skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a fundamental misunderstanding in this piece about what the real problem is. Productivity and automation are great, fundamental things that fully transformed the human condition for the better. The office and factory automation mentioned are just the latest steps in a technological journey that took people out of the caves and into flying machines, allowing even the poorest in our societies luxuries that not even kings dreamt of.

I simply don't care if your CNC machine-sitting job bores you and it's making you anxious about your skills as lathe worker: quit that job and do something you like, and let some unemployed off the streets operate the CNC. Regardless of who is doing the sitting, that machine will produce so much more parts, cheaper and better that one skilled worker could.

And herein lies the problem. The real problem. The lathe worker turned CNC-sitter or the skilled typist inhaling copier ozone aren't oppressed by "productivity culture", whatever that may mean, they are oppressed by a highly polarized jobs market that no longer offers them alternatives at their professional level. So they are forced to accept dumbed down machine work that anyone could do, for less pay.

It's as if a great chasm has opened: you are either a highly skilled professional in some un-automated market that can still wield power against capital due to your very rarefied skill-set, or some version of the manual labor monkey pushing buttons for a near minimum wage.

Automation has transformed economy and greatly improved our standards of living, but has also robed workers of their human capital, the only leverage they traditionally had against financial capital. The resurgence of unions is just a simptom of workers grasping for some form of leverage in a labor market that turned against them. The dramatic rise in inequality is another.

What machines we are pushing against are the limits of human society to create and use high creativity jobs, the biological limits of humans to adapt to the intelectual requirements of such jobs, and the strongly ossified structure of academia and class that fundamentally prevent most people from even entering social groups that beget such jobs.
If you can't control your reddit consumption already I'd expect that the site blocker will end up disabled before long. I'd try to involve a therapist if the goal is getting to the bottom of this beyond even reddit or websites in general.
what’s the difference between this and roboto? I assume noto sans is different from noto too?
Ok, noted. Next time I see cryptos start plummeting I will assume that tech bubble is over the corner.
This really is wrong. There's so many contracts the landlord has to keep up with, and pay, the council on various cases like rates, water, upkeep of lawns or council will and bill, keeping up with changing building codes and rules such a fire alarms which update every x years, then insurances, then maintenance of the house structure, the plumbing, electrical .. as well as that the 'money' represents their savings from other work they did. It's serious job and you're not seeing the reality of it if you think the landlord does nothing but profit. It's a bloody business, with work, responsibilities and risks, and if everything goes well the expectation of a profit but not the guarantee. It's also a business that provides significant real value to people - a modern house has so many features and meets so many beauracratic and safety rules beyond just a roof over your head.

Living in a teepee is looking more attractive by the day haha.
It’s not like the US was dealing with anything resembling equals in setting up NAFTA. Canada and Mexico had much more to gain than the US so they had very little negotiating leverage.
Git Work-in-Progress (WIP) Commits: A Git Technique in Trunk-Based Development
I suspect part of the reason is that as an archeologist discovering a kitchen knife does not get you much recognition, whereas if you discover status symbols and fertility charms people pay attention. It makes it easier to get your artifacts into a museum also or to sell them (which while often illegal does happen.)
I would prefer to do this on zfs, for which there is a lovely installation guide on the openzfs docs site.

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Nix...
That is true. But I can aways move my hands back. (Searching and next, next will also take them out of the home row)

Or I can use PgUp/PgDown as well.
Well in practice there are Python libraries to do it for you ;-)

For example Simbad:

https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simbad/simbad.ht...

Stars and various other objects get string ids like "HIP19550"

https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Iden...

Then there are a bunch of different coordinate systems, you usually want to be doing lookups like "I have this particular telescope at this particular location and orientation, how should I configure it to point at this celestial object" and there is typically some astropy library function that will figure that stuff out for you.

In practice the stuff outside our solar system doesn't change its apparent motion much from our point of view. The further away an object, the less its apparent location changes. So these databases get updated every once in a while.
United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
Sigh

Rent-seeking isn't the same as collecting rent as part of being a landlord.

It's a pretty fleshed out concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Stick to a detailed comparison with... Shell !?
So that's the context for universality he's touting.
You should spend as much time as possible on your phone / the internet. When you die you won't have access to it.

There are plenty of people who consider the alternative activities you listed just as meaningless.

But if you ACTUALLY want to do those things and you don't because of internet addiction. Then you need to break it.

Positive and / or negative reinforcement.

By some snack or drug or something you really like and set a goal of no scrolling for whatever is a reasonable time limit. If you achieve it have the treat. Gradually up the time limit and increase the reward.

Negative reinforcement would be harder. It has to be something you actually don't like and drive no sense of purpose from. A lot of people will do something like pushups, but then they just see it as the cost.

Possibly since your fear is wasting time, when you catch yourself doing it. Then purposefully waste time without scrolling. Like time out.

Your positive reinforcement can't be related to the addiction though.
This is a really creative website! Nice work!
> The US doesn't have huge dredging capacity because it has good deepwater ports.

I suggest reading the article. Dredging the Mississippi five inches deeper would increase profits of the soybean industry alone by over $2 billion a year, IIRC. There’s a lot more than soybeans that travels on the Mississippi and reducing carrying costs would make all kinds of freight cheaper.
If you have display_errors on, you have much security risk than this.
We just packed the first one hundred ourselves and will ship them on Monday! The vast majority of orders ship in July due to Raspberry pi shortages. We’re trying to get as many orders as we can so we can place additional orders - it’s a bit of a chicken and the egg issue. Send us an email at support@kubesail.com and we can get your order number for a better estimate :)
In the real world we have a natural protection from these idiotic or demeaning posts: shame. It is a very important component and mechanism in social connections that is completely missing online (unless your handle is tied to your real identity like VIP Twitter).

How could it translate online where anonymity is like a shell protecting you from shame?
It’s not just the font choice for me but the entirety of Material UI. Something about it seems void.

I don’t mean that to seem unkind or critical of the people behind the design; they’re clearly very talented and far more than I am where design is concerned. It isn’t meant to be disparaging. People clearly like it, but for me personally it has always felt like it lacks any kind of soul or energy.
The conversation is complicated because LIDAR is used for many purposes in self driving. It's used for localization, it's used for objection detection, it's used for classifications, it's used for understanding occlusions, it's used to get accurate 3D positions and speeds of objects, etc. For each of these cases there is a way to use just cameras (or camera augmented with radars), but often with some significant performance penalty.

One of the big challenges is that most self driving stacks have an interface between the perception and planning stages that is specified to be a 3D model of the world. LIDARs are particularly helpful at creating 3D models because that is essentially their native data product. So, for "traditional" AV stacks that use this interface, LIDARs are bound to improve performance a lot.

If you use a different approach, say pure imitation learning off of sensor data, you might find that LIDARs are not as important. (intuition: Humans drive well without understanding super accurate positions or velocities of objects.) Though Tesla isn't taking a pure imitation learning approach (yet), they are more in line with this strategy.

All this said, I don't think that having or not having LIDARs is a major factor in the progress of self driving. It's just a way to use money to improve perception performance (and reduce data labeling cost!) but neither is the major blocker for the industry. If we extrapolate from the last 10 years of progress, it seems like high-level self driving is going to take a while and I think that it's likely that LIDAR prices will have fallen dramatically by then and we'll see them as part of the overall sensor constellation on most vehicles.
"{$arr[2]}" for array and object, {} is required.
This is just handwaving voodo - we expect better on hackernews.

Reality is landlords are in all different situations, some have spare money above costs of interest, rates, insurances, rental agent fees, etc etc and can use that to pay for maintenance. Many are putting in their own money to pay for maintenance, the same way they put in their own money to afford the deposit and purchase costs.

And when there's a problem a landlord can't just ring the first inflate-a-quote contractor and open up the unlimited checkbook you seem to be ascribing to them, they will be bankrupt very quickly if they did. Instead, they have to assess the issue, try to find a economical solution, get multiple quote and spend time finding a contractor who can do it reasonably well the first time at an affordable cost. That is not the same work as a farmer, but it sure is work. If it's not done the house quickly becomes unlivable with a broken toilet or whatever and being unlivable is also unrentable and produces no value to anyone. It's work, and it's important to keep the house functioning.

Really as you seem to think landlords do nothing but profit, similar to gnomes and underpants, perhaps you should give it a try yourself. If nothing else it will be quite a learning opportunity!
That's not really "full self driving" if you are referring to the SAE scale. Level 5, the top, is fully autonomous driving, everywhere. What you are referring to is level 4; fully autonomous driving in specific geofenced areas on predetermined routes. Think Delamain in Cyberpunk 2077.
google also introduced a refined performance improvement program recently
History of the Salvator Mundi
In the sense that it's a sorted tree pointing to data in other trees, sure. But less obvious is how they're used by cost-based optimizers and in execution plans, which is where all the real nuance is.
Habitable for organic life.

While I can't fathom anything else I still believe it's hubris to believe we understand what forms of life may exist in the universe. Maybe we exist right along something else and will never notice each other.
Review of James Cogland’s Building Git
Vuejs has a interesting and great way to avoid such feedback loops even in the presence of 2-way data binding. Most importantly you wouldn't use any watchers/effects to trigger logic on property-updates, but rather you use what they call computed property, which can do conversion on the fly, in both directions, giving different behavior on read and write.

celcius: {
get() { return this._inputCelcius || ctof(this._inputFahrenheit) }
set(newVal) {
this._inputCelcius = newVal
this._inputFahrenheit = null
}
}

Repeat for fahrenheit. Now i've seen shorter examples but most of them are very coupled to the UI, with each event on textbox writing directly to the other textbox attributes, this property can be bound to any number of textboxes and sliders without any additional code to keep them in sync. Similar techniques can be used for more complex synchronizations with conversions, like a date picker that allows both text-input and clicking a calendar.
Thinking about this:

DNT was a warning.

The answer is now tools such as cookie blockers and Tor.

But DNT and a legal mandate that both browser vendors and sites must comply with it, is the only way out of this.

Otherwise ... so long, World Wide Web. We had a good thirty years. Been nice knowing you.

Gemini, Tor, and the like, are the path out.
Occam's Razor: would only work in the short run, crash data goes to regulators.
It's not a fallacy because that would imply you know better. You don't. Wishful thinking maybe, but not a fallacy.
just check out the performance of IPOs in last two years, every one of them dipped harshly…
Just curious: does Tor have anything against timing analysis by an actor with state-level resources? My impression is it's extremely hard to defend against in general, and it's employed by governments against both .onion servers and users browsing the clearnet (although I don't have concrete evidence). AFAIK some sites in .onion get DDoSed on and off routinely, possibly to locate the origin of the server.
Lingua franca "language used as a means of communication between populations speaking vernaculars that are not mutually intelligible."
Javascript is too Web focused. Python and C are better candidates as they are more than Web.
If the law carried penalaties for that, and if browsers supported DNT, what your boss wants wouldn't matter fuck-all.
> if they operate nearby

I think my favorite variation on why we seem alone was how Earth exists in a space version of the Bermuda Triangle, called the Veil of Madness, that all spacefaring civilizations avoid: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Mankind
Radio signals sent to space unintentionally are waste - so over time you’d expect them to be reduced or eliminated just because you want to use lower power.
Not a lot of people are aware of it in a "general sense"
I just hope the aliens don't see JIRA's UI then decide our planet is better off harvested for its quark energy.
Personally, I would prefer if they just left working code alone.
I think it highly depends where you go. I have met several solo woman travellers around the world and they had 0 negative experience. Specifically for the locations that I outlined its safe and you can find co-travellers there.
Be bored. I’m not good at this yet, but I’m practicing just sitting there in those idle periods. It’s what we evolved to do, and what our phones are breaking us about
I wanted to shake things into place on my phone, but it didn't work. So broken :D
You mean being forced into being PHP devs by ${dayjob}... ;-)
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
This is one of the best science documentaries I have seen. I'm surprised I missed it - it was made in 2011, and it had a surprising amount of visual history that I was not aware of. From the rivalry between Volta and Galvani, to all the trial and error experiments of the 19th century.

I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the history of electricity or people interested in Physics in general.
Artificial intelligence is modeled after abstractions on the concept of learning, not human thought. We just name things so that they'll be fun and easy to discuss, but (for example) there's no "human neuron" floating around in the matrix math that you see in some popular techniques.
At which point you'd link the cookies file to /dev/null

Browsers would hold cookies for a session, but not between them.

This is no longer a viable option as:

- There are those who keep browser sessions alive for long periods of time (days, weeks, months, ...)

- Cross-site cookies. (Thanks, Doubleclick, and by Doubleclick, I of course mean Google which produces the most widely-used browser in the world.)

Make the Web Stateless Again.
Isn’t it just the standard line-buffering of stdout?

Print sends a newline by default but i don’t think it flushes explicitly (hence the flush keyword parameter).
really? Haven't heard about it from my friends. Are they being more aggresive like Amazon?
>I have no idea. I hear it's because

So you had an idea after all?
I agree 100%. I just closed my business, and a recent article on HN (~ "my personal website is a single binary") inspired me to start a personal website again, done in the same fashion. I think it's important to keep some level of noncommercial, passion-driven activity alive, lest the internet becomes a really sad place.
Can any other Emacs users can confirm that you indeed cannot make use of LSP with noweb? It's why I ended up abandoning the literate style, which I miss.
Yes. The liability factor is a great proof point, but the real tech innovation in my mind is not the self driving code, but instead the attack on the fundamental problem of building a model of where and when their stuff is trustworthy. As you point out, everyone else in the industry has simply punted that very difficult problem to the poor users to figure out!
Yes I believe that is basically it, their deal with HPE says they can only issue licenses for OpenVMS on VAX if they create a VSI OpenVMS on VAX release, but it is commercially unviable for them to do so – there is no way there are a sufficient number of customers willing to pay a sufficient amount of $$$ to make it worthwhile. Very few people use OpenVMS on VAX in production any more. I think, if it survives anywhere, it would likely be in embedded / industrial control applications – some MicroVAX in a factory somewhere running an ancient VMS version, controlling some machinery – but why would someone want to pay to upgrade such a system to a newer VMS version? They'd get nothing out of it and it would risk breaking things.

Putting that aside, I think a VAX release is also technically much more challenging than Alpha/Itanium was. From what I've heard, the VAX release used different (older) build tools, etc, and even if HPE or VSI still has the source, it would be quite an effort to work out even how to compile it all. By contrast, HPE was still building new Alpha/Itanium versions internally at the time it started to transition to VSI, so it was just transitioning a currently active process to another organisation, as opposed to resurrecting something which hadn't been actively done in many years.
When I first stumbled upon it in the very early 00's people were hyped about it fitting on a floppy (the "save" icon :P). Pretty amazing even today.
I don't doubt it. He would need to double earnings and go public again. I suspect the users with a large following are going to have to start paying for it through subscriptions. That and setting up a better ads platform will get him to double the earnings without having to double the user base. If he does it in less than 7 yrs the investors should be very happy.
"People don't use...". They did and they will and you will have to read and understand and maintain that cruft for years to come.
Sure, but these projects tend to be one-offs or at least small runs where the contract commits to say 10 SLS missions or something like that.

Agreed that cost plus for something comparatively cheap like a new army rifle is probably different.
Even left leaning people have absorbed right wing economic thinking! Every economic think tank repeating the mantra that Government employees are fat overpaid bureaucrats that can't deliver projects.

All software projects are fraught with risk, but when no one takes responsibility for the outcome, and particularly when the people who generate requirements have no stake in its success, the probability of failure increases rapidly. The de-skilling of the public service in favour of advice from highly paid consultants, often the same ones who provide the services, means no impartial advice or trustable expertise, so governments can't be smart buyers.
But the pages linked from that article are all about low-resolution screens like 24/27” 1080P or 1200P? Not sure how that relates to most 4K screens unless they are extremely large (larger than 27”).

Like I said, all my 4K 27” screens show crispy text on macOS.
How can you even put odds on something like this?
I don't. These days I try to be online only to do something specific: searching for specific, writing, email etc. I am online for 2/3 hours/day. I use Facebook Twitter etc. but not that much. Here's a trick: turn notifications off on all your devices and you'll be happier. The idea is to "consume" only the content you want and only at the time you want.
> working 80 hours a week outputs productivity somewhere between 1 to 2 times the productivity of 40 hours a week

Effort and energy spent will be somewhere between 1 to 2... but as soon as stress and exhaustion set in (which may happen fairly soon) you may find actual productivity tanking well below 1 and even into the negatives, due to all the mistakes and bad decisions you start making.
> I'm sure the author means well, but this rubs me the wrong way

Me too.

I don't want to live running on the treadmill my whole life. Default human state is idle - all work comes from necessity, whether from hunger, cold, or some other, more sophisticated need.

The idea that "we can all do better, therefore we must" might seem noble from at first - striving for the perfection and whatnot - it's still an idea that mostly benefits those who benefit from our work and don't benefit from our idleness, whoever those people may be. And it is often used as an excuse to bully those who fail to meet such expectations.
It won't be extinction level, no, but there will be famines and migrations and collapse of governments and violence. That much is guaranteed.
Sure, but would GPT-3 be able to interpret dolphin chatter just by somehow using dolphin audio as input? I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure it won't work out of the box and we're still far away from achieving that result. And dolphins are closer to us in type of intelligence (i.e. central neuro-electric mass with peripheral connections mediated by the exact same chemicals) than any hypothetical extraterrestrial species.
The one thing I consistently see CS programs omit which drives me nuts with new hires. Zero knowledge of version control. Do yourself a favor and learn git now so you don't suffer later. It will help you all throughout your college classes too. TBH I'm not sure why this is such a glaring omission in CS degrees, I guess they just want to teach theory, not practical application but I've seen it consistently missing from new CS grads.
Theory: a huge dredge would save $500 million in a contract.

Fact: a huge dredge ship might cost $250-300 million or more.

Problem: then buying one to do the project and then throwing it away would save money. But this isn’t being done.

I have my suspicions about how much money would actively be saved, and note a bunch of “remove any and all safeguards”.