skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read all of Ursula K. Le Guin earlier works and really liked it, not so much the post mid-1970s work. Much of science fiction has a curious political-social bent, it must be said - people often imagine the kinds of worlds they'd like to see, socio-politically speaking, and then create them, and their stories take place in those worlds. A notable exception is Frank Herbert, whose works had a more meta-political flavor, i.e. he wrote about theories of politics and how they might play out in the future, without championing any particular outcome. Hence, there's less of the preaching-to-the-choir stuff in his work.

It's very interesting to see how people in tech line up with their scifi - for a while, there was a 'Star Wars' vs. 'Star Trek' divide in some tech circles, perhaps mainly promoted by Peter Thiel:

https://www.thewrap.com/peter-thiel-star-trek-communist-star...

The fact is, you can find whatever socio-political flavor of science fiction you like, for example Orson Scott Card is probably the ideological opposite of Le Guin in many ways. Iain M. Banks of the Culture Series fame is perhaps a hybrid of Asimov and Le Guin on sociopolitical matters, sped up a bit, with more chaos and violence. Note this all has a kind of 'big space opera' theme, regardless of whether, you have leftist or rightist sci-fi preferences. William Gibson, in contrast, revolutionized sci-fi by writing about the people who fell between the cracks, those who got run over by the system and were left to fend for themselves as best they could (basically, sci-fi noir).

Maybe a Captain Picard / Darth Vader crossover series would be funny... comedic sci-fi works sometimes. Galaxy Quest was memorable.
ISPs, domain name registration and DDoS protection should be classified as utilities though.
A good story of how they dropped a production database. It’s a lesson that is expensive to learn, and will not be repeated. I’d always hire engineers who have dropped a production db elsewhere, rather than risking them dropping it on my current project.
The COM executable gets loaded by DOS at address 100h, so the first bytes have to be executable code, if memory serves me well?
I appreciate that a solid paragraph is about how Worf and Picard are hot. Some retrospectives on TNG are so focused on the high-minded, cerebral elements that you'd think each episode was a symposium on different aspects of the human condition. One of the remarkable things about the show is that it managed to include some of these lofty themes while also having a strong populist appeal -- weird aliens, starship battles, interpersonal drama, and sex (to the degree permitted on early '90s broadcast TV).

For every "The Inner Light", there was a "Captain's Holiday", the episode where Picard goes on vacation to the sex planet Risa and has an Indiana Jones adventure involving a mysterious ancient artifact, an attractive and unscrupulous archeologist, and time travelers. TNG wouldn't be so great if it had just been one or the other.
> You shouldn’t make personality diagnoses via online comments.

Going by what you said alone - you prefer the safety of isolation over the lack of human contact (regardless of your personality). Author of TFA weighs the tradeoffs differently.

The author of article doesn't share your safety concerns, as they wrote that they adopted a gangster persona and probably resigned to the fact that they will be repeatedly involved in violence, so they'd rather do it on their terms. The calculus of a lifer is very different to yours
What Russia is doing is horrible. War crimes and all. However I wouldn’t go so far as call them nazis, think it dampens that metaphor when it’s over used.

Russia feels NATO expansion is too close to their doorstep, he warned many times and this is the outcome.

Obviously not condoning it, and it’s many millions of lives displaced and tens of thousands lost. Generations will be effected.

Russia using the excuse of nazis in Ukraine, and the need to free the Ukrainian people is a tall tail. Though there is a small amount of truth, of actual nazis existing in some of the armed forces of Ukraine [0]. But by no means justifies what’s been done.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-probl...
Same thing with core UNIX commands, and so many other areas. We are doomed to incessantly reinvent the wheel and turn versatile abstractions into single-purpose complications. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Full on agreement. There are literally videos of Teslas smashing into stationary vehicles on the highway at night using only vision camera for FSD. No way any rational actor could claim the visible pixel space is sufficient in that scenario compared to LIDAR, Radar, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ ("Microservices" by KRAZAM)

But, parody aside, I'm with you: there must be one for every route in their API, and then another 250 for doing schema validation. I was being funny when I wrote that, but in the far left of their diagram is a circle named "apimeta"
A pretentious word for a proxy server. Can't charge enterprise licensing fees for the latter.
Can you give an example of the kind of conflict you thought was pointless? Early TNG seemed like a new age cult to me, and then it became more real without losing the positivity.
> That's how conservatives are attacking liberals these days in the US and in other places.

Primarily as a completely organized and funded way to attack recently elected "progressive" city officials. After the enemy prosecutor/sheriff disappears, the crime wave evaporates as fast as the complaints about kids in cages did when Biden took over.
ill never get why people punish themselves with this devops shit. you could just learn 1 thing (networking) on a few vendors (cisco, juniper, whatever), pass a few tests and be making good money out the gate.

i feel like devops is just a bucket for lost souls who like tech stuff.

am i crazy?
I think one should distinguish between 'all necessary information is already in the pixel-space' vs 'we already know how to extract all the information needed from pixel-space'

The fact that (most) humans manage to drive around safely and successfully in current roads proves that the information needed exists in the pixel-space (not just current image, but say current + history). We don't yet have stacks that can successfully map everything needed from this information but I don't think Dr. Karpathy ever claimed that.

(I am not a principal engineer but a mere PhD student who argues daily with people on how RGB information is underappreciated and under utilized)
A few caveats to this.

One, the recommended 50mm focal length lens here is specific to full-frame cameras with 35mm sensors. If you have an APS-C camera, which is quite common, then you want a ~32mm lens, and if you use M4/3 like I do, then you want a 25mm lens, to achieve this same effect.

Of course it's a lot simpler to abstract away the camera sensor size and simply look at field of view, which for a 50mm full-frame lens is about 40 degrees. This is actually not that much; it's quite "zoomed-in" in appearance compared to everything you can see at once through your eyes, which is at least 90 degrees field of view plus more for your peripheral vision. So the following quote from the article is definitely inaccurate:

> The 50mm lens is called a “normal” or “standard” lens because the way it renders perspective closely matches that of the human eye.

To really match the experience of being there, you need an ultrawide lens to capture the full human field of view. The 40 degree field of view of a nifty fifty is like looking through a narrow doggy cone of shame.
Or an opt-in for submitting a piece of private information like a phone, an email, a public key, etc. so you can prove who you are to your friends.

Who am I kidding, these people are looking for an audience, not their friends.
yes, though not exactly sure how is it beneficial to company, maybe then they are not obliged to follow stricter rules for mass layoffs, if they can lower the threshold of leaving people
I didn't find his answers particularly convincing. His answer focused on costs mainly, and how "the best part is no part". We have already seen multiple accidents caused by camera's limitations [1] which would not have happened if Tesla used Lidars.

Cameras have poor dynamic range and can be easily blinded by bright surfaces. While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes, our eyes are significantly better than cameras.

More importantly, expectations are higher when an automated system is driving the car. It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents. If you lose a loved one in an accident where the accident could have been easily avoided if a human was driving, then you're not going to be mollified to hear that in aggregate, fewer people are being killed by self-driving cars! You'd be outraged to hear such a justification! The expectation therefore is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. Self-driving cars have to be significantly better than humans to be accepted by society, and that means it has to have better-than-human levels of vision (which lidars provide).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hrKnv0dPQ
“Incredible” feels like a stretch. I think “cozy” is the most distinctive description for me.
Yes, and VoIP is saturated with spam and toll fraud. Lack of regulation has spurred innovation, but has also given bad actors free rein.

I agree that the telephone isn't a great example of where regulation has worked, but I think the specific example of phone number portability is a good one: something that no carrier would ever implement, but something that is great to help customers avoid being locked in to a single provider.
"Starship Mine" and "Captain's Holiday" are both great episodes, though. I think the more damning anecdote is that he was apparently responsible for the dune buggy stuff in Nemesis.
Ranges is spotty on clang and source_location is inconsistent between compilers, off the top of my head.
I said A. You tried to divert to B. I quoted part of B to point out that wasn't the topic. You said the topic had changed to B "long ago".

You see how that's wild right?
My experience with "flat" structures in the past has been the lack of an explicit hierarchy created an implicit hierarchy, which caused compensation to not match actual role and some diabolical politics. Never again. I've kind of moved on to wanting to work at places that run on information and not confidence instead. You can work out which type of place you are at pretty quickly by talking to upper management. Unfortunately most people want confidence and not information.
You'd earn more money by working overtime and buying food from the supermarket instead of spending time growing it yourself.
I'm disappointed that Apple (or someone) hasn't used the modern low-power chips (such as the M1) to make a computer that is perfectly sealed, no moving parts and no dust paths.
The problem with district heat schemes in the UK (at least) is they are becoming mandatory for new large housing developments but are 100% unregulated every step of the way. The builders do the cheapest job possible because the efficiency targets they're supposed to hit are never measured or verified post install. And unlike the rest of domestic energy in the UK, pricing is totally unregulated. The residents can (and are) charged high rates because it's impossible for them to change supplier. Any potential savings are undone by these two things. The energy regulator has so far refused to do its job because they supposedly don't want to stifle growth in this new market.

It is a good idea but it's been sabotaged by greed.
"Go long high interest rates, and make a levered long term bet on AI."

The challenge with levered long bets on technology is that most foundational technologies undergo waves of innovation, growth, replacement, and bankruptcy. You could've been totally right about social networking by betting on Xanga in 1999, and still gone bankrupt because they were long gone by the time Facebook ultimately won the market. Same with betting on Altavista for Search in 1995, WebVan for e-commerce in 1999, BlackBerry for smartphones in 2002, etc.

If you're looking to make a levered long-term bet on technology, often the smartest thing is to bet your career on it. The skills you personally hold will survive multiple generations of companies, and then you can seek out whoever happens to be hiring at a given point in time for the technology that you think will be huge.
Honestly, 10 minutes to go through 2 feet of concrete is damn impressive. I had to put a couple 50A electric circuits through my foundation a few months back and I'm pretty sure we spent more like 45 minutes getting through. And we didn't even hit any rebar, which is a minor miracle itself.
Thin event (1): person object XYZ changed.

Thin event (2): address object ABC changed.

Delta event (1): person object XYZ's name changed to "Bob"

Delta event (2): address object ABC's address line 2 was deleted and zip code was changed to "12345"

Fat event (1): person object XYZ changed, and here's everything we think person-consuming systems will care about

Fat event (2): address object ABC changed, and here's everything we think address-consuming systems will need

Entire object (1): { person: { token: "XYZ", name: "Bob", email: "bob@bob.com" age: 42, likes: ["ice cream", ...], ... }, updated_at: T, updated_by: U, version: 3, ... }

Entire object (2): { address: { token: "ABC", line_1: "1234 Some Place Rd.", line_2: null, city: "Everywhere", state: "NA", zip: "12345", ... }, updated_at: T, updated_by: U, version: 5, ... }
> If you have an APS-C camera, which is quite common, then you want a ~32mm lens, and if you use M4/3 like I do, then you want a 25mm lens, to achieve this same effect.

It's not the same effect, far from it. It's different focal length, that will render different image.
Having been on the receiving end of things like this, it’s likely outside Adobes hands. I had a product where they changed licensing to a revenue sharing model, asking for 10% vs a flat fee. Problem was, only like 3-4 customers out of hundreds were using the licensed feature. Long story short, it made it unsustainable and we quickly dropped the technology.
Idea Inbox (2021)
Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.
Sure, I can live with a 24mm (38.4mm translated from crop sensor) if I know for sure I am going to be indoors or in close quarters / shooting large objects. But distance quickly becomes an issue, not always possible to access interesting areas or walk there in time. So for unknown situations helps to have a decent zoom range, even at the expense of having to shoot with higher ISO.
hn.algolia turns up some promising pre-existing discussions:

Ask HN: How to Start Contributing to FOSS as an Ubernoob?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33276060 (10 days ago)

Ask HN: Want to work on open-source, don't know where to start. Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361790 (2014)

--

https://hn.algolia.com?query=Start%20open%20source

https://hn.algolia.com?query=Start%20foss

I'm sure there's lots more if one invests the effort to craft effective search terms. Best wishes~ MD
I'm similar, I remember when I was a teen the way I'd obsess over things, now I just don't care about anything. I can't get excited. I think part of it is ageing, part of it could just be loneliness or depression, but I also think the way we can always distract ourselves with random crap on the internet is really bad for us.

Over November I'll be going on a hiatus of anything that I do just to fill time and distract myself to prevent boredom.
>The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it.

What exactly is he supposed to do? I don't see how Nov 8 is megacorp's business.
> I certainly think people should be able to exercise free speech, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to it.

Would that be different on Mastodon? I've never used it, but as a decentralized service, I assume it won't have a central authority banning users?
I have an electric blanket. The way it works is that you put it underneath the sheet, on top of the mattress. Moisture getting trapped under it isn't really a concern, because i lie on top of it. From the sheet up, the bed works in the normal way.

I turn it on for 30 - 60 minutes or so before getting into bed, to warm the bed up, and turn it off once i get in. I have tried leaving it on all night on the lowest setting, when it is very cold, but i wake up dehydrated.
A LIDAR sensor is a complex device with spinning motors, mirrors, lasers and more. Costs are coming down and less-expensive and more capable devices are coming to market. Once the price-points come way down, I wouldn't be surprised to see Tesla reconsider their decision to exclude them from their sensor platform.
They call that "web3" nowadays, but you're supposed to enjoy it because you can buy shares in the specific door that won't open for you and they might triple in value while you're locked in.
Of his books that I read, it is definitely the one that comes across as the most childish and stupid (with a few good ideas). His other books aren't like that.

I had trouble getting through them as well, but for other reasons. For Cryptonomicon it was his "let me prove how smart I am" diversions off the main story for dozens of pages at a time, and for Anathem it was an interesting idea told in a boring yet difficult-to-parse way, at least as far as I got.

The quality of the prose in those other two books seemed better, at least.

Big fan of PKD books, btw, although I think his writing style and characters are pretty plain and not that compelling on their own (but they are quick to read as a result, I could knock one out in about 4-6 hours, usually). The ideas, dialogue, and often the endings make them all worth reading, though.
It gets really cold without the shower water running. Our indoor temperature in the day is 16-18°C in Winter (UK).
This sounds like you are simply describing how advertising works. Cattle do not respond to advertising. People do.
Such information makes best sense in context. For example, if we learn that 40% of criminals were abused in childhood, we will interpret it certain way. But if we afterwards learn that 40% of non-criminals were also abused in childhood, now the previous interpretation does not make sense anymore.

So we should start from the point "how many kids you know who were abused in childhood" and then ask "and how many of them later became criminals".
What cures are there for depression other than

1. anti-depressants

2. therapy / exercise / diet changes

3. a perspective change

4. ignoring it
1. Find out that DevOps Engineer is a made up title by hiring managers to mean "IT Operations Engineer That Knows Modern Tools" but shorter

2. Become an IT Operations Engineer

3. Years later, find out what DevOps actually is

4. Never actually practice DevOps

5. Become a DevOps Consultant
Vision systems don't work at all in fog or heavy rain/snow.
Owning a house is not an obsession. Shelter is a basic human need and people across many cultures own houses.

And no, it's not one thing, it's just one example. People aren't getting paid as fairly as they used to.

Yes quality of medical care has improved. That's not the discussion. We're talking about fair pay.
At least where I am in SoCal, AT&T literally just deployed fiber with plans up to 5 gigabit/s. I'm so glad to be leaving Spectrum behind, because when moving here I never thought I'd have a cable Internet provider that made me miss Comcast...

So hopefully you have some other options soon. :)
This is a proposal, not something you can actually do.

Now, on LinkedIn, you can sort of do this. My LinkedIn profile says only, see my GitHub profile. But Facebook, not so much.

None of the federated systems have any traction. From PeerTube to Mastodon to Open Simulator, they're all orders of magnitude smaller than the commercial competitors.

PeerTube has an interesting model. It's useful as an ad-free video streaming service for when you don't need or want "discovery". As, for example, when you want to post a video and link it from elsewhere. It's partial peer to peer. There's one master copy. hosted on a server, but if there are enough watchers of that video, the watchers' browsers also become temporary caching servers to distribute the load. The source site thus avoids overload.

This is a useful way to do federation. The watchers don't have to be members, they don't have to store content long term, and they're not trusted. What else could be done that way?
I made an app that's ideal for this: https://thinktype.app
You are right and sister comment to this one is wrong. Thusly:

MOV AH, 9

MOV DX, str

INT 21

MOV AH, 0

INT 21

Str:

DB 'hello, world', d, A, '$'
It was not the same thing. The Dilbert strip linked would have made no sense in the 1990s. It makes complete sense today.
Went for https://www.yuyubottle.eu/ after a bit of googling due to the cotton fabric + the strap, will test it this winter.
> The LIDAR folks were wrong, basically

I think your mistake is thinking LiDAR exists to solve the happy day scenario. It doesn't.

Vision is sufficient for the majority of use cases. Where LiDAR comes into its own is in the edge cases because it almost guarantees accurate bounding box detection. Which is where vision is at its weakest.

So I want to know what does FSD do when it sees a billboard of a person or when it is seeing a new object for the first time.
I wrote this about 20 years ago during my university days. I happened to stumble upon it today in my archives and thought of sharing it on GitHub. I was still learning microprocessors back then. While browsing the C:\Windows directory, I fortuitously happened to discover the DEBUG.EXE program. Turned out it was available on any standard installation of MS-DOS as well as Windows 98. That chance encounter helped me to dive into the world of assembly language programming much before the coursework introduced me to more popular assemblers.

Since I was still learning the x86 CPUs, the intention here was not to save bytes but instead to have something working. I believe I picked up the style of having the string at the top and jumping over it from other similar code I had come across in those days.

You are right of course. Here is a complete example that moves the string to the bottom and saves two bytes:

C:\>DEBUG
-A
1165:0100 MOV AH, 9
1165:0102 MOV DX, 10B
1165:0105 INT 21
1165:0107 MOV AH, 0
1165:0109 INT 21
1165:010B DB 'hello, world', D, A, '$'
1165:011A
-G
hello, world

Program terminated normally
-N HELLO.COM
-R CX
CX 0000
:1A
-W
Writing 0001A bytes
-Q

C:\>HELLO
hello, world

C:\>

I have now updated the GitHub repository with this updated source code and binary. Thank you for the nice comment!
These days powerline networks have key exchange / encryption and so this problem should be fixable, no?
Using deep learning to annotate the protein universe [pdf]
I think OP is saying what if you wrote it as:

mov ah, 9
mov dx, offset helloworld
int 21
mov ah, 0
int 21
.helloworld:
db 'hello, world', d, A, '$'