skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6 second 0-60 isn't that hard to hit, and doesn't need anything like 650 bhp, even on a larger frame.

Unless you are sub 3s, mostly what you need is a bit of torque lower in the range, and a suspension & tires that can deliver it to the road. This, along with transmission ratios, trades off against other things people often want in their cars.

hp above 300ish is mostly about what happens (or doesn't happen) at triple digit speeds, at least for regular passenger vehicles not towing large loads. The latter is all about torque available at what range but that can push you into higher hp territory.
I think he left (for all practical purposes) to focus on AGI now. There were rumors he didn’t like the way fb execs were planning of taking oculus. Think he’s still an advisor or similar, but spends his good time no longer there
I do this while programming. Very very low transparency. To see status/output. of windows behind.

Hmm, I guess I don't do this anymore. Since getting giant 4k TV/monitor. So, guess it had use in constrained screen realstate times
This shows the limitations of ML: facebook has incredible amounts of preference & behaviour data on its users; and can't even meet incredibly generic categories such as "high-earner, college educated, etc.".

The reason we think we're in an "AI" boom is 90% these ad. companies hyping their own abilities (an identical strategy to that of the initial boom in the 50s).

What we call "AI" today is just an associative house of cards which gives the illusion of depth when seen from a very narrow viewing angle.
You missed a good deal. Prior to cyberpunks release if you pre ordered they gave you a controller and a chromecast for free (retail is $100). It got me hooked. Since then I bought red dead 2 and octopath traveler. Playing on an iPad in bed is nice.
Hmm, interesting. I have always thought of it as a kettle lake. But you're right! There is a strong argument for endorheic basic.
very napkin as we don't know how good their engines are. For small and thus low efficient jet engines - with exhaust velocity of anywhere between 500-1000m/s and with the 1:50 fuel/air ratio one has to burn 40-80g/s to get 200kg thrust. Thus a 1000s of flight takes 40-80kg of fuel.
I think they confuse things by calling it a “writing app”. It can be used for that, but it’s more of a note taking app. It competes with Notion and Roam, not iA Writer really.
No, there really isn't. There are apps that I've bought through the App Store, some of which I actually use at work, and I don't really see value in "avoiding" apps just because they're in the App Store. But most of what I use is outside it, and if an app is available both inside and outside -- as many are -- I usually get the direct sale one.

(While I shouldn't speak for the OP, I'm a little suspicious that this is the "Big Brother Apple is going to lock down macOS just like iOS" narrative popping up again.)
Elephants and other animals don't leave graves. They just die and decompose on the surface. That's why you won't easily find a graveyard for animals, unless they happen to be buried by some accident.
I’m so glad I don’t use GoDaddy. What a scummy company.
fossil record not fossil fuel
Curry Triangle
> all their skeletons should be somewhere in the fossil record

Why do you think this? It is not a true statement.

Not all skeletons get fossilised - it requires a fairly particular set of conditions. It may be (likely is according to the people studying it) the case that males got into these conditions more frequently than females.
I will add that a marvelous thing in all of From's games is that there is essentially no filler content. Every enemy (encounter) you meet is different in some way from every other, it's always challenging you in a slightly different way. There may be reused ideas between the games, but within a single game, you're never on clear a path of just doing more of the same. This is something almost no other company even seems to be trying, while From is constantly succeeding at it.
That’s certainly possible, but if so it wasn’t something I had personal contact with enough to register that it happened. And I definitely knew what those terminals were, so I’m pretty certain I would have noticed that “oh, hey! A real VT220!”
Ugh... The type hierarchy of Python is painfully intertwined with the implementation of its type system. That implementation varies by Python implementation, and since the Python language is as old as Visual Basic, Borland Pascal, Werther's caramels, and trilobites, it varies dramatically over time. Add to that the fact that Python has a philosophy of wearing leaky abstractions proudly on its sleeve and barfing implementation-level details at its users.

Python really is one of the most complex, arbitrary, and poorly abstracted languages in popular use. I have no idea how anyone lives with it for anything except writing extremely repetitive, formulaic, and superficial code, because having to dig into its guts feels like a nightmare. Even Java's type system, as antiquated and simplistic as it is, is easier to understand and work with by comparison.
Customers furious as E.On takes payments too early
I don't know, I have mixed feelings on this - with all the captcha, cloudflare gatekeeping, amp link, Facebook "free basic" and so much tracking and ads, the internet seems to be on a downhill slope so much ...
I don't know if Pinker attributes this (or if he independently came up with the observation), but the quote relates to Moravec's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
Could be Tom Cruise? Noted crazy stunt person, has been known to live in LA, has access to money, crazy stunt films to virally promote.
The almost carbon copy of Star Wars to Eragon really changed my perception of the series.
You're not wrong. HN crowd is known for having a majorly US centric view.

The country where a teen can get bullied if their messages show up green on iMessage. [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150211/05455029985/green...
Can you explain why it's in the public's interest for Google's ad targeting (and search results, since the two are isomorphic) to be worse?
If this is the definition of ransomware then I was indeed incorrect. I understood ransomware to be "threatens to perpetually block access to data" only.
Tired of bugs in products you use every day? Report them and make them count
Emulation is 100% legal as long as the BIOS for the emulated system and any game ROMs are sourced from legal systems/copies iirc
The white, male patriarchy!
In summary, they failed the test.
Command Design Pattern in Go
I just read all of this. I think the whole course -- which is actually pretty short, like an hour or two of reading sans exercises, and for the most part clearly written -- would be a good assignment for a single day of a first-year university computer science course. It does offer a reasonable, albeit almost entirely nontechnical, overview of why people should care about AI ethics, and what caring about it "means".

As for my reaction to it, I'll borrow a useful distinction the course makes near the beginning about three types of ethics:

> 1) Meta-ethics studies the meaning of ethical concepts, the existence of ethical entities (ontology) and the possibility of ethical knowledge (epistemology). 2) Normative ethics concerns the practical means of determining a moral (or ethically correct) course of action. 3) Applied ethics concerns what a moral agent (defined as someone who can judge what is right and wrong and be held accountable) is obligated or permitted to do in a specific situation or a particular domain of action.

In this language, the course is almost entirely about 1) with a few gestures in the direction of 2) and 3) near the end. I'm not totally unsympathetic to this; there are still people out there who are not convinced AI (or algorithmic) ethics is a "thing" (response: any apparatus that makes choices that matter involves ethics!), so I get why justifying the topic itself seems necessary.

But in the other direction, I think people sometimes conflate "ethicist" with "person who will know what to do" -- that is, someone with expertise in 2) and 3) above. In my limited experience, ethicists seem to "work on" mostly 1). I hope there will be more work on the 2) and 3) parts of AI ethics in the near future.

By the way, if you want a more technical look at this topic (albeit framed more narrowly as "fairness and machine learning"), there is a nice draft textbook on the topic [1]. It probably has enough material for a semester-long upper-level computer science course.

[1] https://fairmlbook.org/
Later they offer this:

>> This wasn’t a surprise, based on what Pečnerová had theorized about mammoth herd behavior, since bison social structure similarly isolates young males. “By [the mammoth] anology, some of the male bison are going off and doing stupid things,”

Which could be interpreted as misandry even though they blame the males for their fate in the same sentence. :-)
If the news sites want to display a different version of their sites via logged-out experience, that's one thing.

If they are sending the full article HTML to your browser, allowing it to fully display for several seconds, before covering it up with a paywall div/iframes, it should be fair use for you to view what you've already downloaded to your computer.

The plugin simply acts like as a sieve on the client-side to filter the covered-up HTML to the front.

You can already circumvent paywalls by using text-based browsers like Lynx.

That's like if a magazine company sends you a copy of their magazine in the mail. You already got it in the mailbox. And they put on the cover of the magazine: "If you don't agree to subscribing, don't read this and throw it in the trash, or mail it back to us."

Many ISPs have recently started charging for bandwidth usage. I have to pay for the data that I consume. They are forcing me to pay unwillingly for data usage by click-baiting me into wanting to view the article, then displaying the full article for several seconds, then covering it up with HTML divs.

The companies have the technological capabilities based on browser cookie info to send me a redacted version of their site. They should just do that.
The elephant graveyard thing is actually a myth; elephants do not seek out some specific location when they sense death is near. In fact, one of the theories I’ve heard for how this myth got started was European explorers coming across sites where the local elephant hunters stockpiled their bones and ivory, and assumed this was a natural phenomenon.
> "Fuck Facebook." Great, don't use it.

I agree, but sometimes you just cannot. In facebook case - it basically killed most of internet forums as people switched to facebook groups. My experience is with car restoration/old car aficionados forums that were replaced by fb groups, but I'm sure it also aplies to other.
So now you cannot find anything as they are not indexed by google, facebook search just sucks and if you set up you own forum then people just don't use it as it's "to much hassle" to open one more tab. And if you're in market for some exotic part fb is your only choice nowdays.
Second thing, I don't remember where (maybe here?) I've read article how guy missed his childhood friend's funeral, because he has no faceboook account, and it was the only way that family informed his friends - by posting on fb that he died.
Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)
I'm wondering if there is a difference between gas and electric. Of course, you can burn food and generate smoke on both, but I think just heating things up with electricity will by default produce less pollution (and yes, before any smart alecks chime in, my house is powered by renewable energy).
This is a nice and comprehensive article about the typography of NGE: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.
I seem to recall some thing about when major companies pulled their advertising from YouTube over affiliation with hate speech, some notice that their sales did not decline. Does anyone know how advertising impact is measured online? It seems like a leap of faith every time.
Possible? Yes. Probable? No. The Air Force has a thousand better places to test such a prototype, should it exist.
They’ve been like this for ages, too, and there are so many better competitors.
facebook removed the blue verified tick from apple official page on facebook.

the page has 13 million+ followers.
I'm surely not the only one who read this as 'tendies'...
> I can't think of many stand-out moments in it

To me, the `La Marseillaise` scene[1] is incredibly powerful. The crowd trying to out-sing the German soldiers with the French national anthem, and the sheer raw emotion of the scene. Amazing character moments from Ricky, Victor, and Illsa.

I haven't looked into the veracity, but the legend around the scene is that most of the extras in the bar were French refuges - and the emotion of the scene was very much present on set. Casablanca was filmed during the height of WW2, and came out in 1942, so it does seem plausible.

Louis's brief "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" - Handed a pile of his winnings by the croupier - "Oh, thank you very much." exchange [2] is also a fantastically memorable comedic exchange.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeFhSzoTuc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
> Breaking Bad last season

I actually thought BB went downhill and quit mid-way through the last season, but I understand I'm in the minority.
> Or retina displays.

More pixels only addresses the blurriness caused by a display's low resolution. The other side of the problem is the limitations and quirks of human vision, which require a different set of adjustments to increase legibility at small sizes. And arguably, increasing resolution can make everything smaller (esp. if there isn't a 'High DPI' setting, and so makes the size problem even more urgent.

The design adjustments needed by icons at small sizes are closely related to optical sizing in fonts (increasing x-height, lower contrast, heavier weight, large terminals and serifs are shrunk, small ones enlarged, etc.), except that an icon's topology ofyen needs to change as well.

A simple example is that if a large icon features a 3x4 grid as a design element, at small sizes it may need to be a 2x3 grid instead, the point being that the grid-ness of the design element is the important part, not the specific number of rows and columns.

Other design elements may just need to be removed entirely (such as digits or division markers on a clock face).

These sorts of 'optical icon adjustments' (I'm not aware of any other term for them) are really important for icons, perhaps more important than optical adjustments to fonts, since icons are less familiar and so are harder to recognize.

In summary, increasing the resolution of the display only solves half the problem (and often makes the other half harder).
The burden is on you to prove why this could possibly be better for any single person, ever.
Is it possible there were just a lot more males?
I saw a program once about elephants that showed that they carried around the bones of the revered loved ones in their mouths. Maybe the males were not as revered or maybe they tended to die in spots that it was dangerous to get to carry away their bones.
There are instances of humans assembling mammoth bones into some sort of structure: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-ho...

> 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths

According to the article, similar albeit smaller structures have also been found across Eastern Europe.
> No central server to setup or required, period.

Someone should let every single person and organization that uses git know about this!
I don't understand how they could miss on 'interest'. Isn't this literally just based on what you 'like'? That shouldn't require advanced ML, just a simple JOIN!
Yeah it’s very exciting to work on the best ways to spread misinformation, incite division and ruin democracy. Or maybe they’re pulled in by the charismatic CEO-bot?
I absolutely hate the UConnect software/entertainment systems in Dodge/Chrysler models, not sure how much this is/was from Daimler though. AFAIK they've relatively recently switched to Android Mobile systems, but I haven't tried them.

It's hard to believe that nobody came up with a good/open AV integration for mobile/smart phones a decade ago. Gotta love proprietary interfaces that stop getting updates 2 years in for a car that should last 10+ years at least.
There are Apple stores in 25 countries, and engineering locations in 14 countries.

People use all Apple all over the world. The iPhone is massively popular in all wealthy countries and the MacBook dominates amongst developers in almost all of them.
Oh man this is so exciting!

We've been looking for content to help bootstrap https://pianogym.com

If you're not familiar with Piano Gym - We're an independent content creation and learning platform for Piano that uses flash cards and spaced repetition to smooth out all the hard parts of deliberate practice for learning Piano!

You can see a beta demo video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmSM4RB1NI

One of the biggest issues we've had has been getting teachers to create content for us, but with this kind of open content, that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore!

Come and check out Piano Gym if you're interested! We'd love to have you in the gym with us!

Come and do your reps!
Pung: A fully untrusted private communication system
Fitbit has this slice of data but they are unable to combine it with any other slices of data. Google has all of the other data. Google acquiring Fitbit is Google purchasing health data. Fitbit is unable to acquire that data on their own, and they shouldn't be able to. No one should have ALL of that data.
I think when you consider Mark Zuckerberg’s view of you and I, and the world at large, it makes sense.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1299158-fake-mark-zuckerberg...
You understand that all these brokerages are in fact required to disclose many of these details already, and that the SEC pursued Robinhood not because of the details of its PFOF arrangements but because of what it's marketing materials said, right? In what way are the current disclosures in inadequate? I'm prepared to hear that they are, but maybe less sanguine about a thread about how the big problem is you didn't know about them.
I disagree. If you take one of the examples mentioned in said MOOC, which is the bias in word embeddings that makes vector arithmetic go from "doctor" to "nurse" if you replace "male" by "female".

I agree that it would be nice if the returned vector would be "doctor" in both cases but the embedding code (the implementation) or the embedding algorithm (theory) have no idea about gender, ethics or moral.

Here the bias comes from the datasets the AI trained on.

The bias of those datasets comes from society writing texts in a biased way.

So the solution to fixing this "bias" is fixing the language used in society which is not an AI problem nor a dataset problem.
Or about where the mass in a tree comes from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCHb6xtqeY
I can't imagine that even the less technical, typically less privacy concerned public, is going to have much sympathy for Facebook disliking Apple's move to put privacy controls in users hands. In fact considering the political bipartisan dislike for Facebook at the moment, I can't help but see this as outright counter productive.

A better PR move would have been to say "We are always seeking ways to put the reins of control withing users hands, and are happy to see that Apple has similar goals. At the same time we will educate users on the value of working with Facebook on the benefits heightened user experience when Facebook is able to generate custom content and tailored user experiences"

Lies and generalities sure, but at least it isn't shooting themselves in the foot.
I watch from Safari on an iPhone with an ad blocker and I rarely see ads
Obligatory XKCD... https://xkcd.com/927/

[FWIW, thanks to prove the HN crowd has strictly no sense of humor what-so-ever...]
>Because most companies employee engineers with unexceptional results.

You don't think that maybe exceptional engineers are a big part of spacex's exceptional results?
I spent five years golden handcuffed at Facebook and hired a large number of brilliant, driven people there. Most of them are still there because of the obscenely large sums of money Facebook pays to keep them there. Note that Facebook does not do counteroffers, and instead makes sure to keep the best people financially motivated to stay each year.
They failed the test the moment they started working at godaddy.
Tberes no way Elin would be secret / anonymous. Under him, it would be massive PR stunt, social media circus.
One year my family left our wreath up through Valentines Day and we got an anonymous letter from a "concerned" neighbor: "Spring has sprung! Please remove your wreath." Never found out who wrote it. We left the wreath up another month.
Everyone says that Apple’s business is selling hardware but that’s changing. Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud storage and their commission on app sales are all clear software incentives. Yes, they’re still dominated by hardware sales but it’s obvious they are interested in diversifying.
> Why do they even have to say this

Unfortunately, you and I both know why...
I'm not sure I follow your logic.

IIUC, a traditional phishing test involves:

(a) Prior training for what employees are supposed to look for, and how to respond if they think they're being phished.

(b) Unannounced drills to confirm that employees act in accordance to (a).

If some GoDaddy employees did not act in accordance to the training, how is that anything but a failed test?

[EDIT] I just realized that "how is that anything but a failed test" could sound reductive. FWIW, I would call this a test failure and also a really unwise test design.
At least this one is in airspace reserved for training and aerobatics. Messing around in LAX's approach airspace is much worse. Frankfurt and Gatwick airports have been shut down at least once due to drone activity. Changi is shooting down drones with a microwave weapon.
The Illiad. As the foundation of Western literature, it may have received the greatest amount of hype that it is possible to receive.

I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, and failed miserably. But as it is always with cultural touchstones, references to it are inescapable, and a few years ago, in my mid 50s I overcame the reluctance accumulated in the intervening time and set out to read the Samuel Butler prose translation of 1898. Most of the translations I'd previously approached were in verse, which is in some ways its own hill to climb when one is customarily a prose reader, so this seemed perfect.

And so it was, and I was bowled over. It was a mind bending experience for me the likes of which I experience much to infrequently as age and experience take their toll on the novelties of youth. I can't say the last work I read I experienced as electrically. For all the stiltedness of epic story telling, the personalities of Agamemnon, Achilles, Zeus, et al are both vivid and convincing; the violence of battle is horrible, electric, and wierdly beautiful in a way that will resonate recognizably with fans Sam Peckinpaugh or Hong Kong action movies. Though the characterizations are far more stereotyped, as befits the age in which it was produced, than modern readers are accustomed to, they still evince a polish that rises above conventional story telling into true literature. Worth every ounce of effort you expend to summit this one.