skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "linear" in this context? If the Y-axis is performance, what is the X-axis? That statement doesn't seem to make much sense without any additional explanation.

If I run a benchmark for a program on the M1, that's a single data point. It's hard to call a single data point "linear", "quadratic", or anything else... and you can't really put multiple benchmarks on the X-axis, because they're measuring different things.

What would even make it (whatever "it" is) "extremely unlikely"? People have had over 6 months to run benchmarks on the M1. Surely you can find a concrete answer to your question that doesn't involve random speculation on internet forums?

Based on my own experiences, I have no reason to believe that the M1's performance starts tanking if you run it for longer than a few seconds, in case you're implying that the other processors will "catch up" if they have longer to get up to speed... why would they? That makes no sense either. Longer compilations are faster on M1 too, relative to my Intel hexacore MBP, from what I've seen in the past. I mean, obviously, right? Why wouldn't they be? Intel's processors change frequencies in milliseconds... it doesn't take them minutes to warm up.

The M1 isn't a silver bullet. AMD makes laptop processors that are more powerful. But the M1 is still really good for what it is, and those AMD processors consume notably more power than the M1 to achieve their performance.
Obligatory Silicon Valley cicadas reference: https://youtu.be/KUxMY77i0q4
I would advise you to understand how markets work better before you get more into trading. You don't seem to understand how high bid-ask spreads indicate low liquidity, nor the risks of trying to take a position in a market condition where you have such low liquidity.

It's like driving down an icy road that's empty at night and trying to make a right turn. Sure, it might look like you can go fast because it's empty. But it's empty for a reason. And you'll figure that out when you try and take the turn and can't get any traction.
The single most important issue in the US is getting our elections to be on the same date for all levels.

The nonsense that is "democratically" voted for in elections where a handful of interested parties vote for it and no one else knows it happens is astonishing. Especially for judges and infrastructure bonds.
While I agree, do you think US senators understand the nuances of tech? What about the senator who was complaining about a fake report about Biden and "no meat" and people would have to start drinking plant based beer. Also, one of the bills in January was 290 pages and delivered hours before a vote was to happen. Even if people could understand the issue there isn't time. Most bills are just a compromise packed with garbage.

I don't think direct democracy but I would like a second level that is local. The number of people represented by each politician is 10x higher than it was 200 years ago. I would like there to be 10 elected officials instead and have a delegate in DC that votes as the 10 dictate. It would be easy to do with today's technology. It greatly helps with disenfranchisement. It also gives people someone they can go to with issues that need solved.
You actually pay for it twice as a taxpayer.
There is a video of this on YouTube

https://youtu.be/DTMnrUdd8Tw
I was in college on the east coast of the US last time this brood emerged. More than any class reunion, I have looked forward to coming back to experience this wild and bizarre phenomenon.

COVID scrambled those plans.

The next time brood X comes out, I'll be middle-aged. Most of my life will have run its course. I hope the cicadas will help me make peace with that fact.
Only if my compulsive hitting of the auto-formatting tool doesn't immediately break it.
Adding to this list:

* https://catala-lang.org/ -- DSL for translating/annotating legal texts

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07966.pdf -- A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EshxZVMURt4 -- Formal Methods and the Law
30% of people tested could hear 26Khz. 10% could hear 28Khz.

https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.2761883
Huh? The only thing I can think of is that the engine analysis can swing immediately once the move is played because it hasn’t thought about the new position for very long. Obviously if you just watch a stream the evaluation changes immediately.

It would be very rare for the computer in the first place not to have a strong move as one of its candidate entries. Obviously the evaluation can shift but the difference shouldn’t be apparent to a human player and it would be even more unlikely that a computer would reject a top move but a human would find it.
I'm curious what you've found works the best for finding people (employees, contractors, other resources) capable of drawing insights (or making heads/tails) out of the data? We're always trying to have a helpful perspective for customers - as well as wanting to give a great "push in the back" to get them going on that dimension as well.
What do you mean by "engineered in a lab?" No one believes that anyone just typed a sequence into their computer and created it from whole cloth.

On the other hand, the WIV has recently published papers about creating new coronaviruses by combining a gene from one virus with the rest of another virus, as well as other types of modifications to existing coronaviruses. They have active grants to continue with this type of research. They also have acknowledged performing this work in BSL-2 labs, which would not be secure enough to contain SARS-CoV-2 if it were to have been the result of one of these experiments.
You could create a brand new proof of work cryptocurrency that uses the idle cycles of your brain.
Airbnb CEO: 24% of bookings are for longer than 28 days
The UN recognizes Palestine as do many other countries. The US was motivated not to recognize it because of the Israeli diaspora in America.
There are two frequencies (sometimes three) transmitted by the satellites. Using two frequencies allows certain atmospheric delays to be accurately estimated. Trouble is only one code is available for civilian applications. The trick with two receivers is to solve for the phase of secret signal (rather than decode it) by solving an integer least squares problem. This allows accuracy of the order of +/- 5cm
Exactly. And it keeps Israel from buying similar equipment from Russia or China (and helping support those developers).
Social media is designed around social proof and validation. Plenty of otherwise rational people crave the support and affirmation of endorsing “correct” thinking while also attacking the “incorrect” thinking.
Idea 1 was widely debunked by American scientists

I don't personally doubt it's a conspiracy theory but would you clarify exactly where "American scientists" debunked this - is it in the link you provided, it's not clear, it appears to only deal with claim 2?
Once you tell a human 'there's a tactic, go', given enough time we find it.
"with little resistance among entire populations"

This mindset is very dangerous in my opinion.

People need to have consent. There are people who cannot recieve vaccines due to medical reasons. Would you just release something without people's consent that could kill and injure a portion of them?
> you have misconception

and what's the "correct-conception"?[1]

I'm curious because I get what parent means in terms of intellectual property issues in China but I don't get what do you mean from your comment, especially the fact that you include "other party states" - is it some sort of general rule that you're hinting at?

[1] funny, I just realised that there is no antonym of "misconception"
> In SF crime is running rampant now because of a DA that refuses to prosecute smaller crimes.

Just so you know, the DA came into office in Jan of 2020. That’s well after Prop 47 and nothing to do with him. If you look at clearance rates published by SFPD to compare 2020 to 2019, you’ll find that they are the same year over year at a surprisingly low 9% overall.

I see a lot of FUD spread about our DA where people don’t seem to actually look into what the DA’s office has done in cases or how often arrests are even made. In these convenience store robberies, it sounds like arrests aren’t even being made. No arrest and the DA’s office can’t bring charges. Just because it’s not a felony doesn’t mean they shouldn’t arrest and charge. Even if the person is released, the charges make repeat crimes more severe.
Also the placeholder text contrast being higher makes it look like actual content in that textbox which is bad, and why placeholder text is discouraged altogether.
If you think you know better what the CCP is, why don’t you educate us?
That won't work on earth due to weight of materials and material strength requirements. It might work on a dense atmosphere, such as Venus.
I was surprised to read this. Surely many countries allied with the US would prefer more of the publicly-available satellite imagery of sensitive parts of their territory to be low-resolution, but the US government gave special treatment to Israel alone.
You'd also need to account for slope.
> It's not like a lab leak is an extremely unlikely possibility at all.

The tweet was talking about the virus being engineered in a lab, not the possibility it escaped from a lab. Their opinion on the possibility of lab leak seems [1] quite reasonable to me - they believe it's possible but unlikely, and link to more info.

> You should rather check who is funding the people who are making certain statements like that.

Sure - do you have more info on his sources of grants etc?

[1] https://twitter.com/macroliter/status/1391777097434152963
Actually, e.g. sodium could be great for energy storage as a metal as well. There are long expired Lockheed patents about how to turn sodium with water directly into electricity. Other processes, that already work on industrial scale could recycle the product of that reaction sustainably back into sodium metal. The energy density of sodium is a bit less than e.g. ammonia, methane or liquid hydrogen but it is quite easy to produce without any fossil fuel consumption, it is easy to handle it at room temperature and normal pressure. The sodium hydroxide solution is not too bad if e.g. spilled on some land or in the ocean - it will neutralize quite quickly and on land even add needed minerals. Yes, it burns with water but otherwise isn't very flammable and you don't get vapour problems as with gasoline (e.g. when you fill a large tank).

Sodium also melts just below the boiling point of water so it even could be feasible to transport using a pipeline (it would just need some insulation) - e.g. you could use it instead of water steam to transfer heat as well. But this is secondary.

If you are interested to read more about how these facts could be used more globally, read more here: https://www.orgpad.com/s/energiewende
Since the original post is about Google maps, lets use that as a tool for a moment:

Gaza city and Tel Aviv have about the same population size according to Wikipedia (about 590,000 and 460,000 respectively). The Tel Aviv metro area is about 1,500 km² which is almost 3 times larger then the entire Gaza strip (365 km²). The Tel Aviv urban area has about half the population size of the entire Gaza Strip while the Tel Aviv Metro area has almost double the population size as the entire Gaza strip. Both Tel Aviv and Gaza city border the coast, both are somewhat bounded by borders to the East.

So Gaza and Tel Aviv should be somewhat comparable when we look them on a map. However if you take a look at this:

First Tel Aviv: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0703502,34.8333795,11.38z

It looks pretty normal, a dense urban core with some sprawl around it.

Now lets look at Gaza City with the same zoom level: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.5083142,34.4330704,11z

Now this looks odd. There is only the dense urban core and then some nothing and then some borders. This is not how cities grow naturally.

Look at a zoomed in level of Gaza City: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.517549,34.4848539,13.55z

And the same zoom level of Tel Aviv: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0641297,34.8076298,13.55z

Notice how abruptly the Gaza City ends, while Tel Aviv looks like a city. Clearly there is something going on there. Looking at the map alone I would not guess that Gaza City was a city the same size as Tel Aviv. I think it is worth reporting this fact given the anomalous nature of Gaza.

Another—and a more important—reason this is worth reporting is precisely the fact that Gaza is a densely populated area that is abnormally bounded in growth. This makes Gaza unique (except maybe Singapore and Hong Kong; but I do recall news media like mentioning those as being densely populated as well).
How did Covid affect your plans? Every airline is currently flying at full capacity, and of course if you're within driving distance that hasn't ever been an issue. Just go. Or not, the cicadas won't care.
And yet, they refuse to divulge exactly how many corporate entities are operating on the platform - gobbling up rentals and pushing housing prices up for everyone else.
Presumably you aren't abducted by creatures beyond your comprehension who start draining your blood without asking!

I don't suspect the crabs have any real understanding of what's happening so the morality of it is ambiguous, but your analogy isn't really analogous.
well, he said data and not services, so atlrast hes still coding it.

can you imsgine upgrade limits like many android phones have, bloatware and the rest.
i am guessing that the israelis approach governments or corporations with the request to reduce the quality of imagery of israeli territory in order to hinder hamas' OSINT efforts, and include the caveat that gaza etc be blurred out as well to preserve the appearance of neutrality; obviously the israeli state has access to high quality imaging outside of google maps et al
Europe Wants Americans Back
yea, I thought about doing one that was a bird feeder, and it would be safe to shoot the laser at.. maybe a backdrop that absorbs the beam and heat. The point is to stop the starlings from stealing all the seed from the other birds. There are squirrel guards, but not starling guards. Might not even kill them, just heat them off.

You could make a safe backdrop and then auto detect what bugs walked on it, and only shoot the bad ones.

There are paint colors that absorb light and then it would probably need to be metal or something so it would absorb heat. It would only be active when it was shooting a bug.. so the bug would probably absorb most of it.

Sounds like it woudl need to be pretty enclosed, since even the refraction could blind people. Maybe a robot arm that swats them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVWW-bmKwQ

One of those salt guns? Those take out bugs pretty good. Like a sentry bug zapper.
no issues with Kraken yet (but I am mostly holding XMR on that exchange)... but every time bitcoin drops quickly, I have issues with Coinbase (ever since they existed)
Because Gaza is, for all intents and purposes, a city-state, like Singapore or Hong Kong. It’s not really one part of a larger nation, so it doesn’t make sense to compare it to places that are.

It’s also being blockaded by its neighbors, so there is no freedom of movement in or out. If rockets are fired at Bnei Brak, the residents there can flee to the rest of Israel. If rockets are fired at Gaza, the residents have nowhere to go.
I’ll work 4 days a week for 100% salary.

If the profits aren’t going down why is my salary going to go down?
That gets to the heart of the matter. I have studied computer engineering and law as well. Statements like "Verilog allows programmers to draft circuits, Legalese's L4 will allow programmers to express law" demonstrate naivety to the real challenge. The authors should take a closer look at the disillusionment that has arisen after fifty years of rule-based knowledge representation and inference.
True, you're owed by this thief, and unfortunately they stole a sum that can likely not be repaid. I imagine there are no amount of years someone can sit in a box that will make you feel better about that.

To me, when someone does something like this the criminal justice system is supposed to figure out why they did it (drugs, opportunity, gangs, etc) and rehab them accordingly so they don't go on to repeat this behavior in the future. What happens all too often is we stick them in a box, never rehabilitate them, and they go on to learn more about criminal activity in prison only to commit worse offenses when they get out. You don't have to care, the criminal justice system does because it's within their charter to do so.
Exactly - proxy blocking VKontakte is a clear signal as for example our corp proxy in US has no such block :)
stupid != easily beatable

the AI will still avoid losing, but it also won't be able to find the endgame strategy to win
I think so. They sold 10's of millions of Cocaine to Americans to fund a War in Nicaragua.
Avip is not including cities when s/he ranks Gaza #5, s/he is only including countries. If I asked you "what's the most densely populated place in the world?" you would probably answer with the name of a city. Avip is excluding cities from his "densely populated places" ranking. This doesn't make sense to me. If you say "world's most densely populated places" of course I'm going to think of cities, as anyone would.
Pretty sweet job listing :) I indirectly worked with Hack Club in High School - really great experience. They helped organize a bunch of events and foster a community.
Yes exactly. And likewise with trying to avoid DRM via some sort of loopback device that is now lossless too.

I can't information theoretically argue for this. But I can algebraically argue lossless conversion rather than storage is great, and this seems great for the war against bad IP legal regimes.

Too bad they are probably only doing this because they feel that with streaming's dominance, the IP regime is not at risk.
If I am adding a note to what I've taken notes on before (say antifragility or mimesis), I'll definitely review what I wrote previously just so I don't duplicate the same content. I don't broadly review my notes, only specifically sometimes if I want to consult my previous thoughts on a topic. Agreed that the main benefit is in writing down the note to begin with - this forces me to reflect on it, structure it, categorize it and formalize it.
If it is not aliens then it could be time-traveling earthlings.
Ask HN: Posted article on a startup that discouraged long hours?
I remember reading a great post on HN about a startup founder that deliberately discouraged people working long hours. They also had some interesting low bureaucracy practices.

I remember reading on the author's blog that they moved from California to Utah.

I've tried different searches. Would greatly appreciate if someone could point me to the link! Thanks!
Ouch. That's $36 I'll never get back…
Bombshell UFO U.S. Military Encounters UFOs ‘Every Day’
Career scientists not motivated by money assumes there is something that would dissuade them from not being so. Is there anything that motivates a scientist to avoid tailoring a response beyond personal moral codes? We do have a replication crisis mind you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Overall
I don't get why US police use dog to catch the illegal drug. Dog is an natural animal whose behaviour we cannot reason with. It can train to sniff certain chemical, but it can also train to bark whenever police officer order to do so. It shall not be trusted for criminal investigation.

Oh and the false positive rate is so high and it's practically same with coin toss.

>But was wrong in more than 40 percent of cases. Sella, a drug detection dog in Florida, gave false alerts 53 percent of the time. Bono, a drug detection dog in Virginia, incorrectly indicated the presence of drugs 74 percent of the time.
There's a well known book on law called "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning". And in this book, it more or less calls out this scenario on the first page.

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

"The pretense is that the law is a system of known rules applied by a judge; the pretense has long been under attack. In an important sense legal rules are never clear, and, if a rule had to be clear before it could be imposed, society would be impossible. The mechanism accepts the differences of view and ambiguities of words. It provides for the participation of the community in resolving the ambiguity by providing a forum for the discussion of policy in the gap of ambiguity. On serious controversial questions, it makes it possible to take the first step in the direction of what otherwise would be forbidden ends. The mechanism is indispensable to peace in a community."

I've thought a lot about this because it directly impacts whether you could turn a contract into code. Code is for the most part very deterministic - you can expect that the logic you use will be interpreted in the same way every time given the same inputs. When that isn't the case, it's generally considered a bug.

Law and contracts appear to be deterministic, but are in fact not. Anything that is written into a law or contract is subject to interpretation later. There's no attempt at making it exhaustive because it's not possible, nor is it necessarily desirable. Sometimes contracts contain language that becomes invalid later on, and you don't want to define things too tightly or you'll have to modify the contract non-stop. Sometimes things arise which are not spelled out in the contract and as long as the parties agree, there's no problem. The rules around contracts are a lot more bendable than in code, and "it depends" is quite often the answer to many questions. So is there overlap between code and contracts/law? Certainly. But the deeper you go, the more exceptions that arise.
Dumb expression. CGI is cheap and easy. A Mars rover is easy to detect by other nation-states.
> There's probably a better way to do this that doesn't trigger a merge conflict

Well if you want to try Nix, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9dba669e8a53f00114b53d... right out of the box :D
Seriously? We should lie and deceive on a global scale in order to prevent a tiny number of people from being assholes when you know very well that they’re just going to find another reason to be hateful. Lying to everyone isn’t going to prevent hate, I really don’t understand this reasoning. Any time I’ve come across people who express hateful opinions about other groups of people it’s always due to the fact that a) they don’t have any close interactions with people of that group and b) their own social group is similarly isolated and ignorant. Lying to people in situations like that will never change their opinions, the only thing that will is direct face to face communication where trust can be built with them and their peers.
It feels like we are living in an episode of die hard.
The classical approach is a matched filter.

Here's some references:
https://www.rfcafe.com/references/articles/wj-tech-notes/fsk...

http://edge.rit.edu/content/P09141/public/FSK.pdf

There's lots of matlab code floating around out there, if you're willing to try gnuradio that'll work (for example: https://nccgroup.github.io/RFTM/fsk_receiver.html), and this looks promising: http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

ETA: Audacity might be able to do it too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNNnbgoGdI
Has anyone actually checked that a modern chess engine believes black is winning in the Penrose position? I find it very hard to believe.
Later on it becomes very questionable and subjective. But still fun till then.
Here’s a link to the NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
If I took a test in college and got 40% of the answers wrong I would get an F.
Geography Is the Chessboard of History