skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You started this thread by saying that the fear of technology does not have to do with the political and economic system but with Machiavellian people, and now that “incorrect” uses are the problems of other people. But I’m not talking about that. I’m not talking about someone using radio for warfare or nuclear energy for destruction. Those are included when I said “I wish all bad things happened because of bad people”: those are things that I consider bad and have been done on purpose. Consequences of using the atomic bomb were clear, intended and understood.

The problem comes when someone uses technology for some purpose but some unintended consequences happen. For example, judicial systems using AI to predict recidivism and adjust sentences. It’s a system created to improve the situation (people with low chance of recidivism receive lighter sentences as the goal of rehabilitation is accomplished earlier) but, if the system picks up certain biases or incorrect proxy measures, can make mistakes and put certain people way too long in prison, which decreases their opportunities to redo their lives after prison. An unintended consequence of the system is that it might actually increase recidivism or discriminate and condemn people. It’s not “misuse” of AI, it’s unwanted consequences.

And in that context it is warranted to ask what are the incentives of the economic system and how will they affect technology. In a capitalist society, the incentives make people focus on profits, and people wellbeing is not necessarily important in that context. In a non-capitalist society you wouldn’t have to worry about, for example, insurance companies using AI to predict car crash probabilities and stopping people (sometimes wrongly) from getting insurance and being able to drive a car.

That’s what I mean when I say that reducing bad outcomes (however you want to define “bad”) to people wanting to have those outcomes does not help at all. Because then you stop worrying about all the people with good intentions that do something with unwanted consequences. For example, if you don’t talk about the unwanted effects of AI and how to avoid them, you will have data scientists creating models and not worrying about indirect effects. Most of the time you won’t need to “stop progress” but just be mindful of a bunch of extra things.

And, of course, ignoring the system in which technology is developed and used blinds you to a whole class of problems created by the incentives of the system (capitalism or whatever).
Did it come from propaganda talking points that outline the dangers of “socialism”?

I hear similar statements from my relatives in the US.
The real question is why would I go with a Tesla solar roof? I think getting a roof-mounted one is probably cheaper and has less vendor lock-in.
Latest Innovations with Grid.ai and PyTorch Lightning
> I want to invite you to join me and a few others in building your own Grow Lab.

> To make it more interesting, it'll be a contest with milestones that you can reach by completing different tasks and sharing the results with the community. There's no such thing as perfect here, and putting your own spin on the project is encouraged.

> The goals of the project are to bring the excitement of watching nature at work, directly in your own kitchen window sill and to give you a practical project, to get started with IoT and embedded electronics.
History proves without a doubt that having a nuclear arsenal is by far the most stabilizing event than can happen. No one goes up against someone with nukes without holding back. Israel opened Pandora's box when they got their own nukes. So if Iran's attempt is the most destabilizing event today it's clear what caused it. The correct response would be to force Israel to back down and have their sites monitored and only then is it possible to talk to Iran without talking down to them as if they are children. But I'm sure the US would rather give nukes to one of the worst countries in area than go against Israeli wishes.
> I have no idea what technology would make truly painless 3D.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
> through I do know the German one is.

The German rail system has also been detoriating in the last decades due to lack of investment of the Deutsche Bahn after being privatized. You don't see it on the main lines, but you see it on the lesser used ones.
I think it is because the motivations for retro console FPGA simulations are to play competitive action games sit down with highly accurate timings. “There is a 5 frames window after this triple input sequence” thing. Pocket gaming happens at much relaxed timings so less demands exist for low latency cycle accurate simulations.
I doubt it. Natural language agglutination tends to have all kinds of nasty side effects, modifying the letters at the boundary, which makes parsing hard and therefore would have created problems writing a decent parser in the early days. COBOL famously tried to follow English syntax, but most other languages deviate from it. Look at early languages such as RPG or SNOBOL. They follow the machine instruction set much more closely than the English grammar.

But look at your smalltalk example: does that look like English syntax? First, the word order is wrong, and second, "onTopOf" already is a concatenation. It doesn't really support the idea that your native language shapes your programming.
Android is the only reason Gradle is still relevant, had it not been for Google pushing it, maybe some key manager just loves it, it would be almost irrelevant on the Java world.
The Problem with Microservices
Corollary: if you can't mutate them or find it, you need to continue practicing manual memory management until the enlightenment kicks in, and you crack the mechanics universal address space.
I am interested in the kids raspberry pi setup.
Being productive using basic psychology – use case of the Hawthorne Effect
Reportedly not:

> If Tesla can’t honor the old price, they’ll need to put on a regular roof and solar panels (which they estimate will cost significantly less than Tesla’s updated Solar Roof pricing).
I am somewhat confused by this blog post, as GitHub directly renders Jekyll sites by default–no GitHub Actions or fiddling required. Is there a reason why this was not the right fit?
Who is sharing data with Google's FLoC ad algorithm?
I think including the travel time to town centre is a good idea. At least it gets rid of the shenanigans that Ryan air does, where they say Frankfurt and the airport is in the middle of nowhere (1.5h from Frankfurt).

Also many travellers (except for locals) need to go to the town centre anyway if they need to access other modes of transportation. And if not, they likely would have looked up their itinerary anyway.
I would like to SEE the HRTF function in action. Is there maybe a web app where one could see the HRTF function while tinkering with different sound directions?
For C++ development don't even bother, unless you plan to target Android, and even there you are better just sticking with cmake and ndk-build as much as you can.
While I don't know the current status, with MAME in the mid 2000s, an update that added support for certain games usually involved changes... that broke a different set of previously working games. I remember having 3 MAME versions installed to play all the games that I wanted. That kind of emulation hell is greatly reduced when you simulate every bus and chip of the original hardware.

To give you an example: I don't remember which game it was, but it was a platformer, and when the character jumped, the game put the starting pitch of the jumping sound effect in the sound chipset, with the DSP doing the loss and pitch change on each cycle. The game moved the character according to certain value in some register of the DSP, so the game was working normally until you jumped, then the DSP emulation code did something like returning the original value or 0 (because 99.9% of the games just write there), and the game crashed.
Technical side-note: Are NFTs free to create and/or use? Or do they require contribution of processing power and/or paying "the Network" for it using your own ETH?
Or use custom sandboxing…
I was considering a solar roof as my current roof is nearing projected end of life. Guess I should get on the list now — or not.
It is JPA requirement. In java, if you are creating new object, you have to call some constructor. If you dont have no parameter constructor, the framework would have to somehow call a constructor with right paramaters. The date are filled directly to fields. But no parameter constructor is needed so that object can be created in the first place.

Now, in Hibernate itself, the no-parameter constructor is not needed. Hibernate supports an "interception mechanism" which allows you to use whatever constructor you like. But that is not part of JPA standards and for most it is simpler to just go standard way.
Nothing stopping you using a private repo. I use Netlify to host and have it automatically deploy when I merge to main, but my repo is private. I write my drafts in a branch and merge when I'm ready to publish.
You probably aren't aware in Europe flights can be like 20E. The cheapest flight I ever had was London to Madrid for 3 pounds.
(author here) I did not know that :P. I thought it was an action because it behaved like one, but you are right, it is a built-in feature on github. This also makes using mainline Jekyll a much better alternative. I will correct the post and follow up updating it from Jekyll now to Jekyll. I used this built-in support thinking it
was an action :P
To be fair, the paper is white.
I actually think part of Tesla's strategy is to make green tech more palatable for the conservative crowd.

Their whole line of cars highlights power, performance, luxury, and the cool factor. They've almost single-handedly destroyed the conception that EVs are sad little suped up golf carts for tree hugging dweebs. You're almost a loser if you don't have a Tesla now. The cybertruck is another big play on this trend.

The solar roof is another take on this. Make solar look like regular shingles and along with the amortized cost savings, people resistant to change really don't have a good argument against it, whereas they might for an installment of obvious panels.
Ask HN: Interesting Thesis Topics
I'm looking for interesting thesis topics.

General high-level topics are: Cloud, Go, Service Mesh, Database, Serverless....
...And for bookmarks they're par excellence (I've still about a 2-inch stack of new ones specifically for that purpose).
Regulatory structures are not forever and will change.
Sure or videos or anything else, but those items are covered by the traditional edition of an idea that spreads virally rather than through formal publishing
I feel like the Mars Climate Orbiter could have been lost even in an all metric setup because they did not label their units. Using centimeters instead of decimeters or meters would result and just as much problem as using inches or feet.
doctor_eval wrote:

>> You get to throw away all the semantics built into the database structure, including knowledge about indexes,

I wrote:

> suggests you either don't know JPA very well or your writing is a bit sloppy.

To suggest that JPA means "throw[ing] away all the semantics built into the database structure, including knowledge about indexes" indicates either that the person doesn't know what JPA is about: indexes should be used with JPA for all but the most trivial setups. Same goes for other general database knowledge.

You wrote:

> They made some concrete criticism based on their experience (hard to maintain, complex annotations, etc),

I just pointed out that it was either a misunderstanding or so sloppily written as to create misunderstandings.

> but you in turn dismissed those with "you didn't get" and some borderline name-calling.
Which bit they didn't get?

The bit about JPA not standing in the way of using good database practices.

It is not name-calling. I point to the exact words doctor_eval uses. To be polite and also be sure to make room for error on my side I also offer the option of sloppy writing. Sloppy writing happens to all of us and I'll be happy to know if doctor_eval didn't mean it or if I've misread it.

If not however it is not smart to use big words to try to trash a super useful tool that save many of us lots of time and often increase quality.
Not at all serious but... maybe all electrons have the same mass, charge, etc. because there is only one electron, bouncing backwards and forwards through time. As it passes backwards we see it as the anti-electron (positron). When they meet they annihilate from our perspective, but that's just the electron being reflected and becoming a positron heading backwards.

To be clear this is all not at all consistent with observations - just a fun(?) thought experiment.
Garmin Edge Explorer 820 has onboard route planning and I have the whole of Europe on the device! Amazing little unit.
Not according to the prosecution.
On the other hand you could hand-punch paper tape with a little plastic thing, one hole at a time. That way you could "patch" a paper tape. I used to have tapes with patches on patches (overwrite memory with each patch). Eventually I had to "memory dump" new tape that "merged all the patches" to get a new "master tape"

good times.
The look of Tesla solar roof is a lot nicer than a roof mounted solar panel to be honest. It is the premium some people are willing to pay for. It would be a personal choice kind of thing. I definitely can understand it. People spend twice or more money on a logo on a T shirt every day.
Do I know more physics than you? Problynot. But he’s my attempt to explain how I understood the article:
We experience a universe with 3 spatial dimensions, if we imagine an axis through space, there are two other axes orthogonal to the first axis and to each other, that an object can move on any of the axes independently, without moving in any of the others. We can’t add a fourth axis, there is no fourth line we can choose along which an object can move without also moving in at least one other dimension - or at least that is our experience. We also know from seeing 2d shadows of 3D objects, that a higher dimensional object can be projected into lower dimensions. We can twist an object and see changes in a shadow that make perfect sense if we know the shadow is a 2d projection of a rotating 3D object. There are features of our universe that make sense if we think about the universe as a 3D shadow of a higher dimension system. So what does that mean? Are higher dimensional models a nice math trick, or do the models work because they describe the true higher dimensional nature of the universe, that we experience as a lower dimensional projection. Ok time to pass the baton who can take this deeper.
Darth Vader is leading an imperial army fighting terrorists. I guess some might find some similarities in the real world. Not to mention the politics remind me of something..
Traversing nested data-structures in various languages
You won't use speech recognition to heal patients or make diagnosis..

And if you use it to control medical devices, then transparency is not what matters. A protocol matters, like the machine repeating the commands and asking for confirmation.
Are you skeptical about bad security of USB? Here you go: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/device-handling-security/#usb-s....
Seeking contract python developer - Python/django | Remote from UK | 6 months initially | Start dates in April & May | Competetive day rate

We at https://www.101ways.com/ are looking for several contractors to start in April & May. You'd join a large and very skilled team of contractors to help us replace a manual system at a travel client with an automated piece of software that allows travellers to purchase event packages, combining travel, hotel and event tickets.

Python3
Django2
AWS
Lambdas

Ping me for more details: elliott.luckhurst@101ways.com
Or connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-el-luckhurst-4262a4b2/
I have again a different opinion. Allow both: srand() - explicit seed initialization, as well as autoseed.

But you really need to change selected known bad seeds, which destroy the PRNG statistical properties. Most PRNG's have a couple of known bad seeds, but nobody does anything against it. Same for hash functions.
I imagine it's legal because it's a deposit, and also because caveat emptor, i.e., people are free not to do business with them. If people want to deal with random bullshit, that's their personal decision. In general, "illegal" is a very high bar to clear for most behaviours, it's easier just to decide not to put up with that as a customer especially if you haven't lost anything yet.
That's true. My UK number seems to be completely fine after many years, even if I don't top it up. But some other country, after few months of inactivity they seem to be automatically sold to a new user.
I mean, there's not much to be said about this is there, this is absolutely standard Tesla behaviour. Oh we didn't realise installing rooves could be complicated, here's a 30% price rise after we've already signed the contract. Don't worry though, your FSD package is definitely going to be working very very soon.

I don't know what it is about this continually unlearned lesson of "Maybe just chat with someone who does the thing you're trying to replace for 5 minutes". Absolutely same thing with the boring company- 5 minutes with an expert would have saved them years of learning the lessons everyone already knew.
Nope. If you read an ASCII file with control characters in Java you’ll get an exception. Also it won’t work with the 8-bit ASCII variants. Neither are “true Scotsmen” of course, but the point still stands that HTML could yet be more durable.
"Meditation helps with just about anything. Therapy helps you with figuring out why the hell you don't meditate"
It is no different from other products. There are people who do subjective reviews, and others who put some science in it.

Although, as far as I understand, headphones are both quite simple in engineering and complex with the task they try to handle.

Every person's audio perception is unique and depends on unique anatomy and unique experience (brain calculations). So it is quite difficult to normalize every data we can measure.

Still, some are trying to do it. E.g.

http://rtings.com/ - authors develop their methodology to take into account all relevant measurements, and explain their function

http://diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com/ - author does a measurement based subjective analysis of overall audio experience. Sometimes directly comparing rivals in relevant aspects.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990 - based on research from Harman R&D, measure and develops equalisation parameters for popular headphones, as well as, their weighted score (deviation from target)

The research is quite interesting in itself when addressing you statement, because it develops a statistical model of preference for audio reproduction by average human. Of course, it is not a silver bullet equal for all but many agree they enjoy headphones with "target" frequency response more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
SEEKING FREELANCER | Python developer - Django | Remote from UK | 6 months initially | Start dates in April & May | Competetive day rate

We at https://www.101ways.com/ are looking for several contractors to start in April & May. You'd join a large and very skilled team of contractors to help us replace a manual system at a travel client with an automated piece of software that allows travellers to purchase event packages, combining travel, hotel and event tickets.

Python3
Django2
AWS
Lambdas

Ping me for more details: elliott.luckhurst@101ways.com
Or connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-el-luckhurst-4262a4b2/
Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk
This is absolutely fantastic. We’re just about to start playing 5 a side football again so I can’t wait to give it a try out in a few weeks. Hope it works as well on a smaller pitch.
I wonder if the Tesla roof keeps your attic as cool as solar panels do? I swear I felt my house was cooler from having the panels.
Well that's a surprise. MS used to not really be interested in speech, guess they changed their minds?
As you are asking open ended questions. What do you think is an appropriate level of deaths per MWh? Can you put a number on it? And how do you engineer a reactor to accurately and repeatedly achieve a certain risk level?
I have a cronjob on my vps that pulls the repo every 20 minutes, and if there are changes builds and uploads the site. I don’t write on mobile but if I would, I’d use iA Writer + Working Copy
How are they going to sell tickets to a sequel to a movie nobody remembers anything about except "blue creatures"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxp1IBK1OPI
parasitic commies killed the old host. new they need to feed off of a new one.
Our new* black TV remote includes a big, white with red text Netflix button. We don’t have Netflix and thus will never use this button. The rest of this remote is fine.

*a few years back now
It is a well-known trap that forked or threaded RNG's keep using the same seed. It can be called a feature, eg when you need to process different ranges, using the same sequence of random numbers for each range, but mostly it's a bug. You need to init your rng seed for each thread or fork to get different random sequences.

For splitting up sequential ranges, a good rng typically has an advance function to advance the seed for each range. So you can get reproducibility.
I don't think its a matter of divergent priorities. The argument up thread was that we had reached the zenith of resolution based on visual acuity. What we established is that this is almost entirely true or false based on the persons vision, size of screen, and viewing distance. Based on how the majority of the public uses TVs we have provably not reached such a point.

In point of fact a medium sized living room is 12x18 with a TV on either a stand or the wall along the longer wall and seating that is around 2 feet deep and off the wall by at least a foot. This means that in an medium size living room there is 8-9 foot between seat and screen. In a large living room 15x20 there is still only 11-12 feet.

People actually are putting 60-75 inch screens therein so we can support the position that the figures given by the calculator represent how people actually use TVs and supports the position that HD -> 4k -> 8k will be perceptively still beneficial given the constraints of human eyeballs.
Very well written and the rest of the site is full of interesting articles like this one.
I guess that comparison could be useful if you had hundreds of thousands of random people all over the world mining gold 24/7.
> Often times those who hold suspicion about such effects are derided as luddites or conspiracy theorists, but it also seems that societal opinion got it wrong in very bad ways on many instances.

There are now some countries where, in order to use new substance, it first needs to be declared as safe (and approved by agencies like EFSA). While in other countries they use it until it is proven that it is not safe.