skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Accidents primarily happen in areas like suburban and city streets

I was just taking a defensive driving course for the insurance discount, and I think it said the vast majority of (lethal, major) accidents are on two lane rural highways. Because in the US they are often posted at 55 mph, and have uncontrolled intersections, unpredictable visibility, no separation between oncoming traffic, and so on. But I assume you also wouldn't want to use autopilot there either.
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I don't understand why none pushes for a justice process for taking out hate speech and bad speech.

Instead we are basically begging Facebook to be the one who makes this kind of judgement. Obviously, Facebook doesn't want to do that. Nobody wants to do that.

I'm not talking about obviously blatant cases. I'm talking about a high profile one like Trump tweeting something bad.

Even a senate/former lawyer like Elizabeth Warren doesn't ask for a due justice process. She is also screaming at Facebook to just take down Trump's posts.

I imagine, if what Trump posts is extremely bad and illegal, it won't be hard to prosecute him or get a court order to ban or take down his posts.

(Apology for inaccurate language usage. I'm not familiar with these legal terms. But I hope you get the main idea)
Someone should tell my Fedex driver, who has started doing everything possible to not deliver packages to my door. For the latest round the package ended up within my mailbox (which I didn't even think to check before calling in a missing package case). I'm pretty sure my mail carrier saw this when they delivered, and I don't think anything came of it.
Facing Fears and Learning to Code
In 2017, I read about AI beating professional poker pros. I felt a stab of fear. My work as a trader was similar. I thought: am I next?

I channeled that fear into teaching myself to code. I moved to Medellin, Colombia and got busy grinding youtube tutorials. This led to paid freelance work through Upwork and a bootcamp TA position at the University of Texas.

I learned that fear is a signal for change. I harnessed it to propel myself forward. And, I learned I'm more powerful than I thought.

Feel free to reach out if you're facing similar fears and not sure what's next.
> do what humans have been doing for decades

This is incorrect. SpaceX has pioneered on several fronts of aerospace engineering. The most obvious of which is their reusable first stage.
Thanks! This is the repo: https://github.com/harryvederci/resumator
I wonder what the numbers are for comparable vehicles with comparable drivers in comparable situations.
I wonder if this further demonstrates the reality of the complex domain and the anachronism of the real number line? In that, numbers are “circularly” or ultimately geometrically countable and not sequentially?
Huzzah. I know sportball fans are from all ideologies but even those who are passionate about rights will likely be fine with this - bc sportball.

It's hard to conclude anything else - 14yo me was right about people all long.
You're right. That's indeed what I meant.
You're looking for secret sharing algorithms, which is what this is using behind the hood. The classic (used in OP) is Shamir's secret sharing algorithm [1]. The general gist of it, simplified into the 2-of-N case, is:

1. the encryption key is the y-intercept of a line
2. each shared key ("horcrux" in the OP terminology) is a point along the line
3. more keys are simply more points on the line

Once you have any two keys, you can fully define the line and recover the Y intercept.

This gives you really strong guarantees because each point on its own reveals nothing about the y-intercept; without satisfying the M-of-N threshold, the value could still be anything.

Generalizing this to the M-of-N case simply involves increasing the order of the curve (ie line -> parabola -> ...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
> I've waited in line to vote, but the lines were never longer than the lines at my local supermarket on Saturday morning.

You've been very lucky then.

For Obama's first term election, the lines at my polling place were across the room, out the door, down the hallway, out the building door, and a good distance down the block (i.e., easily a few hundred or more waiting in line to get their chance to cast their vote). And it was like this starting from before the polls opened until they closed.

Many would have loved to see lines "never longer than the lines at my local supermarket on Saturday morning" for that election at that polling place.
Without some form of compression, I don't think it is.

In particular, consider your example (5 horcruxes with 3 needed to reconstruct). View the original file as the interval (0, N) and view it as a set covering problem. If each horcrux covers an interval of size N/3, then if any pair overlaps, there is no third horcrux that can complete the covering. This is a contradiction because 5 horcruxes of size N/3 must overlap somewhere.
Not just a warship. Regular boats are also fed up with piracy and have some pretty nasty countermeasures.
I don't know how anything works, but where is the Coast Guard and/or Navy? Isn't security their job?
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That would be true for the entire country as well. The amount of support for left vs right is pretty lopsided. This isn't reflected in number of seats because of gerrymandering and electoral college.
Looks good! How instant is instant? If I visit a site while he author is updating it will I see the text being added real time?
OCaml supports functional programming more idiomatically: for example, it has implicit currying, and it has a single function type instead of several function traits. OCaml is garbage collected, if you don't want to think about ownership. OCaml has the ML module system, which has tradeoffs when compared with typeclasses or traits.
"First privately owned round trip to the ISS". Its obviously still a first, but its not a technical first, but an economic first. Hacker news focused on both technical and economic things, so this still is interesting for it, but that doesn't mean it is a new tech.
How about a more generalised collaboration system, where you just edit your files lot Cally as standard, but can kind of dial in using o collaboration - a bit like a screen share on a call. So suddenly the people you've dialled can leave comments on your work etc, but when you cut the connection, they can't any more?
This case is so full of pot calling kettle back, it's amusing. Not to detract from their claim, but cmon, at least use arguments that hold water.

"Meanwhile, the expenses required to host and review these apps are in the tens of millions, not billions of dollars."

As if the price a company charges for its product has to be tied strictly to the cost it incurs to make that product. Does Telegram follow the same rule in its business dealings?

As in so many disputes, the parties will claim this is about principles and yada yada yada, "Apple/Google exercises monopoly control, etc.

You can be guaranteed though, it's always just about the price and how the one party doesn't want to pay it, and the other party doesn't want to change it. Simple as that.
I could be wrong, but I think Telegram's lawyers are advancing on the grounds of anti-trust, not necessarily anti-monopoly. Which, as you correctly point out, would require convincing a court that a company with a minority market share is a monopoly. (Apple doesn't even have a threatening minority. They have maybe 25% if that.)

In any case, I think they can make a convincing argument that Apple is operating as an illegal trust. (If you alter the historical definition of "Trust" a bit.) I think that's more what they are going for here.

Whether the court will buy it? We'll see? I certainly would not plan on a win if I were Telegram, but it's worth a shot.
I find that in office politics, once data is presented, it becomes the 'facts'. (Or at least the narrative that gets promulgated forward.) It's incredibly challenging to change the 'facts'/narrative. Often because of the challenge in demonstrating the others' data are false or show a misleading picture.

I think this is somewhat like convincing people that believed the early studies on hydroxychloroquine. A narrative was built and despite multiple studies and RCTs, it continues in many circles. If the initial data showed a different picture, I have a hard time imagining the on-going challenge of fighting this disinformation battle. (it would have been another).
A cynical take supporting the above:

NLP in other languages can help sell better ads in those languages.

You all can follow that chain of thought down to it's corporate conclusion =)
That's why they call it "data" and not "information".
I missed that part... what happened with the UI layer?
It's news because his book is being launched now. Also, he has been a “bellwether” of sorts to science news during the pandemic
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Toxoplasmosis being commonly carried by cats is one of the main reasons I will never own one. I am certain it's not a coincidence that cat scratches are associated with depression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700762/
I used to work on side projects late into the night. Yeah, it'd be difficult to fall asleep on those nights. These days it's usually a mix of side projects and then winding down for 0.5/1 hour before going to bed at a reasonable hour, unless I have something particularly absorbing going on.
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So the answer is unexpected: real enough.
It depends on how it comes out once you divide by the time & resources you invested in the making of the game.
I’m pretty sure there was a week in March/April where COBOL made the front page like every day...
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Exactly my point, we need actual billionaires in control.
Right. It's mostly a thing in number-crunching code working on matrices and in some string operations. It's important to handle small inner loops well; other than that, it's seldom a big time issue.
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> Voldemort's capacity for evil came partly from having only 1/7 of a soul in his body.

He was plenty evil before he made horcruxes.

Splitting the bytes would be closer only for file types that work (maybe not to the fullest) as 1/n pieces. OP misunderstood and thought that Tom Riddles soul was in full when he reconstructed his body, but it was actually only 1/7, and terribly maimed.
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The problem is that the speech that these people want censored isn't illegal. We have a strong constitutional prohibition against censorship.

Many activists would prefer that we didn't have this prohibition, but they don't have the political clout to get it repealed --- rightly so, because despite everything that's happened, explicit censorship is very unpopular.

Because the activists can't get the state to censor the public, activists have used increasingly underhanded tactics to get tech companies to censor the public. They've been very successful so far, but there's a growing resistance to their antics.
I don't know if I'd call OCaml dead simple. It's full of inconsistencies and bolted-on features that are practically useful but definitely not simple or elegantly designed. It's kind of like the C++ of ML derivatives in that sense.

I'd say Standard ML better fits the bill of "dead simple". The only issue is that tooling and learning resources are nearly nonexistent.
One key takeaway I have from this story is that the core skill of making a business and making it work – is critical and different from the “business idea” itself. It means that if you are a good “businessman”, you can start a new business in a new field, and possibly succeed. That’s why we see so much “pivoting” and forays into new ideas. Here Bezos and Amazon jumped into two completely new things they hadn’t done before: the Kindle, and AWS. And they succeeded! You don’t have to stick with what’s familiar, easy, or what’s your “area of expertise”. You can jump into new stuff, new project, completely new & innovative endeavors, and very well possibly succeed!! So HAVE HOPE!!! That’s my takeaway from this!
The same tactics (let's call a spade a spade) is used in my home country to legitimize the end of our political regime.
Nor does the US (if we're talking about the strictest definition of "monopoly", which rarely occurs in the private sector), but there are probably degrees of difference in what will set off regulators in the EU versus the US.
What do the shapes mean?
Which in it's own way reflects even worse on them as a company.

Kodak was indeed an important player in the early digital age. But I think they made a mistake in thinking they could pivot to a 'similar' business model instead of making the hard choices to really change.

By the mid 80s with the advent of the VCR in people's homes it should have been obvious that their business model was not sustainable long term. Heck, Sony's original Mavica was from the first half of the 80s!

Something to consider about most of the camera makers that have managed to survive; most had SLR brands, and Lens lines to go with them. Kodak, on the other hand, focused mostly on 'point and shoot' type cameras where accessories and future revenue generation is nonexistent (except, of course, film and those disposable flashes...)

I remember Kodak's whole schtick with the photo printers, paper, and whatnot. The cameras themselves weren't bad. What went wrong (again, IMO) is that they missed that the writing was already on the wall for printing photos. By the mid 90s, PDAs were becoming a thing, Laptop computers and larger color LCDs were becoming more and more usable, Cell phones, while not ubiquitous, certainly were real technology.

While this is said with the benefit of hindsight, but I do wonder if anyone there considered that as soon as display and mobile technology improved enough to warrant printing photos not worth the time/effort, their new model would have fallen apart.
Uninformed prediction: next landing site will be further from shore.
LAWS OF UX

Aesthetic Usability Effect
01 Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

Doherty Threshold
02 Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

Fitts’s Law
03 The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

Hick’s Law
04 The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices.

Jakob’s Law
05 Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

Law of Common Region
06 Elements tend to be perceived into groups if they are sharing an area with a clearly defined boundary.

Law of Prägnanz
07 People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us.

Law of Proximity
08 Objects that are near, or proximate to each other, tend to be grouped together.

Law of Similarity
09 The human eye tends to perceive similar elements in a design as a complete picture, shape, or group, even if those elements are separated.

Law of Uniform Connectedness
10 Elements that are visually connected are perceived as more related than elements with no connection.

Miller’s Law
11 The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

Occam’s Razor
12 Among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

Pareto Principle
13 The Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

Parkinson’s Law
14 Any task will inflate until all of the available time is spent.

Peak-End Rule
15 People judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak and at its end, rather than the total sum or average of every moment of the experience.

Postel’s Law
16 Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

Serial Position Effect
17 Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series.

Tesler’s Law
18 Tesler's Law, also known as The Law of Conservation of Complexity, states that for any system there is a certain amount of complexity which cannot be reduced.

Von Restorff Effect
19 The Von Restorff effect, also known as The Isolation Effect, predicts that when multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.

Zeigarnik Effect
20 People remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
> But unless it was web technology regressing

Arguably it was. I’d say we still don’t have something that rivals every feature Flash provided.
I'm quite disturbed they aren't using Rust :(
Shocking to see private boats next to the capsule right after it had splashed down. Where’s the common sense to remain at a safe distance?
Rights vs responsibilities is a tricky subject these days.
And how do you reconcile online stores for software businesses e.g. Atlassian, Github, Shopify ?

I can't install addons without going through their "app store".
depends on the nature of the problems those companies cause. If they're negative externalities then customer behaviour is of little value, say for example environmental damage caused by meat consumption, pollution and so on.

The negative effects of social media tend to be environmental in that sense, threats to national security, destruction of the political climate, negative effects on minorities and so on aren't felt by most customers. The negative behaviour of companies like Facebook affects the commons, not individual customers.
Similar background story, I was 8 in 1970, and my father knew what a slide rule was, and how to use it, so I learned a bit of trig from him before repeatedly checking out a textbook on trig from the public library.

True story: my son took an AP physics class in high school, (LASA) taught by sokeone with a PhD in physics. They had an oversized teaching sliderule hanging from the ceiling, where nobody could use it. It had become decoration, as nobody was left to teach with it.

When I was at the school for a “meet your student’s teachers” night, one of the other parents asked about the side rule. Instructor didn’t know how it worked.

So I explained it.

My wife still has her grandfather’s slide rules from when he was the state engineer in the 50s and 60s.
I really don't understand this - it's very easy to set which device (CPU / GPU) your OpenCL code is running on and to avoid running on the CPU if you don't want that.

On the other hand the ability to test on GPU-less systems is very useful indeed.

OpenCL has lots of faults but the ability to use a CPU with the appropriate drivers when a GPU isn't available surely isn't one of them.
I have not haha, although maybe I should :)
I suspect there'll be Coast Guard there next time.
I actually agree with you, those clues are very important. But video conferencing is bad at conveying those clues. So bad actually, that apart from the QA engineer waving at the camera, you wouldn't notice. There is no corner he can shrink into, you will never see that body language looking at his head. He won't shrink away from the people in the room, because there are no people to shrink away from. All those things require actual presence to work. A camera is no substitute and will always mislead you.
I actually can’t remember :-/ will fish it out and set up a proper service, maybe paid.
My Dad, an engineer for GM/Cadillac, gave my brother and I each a slide rule back in the 60's. I remember marveling at the precision of it, and I did learn to use it for some calculations, but not to a level that impressed him :).
Thanks for sharing!
Regarding 1): I can recommend the combination “Fastspring” for order processing and taxes (nothing to worry about and super easy setup) and LimeLM for software protection; dynamic license key generation is super easy in conjunction w/ Fastspring :-)
nice compilation!

is anyone else bothered that they have to scroll below the fold after clicking "learn more" to get to the content?
Thank you so much.

Rule 21 should be: don’t make the user click 20 times.
yes, it can do both. though the default tick & axis label metrics are probably biased towards vertically stacked labels. so that would probably be tweaked for horizontal log x since the default label density will cause run-ins.
I think they were just meant to make the design more interesting :)
The site is beautiful and I couldn’t do it. But I’ll still be a bit judgemental. It breaks my first law of UX: don’t be self serving.

The first screen is a long scroll of 20 elegant looking blocks and titles none of which mean anything on their own. I have to click on each and sit through some superfluous animation before I can even get access to the explanation.

Because of the animation, t he natural flow of swiping back on my phone results in a really janky transition.

I have to say, I love the style of these graphics. Minimalism I guess? Reminds me of the University of Waterloo during my childhood.
Let us presuppose that Palestine is a country. Having a small territory, angry neighbors and a blockade at your border doesn’t make you a prisoner. It simply means that you are at war and losing, or have been conquered and are now occupied territory until you submit to your new overlords.

To become prisoners, one would have to consider Palestinians to not be members of a separate country to Israel, but rather 2nd class citizens forced into a sort of apartheid.
I'm really confused. The goal is making money yet there has not been a single attempt at monetization. Patreon is basically equivalent to donations. There is no obligation to pay you. Your highest tier is $5 a month. Even with hundreds of backers you're barely going to earn anything worth the effort. You could have easily added a much higher tier that charged at least something like $40 a month for support prioritization on Github. You need to some basic market research and find customers that are willing to pay and give them a reason to give you money. There are lots of ways to monetize an opensource project. If you want money you'll have to focus on money, not on your project.

Your project was a success, only the (nonexistent) business strategy failed.
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“Signed slips”... our son turned 18 half-way through his senior year of high school. So I explained that he could now sign his own excuses for being tardy, and no actually explanation was required.

“Please excuse <name>, I am tardy.” <signature of name>”
Discussion from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185118
the shapes are the raison d'etre for the article.

"How many UX concepts can I attempt to illustrate with basic shapes and shading?"
You don't get to charge what you want when your platform approaches monopoly in a market.

The trick is defining the market. Apple already has 90+% market share in many less broadly defined markets - e.g. for young consumers, or in higher priced apps - and what happens depends on who successfully segments the market in the eyes of regulators.