skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
Books, but one problem is that they are often written to the format. ie A book might be 300 pages, but much of it is padding or secondary, supporting argument; it could easily be shrunk to 50 pages without losing much, but publishing doesn't work that way.
Using whataboutism to deflect a claim of hypocrisy is wrong, I'm completly with you on that. However to be even more firm about this, regardless of the intentions of whataboutism, you can't hold citizens of a country responsible for the actions of their government unless they were directly involved.

However... visa V mastercard , using whataboutism is valid in this situation. Bringing up something the US government did in the past to silence the criticism of a US citizen to another countries actions is wrong.

EDIT: Just another thought about your example. There isn't even hypocrisy. Person B lent money to A and A paid it back, then Person A lent money to B and B didn't pay it back.

- B doesn't pay back money

- A pays back money

There's no contradictions in their actions.
Re (1) how feasible would it be to basically teach the PHP VM the equivalent of fork() so you can do all the booting once but still have a fresh copy of the end result on each request?

I mean, it's not going to be as cheap as getting the thing to actually run in a loop, but it might be enough cheaper than the booting process to be worthwhile.
True but not when the upkeep of that infrastructure costs more than the profits you get from selling your high supply product in the far away high demand market.

Obviously with the current market prices the cost of the transmission capabilities is a rounding error but if we get back to the electricity prices of a year or two ago the costs of transmission could start to dominate the price again so you have to be careful about investments like this (just like you have to be with nuclear plants for the case that the price on the markets is goes permanently under your production costs)

And transmission capability upgrades are really long term investments. Sweden started lately to try and fix this issue. If that project finishes on time it will take 14 years to finish. These are the kind of timescales where building a new nuclear power plant can be a faster fix.
Deciding what not to build is nearly as important
So you unlocked your wife too ? :p

I'm still wondering if it would be profitable today.
As many have mentioned: books!
I do like to add the Economist. It's my way of keeping up to date with current affairs
K-POP Supergroup BTS, worldwide free streaming – Akamai are you OK?
It was rumored that >10M viewers globally will tune in to watch K-POP supergroup BTS FREE Live concert.

The show is running now, and it's barely working from Singapore.

Akamai guys, are you OK? Anyone's child watching the show too?
And then there is India. Please come here if you want zero infra AND zero adherence to basic rules of driving AND the language and script changes every few hundred kilometers AND all roads have human and non-human users at all hours of the day.
I understand the annoyance of it being replaced for a more complex more expensive system, but I would also like to know: What was the reasoning provided and what did decision makers truly believe about the whole thing?
I think some people are doing mobo swaps (a tiny chinese group called something 51) so you can keep the T60 shell and have a gen 10 core i5 or similar.
After all what US gov did to China these years, Chinese govt has no incentive to help US drug issue
That's exactly the original Unix model fault: it's designers though that's possible making many very small and simple "programs as functions" to be easy combined in scripts and with IPCs to doing almost anything without the need to go to "system code" as a cheap and easy solution to the hardness of a classic system design.

They quickly drop such idea introducing GUIs, who fail to offer composability and scripting, and they derailed hitting their own design limits. Modern GUIs are the monster emerged form such ashes who happen to be worst than the problem it try to solve. The issue in the example comparison in my previous post is that at least in CLIs you can combine/compose a bit, with modern GUIs you can't. Write a script is easy, at least FAR easier than change an ERP.
The problem with Modula-3 was that it had all that good stuff, but the official distribution was enormous (relative to machines of the day). If they had invented NPM too, they might have had a better chance.
>Another decade of researching a cancer cure to cover another different type of cancer? $1400BN in funding these cancer treatments that don't work. Not even radiotherapy can fully cure cancer...

Thats how I read it, sorry. We made tremendous leaps in the past decade with improving automated driving, is it fully automatic? No. Does it mean we should somehow stop funding it? No.
I used to work in a lab that bought mud from NIST. We were measuring soil contaminants, and needed a calibration point for the data collected. So, whenever we collected data from river mud, we also ran the NIST mud. That way, any drift in our experimental setup over time could be normalized out.
Doing a Computer Systems Engineering degree in the late 80's/early 90's, we were taught Modula 2 on Atari STs.
This bullshit shows up in every HN thread on autonomous vehicles. Really only on HN. It's wrong, uninformed, and won't seem to go away.

The challenges self-driving cars have nothing to do with infrastructure and everything to do with the other moving objects on the road. It's not that the vehicles can't detect the other things on the road. It's that they can't anticipate reliably what they're going to do.

(However you may be correct that we need AGI or something close to it to do autonomous vehicles robustly)
I can't help but think that FOSS is the key to sharing the lineages.

Every single place I worked, people just want to make code work, not readable.
A thermal battery that uses superheated bricks [video]
While interesting its scope is in the typical Swedish narrow mindedness. Solidarity, the Swedish mantra, a very watered out word here. We are part of EU (Union) comes with some conditions or was it started just for sake of profit?
They learnt from the un-paralleled best - the United States.
This. I recall most predictions saying 2024 would be the tipping point, but even then I doubt regulations at the local and national level will change that fast.
Not all driving outside city areas happens on the highways.

My brother lives in the countryside (somewhere in the EU), and, as a driver, he shares the paved road just outside his house with the village’s cows (including his two cows). I don’t see any non-AGI system being able to negotiate that, as at times is difficult even for me, a reasonably AGI system, to make sense of it all when I encounter a herd of loose cows on the road.
A Turing machine can simulate the operation of any other Turing machine, so maybe there's hope for a ball of X neurons.
That's the true insanity here. Did they ever sell a truck? In the meanwhile those un-innovative legacy manufacturers have the first working protypes on the road. And where is the Tesla Semi again?
For technical news: arstechnica and theregister. For more niche topics, I've found the best way is to follow people in that field on twitter. If they are trustworthy non-grifters then look at the sites they share.
Indeed. Although the lab couldn't check for signs of consciousness. If they'd been able to do so, they'd have cracked the "hard problem" of consciousness, which would be far bigger news. So this is blather at best, and ethics-washing at worst.
> I would prefer to work on a codebase that solves problems effectively than a codebase that is novel.

I have a design for a very very boring code base that involves no frameworks or external libs. It works fantastic and has been used by some of the most productive teams I've managed. Those teams can manage "more services than we have people on the team by a scale of 2-4x" (quote from one of the engineers on one of those teams).

But it's crazy boring. There's no frameworks to download, not dependencies to update, no big brand pages. It's just following some very simple rules about where to put different kinds of complexity, very strictly.

It's a hard sell in any programming ecosystem because it has no brand power.

I've debated create the "no framework" spec around this. I even have a tool that can enforce the standards in CI. I just don't know if anyone would actually care.
30,000+ fatal vehicle accidents annually, not 3000
>I think self driving cars have already passed the test of "number of crashes" or "number of fatalities" per mile driven.

This is not definitively known. The distribution of conditions under which self driving cars operate is very different from the distribution of human driving. Self driving car miles are disproportionately on the highway, with little traffic, in perfect weather (i.e. by far the safest driving conditions). In addition, we don’t know how many disengagements (or remote interventions) would have resulted in an accident.
I just came across this article but for a different reason - on mobile, sponsored results are interleaved with organic all the way down. Never seen this before. Much more like Facebook and naturally I loathe it.
Tumblr and why ‘the porn-friendly era of the internet is over’
The environment requires too many constraints, in a city it wouldn’t be unusual for someone to vandalize these road signs.
What's a rich Brahmin? Where this assumption coming from ? I think you are about to make highly biased and uninformed opinion on Hinduism based on some article you read , so go on...
Indeed, by the way, Object Pascal was born at Apple as evolution from Clascal with collaboration from Nicklaus Wirth, although many think Borland did it, due to Turbo Pascal's popularity.
Cars are bad. Electric cars are a bit better than ICE cars, and self-driving cars might one day be better than human-driven cars. But they're still terrible: they're still big, inefficient, polluting, loud, dangerous, and take up precious space. Cars are completely unsuited to cities, and cities which are designed around cars are terrible.

This to say: the future is having cars removed from cities entirely. Focusing on self-driving technology, or on electric cars as if they're going to "save the planet", is entirely the wrong direction imo.
Markets aren’t governments, but they have raised the global standard of living vastly beyond our ancestors. They all happily do long term planning, just look at VC funding for risky investments that won’t see returns for years.
there is somebody in the chain of command who benefits of that deal and will do what she can to keep it as inefficient as it is.
The world does not improve uniformly or get worse uniformly.

What’s good for most is bad for some and vice versa.
The economist has been pretty reliable as a sensible source of information
That's definitely not the hard part of targeting Rust. I don't really understand why people keep thinking it's a good idea, Trying to generate borrow-checker compliant code sounds like a nightmare.
Just as one tiny counterpoint, the company I work for [0] builds a database written in Zig, not C. We implemented our own consensus using Viewstamped Replication [1], not Raft. And we built our own storage engine on LSM trees rather than use RocksDB [2].

A lot of this we built ourselves so we can do FoundationDB-style deterministic testing [3] of the entire system which would not be possible with off-the-shelf libraries because they are not deterministic.

Another goal was to not allocate memory after startup. A goal that most third party libraries would disrupt.

Sometimes the boring options do not further the technical goals of your project. :)

[0] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle

[1] https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/vr/liskov12vr-abstract.html

[2] http://rocksdb.org/

[3] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/testing.html
I’m sorry about baiting you into reading 20 words or so.

You can go get upset at the more fleshed out comment that I left below. Have fun.

> Literally no one uses "tragedy of the commons" as capitalism apologia. What an absurd straw man.

Go take a look at WalterBright’s (the person who dropped this phrase) comments on economics.
Hyperloop is still cool because you could have really fast transit over large areas. Mass transit across cities is still quite slow. High speed trains are fine but just not fast enough. Imagine a large city where you could get from one side to the other in only a few minutes.
That's true but the poster you replied to was talking about distribution so I assumed that was what you were talking about as well.
Teslas, despite the ludicrous promises of "full self-driving in 6 months, just you wait", completely choke if there is so much as a traffic cone or a road-work barrier for it go around.
Not in, but with modern GUIs (so X11 xlibs wrapped by some widget lib) I can't compose nor integrate anything. For instance if I want to do some simple math in an email I'm composing I need to launch another application, type the same math I've typed in the message body, evaluate it, copypaste the results, copy-pasting is the sole IPC such tools have.

On a terminal, I can run a terminal based editor who typically can run code from inside the text buffer. In Emacs I can do much more in both terminal and X11. That's is.

My org-mode notes links anything, meaning mails (searches, specific messages, threads), financial transactions (ledger), elisp code, for instance to act on notes themselves like an `* Online retails orders` heading with a "click here to add a new one" or to change the Emacs/EXWM graphic, for instance to present something, org-ql queries on my notes etc. In pure CLI (not TUI) I can at least cat and process programs output, in modern GUIs I can't.

A simple showcase: https://youtu.be/B6jfrrwR10k
It's quite sad. Even not-so-bright representatives of our civilization can drive a car successfully, and we still can not achieve this level in software. It means that we are extremely far from implementing something more interesting and sophisticated.

All of these “AI” are too much “neural networks” and don’t have enough “intelligence”.
Here is a framework for government backed research into the topic: https://www.energy.gov/energy-storage-grand-challenge/articl...
Cars aren’t quiet
He didn't say he was retired from the military. You need 20 years in to get a retirement. A tour in Afghanistan is not sufficient.
Traveling around the world is cool as fuck, but com'on guys didn't you heard about global change due to CO2 emission ?

Do you realize that you rich life style is impacting more poor people from south who will never take a plane ?
That's why Sweden's solution must be centered around off-shore wind and dispatchable hydro together with solar in the summer.

Sweden is after all located in one of the windiest places on earth.

https://globalwindatlas.info/en
It was a prototype! Musk sold his cybertruck on unbreakable windows and that turned out to be deception too. How about $30,000 investment in robo taxi and ROI of 100% per year (even Madoff wasn't giving that good returns). I mean most stuff Musk every push is or was scam. Milton never had a chance to finish his project (hello Feds) but the company is doing fine and they will eventually release their truck.

Again -- matter of how much runaway you had and how fast you become too rich to jail. I'm sure his father wealth (owning multiple emerald mines) helped too.
I had a kickass wardriving rig back in the day. A dedicated netbook with kismet, gpsd, and a kismet script i hacked together before they had a plugin framework that would alert me on certain ssid probes, which would reliably tell me of the presence of police MCTs thus police cars (the mcts used motorola airmobile iirc). Was also really fun compiling stats knowing how often police would drive past my house, and knowing which vehicles they were.
It looks strictly worse at an equal resolution in side by side comparisons, the only advantage is improved frame rates on the same hardware.

Which just means better hardware beats DLSS at the same settings.
That's certainly true, and as a result there are always things getting worse somewhere, and that's always more newsworthy than things getting better anywhere.
I've encountered a code written in the 12factor style of using environment variables for configuration, and in that particular case there was no validation nor documentation of the configuration options. Is this typical?

For onboarding new members, I would have thought it preferable to have a JSON configuration, where both documentation and validation of configuration options are provided by a JSON Schema file.
Op thinks it is one,

> Vim defaults to being a C IDE, no plugins required
Sparsely populated rural areas are really the only place where personal autos make sense. Long distance highway travel is better serviced by train. And transportation inside the city is better serviced by literally anything except a car (bikes, e-bikes, subway, trams, scooters, walking).
Does the gpu have a physical mux though?

I usually don’t even consider laptops with dedicated nvidia graphics because dealing with nvidia drivers is more hassle than gain (I don’t do anything gpu-intensive and the intel gpu is enough for me).

A physical mux means you can effectively shut down the dedicated graphics but still drive outputs with the intel embedded gpu. And save battery.

Can that laptop do that?
As Raymond would say, you're already on the other side of the airtight hatchway. This is a non-story.
Discussed a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33106739
I think the issues are more that 1) old people vote in greater numbers than young people, and the UK has this thing called the "triple lock" on pensions so they are insulated from economic consequences; and 2) the first-past-the-post election method that seems to both polarise politics and allow idiotic politicians to survive and thrive in safe seats.

1. https://www.unbiased.co.uk/life/pensions-retirement/what-is-...
There's churn in the Vim world too. Plugins and plugin managers change. For example, with Neovim, Packer and Mason are apparently what's good to use now, and Mason literally came out 3 months ago. I guess if you don't use many plugins (and aren't trying to make Vim a full fledged IDE) then it's fine, but if you are, there's a lot of churn to go through.
No idea about this app, but presumably that's the reason why quite a few apps show animations and a rotating code word alongside the QR codes, so staff can easily spot that kind of thing.
From the website of the lab doing this https://corticallabs.com

Human neural networks raised in a simulation

The neurons exist inside our Biological Intelligence Operating System (biOS). biOS runs the simulation and sends information about their environment, with positive or negative feedback. It interfaces with the neurons directly. As they react, their impulses affect their digital world.

Our first minds

The dishbrain is currently being developed at the CL0 laboratory in Melbourne, AU. We bring these neurons to life, and integrate them into The biOS with a mixture of hard silicon and soft tissue. Our first cohort have learnt to play Pong. They grow, adapt and learn as we do.

Silicon meets neuron

Neurons are cultivated inside a nutrient rich solution, supplying them everything they need to be happy and healthy. Their physical growth is across a silicon chip, which has a set of pins that send electrical impulses into the neural structure, and receive impulses back in return.

The Ultimate Learning Machine

Those actions have a positive or negative effect in biOS, which the mind perceives, adapting to improve that feedback. The human neuron is self programming, infinitely flexible, the result of four billion years of evolution. What digital models try and emulate, we begin with.

Why?

There are many advantages to organic-digital intelligence. Lower power costs, more intuition, insight and creativity in our intelligences. But most importantly we are driven by three core questions.

What will we discover if our intelligences train themselves?

We know an organic mind is a better learner than any digital model. It can switch tasks easily, and bring learnings from one task to another. But more important is what we don’t know. What are the limits of a mind connected to infinity? What can it do with data it literally lives in?

What happens if we take a shortcut to generalised intelligence?

Machine Learning algorithms are a poor copy of the way an organic neural network functions. So we’re starting with the neuron, replacing decades of algorithms with millions of years of evolution. What happens as these native intelligences start solving the problems we’d previously left to software?

How can we surpass the limits of silicon?

Silicon is raw, rigid, unchanging. Our organic neural networks sit on top of this raw power, but the way they grow and evolve isn’t limited to the software they run on. There is no software, it's coded in their DNA. How will computing change as we shift from hard silicon to soft tissue?

RFN: Request For Neurons

The dishbrain is learning and growing in biOS today, and soon we’re opening an early access preview for selected developers. The biOS is our simulation environment, where you can program tasks, challenges and objectives for our minds. Join our developer program to get early access to our SDK, and secure training time with our minds.
How secure was the app compared to the new one?
No one mentioned Light Table?
An inside job meaning Russia did it?
New UN Privacy-Centric Data-Science Competition
The UN Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Lab is hosting a data science competition in early November. Registrations are open!
Ntvdm and 16-bit app support
The Supreme Court’s new Section 230 case could break the internet
> What was the reasoning provided

Reasoning? Hah-ha. Haaaaa...

It was an open government tender process, for which I, or the company I worked for was not eligible, despite the tender being "open". You see, a decade-long pedigree of actually having implemented the software used for this purpose did not qualify us for replacing it with a v2.0.

There are rules, you see? They have to be followed! Or else.

Or else bad things might happen, like money being wasted.

The fact that the end-result of this process was that a 9-digit sum was spent on something I spat out in my spare time in under a year -- and was used for a decade -- was of no relevance.

> what did decision makers truly believe about the whole thing?

Their concerns started only when the whole thing blew up and started making headlines. Then nothing happened to them personally, so their concerns evaporated along with the taxpayer funds they had wasted.
Tesla doesn't come anywhere close to having the sensor suite or compute to be taken seriously as a developer of level 4 autonomy.
Unless… the infrastructure change they propose is removing the “other things on the road”. Sounds brilliant. You could call that system a “rail” road as the cars would be on rails in a manner of speaking
Can you argument your desire for a quantifiable evidence without begging the question? There is research compatible with these claims. It's mentioned and linked in the link I've previously provided.
>Relatedly, the chemical imbalance theory of depression was disproved in a popular study published two months ago.

It hasn't been an accepted explanation for years in academia. It's only accepted bc of pharmaceutical commercials and word of mouth
Pocket (getpocket.com) has a pretty wide selection of long form writing. The recommended articles are curated by humans. Their app is especially nice if you get on a plane and need something to read offline.
Even better to have a 'trap on integer overflow' state (either a bit in each instruction or in a context register), this way there's no/less icache impact.
How well would that work during snow, fog, storms, how resilient would it be to vandalism? Sounds extremely fragile.