skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that they are different, but if I read the comment you responded to charitably, it's pointing out that the bar often seems unreasonably high for self driving. Human drivers are terrible leading to ~100 deaths/day in the US. How much better does self-driving need to be in order to make it worthwhile? Does it have to be perfect?
I was expecting something a bit more comprehensive and damning after the link… but if one of the most objectionable and controversial claims in the book is about adverbs modifying “unique” I think I’ll continue to recommend elements of style.
>C++14 allows you to move capture in lambdas.

Your quote says cpp11 and youre arguing with 14? Wtf?
The major companies who make RV have a standards body that they in theory build to their standards.

Additionally the van maker publishes an “upfitters guide” which explains what you can do and how to do it safely.

The more professional custom van builders will take their complete rig to a truck weighing scale before using / selling.

In general the camper vans are a lot safer than the big busses (class A) or regular RV (class c). The shell of the van and the front seats have to pass some safety ratings.
With the class C being made mostly of plywood, they usually just blow up when they are rolled over.

I did a lot of research on this before purchasing a Winnebago van. They seem to take safety a bit more seriously (ie the back seats are tied into the chassis and are from a known bus seat manufacturer).
It reminds me more of democracy, where anyone can be a candidate and anyone can vote on a candidate.
I'm not sure if "hatred" is the correct word here. Yes, there has been a ton of skepticism and doubt about V here in HN, but this is very different from hatred. In my opinion, skepticism is not only okay, but desirable in a community like HN. Skepticism is also a core principle in science. Skepticism can be respectful and encouraging.

I count myself among the skeptics of V. Mostly because in the initial communications about it, some of the claims were hard to believe. For example, they used to claim that V was memory safe without GC, but also without borrow checker, and it was never explained how they achieved such thing. Now I see that they claim that the language is very similar to Go, so I assume that they went with a GC. That's really cool, I actually think that GCs are a massive boon for language ergonomics. But there remain some unexplained topics, for example, how is that they achieve being "free of data races" [1]. It's nice to see a new language in the area and I hope the language succeed. But I'll continue to be skeptical until I see proper explanation of some of their claims.

[1] https://vlang.io/compare#go
The demo video shows only IPv4, a quick search on the readme does not mention IPv6 at all. The website is served (at least to me) only via IPv4.

Is IPv6 supported? Does the controlplane work on IPv6 only networks=
I'm switching to a more focused approach about this.

I too love to soak up on new knowledge, regardless of it has practical use or not. I just love to learn about things in general.

The problem is that I have limited capacity.

So instead of subscribing to dozens of newsletters, listening all new episodes of podcasts, etc... I'm reaching for that knowledge when I need it.

The flow I'm trying to implement is this:

1. Want to actually DO something

2. Look for information about that

3. (harder) Actually do it.

Whereas before it was (still is):

1. Learn about ALL THINGS, maybe I'll need it

2. Don't actually need it, forget 99% of what I read/watched

3. Want to actually DO something

4. Look for information about that

5. (harder) Actually do it.
The reply to that comment is also valid, IMHO
awk is more intuitive for sure, for a regular javascript coder
If skin colors differ how can you possibly expect to obtain the same result?
Maybe you are right? The seafood industry is really close to collapse for wild catches throughout the rest of the world.
You can choose to believe whatever you want or redefine any terms that you want.

I'd just say that I think it's wise to reevaluate how important anecdotal evidence and gut instincts are when you know you live in a house of liars.
Well, those still poison everyone to this day, we've just gentrified it so most people in the Global North are less affected. Forever chemicals and microplastics on the other hand seem to affect everyone globally because you can't really filter them out once they're in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Maybe those billionaires obsessing about constructing their survival shelters weren't preparing for social collapse after all but just trying to create a habitat for themselves that isolates them from all of this?
"It's within spec"

- Tesla
Yeah I missed the two statistically significant algorithms that favor darker skin since they have smaller percentage differences than the ones they didn't mark as statistically significant (but I guess that's because of how it relates to the overall miss rate)

RE: 28% miss rate, I think this is meaningless as it's looking at single images/data points, while self driving cars get a continuous stream of data
Okay then yes I was doing that and even so the content was still appearing more and more rapidly. I know many others who've had the same problem specifically with animal torture videos. Frankly, the platform is not fun when there is always a good chance of seeing animals being tortured. I think I'm being downvoted because people think I'm exaggerating, but I'm really not. Here's an article about it https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-dog-torture-video...
Most of the "data" people will be entering into this application is deeply, deeply personal, even if not in the way you probably mean (PII).
Agreed. When I learnt about nautical miles and knots (nm/h) which is both used by aviation and sailors, I feel we should be using nautical miles for all travel distance.

Miles really don’t have much meaning.

If someone goes at 60 nautical miles per hour (111.112 km/h), for 360 hours (15 days), they cover the circumference of the planet around the equator. I.e go around the planet.
I really like community notes. It's been a while in Brazil they are being used to check politicians who always lie in their post and try to rewrite history.

Its like a small note of shame in their posts, and it seens so far they been using it in politicians in all sides of the political spectrum.
It rubs me wrong that this is touted as an insight.

Acceptance testing is Software Development 101 when it comes to user facing apps, irregardless of video games or just regular apps.

No one does it properly though because it's studpendously expensive. It also means developers will have to spend time with users, listening to their feedback, meaning that's time they don't spend programming.
It's almost as if the media is looking for racism in everything
The use of the word "censor" is a very common misdirect by those who want to control narratives to dismiss any attempts to regulate their control. From Musk's perspective, "free speech" is speech he has exclusive censorship rights over, as an individual, rather than any democratic body. In reality speech can only ever be as free as platform owners' intend it to be (be that platform digital, trad private media, or even state broadcast) - Musk takes issue with EU citizens having a say in his level of control over such speech.

I'd recommmend interrogating anyone's use of the word "censor" to see what their own record of "censorship" is - everything is mediated/controlled/"censored" in some way by someone (Google filter bubble, etc.) - the only question is the democratisation of access to such controls.

Community Notes may be more efficient than "bureaucrats" but I can't see any evidence that it's more accurate - it will almost certainly be more short-lived.
You have to wonder?
Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues
I was surprised as well, I feel one may need a DB to sort that DB. A meta DB :)
In a well controlled process it should not be common. Bigger parts have been casted before without issue. Tesla cutting corners?
Imho features are non-features until they work. As described. Reliably.
Presumably these companies are free to provide their software for research. The onus is on them to demonstrate it works in the first place....

> how do we know this isn’t a problem they have worked extensively on and made great improvements to, relative to the open source components?

They are a private, for-profit entity with a strong incentive to mislead people about their products. I see no reason to assume they've addressed this issue.
Ah ah.

I don't get those two though:

> Verbs have to agree with their subjects

> Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky
Same reason company executives and employees still collect a paycheck. Shareholders have the power to appoint new company executives which has some value.
VLAs on the stack were introduced in C99. They became optional in C11. They are a GNU extension for C++, though.

BTW, MSVC never supported C99 or VLAs. Recent versions support C11.
So if I understand correctly, Community Notes are a feature that allows you to add notes on others' posts and vote on them? How is that different from comments?
Ask HN: It seems to be impossible to find-replace text in a PDF at scale?
I have a bunch of generated PDF invoices, which all have the same typo, that I'd like to fix.

So far I have tried:

* pdftk via bash script

* qpdf via bash script

* PyPDF2

* pdf-lib via node

In all cases, it appears the PDF content is not in plain text, so the text replacement fails.

Often I'm getting:

> Unsupported contents type: <class 'PyPDF2.generic.TextStringObject'>

I'm surprised it's this hard to do a find-replace inside a PDF. Isn't there a Homebrew util for this?

GPT4 has been having me write a hundred variations of scripts, but not a single one addresses the "this isn't plain text" problem.

How would you go about doing find-replace of a text string in a PDF at scale (on Mac)?
If this vehicle were truly unsafe to drive (according to US safety standards), what legal recourse would an individual consumer have to have this fixed?

Unless the user gets in an accident, is there a way to actually prove the frame is structurally defective?
And visual detection more precise. You can tell not only if someone is usually within a few tens of metres as you can with cellphone data, but exactly where they are, what they're doing, and who/what they're looking at.
Semianalysis is a very good source. I don't think they wouldn't command such a high subscription which a lot of people in finance rely on if they were pay-to-play.
That's a nice username you have, and the advice you're giving seems good too.
Does anyone know what blogging / wiki platform this is on?
> Fear of death is not rational.

I don't fear the "being death" part, but there are some other aspects which are more rational:

* I fear the process of dying which is usually far from pleasant (in various ways)

* I fear the consequences of my death. I would leave behind my wife, children, friends who will mourn. I have small children and the idea that they would miss their father gives me the biggest worries.

* I fear the missed opportunities like seeing my children growing up.
Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?
Note: this is different from a few previous Ask HN posts where the impacted person was technically apt (if not a geek). Here this is for a typical older person whose technical capacities are small.

My mother has a degenerative illness that is slowly going to lower here eyesight (starting from the center of the retina). We are not sure how far this is going to go.

She is an avid reader (several books every month) and this is what I would like to address in the first place. Then there are the other aspects that are less technical but are very much welcome as well.

She reads on a Kobo (or similar device) and the fact that she can make the fonts bigger is already a good thing. She will probably continue to do so (hopefully to get to the point where she will have to spell each word...).

She also solves quite a lot of "literature oriented" quizzes (similar to crosswords) - today this is on paper but I will need to find a way for her to move online.

I would appreciate any tricks or solutions for non-technical people like her that could make her life easier.
> very retro things

I wouldn't consider an iPad Mini 1st generation to be very retro, but I still need to run a MITM proxy for it to be able to browse Wikipedia(!).
> The Tesla Files episode revealed that the BEV maker instructs its technicians always to provide feedback orally. Internal documents obtained by Handelsblatt stated: "Do not copy the report below into an email, text message, or leave it in a voicemail to the customer."

I don't know how serious a crack in the front casting on a Tesla is, but this kind of policy is pretty egregious.
I think you're being overly charitable, because he's not really interested in governance writ large. He long ago decided what he thinks the best government system is, and sees everything political through that lens: is this good for my system, or is it bad.

He never actually questions his own system, because he's ultimately an engineer. He's clueless on social structures or systems.
> What if the technology was only/primarily tested with white people, rather than inherently having better outcomes for white adults?

I think we have a precedence for that in testing of drugs. The majority of drugs are primarily tested on white men, meaning that their effect and dosages may be problematic for women or people of color.

There's also the issue of the majority of tools being designed for right handed people and any left handed either needs to spend more on tools or accept a certain risk when operating a chainsaw.
The monorepo is where you end up when you have failed to enforce encapsulation and your "modules" do not have stable APIs (or are actually modular). Then, with sub-modules each change will often involve multiple commits to different modules, plus commits to update references, so O(N) commit multiplication.
My former neighbors run https://justanotherfoundry.com/ and I like their work and bought some.
That is he did what every single company does: takes a beta project launched to a limited audience and rolls it out to a wider audience.
What is an OSPO and why is it important?
Why should I have to do this if what OP said was also provided without context? What is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. The null hypothesis is that no, there is no link between these two phenomena. What I'm providing are just alternative explanations, some of which should literally be common knowledge (spend 2 seconds looking into how Pride parades started and you have all the resources you need).

If you're more inclined to believe technobabble than sociological explanations when you don't understand the facts behind either, that's a bias you might want to investigate further.

EDIT: FWIW most of the medical claims I made are the null hypothesis: I can't demonstrate that there is no literature suggesting a link between "natural" hormone levels and gender dysphoria but the claim could be dismissed by showing literature that demonstrates it.

The closest you can find is the hogwash pseudoscience of "rapid onset gender dysphoria" but that's arguing for a social contagion and it's citing the subjective experiences of parents of trans people and thus defines "onset" as "when the parent found out" (and "rapid" because this is usually close to an open social or even medical transition). To make this even more meaningless, it gathered those reports from a forum specifically for parents who dislike that their kid identifies as trans, i.e. who likely gave the kid no reason to come out to them while they could avoid doing so and thus would likely have been the last person to find out rather than being trusted with this information early on. Again, I don't need to cite sources for this. You can literally look up the "study" and you don't need a degree in sociology to understand the obvious bias and shoddy controls that went into it.

If you don't believe that trans people existed before the 1980s, I suggest you look into the work of Magnus Hirschfeld, whose research on gender and sexuality fell victim to one of the first book burnings of the Nazis.

If you don't believe there are indigeneous communities with non-binary gender roles, you can literally google that.

If you don't believe people who would have chosen to identify as "trans" had they been born later used and continue to use other terms to describe themselves, there are literally people doing this and saying so, publicly and openly.

By insisting that I give you a thoroughly sourced thesis paper in response to an equally unsourced claim, you're shifting the burden of proof. And you're doing so without pointing out which specific claim you want sourced, what kind of source you'd find acceptable and why you can't do this yourself.

You'd think "correlation does not equal causation" was widely understood enough that I just need to say "piracy prevented global warming" and people would know what I mean but let me reiterate: you can't just say "X happened and Y also happened around the same time, so X likely caused Y" unless you can demonstrate not only that X and Y happened around the same time but also that X directly contributes to Y.
Human-like autopilot (remember “Airplane”?)
Yes. Or if it's using dynamic libraries and not compiled static, you can use LD_PRELOAD and overwrite ptrace() to do nothing. You don't have to patch anything then, which might be easier.

int ptrace(int request, int pid, void *addr, void *data) {
return 0;
}

And compile it:

gcc -shared myptrace.c -o myptrace.so

Afterwards you can eiher

LD_PRELOAD=./mytrace.so ./thebinary # shell
ltrace -S -l ./mytrace.so ./thebinary # strace in shell

or for gdb

set environment LD_PRELOAD=./mytrace.so
>Members of a prior generation may remember that voting features were introduced explicitly to improve engagement, not quality. Those little triangles next to this comment are there to give you something to do, and thereby hopefully increase the chance that you'll feel invested in this site to come back. Not to discover the truth, improve awareness of facts, or build community.

What are you basing this on? Was this written by some website owner, or is that just how you feel about it? Given you can engage by either voting or replying, I feel like voting is much more about molding and curation than engagement. Replying is a much stronger form of engagement: people can see that it is you specifically who engaged, and you can express your opinion more fully.

I agree that "quality" is subjective and so isn't the right concept, but it's about a community shaping a platform's content based on the average of their preferences and therefore making it more likely any of them will want to continue using the community in the future. It of course doesn't necessarily optimize for truth, but it optimizes for the feedback loop of a site's users turning the site into what they want to see and being more likely to use (and vote on) the site more actively as a result. I disagree that the mere act of feeling like you're making a difference is what's actually enticing to people and what brings them back.
Sure, I had the same thought, but after the initial comparison he mostly stops talking about crypto and examines the topic properly, so worth reading the rest of the article.
Most of production EBS volumes will be with deletion protection on. Also AWS asks you to explicitly type “delete” when you delete things.

I’d blame cloud provider for making it too easy to destroy data and not having built-in backups. But then this is what cheap cloud providers do.
Cast parts are more brittle than forged parts. Once the cracks are visible you've already lost a great deal of strength. I wouldn't ride in this car.
The weirdest part of this to me is the customer.

You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts... and you still bought one.

What else could it be missing that you can't practically check for?

Still I guess at least it's good to see Tesla living up to the reputation for American cars to be generally shit build quality. I feel like they're going a bit overboard on that factor though.
I don't get what's wrong with foglights. They don't blind nearly as much as a low beam in a corner (or a slightly misaligned one), but make it easier for others to see you.
I think this is easy to explain by considering that the meaning of left/right constantly changes over time. For example, how would you characterize somebody who is pro free speech, anti war, anti hegemony, pro equality of opportunity, in support of a color-blind society, and so on? 20 years ago that would have been an absolutely textbook liberal, today that is no longer the case.

So when we say left or right we're not really referring to any sort of static values, or even fundamental values. It all just keeps shifting and often in self-contradictory ways. So the terms just become a proxy for the ever-shifting divides in society. This makes it essentially a tautology that any fair sampling of society will end up divided on those terms.
This post should have started with a link to the Nature article, instead of yet another useless link to the dead bird site.
My "hack" is to wake up earlier (easier said than done, but I picked up the habit while trying to get things done before the Australian heat kicked in), and work two hours on whatever interests me, before my work day starts.

I've shipped several books, and currently run a SaaS product this way.
No, it's common knowledge most publications on crypto in general are scams, and Vitalik has always been critical about money grabbing schemes. Vitalik's project Ethereum has been hurt a lot by "shit coins" (alternative cryptocurrencies that have money grabbing as their sole objective) as if there had been a magical way for regular users to become aware of which crypto technologies add something material to the space and which not, the space as a whole would be a lot healthier.

The other part of that sentence about crypto is a funny self jab though, apparently he's conscious about the research rabbit holes and mathematical abstractions the Ethereum team went through to get for example staking to work.

Had Ethereum not been near the top of every crypto exchange, and Vitalik not been somewhat of a known person, how difficult would it have been for the average crypto-interested person to tell Ethereum's "insane nerd traps and sky high abstraction ladders" from the scams?
The context of the conversation is on tape drives which is about mass storage.

The comment I replied to said:

> someone else's server in Virgina

While everyone may operate there now it was exceedingly common in mu experience to be referring to AWS when referencing Dulles / Ashburn / NoVA or just Virginia since AWS started there first.

So I figure S3 is the correct comparison to not having a 50 TB tape drive under your desk when "the cloud" is being discussed.
Learning C controlling some shitty robot in my first year was soo much fun. I was waking up and going to sleep thinking about it. So I hope your first year is also fun.

Obviously you are much more advanced, so my advice would be to keep tinkering with everything u can get your hands on.., and keep spreading to adjacent disciplines (electronics, cad, startupy stuff, and even non tech stuff) until u take over the world haha.