skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
adapting the infrastructure to these cars

This is an important piece I have not seen addressed in the US. In places where there is snow and ice on the road a good part of the year self driving cars will need help from sensors and guide objects in some form. Perhaps sensors injected into the road? Humans barely manage in my area because people have a cognitive awareness and memory of the terrain. Road lines are often absent. Sidewalks are obscured. Even simple things like parking at the grocery store is relative parking and people just make a best-guess as to where a spot is.

I am also curious if any testing has been done in snow blizzards and squalls. Squalls can occur without warning and visibility drops to nothing.
> Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.

> Stirner's egoism argues that individuals are impossible to fully comprehend, as no understanding of the self can adequately describe the fullness of experience.

> He believed that everyone was propelled by their own egoism and desires and that those who accepted this — as willing egoists — could freely live their individual desires, while those who did not — as unwilling egoists — will falsely believe they are fulfilling another cause while they are secretly fulfilling their own desires for happiness and security. The willing egoist would see that they could act freely, unbound from obedience to sacred but artificial truths like law, rights, morality, and religion.

> Stirner proposes that most commonly accepted social institutions — including the notion of state, property as a right, natural rights in general and the very notion of society — were mere illusions.

> He advocated egoism and a form of amoralism in which individuals would unite in Unions of egoists only when it was in their self-interest to do so. For him, property simply comes about through might, saying: "Whoever knows how to take and to defend the thing, to him belongs [property]."

> Stirner considers the world and everything in it, including other persons, available to one's taking or use without moral constraint and that rights do not exist in regard to objects and people at all. He sees no rationality in taking the interests of others into account unless doing so furthers one's self-interest, which he believes is the only legitimate reason for acting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner

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Isn't that what we already have, a profoundly selfish society?

I don't see myself in his system - I'm neither a willing nor unwilling egoist. I consider my self-interest to be part of a larger "collective self-interest" of humanity and the ecology of life. But perhaps that's my false belief and I'm only "secretly fulfilling [my] desires for happiness and security". It could be, since the happiness of the collective supports and contributes to my personal happiness.
Indeed the availability of developers who know the tech stack is a key requirement that should be defined and assigned an importance level.

And if you’re working in a business building a modern web application then it’s extremely hard to imagine the stakeholders being happy with software developed using absolute lowest common denominator tools techniques and libraries, as advocated by the “boring software” movement.

Competitive advantage and the expectations of customers leads to the need to use modern tools techniques and libraries.

And in fact developers deserve these things too because they tend to make things easier more powerful and more reliable.

If the stakeholder who is paying for the project says “can we have an animated user education intro”, and you say “no because we use boring technologies and our developers might not understand how to use the animation APIs” them I think your job would be at risk pretty quick.
Microparticles can beat rhythmically generating electric current to Power Robots
That's not really how speed limits work though. People take their cues from road design and conditions, not what the speed limit actually is. Virtually changing speed limits is dangerous because it causes you to think you are altering the behaviour of traffic without actually doing so.

https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc?t=280 goes into detail on this
Probably not but I live in a country with cold winters where it would be quite useful. It would probably also be useful to industry where high heat is needed for various manufacturing processes. The video mentions this.
I'd really like to see more online sharing migrate to decentralized technologies. ActivityPub, used by Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica and others provides a similar social networking experience without a small set of gatekeepers controlling what kind of content is allowed or a small set of algorithms dictating what gets popular.

The technologies to do this are already adequate (though there's always room for refinement), but the marketing and onboarding to make it mainstream aren't there.
You must have only ever done minimum-wage unqualified work to be saying that.

Everyone wants a job that they love, and that requires having fun at work. People leave jobs, any kind of jobs, because they're bored and not having fun.
An old book, but exciting to read about those looking to connect the entire world just it was becoming economically feasible.

Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Internet-Travelogue-Carl-Ma...
They probably aren't losing money on $800 jars of peanut butter.
Haha, definitely true, but of course the SRMs also help for more serious things (like metal strength for vehicles, which can be the difference between life and death).
I think more plausible explanation is just plainly not many companies wanting to put their ads on porn, so hosting porn is significantly less lucrative per viewer than SFW content
The trackpad is horrible on the *40 series! Can be swapped by the one from the ones from the next generation though.
Push-Based Outbox Pattern with Postgres Logical Replication
> If GenZ had control of the internet you wouldn't let your children and your grandma near it

What do you mean by this? Zoomers are the new puritans not the previous generation
Perhaps a controversial take: it’s difficult to write boring code in the common boring languages because they are not powerful enough to express the problem domain without accidental complexity.
Code-reviews? Should be a ritual you do on your own code before commiting+pushing and should be a ritual that others will do in the PR before merge (arguable here a secret is already compromised).
Solar is used in Sweden, and more being built (see eg https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/swedens-largest-s...)

It's true that in the winter it's a bit crap but in the summer the long days of the north are a boon. It doesn't need to be great in all times of the year to be "feasible" though since it's just one part of the production palette.
I have never heard anyone blame the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack on the Federal Republic of Germany's lack of authoritarian state surveillance powers, their lack of motivation to keep track of the exact location of every foreign person in the country, nor on the fact that they did not require every single visitor to surrender the contents of all their personal documents for potential state scanning.
>because they have a main job, and it's not a business for them to share their thoughts on things

Or their main job is paying them in part, even if often informally, to produce thoughtful externally-facing content but no one is strictly evaluating them on the basis of pageviews. Which is actually fairly common in the tech field.

>It's more time-consuming to listen to them over reading, of course.

For me, consuming podcasts is just a different mode. I listen to them mostly in a car when I can't read. I rarely listen to them otherwise.
That makes no sense, it's just a question of role-candidate fit. Why would a company not care?
Totally! I worked for a time, in the mid 00s, at a company that built realtime dashboards for old school telephone call centres (contact centers) and it was there that I became aware of the other (original) meaning of Erlang, beyond the nifty cool up and coming programming language.

For a while for me everything was about queuing theory. Since then I keep forgetting and remembering things about this later.

Strikes me that I would like to have an easy to use and generic library for Rust with the various formulas etc. in it.
Free speech is necessity for democracy. Democracy is necessity for the movement of enlightenment and justice. Enlightenment and science based governance led to the technology revolution, medical understanding and productivity boost.

Authorian societies will never be as productive productive and never be good source of innovation. If people wish to live according to tradition, conservatism and authorian rule it is ok, but it is unlikely they will ever catch Western democracies in quality of life.
Now we need most expensive restaurant cooking only with NIST-rated ingredients
We are going to have lot of intermittent energy production with wind and solar energy. This is a cheap way to convert that to continuous heat for industrial processes, instead of storing it as electricity in expensive batteries.
Luckily, that already exists in driverless trains.
Or according to the math in another comment, over 350k homes on long sunny summer days. Is it weasel language that the new nuclear towers in question here didn't include the 1 in ~200,000 documented chance of disaster due to earthquake in their press releases, their capacity estimates, and the price?

Is it weasel language that the press releases don't include the fact that Westinghouse Electric declared bankruptcy over the Vogtle nuclear build in discussion? I don't see the fact that the U.S. government has given $8.3 billion of loan guarantees to help finance construction of the Vogtle reactors included in press releases either.

Considering this solar installation is a for-profit venture in cloudy UK and will reduce carbon output without subsidies, I'm calling it a win whether it powers 1000 houses or 350,000.
Today’s author identification models usually use some sort of embedding, so uncorrected misspellings are probably a no-op.
Where can one see the status of the power plant.

This is VERY concerning as prices where very high as the plant was operating then?
Do you really think they take into account in other fields, that their doctors, lawyers, finance people etc should "Have fun" and change their decisions away from what is straight forward solutions, because of that? They don't. Only in software.

I had a heated argument with a colleague who was fighting to use MongoDB for a new project, even though there was a company wide decision by upper management to NOT use MongoDB in the company. And his only justification was that "he took this job to play around with new technology". If I hade the power to, I would have fired him on the spot, because clearly he had misunderstood the very basics of the employment contract he had signed.
I got "lucky" with a T60 I bought for €25 last year - only the HD was password-locked (I think there are up to 3 levels of password security possible on the T60), so I solved the problem by replacing the HD with a (higher-capacity) spare I had lying around.
What I find ... frustrating, I suppose ... about the political debate is how there is this weird narrative ratchet where the government reducing freedom is fundamental progress and cannot be unwound.

This article points out that Thiel wants to wind back the power of the FDA. The situation is a spectrum of people & corporations negotiating their own outcomes through to Steny Hoyer & Kevin McCarthy doing the negotiation. Both ends of that spectrum are legitimate and there it is simply an option that any given government regulator might be doing more harm than good & be a target for abolishment.

The people who believe they have a god given right to force other people to adopt their risk tolerance and value judgements are ugly. These are the sort of people who routinely make nice promises and then turn out to be damaging and egotistical. They aren't building systems that make people better off, we can see the results - they routinely make the situation worse or create single points of failure that get corrupted. It is not a given that a decision is better made if it is made in Washington.
Another aspect of "boring" is note is that ideally the implementation is boring, as in not surprising. Currently working on a codebase that's a pretty standard frontend stack, but omg is it not boring. I wish it was. Instead, it's exciting as in "this function claims to remove items based on a filter, but actually it does the opposite."

I might go so far as to argue that being boring (ie predictable and consistent) in your implementation is more important than being boring in your tech stack.
This is not a breaking new. The research papers and all the oficial paperwork (like to get the FDA approval) only claim a 80%-90% reduction is hospitalization (that for me is a very good outcome).

I don't remember the numbers, but nRNA vaccines are in the range 80%-90%, perhaps a little more, and other vaccines like vector virus or inactivated virus have a lower efficiency like 60-70% of reduction of hospitalization.

All these numbers are obtained using randomized controlled trials.

There is an inference that they reduce death, it makes a lot of sense but it's difficult to get enough death in the RCT to get a significant result. Also, they reduce the length of the illness and the virus load, so it make sense to assume they lower transmission. But unless you make a few huge double blind test in a bunch of whole cities, it's very difficult to make a RCT. Also, does everyone has they own car or the city use mass transit with a 200 persons in a train wagon? Are the windows of the train wagon open or they have AC or they are closed and the AC broke a few years ago?
Radar, ultrasonic proximity sensors, and/or LIDAR, presumably.

Tesla has famously removed all radar/ultrasonic sensors from their newer cars in favor of a purely camera-based system.
Well I guess it all depends on how you define democracy. Even it's simplest definition (i.e 51% have a say over the 49%) is problematic for me. If he's out to disrupt it I'm all for it.
(side note: I never quite understood the Perter Thiel hatred.)
> hating immigrants is more important than their livelihood or dignity.

Amplified by the newspapers they still read.
Absolutely not, and I really find this summary kind of thinking dangerous. It's quite obviously "follow the money" and not "People, en masse, drastically and simplistically change their reactions to sex as they get older."

Now, back to my Facebook group of 40-50 year olds who trade dirty memes and use getting temp-banned as a jokey "sign-of-honor" :)
Sounds like "Why Young Men Go to War" [0] by Sebastian Junger. He also wrote the book called War with similar themes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9389520
At some point, isn't it better to build your own database? And choose the trade offs that fit your project. Or pay/hire someone to do it.
Calling individual generations “the new Puritans” makes this position all the more explicitly ridiculous.

Which generation is the new Huguenots?
Apple with their chip is the proof that Qualcomm is betting on the wrong strategy, Microsoft doubling down with them is another proof that the higher ups of Microsoft are both delusional and in denial, they are stuck with a dying x86, and there is no way for them to compete with both Apple and MediaTek
And pray that that the answers on Stackoverflow are relevant.
I don't usually wear a bicycle helmet. Does that make me an idiot? [video]
Platforms such as Telegram have to make it impossible to access certain channels/groups/bots when you use an iphone or they risk getting deleted from the app store. nsfw channels on discord are also inaccessible from iphones.

Apps such as gab were banned completely for not complying.

This is just a few examples of apps that I know of (I don't use that many) --- there probably are many more examples that I'm not aware of.
build.rs: use std::process::Command; fn main() { Command::new("wall").arg("spam spam spam").output().unwrap(); }

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"Corporate" interests? Who are they? Mozilla is non-profit. And the core team has migrated away to their just deserts.

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I love how the Rust book has you pull in a crate for random functionality. Community incentives! They're awesome!

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I am grateful for the time Covid gave me. Learning Rust in that time taught me the basics of lifetimes, memory allocators, and other things I hadn't truly properly picked up with C++. It's a frustrating language, but it introduced concepts and was a useful tool for they who learned it.

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Rust represents a change from the old guard (hah, puns), to the new guard. From the old model of sharing that "wall" represents to a new model, with confinement on one side and socio-technical solutions like review of repository contributions on the other.

The old world is something I will miss greatly. I think we lose so much, and we come out poorer for it. But it's time to move on. Tear down that wall and all that jazz. I hate that I have to be that guy, I really do.

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Right? I'm 45 and I teach at a college and it feels like these kids are "less horny" to the point that it's unhealthy and unnatural.
Banning alternative browsers in particular was a huge lead weight around open source on mobile.
Well, what aspect would you say that I'm comparing between these seemingly unrelated things? Hint: they don't need to be ethically equivalent for me to make my comparison.
We ask for a credit card (2018)
And it's worth noting that headlines have often been "clickbaity" since before there were clicks. Look at the print edition of The Economist. A lot of the heds (in publishing lingo) are plays on words etc. (although the subhead/dek) does tend to be fairly straightforward. Online, their heds tend to be more literal--probably because of SEO.
Nah, it's a reasonable shorthand and more widely understood than "Huguenots."
Reminds me of Sendgrid. At the beginning, they were faced with using an off-the-shelf MTA (mail transfer agent) or writing their own. As a core competency, writing their own turned out to be a major competitive advantage.
> and Google too one would think

Google allows sideloading of apps. Of course if you start on the play store and get kicked off that can kill your business, but if you build your audience elsewhere it can work out just fine. There's a pornhub Android app, and an ecosystem of dating sims, visual novels containing erotic content, etc. Patreon is probably responsible for a couple of million dollars a month in Android app "subscriptions".
I like to hear omegataupodcast.net during kitchen work.
They have some episodes in (a sort of :-) english.
Self driving cars are slowly degenerating from intelligent autonomous machines to just another version of train - see sensors in a road/signs, special lanes, etc.

If they can't drive on existing roads together with human drivers, then they are utterly pointless.
Trust me, half the recipients of the email would have forgotten about it within a week. You'd be lucky if they even opened it in the first place.
Academic journals and textbooks almost never disappoint me.
The back and forth communication is all that you care about with php-fpm, and rarely do you need to actually see it, unless you have php-fpm configured wrong for instance. The majority of debugging a php application means turning on debugging (i.e. ini_set 'display_errors' On and error_reporting('E_ALL')) and tailing a /var/log/nginx log file looking at what happened in your application.
It does make iPhones a far less attractive target for theft, though. Much harder to resell a locked device.
my new article on the limited difference between accountability and cancel culture
You either start with or without an ORM, depending on your assessment of whether the project is gonna need one.

If you start without one, you still have to partition your code well enough so that retrofitting one doesn't cause a huge mess. Basically keep your "raw SQL queries" in a centralised place (file or folder), rather than strewn together in controllers/views/services. And you should do exactly the same if you use an ORM. Isolate the fuck out of it and make it "easily removable" or "easily replaceable".

Also keep the "effects" of your ORM or your non-ORM away from those other parts too: your controllers, views and services should be totally agnostic to whatever you're using in the data layer. When you add subtle coupling you lose the possibility of changing it, but it also makes your project less maintainable.

This is easier said than done: in dynamic languages or with structural typing like Typescript it's very easy: it's all objects, anyway, so ORM or no ORM it's the same. In stricter languages like Java it might lead to lots of intermediate data structures which are verbose and causes problems in itself. Or the middle ground: use primitives (lists and maps) rather than classes and objects, although ORMs like Hibernate will make things difficult for you, since they're not too flexible about how they're used and their types tend to "creep" all over your project.

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Most unmaintainable projects don't become unmaintainable because people "forgot to prepare". They become unmaintainable because people assumed everything is permanent, so there's no penalty to using everything-everywhere. So there are "traces" of the ORM in the controllers and views, the serialisation library and serialisation code is called in models in services as a "quick hack", the authorisation library is called from everywhere because why not. You quickly lose the ability to easily reason about code.

The same applies other areas. I could make a treatise of how game developers love sticking keyboard-reading code absolutely everywhere in the codebase.
Yes, there are problems with the infrastructure. Some predict the same thing that happens in the south of Sweden will start to happen in the capital region.

For those interested. An overview of the energy in Sweden. https://energimyndigheten.a-w2m.se/Home.mvc?ResourceId=20876...
Are those Telegram examples also NSFW? I don't see the meaningful distinction between NSFW content and porn.
> Except he actually did consider it and negotiated with investors. How is it fraught when you investigate a business opportunity?

Even if what said was 'truthful', he would have filed is intentions with the SEC to begin with but didn't. Actions speak louder than words and he still hasn't done anything to take Tesla private after paying for the charges.

> So many salty shorts itt.

Shorted what? Yeah I shorted NKLA [0], and told everyone to do so in the open and laughed all the way to the bank.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996773
A few months ago, I thought... ok, this is amazing, an i7 with 8 cores and 32 GB of RAM and an SSD... I'm set for the next decade!

Now I'm just trying to run Stable Diffusion to generate things an it's 30 seconds per iteration at only 512x512 pixels. It looks like I'll have a GPU soon enough if I want to do any development with neural networks.

What an amazing ride... heck, I still remember thinking back in 1980 that the 10 Megabyte Corvus hard drive my friend was installing for a business would NEVER be filled... do you have any idea how much typing that is? ;-)