skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the real world someone has to program the self driving system to make the decision about how to react. That is, there is a software team somewhere that is going to have to decide what behaviour to program into the system for the trolley problem. So, your statement that it is not an abstract philosophical question is patently false. Obligatory link to The Good Place making the trolley problem real here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRhrfhP5b4

It is hopelessly naive to think that these problems can simply be engineered away. In the real world failures happen in redundant systems. Air brakes are supposed to "fail safe", but in reality a host of factors contribute to accidents: how well a truck or trailer's brakes are maintained, engine state, speed, loading, temperature and grade all combine to make them fail. Trains have multiple braking systems, yet sometimes all 3 fail and a spectacular accident occurs.

In addition to all the traditional mechanical issues, self driving vehicles have tonnes of software failure modes that traditional cars do not. More importantly, those software issues are not well understood at this point in time.

If you want to better understand why software can't be trusted to Do The Right Thing, go back and read investigations analyzing failures of systems that have come before. The Therac-25 is good over here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

No system a human can build can be completely intrinsically safe. Mistakes by designers occur. Safety is a process that takes time and effort, and it will take decades for self driving cars to work out all the bugs.
Contribute to what? If you have something that is fundamentally difficult to share (like a Smalltalk image) what are you contributing to other than entropy?
This is what the world looked like when it felt safe/exciting/mysterious, maybe I'll feel that way now if I make it look like that again. For me that world is in the seventies, not the nineties. I want a psychedelic not a web revival.
Pharo, at least, has very tight integration with git via Iceberg. Other variants have had (not from personal experience, only reading what others wrote) very good or at least decent (that is, no worse than the rest of industry) version control at least back to the 90s.
How would they know if you are abroad? Couldn't you just setup a static IP in a data center in the country you are supposed to be in and VPN through it?
This. The 909 is where it's at... at least for techno!
My dad who just retired at age 83 from the Australian building industry explained it to me that plans and measurements will use either metres or millimetres, but never centimetres. The thinking being you can usually figure out which is which for any given number, but you add centimetres into the mix then it becomes much more ambiguous.
They don’t give the option of paying more? Or direct you to their business/enterprise team if you really want it?
I agree, I feel like it's only for niche uses. But if you have a niche requirement it can be very useful - I have issues with my ISP provided modem and they won't replace it. I use HA to locally power cycle the modem's plug from my phone (my router still works so local networking is fine)
I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding something. Definitely seem to be missing something. I didn't ask what's being done with the data. I asked where it goes.

Do you think there's equivalence between selling user data to a marketplace of 4,700 third parties, and an internal machine-learning-sized A/B test?

https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2021/09/02/what-does-it...

Or put another way:

> So the argument is, because they ... don't share with anyone else they are vastly different?

Yes.
You should not get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit (unless you are driving over every plausible speed limit), but a corporation should. This is not an arbitrary distinction, and equivocating as you have hurts your argument.
> everyone sings "Go, Cubs, Go."

Why are chants so incredibly lame and unimaginative in US sports?

Not sure this is supporting the argument that you think you're making.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_chant
Firefox still supports browsing without tabs

It sort of does. I can't open settings in a new window without opening settings in a new tab first and then moving the tab to a new window. Or, create a new window and paste about:preferences into the url bar. Maybe there's some userChrome.css to do it.

I can create userChrome.css, which is discouraged, in order to hide the redundant tab bar with the single tab in it. Yes, it sort of works, it's kludgy and has issues.
That is correct. But we were talking about how the == operator compares zeros. According to IEEE 754, -0 == +0 even though their bit patterns are not identical. And, by the way, inf != inf even if their bit patterns are identical.
I think i see what you mean and as far as i know there are some realisations with mixxx that look close to your idea.
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/Portable-Mixxx
I did something similar with an arch linux running kde and only the packages i needed for using reaper, carla and a few vst synths. This page could be usefull for configuring your distro :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio
Using it live with many plugins at the same time on my 2015 mid-budget laptop and it's working pretty well.
The article quotes low to moderate risk, an acceptable threshold is no to very low risk. Also the existence of TFA in drinking water is a much larger concern than TFA in the troposphere
I just setup tailscale yesterday to access a local urbit node and it’s seriously great!

They really solved what has always been a major pain with local hosting and made it really easy to use.

I ended up using NextDNS over pihole, but only because it was just easier to get the same result.
Turning off branch prediction sounds like a weird hack that serves no purpose, just underclock and undervolt your CPU if you care about power consumption that much.
as someone from "before the Internet" I find this tiny (real) anecdote about watching a single YouTube video "ruining recommendations" very powerful in all the wrong ways
The best drum machine of all time is the Digitakt. Case closed.
In my early career I've had several recruiters who were very interested in me based on my resume, had several conversations and then when they found out my GPA said they couldn't place me.

Also had several jobs I wanted that required a certain GPA even 5-10 years into my career.
Frequently this has to be mandated to some degree, otherwise you get people who feel using male pronouns and names exclusively is fine even if the target audience is overwhelmingly female or that "shit" is a perfectly fine synonym for "stuff" in official documents or that terms that are considered brutally racist by everyone but the very far right are fine for public release because they are technically correct in an extremely narrow way. It saves everyone a lot of time and breath if there is a mandatory set of guidelines to point to; adhere to them or this will not get released. If those guidelines are done well, it's hardly ever an issue except for those special types that are on some kind of crusade or whatever.
My favourite is

> I've got an item of produce without a barcode (places on scales)

>> Ok, I've clearly taken a picture and decided it's a banana because that's the only option I'm showing you

> Yes, it's a banana

>> That's x amount by weight, please bag it

> Ok

...

And then 2 minutes later when I try to pay, it summons the cashier and shows them the picture it took of the banana, because it no longer thinks it looks like a banana.
Only 5% of all IT spend is on any cloud provider:

https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas...

The grocery store market is definitely not a monopoly

https://www.statista.com/statistics/818602/online-and-offlin...

And Whole Foods makes up less than 2%

There is definitely not a “tech monopoly” on renting an apartment. On the other hand, the government can and does take away peoples property through both imminent domain and civil forfeiture.

The government already controls who can fly and who can’t via “no fly lists”

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/grounded-life-...

So no, I have no desire to give government more power.
I suppose that if you assume in-order execution and count the clock cycles, you should get a guaranteed lower bound of performance. It may be, say, 30-40% of the performance you really observe, but having some headroom should feel good.
You could argue AI aims to destroy humanity. Then we really have a problem on our hands.
Lol, Golang.

res, err = doSomething()

If there is an error how on earth does the res value make sense.
That's like saying bad trapeze artists are not a valid argument for safety nets.
Man, if it really was that amazing, you'd see it in the numbers. Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014. Its still a rounding error in terms of revenue in their annual reports.

Personally, I just felt it was gimmicky - try it once or twice for curiosity's sake, then forget about it.

Nothing on VR enthusiasts - I'm sure you have reasons to love it. But as a piece of tech, unless there are drastic improvements, I just don't see it gaining mass adoption.
The teams are pretty darn interlinked and the engine is source available. Seems highly unlikely they aren’t able to discuss things if they’re important.
But that doesn’t mean there can’t be express trains that bypass the minor stops, no?
Isn't that pretty much interchangeable for most practical purposes whilst residing on planet Earth?
Ten million transistors maximum actually. The nm figure is not a transistor pitch.
Those are not tabs but website icons (think iOS home screen).
As a spaniard, please don't.

I'm fine with programming in english, this only complicate things for everyone involved. Imagine if every popular language out there had their own adaptations or even their own programming languages.

Also, you must know english for coding. There is no way you can be a good developer without a good english knowledge - docs, specs, protocols, guides, tools, books, remote jobs with international teams... everything is in english.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans Would Mean Less Free Speech for Many
Sure, then the devices throw up an error and refuse to function. I noticed that most smart TV streaming apps refused to run if they failed to connect to their ad servers.
Also, FWIW Apple is no longer part of this lobbying group. And I'm no fan of Apple - they're a greedy anti-repair company.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/07/apple-leaves-priv...

But even otherwise, the links between the companies and legislation are weak to begin with (IMO). Its a lot of lazy connect-the-dots type reasoning that turns "may be" "could be" "seems like" into "must be" and "is".
Would Itanium have been better served with bytecode and a modern JIT? Also, doesn't RISC-V kinda get back on that VLIW track with macro-ops fusion, using a very basic instruction set and letting the compiler figure out the best way to order stuff to help target CPU make sense of it?
I'm surprised at the negativity here. The framing/headline could be a bit better (it's less logic and rather a taste of the "art" of punchy, emotive typography, the softer intuition side of things) - but as a working corporate design manager, his rationale checks out for basic projects that working designers are presented with.

Of course, therin lies the split between engineers and designers. :) Each to their own, ultimately, and there's different places for both.
Because it's bike shedding. The post is about some pretty interesting database internals and a comment nitpicking about the semantics of language, which have no relevance to the article content, isn't constructive.
Thank you, I did not know lenguajelatino
In general you need to build the whole heat pump (incl. compressor) for the specific refrigerant and application you have in mind.

So if you have an existing line of products using synthetic refrigerants, and a dozen factories around the world making those, you might very well choose to listen to a manufacturer of synthetic refrigerants pushing a new fancy one, rather than decide you need to re-engineer all your products for natural working fluids.
I heard that the desire to make x86 emulation performant on Itanium made things really bad, compared to a "clean" VLIW architecture.
I wish there were something that opens the windows automatically at the right time to keep the heat* and humidity out. I'm sure other people will have had that idea, too. But I haven't come across easy-to-use hardware controls. That's not even talking about the full optimal control problem, i.e. weather forecast, the heat capacity and heat permeability of the walls, and any cigarette smoke coming in.

*Air conditioning is hard to get permission for as a renter in Germany.
Proprietary software and hardware is malware. Stallman told us this decades ago.
This thesis would be more interesting if it had some actual examples & evidence of being true.
Very much depends on what "reasonable effort" looks like.

If product management think it's "just point lucene at the DB.. maybe a sprint or two", then you're in for an interesting conversation....
I'll put my hand up and say none of the post or answers were obvious to me. I found it all very interesting.
So in other words the government law was ineffective at accomplishing its goals — all 11 chapters and 99 sections?

https://gdpr-info.eu/
slice up potatoes

fry the slices in oil

salt the fried slices
I was huge fan of Factor but at least at the time (before the pandemic) their packaging was iffy and I'd often get a delivery where more than half of the meal trays where busted. I did Trifecta for a bit after, they've got robust packaging but the food wasn't nearly as good as Factor's.
TGV are much worse than ICE. The TGV double-decker sucks. Tiny overhead storage. Bad leg room. Too hot in summer. And toilets are not well maintained. ICE is a much better train configuration. Although the time I used them weekly a few years back they were incredibly unreliable with huge delays.
The algebra works for reals, binary floating point is a different beast!
I honestly can't grasp this mentality. Very often types are so incredibly trivial that it makes no sense to include. Just like it would make no sense to write `1 + 1` as `((1: Int) (+: Int -> Int -> Int) (1: Int)): Int`. As if types add anything but clutter here. And many cases writing down types is just as unreadable as that.
I don't know what reply did you expect me to give to "try to board a plane to Moscow then".
Open Source software KVM for Linux/Windows/Mac:

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
No you just need an army of lawyers. Just like you need them to interpret the 11 chapter 99 section GDPR.
They don't want you forking it for that purpose, either.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

Is it technically open source? Yes. Is it spiritually open source? No. Is it arrogance and poor management? Along with many ways this project is run, absolutely yes.
> "Para i=1 hasta 7 hacer"

It's the standard spanish pseudocode
And if you do want to lock your bike to something immovable, the standard seems to be a chain that locks into the ring lock, with a loop on the end- which gives you a lot more flexibility than a D-lock.

The other factor, though, is that standard Dutch city bikes are not designed to be easily dismantled. If you have quick release wheels, you want to be able to lock the front wheel as well as the frame (and ideally also the rear wheel).
Is this relevant to interpreted languages as well? I’m thinking perhaps Pythons bytecode could have similar optimisations.
Especially if your interest is long-distance travel and you haven’t discovered the difference between ICE (Munich to Nuremberg in 1:10, perhaps a stop in Ingolstadt - Airbus + Audi) and RB (Munich to Nuremberg in 2:30…ish, stop in all the little towns)
Yeah nah that's a a bit of a lie. I generally put a fair bit of effort into buying open and not locked down hardware. Saying my gear is gonna lock up during a 8 hour session because it's not all from some locked down ecosystem is porky pies.

Your spreading fud. It generally winds up being if you think computers are unreliable for music production your probably just doing it wrong re. setup and config of your computer.

Also just for anyone reading this into DJing but wants to avoid closed apps. Ditch serato and Pioneer, virtualDj is way more advanced software wise, way more polished and way more open. Give it a burl the AI stems are a game changer.
Nice, it looks a little bit like Micromundos (they translate the logo language).
Personally I would prefer a C like syntax instead of Algol.
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US (2018)
It makes me very happy to know that all of these websites exist.

It also makes me sad to see unnecessary hostility towards crypto. I get it: most NFTs are hyper commercialized trash, and they're in direct opposition to the values outlined in this article. But there's also so much weird, non-commercialized crypto stuff out there that shares a lot of the ethos of early web tinkerers.
Egypt signs €8B deal with Siemens for high-speed rail system
If that was Angular 1 I admire your patience. It felt like a such a step back crossed with layers of unnecessary ad-hoc complexity.

Everything else on your list is perfectly fine.
If you’re willing to add and maintain an ad-blocker in every single of your browsers (and potentially your family’s) and don’t care about non browser apps it’s virtually the same.
Yes because the largest Android manufacturer - Samsung - doesn’t have any hardware manufacturing expertise.
It’s a logical step after the blue passports. And like the passports, a useful distraction. But did anyone tell him that these glorious imperial units were just weird multiples of the corresponding SI units these days?
I think we might be at that point currently.
I'll never be able to find a reference to it, but I distinctly remember AR goggles being used for aircraft maintenance 10-15 years ago, if not farther back than that. It's a very obvious application, and not a new one at all.
> Lisp and Smalltalk may well be great for reinventing wheels, for writing un-readable self modifying code and as a challenging intellectual exercise, but all your productivity just went out the window.

This assessment seems very unfair to the current environments of both languages. Perhaps you ought to delve in a second time?
To clarify, I'm not saying I would never cheat. Rather that cheating meant more complications and risks than completing my coursework in the way it was intended.

If we were given take-home multiple choice forms to be judged by I'm certain people would cheat. But I've never seen that, possibly because it feels like a pretty lousy (and lazy) way of evaluating and educating students.
I include your example.

The definition of iot from Wikipedia also does it.

But honestly why I hate my iot window blinds device it's the perfect excuse to use vlan at home.
That's so sad it's almost full circle and funny again...
Yes and this is the same government that HN users are cheerleading to protect their privacy. I am much more concerned about government overreach than any private company.
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The original author here is using a Pi 4 which is well known for being pretty fast and hot. One easier way to solve the power usage problem would just be to not use a Pi 4. Something like a Zero 2W might be able to pull it off since it has a quad core cortex A53 SoC which runs with dramatically less power. The Cortex A72 in the Pi 4 is great but it is a comparatively very large processor compared to the A53 (you even often see A72-A53 big-little SoC configurations for this reason. GPU acceleration might become necessary for high performance video streaming but iirc the VideoCore IV on the Pi is pretty okay, especially for transcoding.
Out of sheer ignorance: what are the implications of not having the proper paperwork? Do Japan's street policemen take note of suspicious looking bikes and follow up with their owners?
"Can be permanently secured to the ground" and "Can be temporarily secured to a bicycle" are the only two requirements!
We have more privacy because of GDPR?
He can pursue photography and film-making as a hobby. Lots of people work to get paid and spend their spare time pursuing hobbies which might not be profitable.
SPA often has pages. And pages are actually wonderful concept that should have migrated to desktop apps but it didn't

Ability to point to specific place in the UI of a desktop app with a short link would be so great.

Although we got something similar or even better with Ctrl+Shift+P in VSCode.
Used it for five years. You've distilled the all the problems of HA nicely to its source. The product is fine for a while, until the arrogance and disregard the devs have against the user base inevitably breaks something and you have to spend time fixing things. And it happens often.

Edit: Just went through the DNS thread. Good lord. Just their typical M.O. on breaking things in the past.
IIRC 150 students and maybe 6-10 TAs per class
microdosing is VC backed now! aren’t you thrilled?! :/
It would be nice if it provided sources for any of these claims (e.g. the recession will be long)

Economics is the biggest “bro science”
This also, while common sense, is unfortunately often incorrect -- at least the part about avoiding chapter 3 (a different book is a good idea).

If you didn't understand chapters 1 and 2 in a textbook, reading -- or at least skimming -- chapters 3 and 4 is usually helpful. It doesn't make sense to read them for mastery, but you'll see context where material from chapters 1 and 2 is applied, or concepts that build on them. You have to be comfortable with confusion, since most of it will go over your head. You will pick out some parts.

Once you've done that, go back to chapters 1 and 2.

Think of calculus: limits -> derivatives -> integrals.

However, you can understand a Reimann sum without derivatives or limits. It helps understand and motivate both.

This is called a whole math approach. You make successive passes with increasing depth. I've explained calculus concepts to kids under 10 with no problems, as have many others. Over time, you want to develop:

- Mechanics of integration, differentiation, and other computation

- Applications (e.g. debt versus deficit)

- Intuition

- Formalism

- And so on...

All of those support each other.

You see this in how you read research papers too. Novices read them linearly, and experts absorb them nonlinearly.

As a footnote, Vygotsky (in the original, e.g. 1978 translation) is probably the first person to discover that doing things beyond your level of ability accelerates learning. Not aiming for mastery means you're free to fail, free to try harder things, and learn faster (if more painfully).

85% of American textbooks about Vygotsky, though, always say exactly what he was trying to debunk. He pushed very hard for learning being harder and more abstract than most thought possible.
Your ad hominem attacks against someone who was at least being respectful is dragging down the vibe, more so than any amount of definitional hair splitting.
So, wealth is getting redistributed downwards because of inflation. Am I getting that right?

Wouldn’t want that to happen. </sarcasm>