skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean he delivered pretty good car assisted driving software (and hardware) and with a company that did raise 100 billion $ to do it. That seems pretty impressive to me.

In some of these comparative rankings a device that runs open source software and cheap hardware beats most of these driver assist systems that companies put in their car. All of those system probably had 10-100x more developer time put into them and work on fewer cars.
I'll add my preference to the hat: Material Deep Ocean https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KYDronePilot/material-deep...

It's dark and constrasty which I prefer. Also it's popular so I was easily able to add it to Jetbrains, iTerm2, etc.
I stopped reading when he brought the Bible into things. I have no time to waste on that sort of thing.
Damn those are some gross sausage people. Will definitely buy.
> Ah, so the middle is to just do nothing in favour of boosting marginalised groups ... I have zero interest in debating your "centrist position" to do nothing to elevate BIPOC people's position in marginalised fields

Doing nothing might be a lot more conducive to minority achievement than some of the stuff that was ultimately funded by these grants. Such as SeRCH's YouTube videos about "intersectional scientific method" and "hyperspace".
Hotz's story is our story. He is the embodiment of the top comment of every HN thread in existence. "Of course the author doesn't know a damn about what their writing about. They're wrong. And no I won't deliver a better solution," is Hotz in a nutshell. To be critical of him is to be critical of us. It's great if we can do that, but I'm not sure we can. There's a certain essence of digital rhetoric that runs through our veins and we wouldn't be the same without it.
For those using VSCode but who found the stock Nord to be a little too light, and a little too blue, I found a modified extension that has variations. I've used a specific theme for a decade now, so changing is difficult, but I'm going to try it, for those nice wintery hues.

Name: Dainty – Nord

Id: alexanderte.dainty-nord-vscode

Description: 25 variations of slightly modified Nord

Version: 1.0.1

Publisher: Alexander Teinum

VS Marketplace Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alexande...
I use react, because that's what I'm best at, and I also use it in my day job. Also most jobs in react, so it makes sense for my cv too.
The downvote they have now is private, and it’s not clear to me if it has any effect on how many other people see the tweet.
Scaling blockchains with STARKs – 10k TPS for Ethereum
> In my opinion, the real problem is the idea that "everything is a file".

Files are just an indexed list of bytes that can represent anything. Think of them as objects.

> Byte streams aren't a very useful abstraction. "Everything is a stream of messages" would be a far better base metaphor for computing.

I don't understand this. A stream of messages is a stream of bytes. Its bytes all the way down.
"I am a charlatan and therefore this whole industry is a scam" does not have great logic to it.
I have a side project at work that I'm doing on evenings/weekends that I've written in perl. One part of it parses verilog source code and builds an AST. It is a recursive descent parser that was written in the most straight-forward way and no time has been spent optimizing it for speed. The AST builder and some auxiliary routines that make interfacing to the AST simpler to manipulate is less than 2500 lines of code and took a couple weekends to write and get working.

Surprisingly, I timed the parser part and it took only 0.06 seconds to process a 2500 line file. Yes, perl is 30x slower than C, but computers are so fast that performance (for my needs) doesn't matter too much.

To be fair, it is only the subset of verilog that one would typically synthesize (so no events and forks/joins, no timing annotation, etc). Doing the whole language would make the code larger but not much slower.
That’s an interesting point, can you give an example of that?
Yeah no kidding. If it were demanded of me to RTO after this time of working remote, they wouldn't get quiet quitting, they'd get active sabotage while I search for a new job. There's no excuse for torturing ICs with RTO for reasons of executive vanity.
Theoretical performance doesn't matter in UX, only real world. Yes conceptually it's possible to make protobuffs faster than json, but someone still has to build that. Fast native json parsers already exist, that's the benchmark protobuffs has to beat significantly to make the worse DX worth it.
I believe the OP answered that in their second sentence.

> Very few people I’ve met with similar personalities are.
WebGPT reproduced from advanced prompting only (using Dust)
What definition of 'viability' are you using. As in the company is not viable?
what is ur current position and % shares in current company?

is that an invitation to died together?
Every time you see someone saying Earth is rare in some way, or that the Great Filter is behind us, or that life is plentiful, but far away (grabby aliens being one of those), those are all the same argument, and the exact same argument as your #1.

It is still missing any justification for what is so rare about it. (Not that those arguments are any hard to make; instead the main question here is which of them is the correct one.)

Your argument #2 (that's the exact same as the zoo hypothesis) needs an extremely good reason for no alien at all trying to kill us and take Earth. And we currently lack any good reason.
> Wikimedia should first and foremost strive to secure the technical and financial continuity of the project by e.g. investing a lion's share of the donations to a distributing fund that provides perpetual passive income from e.g. stock market dividends.

Stock investment funds are a favorite American pastime, but when shit hits the fan you get wiped out pretty easily. No matter if you're looking at heavyweights like Facebook (-68% YTD) or even the S&P 500 (-19% YTD). With interest rates going up across the board, IMHO I think we're in even worse times for shareholder investors, simply because the free money well that drove the last ten years worth of "gains" has been turned off and won't be re-activated any time soon.
Glad you find it useful! Let me know if you have any comments.
I'm working on improving the output, especially using non-english input to return english words. It already performs some of this tasks but would like to know what people think.

Thank you for the time you took to try it out.
This is why it seems best to not give tweets any value. It could be that something happened. Perhaps it was performance art. Or nothing happened. Or a man actually was seriously injured by a deranged intruder. Who can say? It's just random stuff on Twitter. Only people actually involved in the event know for sure, and even any police are catching up at this point.

Tune Elon out, folks. Just because he tweets something doesn't mean it's correct or newsworthy. He's just a rich guy. Anyone remember Pedo guy or anything else he's posted?
It is not mentioned in the article but it seems they have moved to Hetzner, which has free ingress/egress.

https://dnslytics.com/ip/5.9.82.52
Does this differ from GitHub's CoPilot in any user-noticeable way? (outside of the platform it's available on)
Never mind the Saudis: Here's a new OPEC for EV battery metals
Yeah, you really don't want those sewer lines freezing...
I just never get in crowds like that I would simply turn around before entering a mass of people like that.
Leave Twitter and build a social network not bound to the whims of an egomaniacal narcissist.

Continuing to provide help to Musk at this point is a waste of energy; he's not going to listen, as he feels most qualified. At least with cars and rockets, people could generally convince him to back off; with Twitter, there's no such hope as he's one of Twitter's most prolific users.

He will believe no one but himself about how to build that technology, and it is thus a waste of time to even try.
Same crud before every US election affecting multiple services. I wonder if they he private communication channel will ever become public, or maybe they just ban people after they banned them on one platform. Some ideas just don't survive debate.
I believe the answer will have to come from above, i.e. governments.

Industry is unable to self-regulate on this.
Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'
Hotz is an amazing MacGyver of Code, but unfortunately (for his own expectations) seems to be limited to only that.
every time I try new themes I always end up getting back to my trusty gruvbox-dark, there is something with its earthy colors that makes it way more relaxing and easy on the eye than the blueish ones that seem so popular
My read is a typo mislabeled a ton of accounts as sketchy and the verification flow is extremely backlogged. Should not have been deployed passed a small percent when the ratio of flagged accounts was so high, but so it goes.
> A good example they might support would be spending more money on space tech and less on food for Africa. Resources aren't limitless

In addition to being callous, it's very shortsighted, which is ironic - a developed and politically stable Africa would be making big contribution to a space program, and it has made huge economic strides in the past 20 years.

I am almost getting the feeling that lack longterm thinking among longtermists indicates that it is just being used as a facitious justification for political position it's leaders held a priori
George’s insights on self-driving cars remind me of when you get the rare exceptional engineer in your company who knows 100% what he or she is talking about down to the exact implementation level and all of the alternatives, and leadership totally ignores them because they foolhardily believe this kid can’t possibly be right—without asking engineering questions to test to see if they’re right about the engineer being wrong or having not considered something.

Except George seems to have been right to the tune of others spending billions of dollars while this dude hacked on free and open source software.

His biggest bootstrap expenses were probably commodity hardware, before dealing with business purchase orders.

I find that hilarious and extremely gratifying.
well i also have my own colorscheme. It's called Everblush and I'm working alot on it :D. https://github.com/Everblush
Yeah, it aims at audiophiles, so aesthetics matter to them. But it's also a great case for a small server! There are many Xeon builds around that use it.
"I couldn't get this working so nobody else can either". Classic gifted kid response to failure tbh.
Elmo is so rich, he doesn't care. This recall doesn't matter to him one iota.
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos
as much as I agree with your sentiment, I think this isn’t the case here. my friend came to me for tech support with this exact problem today and it isn’t presenting like overzealous banning.

there’s no “your account has been suspended” email. the account appears as deleted to other users, throws a connection error when you try to log in on mobile and just hangs when you log in through a browser. this isn’t normal suspension behaviour
Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Came here to see the "Old Timers" reply... then realized my first coding job was 1993 (29 yrs).

I recall the big disruptors being a transition to GUIs, Windows, and x86 PCs. DOS and command line apps were on the way out. Vendors like Borland offered "RAD" tools to ease the Windows boilerplate. Users were revolting and wanted to "mouse" over type.

The transition from C to C++ was underway. The code I worked on was full of structs and memory pointers. I was eager to port this to classes with a garbage collector, but there were vtable lookup and performance debates.

Ward's Wiki was our community platform to discuss OOP, design patterns, and ultimately where Agile/XP/SCRUM were defined. https://wiki.c2.com/

Work was 100% 9am-5pm Mon-Fri in the office. It was easier to get in the flow after hours, so 2-3 days per week involved working late. With PCs, it was also easier to program and learn at home.

Comp was ok, relative to other careers. I recall by 1995 making $45K per year.
I found this playlist informative when I was having the same thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ym2L69yzkamORF9DGWR...

It isn't L that is differentiated and set to zero. Instead the variation of the action is zero. So L isn't minimized or maximized, the variation of the action is zero. This implies that the solution path y(x) when varied by dy is a stationary point of the action. So for this path all nearby paths have the same action.

ok but then

> What is the Lagrangian and why should it be minimized

the form of the lagrangian is derivable from the d'alembert principle, principle of minimum potential, and then hamilton's principle.

It seems to me the principle is that real system behave in such a way that is characterized by hamiton's principle (the variation of the action is zero for real paths), and then we operationalize that principle by the calculus of variations to get real paths which have the properties established by the principles (use the Euler-lagrange equations to find paths for a particular system)
USCPSC's social media is run by a millennial https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephgalbo/
everblush.github.io
Possibly a similar reason we don't kill all the ants to take the sand?
> (2) Intelligent complex life is extremely rare, occurring less often than e.g. once per galaxy per ten billion years. (A bit different from being very early since it implies we might never find another even after billions of years.)

I think a more practical take on this isn't life is rare it's that both space and time are big. Two civilizations existing simultaneously but 1/100th a galaxy apart are still a thousand light years apart. Each would see the other's home system as one of billions of observation candidates.

Even with massive SETI operations by both civilizations the odds of those two civilizations discovering one another are pretty small. Even if we posit advanced civilizations are more abundant, separated by only a few hundred light years, the odds are still very small any two civilizations will find each other.

Detecting "leaked" radio emissions just isn't a thing that can happen. The inverse square law make this plain. If we placed our most sensitive radio telescopes on a planet in the Alpha Centauri system we wouldn't be able to detect Earth's radio emissions save for rare blips where a powerful radar system's beam happened to point directly at Alpha Centauri. Earth would need a system of persistent ASETI transmitters aimed at specific stars to have a chance to have emissions be detected by civilizations there.

There don't need to really posit anything weirder than space is fucking huge to explain the Fermi paradox.
I'm currently a happy Gruvbox 'customer'. If I may ask, what make you switch to Everforest?
But they're not. The linked post from instagram support on twitter says they're fixing things. Much ado about nothing.
Sure, let's start with what marginalized means.

": to relegate (see relegate sense 2) to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marginalize

Trans people, especially trans women are treated poorly. They have less economic opportunity, have a high incidence of being victims of crime, and face violence from society.

Being successful in spite of being marginalized doesn't somehow magically make you no longer marginalized.

Just like there are successful Black people, but they still experience systemic and social racism. Success doesn't magically change that.

I'm guessing you don't believe in systemic racism though, so its probably a non-starter
Here is how almost every conversation I've had with non-tech people about using any alternative web platform.

me: have you ever tried X? it's an alternative for Y

them: isn't that for racists or drug dealers or something?
This isn't a true stereotype. The average unicorn founder is aged 34.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-21/what-s-th...
I definitely see this as an alternative route from docker containers / WASM.
Space, Happy Halloween Edition: The Bat Nebula
> It's not surprising that your "target" directory (where both the intermediate and final objects are stored) is that big.

Actually this is surprising to me. All it does is parse command-line arguments. I am surprised that this creates 143 million bytes of information.

I accept that I was wrong to say this data is "downloaded" off crates.io, since it is in fact created locally.

> 11 of your dependencies together (including clap)

This is obviously a matter of taste, but to me, this is too many. In the event that sensible command line parsing is not part of the core language, it could at least only be a single dependency.
> The data on the innovators reveal three initial characteristics. First, there is large variation in age: 42 percent of innovations came about when their creators were in their 30s, while 40 percent occurred when the inventors were in their 40s, and 14 percent appeared when the inventors were over 50. Second, there were no great achievements produced by innovators before the age of 19, and only 7 percent were produced by innovators at or before the age of 26 (Einstein's age when he performed his prize winning work). Third, the age distributions for the Nobel Prize winners and the technologists are nearly identical.

From https://www.nber.org/digest/dec05/great-inventions-come-late... which is non-technical summary of https://www.nber.org/papers/w11359

At least considering Nobel prizes (very impactful "inventions") and "outstanding technological innovations", it seems best age is between age 30-50.
I knew a few security people at Google and frankly, geohot isn't even in their class. He's a smart guy. Did some stuff. isn't particularly special or significantly better than a typical engineer in my experience. Mainly he seems to jump deep into things he doesn't know much about (I'm talking about post-security) and say a bunch of irresponsible things then fail to deliver a complete product, entirely predictably.

He's the sort of person you want to ensconce in a safe place far from others, with the freedom to experiment, to come up with disruptive ideas to influence others.
A good book on this topic is Coders at Work. It is just a bunch of interviews with 15 OGs including Donald Knuth and Douglas Crockford.
Apparently the sanctions also don't requite cutting Internet access to Russia. As long as Russia is still on the Internet we should maintain accurate records. If that means maintaining records for free, so be it.

This is akin to the fact that some US states will issue identification to people regardless of their immigration status.
Well put, except occasionally he actually did put his time where his mouth is when he was interested enough in the problem.
> In seriousness though, it's been much less likely historically for registrars to take sites down than for social media to ban users.

Is it? We're comparing billions of social media users with at most millions of domain name owners. We're also comparing the unhinged cesspool of social media with the vastly more currated custom websites (and the amount of moderation that goes with it).

I'm not sure that if you looked at the proportion of users unjustifiably banned from social media VS registrars you would see such a big difference.

I'm pretty sure that if you sent a few DMCA requests to a registrar you'd get any small website closed in less than a week.
Sacks knows his stuff. Calacanis is more of a henchman and acknowledged begrudgingly on the All-In Podcast that he's incapable of coding.
It does affect them, but in non-uniform ways. Basically if you are the only one of your supplier's customers that is making more money, you can pocket the windfall as profits. If all of your supplier's customers are making more money, your supplier raises their prices to capture that (modulo the existence of their competitors that might compete to hold prices down). If some of your suppliers customers are making more money and some aren't, or if your supplier has competitors that are willing to underbid them, you split the difference.

Take a look at Bay Area home prices & inflation for a consumer example. When only startup founders were making multi-million-$ payouts, the price of homes remained reasonable. When everyone started making multi-millions, the price of homes rose to multi-million-$ levels.

Inflation, by definition, means that everybody or at least a large segment of the population has more money, so it's closer to the second scenario. The non-uniformity of competition dynamics is part of why some people reported 50% raises in 2021 but other people got nothing, though.
What would the average responsibilities be like for a staff of 300 people at Wikipedia? I was under the impression that the core of its usefulness (the content) is done on behalf of volunteer work.

On the other hand, as useful as Wikipedia is, if it were to disappear couldn’t we all just use and donate to Marginalia.nu for our obscure factoids, references and summaries?
Exponentials are a hell of a thing.
I was in the room for similar discussions as part of the OpenCompute project, which was around remote IO and resource disaggregation. There are systems like this, and they may make sense for certain use cases, but generally speaking hyperscalers today are built around virtualization which doesn't align well to this model.
We need to decouple discovery and distribution of content. Discovery is much easier to manage with centralized platforms. Distribution is better decentralized. And since we have URLs there's no reason for them to be tied together.
I'm with Zen in the UK and they give out /48's which is nice, and makes subnet management much easier.
Breath of the Wild is quite terrible on the Wii U. You get frame stutters when there’s more content on screen than just a few enemies and the resolution + aliasing are really hard on the eyes. Load times as well are longer.

I stopped playing on Wii U and rebought it for the Switch where it’s significantly better.
Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta
> It’s well within comma’s reach to become a 100M+ revenue consumer electronics company (without raising again!), but I don’t think I’m capable of running a company like that. I’ve always heard it takes different people at different company sizes.

Why not talk about the current numbers before making such a claim? Who's using Comma.ai? How many people are paying for it? $100M+ is a big deal for a consumer electronics company. George Hotz is no doubt a smart person, but very few "gifted" engineers are equally successful being business people as well. Most of them end deluding themselves severly in some way, which might be evident in the latter part of the blog post.
Kinda surprising that he's stepping away from Comma.ai after they just opened their new office in San Diego.

Anyhow, there's a Hotz stream out in the world where he completes a few of those hacking challenge exercises. George is an amazing engineer and I use that stream as a metric for where I want to be in my knowledge and technical ability.
Ask HN: How has Zappos taught its reps to be so nice?
Something unknown seems to blast earth with radiation every thousand years or so
They have, but the current generation of ML is far more sophisticated than what cameras have specialized in -- which is why you're seeing phone cameras punch so far above their weight. We haven't seen the same class of improvements for standalone cameras yet.
This is simply not true. Coal is the biggest Energy component of all chinas new investments and a default construction for alot of the 2nd world.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants/
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js#performance