skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The same step up will be hard to repeat, since functions and structs are so expressive already, it's rare to find a problem that can't be elegantly solved using them

One thing that's hard to express with them is a data type that's TypeA OR TypeB OR TypeC. For that you need Sum Types, which a lot of the newer generation of languages (Rust, Swift, Kotlin) have, but the older generation (Java, C#, C++) historically haven't had at all and still have poor support for.

I find this to be a significant productivity boost over languages that don't support this.
To deny entry next time.
Nationalisation wouldn't fix it.

There are plenty of rules and procedures in every nation which screw over random 'little guys'... For example, "oh, you have a disability and can't work? Here, have some state support. Oh - we just found you helped look after your neighbours children once. That counts as work. Therefore you lied to us. Thats fraud. All your state support will now be withdrawn."
The best way to validate a idea is by doing it. So just do it. People should be shipping prototypes every 2-3 weeks. It shouldn't take you that long. Even if you're slow, you're shipping at latest in a month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9MIYi7b4gc
Here is a 1 hour and 45-minute video of a Tesla driving around the bay with zero takeovers. I drive my Audi every day without lidar by using the two cameras and processor built into my head. You don't NEED lidar, but in theory it should make solving the problem easier.
Great post. I see weird language projects beyond solo/hobby stage go in two directions. The first is the “beating the averages” approach where they double down on the weird to attract higher level programmers attracted by the chance to play in a preferred niche. The second is a gradual shift towards conventional languages as the problem of maintaining a codebase at scale with an ever changing team becomes a dominant challenge. As someone with an irrational attraction to the weird langs my heart is with the first group but if I was actually running a business I’m sure the second would seem very compelling.
I haven't seen much information on how the GDPR's Article 22 right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated means is going in these scenarios. I hear a lot about other provisions, but Article 22 seems like an important experiment.
> He's making a living

Not any longer, sadly..
I don't think that CF already MITMs most of the internet is such a great argument for letting them MITM the rest.
Ok, then if I understand well, this was 26% per silicon and/or perovskites layer.

Being able to stack several layers of photon catching increases this rate.
Busy doing what? Posting dumb "peace plans" on Twitter?
I saw one very normal cat picture come up twice. Has anyone done an an analysis on the underlying data to see how unique these “do not exist” pictures really are? Sometimes I wonder if these are little more than stiched together collages, and some times made up of very few source images.
GCP teases a major upcoming announcement
> it definitely cant create human emotion.

nor does the art that humans create - the emotion comes from the human viewing/experiencing a work. The "source" that work is perhaps irrelevant, if the human viewing it is being evoked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo-Soyuz#Historical_backgr...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission was conceived, approved by top-level leadership in both the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and mostly planned while the U.S. military (not just local proxy forces) was still heavily and directly engaged in the Vietnam War.
> There are better ways to exercise your brain

They didn't assert it was the best way, but that it was _A_ way.
Doesn't matter who's paying them as long as they're union. There are certain things you just can't yourself.
Just curious - you ever listen to railroad earth? I used to be in that band and we killed in the Bay Area. It was said by some that we “filled their jerry hole”, which was some of the highest and funniest praise we got.
Public transport is great, but self-driving promises to fix the last mile problem.

> But it seems to me you could do "self-driving" a lot cheaper and easier by improving the commons. Embedding sensors in the roads, street signs, and furniture - isn't that going to make more sense than turning ever vehicle into a super-computer?

This would require a broad agreement on a global standard for Infrastructure to Vehicle (I2V) and huge investments by local and national governments around the world. It could technically happen, but likely will proceed at a snails pace. As you mention, it would be much better than relying on-board sensors like Lidar and cameras as centimeter accurate GPS coordinates can be embedded into road signs etc, but it will take decades.
Toss a coin to your witcher
Trains have been self-driving since... 1981?

There's really no advantage to self-driving cars or electric cars. They're dramatically less space-efficient, they're incredibly expensive (car + gas/electric + maintenance + insurance + parking + time spent trying to find parking), highways ruin cities and even car-first streets hurt communities. They promote unhealthy cities and lifestyles. Also, they're super duper complex in comparison.

The optimal solution is rail, followed by bikes and e-bikes then by busses.
The key to getting rich and staying rich is figuring out how to risk other people's money. If you want to buy millions of lottery tickets, or launch a startup, or start a poker career, or anything really, it's far better to do it without risking your own security. Let other people invest in your venture for a reasonable return if you succeed, but also make sure you some non-trivial amount of equity for yourself so you make a killing if it's wildly successful.

This is how most VC backed unicorns have worked. The early investors made a lot, but the founders who mostly only risked their time, energy, and opportunity-costed salary made far, far, far better returns.
Not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
This has to be pure PR. Nobody is so stupid to belive that.

Robots will be the perfect war machines, everyone knows that, which is why they are putting out such stupid statements.
"If they have a choice". You talk about the situation like you're a slave to your master. It's 2022 -- labour laws exist.
That makes sense, except for the fact that in English, gendering inanimate objects is nearly always female. If you have a busted computer, you might say "I'm gonna resolder this pad and then she'll run just fine" but you'd almost never say "I'm gonna reseat this connector and then he'll boot up".
Oh the guy that claims he invented mRNA but pushes hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin?
>Facebook and Google do too many things.

Google? Definitely. Meta? Not really. All Meta has is two social networks and one messaging service. They haven't really experienced huge success in anything else. They MAY hit big in VR/AR space, but that's yet to be determined.
Those should really just be trains except for the last mile no? Then there's the really cool stuff like Switzerland's fully underground autonomous cargo delivery network. [1] A freight train can move 1 ton of cargo 400-500 miles on a single gallon of diesel and of course there's a lot of prior art in the self driving train space.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/cargo-sous-terrain
He died of heart issue based on some replies to that tweet?
This pretty much seems like the self driving car for my industry. I just don’t see how I can remain a truck driver when the AI is going to come for free with the Car.

But yeah I’ll figure something out.
Communications platforms naturally become a monopoly. The biggest platform is the most useful one because you can talk to most people on it, so people prefer to join the biggest platform and it gets bigger.
Patents are worthwhile only as far as they are respected. A factory is a real asset employing many real people.

Anyway, why does SV have a lock on design? If anything computer design has gotten very stale since the early 90s when all the competitors to American computer systems finally croaked
If the rate of increase is highly unusual, then the rate itself is the relevant datum, and the interval over which it occurred is not being cherry-picked, even though it may appear to be. In other activities, more than one cheater has been caught out by presenting data that contains a brief period which was physically impossible, and the fact that the averaged data had no such problem did not, of course, make the concern go away.

To be clear, as there is no equivalent to a physical impossibility here, I am not claiming that the rate of rating increase is conclusive; I am saying it seems to be a legitimate concern regardless of how reasonable the broader averages are.
No it's a tool.

I suppose you could compare it to a table saw. C is one without a guard or any other safety measures, so you need to be careful not to cut your fingers off. More modern languages have the guard and break etc.

For general use you probably do want all the safety bits, but occasionally it is useful to be able to take it off to do a weird cut on a weird bit of wood.

None of that necessarily means you will cut your fingers off though.
In my experience black 2.0 is pretty dang black, but it's not nearly as black as the marketing photos make it seem. It's still plainly visible in daylight. It's a structural black too, so in general touching it will make it more gray.

Still an amazing product for all sorts of art, but also for building telescopes or photography hardware.
This is true and a good point.
Unless you're in an apartment with a bus stop right outside, the losses from walking to the stop, waiting at the stop, having the bus stop all along it's route, and then walking from the final stop to your destination will usually dominate compared with traffic. Even in cities with dedicated bus lanes.

In theory you could save time in special circumstances on a bus, but I don't think I've ever done it in practice. One exception could be if you need to search for parking at your destination. A robo-taxi wouldn't have that short-coming.
City planners could just make narrower streets (like 1-way alley kind of narrow). No need to ban cars, instead design the streets so other modes of transport are more convenient.

As a bonus the land you would have used for wider streets can be used for something better.
> It's often small things, like making what's being build more configurable / hard coding less, abstracting differently so code is more reusable.

I am the exact opposite. I learned that it just adds complexity and usually not going to be reused much anyway because every case needs something a little different, and then you had to build this complex thing which isn't worth it.
> I happen to be white, too

Nobody would have guessed, also that you are male too. I really do believe that you have a problem with racism and sexism, but it won't be solved by accusing others.

> So as far as I know [...] quite some apparently have

You should not regurgitate these rumors without further evidence. I can imagine someone like Stallmann being awkward with women and maybe some of the accusations are true. That is certainly no reason to prosecute him like this. Not your job to do so, work on yourself instead. There is enough to do here and then you can lead by example.

> There is a reason, why the free software movement is largely dominated by men

Certainly not a fault of Stallman. Some women also do not like men trying to make their mark everywhere and these easy accusations of sexism or discrimination feel a bit like that. Pretty sure you won't find the "fault" for that in others.
Calendly had three days of downtime this week
Bazel and TypeScript: Faster with Remote Execution
> If you have an interview scheduled with FB I suggest not wasting your time

Good luck with your interview!
> I was recently taught in first aid class that the survival rate of an out-of-hospital heart attack is about 10-12%.

In my first aid course we were taught that the speed in which an AED is applied is the main contributing factor. Giving that most workplaces/homes/restaurants ...etc don't actually have an AED you would normally get one when the ambulance arrives.

Someone in the NHS had worked out the graph for distance from ambulance and % survival. He gave us all our % chance survival if our office didn't have and AED based upon the average rate from our work places and that we needed to wait for the ambulance. This was under the assumption that someone would start CPR almost straight after the arrest.

In our office this % without an AED was < 10% something insane like 6% chance survival. With an AED survival is much higher. He gave the figure of 95%+ survival rate for offices that had AED in them.

I brought this up in a company meeting with all staff there and the question was how much is an AED. I had already asked this and it was £750 for an older second hand one and £1100 for a brand new one.

Never bought the flipping AED.

So from what I made out my life was worth < £750 to the CEO.
Cloud desktops are not a cure-all, but they do have their uses. I have "cloud" desktops hosted in my home (on a NUC server) and also on cheap VPS instances, depending on my particular needs, whether that be an isolated environment for dangerous work, or just having a portable desktop that I can connect to from whatever device I have at hand, continuing from where I last left off.

GPU-intensive desktops are pretty much a no-go, but Mate desktop works beautifully and does what a desktop should: Manage my environment and get the hell out of my way.

Browsing on the remote desktop is anything but smooth, but it's good enough for development. I'm not going to stream video on it, though.

There's a tiny bit of keystroke latency, but not enough to matter IMO. I'm using Chrome remote desktop so YMMV. Running Steam on a cloud desktop is possible, but it's an exercise in madness.

I do it all using LXD to keep things relatively distro agnostic. I've posted the Python script I use here: https://github.com/kstenerud/lxc-launch
LiDAR doesn’t work in the rain. But Tesla’s approach is foolish?

Tesla taking longer than Elon thought doesn’t mean they are still not miles ahead… who else is even close? (On a rainy day)
Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge
Gamblers anonymous now accepts people addicted to gaming.
The later versions of RDP is miles ahead of any other remote desktop protocol in my experience. I used to use it for gaming years ago (from Windows machine to Mac) - it really isn't that bad if latency and bandwidth is acceptable.

As others say, it is very hard sometimes to detect what is local and what isn't with RDP. Everything seems to just work, even using the Mac client.

Compare this with everything else I've used and it's a real janky JPEG compression mess.
You somehow forgot about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Nobel Prize in litterature goes to French author Annie Ernaux
#cryingCEOmeme

LinkedIn has become such a cringefest it's not even funny anymore. It got worse than Twitter which only is still in everyone's mind because pseudo-relevant Tweets are screenshotted easily and reposted at all corners of the Internet. Not because it's good content, but because these post have the right visual dimensions to allow for such type of borrowed content.
Anthony Levabdowski might be an asshole, but he is not poorly informed.

If you've been following the public announcements in self-driving for the last decade closely then you don't assign them much value, particularly with respects to timelines.
Do you think someone should be banned for saying something like:

The Nazi regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a detriment to this region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed. Then, the shame will fall on those who put their facilities at the service of normalization of relations with this regime.
I really don’t think the skillset moat will be comparable. It took me 10 years to go from young lad studying film at school to delivering content for major clients like Apple. Knowing my industry (profits squeeze everywhere) I think they’ll get young interns to do AI prompt engineering.
This is where I wish Plan 9 had caught on. It lets you run remote graphical apps more seamlessly than any remote desktop I know of today.
Really great project!

What I didn't understand was why there is a need for a 7905 to convert -12V to -5V. It looks like that pin 20 should be providing the -5V already?
There's adverse selection at play in FAANG hiring, but I think it goes like this : any ambitious engineer would wants to "make a dent in the universe" is never going to spend months studying LC, system design, or whatever to get into these places. Not only do they prefer building actual projects on evening and weekends ; but they know their time at FAANG would be wasted anyway. In 2022, few people go to big tech because they really want to build things.
My filesystem consists of [checks du -h . | tail -1] 189 GB.

I don't think Syncthing (which I love) can cram 189 GB on my 64 GB phone.

Yet I expect to have access to my filesystem from my phone.

Synthing is a nice "pump-hose system" between reservoirs of data. What I was arguing above is to stop having separate reservoirs of data to begin with.
Prusti: a static verifier for Rust
Probably a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33094710 although more CP/M is always better :-)
Creative Realizer – A Notebook Harvest
It's really something to take heart and think about. "We only hire the best!" And yet the best are apparently not good enough. I don't think they have enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis that their hiring criteria is a joke.
FWIW- California has spent over 70B on a single train line from San Francisco to Los Angeles. It hasn’t even been half finished. In addition the US passed a bill to spend over 1 trillion on infrastructure. Taken together, I don’t think that improving the commons will be cheaper than $100 billion.

In fact, as someone else mentioned, being able to utilize the existing infrastructure in new ways will likely be cheaper.
i have it running on an ancient android (4.4) phone, perfectly
Oh, for the days when you got banned from one website and you just went to a different website.
Just did a check to see their subsidiaries and they actually have way more than I expected :

https://inspirationfeed.com/what-companies-does-facebook-own...
I don't see the issue as long as they get the work done right. If they don't and aren't fired, the company has bigger issues than people working multiple jobs. If they do the work well, then practicing arbitrage between the employer's expectations and the realistic time requirements with automation is just doing what the employer does from the other direction. I'm sure the employer has used technology and outsourcing to get rid of at least as many jobs as multi-jobbing employees take using the same technology.

Not everyone just accepts the promise of automation to free us from tedium is lost to ever-growing corporate balance sheets.
I don't think you need a remote desktop in order to keep the data off the machine.
First suggestion would be to research the difference between patent and copyright.

If you don't copy anyone's work, you are not violating a copyright.

Second suggestion would be to form an LLC if you have patent concerns. Patent rights usually don't come into play until a significant amount of money is involved. Otherwise, the litigation fees can't be justified. An LLC can be used to avoid personal liability and severely limit the amount in play for "jackpot justice". You can form one online at minimal cost.

The idea is to become a rock --- everyone knows you can't get blood out of a rock and most sensible people won't even try.
Yes, many people use dogs to ease their loneliness.
Im not sure for how long that will hold up if we end up automating all vehicle driving, image generation and robotising large parts of our workforce.
They still would definitely met the standard of a monopsony if not a monopoly. Its scary that an enormous number of people start and stop the information searching at google or those two social networks. I think its an oversimplification to say that just breaking them will solve the issue but they definitely handle a governmental level of power in terms of social after effects, which is why nation states target them for fake news.
On one hand you say they are so important they need to be nationalized and on the other you dismiss them as almost a couple of trivial apps. Which one is it?
While I agree that more must be done so that good basic education is available to everyone, you do realize that this aims at schools? Grants go to researchers at universities. A part of the change is that you need to explain how your university actually tries to recruit an appropriate share of underrepresented groups. If your school doesn't, the researchers will pressure the school until it does, because they want grants.
For example, I just prepared a grant application, and doing so I realized that the web pages for the offices that deal with DEI are terribly outdated. I will certainly raise that topic with the administration here.

For reference what is actually required, have a look at this FOA, search for "Appendix 5":
https://science.osti.gov/grants/FOAs/-/media/grants/pdf/foas...
Everything we think we know about Elon Musk’s plan for Twitter
So how come there's so many videos of these untrue things? How come the Russians themselves are saying they're doing it on their own state TV and celebrate it?

I don't care about Putin's claims. There's a lot of Russian-speaking Ukrainian refugees where I live (there's hundreds thousands of them), I still haven't found one who felt like they were in any way targeted by the Ukrainian government or that their culture was being replaced. Now they hate Russia and every single one I asked has vowed to learn Ukrainian and erase any parts of Russian culture from their lives.
its actually exactly the same thing, the ai doesnt "synthetize" anything, its following its programming and data based on training sets

if anything I would argue that human taking code from multiple places and making it compile into something more useful is much more synthetiz-ing than AI...
Except that chargers can be, and often are:

a) broken

b) incompatible

c) taken by other cars

Or you "simply" need to wait a few hours at the station in the middle of nowhere to get 100-200 km or range. Every 100-200 km.
I imagine the process is Capture > Analyze > Generate > Apply > Repeat until all test images are within bounds and color matched, not stage 1: capture, stage 2: calculate, done. That's how it worked for our projection, at least.
I live in a location where human drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians have lots of kinks to work out.

As I'm getting older, I think I'll soon fall into the category of "human drivers with kinks to work out" too.

I'm pretty sure my city would, on the net, be safer with self-driving cars. I think 90% of human drivers here will be better drivers than a self-driving car, but and it's not even the next 9% which scare me, but that 1% of least-safe human drivers.

From a purely technical and apolitical perspective, if we could magically replace every car here with self-driving, I'd do it in a heart beat.

I won't pretend, though, that technical perspectives are the most important. The financial, political, legal / liability, and similar organizational and human issues are important to get right. I'd like to see that before mass adoption. Today, I wouldn't buy a Tesla since I want to _own_ my car. If there is a new piece of shared infrastructure, I'd like to make sure it's run _in the public interest_. I don't see subscription-based, car-rental, cloud-based, algorithmic, freemium, network-effect tech-style models as something I'd want in my city.
Tried out a new tool that generates cover images using AI for my newsletter
I run this newsletter in my spare time, so it was neat to find something that could make the post more engaging when I shared it on socials.