skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other suggest revenue source; but I think it's simply because it's easiest to enforce and least prone to personal judgement given it's based on strict numerical limits.

Unsafe driving (braking distance, crossing lines, holding a cell phone) should be as good or even better revenue sources, but they are more difficult to enforce automatically. While nowadays there would be tech for implementing that, historically it has not been so, so the momentum of the history is perhaps making advancements slow?

There were some new cameras introduced here some time back which were advertised to be able to have quality sufficient to detect that seat belts and cell phones: but still, pictures were taken only when exceeding the speed limit, so those factors could not be used as the primary source.
That was super fascinating. I had no idea these existed.

People are getting automated messages of Mozilla Mac builds being complete during the disaster.

I was 16 when this happened so I had no idea pagers were used like this. Sort of how push messages or chatops is used today. To aide developers or ops people with notifications.
Make sure you have the "critical path" in focus and have/create a plan to go along it. "Easy things are easy" and you can do them along the way as side projects. It's tempting to do bike shedding. Manage risks and uncertainties. Though all this requires you to be senior and well experienced and some companies just don't hire these kinds of people, because they are too expensive.
Deep learning is very different to, but feels to me like the way you work with Prolog.
I regularly stumble on POGSAG form hospitals/ are homes/logistics places. They throw a lot of credentials around.
Demaking in the Year of Next Gen
There likely was but I can’t remember any specifics.
I think they meant 'tiny' in terms of uptake/traction.
Yes, I suppose there are extremes and I've had a similar experience although, regarding the original link, I find it difficult to believe it possible to kill 3 donkeys in one go by driving at a sensible speed in such circumstances?
Anything involving fines needs to be absolutely 100% infallible. Taking a speed reading then the plate leaves a lot of loopholes.

I don't think any speed operation would work unless the car has been sighted, number plate read and speed detected simultaneously.
> My main point is that the spin is so strong (...)

There is no spin. It was a violent riot. There is no way around it.

Oddly enough, you're the one trying to spin the news to somehow hide the violent nature of the protest, and instead pretend it was just a few people mildly annoyed for having half they paycheck stolen by their employer.

I get it, you feel that the focus on the violent protests shifts the attention away from the salaries being stolen by the employer. Yet, are you really doing any favours by trying to spin away the resulting violence and brush it under the rug? Think about it. Do you believe that the kind of people who feels empowered to steal half the paycheck from all their employees is the kind of people who get bothered by the resulting mild annoyance? Or do you believe that having to face direct consequences in the form of.violent actions directed at them is a more effective way of ensuring this abuse is dissuaded?
Nice tool to play with! Unfortunately, it freezes if you have lots of drawings
All modern police forces are modelled to some extent on Robert Peel's ideas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles). That includes to some extent the US police as well. The notion that US police just go around slinging guns around like some gun toting cowboys (while it does happen) is propaganda.

The police in the UK can be just as corrupt and inept. However there is a need for armed police in the UK. Just go to live leak or any of the clip sites and you can find all the videos where there are 10 officers trying to take down one maniac with a machete on a council estate with harsh language and pepper spray.
Going by the operationalistic idea of the article, which I interpret as duck typing, I think the key operations that can be applied to programmes are building them, running them, and measuring the build and results of the programme with respect to a certain goal. This applies both to a traditional programme, and to deep learning. Programmes are after all written to satisfy human needs, even if it is an obfuscated C contest.

For instance, imagine you have a black box that observes the horse races, Twitbook, the betting market and so on, and based on those observations executes bets for you with a bookmaker. The execution of the orders has a measurable effect on your net worth.

You might write a traditional programme which takes all of this data, and based on some ETL, statistical models and probability calculations, executes orders.

You might do some ETL, plug it all into a neural network, tune it and execute orders based on the results.

Your traditional programme is very complex, and combinations of small bugs may have large effects on the results. Your unit and integration tests may themselves be wrong. Formal testing possibly reduces the expected value of the system and is an arse to carry out for any large system. The expected value of the system itself becomes harder to reason about as the system grows, based on the operation of reading and understanding the code.

The internals of your neural network are also difficult to reason about in some ways. It is difficult to understand the workings of your neural network and specific parts' effects on the measured effects of its output. It will take time to tune it and build the most profitable model.

Both implementations of the black box may be backtested, and some sort of trust can be established over the expected value of each implementation. Both implementations allow the operations of running, and measuring the results of running. Both implementations are difficult to reason about in various ways.

We are perfectly happy to give money to people for them to do things without fully understanding their inner thoughts and the processes behind those thoughts.

Which is the golden duck?
You've just described the world's attitude to Coronavirus.
Speeding might get you through the lights before they turn red, though. A bad luck red sequence might altogether be avoided with some speeding. You might include "old green" in this as well, different regions have a different time from you getting red to others getting green.

Red lights themselves could often be somewhat safely ran through with some attention and a fast-accelerating vehicle—slow down first, check directions, etc. Preferably in particularly paying attention to pedestrians..
As security person I run stuff in command line as many tools are there and they really are mostly scripts. I don't really need to do much shell magic to do stuff. If I actually need something special I will write a python script.
Would this really be better as a REST API with SQL backend? I don't think so, it would be the same at best.
> out of the candidates I can remember only one was focused on society and how we can make it better.

Sounds like you encountered one earnest type?

I tried to think of contemporary examples but I couldn’t think of any that would be universally admired. That got me thinking about the meaning of “earnestness” and then I wondered whether I might have conflated it with “virtuous” too much in my own conception.

I suppose it’s just as possible to be earnestly libertarian as it is to be earnestly egalitarian.

There might be as many earnest members of the NRA as there are earnest members of the NAACP and the ACLU.

Fact checking aside, who do you think is more earnest, 45 or 44?

43 or 42?

Your football teams QB or your opponent’s?
Always use a virtual card for this. This way you can tell in advance how much can be drawn max and the expiration date. And even if their database is compromised it won't work elsewhere.
> There is usually not a "perfect" structure, rather there are hardware, energy and time constraints to training and inference, balanced by over and under training the network.

The same can be said about complex simulations. The difference lies in knowing and being able to determine the limits of the system and the verification process.

In a simulation we can derive the accuracy of our model from parameters like numerical precision and -stability, coarseness and model used. In other words we know the function we want to model because we state it explicitly.

Neural nets can model any function and the challenge is to extract the learned function from the trained network, to examine its limits and correctness. This is what I understood the author meant by the "operational" viewpoint.

We can verify that a given network architecture combined with a given optimisation function will find a local minimum w.r.t a given set of training data. This can be verified and tested.

What's not so easy to verify and test, however, are the properties of the modelled function as well as the function itself. That's why we still have to rely on proxies like error metrics on fixed datasets or failure cases.

With a simulation on the other hand, we can easily control and predict the (quality of the-) outcome by manipulating well understood parameters (number of iterations, coarseness of the simulation, numerical precision, etc.).

I picked simulations as an example, because many other classes of program can be verified using formal methods since the desired results are usually known beforehand. Again, just another reason why the author talks about a distinction in terms of operations, not the fundamental type of programming.

I find this to be a very interesting and thought provoking idea.
List of answers for 'what top talks/videos all designers should watch?'
I wanted to create a list for answers to this tweet: https://twitter.com/joulee/status/1337103397112086528
As a computer vision engineer, I feel "rarely" quickly changes to "most probably" for a lot of the problems we work on.
Um no, they don't.

That is called defaulting. There is an entire section about how the FCC claws back all the money and then some more for penalties.
PG created Hacker News (and wrote its code, and was the primary moderator for a long time, setting the tone).
My brother's car was destroyed on the side of the road in a hit and run incident and even after finding the uninsured car that did it via friends in the know the police wouldn't do anything at all.

Just like most organisations common sense is gone and it's all about following regular protocols etc.
Not sure this applies only to eastern cultures, when someone does this to me I think they're more concerned about making me feel heard than actually hearing me. If I'm saying something I assume you're listening, if suddenly you show me that your first order concern in the conversation is to show you're listening rather than immediately engage, it generally comes across as calculating. Just engage directly with the subject and apologise if you misunderstand.
As someone who actually remembers seeing policemen on the beat I can tell you it was a million miles away from "fear mongering".
I think most companies just have an automatic filter against adult content, even if it might be harmless. Just like the constant oppression of sex industry workers by the rest of the services industry.
The job of the WHO is not to hold member states accountable during a pandemic, it's to provide support, services and intergovernmental collaboration. To share learnings. To provide their expertise to those involved. It's to provide health care to the poor and to share understanding.

They're not "cowering" to a country that provides them a teensy tiny fraction of their operation budget. Not to mention, they're not the "Health Police," they're doctors and epidemiologists.

The WHO has a ton of credibility. They've only been mocked by people spreading misinformation guided by their personal political beliefs. They certainly aren't the ones humiliating themselves.

If you want someone to hold China accountable for... honestly, there's no clear evidence the state of China did literally anything right now... take it up with the UN Security Council. You don't get mad at your doctor for the flu existing, and you don't get mad at the WHO for doing their jobs.
Yarvin isn't even associated with urbit any longer, is he? Last I heard he'd retired.
In other European countries where it's also illegal to just fine the owner rather than the actual driver, the police sends an official inquiry about who was driving the car at the time. Providing false information or refusing to provide information at all is punishable by law, you have to name someone and take responsibility for the veracity of that information. The owner is legally responsible for knowing who is driving their car at all times, with the exception of the car being stolen.

In practice this just leads to a lot of penalty points or license suspensions for the 80 year old (grand)parents, or anyone who has a license but never drives.
In Alberta, Canada, speed camera tickets are treated more like parking tickets (at least last time I checked which was quite a while ago). They are issued to the owner of the car. There are no license penalty points, however, as they don't even attempt to identify the driver.
I find it hard to believe as well. However without knowing specifics it would be impossible to judge fairly.
These were some hardcore hackers.
Reminded me of Doug Lea‘a classic reference on memory allocation http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
Lol, FB and Google constantly fib about their ad results. As long as I create an Ad dashboard with cool features that marketing managers in companies love (with graphs, BS metrics, etc), I'm sure I'll have tons of buyers.
My experience is very different.

I have a standard install of chrome on big sur, as well as brave, and a bunch of electron apps. When I start up my mac none of these are running, there is no process with chrome or chromium in the name, and nothing in the process list that I can link back to chrome. When I launch some of the electron apps, chrome_crashpad_handler launches, which I assume is some kind of default electron behavior. When I close those apps, all chrome-related processes disappear from my process list. There is nothing untoward about chrome I can tell, nor is my system seeing any kind of recognizable slowdown, with or without chrome running. I also have chrome on very low-end macs, a 2009 mini with 8 GB ram and a 2014 air with 4 GB RAM, both running catalina. It runs fine on both, without seeming to cause particular performance issues. I just went through a reinstall of the 2009, and there was no performance difference before and after installing chrome.

I'm not saying yours or other people's bad experiences with chrome are not real, but I do wonder how it's possible that there are such very different experiences out there with what is ostensibly the same product. Maybe it's not just one cause: bad extensions, broken profiles, old installs with broken updaters (I had a broken microsoft updater causing havoc for a while), badly configured enterprise deployments, etc...
Even without Brexit it is illegal for a British resident to drive a foreign-registered car on British roads. Though the law is rarely enforced, it does exist. Many EU countries have similar laws- and yes, they do apply to cars registered in other EU countries.

Actually banning foreign-registered cars driven by non-residents from the roads would require withdrawing from international conventions that long predate the EU, and result in British tourists abroad not being able to drive a rental car until they pass a local driving test...
How come the next best protein folding software is proprietary, then?
Many of us make the assumption that Paul Graham's essay, discussed here, is partly in response to Zach Tellman's criticism, which was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716

The footnote, in particular, which Tellman highlights, seems to be a swipe at Tellman. It reads as Graham accusing Tellman of not being earnest.

A "Renaissance man" is an old phrase, referring to someone who is good at many things (since Renaissance people like DaVinci were good at art, engineering, architecture and more). Tellman was making a joke about the laundry list of vices that Graham seemed to be imputing to Tellman.

Not that the whole essay is in response to Tellman, but, the idea that Tellman's essay was on Graham's mind seems likely, especially when Graham makes the crack about Twitter.
Not even remotely true. The world has responded with "lockdowns", "masks", and more, which is the result of an unprecedented, 100 year class event, that being a pandemic.

Your comment isn't really about normality, but instead about an extreme edge case scenario. The only thing worse than a pandemic, might be nuclear war, a massive nuclear accident, or large-scale disaster.

Normality need not be conflated with actions during emergency scenarios.

Lastly -- imagine if people DID engage in more, "only affected themselves' risky behaviour. It would mean more hospital visits, therefore more hospital capacity, more doctors/nurses/etc etc, which would mean more ability to absorb and deal with large scale emergency issues.
> Economics isn't a science

Why not? Human trade is a natural phenomenon, and economics is the study of its structure and behavior. I don't see why that couldn't be a science.

Now if you mean to say that we're far from understanding it properly, or that there's little it has yet allowed us to apply for practical needs, maybe. But I'm not following the "it's not a science" bit.

Edit: Oh, or you are criticizing that the current practice isn't properly using the scientific method for it.
Haskell Object Observation Debugger
That's wildly different from making everything publicly available.
> Except in science the last author of the paper is the most significant one.

In medicine usually. Not all disciplines follow this order.
2021 Draft Finance Bill: Tax Incentives for Innovative Startups
Since it's so unlikely, I guess most manufacturers haven't even tested it.
Where did HP step out of the path that changed their reputation? Was there a crucial decision where they made the "wrong choice"?
We do not have average speed cameras in Sweden and I hope we never will. The privacy implications of taking a photograph of everyone, process "who they are" (reg plate, generally driven by family member) is horrifying.
There are situations in which that might be dangerous. On the other hand cars could be fixed (via the chip) with external and internal warning signals to show the world and driver that a speed limit has been exceeded. This might constitute a psychological barrier to breaking the limit when everyone around you knows you're in the wrong.
> Seems odd to me that Govt's struggle to raise revenue via normal taxes when they have a large pool of stupid people they could raise extra money from?

Extracting money from drivers was one of the causes of community tension in Fergusson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqskm

> Are excessive traffic fines and debtors' jails fuelling community tensions in suburban Missouri? Claire Bolderson reports on a network of ninety separate cities in St Louis County, most of which have their own courts and police forces. Critics say that their size makes them financially unviable and allege that some of them boost their incomes by fining their own citizens and locking them up when they can't pay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25404875
I think he means the people running casinos etc., not the gamblers.
The article in question deals with this quite a bit. Even though he has retired, he still has a large amount of control over the project in terms of the virtual property that he owns.
I came across an interactive debugger for Haskell in a talk about someone's PhD research a few years ago where it was possible to traverse the graph and interactively eliminate possibilities. Could anyone tell me what the name is?
On my second Panasonic after over 15 years of making bread at home. Highly dependable and pretty much guaranteed a good loaf every time.
That's really cool, I've been building ActivityWatch (https://activitywatch.net) that shares similar goals.

It's an open-source "screen time" that stores everything locally, and supports (optionally) using a browser extension to gather browsing data.
It might, or it might not. Nobody's saying the WIV created this virus de novo, they studied it in the lab. That meant they of course found it out in the wild, and collected samples. There existing cases in the wild doesn't preclude the involvement of the WIV. Although, again, there's no evidence the WIV is involved.
Why is getting elected proof of intelligence? We literally elected the guy that convinced an overwhelming number of uneducated people that he was going to build a wall to keep the illegals from stealing their jobs.
I think you're being overly optimistic regarding human behaviour, I'm doubtful more training will massively change how reckless people will be. That's not to say I'm against the idea

I'd be interested to see the evidence removing limits reduces accidents, I should imagine there'd be lots of data for roads that have had their speed limits reduced.
Maintainer terrorism? Can we keep this discussion rational.
All I know about Zach Tellman is that he has a different definition for 'renaissance man' than I do.
You validated all of them yourself?
Probably either a robot did it, or they clicked the wrong flag button.
That “Cli Guideline” seems to be written by people who are enarmored with terrible shells like Bash.
Not clear on what you are trying to say, the point I am making is today companies bow to public opinion, and the actions of companies spread fast
> Not in Germany it doesn’t. Only the actual driver can be found guilty of speeding, even by speed-camera.

-Same in Norway - ticket is sent to registered owner by default, if s/he contests the claim, s/he is summoned to the local police and shown the photo. If s/he claims not to know who drove the car or refuse to identify the driver, the police may investigate if it's a slow day in the office - say, call you for a formal interrogation (during which you are legally obliged to provide truthful answers or else get slapped for obstruction of justice), compare the speedcam photo to other members of your household &c.

In short, the owner of the vehicle will never be on the hook for a speeding ticket with unknown driver - but is required to assist the police in finding out who the offender is.

Two identical twins back where I grew up claimed to have gamed this system on numerous occasions - claiming they couldn't remember which brother had driven the car on the day in question.

After all, refusing to cooperate is a crime. Not remembering isn't.
At least in NYC, the experience has been that you don't need extremely punitive fines to see the improvement in behavior.

NYC generally saw revenues decline after the initial installment of more cameras as drivers adjusted behavior: https://bklyner.com/revenue-camera-enforcement-nyc-sheepshea... The fine is only $50.
They're pretty common around London.
Honestly it is quite obvious that the writer of the article has issues with fringe politics and people of differing opinion not only that but they don’t even explain Urbit but instead waste the readers time on yelling “muh nathzees” look I disagree and dislike some of his ideas and don’t care about the rest of them and he has only said a couple good things from what I know but being dishonest about a tech project he isn’t involved on anymore is pathetic so perhaps the author should stop being dishonest and giving people he doesn’t like free publicity?
A friend of mine was traveling across france on a motorcycle (this was decades ago) and one day had to get home to england quite quickly. So he got on the tollway and went quickly. But apparently they checked entrance and exit times on the tickets and would calculate your speed, so he "lost" his ticket and paid the max cost to be safe. I guess it worked.