear strikes
You can always formulate speech issue as security issue.
Cite ideological security/resilience for example.
If your bar for “not propaganda” is 95% truthful, what news site is left that passes that test?
It's near WW3, not political.
Ah but your moneyed overlords would prefer that you buy $60,000 cars with inflated prices justified by the software and AI features and continue to live in a dystopian car-dominated landscape.
I really doing think 'virtue signaling' is the right term here - The NYT coverage of this explicitly states that Cogent was motivated by a significant increase in bot traffic coming out of Russia, and they basically said 'we don't want to support Russia's cyber-attacks'. They aren't trying to overthrow the government in Russia. This is meant to prevent them from waging cyber war using Cogent's infrastructure, and Cogent was a significant carrier of Russian internet traffic. It's both expensive for Cogent to do this, and significantly impacts Russia.
Certainly this is not the same situation, and these are not the same places with the same government structure, but let's take a look at how well that worked in Iran: that is, it hasn't worked at all. Government propaganda has caused most Iranian citizens to blame the US & the West for sanctions, and support for their government seems strong.

Of course Russia is a different situation, and there are already plenty of Russian citizens there protesting the war, but I find it a little hard to believe that peaceful protest works all that well in what is effectively a dictatorship. (Hell, consider how ineffective -- or at best, excruciatingly slow-acting -- anti-war protests have been in even the US since WWII.)

I expect the only thing that could get Putin to stop would be his oligarch cronies getting financially destroyed to the point that they can't take it anymore. But it seems like they've been preparing for this for a while, and might not be hurt by sanctions as much as we'd expect. Regardless, if we assume that the oligarchs and government officials are the right people to target, broad-based measures that hurt regular Russians are just cruel and probably not that effective.
People will complain about your project, and then use SciHub next time they need to reference a paper. I like it!
Ask HN: What’s the real reason employers are ordering us to return to office?
“Innovation” from random hallway interactions is the official reason from my employer, but “innovation” is also the euphemism they use for “profits”, so I am wondering what you all think is the real reason why many employers are now ordering employees to return to office.
Future uses of space out to 2050
Would you please omit swipes like "Not sure why I even bother replying" and "What are you talking about?" from your posts to HN? You've been breaking the site guidelines frequently in your recent comments. I realize emotions are naturally very intense for everyone right now, but this is not ok. Indeed, it's a reason to follow the site guidelines more carefully.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> and you need to source quite a few ingredients for the growth medium

That’s entirely dependent on the species.

Oysters can be grown entirely on non-supplemented sawdust. Supplements can be just wheat bran or soy hulls, and maybe gypsum or CaCO3. That’s a short ingredient list and easily sourced from your local Tractor Supply.
I definitely worry about edge cases. This is the sort of law that seems ripe for unintended side effects/consequences.

It doesn't seem hard to imagine someone living on the street/in their car in the Bay Area and not having housing, but having a job and feeling trapped. That trapped feeling makes them not quit the job or move to another area, for fear of being in a worse position. I worry there are more people in this type situation than we know. I wouldn't want people like this to be put into an institution.
The disease may not be genetic. Only a small percentage is. My dad has ALS and in his case is not genetic (lucky me). The disease starts and progresses in different paces for different people - my dad has it for almost 7 years and still talks and eats like before. For him, the first thing to go was his arms; now his legs are almost paralyzed as well.

In his case, it probably is associated with the fact that he worked with agrochemicals his whole life, in a time when regulations and PPE where much loosier. He tells stories of taking baths of substances while his dad worked in orchards.
That would be ... scary for me. The closest I could find was some limited evidence of an association between cyanobacteria blooms and odds of ALS in the surround population: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727154/
Passive bystanders? You mean like the USA into Iraq? Regardless, this is a reflection of how the rest of the world sees it. As in, these countries aren't subject to the media's excess, hyperbole, etc.

Brazil has no skin (read: support for) Ukraine or most of Europe. They're more brown than white.

China? China is happy to see The West flush its money down the crapper. It's in no rush. It knows the more wars we fight, the more money we'll print, and the closer we'll get to our own economic implosion.

Yeah, that would hurt them as well. But they'd then be The New Boss, and we'll be The Old Boss. China will take the short term hit to get that crown. China is looking ahead. The USA and most others are still in the 20th Century.
Unfortunately, it could lead to a tautological argument that is unprovable: only those that made it through were gifted from the start:)
My reading of the terms of the bet is major cities, which means more than one city with a population in excess of 250K. In my reading just Phoenix and Tucson would be sufficient.
author of "Behave" https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=behave+robert+sapolsky&crid=352...

also (free) https://nautil.us/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-6283/
No, I said I'd welcome a game with an AI that's smart and not just there for you to kill. The bit about "perfect aim in a shooter" is your creative addition and I have nothing to do with it.
The problem with rendering a picture is that it doesn't reflect how it renders on my setup in my editor which can be quite important.
Love your attitude towards the odd comments. Keep it up dude
> I wonder if a day will ever come when a "X major site banned in the USA" headline crosses HN for speech reasons. We've been surprisingly tolerant of a lot of nonsense from a top-down perspective. The closest we get is a grassroots campaign to get Joe Rogan off Spotify.

[Russia does a thing] Lets talk about the US.
That's the point though. If you frequently have to convert documents to PDF or print them then you shouldn't be using Notion. Not having to worry about these use cases gives these news apps a huge amount of flexibility to evolve their UX. Otherwise every single document editor will continue to look and work like Word, as they have done for the last 30 years.
I disagree with all three assertions above - the dififculty increases exponentially for the last few percentage points, just like energy required increases towards infinity as you approach the speed of light,

California is a small part of one country.

All we will get out of self-driving cars is more traffic jams, more consumerism, and less security in our lives because you might be locked out of essential service in case you didn't sign a lisence agreement or made an offensive tweet, or replied to a spammer
Yeah, the original mode uses ptrace to intercept system calls, and then just implements the system call itself.
Please do not cross into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I can make a change that solves a bug that someone was accidentally relying on by doing the wrong thing ...

There is even a "law" for that: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
> This is a position that Stalin took almost a century ago before causing 5 millions Ukrainians to die from starvation.

The deliberate ethnic genocide is not universally accepted. The famine affected large areas of the USSR besides Ukraine.
Youtube? Sounds like much bigger news to me than a Twitter ban inside Russia.

I'm not too familiar with the Russian netscape, is there a local YT alternative?
There were some stats and graphs showing quantity of posts in Twitter related to anti-covid topics and how they changed after February 24th. Russia has extremely large bot-farms where low-skilled people just copy-paste same things from main distribution channels into social networks like Twitter. They had to change narrative due to newly introduced war.
The United States has been the biggest perpetrator of terrorism, destruction and death around the globe since at least the overthrow of the Iranian government in the 50s.

Vietnam, Central America, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. Never-ending, ongoing economic sanctions leveled against a myriad of countries which destroy the lives of ordinary people.

Israel, whose oppression against the Palestinians we actively support and fund, blows up an apartment building in the Gaza Strip and it makes the news for a day, and here we are incredulous when this happens in the Ukraine. We are, this very moment, engaged in the wanton murder of civilians, either directly through drone strikes or indirectly via the supply of weapons, like the ones used to bomb Yemenese today.

What then of your sanctimony? Where the hell is your outrage towards and condemnation of Americans, or of NATO or other US allies that tolerate our behavior? Americans and our allies objectively share responsibility for the largest portion of the sum total of evil acts occurring on this planet, and yet most of us, like you, act and speak as if this isn’t the case. Absurd.
Right but I don't see how any of this leads to blaming the West.
What are they supposed to do, say "Jeff the intern fucked up badly, and Christine let them do it"?

What is this criticism supposed to mean?
On the flipside the Russian Empire fell as did the USSR.
Unfortunately this is true - apathy or indifference with the leader forms partial complicity with the actions in Ukraine. Even if only 1%. The economic success of an individual contributes to the evil leader's actions by providing money and resources to the military as taxes (etc). It's sad but until a million people march on Putin and hang him from the yard arm to restore their beautiful nation and start restoration payments to Ukraine, the sanctions need to be very heavy and target the entire country as a whole. Sad situation.
Autobahn is a much, much lower bar than urban traffic though.
5-10 / day

VP Product Development (I have 3 eng teams, each with a product mgr)

I typically respond with a cordial “No Thanks, best of luck.”
It's worth noting that the author of that article was mistaken, there was likely some other issue with their software than what they described here. ImportedLibraries() in the pe package has never done anything other than returned nil, nil. This wasn't changed in a minor release. You can browse the source history here: https://github.com/golang/go/blame/master/src/debug/pe/file....
This is to hurt the Russian government and economy so that the leaders can reconsider their decisions. They live in an authoritarian regime, the citizens are negatively impacted as a side-effect of the decision of their leaders. Have some empathy, I'm sure a majority of Russia citizens are not ok with the war.
No.

It's not obvious which actions are atomic.
Modern refrigerators and washing appliance can be really flaky from software bugs. I've talk to others who have $3000 fancy stainless steel refrigerators and they seem vulnerable to weird and hard to diagnose problems.
Yep, all war reporting is propaganda, pretty much everyone chooses sides, and most of the reporting, especially in the start of the war is fake or very cherry-picked news. People like being on the "good side" of history, so they belive that side, even if that means "fighting for peace" by bombing a country in middle east.
Apple investors urge company to undergo civil rights audit
strategic bombing doctrine during the second world war was designed with the same intent of incensing the targeted civilian populations into uprising against their government. in effect they simply made people depressed and hopeless. i do not see why deprivation would have a markedly different psychological effect than extermination, if suffering was all that was required to overthrow a despot, there would simply be no more despots.
You've unfortunately been breaking the HN guidelines repeatedly lately. Can you please not? More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30560868.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's nonsense. Germany and the Soviet Union cooperated to divide up Poland between themselves. It wasn't until nearly two years later that hostilities between them began.
If the software can’t tell the difference, does it matter? And if the EULA is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, does it matter?
There are two primary criticisms of this move in this thread:

C1) This is just hurting ordinary Russian citizens and serves no other purpose.
I empathize strongly with the Russians.
But I also empathize with the Ukrainians.
Since Russia has nuclear weapons, the only thing rest of the world can do is impose sanctions.
Sanctions work in the long run, but they take a long time to show effects.
Ukrainians do not have a long time.
All of these moves will cumulatively amplify the unrest among common Russian people,
giving Putin less time to sit back and let his plan go to work.
Will these be enough? Only time can tell.
But ignoring the impact of secondary and tertiary effects
for the primary negative effects is short sighted.

C2) This is just virtue signaling.
Virtue signaling may be a component of this move, but this is business for Cogent.
They make money moving data, and Russian money has lost a lot of its value.
So I am not convinced this is just virtue signaling,
there is definitely a business component.
There are 22 official languages in India and there is no national language. In most schools in most cities it is english first (at home anyways you would be speaking your mother tongue)

>>> English dependence can be viewed as why india and so much of africa is so poor and undeveloped. You need a healthy amount of national pride to develop your country. Japan, South Korea, China, etc developed through their own languages.

No just national pride is not enough to develop. "development" is a complex issue which can't be boiled down to one or two reasons.
Has the Tech “Bubble” Burst?
You need to cite authoritative sources on that. Mental health is a significant contributor but not necessarily a root cause. Most studies I have seen show that housing costs are the determinative factor. [1] Treating people is the right thing to do but won't end the problem.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/06/08/1003982733/squ...
It's just exposing the lie that "following the data" meant "following the polling data."

That's fine, that's how democracy works. But it erodes trust in the political bodies that made all these rules and then just overturn them on a whim.
> a country that most people not in Europe probably did not even know about until recently

I assume that most people in Europe had studied geography at the school, had heard about the breadbasket of Europe, and know what is Chernobyl.
These two situations are literally not comparable at all. For one thing, England didn't have massive police and secret police force estabilised in its American colonies which could just immediately disappear any people who are starting to organize any kind of resistance. The Russian despots were always extremely good at snuffing out any internal resistance, that's how they stayed in power for centuries.
Yes, but that is not an absolute thing. Consider supporting Russia right now and how going against the status quo would harm you.

Again, I urge you to consider how your statements and claims are seen by others. What is the primary pattern across your "elon is satoshi" posts
A language encodes so much of a people's culture and tradition that giving it up is not a choice to be made lightly. Don't succumb to linguistic imperialism.
Accessing paid content without paying is stealing...right?
Also Twitter followed the same fate. I wonder whether "normal" people, those using FB but who have no idea of how to access the BBC via Tor, and that might support Putin, will see through such a huge ban.
> It does however come with this risk, that they let data, or Jupyter notebook output or etc. get committed.

You make that sound like it's generically a bad thing. Having the data you used and tested with is good in many ways. Having it in the same git branch and repo as everything else is suboptimal but usually a lot better than not safekeeping it at all.
Some data:

American drives 3T miles each year. There are 6M accidents each year. That comes out to be 1 accident per 0.5M miles. Waymo's disenagement rate was 1 per 12K miles.

While disengagement and accidents are not the same, one can argue that for acceptable L5 self-driving, driver is not expected to be engaged and therefore we need these rates to be same.

If Waymo continues to improve disengagement rate by 50% each year, it would still take at least 10 years before it becomes acceptable. So assuming funding keeps pouring, advancements continues, L5 self-driving can be expected around 2032. Carmack might lose just by couple of years.
resources to transmit data over a network.
Metacomment: I like your approach of explicitly labelling feedback items as bugs, opinions, or ideas. This allows for quick triaging – as a Show HN’er, I’d love to receive feedback in this format. I’m also going to reuse it for the feedback I give.
Actually, Go used a very elegant solution to a hard problem of modularization: directories. A directory == a package. Import path specifies a path to the directory that contains a package.

A package may, or may not, decide to have a stable API and document it. If it does, and it commits to the version 1.0, then it basically gives a promise: "This package will not change its API in a way that will break correctness of currently-correct programs that use it".

Since a package == a directory, if you want to keep package compatibility, you must not change the contents of the import directory. Therefore, you need to create a new one, preferably called v2/, to put the new code in.
it just isnt so binary. old tech is always better than new in various ways time tested being the largest factor. we stil move on for reasons
That was the idea of Scroll before it was acquired by twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service)