skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like most on here have followed your thinking at some point, but have had to ditch our intuition along with comman sense and a good part of our sanity when we found out we were lost down the rabbit hole after schrodinger's cat ate our breadcrumbs.

An observer changing the outcome is a very real repeatable experiment with non wavey results.

https://physicsworld.com/a/do-atoms-going-through-a-double-s...

It's similar to the problem that has been highlighted here by OP, to quote the artical I posted

"Indeed, the results of both Truscott and Aspect’s experiments shows that a particle’s wave or particle nature is most likely undefined until a measurement is made. The other less likely option would be that of backward causation – that the particle somehow has information from the future – but this involves sending a message faster than light, which is forbidden by the rules of relativity. "
An important corollary: if you turn off your computer when you’re not actively using it, you’re going to have a bad time. The updates that are supposed to happen in the background instead force you to wait while they run.

So you have to save and shut down everything at the end of the day to not lose work, but also leave the computer eating electricity in case it wants to update.
Did other providers have similar issues to Cloudflare? I only noticed cloudflare sites being particularly down, not other CDNs, but maybe that was selection bias?
> The idea that we need to find a single escape-goat to blame and throw in jail for every accident is a very antiquated way to think about justice. There are many cases where nobody is at fault, or multiple people are collectively at fault.

But that’s not what we do. We don’t pick a scapegoat and throw them in jail for every accident. We investigate the role the individuals had in the accident, and only if an individual was clearly at fault, they are fined. Often such trials end up with a shared responsibility where the parties at fault also have to jointly pay for the damages caused.

So the question remains: if a car on autopilot crashes, who needs to be investigated? The “driver” who had little to no control over the vehicle at that time? The legal cop-out of “you must be in control at all times” won’t fly with proper self driving.
Linux runs alright on old (pre-2016) MacBooks (Air/Pro). This is in contrast to the MacBooks in the era when they started introducing the touch bar, secure enclave, and APFS. A word of caution: don't multi-boot together with macOS with Linux on your internal drive (Linux on an external drive is fine if double booting).
I don't know. How many attacks happen that have a budget in the thousands of dollars (that's what I ballpark the price of a load bearing drone to be)? I presume a lot. Another way to look at it is, how much does personal protection cost? Bodyguards, etc. If your attack methods are cheaper and at least comparably effective, they're good.

Considering IED drone effectiveness, I think it's just a question of developing tactics and maybe custom tech. It doesn't sound complicated to have a drone descend vertically at such high speeds that even if you notice it and disable its motors it's too late; fuse set to airburst. Exciting time to be a narco weapons engineer.
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In general I notice a trend in cybersecurity: it is very hard to do right, and it is very business critical.

This has led to a cottage industry of bad tech and bad science, whereby people peddle easy security solutions where none exist.

On what architecture would evaluating this abstract data structure be faster than a simple opcode?
> Imagine taking a vacation back to earth for a year, but popping back to the space station where it has only been a few hours.

Hmm, this hasn't really fully clicked with me yet (so take what I am saying with a grain of salt, I'd be glad if anyone could clarify/prove me wrong), but speed is relative.

If your station moves fast from the perspective of earth, earth moves fast from the perspective of the station. So, from the perspective of earth, time moves slower on the station, and from the perspective of the station, time moves slower on earth.

If you were to travel back and forth, that would even out (something about having to accelerate in one direction, then another). There is no absolute time reference in the universe.

That can work, however, if you spend some time inside a strong gravity field.
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Big Corp I work for has really poor office with 2 small meeting rooms. And this was huge limiting factor for meeting organization. Managers thrive nowadays with no limit for meetings, every nonsense gets discussed for hours. I spend half day in some weird discussions every day. I don’t see how make this stop.
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While this works, it usually creates a lot of bad habits.
> Until then, I'll only want to buy cars made before 2010.

Most modern cars don't connect to the internet.
I’ve been on a disciplined ketogenic diet for 3 years now.

I had put on weight due to a few persistent training injuries.

I lost 22kg fairly quickly combined with a return to durability/longevity focused fitness.

Anecdotally, I actually feel my cognitive ability has improved. I feel sharper and able to focus better/longer and have been published far more after than prior.

However, I have to admit that I need to stay quite well hydrated or else I start feeling slower/foggier, I reckon it could be both diet and age related.

I feel like I am fastest/sharpest in the morning prior to a late lunch when my eating window opens.

I do eat breakfast on weekends and have the occasional cheat meal approx once per month.

Just my anecdotal experience.
Well, whatever the case, it was generated by tools.
Divisible by both 2 and 3, which decimal, well 10s, isn't. Archaic in today's deals of prices ending in 99 pence or cents, it made a lot of sense to have things easily divisible by both 2s and 3s, and fractions of such.
Low flying targets are hard to hit with flak I think. It's also hard to fire flak over the heads of a crowd at a public speaking event without hurting anybody.
Well, he is investing on behalf of his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
Well, if you managed to detect and track an incoming drone you could ‘jam’ its camera with a high-powered laser - or something that threw up a curtain of flares or burning magnesium, or whatever.
Now they need to record movement from other cultures, not just their own engineering team.

Japanese road repair site.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/F0ixyhaWgWM
Yes and good for them.

Nothing of value was lost.
It looks like people are discussing alternatives here, so I wanted to give a quick pitch for my setup.

I stash my useful links in Asana. For those who haven't used it, Asana is like a big, organized to-do list. Each link I want to keep becomes an Asana task. I can organize them the Asana way, using tags or projects (task lists), or I can just put useful words in the description so I can search for them later.

Asana probably wasn't built for this use case, but it works pretty darn well. My most important workflow is being able to send the current webpage I'm reading to Asana using just a few taps, and Asana supports that easily -- the official Chrome extension is specifically for doing this, and the Asana apps support the Android and iOS share integrations.

In addition -- and this is important too -- I feel pretty confident that Asana (and thus my data) will still be around in 5-10 years. I'm not sure if I can say that about almost all of its competitors.

Note: I'm not affiliated with Asana. I'm familiar with Asana because I used it at work, but other to-do apps might also work for bookmarking. If you have one in mind, let me know in the replies!
Some replies here are missing that the mile used to be 5000 feet, hence the parent's statements.

(It's also the whole article?)
> I know Conway was slightly resentful that game of life overshadowed some of his other work in the public's imagination, but I've always been entranced by it.

He seems to have come to terms with it.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA&feature=youtu.be
It's not so much a switchover as the end of a switchover. The international foot was adopted in 1959, and everything since (at least in surveying) should specify (but often does not, which is one of the reasons the survey foot needs to be abolished)
Flying over the Redmond campus over the weekend, I found it quite sad that they didn't really put some effort into it. It looks quite flat and unpolished.
They know, what they don't know is how to get out of that position.
Without being an expert...

Shotguns, firing a net, anti-drone drones and also interfering with signals are all on the table.
The article didn't mention it, but it's relevant that after the news of this broke in India, the lady in question filed multiple police complaints alleging online harassment. These complaints were targeted at anonymous Twitter accounts that had tweeted abuse at her, but also at a journalist who maintains he has never interacted with her in any capacity online or offline and simply posted a set of questions he wished to pose to his Facebook. The Committee to Protect Journalists has come out in support of that person, who has filed a counter-complaint alleging criminal intimidation.
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The trouble is it's difficult to get any objective data on this. Catalina has been rock solid for me. So is this a problem for a handful of noisy individuals or is it more widespread? I really don't know.
Have half a litre then. Speaking as someone from the only country that legally mandates beer in both pints (on draught) and metric (in bottles), I prefer a (UK, 20oz) pint if I'm drinking, because it's larger and I'm thirsty. For every other reason though litres are easier to reason about. The US 16 oz pint doesn't even have the benefit of being larger!
> humans without tools

> My foot is a foot long

> I can go into a field without tools

Well, you can't say you don't have a tool while bringing a tool. My foot is a lot (!) bigger than yours, so that argument doesn't hold.

> Using Imperial measures makes this clear - do you really need to know how big your field is to the millimetre? To the centimetre? A foot will do.

Yes, also a meter will do.

> but ... but ... how exactly long is a meter?

Well, again, my foot is bigger than yours. Others are smaller. They'll do, too, right?

Point is, who cares if you are off by a couple of meters/foots/whatever if you are just looking for an estimate? But using foots, arms, pumpkins or cat tails for length seems way too ambiguous. A meter, while seemingly synthetic to people not familiar with the metric system, can be used just as good with all the advantages it brings. Yes, it requires to get an idea of its size. Well, but so does your foot or whatever randomly by nature generated object you use for measurement.
Yup, this is a danger to anybody not displaying standard body language, like blind or autistic people, or even people from other cultures & countries.
I wouldn't call imperial measures "broken".

I typically prefer imperial measures in simple projects because they tend do feel more practical.

In things like woodwork, carpentry, papercraft, etc and inch, a foot, or a quarter inch tend to "fit" very well and are easily divided.

Specifically with papercraft, I prefer working in inches over centimeters because inch, half inch, and quarter inch all essentially function as "full" units and are very easily divided/combined and tend to "fit" better with most projects. A half.inch tends to usually feel like a good margin. A few inches tends to work well for a card. A quarter inch generally seems right for a small spacing. That is significantly more useful to me than base-10 conversions because (for example) 1 inch and 1 half inch feels easier to keep in mind than 1 centimeter and 5 millimeters (or 1 centimeter and 1.5 centimeters).
Going in the other direction, meat was the original pipeline. Before motor (and then frozen/chilled) transport, meat would walk itself, without needing to load any wagons, from the pastures where it fattened to the butchers near where eaters lived.
Well there's alt-tab.
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> As a gearhead, I absolutely hate the metric/standard difference.

To take the example of the F150 there's a 26 gallon fuel tank, but then the engine size in in liters, transmission fluid is in quarts, windshield washer reservoir in liters etc.

Even on the most popular American-made car in the US you need to deal with an absolute mess of different measurement systems, on e.g. a German-made car all of these would be metric.
What a deeply sick culture at CBP to allow & protect this level of incompetence, malice and/or racism.

I doubt that org can be fixed at all.
When I was in school I could do 50 m within one meter. Haven't tried for a while now but I do use steps now and then to measure things if the exactness isn't important.

Archers learn to measure by sight though, they have a few tricks since they aren't allowed any sort of help.
Pretty much everything you wrote makes immediate sense to me, except your incorporation of the ketogenic diet.

I understand there is a lot of uncertainty around this area, but I’ll be very interested in learning why you felt the ketogenic diet in particular was suitable to be a central part of a regime aimed at longevity?
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Corruption of the political values in Indian politics, media and public in general is surprising. Religious fanatism is on the rise, earlier taboos like horse-trading of elected members is completely normal and is popularised as a master-stroke by the media.
He was pretty supportive of my computer hobby... him and my mom both were. But like he was also super big on ford trucks, fuck Chevy, I think there was some brand loyalty tribalism in play around microsoft? There was a ton of FUD about oss back then, so maybe he probably absorbed that? Shame he's dead, these "wtf were you thinking" conversations were always fun.
Hard to disentangle effects from other stuff that was going on. Prohibition was repealed in 1933, in the depths of the Depression. It was also the year before FDR signed a comprehensive crime-fighting bill that allowed FBI agents to carry guns and make arrests.

By pure numbers, crime did hit a 20th-century high in 1933, right after prohibition was repealed, and they didn't pass those numbers until the 1970s-early 1990s (and only just barely then). But this was also the economic nadir of the century. And the mechanism for the decline in organized crime was that many crime bosses were killed or imprisoned, so it could've been the crime bill. So yes, it is what happened at the end of prohibition, but it's hard to draw firm conclusions between the two.
I am not sure one could take the same perspective as light, but that reference frame probably obeys the same four-vector rules. Therefore, if I got this right, for an external observer, light does not travel trough time, only space.

However, in its own reference frame, light should travel trough time at the speed of light (and doesn't move in space in that reference frame). I wonder what happens to the energy in that frame...
Interest is just a fee. Your bank may charge you extra to compensate defaults which "destroys" part of the interest, it may charge a processing fee, a profit margin and then finally the actual interest rate the central bank sets.

Both the processing fee and profit margin circulate within the economy. They are not part of the loan, they are fees the bank is charging and using to pay its employees and shareholders who then spend that money. It is entirely possible that you are working for a bank and receiving that money as a paycheck, or your bank is purchasing services directly or indirectly from a company that you are working at.

When you think about it, central banks are not any different. They charge a fee and then send the profit to the government which then can spend it on services that eventually employ you.

You own a farm and borrow 50k from a bank that has $10k in its reserves. The loan has a duration of 10 years at 2% interest so you have to pay back 60k in total. You pay back $6k every year. The bank purchases $1k worth of food every year. The end result is that you have paid $60k to the bank and the bank has paid you $10k.
Ask HN: What are some simple problems current ML methods cannot solve?
Like François Chollet created ARC, I would like to know what other problems like ARC there are that cannot be solved with current machine learning methods.

I want to do independent research and thus have the liberty to focus on overlooked corners of the field - I have no pressure to achieve anything substantial, so I can take riskier bets.

Learning from few examples seems like a general weak point of deep learning, but I'd like to have more complete problems than just "pick any dataset and remove most of the data".

Do you guys have any ideas? I would love to hear about them. Thank you so much!
This is really interesting from a business relationship perspective. Sony helped TSMC build and install a new fab that TSMC will run exclusively for Sony. This is like a cloud provider bringing up a new DC just for one customer using that customer's equipment.

Is TSMC just going to start rolling up every mom and pop fab? Are they the Sinclair of Silicon?
Interesting, but the fact that a sequence of finger positions indicates a number sounds risky in a blink and you get the wrong result kind of way.

When we travelled to China years ago we were advised to learn the one-handed 1-10 gestures[1] which we were assured was in common use there, and solves one of the basic problems of asking for specific quantities of things without language.

I guess that if you had an agreed endian (LSH / MSH?) you could represent all integers from 0-110 in a single two-handed gesture.

Obviously, with 10 fingers, you could also represent 0-1023 by holding up various digits - and that's needing only two states per finger. How quickly or easily others would be able to read that representation is a different question. Plus most of us would need some training exercises to recover finger independence of pinky and ring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures
> Renewable energy sources have zero fuel costs.

That's not true. It costs fuel to mine the resourses needed, to build the equipments, to install them, to maintain them. The IPCC states that globally, nuclear power emits _less_ greenhouse gases than hydro and solar, and emits about the same as wind. [1]

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5... Table A.III.2, page 1335

For more info, please see this eye opening TedX talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak
W10 is terrible on traditional hard drives which most PC's were using 10-12 years ago. We are also at the tail end of the core 2 duo era, those devices aren't really up to the job.
> Not exactly sure of why 1592

As the post mentions, math and geometry had seen a literal renaissance during the Renaissance (eh), and this development had likely made its way into England. So the problem of reconciling measures for area and length had finally become clear.
I think this could well happen, especially given the current unfortunate levels of lay-offs in commercial aviation. There's a load of qualified ATPs and others out there starting YouTube channels, and I think online flight schools would make sense.

A "shared cockpit" remotely controlled plane mod to facilitate training in flight school would probably be helpful, but then if you start going down that route, you'd likely want a force feedback stick/yoke (and something like FS Force) to give you the ability to see and feel what's happening.

The only part I'm unsure of is if it's difficult enough to fly solo without AI assists to merit all this? Very hard to gauge when you can do it already. But still will be interesting to see what happens.
That’s the next next next level of climate change denial. After denying it’s happening, after denying it’s human-made, after denying it’s solvable, we deny it’s solvable without ideological tarnishments.
Yes there's plenty of difficulties with home-grown devices. Fortunately most people aren't capable of designing an over-the-air protocol like lightbridge, and there's a limited selection of chips to choose from.

Vision/IMU/Lidar are obviously much harder

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That's right. It's unfortunate that Rust calls them "enums", since as you noted that term already had a well-established meaning in other languages, and the concept that Rust calls "enums" also had several existing names (sum type, coproduct type, disjoint union, and, more generally, algebraic data type) in the literature and in prior languages.

Language designers: stop changing the meanings of words! I know you mean well and you're trying to tie unfamiliar ideas to familiar ones for beginners, but you end up causing more confusion for everyone in the long run.
They are. They're usually called CRAM or CIWS on ships (Close in weapons system).[0] They are used as the last line of defense on modern warships against missiles and other threats.

Here you can see one of them in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVUISS8oHs

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system
> option clicking was best analogy to right clicking on Apple since the mouse used to have one button.

Not high praise for Apple, wasn't the 1 button mouse the laughing stock of mouse users everywhere? :-)
Wind and water are other sources as well, though maybe not quite as efficient.
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>If the clock runs at half speed, your brain runs at half speed, so you see it ticking forward at twice the rate, and 2.0 * 0.5 = 1.0

Consider changes in gravity affect cognition.

Likewise, if the brain has any quantum mechanisms, then that 1.0 might not be exactly 1.0.
Has anyone a good open source, self hosted alternative of this?

Since I don't know any, I was thinking of starting something like this at some point.

Something to save interesting bookmarks/lightweight media (gifs, memes, ...) or even small blog articles. Make it federated, with some full text search feature ala elastic search but more lightweight, with a reddit like interface.
Apple can't win here can they, one person complains they remove too much functionality, the next complains the operating system is bloated.
How do you deal with phone data connections?
> In the amount of time I used to spend in a month making sure macOS wasn't on the brink

What was it you were having to do to maintain macOS?