skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is of all the things Musk promised over the last decade literally nothing happened.

Remember the fully autonomous vehicle "by next year" in 2013 ?

The boring company solving your commute issues by 2020 ?

The 500 000 first fully autonomous tesla S of 2020 that were supposed to be sold to uber ?

The cyber truck which is "just around the corner" ?

This guy is selling dreams, I can guarantee you in 10 years we still won't have fully autonomous teslas, anything close to a proper robot or underground highways made by the boring company other than a few demos to milk the last investors who still believe in him
it is totally realistic. took us over a year to port to switch.
Women aren't certainly more productive in a post industrialized economy. Its only due to government mandated favoritism and hand outs that women gain economic independence. After all, if the old claim of women doing more for less were true, no one would be forced to hire them. Any venture primarily manned by women fails for all the usual unmentionable reasons, and we have to pretend this isn't true. They sometimes say women are better represented in successful companies, but as with all consequences of regulatory capture, its more that they are able to carry the burden to suppress the competition.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xrxez...

A machine with 3d understanding from 2d samples predates computers
100% staged, especially the pegboard shot.
Who gets to use JWST and what's it like?
It isn’t because Warhol made it (in fact, his employees probably did most if not all of the work) but the context.

It means something different to make many large silkscreen prints than it does to apply some filters in Photoshop.

The ends don’t justify the means, it’s the journey not the destination, etc, etc.

I understand that when presented with a digital image that the original context is missing so I’m not upset with anyone who has another perspective!
Those people are still allowed to protest and march through the town. What part of free speech says that private companies need to carry hate speech?
Their apparent addiction to hiring full time diversity officers on six figure salaries is a neuralgic one, not so much because of the scale of the waste (small) but because it's so obviously waste, so easy to fix and so obviously designed purge the NHS of anyone who isn't ideologically pliant, regardless of the political cost of provoking large numbers of taxpayers and voters.

But the real problem with waste (really, dysfunction) in a Soviet-style system is that it's systemic. There isn't necessarily one big thing you can point at and say "here's a big pile labelled pure waste", if it were that easy it'd be trivially fixed and nobody would care. The problem is waste at every level of the system because nobody is incentivized to get rid of it. It's things like doctors who are supposedly on-call in a hospital but who are actually "working" from home. It's things like GPs deciding en-masse that they'll not bother seeing patients anymore, because their NHS contracts pay them regardless of whether they actually let people into their surgeries or not.

You can't fix this sort of thing with the NHS structure, it's impossible, governments spent most of the 20th century trying and failing.

"How do you de-regulate healthcare without killing people?"

The NHS is not regulation of health care. Most countries have heavily regulated but private healthcare.

Perhaps you mean, how do you privatize healthcare. The answer is you just do it, and then fewer people will die. It's as simple as that. For all the shit Europeans give the USA about healthcare, a lot of it is denial. In the USA if you read an extreme story like this which ends with a 25 year old literally dying because the health system refused to serve him:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63057872.amp

... the reason is because the guy deliberately chose not to buy health insurance. It was their decision to take the gamble. Even then, in the USA you can get emergency healthcare even when uninsured. But in the UK, this guy did nothing wrong. He paid his taxes and then when he needed the system it simply wasn't there for him. Not at the GP, not at the emergency room - nowhere. As far as this poor man goes, 100% of the tax he ever paid for the NHS was pure waste, because even as he was dying of cancer the NHS refused to see him in person, told him to take a lemsip and go to bed. Now he is dead.

The sad thing is, cases like that one are increasingly not a mere outlier. The NHS is gone, it's collapsed, it's failed entirely. It cannot provide even the most basic emergency health care reliably. How long will it be until other countries start recommending their citizens avoid the UK due to the inability to get emergency health care? It's probably going to take a shock like that for Brits to wake up to the catastrophic failure that the NHS model represents.
It might not be the same. You see, context and surrounding technolgy changes rapidlly and so ideas that were not feasible 50 years ago (or had some other type of problem) might be feasible today.

History can't repeat because underlying technology always moves forward and that change is so important that it invalidates almost anything to be clasified as total repete.
All outsized successes look like low-hanging fruit with the benefit of hindsight. If you cherry-pick the biggest business success in any 20 year span throughout the industrial/information ages, I’m sure you will find the initial path to success is always gone by the end of that span. That implies it those successes are always low-hanging fruit. If Google strikes you as moreso, I would suggest that’s only because of the novelty and eventual dominance of the web to everyday life which was not a forgone conclusion.
Programmers don't write widgets anymore. They write OpenGL surfaces. And they must wait for vsync to blink the cursor.
Top 1% Smart Contracts Generated 96% of All Ethereum Logs – Bash Scripting
Understanding Ethereum logs is hard. It requires the right ABIs to parse the hashed function calls.

To know how many ABIs to download to maximize log coverage, I analyzed all ETH logs from block 1 to 15,300,000.

TLDR: Top 1% contracts = 96% of all logs.
You can double again if you go below 50%.
Halal and kosher have very specific rules that must be abided by in order to fit, which do not change.
Since you consider yourself a "resource" I'm assuming you do hands-on development work on some sort of product.

If so: introduce and start enforcing Scrum. If agile is not in the DNA of your company Scrum offers a way to force an Agile process withing your company. With Scrum you (and your team) can gain autonomy over the development process. It allows you to create a clear separation of responsibilities towards whomever is using you as a resource. You own the development process. They own the business process. Turn the tables: start pushing them to have their business processes in order (Scrum gives you many options). Demand proper business requirements.

But there's a but: Some developers exactly prefer not to have ownership. They just want to work from 9 to 5 and have them handed a list of to-do's that they can work on. This is where development themselves gives away autonomy.
You need to realise that

(a) that's the creator of Linux
(b) see (a) above
I guess when the kernel panics, there is nothing to write the core dump for you...
The article clearly says this:

“In order to present research at the conference, all social psychologists are now required to submit a statement explaining 'whether and how this submission advances the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP.’”
I was introduced to the idea through a podcast of Lex Fridman hosting John Vervaeke. The idea is that being trained in some methods enables you to better re-frame ideas, reality etc. when under the effect of these substances and then to be able to integrate them to your life once you are sober. Basically to identify when something you identified and felt while under the effect is more "real" since your brain makes connections which don't usually happen. The training allows you to see these connections as something more than noise.
I don't think that is in the spirit of this list at all, no matter how good it may be. This is about seminal papers advancing the state of the art in the theory of programming languages.
75% of UK children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates
Not news (the article is from 2016!) but I learnt this recently and I imagine now the number is even worse after the pandemic and with kids playing less and less outdoors.

And this is also why we just launched the MVP of an online community for outdoorsy digital nomads to find each other, buddy up for activities and monetise their hobbies.

If you're interested, have a look inside for free (only for HN members): https://community.revityapp.com/plans/240368?bundle_token=82...
I'll take it in good faith you're not just being a nasty troll, but that's a LOT of work for someone who is depressed, enough to be a non-starter. In reality drugs should probably be seen as a way to start better life habits. The benefits of hose habits are real, but getting there is a lot.
Trust plays a big part of it, especially in the gaming industry.

- Trust from consumers
- Trust (and buy-in) from game developers/publishers

Getting that trust is a long and often winding path, just look at Microsoft's track record with the Xbox. There were moments along the way where it could have all fallen apart, but at least they seem to genuinely believe in the product/platform.

I never really got that impression from Stadia, I tend to follow a lot of games media and Stadia never really got that much of a mention. That might be a fault of the outlets I follow, but you'd think Stadia PR team would be the ones out there working the circuit to drum up positive coverage.

Stadia hired Phil Harrison as the leader, he's had a long history of working in the industry, but tbh I don't think google put the resources behind him.
Sorry didn’t mean to imply that it was BS or anything with the scare quotes. More that there is a more specific meaning behind it than some laymen’s interpretation of the word safe.

I know I was a little surprised when I was learning Swift after hearing it was called safe only to experience crashes with array OOB. Took some explanation and thinking to understand what was meant by safe.
Which is why Rust has been accommodating the kernel by adding non-panic versions of the functions that Linus has been complaining about (namely that memory allocation is infallible, because that isn't an unreasonable thing to assume in applicationc code.). Still doesn't change the fact that "safe" in this context has a technical meaning, and what Linus is describing isn't that.
Archived: https://archive.is/QilCH
Musk's Tesla robot walks on stage slowly at AI Day
Could you put the text in the alt text? I was kinda hoping this was using a handwriting font.
I appreciate the debate and tension around this issue on HN. I think it is dangerous to consider a situation as complex and multifaceted as RMS to be settled and not worth discussion.

That being said, I 100% agree with you! I don't care if everyone considered RMS to be a saint. Free software is about freedom and software, not a cult of personality.
Not decades. It's only been 12 years, with every indication that it'll only be two more, perhaps not even that at this pace.

I've no illusions about the electorate but the Tories have spent their time distilling the party down to the extreme right wing element and that's —frankly— shown us all what a bunch of idiots they are. I can't remember a less electable bunch. https://twitter.com/UKPoliticalPics/status/15765728049624760...
While I don’t advocate for kernel panics, journaling filesystems are a thing.
The low hanging fruit has been taken.

Years ago, a curious individual could solve some basic problem, maybe its a better file system, or a better kernel, or a new scripting language. Your program might take off, and you could build eventually find an entire industry around the problem you tackled.

Today, that's unlikely to happen. Gone are the days of some people hacking in their room creating a solution to some problem. Most of the "low hanging" fruit is now in very niche areas, you will have to do some extensive study just to understand the problem well enough to approach it.
What makes you expect it might not stabilize?
Psychology is closer to Pseudoscience than clinical psychology and medical science.

Women don’t belong to some secret organisation that go around testing men for their viable “genetic strength”.
I had the same thought. I remember exporting image-based webpages in Macromedia Fireworks using HTML maps. No reason they shouldn't work today, even if they carry the same problems now as they did then (image-based websites are massive).
Is this a joke or an advice which could use some more explanation?
This is also how it works in meat curing, etc world. If I'm making a pork sausage, for example, all ingredient amounts are listed in terms of the weight of the meat.
> What makes you think there would be any remaining tickets?

Again, there could be a rule, that after the first 30-50% tickets are sold, all the remaining tickets are sold at the base price (let's say, $50).

It's just a trick to force resellers out of business: because there is a limited number of people who can afford to buy tickets at heavily inflated prices.
During one of my hobbyist dives into railroad history, I was reading old issues of Locomotive journal that I downloaded from somewhere (Google Books, maybe?). Anyway, I was surprised every issue had a list of boiler explosions since the last issues. Rare enough to list them all, but common enough to fill a couple pages every issue.
what a world where someone thinks getting banned from facebook is oppression
It sounds like Blizzard/Activision is doing a poor job of ratcheting down on abused carriers.

However, at their scale they may consider this effective enough. The $5 cost on the underground market probably still represents a large enough hurdle to significantly reduce the number of casual bad actors. People who will not be investing in an updated cheat and/or account after their first ban.
Context isn't your opinion.
Facebook account gets hacked – now banned on Facebook and Instagram
Title says it all, went to bed after a night of games and streams with friends. Dreading getting up at 8am for work on a Saturday. With a few clips to edit and post on Instagram when I get home the next day.

Imagine my surprise when I see an “action needed” email from Facebook that arrived at around 530am. Logged in on the app to see if the email was a fake, and sure enough the app told me my account was disabled.

So I appeal the decision even send in my ID only for them to tell me I’m not allowed to use Facebook.

Found out via one of my friends who was still up at that time, that he saw I had posted 13 pictures all at once, and they were all pornographic images.

Now I’ve been using Facebook for 16 years, and have never been banned, Instagram for 10.

And now because my account was hacked I’m no longer allowed to use either of these platforms.

I was the one who was wronged and I’m now the one being punished for it.

Anyone able to help?
At my current company we have a take home assignment for some roles. When I have to grade one the first thing I do is check to see whether you can submit the input by pressing enter.

About half the time you can’t because it’s not actually a form, and they forgot to add handler for enter.
I can imagine someone saying the same thing about aspirin. "Pharma will do anything to sell you aspirin pills, when you can just get salicylates the natural way from willow bark."

No. Standardization, rigorous testing, and FDA approval are good things.
Company policy requires me state this anytime I say something positive about Google. Otherwise there's the risk of it coming off as astroturfing.
The time stamp thing is especially crazy, and you can see it break down if you saccade to a ticking clock.

This twitter thread made the rounds a while back, which lays it out in a nice incredulous rant:
https://mobile.twitter.com/foone/status/1014267515696922624
What if We Nuke a City? (2019)
This is also the “toned down” version of Linus.

If he were any other person, he’d have been axed a long time ago for this behavior.

I don’t understand how people put up with this kind of toxicity, even from him.
Does this worry anyone that this drug will be abused? Doesn't everyone like to feel good no matter the day. What if your employee gives this to you because you hate your work?
Yeah, I call it collectivized micro management.
> You are encouraged if you model your pipeline in DVC.

Encouraged to do what?

You might want to slow down on the use of parentheses, we are both getting lost in them.
It’s a joke. A “baker’s dozen” is 13, not the standard 12.
It’s a reference to a bakers dozen - make 13 so you can taste one and be left with 12.
I had a Treo and didn't switch to an iPhone until the 3GS. A lot of people remember the iPhone (and iPod) as these overnight successes--and they really weren't although they sold well enough. It was around the third or fourth generation that both really hit their stride. (As I recall iTunes didn't even run on Windows at first and Macs were systems used mostly by media professionals.)
This is such an interesting perspective. I feel the exact same way as a video producer/editor. The tools we are getting are incredible, and tasks that used to take literally days can be done now in minutes. It’s kind of baffling what we have in our toolbox. But it is also radically changing the expectations of our clients and I find I don’t get to spend as much time on the nuts and bolts I really enjoy - cut, color, and baking the best possible export for the situation - and instead have to find a plug-in to solve every little issue a client thinks up (or created for me haha).

On a somewhat related but tangential note: I also now have clients demanding certain programs and ecosystems, which is absolutely ridiculous to me. The software I use to give you a final cut should in no way be determined by you. Yet somehow we have ceded that ground!
Yes, but even then not all filesystems are journaled.

EFI is FAT, FAT is not journaled. You almost certainly have EFI these days.
kdump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdump_(Linux)

He also mentions that programs can report problems automatically to the distro devs. For example:

https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/problems/

A kernel dump is not something you always want to upload since it can be large and contain sensitive info. I'm not a kernel dev though.
Not everybody wants to hallucinate.
Why is this person handwriting in print instead of cursive?

Is it what society has come to?
The kernel crash dump mechanism works by reserving some memory, which it boots a fresh copy of the kernel into on kernel panics, which then takes care of reading the old dead kernel from memory and saving the dump.

Of course this working requires the fresh kernel to be able to get up and do that without itself crashing, so it can't capture every scenario. And it is bringing down the system completely, and there's lots of pros and cons to be argued about that vs attempting to continue or limp along.
A “baker’s dozen” is 13. Presumably so that the baker gets one to himself.
Yeah; companies like paperspace offer an even better product. It’s just a windows VM with a video card. You have to install steam or cad software or whatever yourself.
That shouldn’t excuse him from being a reasonably decent person to work with.

He gets a lot more leeway than being the creator of Linux should afford someone.
Is this related to the use of unsafe blocks and the inventor of Linux arguing with someone out of their depth about alleged undefined behavior?
Just want to point out that you became unilaterally unhinged over the course of this exchange while. the other commenter wrote calmly.

Also, how do you propose to convince people of this clearly-objective “truth” that you know, if you silence them from questioning and debating it? Do you think that’s ever worked?
Maybe not harder, but microservices have made programming more frustrating. You have reduced freedom to write business logic; now most of your code is infrastructure, connections, and security (you are using the internet as a data bus, after all). Programming with microservices feels like practicing taekwondo in a closet.
pledge allegiance to the Geocentric astronomical worldview if you want to get credentialed, study, apply for tenure/a job, etc.

This is a funny anachronism and the very opposite of science.
This is the only correct post here.

Without both sides of the story it's impossible to deem the truth.
Speaking of VR, it really feels like the motion sickness part is still woefully underacknowledged. I've enjoyed quite a few VR games (I have access to most of the systems at my job) but there's no way I can spend more than e.g. 30 min a week "in there." The body REALLY REALLY REALLY hates when movement and what you see don't match up, and very few experiences deal with this well and also are really compelling.
The test is pretty simple.

Any ideology that discriminates against one race or ethnic group vs. any other is racist. Trying to make elaborate arguments as to why some types of discrimination are acceptable because historical or societal reason X or Y is a form of rationalization.
The Making of Google Glass – New Book Depicts ‘Carnival of Failure’
> It's because Visual Studio Code is a ramp to move the developer tooling ecosystem towards an end-to-end consumable services model of software development tools

> Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control

> Microsoft can easily fork open-source communities by changing towards proprietary defaults ("strategically divide the market") as Microsoft has already done twice so far. The way Microsoft forks open-source communities is by releasing Visual Studio Code extension updates that make their proprietary offering the default once they have managed to capture enough adoption...
I quit using facebook about 4 or 5 years ago, but I haven't deleted my account, just let it rot.

In the last 2 years, I've deleted Quora (it was pushing right-wing agendas pretty hard), Unix and Linux Stackexchange (old answers need to go away, editing made my answers into someone else's), Nextdoor (racism and stray cats), and Twitter (don't want to enrich Dorsey or Musk). If I could delete my HN account, I think I would.

I have vaguely missed the pointers to palaeontology papers I got off of twitter, but other than that, no, deleting all of them was a positive experience, probably for different reasons for each of them.
The list of things we've added in last 10 years is just staggering: https://landscape.cncf.io/

The litmus test for abstractions getting out of control is if a KPMG consultant brings it up while sipping Gin and tonic in business class.

Another problem is explosion of DSLs. Everything is yaml and you spend ages learning things like Terraform and Docker compose yaml syntax.
You mean for the hundreds of thousands of people that in the past 31 years willingly decided to contribute to the to the most successful and well maintained open source project ever, because the creator is such a brilliant person?
> Every time you provide an option, you’re asking the user to make a decision.

No. Options are a passive feature, they are hidden away in a menu. When software pushes decisions onto its users it's almost always a manipulative method to bully users into giving up their rights or money. Like apps spamming you with ads to push you towards a premium subscription, or the cookie popups on websites, or Windows pressuring you to register an account. All those negative examples are not problematic because of choice, but because corporations don't want users to make the right choice.