skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Priveledge is hated here because it isn't an argument but an often immutable ad-homenum to shield against arguments that are disliked. To give an example of why it isn't held highly "Pfft only those priveledged enough to not have to worry about starvation can care about democracy".

It also a hypercritically in calling them emphasis on "ivory" tower and "neckbeards" - implying both ugliness and not getting out much and then deridding them for being priveledged socially when they are already below the baseline and then dismissing concerns about a /social standing/ issue for double irony. "What do those ugly nerds know about being an outcast?"
Who are they keeping this "hidden" from?

"The documents — reports sent to agency staffers..."
Nowadays yes. For most of history though (and still commonly today), causal explanations for plenty of things involved some flavor of the supernatural.
I count calories.

Eating while watching TV doesn't impact my eating choices.
I feel like the game cultivates all sorts of wisdom regarding supply-chain logistics, monitoring, project management, task prioritization, queueing theory, and just general engineering problem-solving.

It’s like how budding Chinese military leaders were once (still?) encouraged to play Go. It shapes your mind and develops patterns that will later prove applicable to real-world situations.
I’m in MA and our question 2 is whether to institute it, though it wouldn’t apply to presidential elections.

I think it’s a great idea. The only specific criticism I’ve seen is that it’s “more complicated” but to me that’s a price worth paying for the improved representation of the public will.

What’s surprised me is that I’ve heard several smart people tell me that they weren’t sure because they had heard that “it can cause unexpected results”, but hadn’t dug deep enough to elaborate.

Has anyone come across strong, detailed arguments against it?
Privacy-preserving features in the Mobile Driving License
If we spent the same money supporting family educational choice and preferred elderly in-home care, I suspect we'd be ahead of where we are.

Obviously, some people will need school and care that family can't give, and I'm not against paying for it.

But these policies encourage assets to be wasted so that you can get in the safety net.
The Creator's update, I believe, broke Fallout: New Vegas for a while -- I think some deprecated strings that identify GPUs changed, so a fallback renderer that doesn't work anymore was chosen.
We're building a pretty hard product. We had a nice working demo a year ago, but there's a lot of work to make a platform like this stable. Real-time collaboration is pretty difficult by itself (especially when you're not syncing just text), but we also had to build a computing platform where users can run arbitrary code. That opens us up to everything from a large attack surface to a huge number of quite inventive crypto miners. So we kept building in a private beta until we were confident enough to launch publicly.

Interestingly, ever since we started almost 2 years ago we've been pretty laser focused and there were minimal changes to the vision overall. But we also knew what we were going into and that it'd take time.
Waymo uses ML/AI extensively. Here's a blog post from earlier this year about how they're forgoing CNNs for a "hierarchical graph neural network." https://blog.waymo.com/2020/05/vectornet.html
It's time we abandon those ridiculous “codes of conduct” in software projects and in tech events.
I have written why here:

https://github.com/gnab/remark/pull/398#issuecomment-2693399...
There were a couple attacks here in Canada just this year.

It's very rare but it happens.

One guy was dragged out of his tent by a wolf while camping with his two kids and wife. That's extremely rare.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wolf-attack-rampart-c...

There are also hunters that go missing in areas where there aren't known to be other predators. Some of those cases might be wolves.

There are also cases where we find the remains of a hunter surrounded by dead wolves that he'd shot in a savage fight to the death that he lost.

Again, it's rare. The most dangerous large mammal apart from us in North America is deer, because of people killed hitting them in cars or swerving to avoid them. More wolves might improve that.
Slightly off topic question, but I am curious about the total energy content off gravitational wave energy in the universe. Are there any estimates? Or a way to calculate it? Is this figure taken into account when calculating the total energy of the universe?
> but when millions are imprisoned in concentration camps in China they're kind of like "meh."

They just cry "RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION" and move on with their life thinking they saved the world. Modern day virtue signaling is the cancer which our society needs to figure out how to get rid of.
IIRC, the DS18B10 (like its cousins) does not return celsius multiplied by 10 (i.e., not '153' for 15.3°C), but returns a 7 bit integer celsius value plus a sign plus a few fractional bits -- by default 1 (i.e, a +-7.1 bit format), but maybe this device has a few more bits in a secondary register -- I remember using one that had four sub-celsius bits, i.e., would output 1/16 celsius steps (a +-7.4 bit value). In any case, not a value multiplied by 10, but a celsius unit with binary fractional bits.

Am I wrong? Looking for DS18B10 data sheet always gives me the DS18S20. Hmm, dunno.

Anyway, assuming a sign + 7 bits integer + 4 bits fractional format, you can calculate inside 16 bit signed without overflow with a 3-bit shifted 9/5 constant without overflowing, up to beyond 100°C. With a bit of shifting, the following is quite accurate:

int16_t celsius2fahrenheit(int16_t c)
{
int16_t f = 0;
f += c << 4;
f -= c;
f -= c >> 1;
f -= c >> 3;
f += c >> 5;
f += 32 << 7;
f >>= 3;
return f;
}

Accuracy:

C=0 (int: 0), F=32 (exact: 32, int: 512)
C=15.3 (int: 244), F=59.4375 (exact: 59.54, int: 951)
C=37 (int: 592), F=98.625 (exact: 98.6, int: 1578)
C=100 (int: 1600), F=212.062 (exact: 212, int: 3393)
Wouldn't Kotlin and Typescript provide many of these benefits on a much more mature ecosystem?
I think you're misinformed about how most corp VPNs work. Usually a default route is not pushed -- only corp resource routes are. So traffic for corp resources goes over the VPN, while all other traffic goes out the default gateway (your connection) as usual. This is nothing fancy, it's how routing tables on every IP device ever have always worked.
This doesn't work for people in the autistic spectrum. It will just tire you and frustrate you, you have been warned. As for others, I this advice might prove useful. I guess the solution is to look for an job that doesn't emphasize neurotypical personalities. Or just be straightfoward to the people you meet; not everyone has to fit the extrovert card.
It is absolutely an overstatement and people should be more careful with misrepresenting what the Rust language and ecosystem offers. Rust has its strengths just as Python does. None of the authors of the web frameworks are aspiring to build a Django or Flask like experience.
"Why" isn't such an obscure question that you need to explain what it means.
Why is perceptual uniformity (in each direction) less important for diverging colour maps? Used as a diverging map with zero at green, jet ramps up in intensity up to yellow/cyan, and then ramps down again. As a result it draws attention to mildly deviating areas.
‘Jay walking’ is such a bullshit term. ‘People trying to get across a road’ is what it is. Pedestrians should always have right of way.
If you want to print fast get a delta.
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But that never happened in these examples. Instead it was "the waymo car stopped and the pedestrian walked into it".
Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs
I looked it up since I was unfamiliar with the name (but familiar with the concept).

In case anyone is wondering -https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
There's ~1 fatality per 100 million miles driven.

It looks like you've calculated a rate, as there are about 110 annual deaths per million people.
My experiences with this suggest that “long” spans of time (weeks->years) follow the “smaller percentage of your life” principle. However, occasions “in the moment” get perceived according to the rules applicable for that moment:

- boring things: usually a slow dirge or filled with brief distractions

- novel things: either no sense of time passing, or a feeling of time going anywhere from slowly to “endless”

- mundane things: time passes “at a familiar rate”, but I remember fee details later
With a key difference:

"Your freedom of speech does not require me or your ISP to carry, propagate, or amplify your speech, whether for free or for pay."

Start to see the problem here, yet?
Can you put the same person for all of your choices?
Awesome news! While we will never get to perfection (Arrow’s theorem), there must be some measure on which ranked choice voting can be quantitatively compared to single-choice vote.

For instance, if you took the sets of all candidate pools and voters with all permutations of preferences 0-1 for each candidate and prior beliefs that each candidate will be voted for by others, by how much average preference does ranked-choice voting improve the situation?

Is it ever worse for aggregate preference to use ranked choice voting?
> the pedestrian blaming at least strikes me as a bit tone deaf. Of course, pedestrians can do really stupid things. But, generally speaking, drivers have a lot of responsibility to still avoid hitting them under most circumstances

Can you explain exactly what you think a driver is supposed to do to stop a pedestrian literally just walking into your stationary car?

If you’re responsible for avoiding that, you tell me what you would have done?
The public.

EDIT: and researchers.
You can use any image with a high frequency regular pattern. Wikipedia has the following example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moire_pattern_of_bricks_s....

Anything softer than area will help with those kind of issues (which is why the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing#/media/File:Moire_pat..., looks fine in most browsers even if your resize it). Bicubic tends to do better in this respect. It's a trade off though.
rank!=range; no, thanks.
Your comment is fully compatible with my comment above.
There used to be an agency assigned to collecting, analyzing, and publishing this information but that was changed in July by the administration in order to reduce the influence of the CDC and publication of negative information about the COVID-19 pandemic. From the article:

"It's very challenging for states to get the multistate view of things," she says. "It's just a lot easier when there's a knowledgeable third-party who can pull the data together, make them consistent across states and actually tell the story of what the information shows." Typically, she says, this role would be fulfilled by the CDC, but the agency was stripped of its role in collecting COVID-19 hospital data in July.
You can parse it with awk though.

https://github.com/Nomarian/Awk-Batteries/blob/master/Units/...

gawk -f $AWK/Units/csv.awk -e '{print NF}'
It happens. They are predators and we are relatively defenseless. Given enough motivation and circumstances, it will happen. Not an argument to destroy them, but we should base discussions on reality.

"The first fatal attack in the 21st century occurred on November 8, 2005, when a young man was killed by wolves that had been habituated to people in Points North Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada[46] while on March 8, 2010, a young woman was killed while jogging near Chignik, Alaska."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack
Simulated collision is an important stat. It shows how much improvement the AI needs to obtain to be on-par with a human driver.
Isn't that just an SMTP client?

You still need an SMTP server somewhere to connect to.
Now I understand the "baba is you" aesthetic!

It makes me feel that the things on the screen are not only alive, but also a little bit restless.
For the tutorial quality and UX scumminess typical of Medium, no, I don't want the $5(/month?) option. I'd prefer any of these options:

1) Free, non-scummy tutorial sample, with the rest offered for money, or

2) Free full tutorial with non-scummy ads/UX, or

3) Free full tutorial with the understanding that this is self-promotion and I should raise my evaluation of the author and seek to hire their other work.

Which of those do you feel is unjustifiably entitled?
That is not correct. I've had people complain they couldn't read my articles on Medium and I never took part in the partner program.
I grew up long after vacuum tubes were no longer a thing, but I did build a vacuum tube nightlight- certain tubes, when run, generate a lovely plasma glow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage-regulator_tube).
I'm really interested in eventually getting dekatrons working because of my initials and their utility.
Also rule based systems / manual decision trees can overfit :)
> that strongly indicates their simulation is not representative of reality.

If they take the common software testing approach where every time they discover a fault, they add a simulation that reproduces it alongside the code change that fixes it, we would expect the simulation to contain a great many scenarios where collisions don't occur.

Indeed, I would be more worried if they'd resorted to real-world testing before they'd solved the known problems their simulation had revealed.

Of course, whether quoting a number of simulated miles driven is relevant to anything is another question....
Is the concern that these nets might be trained in such as way as to infer the wrong thing in cities other than Phoenix?
That's a pretty ad hominum argument. Do you have anything to offer regarding the facts? If you think the gray wolf has not exceeded all conservation goals for recovery, what are the reasons?
I'm reminded of https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/18/7236471/cars-pedestria...
50% of graphics would be 100% better if we banned red/green color schemes and pie charts
I've read about most of these while diving down the rabbit hole on wiki on particle accelerators. It's all fascinating stuff and nice to see in one article. I never thought of it that way while reading, but yeah, I guess they are all vacuum tubes.
Are you suggesting that Waymo might not use machine learning? What do you imagine they do instead?
Thank you, great point. Totally forgot about the "kids" thing. Even people who aren't buying new explicitly for their kids might be justifying buying themselves a new one so they can hand down the old one :)
How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built
I thought we had discovered pacemaker cells over 20 years ago. I'd be very surprised if that didn't already factor into hypotheses of how episodic memory is ordered. Either this article is disingenuous, or neuroscience suffers from deep fragmentation that is hindering progress.

https://www.hhmi.org/news/researchers-discover-molecular-pac...
Let's assume that everything has a price, including one's adherance to a political philosophy.

Then isn't is obvious that people with a political philosophy of limited government would demand a higher payout to abandon the idea of limited government? And that people who favor government involvement would go along with government involvement even if they end up footing the bill?
What a lovely euphemism, "contact events."

I suppose Chernobyl was just a simple 'thermal event,' and we're only in the middle of a moderate 'disease spread elevation.'

EDIT: "Sorry boss, there was a ton of traffic on my commute. Seems there was a 27-vehicle 'spontaneous gathering' on the highway"
Fair enough. I did not read the actual paper. My bad.

>that was a person walking into a parked car (it's funny that they could measure the walking speed of the person at 2.7mph).

And heh. I can't say the car's likely at fault in that case although it may still have behaved in a way the pedestrian didn't expect. And as someone else noted, some of the language I was quoting was from The Verge. The actual report is much more just the facts.

To your broader point, a human driver could probably obey every traffic law and get into tons of at least minor accidents that would be technically the other driver's fault.
By making the car act more like people expect it to

From the paper (which doesn't really pedestrian-blame as GP suggests)

> In each instance, the Waymo vehicle had decelerated and stopped immediately prior to the contact or simulated contact in a way that may have differed from the cyclist’s or pedestrian’s expectations
> Yes, based on literally thousands of hours of video footage.

Well that's fantastic! Probabilities can be established for all sorts of in-game occurrences and the probability of this dude's game being legit or not.

Not only that, but the gamer ability can then be separated from the randomness of the game on any particular play! Are all the high scores the result of aberrations in the game, or because the player is just that great???
You are correct. the conversion to Celsius * 10 is done earlier on, because it is easy to optionally perform this conversion, and it's easy to render the various formats (positive/negative/DP,no DP) of it to the 7-segment display banks.

Also worth considering that I originally had no interest in fahrenheit (I live in the UK). This was done as an extra later on. Didn't want to poo the original implementation taking fahrenheit straight off the sensors.
Yeah, people's reactions to the mention of gaming on Linux is absolutely incredible. Everyone has basically just cached the same thought from several years ago. With Proton, every game that doesn't actively attempt to not work on Linux works pretty much just fine.
> I think the title of "47 events" is greatly misleading

If I understand correctly, it's not the title that's misleading but the term "simulation." They're only talking about simulating what would have happened if the safety driver didn't intervene in real life, not simulations generally. A better word would be predictions -- they predict that there would have been 47 events, but safety drivers were able to prevent the majority of them.
He could/should have addressed this back in the primaries. They were running stories about it. He said nothing.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/james-biden-health-...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-bi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukr...
From Go to Haskell and Svelte
That was a fun rabbit hole. I guess she retired today and gave the business to her staff! Congrats Ling!
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Even when crossing roads where the speed limit is 40MPH+?
If they want to keep those runs, seems like this could be solved with an Archive/Legacy tab or even better a checkbox for "Show unverifiable runs" that's unchecked by default.

That way a game isn't killed forever because an unverifiable run got a perfect score.
I don't think it is reasonable to compare other hostile environments to one where humans are literally incapable of being outside for extended periods of time. Even in harsh cold climates, it is possible to wear suitable clothing, or build a fire. That is simple, resilient, low tech and low carbon. Requiring a structure with AC and power is a much larger challenge.

Furthermore, a lot of the areas that will suffer from fatal wet bulb temperatures do not have the wealth to provide AC to everyone. This will drive mass migrations of people on a scale we have never seen before, destabilizing neighbouring countries (or more likely, leading to mass murder).

Finally, this is another positive feedback loop: more AC required -> more energy required -> more severe global warning.
Wouldn't it increase the odds of an extreme and/or single issue candidate winning?

I mean isn't the point of it that a 3rd party candidate would have a more viable shot at winning?

Though I suppose it would also better express the voters' will if those 3rd party candidates still lost.
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I'm from an area where pedestrians have the right of way everywhere, so this isn't reassuring.
Yes, that is how life works.

I have a fence around my garden/orchard. It is tall enough to keep the deer out, electrified to keep the bears out, netted to keep the birds out - but ground squirrels leave me no choice but to eliminate them from the area.

If they would stay away, I wouldn't have to "murder" them. At least they don't go to waste, there are plenty of hungry things out there to move them up the food chain!
It's great to see actual data reported since so many AV companies hide it behind as many walls and fluffy press releases as possible. I think this speaks to the maturity of Waymo's system at this point. Two key paragraphs for me personally:

"The most common type of crash involving Waymo’s vehicles was rear-end collisions. Waymo said it was involved in 14 actual and two simulated fender-benders, and in all but one, the other vehicle was the one doing the rear-ending."

-> This is consistent with previous reports from Waymo. If one of their vehicles gets in an accident, it's extremely likely that the other (human) driver was at fault. Of course, this is somewhat compounded by the fact that Waymo vehicles actually try to follow road laws like attempting to stop for yellow lights and making full stops at stopsigns, which human drivers often don't do (and may not expect other vehicles to do).

"The one incident where Waymo rear-ended another vehicle was in simulation: the company determined that the AV would have rear-ended another car that swerved in front of it and then braked hard despite a lack of obstruction ahead — which the company says was “consistent with antagonistic motive.” (There have been dozens of reports of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles being harassed by other drivers, including attempts to run them off the road.)"

-> This doesn't surprise me really, but is still pretty sad. Many drivers are just assholes and AVs are going to be an easy target for such people.
You're absolutely right. Total brain fart and it's too late for me to correct it with an edit.
They wouldn't break the story. They're news division is covering the fact that a story exists, not the underlying story.

Their talking heads on the other hand...
No, I understand they use NNs for object classification and so forth, but compare their approach to Tesla, where the overall architecture is camera → a miracle → steering actuators. It seems from the outside that Waymo relies less on the black box.
Ive been hunting my whole life. I've still yet to encounter someone who did it for the 'killing'. It's about fresh food, cultural traditions, and conservation. The modern hunter does more for the environment than most who sit behind a computer all day. You should take a intro course on hunting and understanding the carrying capacity of an environment impacts how tags are issued.

Sidenote => I also love to fish. I find it odd how much flak hunting gets over fishing. I guess people feel a stronger bond to an animal vs a tuna.
If it's open source the unit tests are often the best place to start for examples
I haven't but seems like a threat to the two-party system and those invested in it.
If a consequence of the review were to be the E9 / founder resigning — and resigning publicly and noisily — then yes: I’d do it over the phone.
I doubt they'd blindly deploy in another city with a network trained entirely in Phoenix. That's not something even an amateur MLE would do.
I still don't understand "in simulation", though, because of this line:

> But the company highlighted eight incidents that it considered “most severe or potentially severe.” Three of these crashes occurred in real life and five only in simulation. Airbags were deployed in all eight incidents.
Super cool, his/her other projects are pretty rad too