skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of this issue. I'm not sure what the system does, i imagine it disengages same as if the view were to suddenly to become obscured. They have a safety model that basically says it's not allowed to move the car more than you would be able to override. So it's limited which is why you have a lot of disengagemenets on curvy roads. I think it's a great safety model as you should always be paying attention.

I don't think that problem is even in the top 5 risks of the system
Why Californians Are Fleeing to Mexico
This is fantastic. Super easy to listen and use.

One suggestion: a brief fade in/out on play/stop. Stops, in particular can be pretty jarring.
I'm going to use this to make AI to figure out the killer app for blockchain, then use the infinite funds I generate to build a fully self driving car.
Cloudflare R2
tere (or "dere") is used in austrian colloquial german for helo as well (but also for "bye"). Seems TIL where it comes from
Dumb solution: make soft deletes explicit in your backup system.

Your company has a database backup system right? That system should be configured so that when it runs a backup, it will not remove deleted entries from the previous backup, instead just mark them as "deleted_since" the current backup time.

Idk if any backup system actually support this, if there's some glaring problem (like you can't just overwrite parts of a database backup for some reason), or if most companies just don't have backups because they're too expensive (probably not), but this is the solution I would go with. It works for other sorts of data like file systems as well.
> and a carrier takes literally minutes to speed up / slow down / turn

No it doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Q8P049-2Q

The US Aircraft carriers are powered by two nuclear powerplants, with massive rudders/turbines that can propel, accelerate, and move the craft at surprising speeds.

In fact, one of the problems of the US Supercarriers is that at these high speeds / acceleration, an unprepared sailor can fall off the ship. Its legitimately one of the most common ways to die on a US Supercarrier.
> Gone are the days of just trying to assume people mean the best

I think people have been bitten in the back enough time by assuming the best that people have switched to thinking this way. When you try to be nice and keep getting taken advantage of then it's hard to stay nice.
Keep it short and precise.
Why would this be anywhere near the line? I think it's squarely within the line :-)
> Why build it so big if you’re not going to use the stored water during periods of drought? Storage is the whole point of the thing… except there’s one more thing to discuss: Engineers and planners don’t actually know what the worst case scenario drought will be over the lifetime of a reservoir.

In regards to Lake Mead, perhaps others, the size and keeping it near full affords you time to find an alternative supply or some other solution that is undeterminable at concept/construction.
Is it me or has this paper gone to great lengths to effectively rediscover the humble (but oft misunderstood) p-value?
No, the frauds are regularly fined less money than they made and they never seem to pursue criminal charges either.
I think this is in jest, but to answer seriously: No, I think that's actually backwards, trying to make a language more "packed" will harm information flow.

Evidence suggests the real limit is how quickly human brains can take ideas/qualia, convert them into abstractions, and encode the abstractions into language. This is because (A) very different languages still exhibit similar limits and (B) those limits appear to be governed by the sending-side. People can comprehend spoken words at a higher rate than they can spontaneously emit them.

So trying to make the language more "compact" would likely just waste precious brain-cycles on the compression step, which isn't actually necessary when your mouth already supports talking faster.

Technology analogy: Two computers are collaboratively solving a problem with back-and-forth messages. The network connection is actually very good, however the bottleneck is the CPU in each computer. Will the problem be solved faster if you change the transmission style from plaintext to gzipped?
Try https://www.specifyapp.com and thank me later!
This is definitely part of it. The entry level courses we took in electrical engineering were insanely hard, and pretty worthless for developing any real engineering skills. It was mostly felt like it was selecting for people who were really good at math puzzles. It just felt like they were trying to scare people away.
Air Force UAVs: The Secret History (2010) [pdf]
I'm guessing this is the source for that: https://youtu.be/jtxew5XUVbQ?t=512
And the damage is cumulative so the best time to start taking any necessary high blood pressure medication is now.
That's not true. There's a variety of reasons why outliers can exist, for example data quality issues where an experiment failed or the method to measure the data did not work. The approach presented there in my opinion has one big caveat: It tries to learn the cause of outliers from the data itself instead of incorporating domain knowledge! Having and using domain knowledge is time consuming and difficult, but nothing can replace it. One cannot automate away to critically explore and understand the data, although machine learning folks think they do.
He was also very active on twitter https://twitter.com/thomas_lord, but I do not know if any of it is technology related (as opposed to arguing about communism vs capitalism in housing, which is where I know him from).
Since you asked, here's a polar projection centered on Moscow.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3201b.ct002675/?r=0.011,0.16,1...
> I am not a statistician, so I don't know under what circumstances outliers are usually thrown out.

As an industrial statistician, I can tell you: way too often.

Outliers are the signal among the noise. They indicate something. It is nearly always worth finding out what, instead of removing them. If they indicate a flaw with measurement or the process, then fix that flaw and re-do the measurement or re-run the process. Outlier gone! But in a much more informative way.
Or this one https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-114
Some people still think the slippery slope argument is a fallacy.
Go to Google and search for numbeo.com you will find most of the numbers there.
Unfortunately humanity as a whole isn't immediately threatened until smaller pockets have already lost habitat.

And by the time all of humanity is immediately threatened it's too late to save it.
Unfortunately yes. That was interesting system before git…
Just to be clear, you're advocating for setting fire to people's homes?
> the difficulty of getting one in the United States.

I had never even HEARD of the minidisc before I worked abroad in england from 2004-2006. Then seeing it being both ubiquitous, common, and cheap (and nearing it's EOL) was stunning.

It's just a fun little format. The discs were just the right size and could store a boatload of info for the time. It was back when a 64mb mp3 player was pretty expensive.
That seems a little skewed. Musk owes $X billion, and _gets the company_.

If Musk gives some smaller amount of money, though still several billion, but the shareholders still own the company, that's not going to be too hard to sell as a win.
Good post, this person know what they are talking about. Source: I make gin
Microsoft is launching a Facebook rip-off inside Teams
I have this problem. What is DBT?
I haven't use it but my understanding is that htmx is normally paired with something like alpinejs for which there existes date picker components.
> As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower’s identity.

This would seem to preclude any way of independently verifying their claims.

Realistically, to prove that there existed a whistleblower and this is not just marketing by the SEC, you would need incredible amounts of evidence, and even then you'd have no way of knowing whether the evidence is fabricated. At some level I think you end up just having to trust that the SEC isn't lying about paying whistleblowers.
Could someone take a stab at an example of what this would look like? Sounds really interesting.
Grady have been doing a great job since day 0 with his videos, I'm so glad to see him working on publishing a book now, and that the quality of the videos are getting better and better too!
It was certainly not all deep fried. Gross. I'd have been sick the whole time.
There's an inherent risk that inviting pigeons into the military might lead to them overthrowing the civilian government. They are constantly talking about a coo.
Because there was no point. It was already known it would be radically more costly than fission.

So, money spent on fusion is welfare for the military contractors who build the test articles, and for hot-neutron physicists who might be needed for weapons work.

It is good that a few plasma fluid dynamics physicists and their grad students get the odd bone or two, because it is a too-neglected field. It would be better to give them the whole budget.
> saying natural rights derive from property rights, which this sounds like, is pretty popular in right wing libertarian circles

But it’s a distorsion of free market!

Not versed into philosophical currents, but very-right-wing people would claim that it’s not the role of the state to protect one’s IP rights, much less at least than protecting their physical integrity (at least every citizen has a body, as opposed to patents); The sponsor of the state to protect patents or copyright is effectively a “bribe” of states towards some private citizen, for something which is incredibly costly and unfair to prevent (think “The state guarantees me against the harm of my ideas getting used by everybody”), and therefore constitutes a unfair advantage, a misuse of public power, and a distortion of free market in favor of IP owners. Frequently seen when large corporations alter governments to tilt the balance to their advantage.

In a ideally liberal state, Microsoft would keep its secrets for itself OR choose to publish, but if you succeed to decompile, then Windows becomes effectively open-source, and you wouldn’t have such monopolistic behaviors enforced with the help of public taxes. But then the USA wouldn’t be hegemonic.
CD Projekt stock is worth a quarter of what it was before Cyberpunk released
> Updated

> 3 May 2021

Interesting.
When you sign up with Oracle, you need to provider a CC. How can you guarantee that you're not accidentally opting in into any paid tier?
But every language needs to get a foothold within its hype period. In a few years the hype for Rust will die down, at that point you wont get new blood unless they are forced to learn it so it will be hard to grow.

Programmers are forced to learn C++ since many jobs require it. Students were forced to learn Python since teachers choose it as a language at universities. You need some reason like this for a language to thrive after its hype cycle is over, and currently there are no such reasons forcing programmers to learn Rust and it doesn't look like there will be any within a few years either.
> you logged into your Paypal account and the payment is registered there

No payment was made. They just sent an "invoice estimate" at my email, presumably randomly. No hacking was done, this is a phishing attempt, not a hacking attempt. This is why they so "wholesomely" offer that phone number to contact them if anything went wrong and I needed a "Refund". That's how they legitimize that phone number and increase their chances of a successful attack.
> What if you need to haul things while simultaneously carrying a family around?

Have one partner drive a sedan/wagon with the kids and another partner haul. A lot more economical too.
In a previous place I worked, we were programmatically using Box to store files. One day we were presented with a case study in Murphy's Law: a script went awry and deleted everything (10s of thousands of files). There was no clear way to recover these files, they were gone from what we could see. It was a disaster. We got a Box support person on the phone and described what had happened. There was a pause, some mouse clicking and then: "Ok, those files will be back in your account in an hour."

It was 100% our fault. But soft deletes saved us that day. If you're in a situation where you or your customers could benefit from the same, it's wise to not only embrace them but also make sure they work.
Reset the password and take over the account. A little mean, I guess, but it seems like the other person has had plenty of opportunity to fix the issue.
They look like deck screws. Probably fine.
I loved living and working the the Bay Area. Friends and loved ones aside (I met my wife in SF) I really loved the ability to hop on my bike and pick a climate. Tahoe one weekend, Big Sur the next, Napa the following weekend then chill at home.

I was kind of an introvert in high school and I know it is cliché, but I moved to SF and found myself. Everyone should live in a place like SF for a year when they are young. Maybe "your" SF is New York or maybe it is Singapore or maybe it is Vancouver or London or Berlin. The point is, if you are on the fence about the adventure, I recommend you take the leap.
you know, that could be a very useful nightlight for the middle of the night when you can't see your feet, stairs, or... lego pieces.
I don’t think your premise is correct. The holy grail of such systems - Human Intelligence- will also break similarly if it’s asked to identify a car from an undercarriage when the human subject has never ever seen an undercarriage. We really forget how much data humans are able to expose themselves to in their formative years. I’d often bend down to fetch my ball that had accidentally slid under a parked car and that’s how I learnt about the look of undercarriages.
I've asked about this on HN before and was told that latency and connectivity is the big issue. I think there is a startup doing this. Basically have drivers in mock cars like remote Uber drivers. But realistically you would need some hybrid approach but that sounds so much worse
On average, really probably not much difference.

If you're talking about any game released in the last 5 years (you probably are), then WebGPU is pretty much fine for anything you could throw at it. Your limitation is going to be your usage of it far before any limitation of the actual API.

WebGPU as an API is basically just the union of Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX 12.

If you're using it natively (i.e. using it as a graphics abstraction on a native platform, not in a browser), it's very little overhead compared to using those other APIs directly.

Where things start to differ:

* When used in browsers, WASM->JS->C API calls have overhead. Not much, but some.

* WGSL compilers I believe aren't super optimized right now. In theory they could be almost as fast as SPIR-V -> target, but for now I think they prefer safety over speed.

* Multi-threading support: using the webgpu API across threads, as far as I know is not supported yet but would come after V1. This isn't a huge deal IMO, you can just use it in one thread dedicated to rendering.

* Hyper-modern features, like Mesh shaders (which IIRC are only available in DX12, and in Vulkan only available on Nvidia cards), or whatever Metal 3 provides.

* Ray tracing, not supported currently.
Note that you can use alphanumerical seeds too, for example your HN username https://outage.bingo/?month=9&seed=nemothekid
If that's what Musk is betting on, he might as well just complete the sale now. I don't think there's anything reasonable to judge the deal by except the _current_ worth, unless there's some good reason to expect it to move one way or the other.
"Just learn some Altium?" Really? It's like saying, just learn some python and visual code and off you to to a 400k FAANG job
Hmmm, total depletion, Aral Sea style? Why isn't that the worst case scenario?
I believe the article serves as a nice and quick introduction to CBT. That shit works, but I would not say it's a matter of mind over matter, it's more like realising that your behaviour depends on how you feel and your thoughts --conscious or not-- are what control your feelings.
It seems pretty clear that a QVM isn’t going to magically offer better performance than the underlying hardware. The main benefit I’d guess at as a layman would be that they can write more meaningful quantum logic now and run it somewhere while they wait for the real deal to scale
complain about people not getting fair wages in america..goes to mexico and is grateful to pay people pennies
>But somehow people think that "things were so much better before"

Because they often were for the upper middle class.

But not really. A lot of people today would be horrified by the grocery stores of the 60s/70s, the safety standards of cars, etc.
In Australia during droughts there are reminders to not throw cigarette butts out the window of cars.
Lightning also plays a large role in starting fires, but I also recall, as a child, being told that rubbish (litter) such as bottles and cans can reflect the harsh sunlight in a focused way and cause an ember.

I recall not buying a diesel mazda car because it had a disclaimer about not parking on long grass because of the danger of starting a fire. Apparently, mazda finally made it to recall status:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-12-29/ford-rangers-ma...

From the owner's manual⋮

> Parking over or near anything flammable, such as dry grass, is dangerous.

https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/cx-5/cx-5_8gj1ee18b/c...
Or some Kuwaiti guy figured out the US military will pay outrageous markups.
robotics is primarily c++ and python. that may change to being rust and python, but it will definitely take some time.
There’s probably an exclusion in the law that prevents employees of the SEC from getting a bounty. But the SEC IG would absolutely investigate a report of something like that, and the civil service has robust protections for whistleblowers against retaliatory actions like getting fired or demoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...

I'm not sure its accurate though. The marginal rate of forest coverage loss seems to have dropped substantially since 2008.
> I'd hazard that proporptionally far more people know nothing concrete about how computers work than did when I was a kid.

I think that's only true if that "proportionally" means "proportional to the number of people who have to work with computers on a daily basis".

I don't know exactly when you were a kid, but from the ZX Spectrum comment, I'd guess it was in the early 1980s. I guarantee you more people, both in absolute numbers and in proportion to the total population, know concrete things about how computers work now than did then. Huge percentages of the population of the world had never even seen a computer when the ZX Spectrum was current. Computer Science curriculum (and related fields) was still, relatively speaking, in its infancy, and the number of institutions that even had anything that could be reasonably termed a functioning CS (or, again, related) department was fairly small.

Today, yes, there are a lot of people who know very little about how computers work, even though nearly everyone (especially in the Western world) uses computers on a daily basis. There are even a lot of people with tech-related degrees who don't know the full ins and outs of how computers work even at a medium level of abstraction.

But there are so many more people who have had the opportunity to learn about computers because of their ubiquity. There are so many more people who have, either through formal education or otherwise, learned how an operating system loads drivers, or how a file system manages space, or how a program allocates and frees memory, than in the early 1980s.

I believe what you are seeing is the difference between a world where, when there was someone you could talk to about computers at all, they had to know how they worked in order to use them effectively, and a world where computers are so widespread everyone uses them, and so user-friendly that the vast majority of people never need to know or care how to do anything remotely like changing the jumpers on a SCSI drive or the dip switches on a sound card.
Me and my wife have been exploring the current state of quantum computing to apply it to procedural generation and games - I don't think we'll be able to create something we couldn't with classical computing, but just moving from a PRNG to what I always call "quantum chaos" is just fun.
Does anyone have a link to a curriculum for teaching Logo to a young grade schooler? There are tons of articles talking about the theory of education, and how great / impactful it was, but I can't find a textbook, worksheets, or even an emulator with a manual targeting a 1-2nd grade reading level.
Sure, the Chrome security team have got a problem, Rust has a solution, if somebody comes along with a better solution why wouldn't you.

But, right now Carbon doesn't have a better solution, it only has an ambition to build an incremental path toward being able to be a solution.

Importantly it has an ambition but it has no proposal for how to get there. There are other safe languages, but AFAIK none of them launched with "Eh, we'll do safety later, I'm sure we don't need to start with it". The ones I'm thinking of all began with their safety principles and then they added cool features which were inspired by those principles.

I reckon that even if that's not directly causal, it means the culture associated with these "We'll do safety later" languages doesn't prioritise safety highly enough. So ambition or not, they aren't going to put the hard work in to make it actually happen.
> It's unclear what utility this mindset has and how it will not lead to self-delusion.

You gotta believe you are the best and let the chips fall where they may.

Matter of fact if self-confidence and faith is high enough, you'd be having such a blast that you won't care where the chips fall at all.

It's a way of cutting the corner, before you'd need accomplishments to be happy with yourself...after acquiring the faith you skip to the good part directly.
>Is Dart, and Flutter right now getting sunsetted?

Yes, in Bizarro world.
>I do want Minecraft to police its userbase pretty actively.

I don't. A game with several players on a 3rd party server should not be a concern of Microsoft, just like what I'm saying to my son during a game of Brawl shouldn't be a concern of Nintendo.

Or what I'm saying to my wife on my phone shouldn't concern AT&T.
> I tried logging into the account to take it over and change the address myself, but they have 2FA enabled so this wasn't possible.
It's currently unclear if Rust can interop with C++ with high fidelity. For example https://docs.rs/moveit/latest/moveit/ and https://github.com/google/crubit/blob/main/rs_bindings_from_... provide functionality to use non-trivially relocatable C++ types from Rust.
The thing is, that companies tend to irrationally chase money, damn the consequences. I used to work for eHarmony and despite consistent user complaints, they continued to run ads for paying users because they made money from that. They didn’t care about the reputation hit or the quality of the experience, just the revenue that the ads generated. I don’t think that eHarmony was particularly unique in that respect. Everything gets A/B tested to maximize revenue and that’s all anyone seems to care about.
If you use the @nogc attribute, D is fully nogc.
Agree. Even beyond enjoyment I’ve heard multiple very accomplished people in a variety of fields (from theology to math) say in interviews “I’m actually a very slow reader.”

So sure reading fast would be nice, but I think that’s mostly biological whereas slow quality reading you have full control of and we need to focus on that instead.