skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this just a luxury feature or are matrix lights actually common in European cars?

My previous car in the sub €60k (2017) and my current in the sub €40k (2019) price category have automatic matrix headlights as well. Besides the usual detection of cars it will also turn off specific areas when signs are reflecting too strong or even completely turn off the upper headlights when you are on a road with continuous lighting, drive through a tunnel, drive through a city or town (GNSS and/or sign detection assisted I guess), it's really foggy and so on. While I had to manually activate automatic upper headlights on the previous car, my current car basically turns it on at start, no matter what time of the day, even when turned off previously. When it's bright it will basically turn off the headlights all together by itself and just kick in as needed. Really convenient.

Driving a lot at night I'd roughly guess from experience that about one out of twenty cars have automatic matrix headlights, maybe less. Anyway, I'd say it's common, but far from the norm.

Edit: As I drove to work today, one of the things that's not so convenient is that you have to keep your car clean or at least the smudge off the cameras. :^)
> but seeing the difference certainly made her push for a promotion that she eventually got.

Wonder if a different colleague making 10k less had shared salary if she would still have pushed for the promotion ?

Is there a lesson here?
In fact, I am a white Caucasian but I am not a Jew. At this point, one such as myself would have to have his head up his ass not to realize that racism exists in USA, and it manifests among other ways in the privilege enjoyed by many (but of course not all!) white people in USA business contexts. "Racist" isn't a bad word. Many aspects of our society are actually racist, and we need a word to describe that situation.

You write as if the worst thing one can do when one observes racism is to call it by its name. In fact that's just about the only good response we have. If you think someone is being racist then tell them about it. Just be prepared for laughter when they discover that what you're really whinging about is being reminded that privilege exists. If you really were e.g. a white handicapped high school dropout from eastern Kentucky, you wouldn't be surprised, because you'd see thread parent's privilege just as clearly as any minority sees it.
> properly functioning (but awkward and confusing) MCAS systems

It had almost unlimited pitch authority, used only one (potentially faulty) AOA indicator to decide to activate, and could activate repeatedly unless purposefully deactivated. Even the way in which it was certified was extremely suspect. I'm curious as to how you think that is "properly functioning". Its initial implementation was straight up dangerous, as should be plainly obvious by the 346 deaths it caused. (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...)

In the cases of the Ethiopian crash, they _were_ aware of the "proper" procedure to deactivate the MCAS:

> But on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, the pilots appear to have recognized the errant MCAS problem and flipped the cutoff switches as described in the checklist. But then it appears that the pilots were unable to move the manual wheel, likely because the forces on the tail made it physically challenging to turn.

> The bottom of Boeing’s runaway stabilizer checklist seems to acknowledge the possibility of this physically challenging scenario. It suggests that the pilots can first use the electric trim to neutralize those potential forces before hitting the cutout switches.

> After failing to manually control the stabilizer, the Ethiopian Airlines pilots appear to have flipped the cutoff switches back on, which awakened the MCAS system. It soon sent the plane diving to Earth.

(https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...)

They let their airspeed get too high, so they were unable to manually trim because of the physical forces involved. But making this mistake during this phase of flight this is somewhat understandable, as they encountered the problem just one minute after takeoff (which is a pretty critical / task heavy phase of flight) and were still very close to the ground. Chelsea Sullenberger (the guy who ditched into the Hudson) commented that "Even knowing what was going to happen, I could see how crews would have run out of time and altitude before they could have solved the problems." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-20/fight-for...)

> Also, it was 2 crashes in 500,000 flights. It seems a little misleading to just compare it to hull losses.

If we're talking about the relative safety of different aircraft, no it's not. Compared to, say, the Airbus A320neo (which has had 0 hull losses over ~1300 aircraft over 10 years), it's terrible. It's a far less safe plane.
The alarm. Not good for anything else, so may as well use it for that. Or pop the trunk if you can, and if it'll pop up high enough to be noticeable, and if you don't have anything in there someone might walk off with. Or that iPhone feature where it makes pretty decent guesses about when you're parking a car and tells you where it is.
No, you can use a thermocycler for reverse transcription. In fact, you need one to do rtPCR, and I don't see why this cycler wouldn't be able to do that.

And to clarify, I didn't say the device detects a sequence. I said it lets you detect the presence of a sequence. This isn't a biology forum, so I deliberately didn't go into excessive detail and technicalities, just conveying the information that one of the things you use this for is detecting a DNA sequence (and sure, there are post processing steps like running a gel or sending it off for sanger sequencing etc), and the other sort of thing you can do is RT-PCR. You can also do all sorts of cloning techniques like gibsons. And technically, neither device nor a qPCR machine let you detect a particular sequence exactly. It just amplifies a piece of dna enclosed by the relevant primers that you are using to amplify. I'm well aware of all these technicalities with saying that a thermocycler does sequence detection, I left them out on purpose. And as mentioned before, the pocketPCR, like any other thermocycler, is absolutely capable of doing RT etc. I know the parent comment said "what does a PCR do again?," but it's pretty clear from context and use of the article "a" that they are asking about the pocketPCR machine's capabilities, not about polymerase chain reaction in general. If they were, then yes you are technically correct regarding RT.
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I want to get off of Mr.Bones wild ride
> "gork office politics"

Hehe.
I agree that pollution pricing is a good idea, and that meat may be over-subsidized. I think those have to do with corruption rather than something intrinsic to markets. Regardless of what system is in place, corruption will always be a problem to reckon with.

And yeah, raising children and taking care of the elderly are certainly important. I know that in tech cities that childcare can be very hard to find and incredibly expensive, so maybe it is becoming more valued? But the key is that the value of the service itself is not based solely on how 'important' it is, but also how many people are performing it and how much is needed (supply&demand). Or maybe a better way to say is that importance is also a function of supply and demand. Take oxygen, for example--super important, but I'm not buying tanks of it.

Software development is pretty hot right now, but if almost everyone in the world were trained to do it, the price of that labor would be quite low. This is another feature of markets--it helps to allocate resources (jobs) to what is needed at the moment. With UBI, I think you would be missing out on that to a large extent.
The guest capacity of each maze is capped, and it looks like the park is being artificially stuffed with enough guests to fill each maze. The time it takes guests to percolate from the entrance to the back of the park is probably insignificant and for almost all of the experiment's run time, all mazes will be full with a standing queue.
It's more efficient to assume that things change when designing for systems that constantly change (i.e. video-games).
Depends on where you're parked.

https://i.imgur.com/9UsaZ.jpg
That's actually not a counter proof. It shows that they couldn't stand up to the bully. We don't have to question the Tiktok leadership's intent, just the CCP's intent and its ability.
For an example of what people are doing in this space: Melbourne, Australia (where I live) just did this.

Kinda sorta. They want any face covering. Stick a handkerchief or bandanna over it. Or a faceshield - my pet hate as they stop immediate droplets but do nothing for aerosols.

For details: https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/face-coverings-covid-19
In this specific example, I very much see the point of a Math class for those not actively pursuing a heavily mathematics-embedded career is just the exposure to ideas. Being a stickler for total competency does nothing to encourage exposure; I'd almost argue there's room to grade the two groups on separate scales.

Do I remember the formulas or operations from my higher levels math classes? Largely no. Do I think they were a worthwhile endeavor? Absolutely, I was profoundly affected.

The long-term value of classes for those who largely won't use the skill in the future is the mind opening exposure, not the competency we test for.
My question - what happened to microsoft in this space?

The get up and go speed of the super old windows forms approach was fantastic.

Now I'm supposed to use - XAML? UWP? WPF? Do these have great windows form designer still?

I'm talking speed between download and go with an GUI, a button, a text box (maybe data bound) etc.

This will age me, but for all the decades of "improvements" this tooling has, every time I've tried to do the little widget apps thing I used to be able to do trivially I end up wondering in the woods.
That's a first.

:P

(and yarp.)
> I even know of arguments that a new father doesn't need to receive a relevant raise as he is extremely unlikely to switch jobs due to the newborn.

This is a good one for new fathers - be prepared
Two questions:
1. Any interest in a Fall co-op/intern?

2. How can I learn more about your batteries as a potential customer for a college SAE electric car racing team?
Somehow I get the impression that this will kill FiveEyes, which was abused by a recent administration, if I'm not mistaken.
This blog, once you get past the clickbait title, goes over a lot of the mechanics: https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n...

The short answer is that yes, it could be banned, but it would take a concerted effort by the White House.
It’s a really poor argument and also very misleading. They make it sound as if this is something special that is not found on this continent. Many manufacturers have excellent LED headlamps. They just have a static beam pattern. I’m sure over time as cost becomes less of a factor and as regs change these adaptive units will become more common.
I am glad that this is on the frontpage. I distinctly recall that Hacker News does not believe in the existence of open source biomedical engineering.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578216
I think you're underbilling yourself by self describing as junior. You have enough experience that I think it's reasonable your next role won't be labeled junior. Regardless there's not much benefit to self describing that way
Ahhh, I can't. I posted because the link in the email was broken and I thought that was silly. Didn't realize it was an https issue.
Please see [0]. Many people do find the money to buy those children pills. Pretty sure the study is tracking the consequences of that intervention. You could give a little as well to help make it even more broadly effective. So could the readers of this comment. In fact, please consider doing so.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/charities/sci-foundation
If the government had a free filing system that showed you what you owed, that would probably be less costly for everyone. Then they could hire everyone at turbotax to go after people dodging taxes. The fact that we've continually shrunk the IRS, you know, the one part of the government that explicitly is meant to fund the government, is deeply problematic, and has led to less audits for wealthy people, and more for poor people.
I just watched a bunch of his videos -- how interesting! Thanks for the recommendation.

I wonder what his special techniques are to keep viewer engagement and help explanation, and whether he's consciously choosing to do them.

For example, I notice that unlike most Youtubers who'll record the narrated portion purely from their desk (showing their face) perfectly still and nicely lit, he will even handhold his camera and move around a room. Or when interviewing someone, hold a camera himself showing the interviewed person, and yet have another still camera filming him and his other camera and the interviewee. Or standing in front of a wall projector screen video and talking (despite the projected image being mediocre quality) when most people would insert that as a original video source clip and narrate over it.

And yet while this might usually be distracting, for some reason with the quality of the narration, this makes for a nice break from usual. Or makes it seem more "authentic" and engaging.

Interesting!
> They're not distributing welfare checks, they're a business.

This is a false dichotomy. I see this kind of language frequently in discussions. In my experience, it does not tend to invite more thinking. On the contrary, it tends to polarize and discourage discussion of other options.

So, please, let's move away from overly simplistic arguments. So instead of false dichotomy, let's explore a range of options.

Consider this proposal: First, reduce the CEO's compensation (call it C) by multiplying by X (where 0 < X < 1). Second, use what is left, C(1-X), to increase compensation of the other employees. For various allocations [1], what are the possible outcomes?

One would hope [2] that companies operating in a relatively free and somewhat capitalist system like the US would directly or indirectly explore the values of X in order to find better and worse results.

As for me, I would bet there are values of X that lead to better outcomes for both the company and the satisfaction of its employees.

I would be interested in models and studies that examine this question. Would anyone like to share some they have read?

[1] Some (e.g. libertarians) might call this a "redistribution" and look at it with a negative light. I suggest calling it an "allocation" because I think of it as an optimization problem. The goal is not to maximize CEO pay. The goal is to maximize company success and overall employee satisfaction. (We might define success as (i) profit or (ii) or accomplishing some mission.)

[2] I say "hope" but I do not expect it. There are many market failures and organizational factors that may get in the way.
That's a qPCR machine, which is an entirely different beast in terms of capability and cost than your usual thermocycler. $5000 is an amazing deal on a qPCR machine. A piece of new qPCR kit is gonna run you 30-50 thousand dollars minimum, and I've had trouble finding good functional ones from the big players for less than 20k used.
If FB wants to decide that what I say is not allowed on their platform and consequently ban me, that's fine by me. It's their platform, so their rules. Very different from a government banning speech, and hauling people away to be tortured like in China's case.
Extremely... but unfortunately most Western doctors won't test for it, won't prescribe meds for it and are convinced that it's not possible in 1st world countries. In other words, utter quackery.
Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis
Interfering with business M&A using just a threat of action then asking for a piece of the $$ for the treasury dept sounds like something a Soviet/command economy would do.

This is how you can tell when a right leaning group is significantly more authoritarian over liberty. Which is a divergence from many recent right leaning administrations in America (see: tea partiers) and the rest of the western world.

Not to mention its oddly similar to the thing they are accusing the Chinese of doing.
Springer Nature retracts paper “Poverty and Culture”
You said it’s straight evil. Isn’t that having strong feelings and not considering it simply A/B testing?
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Or more likely, Microsoft won't acquire it because sod that, AND they will fail to ban it.
He says we have the opposite problem. People feel judged by their talking computers and feel sorry for tools. He says we should make systems we don’t anthropomorphize.
Just chiming in: I had the similar concerns about Roboflow initially, but to my surprise @josephofiowa from Roboflow reached out to me to discuss it. They set aside time to specifically address a lot of the concerns I raised – e.g. that they seemed to be hyping up a model without doing appropriate benchmarks (they later did a thorough benchmark: https://blog.roboflow.ai/yolov4-versus-yolov5/).

They didn't need to do this. Part of my conversation was "I get it, you're a startup, you have to focus on business value rather than research concerns." But they made the time, and put in the effort, and I feel compelled to at least mention that that happened.

Also, @pjreddie has said that he's "happy for anyone to keep using the YOLO name! Just try to avoid version number collisions": https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1272618558254534657

Anyway, as a fellow researcher, I just wanted to put in a good word for Roboflow. Their priorities seem to be in order. I've also learned some interesting things from their yolo breakdowns, e.g. that training time on the newer models is significantly lower.
> That wasn't the implication... appealing to a classic Aristotelian argument for the immateriality of the intellect

Now what you are saying makes more sense to me. I must not have read far enough up the comment chain to get the full context.

I guess I view the mind/intellect as a “state” of chemicals/electrical impulses/influences/etc that you could in theory take a snapshot of and is therefore material no matter how abstract the thought pattern. Trying to separate the brain vs. intellect is a false dichotomy from my perspective. I’m not sure if you are actually arguing for the Aristotelian perspective (as was my initial assumption) or if you are simply explaining a viewpoint.

I might note that I’m fascinated by super-determinism[0] with non-local variables right now. I can see that the repeatability of recording a given state of mind makes less sense since current QM theory could not guarantee that you could ever fully capture a given state of anything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
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Sure, it comes "free" with every Xfinity internet plan. Ideally you would "borrow" someone else's account for a while.
Germany: Biology professor convicted of insulting statements about homosexuals
>A hash algorithm is not a supernatural function which changes the metaphysical character of data.

Again with the condescension.

>And to the server in this example, 200820e3227815ed1756a6b531e7e0d2 and qwe123 are exactly equivalent strings.

Except they're not, because the former is presumed to be salted client-side, and it is not always true that the attackers [who have compromised the server in some manner] will end up knowing that salt.

There are innumerable schemes that can render gaining knowledge of the salt difficult if not impossible, especially in the case of a server exploit that's limited in scope.
Good question, personal website with a regular blog maybe?
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> what is with this gross authoritarianism? most of these people using these bright LEDs dont realize how bright it is for the other drivers

There are wishes for gross authoritarianism because US has problems with lesser, appropriate regulations. The way other countries handle this is periodic vehicle inspections - just like smog checks but with more points - which also measure from the lumens and angle of your headlights to whether your wipers work properly, failure of which bars your car off the public roads. If this was suggested in the US eyes would roll, heads would turn, nanny state arguments would be invoked. In the absence of reifying such moderate measures, people let go of their pent up frustrations of failing to be a cooperating society in the form of wishing imprisonment or worse onto each other.
Here is the sheet, if anyone wants to peek. These salaries are really bad for Irvine, and the raises seem really bad too.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/119RI3oS9XNOjq2X8VLpU...
People who think that a little bit off. The point of fashion is so people don't mistake you for being a little lower status than you are. So high status people can afford to wear clothes with holes in them, because nobody is going to mistake them for people who are poor (royalty can wear what they want, Queen Elizabeth looks like she just picks a colour to me). That can't be imitated by ordinary people, because they would just look poor.

Also, fashion isn't for strangers. I mean, I don't know anything about what is fashionable. Nearly nothing at all. So obviously stranger can't impress me with expensive clothes because I can't detect it. The situation is similar with most fashions which are signals for inside an in crowd.

It is like a developer putting "Haskell" or "Scheme" on a resume. The goal isn't to impress randoms in HR who don't know what a Haskell is and are suspicious of scheming programmers. It is to signal within a group of semi-peers who don't specifically know who you are.
You can do the "WinForms approach" with WPF/XAML still, but once you got the ideas and concepts behind MVVN, observables, bindings, converters, collection controls and so on, there is absolutely no turning back and you start to miss that stuff on WinForms.
I quit my job in the middle of Covid-19