skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* "black color light" does not exist. Light cannot be black.

* Each pixel in an LCD has 3 subpixels (red, green, blue). There is a light source behind the pixels. To display black, white, or anything in between (gray), all 3 subpixels allow an equal amount of light through. What controls the shade is the amount of light allowed through each. For black, the lowest possible amount of light is allowed through.

* On an OLED display, like the one in my phone, each pixel emits its own light and can be controlled independently. A black pixel on an OLED display emits practically 0 light and even uses less power as a result. This is why blacks look way better on OLED displays.

* See for yourself. Use your phone in a dark room and fill the screen with white only and then try again with black.

* You know how black absorbs light and white reflects light? Black does not absorb light because it is black. It's black because it absorbs light.
Color Categorization Independent of Color Naming
Even with Autopilot, everyone I know who owns one: Its their little baby... they don't even dare risk it, at all. These people doing stuff like this are either really stupid, or really rich... or both. Because I have never seen anyone I know dare drive recklessly with autopilot.
Think of them as being lost in a forest trying to find a path out and constantly looking for higher ground to climb to see if they can see a path out of the forest. They never know if the hill they are climbing is going to provide the view they need, but they still climb hoping it does.
> no signal of terrestrial origin will travel at anywhere close to the speed of light through the Earth (earthquake waves travel orders of magnitude slower)

To be fair, electromagnetic (i.e. radio) waves do travel at the speed of light through the Earth, though almost none can significantly penetrate the Earth itself, except extremely low frequencies. Electromagnetic interference should be quite easy to measure and look for correlations though; if scientists did their homework (likely), it has been ruled out.
Saying "the <highway/interstate number>" has got to be the most disgusting thing to come out of CA aside from CA residents themselves.
I think we should look at this probabilistically. Yes, autopilot should be improved to prevent this, but no system is perfect. Certainly not human drivers. IMO the correct comparison is whether Teslas are on average more likely to hit firetrucks while on autopilot than normal vehicles while being driven by humans.

I'm sure this data most likely won't be forthcoming, but I think it's important to keep in mind that we should be looking at accidents fleet-wide and not in isolation. Autonomously driven cars will have accidents. More importantly, their failure modes will be different than human drivers. However, as soon as they are even a small margin safer than human drivers, their adoption would save lives. Besides, the systems will continue to get better. Human drivers have proven stubbornly difficult to improve.

We ought not reject autonomous driving technology only because it sometimes gets in accidents that appear to be strange or arbitrary to us. I consider the carnage perpetrated by human drivers to be arbitrary, but most people just take death on the roads as a fact of life.
That is a fair point, but if you just consider the TDD attempt in isolation, it demonstrates some ineffective ways in approaching the problem.
Striving for 0 accidents and only accepting 0 accidents are two very different things...
> If you want to sandbox binary code, there are many much more efficient options, eg. Linux containers (especially with tools like gvisor) or VMs.

WebAssembly is a VM, with an accompanying instruction format.[1]

> Vendors that only allow use of WebAssembly are leaving performance and compatibility on the table.

It'd be interesting to know what you're thinking of when you say that. For example, is Cloudflare leaving performance and compatibility on the table by using WebAssembly instead of Linux containers for Cloudflare Workers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly#Stack_machine
Buefy? Really nice together!
So if the crash didn't involve "the human driver of that particular Tesla" but instead was an identical incident with a different Tesla driver, we wouldn't be having this conversation? Because that seems highly improbable.

This particular driver isn't what makes the story special or newsworthy. The nature of the incident is. Our choice of statistical cohort should reflect this data selection effect, ie "all Autopilot miles driven," not "all miles driven by <person's name>."
> I don't know how closely "fingerprinted" each event is to rule out such coincidences.

Such a coincidence would have to produce the same specific signal in each detector. That's highly unlikely.

> there is still the theoretical chance that an event will occur at an equidistant point from the LIGO stations and produce a signal of the same signature at all places at the same time.

You're misunderstanding the relative time criterion. It is not that the signals are seen at the same time in all the detectors. It is that the signals are seen at just the right different times at the detectors that would be expected from an outside signal that travels at the speed of light through the Earth, hitting the different detectors at different times as it passes through. An event that really is seen at the same time in all the detectors would obviously be of terrestrial origin and would not be reported as a detection of an outside signal. Even events that are at different times, but the wrong different times for a light speed signal coming from outside, would not be reported as a detection.
Ambulances save some number of lives. Ambulances are involved in some number of fatal accidents.

Should ambulances be banned? Subsidized? I can imagine different ways of analyzing the question, but asking "what would you say to the families of those who die" is a nonstarter. There's nothing you can say that will be satisfying, or ease their pain.

Statistics may be cold, but they're the only tool that actually lets us answer the questions like "would fewer people die with or without this change"?
> His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all

What? Where did you see that? Not only do the index ETF issuers own the stock but I believe they are legally obligated to do so.
Team Fortress 2 is (as you may know) the sequel to one of the most popular Quake (as in Quake 1) mods, and very much a Quake mod itself.
...Also, that urban environments are the _last_ places these should be deployed. There is just too much everyday weirdness.

Hell, I get confused sometimes in driving SF - flakey drivers, aggressively solipsistic homeless folks crossing (or just standing around in) the street randomly, bicycles, shopping carts, dogs, kids...

I want to see the robot death boxes competently handle less fraught environments before allowing them around humans.

And industry suggestions that the humans not in robot death boxes cede the streets to those who are? Ah, no. Cars own practically everywhere else - you can go play with your toy on the freeway or drive the damn car yourself around other humans.
I take it you don't consider HN to be a kind of social media, then? What are your criteria?
> You could TDD constraint propagation and it'd work fine.

That's exactly why I call it naive TDD, and not a failing of TDD in general. Jeffries deserves credit for making it public.
> $1000/month jobs aren't just limited to cashiers and janitors

So?

> A lot of people would be more empowered to become entrepreneurs and start their path to joining the capital owning class if there wasn't a disincentive to work.

UBI (or NIT, which is equivalent) doesn't have a disincentive to work. That's actually central to the concept as an alternative to means-tested welfare.
Another reason (the article didn't delve deeper into) is that the drone hardware market itself consolidated and non-Chinese manufacturers just got outcompeted and wiped out.
What's targeting by specific phone numbers? Area code as a proxy for geo location, or something more sophisticated?
Unless you changed the default notification settings in Signal to not include message content, Android and/or iOS already had access to this content and you are granting them no more trust than you have up to this point. If you have excluded message content from Signal notifications then Android will still not have access to this data.
Maybe we are wrong about the fact that active fund managers do a poor job? In the same way that mathematical models failed to account for the <1% unlikely event in the 2007 crisis, and predicted everything was just fine, maybe our mental models are not crediting the fund managers with saving our investment from this particular failure mode of passive index funds.

Unfortunately it's not clear how to tell which fund managers would actually be able to succeed at this.
This has at-least tangential interest to me as one of my side projects is to create a custom "Number Station". Maybe out of a Raspberry Pi or similar, I'm still very much in the preliminaries. Since I'm in the US I am aware of the FCC.
But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with index funds. Wouldn't the same thing happen regardless of the way people are invested into the stock market?
That’s cool. I was there two days ago. Really amazing to see it in person just for the sense of scale. It feels like it was made for just one or two people to hold.

Wow, I was thinking along the same lines. I thought it could be a teaching tool. Calendar or some sort of template also seems plausible.
Always grateful for someone sharing their experience. I think by "knew" I meant live with, as one would live with a pet dog or a cat. I see them every day, I get to know their personality at a level that I understand when they're suffering, and how much they understand doesn't matter to me. I would feel devastated if someone were to take them away from me and unfeelingly exploit them. I'm not vegan, but I guess I'm boohooing participant.
FWIW, here's what I call "Boring Sudoku" in Prolog.

It is just 81 vars constrained to be 1..9 and then twenty-seven applications of the Pigeonhole principle.

https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Boring%20Sudoku.swinb
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I haven't used SQL alchemy and I'm not trying to besmirch it. I'm not even sure we disagree.

What I'm trying to challenge is the philosophy that an ORM is an adequate facade in place of learning how databases work. My point about views is that in my experience, the answer to disgusting queries is cleaning up the DB design (and views can be the tool to accomplish this). My point about case-insensitive searching (you can create a case-insensitive index if you want) is that a lot of db-performance stuff just can't be solved on the query side alone anyways.

It sounds like SqlAlchemy is designed with a lot of flexibility around how queries are run, so maybe you agree that understanding what's going on beneath the hood is important to handle these complicated cases.
The real question is how did the keiser's family aquire the wealth in the first place.
We fought a similar battle with Javascript-enabled sites (remember when sites worked without Javascript?) and lost...
The column can have nulls but after a quick check there's only a single record with a null value (probably added as a test, no idea).

In the bad plan a sequential scan was performed and then it removed over 4 million rows (Rows Removed by Filter: 4562849)

Edit: here is the query planner's output:
https://explain.depesz.com/s/eVXI

After rewriting the query (change IN into ANY(VALUES( and adding an index to the "seven" table):
https://explain.depesz.com/s/b4kU
"Potentially making it worse will be the impossibility of unwinding the derivatives and naked buy/sell strategies used to help so many of these funds pseudo-match flows and prices each and every day. This fundamental concept is the same one that resulted in the market meltdowns in 2008."
Was Etsy too good to be true?
From crime capital to America's most exciting city – the reinvention of Detroit
In cruise, it's extremely rare to be within 3 miles of another aircraft laterally and 1000' vertically.

Takeoff, initial climb, descent, and approach to landing are high workload times, easily holding the attention of the crew.

Cruise is much more relaxed and much less need for hair-trigger responses. My aircraft has audio and visual cues if an aircraft breeches a 2nm (or thereabouts) and is within 1000' vertically. Other than that, it's systems monitoring, weather monitoring, keeping up on the nav progress vs fuel remaining, and making sure the automation isn't trying to kill you, either subtly or acutely.
Sell me on this. How do you see this shaking out?
If it's the different advertisers who are going to share info, then why aren't they responsible for their own adherence to GDPR, rather than Google?
That ability for adults and children to share in the fun has got to be part of their success; that and customers that potentially never grow out of the product.
And yet SpaceX did reply to Loren Grush, who has published a story about this ESA announcement, but it’s quite a different story because she wasn’t setting out to smear SpaceX.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20847243/spacex-starlink-s...
> You: that doesn't mean that those who support laws against murder are racist.

> Me: Whether or not they are racist is moot

You're completely missing the point I was making. So much so that I would ask you re-read what I said. I don't care if today's folks aren't "technically" racist. It's clear the laws' impact and original intention were, and that should be enough to question their efficacy. Furthermore your analogy is completely ludicrous. No one thinks someone should go unpunished for murder.

Your phrasing makes it seem like you're more concerned with something being called racist, than you are addressing historical acts of racism. And that is pretty odd to me.
I think you can buy an autonomous lawnmower, but I don’t know how effective it is. My roombas sadly haven’t replaced our normal vacuum.

Of the three companies listed in this article two of them were (expensive) toy companies, and the third was a crappy Alexa clone.

A Roomba solves a problem. Maybe not as well as we’d hope, but most of the time, it does a good enough job. Dishes and clothes can be cleaned mostly automatically. The other household tasks are hard to solve. I’m thinking dusting, taking the trash out, ferrying the clothes to and from the washer. Loading and unloading the dishwasher. I’d love to have something do these for me, but they’re very hard problems, and I don’t expect them to be solved in my lifetime. Until C-3PO becomes a consumer product, I don’t see this space making any money.
> On August 31st at 2:32 p.m. UTC, a CircleCI team member saw an email notification from one of our third-party analytics vendors and suspected that unusual activity was taking place in this particular vendor account.

A convention I like is that team members creating, updating or removing accounts should reply to any automated emails sent to mailing lists saying "this is me". Ideally with a link to the relevant issue or story.

It really cuts down on unnecessary nerves.
If the creators of Zerotier are here, could you consider doing a kickstarter or something to pay for getting a professional cryptographer to look at it?
A merit of the passive approach is that the act of buying tasty cookies will increase the tasty-cookie price. The passive investors' existing tasty-cookie holdings will increase in value, too.

All the passive investors want is for their cookies (and new-cookie acquisitions) to be properly priced. No matter what, they have an average distribution of cookie-quality in their holdings.

The passive investors are not buying cookies at any price other than the market price. Whatever the clever-cookie-buyer is paying for cookies, they're paying the same. If a clever-cookie-buyer buys low, takes out an ad in Cookie Magazine, and sells high to a bunch of tasty-cookie aficionados, the passive investors win, too. If a too-clever-cookie buyer buys low and discovers that the apparently-tasty cookies have spoiled, the passive investors lose a little, too.

It is hard to bilk a passive investor. The first people to really figure out how will accumulate a lot of money (and ire).
Morons.

The Germany’s government somewhat conservative approach to money and spending is the only reason the savings of 500 hundred million people haven’t recently become totally worthless.

But thanks to people like this Bloomberg writer, it is bound to happen sooner or later.

How long can a currency or an “all Greece EU” be worth more than the paper it’s printed on?
structural topology is highly related to gene function, and also is part of what is being manipulated during the process.
please tell me about trans- factors or cis- elements.
please tell me about how we may choose one recognition sequence region from another when they are identical base pair sequences but are many Kb.p.'s up or downstream of the desired target sequence.
Hopefully this article marks the turn around in Detroit's reputation. The author is seeing the same city I see every time I'm downtown. Progress is even ever so slowly migrating out to some of the neighborhoods.
It's well known that Facebook collects information on non users as well, frequently called "shadow profiles.", Zuck admitted as much to Congress although he claimed not to know what shadow profile meant. [0]

Whether or not that information was part of this database isn't clear, but it also isn't something the parent comment claimed.

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/facebook-collects-data-...
Auditing is a partnership. Truth be told, as an engineer, you can probably get things past the auditor with some judicious lies and by socially engineering some confidence. I don't even think it would be particularly hard.

But I don't envy you when you get caught. The consequences basically open at losing your job and all possible good references from that job, and get progressively worse from there depending on the kind of audit. I don't intend to become more informed about the consequences, personally.

(I've only waded into this world, but my most likely future trajectory is only up, up, up.)
And as a followup to that--because really this is the weird part--some circles of blind people (including mine) talk faster between ourselves. That's not common, but it happens. I still sometimes have to remember that other people can't digest technical content at the rate I say it and remember to slow down. A good way to bring it out is to have me try to explain a technical concept that I understand really well. I have the common problem in that situation of not being able to talk as fast as I think, but I also seem to have the ability to assemble words faster in a sort of tokenize/send to vocal cords sense once I know what I want to say.

To me, the fact that this does in fact seem to be bidirectional at least some is more interesting than that I can listen fast.
Certainly a reasonable opinion and one that I'd have shared before living with these people, but now I'm not so sure. There's a peculiar and wonderful connection between a shaman and nature (particularly a shaman from unbroken ancestral lines dating back hundreds of years). It's certainly something special to witness.

"Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm" by Buhner is an eye opening and thoroughly researched book in this area if you felt inclined to explore.
I don't do well with people who don't realize I'm walking slow sure to my spastic muscle disorder giving me a bad day. You need to dial your attitude down several notches.
I'd say tax it the way Scands, Aussies and Kiwis do (perhaps even more, plus put each use on your medical record (in NZ you are already bumped down in wait list if you are alcoholic + need a liver transplant).

Additionally, for opioid, I think it should be possible to create tamper-proof cartridges that only release when get correct key signature from master device that tracks your usage (and identity via smartphone). Many opioid users claim drug is safe minus overdoses and purity issues that care caused by it's illegal status.

The problem of all of this - it's trivial to grow marijuana or produce alcohol (or order fentanyl from China via darknet). It's already cheaper to get stoned in NZ than drink (or smoke cigarettes). Not sure we should be put up a fight here after all. If we can't decrease use via economics, then at least there should be accountability for your abuse (not an issue for countries like US with no socialised health care).
Haven't used slack for a while. Too spammy.
Good luck! You’ll be surprised where you are in a few years
Why can't I say literally the exact same thing about all cars?

Let's hold people responsible for their actions, not objects. It's one thing to say "autopilot makes it hard to focus", it's another thing to say "autopilot made me pick up the phone while driving, and lie about it".
Where did you read that? I see an "export" option for all my audiobooks that allows you to download them as MP4 files of various qualities.
The keyword there is "help". They use derivatives to handle the daily fund flows. They should be a tiny percentage of the whole fund value.
Facebook confirms 419m users’ phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
Well I'm sure the ability requires training, but I wonder if it is specific to screen readers.

Consider what you quote:
> we’re likely limited by how quickly we can gather our thoughts

Now the amount of relevant info on a screen is typically small enough that a sighted person can zero in on it at a glance and perhaps just click a button without thinking.

I.e. the amount of info that deserves "gathering our thoughts" is typically very small. So if that is the bottle-neck, your colleague can keep cranking up the audio speed until low-level processing audio becomes the bottle-neck, which is a regime that sighted people never deal with even, not even the nerds who speed up their Joe Rogan podcasts.
Wow, that's incredible. Do you find it frustrating talking to actual humans now? I'd imagine it feels like they're speaking in slow motion.

Edit: Hah, just saw your post on talking faster to other people who have the same audio skills.