skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More overhead, torrents being blocked or disliked because of their association with piracy, difficulty to distribute updated versions of files (package indexes)?
> Is Microsoft gaining a stronghold on the developer community via their tools and services ecosystem?

They are owning the services that run the developer tools and ecosystem.

I have said this years ago. [0] Why is it taking everyone to long to realize that Microsoft is getting smarter with their newly revived EEE strategy?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324999
Not me, but I used to work with a software developer who quit and became a train driver. As far as I know he's still driving.

I also know a guy who quit and became a Methodist priest, though I'm not sure he worked as a software developer much, he started at the seminary pretty quickly after finishing his first degree.
Personally I agree with you that women's studies or psychology aren't sciences or even coherent subjects, but in the majority they themselves present as such and thus here I take them--speaking of good faith--at their word for the sake of argument.

And regarding lots of bad opinions in the 70's, that's partially my point. There was nothing in mainstream physics or computer science that is now looked back on as being as wrong as thinking trangendered people are insane. There's something fundamentally different (and you and I know what it is but I will here leave it unstated) that allows the humanities to veer more deeply into incorrect territory. To reiterate: this makes them a terrible educational investment.
Not really, nobody was scared of line keeping cars despite them having essentially the same risks, because nobody ever thought they could close their eyes or play on their phones or watch a movie while line keeping is enabled. Some people did, and crash happened, and people died, but when it did everyone saw it as "another idiot in a car endangering people", not a failure of the car's system.
In Pennsylvania, a horse or house and buggy are considered vehicles. You are violating DUI laws just as much as if you're driving a car.
It's unrelated to what he said now -- I should have quoted the post. In any case, yeah, the marketing is exaggerated, but it nags you if you stop paying attention. From a safety perspective, how does that not keep expectations in check?
Friend the Language Model
Tangentially, the "zombie" is part of philosophy that is applicable here.

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

> A philosophical zombie or p-zombie argument is a thought experiment in philosophy of mind that imagines a hypothetical being that is physically identical to and indistinguishable from a normal person but does not have conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object it would not inwardly feel any pain, yet it would outwardly behave exactly as if it did feel pain, including verbally expressing pain. Relatedly, a zombie world is a hypothetical world indistinguishable from our world but in which all beings lack conscious experience
How different would the history of Linux have been had FreeBSD (and its forks) not been encumbered by lawsuits in the 1990s? Would Linux have gained the mind and market share it did or would the BSDs have won?
I just logged into AirBNB after not using it for a few years (pandemic and all), only to find that my account was deactivated for not following their ToS and community standards. I only ever had great reviews from the places that I stayed, so I figured they just deactivated it because it was stale.

I requested that they reactivate it and got an automated response saying that they deactivated it because of information in my credit report, and until I dispute that information, their decision is final.

I went and pulled all three credit reports to find that I have no negative information in there at all. I have stellar credit, scores in the "very good" to "excellent" range, minimal debt, no collections, great ratios between available credit and current balances, no negative consumer information...so what's there to dispute?

I've asked them to reinstate my account, but as someone who reads HN and knows how these automated systems behave, I have minimal confidence that they'll do anything about it.

I also reported them to the FTC for misusing/abusing consumer credit information, and I encourage anyone who has been swept up in their Kafka-esque universe to do the same.
It's not like they were hammering on some obscure startup. The world's richest man promoted FSD at every opportunity for years and sold it to customers.
> people work so hard to intentionally misunderstand what self driving and autopilot mean

Perhaps they sincerely think of it differently than you do?
Frameworks are a bunch of code structures which store in multiple files that can be used to develop software. Using a framework, you don't need to write code from scratch your development becomes easy and more secure than core language.

https://jsfeed.io/blog/77L8G89O0B/best-frontend-frameworks
So it's true - Java is the new COBOL.
> 2) the road & nature of transportation will adapt to self-driving cars

Are you kidding? Most of this country can barely keep potholes patched for the benefit of regular cars. Proposing major infrastructure spending to accommodate luxury car features is surely a joke.
You mean California. And California laws do not apply to companies located in, say, Delaware.

EU laws apply to all member states and even entities just dealing with EU members (which is why Privacy Shield is dead again, USA lied).
Do you know what is funny about Matt's invention? They are being knocked off. What high praise.
Our family really enjoyed Nordstrom stores, and were regulars at the Bazille restaurant in our location. Really sad to see this happen. I thought it was a fantastic place to shop that really showed what good retail could look like.

I guess I was wrong.
> better than the average driver

The average driver is pull down by a lot of people who: 1) are drunk 2) speed unnecessarily 3) drive shitty cars 4) drive distracted by tech 5) drive tired

If you eliminate those factors, then major car crashes get reduced to almost nothing.

That is what the autopilot is competing against, not the "average" driver. Until it gets better than a human that is sober, rested and drives defensively, autopilot won't take off. We are a long way from that.
What if I hook some (very hypothetical) actuators up to the rock?

Surely the /concept/ doesn't depend on us having the tech to make such actuators...
Once AI can do animation then there will be an abundance of entertainment. Too abundant that people will find it to be boring after a while. Abundance of resources is a bane to both creators and people who enjoy them.
> In urban environments in high-density countries

That would be urban environments in high-density countries with low wages. That driver needs to get to the car and home and someone needs to pay for that.
UnchartedX is a kook channel. History for GRANITE and Scientists Against Myths are not.
DUI checkpoints

The autopilot doing its habitual random shenanigans that makes it look exactly like a drunk driver is at the wheel

You being asleep at the wheel

&c.
Yes, brushless necessitates more rotating mass plus the loss in the wireless exciter. Longer life (no brush changes or slip ring wear), but lower efficiency.

I wonder if a hybrid rotor would pay off? It would still need brushes, but the current could be less to make them last longer. Probably a problem with demagnetizing the fixed magnets or something.
Why 3 words per minute as opposed to second? Is that a typo? If you have enough RAM (but not VRAM), does it basically become limited by the PCIE lanes? So for the 112GB model with a Gen 5 GPU (64 GB/s PCIE bandwidth) that would be roughly 2 seconds per word right?
Stable Diffusion AI art generator now has an official Blender plug-in
The difference is the Banality of Evil. In a mass shooting, it's one person, often very disturbed, broken in ways, led down an awful path by angry people making up conspiracies and lies. It's a single individual who has gone very dark, and maybe they can be forgiven for taking that path in the situations they were in. Maybe a mother can understand a son going astray, getting swept up in some neo-nazis propaganda or hatred. Hatred is easy to understand.

Bhopal happened because some bureaucrats wanted to save a few bucks on engineering and maintenance and there were obvious increased risks from that action but they didn't care because it wouldn't hurt them and they were richer. Now thousands of people are dead. Did the people responsible even end up in prison? There's no emotion in sacrificing others for your personal gain. That should not be forgiven. You knew this could happen. Risks like that should not be profitable.
We're going to have to isolate those cars to separate roads that don't have pedestrians on them. Of course, those roads will need entry and exit points for people, but it's a lot safer if they are mostly isolated.

And maybe we can have those cars join big convoys that are traveling to the same place so they save energy by speeding up and slowing down as a group.

And then eventually we will start calling those autonomous cars "trains."
And since, in both US and EU, in written sentences a comma is a somewhat optional boundary between continuations of a phrase, while period is a full stop also called a point, and since on a number line the zero point is that full stop point between positive and negative while successive orders of magnitude 1000s, 1000000s, etc. are only optionally delimited ...

... this is the one difference between EU and US numbering and units where EU is just wrong. :-)

Edit: I see below the Swedes are even more wrong. Bork bork bork!
As previously implied this does not conform to my own observations

The idea is good and I'm all for it, but mostly due to said observations I'm not convinced its practical implementation will be very effective at all
As they should be. I'm afraid of what Tesla's marketed as 'autonomous' and the precedent their ability to get away with it sets for the day we hand over a greater deal of trust to these systems.

Who needs regulation when you've got litigation? Surely that's the foundation of a reasonable government - let the bodies pile up and sort it all out in court.
Not only that, but most Canadians live near the American border, and can shop American stores in the states at lower prices. Why go to Nordstroms in Vancouver when you can hit the one in Seattle? Costco in Bellingham does brisk business with mostly BC license plates.
How is the HQ selection process and surrounding drama related to customer obsession?
This seems true: https://www.retaildive.com/news/nordstrom-leans-on-off-price...
Here's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZmwkn-2rw
It's more than that. Elon Musk has made himself a lightning rod with all his crazy person antics. People want to pile on him and if a video of a tesla going haywire helps them do that then it gets spread around everywhere far beyond normal public interest in such a thing.
Primitive Technology is the first channel of this kind. These bullshit channels are just leeching off its success.
> You mean California. And Californiaaws do not apply to companies located in, say, Delaware.

They do, in fact, when it does business in California. (Also, California is less than 1/5 of the country, so the reference is not just to California law.)
I agree, and sooner or later almost everyone will have one - even the people who don't want one - because, imo, the insurance cost on a regular car is going to skyrocket, and fsd will be the only affordable option for many people.

With all the trips I did back and forth to my kids schools for many years (60 minutes round trip), I would have loved the ability to just send the car to pick them up after school, or get them there when they missed the bus.

Too late for my kids, but my guess is by time I am too old to drive myself I will have FSD option available instead.
There's another group of people like me who _hates_ dealing with retirement shit.

It's not that I don't feel it's important--I do. It's that the entire infrastructure for dealing with 401Ks and retirement, I think, sucks. Moving money from one place to another is terrifying--so many different steps along with the fear you'll accidentally pull the money "out" and have to pay taxes and penalties on it...

I can hear everyone saying, "It's easy--I had no problem with it". So it's not rational. But I'll bet I'm not alone.

(For the record, I'm doing OK in the retirement department. Well above average for my age and well-well-well above median. I still goddamn hate it. I'd rather have paid more tax in exchange for more Social Security payout any day.)
Can I see followers and followees of people I’ve followed if they are on a different server? That would take care of like 80%
There's the average driver paying attention.

And then there is the average driver being distracted -- by cell phone, by alcohol, by passengers in the car, from road rage.

Frankly, the average IQ is 100; self driving should be able to surpass that in reaction time, physics (following distance), and legality; so I think it's likely 75% better than than the average driver. But 100% better than the 50% that are distracted.
Not being able to update multiple at once is an android security thing isn't it?
> Why do people work so hard to intentionally misunderstand what self driving and autopilot mean? (they don't mean autonomous)

Because of statements like this: "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."

Because the ways that real humans use the system. People defeating the wheel and texting is commonplace.

It is just reliable enough to disable human vigilance and then be really unsafe.
> [Emacs is] a Lisp Machine with several compatible user interface modalities. Which is just amazingly helpful to [blind] people like me […] who are typically forgotten about these days. […] Emacs is a shining beacon in a dark age of canvases and decorative user interface design.

This. Even with my fairly correctable visual impairments, the way Emacs' text-driven interfaces and amazing search capabilities spare me from having to do any visual scanning is a blessing. I can always bring everything I need to see right in front of me, the whole interface scales perfectly, and I can easily ensure high contrast on everything I need to read, even with limited color vision.

The way that buffers can just live in the background and projects can simply be inferred from version control directories similarly free me from the entire spatial metaphor for open files, windows, projects, etc. No matter what window I'm in, I have the option to just list some open buffers, fuzzy filter as I type, and bring them directly into view. I run Emacs as a daemon so I can super easily pull up old buffers, complete with their contexts and undo histories and everything even if I close the Emacs frame (the application window) entirely.

I never have to scan or squint or interpret some tiny, inscrutable hieroglyph with Emacs. Every damn thing is searchable and filterable. And when I need documentation on some function or keybinding, it's the same story. I don't have to switch to another app and mouse around or toggle a browser extension to fix some dumbass website's choice of gray-on-gray text. It's just right there in my editor, clean and searchable and resizable/reflowable in the exact same way as my own code, in the fonts that I've chosen because I find them readable and pretty.

Emacs spares me from so much navigation effort while I'm editing, even without using any truly fancy features.

It's also a comfort knowing that if I should go blind before I reach old age, as is common in my family, I will still have access to that power and convenience through Emacspeak. I'd better start practicing!
Scanning through a CSV can be quite close to querying a SQL database in performance when the SQL database doesn't have any indices. The primary benefits of using a SQL database for querying are (1) indices and (2) a declarative query language. Using DuckDB or SQLite's CSV/JSON support gets you the best of both worlds (minus indices), where you get the declarative query language and query planner but your data's still just CSV/JSON files.

For a dataset that size, I'd probably use SQLite to avoid having to manage a persistent MySQL process, especially when it's being used as an alternative to CSV files. That is, unless there's a MySQL/Postgres server already running I can just create a new database on.
Why is this downvoted? This is an important point. The sample is highly likely to be non representative, yet many people are drawing conclusions from it.

The relative increase mentioned in the article is still interesting news in itself, but many conclusions being drawn are far more than just the increase in the same sample.
Ask HN: Do you have a separate home and work desk?
I have a hybrid remote work setup where I'm in the office three days a week. It's a short drive so I don't mind the commute. At home I have one desk and one monitor used by my work laptops (yes plural) and my personal desktop. Peripherals are shared via a cheap USB 3 switch.

It makes for a messy desk. I've been thinking about splitting my work/home setup and was curious if anyone else has done the same. If so, did it work well for you? Was it worth the investment to make two working areas?
Are there any readily available dev boards using these classic microprocessors (6800, 6502, 6809, Z80) that have the various peripherals (UART, serial USB, flash and static memory) already installed? A quick search on Amazon or eBay did not reveal much.

That's the nice thing about the newer chips (AVR, ESP8266, ESP32, STM32, etc). All those peripherals are already included on the SoC or the dev board. It is very easy to quickly upload the firmware through serial-USB, and start having fun.
When the consumer is the unwitting beta-tester and the corporate policy is "ship fast and break things" well the consumer starts to grasp they are the thing that is going to break.
Ok, but its an important distinction to be aware of when interpreting safety statistics. Advocates of ebike adoption are not talking about motorcycles.
The real question is if execs and management are going to allocate the extra time and resources required to make consistently meeting these standards reasonably achievable or if they're just going to squeeze harder and expect more without any adjustments.

I would bet that a lot of devs actually want to write high quality, well-tested code and engage in proper project hygiene but simply aren't given the bandwidth required to do so. In my experience everything is so tilted towards "ship now, fix later (maybe)" that any IC's efforts to do things more correctly is a bit like trying to swim upstream.
> VS Code is unbeatable for the overall experience.

What is this shilling for VSCode? It's awful. But, somehow everyone who says positive things about it either turns out to not know how those things work, or just saying something vague, never pointing at any concrete feature that makes it better than something else...

But, the reality of it is that all there is to it is a crappy CUA text editor with nothing special going on for it. There were dozens like it before.

So far, over the years of working with other people using this average-at-best editor the only remarkable thing I found about it is that it has a plugin that allows some Jenkins integration, which may be useful if you are in DevOps, but... I can live without it, not a deal-breaker, not by a long shot. The awfully lacking text editing abilities of this editor completely erase any benefit I could get from that plugin. Stuff like modal windows, mouse-only navigation, missing most useful commands of structured text navigation and proprietary nature make this tool a complete non-starter for me.
I agree that would be an actual progressive agenda. But people wanting me to call them with another pronoun where I can no longer use biological cues is just cementing gender roles. Because if I present as a man but say I am a woman you just also gotta accept that since a woman does not need to conform to some societal gender role. If a guy dresses up like a woman he can still be a he, maybe he just likes skirts and nail polish. If a woman can be whatever she wants what does being a woman even mean except biology. If you want to assume a gender role previously tied to sex it clearly reinforces the idea that gender roles are an actual immutable category. How you can at the same time also hold the belief that biology is not doesn’t make any sense to me.

Maybe it is the just deserved revenge on a society that ties so much to sex and gender roles that logically has no relation to it. I am talking about things like job expectations or assuming competence at random skills, division of domestic responsibilities etc. I cannot believe though that this fixation on gender identity continues forever. It just doesn’t seem like a sensible end state.
The problem here is that having remote customers does not count as "doing business in". So it only applies to brick and mortar located in Cali.

Otherwise it's illegal as due to fun laws only FED can regulate interstate commerce.
Their cables?
Oh great, now I have to shut down my 3270 and go play New Vegas.
It is Tesla's fault that they 1) apply the label "Full Self-Driving" to a system that is not even close to full self-driving, 2) push extremely-untested beta software out to millions of cars on the road where every other company proceeds with extreme caution and 3) try for camera-only sensing even though literally nobody in the industry except Elon Musk thinks this will be good enough. Anyone could have predicted these three things would eventually shatter public self-confidence in self-driving cars, which is exactly what has happened. Stop making excuses for them.
Here's one good place to start:

https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
This is really dumb. Media played up robots in the 80s and people were similarly scared of them.

There was even an SNL skit for Robot attack insurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

It's only $4 a month. I bought it. Better be safe than sorry.
Governments having standards for themselves and their contractors is just fine: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Imposing gatekeepers on the rest of the public with penalties even in private use cases is not.
https://jsfeed.io/code/0edtr16708/auto-scroll-tags-animation
Auto Scroll Tags Animation Made Using HTML, CSS
Your friend is responsible for the operation of the vehicle, letting it drive in an unsafe manner was his fault as he is always in complete control
That's nice, but my side-project isn't a passenger airline.

This will just kill innovation and startups in the EU. It's already a nightmare of bureaucracy for taxes and permits, etc.
If you like to listen to podcasts and are curious about mainframes, get Terminal Talk. It’s a lot of fun and the mainframe ecosystem is a completely alien biosphere totally different from the Unix space we are more used to see.
I’ve found significant code in c/c++ where bitwise operations are done for things like division etc by shifting a certain way.

I Can imagine in the past, this was “faster”, yet clang/gcc can emit the same by just writing a basic A/B function.

Seems the win goes to readability by reducing some of these old school hacks.

What say you, greybeards ?
Yeah, Python is widely used where I work for just that. The "hierarchy" of tools look somewhat like this - from most to least technical competent users

1) Languages like Python / R / Julia / etc. + SQL

2) PowerBI, Tableau, or similar tools

3) Excel

The number of users of those tools will be the inverse, with Excel being number 1.

If you're competent using the "stack" above, you could probably work as an analyst anywhere - given that you can pick up domain knowledge.
All you need to understand scanners is better TWAINing.