skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the battery packs in EVs wasn't sealed off from air it would spontaneously start to burn. So...

I think you are missing the point here.

>The reality is that ICE vehicles burn at a rate almost 10 times that of BEV vehicles.

I am not clear what you mean by "rate" here. Incidents? Speed of burning down?
From being involved with firefighting I can tell you that EVs are very difficult fires, which are significantly harder to combat than regular car fires.
iTunes would even try install it with iTunes updates at one point.

The fact that they ported the Mac font rendering stack to windows for it always made it stand out like an ugly duckling though
> for the first time in my life I was finally forced to use MacOs daily

Okay, thanks for letting us know up front that you went into this unwillingly and you aren't interested in doing a balanced review. I was able to close the tab very quickly!
FTX US failed too though.
A loan is an investment.
How long COVID ruined my life - from crushing fatigue to brain fog
Slack definitely ruins my day to day job. I’m hoping a new software appears and replaces Slack.
That sounds way too close to my own life
> it's important to keep push the industry forward

The 'scamming gullible people' industry, you mean?

> this could be an experimental space ship

Dude, this thing is supposed to do a maximum of 5 knots on the surface of the sea. That's a fairly small fraction of the escape velocity, not to mention the whole getting of the ground thing. I suspect it'll end up looking somewhat different if the intention is to launch it into orbit and beyond.

> there is a lot to learn from this project

There sure is. Just like you shouldn't send your money to some Nigerian prince who claims he will make you fabulously rich, you should learn to stay clear of projects like this.

> i hope they'll succeed

To be quite honest, I hope they don't.
It grinds my gears that people still believe that shit, even here..
Was thinking that same. The 40% spent on tooling to deploy code and of course on call time is never fun, but the other time seems normal. But leaving only 10% of real development is not great and the author can probably do better. It is a good reminder that if you get to do greenfield development or generally enjoy your work, don't be quick to jump ship just for higher pay/prestige.
More and more of them have never had to deal with web development in the era of IE
They grind at different speeds depending on who you are. Have the wrong skin color at the wrong time and the wheels of justice will sentence you to execution you on the spot, no evidence, case, or trial necessary.
I wouldn't exactly call this a puff piece, unlike the NYT one.
Well for me, I had friends with companies who needed some help. I ended up taking over a project that was on a stupidly short timeline, and the other guy had flaked out. I did a good job, and that led to introductions to a much bigger company who provided work for several years. Basically networking.

This was in like 2007, so I don't really know what the landscape is like now, or how you find jobs. I would assume it's easier if anything, because it's just a larger space with more resources, but what do I know. I stopped being a sole proprietor in 2010, and joined a consulting company for the next 10 years, and am now elsewhere, as a salaryman.

If I were starting today, I'd probably look at job postings anywhere (LinkedIn, Indeed, whatever) and even if the job posting was for a salaried position, I would contact them and say "I am a freelancer, and if you can't find somebody qualified, or if it doesn't make sense for you to hire someone on a permanent basis, please consider me." /shrug
So a holographic LabView.
I think the more pythonic way would probably be to use a list comprehension:

def map(f, items):
return [f(i) for i in items]

These differences are all more about specific languages than about FP per se, however.
>That being said, are there any compelling alternatives for embedded databases?

https://firebirdsql.org/
> It would be 100% safer if all messages were funneled through government servers for scanning.

Uh... what?!

You do know that if you break encryption for gov't you break it for the bad guys as well?...

You do know that there are all kinds of nations that will throw you in prison if you hold the "wrong" opinions, which those opinions become known when they are funneled through the gov't servers?...
Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains Using Egocentric Vision
Possibly Firefox is making it very easy to block your statistics gathering. Besides, 7% is still quite a lot to throw away.
Are you sure the inconsistency isn't because you have QuitMenuItem set? With it unset like default, Finder will launch a new window in the foreground when it's run from eg. Spotlight, even if it has no windows open, which is consistent with other apps. The only difference is that you can't actually close it. When QuitMenuItem is set to true and you actually quit Finder, that's when starting it won't open a window.
Quite a lot of Rationalists aren't Utilitarians, for various reasons.

Most of the ones I hang out with seem to agree with my characterisation of Utilitarianism as what happens when philosophers discovered basic arithmetic and then just stopped there. Most recently:

"""I remember in secondary school, with nobody to teach me more than basic trigonometry and algebra, I spent 6 months figuring out what I later learned were the two ways 3D rendering can be done: ray tracing, and turning points in 3D space into points in 2D (screen) space and drawing those as 2D primitives.

Utilitarianism feels like even less than that, to me. It's the foundation of algebra upon which more can be built, saying that utility is a thing that can be combined, but it doesn't really say how to combine utility, and all the weird things that happen in extreme hypotheticals are because it's naively summing the potential utility of unbounded agents."""
People obviously want to hear what he has to say. Are you saying that an ethical media would refuse to interview him? Why?
A couple of corporations back, I got fed up with a corporate team who re-used my slides "creatively" without attribution and added the words "rabid squirrels" in white text to both the master slides and a few diagrams.

We used EMC's Team Rooms, and it was quite fun to run a full-text search across our tenant a few months later.
> Does the WASM port include full-text search (FTS)?

It inadvertently includes FTS4 instead of 5. That was my fault and it will be changed to include 5 instead Real Soon Now.
With thunderstorms, you count seconds 'twixt bolt and boom.

With the current golden age of electrified last-mile transport, we're seeing the gap between innovation and regulation opening up wide -- now several years.

Real-world impact: I routinely get up to speeds on my e-bike that are, quite simply, dangerous. It's not that I never hit 25 miles an hour on my old road bike, it's that I spend so much more time hanging out at ~25mph on my ebike that potholes have gone from annoyance to mortal danger.

The risk is somewhat mitigated by the enormous tires and superior build quality on the braking system, but not entirely. I'm glad to have taken a motorcycle license training course, and heartily recommend that other early adopters think about voluntarily seeking out additional training (and I imagine e-* specific courses are available now, if not soon.) Not all good ideas come with mandates :D
that's one of the wildest things I've ever read. So the guy faces criminal investigations and may owe people billions and he DMs a reporter and tells her literally, "yeah most of the ethics stuff I did was PR"..?

I don't pride myself on having a lot of criminal energy or anthing but I don't understand how he even got to this point. Is this his last act of effective altruism for whoever sues him in a court?
Yes, he clarified. He wants people who are writing comments in good faith to show more intent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623956)

I read that exchange and I knew exactly what the first comment meant and didn't have to read the longer explanation. I've been on the internet for 30+ years and have learned how to have subtle and enjoyable conversations and how to extract the meaning and feeling behind short comments. I don't want this site to be pages and pages of pages-long comments saying little.
In case you're wondering after the problem was corrected and the plant restarted Dow never recovered it's number one market share. The company did continue for another twenty years before discontinuing the Dow brand in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Breweries#:~:text=Canadian....
> I'd rather someone does some fraud than actual funneling of money to terrorists, druglords, gangs, and other problematic organizations.

Considering that Tornado Cash implemented OFAC compliance and they were still banned would suggest to me that this isn't a fair take. Tornado Cash had long since blacklisted known accounts from sanctioned organisations and tried to be overwhelmingly transparent about the fact that the project was focused on providing privacy for normal people and complying with regulations and sanctions to the best of their ability.

One of the major issues with the US in particular is that regulatory and enforcement agencies refuse to establish well defined guidelines that are compatible with digital ledger tech. You can have privacy preservation and regulatory compliance all at once via zero knowledge proofs (as an example solution) however regulatory agencies insist that organisations operate within a system that provides significantly weaker compliance guarantees while also eliminating any means for privacy. Tornado Cash tried to operate within that weaker system to the best of their ability and repeatedly reached out to officials in good faith to properly implement compliance. Despite that they were still sanctioned.
One reason may be that the cable sinks to the ground, which makes it possible for other boats to cross. If it was like a ski lift, the cable had to be more tensioned I guess, thus obstructing?
My kids, ages 8 and 6 walk 2 km home from school on their own. New Zealand, largest city. It's definitely fairly normal here.

It's hard to fathom that this could be considered illegal.
Main stream writing on the topic is motivated to focus on the GEO in geopolitics, because talking about geographic features and demographic pyramids is cleaner than wading into politics, especially when intermingled regional foreign politics. But the POLITCS does a lot of heavy lifting, whereby politics influence things like tech innovation/adoption that can tame geography, i.e. restitive frontier regions being incorporated by rail infra, mass public works or inventions like AC/desalination make improving previously inhospital/unpassable geography. Or in defense, gunpowder/mechanization mitigated overwhelming advantage of static geo based defense, and similarly going forward, long range precision strikes (conventional ICBMs / advanced rocketry) will reduce all global favourable geo conditions to extreme vunerability. How will US preeminence fare if she has no impenetrable homeland to operate from etc.
set -o emacs?
Democrats have received exactly double the SBF money received by Republicans. All exits were oiled here, just in different amounts.
Well I need to show this to my mom, who made 8-year old me ride my bike back to school (2.5 miles, admittedly on some busy roads) to retrieve my forgotten homework.
How is this a puff piece? Just posting these chat transcripts is damaging to his reputation and probably his chances in court. He does not come off looking good here.
Detroit’s massive RoboCop statue may finally see the light of day permanently
No why? I used it 10 years ago so my plant's could tell me when they need water...

I have Privacy Badger and all Anti-Social Block-list you can imagine ;)
Non-profits still have to stay in business. My health insurer is "non-profit".
The dem party probably figured Sequoia did a better vetting job than they'd be able to, and they probably weren't wrong.
> in all 3rd world countries

Not true.
How are we computing something we can't yet even define?
Pests will adapt to physical pest control like fire or crop rotation by timing their life cycles to avoid it. Robots aren't any different in that regard, if used without care pests could hypothetically adapt to their usage.

The key to preventing this kind of adaptation is multiple modes of action. Robots do offer that ability because they can be used to both physically remove pests, and also chemically treat pests like in the video.

If you have two to three robust modes of action, you can basically prevent resistance from happening entirely.
I just got free crypto from a timeshare promotion on oceanfront property in Arizona... FOMO is not my problem :|

As an aside, this post from 2008 does point to all of the carbon being released from the 1st meter of soil/permafrost, which has probably since melted.

https://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com/2008/08/you-know-that-ol...
Do segways have a similar problem or is the vehicle large enough that it can always counter balance your weight?
Firmware updates happen a lot faster than evolution. I personally like the laser one and mechanical weeders
> Huh, I wonder why FTS4 and not FTS5? I could understand omitting both of them for reasons of size, but having the older version but not the new one feels surprising to me.

It was an oversight on my part. It will be fixed in the trunk momentarily.
For those mega cargo ships, why is civil nuclear power vessels are not a thing? Seems they would massively reduce the footprint while providing better clearner power.
You might want to re-read that. The comment was comparing privacy preserving transactions against privacy preserving messages to illustrate the point that both are essential technologies for society.
As a complement to what you said: a far better paradigm to everything-must-be-purely-functional is "write as much of your program as is practical in the functional style, and then for the (hopefully small) remnant, just give it the side-effects and mutation".

This leads to fewer errors than the imperative/object-oriented paradigms, and greater development velocity (and quicker developer onboarding, and better tools...) than the 100%-purely-functional strategy.

Hopefully, over time, we'll get functional programming techniques that can easily model more and more of real-world problems (while incurring minimal programmer learning curve and cognitive overhead), making that remainder get smaller without extra programmer pain - but we may never eliminate it completely, and that's ok. 100 lines of effectful code is far easier to examine and debug then the entire application, and our job as programmers is generally not to write purely functional code, but to build a software artifact.

The above applies to type systems, too, which is why gradual typing is so amazing. Usually 99/.9% of a codebase can be easily statically-typed, while the remaining small fraction contains logic that is complex enough that you have to contort your type system to address it, and in the process break junior's developers' heads - often better to box it, add runtime checks, and carefully manually examine the code then resort to templates or macros parameterized on lifetime variables or something equally eldritch.

(and, like the above, hopefully as time goes on we'll get more advanced and easier-to-use type systems to shrink that remainder)
SFO's airport security is actually run by a private firm:

https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/safety-secur...
Yeah I think so, I've gotten the warning as well when someone cut in at a slower speed but this time it definitely felt like it saved the situation because it knew it needed to.
ispace as a company is not particularly good at publicising their work, which could be a cultural thing, as they are the only Japanese company I have worked for.

But their LinkedIn will have updates as we apprach the launch (hopefully byt the end of this month): https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispace-inc

I will also be posting updates as things are happening on my LinkedIn, which is in my profile.

Also, if you want to read more, these two blogs have a lot of cool information about our mission and the others involved in this "new space race":

https://lunarbusinessreview.substack.com/

https://blog.jatan.space/
Feedback:

1) Work backward from the furthest future you can imagine to the present. If something will be so in 1000 years, what will have to happen in 100 years to make that true?

2) Start at a global scale in the future, and as you work back to the present, become more detailed and focused on smaller circles of influence, until you're talking about your own life and actions. So: 1,000 years - global; 100 years - industry / large social circles you're part of; 10 years - your immediate social circle and experiences; 1 year - your own choices.

These are just some guidelines. You'll need to tap into your own genius to make use of these ideas.
Why Food Commercials Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
One year I tried to do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month; there's one going on right now since it's November) and found a chat room somewhere that would have a timer and then everyone would try to write as much as they could during a short time period, and we'd all report how many words we wrote. It was really good motivation, probably because of what you said: body doubling and time boxing, plus turning off the inner editor to write as many words as you could.
Weeds are the enemy /s

But really, the whole idea of having perfectly manicured fields like that with no sign of any weeds around seems like the real problem to me.

Zero biodiversity…we wonder where the insects are going ?
As he resigned from his own company, comma, it will be interesting to see him at Tesla after this so called internship. It may be an interesting opportunity for Tesla’s on artificial intelligence team, to iterate to have better performance by working with someone experienced in camera based autonomous cars.
Tackling income problems is a laudable aim, but no one has ever achieved much success (even communism, which ought to do it). Saving one starfish at a time is better than none.
When I was a teenager I rode my skateboard down a parking lot ramp when I realized I was going way too fast, was about to enter the street and the only way to bail was to jump off and run. It looked about like that video.

I didn’t realize these one wheels have top speeds of 16-20 mph. That’s faster than most people can sprint. 16 mph is a 3:45 mile. 20 is a 3:00 mile.

> we're lucky to enjoy them before the nannies start taking our toys away

See also three wheelers:

https://www.hotcars.com/this-is-why-the-3-wheeled-atv-was-ba...

But I dunno, where do you draw the line? As a 50 year-old who makes a living typing I chose not to buy a table saw last year because I decided it was inherently a riskier tool that I ever wanted to use. I ended up with a track saw instead. I think that was a good decision but not sure it’s one I would have been wise enough to make in my younger years. Now I’m not advocating for banning table saws: my point is that Onewheel can put every warning and disclaimer in the world on their product and some people will still not appreciate the risks involved.

That said, 4 deaths over 2 years doesn’t seem out of line with other products in the same category. I wonder if something else is going on to draw the CPSC’s ire.
It's hard for me to interpret your comment since you never state who "we" refers to.
Sure but FTX was throwing money to both parties https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/11/ftx-co-ceo-donate...
Yeah, a chemical cycle involving vaporizing and decomposing sulfuric acid at 850 C is totally credible. Yes, let's avoid turbines and instead make our equipment out of ... tantalum? /s

The maximum thermodynamic efficiency of this cycle is 50% (and likely will be lower). This is not much better than making electricity with the reactor and driving electrolysers. And when the levelized cost of energy from renewables is very low (especially for the surplus energy that could be fed into electrolysers as needed) it's hard to see how this scheme competes. Yes, it doesn't have turbines, but it does have all sorts of high temperature chemical reactors that must survive corrosive conditions.
Technically he’s probably one of the poorest people in the world
So none of the exclusive claims of any religion to have the full truth are true, but your personal opinion about all of them is fully true? Your arrogance is unbearable.
Despite what we have been taught—and what is still commonly stated—dopamine is what motivates behavior (motivational salience), not what makes us feel good after the behavior. Plenty of citations on Wikipedia if you want to dig.
Oh wow..

double wow to people seeing it like that.

:(
Might be fun to start calling your governor's office, tell them you haven't been able to connect to anyone in the right department. At worst they at least become aware of an understaffing issue somewhere in their government, at best they can actually connect you to someone who can help.
WTF. And here I am annoyed that my 7 year-old son doesn't want to walk to school alone?
Only if they think it will take them 3 or more months to find a job.
Otherwise taking the severance package seems to be the most profitable option.
> ... by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us

Sums up much of the world we live in :/
Agree with tasuki below. 2nd line of abstract says: "[achieve] >50% win-rate when KataGo uses enough search to be near-superhuman." If KataGo searches one move ahead it would never pass because in next move the opponent passing leads to defeat. The whole paper is bull-SHITE.
To clarify, the light rail (Muni Metro) and electrified bus lines use overhead 600 volt DC, but most of the bus lines are not electrified.
Are the challenges at Twitter technical ones ? It seems they are all related to strategy and direction of the business which isn't the expertise Hotz is famous for.

Or perhaps Hotz sincerely wants to be a lowly intern and this is his idea of a vacation. I can relate.
The point is that "you can invert the rewards signal on a Tesla and turn it into a people mower" isn't exactly a dunk on the point above them. We're not worried about Tesla having (someday accurate) people detection because we're not worried about them using it to kill people more efficiently. Indeed, generally people want Tesla to get very good at that!

So automated tracking is bad when attached to a gun because it more easily enables the rest of the concerns laid out in the thread. It's not some hobbyist "paintball the squirells in my yard", but a government-purchased, corporation built project with an explicit, obvious goal in mind. Disregarding that because many other things _could_ be used for bad with a couple lines of code is not the right call, imo.