skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a society the doctors can focus on diabetes, the aerospace engineers can focus on planes, and the city planners can focus on traffic safety, simultaneously.

Unfortunately, when budgets are finite, we cannot prioritize everything. OP's argument was that we spend too much money responding to visible, spectacular disasters, and too little on ongoing small harms which add up. There is some good evidence for this - for example Healy et al "Myopic voters and natural disaster policy", which shows that politicians overspend greatly on disaster response and underspend greatly on disaster preparedness.

Another example would be the response to the 2000 Hatfield rail crash, which killed four people. The expensive safety systems then fit on trains cost so much, and added so much to the price of a ticket, that they probably killed more people than they saved, because people moved to on the road - which is a much more dangerous mode of transport.
May I then ask what can you suck, by your definition?
Some of us like to talk of numerical accuracy as an arcane and trivial detail, but there is no automated technique for always eliminating accuracy problems [0], and this article is showing us that there are real consequences to applied practices when our arithmetic isn't careful.

[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf
It also works on Firefox (and on Linux); if you use split address/search bar it focuses to the search bar instead as it used to be.
This "laziness" is not really a function of the people doing software work, or as you point out any work in any area, it is imho, an expression of our broken leadership and management culture that puts short term concern for profits before quality.
I think its about the video at bottom of the page. This one is slowed down.
If they don’t want to follow the terms of the taxi license fuck them. Universal service, take every fare, don’t discriminate by race. If Uber and Lyft destroy the entire taxi industry it can’t come soon enough.
upscaled, interpolated and colorized by AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
> So that means that you tell the compiler to assume that SSE is available on the target. By default GCC outputs code that's compatible with the baseline, which is perfectly reasonable IMO. Same reason why -march=native is also not the default, it is assumed that you may want to ship your binaries to other computers.

If your x86 computer was made after the US invaded Iraq, it supports SSE2 instructions.
Just as an FYI: Apparently the Gimpshop website isn't owned by the developer and hasn't been for years. It's apparently riddled with adware and malware and isn't developed anymore.
That’s not shielded. I doubt it offers any more signal integrity than the 30awg wires nicely taped together.

And the 30awg wires can go around corners without folding.
Unfortunate, this is big news because it means all the brain imaging science suffers from the reproducibility crisis.

This means that all the TED talks saying ‘we know this because fmri’ should be assumed incorrect until proven otherwise with multiple double blind studies (which is too expensive in the current era to actually reproduce all of these studies).
> * Lazarus (form saver)

Not sure what this one used to provide, but I rely a lot on Form History Control [1] to save my input before the browser crashes (which it tends to do every ~10 minutes these days) and stupid websites. I have done so for years, probably even when XUL was still a thing.

I use panorama Tabgroups as well as treestyletabs, but they have trouble coping with my 600+ tabs workflow. I think I might write my own with a graphical tree representation on a pinned tab, sort of a mindmap with tabs inside, comments, notes, etc. As this is how I would like to use my browser.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-...
I have no pre-existing knowledge of the subject, but a quick search turned up something about the Sun being much less active than similar stars:

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-sun-similar-stars.html

If this is accurate, then it raises the question of whether the Sun is inherently and always less active or whether it just happens to be quiet while human civilization has arisen.
In general yes you can make that distinction but more importantly this is a problem for peace time.

No one would authorize a non-visual shoot down of a target in a non-active AO and not during an actual conflict.

If you are at the stage where you have factions duking it out in the skies especially these days were talking about a major conflict in which case there won’t be any civilian jets flying there anyhow.
For smaller creators to create their own Netflix I haven't seen any incumbents for 5 years.

On YouTube competitors again the same applies, PeerTube, BitChute, and TikTok don't allow you make money on their platform.
This is a common mistake when it comes to cloud synchronization with an equally simple fix. When you compare a set of items A on the user device against a set of items B on the cloud you should FIRST check (either through file name, hash or creation/modification timestamp) that:

- An item in A is not present in B before uploading it to B.
- An item in A is present in B and has changed on A before updating it on B.
- An item in A is present in B and has changed on B before updating it on A.
- An item in B was present on A but it's no longer there before deleting it from B.
- An item in A was present on B but it's no longer there before deleting it from A.

Seriously, this is the ABC of cloud sync. Many free products also got it right. There's no excuse for the engineers at Adobe not to get it right in their overpriced products.
I have no idea why this is getting upvoted. This is basically just a fellow French practising the age old sport of complaining about everything and everyone else in the country.
Nobody hate French people and France more than another French, especially if they lived abroad for a bit. Then they will always tell you about how everything in country X is much better then in France.

Not that his points are all invalid. But as usual it is a gross exaggeration of a complex reality. Plus, we tend to forget what is working and the progress we are making. Sure France is definitely not a country to "move fast and break things" but it doesn't mean you can't start a successful business, or change the society little by little.
Hmm, you may be talking about me. Oops.

Really though, having the ability to ignore _bots_ would be quite useful, a lot of noise comes from bots that might be useful to some of my coworkers, but not others, even in the same channel.

And also ignoring highlights from particular people too
The hype over dark meat has become a meme.

I know Americans slept on dark meat for a while, and perhaps many still do, but in a certain slice of the foodie subculture (recipe bloggers, YouTube foodies, etc) this idea that dark meat is ALWAYS better than white meat has become this truism that, it seems to me at least, people like to slip in to signal how cultured they are or something.

Personally, it just depends on the dish and what kind of mood I’m in.

For example, if I’m wanting to make a pan sauce I’ll almost always go with white meat (usually bone-in split breast).

Chicken parm? White meat, please

For me, because dark meat itself is fattier and more flavorful by default, I find it can take over in many dishes where the meat is more of a vehicle for something else.

Stir frys, however - I almost always opt for dark meat.

Curries? It depends.
> It's mind-boggling that a company with this much revenue can just wreck one of their products, keep shipping it and collecting money and not give a shit.

Bundle subscriptions are corporatized communism for apps.

From each, according to our quarterly reporting needs; to each, whatever the fuck we deign to give them.
That's fair! I'm right-handed myself, and while I've seen a few articles that purport to offer methods that can work for southpaws, the impression I've come away with is that it's as much a matter of luck as of anything else.
Often, for software like this, you distribute a few pieces of data with the update. After it's installed the system runs and presents information like version number and the hash value of the binary (or binaries). You're supposed to verify these values as part of a checklist. Additionally, the primary host system can check that the hashed value presented is what it expects. How it handles it at that point may vary if it doesn't match, but at a minimum an error is displayed to the operators and stored in the logs. Since software isn't typically changed daily, this means verifying everything is updated once (update an LRU and update the corresponding portion of the host at the same time) and you're done for 6-18 months.
Infinity plus or minus
Pyret: A Language for Programming Education
gamers worry about the latency of a wireless controller sending a signal from their couch to their TV.

for a fighter jet with a remote pilot, you're looking potentially hundreds of miles of range, and the latency of the video transmission to the pilot combined with the latency of the controls signal back to the plane. i can't imagine that being acceptable for any sort of dogfighting scenario.
Show HN: I have been making an animated educational series about motors
An Overview of fastai2
The colorized video at the bottom has a steampunk appeal to it. I'm surprised this track is still operating today!
16 years is a long time. Is there anything that reflects the current state of RSS?
Just think, they could have paid two engineers to fortify their systems against such an attack and still saved lots of money.
I agree with your description, OP possibly concised his words a little too much as to imply the wrong thing.
Is that second part still a thing? I know ww2 got hairy, but as a regular civilian I don't know a ton of context about whether this was isolated or the start of a trend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
One more AI assistant product idea
Hi everyone!

Looking for community feedback - trying to come up with an Idea of valuable AI assistant product. I made my research and found the list of 157 ai assistants :)
It seems that the field is really crowded. And it seems that the products are fragmented among Enterprise type (like conversica) and smb niches like all others.

What AI can't do in terms of assistant tasks?
- All "last-mile" tasks, like we filtered list of 100 candidates and need to make a final decision
- Any "managing" communication task, when you have a lot of people in your email thread and need to coordinate it.
- ....?

So I came up with idea of "router" app:
- The client connect its GMAIL account to the system (this is the core communication interface)
- App has integrated with Upwork/Mturk API for recruit long-term/micro tasks.
- App has integrated with ML Api for classification tasks.

Then the client just route his tasks to "router", the system just decide is that task suitable to be executed with ML/AI (like speech-to-text translation) or it should be routed to the real person.

From other side the freelancer has a flow of tasks and can not be worried about filling his pipeline with customers.

What do you think about it? Can you send more ideas for similar products?
It's both, and then some. Product folks surely do love to get new features out. Developers also love it, because writing new code is far more fun than improving reliability, performance, security, or operational load for old code. In 30+ years I've worked in all sorts of environments, but accumulating technical debt has been one of the few constants. Everyone tries to say the right things in meetings. Maybe tech-debt reduction even makes a brief cameo in early planning sessions, but good luck getting it into the final plan. Even if that happens, guaranteed that it will show up as a miss at the end of the cycle, because it's always the very last thing on everyone's list and everyone's list is always too long. A dozen companies, maybe twice that many projects, twice again as many architects/managers/whatever, always the same story.

As for "and then some" that's the part that's on senior management and HR, for setting up review/promotion structures that actively incentivize sloppy engineering. When all of the rewards are for New Shiny, some people will actively sabotage efforts to spend time any other way. Nobody wants to delay their new-feature effort to deal with new test failures or cleaned-up APIs. Even those who have enough of a conscience to to the right thing get kneecapped at every turn.
China is building a lot of LCD/OLED fabs.
No...the whole point is that the single instruction induced halt for downclocking isn't a real issue. Even in the pathological case where you insert a single instruction spaced 760 us apart in order to induce the maximum number of clock shifts, the total performance degradation due to the clock halts is only 3% (the frequency drop that is induced by the use of these instructions has a much larger impact.) Furthermore, on Icelake-SP, the halted time due to frequency transitions is supposed to go to 0, which makes this aspect of the problem entirely irrelevant.

Yes, if you insert a single 512-bit FMA that runs every so often in your code you will get a 15% performance hit from the lower frequency, but that's much less likely than the old case where people who were trying to use AVX-512 for memcpy and the like would slow down scalar code.
Nyxt: An extensible keyboard-oriented web browser written in Common Lisp
> The evidence and defeatablity that is built into STEM

I don't know if evidence and defeatability is really built into STEM. I'm an academic in computer science, and in the field of computer science we recently had a PhD candidate commit suicide in a major academic institution due to corrupt approval rings in major conferences. Similarly, several fields of STEM have reproducibility crises, including my own field, as well as politically motivated science as is being explored in this article.

In theory, STEM has evidence and has defeatability through the scientific method. In reality, the people working in the field of knowledge are still spending most of their time wading through bullshit and only taking the opinions of their friends to be true.
U of Utah has an operating budget of nearly $5 Billion so having a couple hundred grand in cash isn't exactly a lot.
It's been a while since I read my mortgage note, but I believe the only condition under which it is callable is a default. Unless I've misunderstood what callable means in this context.
I was going to counter that it could instead just be that they're not employed, in education, or in training. But personally, I'm employed and can devote entire weekends and evenings to side projects. Family would certainly take up the rest of that time.

Edit: Actually just noticed your comment was about anime girl avatars, and not the project quality. I have no opinions on that matter.
>> "As the person you may be referring to"

Nope. I was referring to the person I replied to who believed that it would rank for this keyword in a few weeks.
bluetomcat's statement is in the realm of Relativistic Epistemology.

In general, epistemology is about the root of human knowledge, and why some statement of knowledge represents a justified belief, but those roots never terminate because as Feynman said the Why question never stops recurring, as we dig deeper. In other words, there is no objective truth or any thing for that matter (no pun intended) apart from what we observe (the idea of "primacy of consciousness over matter" per E. Schrödinger et al, a neurophenomenologist view of reality) which means that our justified beliefs depend on how we observe and what we can and cannot conceive of given our finite mental model.

I don't think epistemic relativism is the way to go about life as it basically puts a barrier to further inquiry and pursuit of a truth that we feel is there, and it's the act of digging that allows us to progress, and not the transient truths we derive along the way, as we dig deeper. It's almost as if the truth is a magnet with infinite power and infinite distance that keeps our consciousness in motion or that it sits behind the barrier between being and not being, life and death, etc.

In the wise words of Manuel, I know nothing.

Also, see Bohm's final paper on Hidden Variables and the Implicate Order, the most sane of all metaphysical thoughts that I've come across.
The first chapter is available to read on Egan's website:

https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html
I don't think dogfights are the future of air-to-air combat.

> A swarm of small, cheap, explosive drones with a kamikaze AI sounds like the end of human-piloted warplanes to me.

This already exists. We just call them surface to air missiles or air-to-air missiles.

Modern air superiority combat is point-and-click. Send your air superiority fighter over, shoot a missile from beyond the sensor range of the other craft, and then blow them up.

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Air support fighters need guns (see A10 warthog) and other ammunition. But will we really be using guns in the future of air to air combat?
>I’ll also add that storefront serves a majority of requests made to Shopify but it’s a surprisingly tiny fraction of the actual code.

I am guessing that small pieces of code will the target for TruffleRuby.
As far as I understand, AlphaZero had three main components:

1. A model of how Go worked, constructed by humans

2. A neural net for generating interesting moves, and a neural net for evaluating game positions.

3. A Markov search algorithm that used 1+2 to do pattern patching and search.

I will say that so far, #1 -- constructing mental models which can then be searched -- is something I haven't seen an AI do yet.

But looking at the actual work that I do -- from coding to deciding what to cook for dinner to deciding how to lay out my extension -- I'm pretty sure that behind the scenes it's exactly the same as 1+2+3 above; and that if I could download my mental model and my utility evaluator into a program, it could (with training) do all of the above faster and more consistently.
At the beginning there's more people walking and hanging out, than I'm used to seeing (in a sparsely developed area). If it were post WWII US, I wouldn't expect to see anyone outside all day.
SpaceX _pretends_ it can lift 63 tons.

In practice, their payloads have been a few tons at best. Whereas Ariane's track record with Ariane 5 is almost flawless and actually hitting those announced maximums.

But sure, trust the company that has regularly been lying on their abilities :)
That approach is what made XUL and XPCOM un-maintainable -- a giant catalog of APIs in which large fractions were legacy, but non-removeable.
IE7 also had tabs, yet Firefox still managed to gain marketshare.
For someone demanding "evidence," you could stand to provide sources for your own claims.

> the only RCT ever performed with cloth masks showed that those who wore cloth masks were 13 fold worse off than those in the control arm

I think you're referring to this study, please confirm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

"The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of cloth masks to medical masks in hospital healthcare workers (HCWs)"

You misrepresent the study in three critical ways:

1. You fail to note that the "control arm" was use of medical-grade masks, as opposed to no mask at all.

2. The study explicitly did not include a no-mask arm, as that would be ethically problematic. Their "control" arm actually consisted of "standard practice, which may or may not include mask use. Standard practice was used as control because the IRB deemed it unethical to ask participants to not wear a mask". The increased infection risk of cloth masks could be due to harm caused by cloth masks, benefit conferred by medical masks, or most likely both. As the authors point out, this study cannot determine this.

3. The study focused on healthcare workers, whereas the question at hand is whether convincing big portions of the general population to wear cloth masks in public enclosed spaces works.

Fun fact: the same authors of this study have submitted a follow-up article which is available for early release: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article

They write that "wearing cloth masks should not be mandated for healthcare workers. In community settings, however, cloth masks may be used to prevent community spread of infections by sick or asymptomatically infected persons, and the public should be educated about their correct use."

In other words:

- the mask RCT you referred to doesn't support your agenda of insisting that community use of cloth masks doesn't mitigate the spread of respiratory illness

- the same authors of that study have directly refuted your claims in an upcoming publication

You aren't being downvoted because the left-leaning HN hivemind is reflexively jabbing the down arrow because you're telling them something they don't like. It's because you're flat-out wrong.

> We have no evidence of positive effect.

Demonstrably and categorically false. I'm starting to wonder if you're trolling HN on a Friday morning; if so, congratulations.

If you aren't a troll, please review this body of literature helpfully curated by smart people who give a damn:

https://masks4all.co/facts/
Currently we control and set up all the FDWs (well, an orchestration layer does it on the fly as the query comes in and routes the query to the correct schema with foreign tables).

You can also run a Splitgraph engine locally and add your own FDWs to it. We have a lot of scaffolding around FDWs to make their instantiation much more simple and even wrote a blog post [0] about adding a custom FDW to Splitgraph.

However, in the future we'll be adding the ability to add your own backend data sources to Splitgraph that it can proxy to (whether as a private dataset on the public Splitgraph instance or as a "data virtualization" layer when you have an in-house Splitgraph deployment).

The cool thing about this is that this can be a single gateway to all your data silos (Snowflake, third-party SaaS, public datasets) that can handle federated query execution, data discovery and access control (e.g. firewalling queries to sensitive columns even if the backend data source doesn't support this level of granularity).

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers
Event scheduling in a Serverless Environement
I think it’s less about being able to spend the money (of course you can) than needing to spend it.

Do you really need a 100-million yacht and a 20-bedroom villa? No.
This is fascinating. I was a bio major in college 2000-2004 and its awesome to see how many things just weren't known back then.
remote control has a rather extreme weakness against advanced enemies.... jamming.
Ray tracing was a scam and has done nothing for gaming
Average population IQ
Ah, WW2 style fighters are among my favorite games.

I don't think its realistic, but its still an advancement of AI. I'd see this as an advancement like "AlphaGo" or "Deep Blue" moment. But for a more obscure game with somewhat realistic implications (only somewhat, WW2 style fighters don't exist anymore in the modern world).
You could watch some of these DCS dogfighting videos, there is a mixture of guns only or short range missiles.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowlingSidewinder/videos

Here is one where the flightsim pilot dogfights a French Rafale pilot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgDZ4BLk0Pw
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence
Aren't public universities much cheaper than private ones?
A quick scroll trough the settings page shows me you can turn the automatic updates off if you want.
Also not something i've experienced. Have you checked whether the crash isn't caused by some weird addon or the like?
> No more rogue devices trying to use their own dns, at least until they all switch to DOH too

nice that you already debunked your thesis