skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From your examples only Bangladesh is referred to by reporters (not as a quotation) as one of the most densely populated in this case “countries”

Not true. Only is a quote (the Rwanda one) and two of the four quotes are not about countries (Raqqa - a city, and "densely-populated areas").

I partially deal with your quibbles on the definition of "place" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190788

But I think it's fair to compare similarly geographically sized areas, preferably with somewhat similar political status (ie, there's a big difference between a very dense city surrounded by countryside to support it, vs a city state with no surrounding support area)

It's hard to find many places as big as the Gaza Strip (365 sq km) that are as densely populated (5610 people per square km).

Dhaka is the most closely comparable city: 306 sq km with a density of 29,069 ppl/sq km. But a city isn't comparable to a territory like the Gaza Strip. That is more similar to islands, enclave or isolated country.

On Wikipedia's list[1] Singapore (722 sq km, 7,894 ppl/sq km), Hong Kong (1106 sq km, 6781 ppl/sq km), Bahrain (778 sq km, 1,982 ppl/sq km), and Malta (316 sq km, 1,633 ppl/sq km) seem the obvious comparisons.

The Gaza strip obviously sits right up there amongst them. It is difficult to argue it isn't one of the most densely populated places in the world looking at comparable "places".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
>I'm kind of getting annoyed how ignorant you are of the situation yet still actively looing for a way to dispute this

You may be right, but you sound exactly like a loan officer that I had this same discussion with pre-2008. He assured me that I simply didn't understand how things work and that all appraisal/lender relationships were completely at arm's length and there was no way there could be bias.
for anyone interested in more information about this commonly parroted "smoking gun" (Furin cleavage site):

https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1391507230848032772
Why 24-Bit Music Downloads Make No Sense
Chris “Monty” Montgomery (a creator of Ogg Vorbis and I believe Opus) explains why you never need more than 16 bits of bit depth for audio playback.

The video segment in question starts at 8:40, though the entire video and its predecessor are well worth a watch.

Monty also tried making the argument against 24/192 music in written form in the past:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130115154647/https://people.xi...
If you look at a cow knowing nothing about it or its history how do you know it was subject to artificial selection? The excessive production of milk or negative consequences that happen to it should it not be milked are some pretty big clues.

The information the process of evolution imparts on the genes/features of an organism differs based on whether it was natural or artificial.
UX on the flight contributor side is currently a low-touch app that accepts the user's flight number and prompts for their seat selection (assuming a commercial flight). We load an image correction profile based on whether the seat is fore or aft of the wing in order to correct for the blur caused by engine exhaust, after which we cache the image task coordinates we anticipate they'll be flying over. We provide a code for free in-flight wifi (actually 2--one for each side of the plane) that can be redeemed after completing a simple calibration task while taxiing or shortly after takeoff. The calibration looks at window opacity, occlusions, and considers atmospheric conditions for each leg of the flight.

In order to maximize battery life and prevent user fatigue, we only alert the user to begin recording when they're approaching a task coordinate by referencing the cached coordinate with the current GPS coordinate which is readily available even in Airplane mode. The "workload" for test users so far averages about 5 alerts per flight or 5-10 minutes of "recording", typically shortly after takeoff and prior to landing. We're using Lobe to train an ML model with the image feeds, so we're working on implementing a Captcha-style post-flight survey where a few sample images taken in flight are presented to the user for first-pass labeling. If a user completes this survey, they're rewarded with additional airline miles as a thank you

There are plenty of other opportunities to gamify the recording process and we've been taking cues from apps like Waze and OpenStreetMaps to inform some of these potential reward features. Possibilities include revenue sharing, free flights after reaching milestones, travel gear, etc. I remember flying Spirit years ago and they always had a fun way to reward the unlucky souls in the middle seat by putting a sticker on one of the tray tables. The passenger sitting in the "lucky" middle seat got a free round-trip ticket which I've always thought was really cool, so perks like those are top of mind as well.

Tl;dr - we're intent on keeping the UX transparent, engaging, and unobtrusive for the recorder--point, shoot, disembark--while rewarding them in kind for their time and effort.
Very valid questions to which you are not going to get any reasonable answers.

It is more a power play by the "Management" rather than satisfying any actual need. While some amount of management and issue/time tracking is necessary the intense focus on the same by Agile/Scrum is useless and counter-productive.
Probabilities determined from Bayesian analyses like this one aren't really intended to be perfect – it is more of an exercise to help you think through the various different possibilities in a more structured way. In other words, Bayesian estimates should always be taken as relative to all other related estimated outcomes rather than as absolutes in isolation (even thought you are arriving at a specific "probability").
Won't they just add a check for a Cyrillic keyboard AND the time zone? Server pings? This trick won't last.
Your second paragraph vaguely reminds me that in Magic: The Gathering there are some decks that focus on attaining a certain combination of cards which would put you in a position where you cannot lose if you play them right. Some play those decks while being a bit fuzzy on the details. They couldn't actually finish it if pressed, but rely on opponents recognising the combo and conceding.
Assuming all the underlying assumptions are correct, isn’t this still comparing apples to oranges? Bitcoin does around 250k transactions per day [1] compared to credit cards doing ~1 billion [2]. And Bitcoin will only get less efficient.

[1]. https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day
[2]. https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...
Tesla hired former Bang & Olufsen audio engineers to design their in-house audio systems.

Source:
https://twitter.com/PaulMaric/status/1160777733825150976
>Easier to keep changes small and local to the code changing

>Unit tests need less boilerplate/mocking/stubs

What do you mean by these?
For people who want to automate their seeding or for those who want to seed on headless servers:

Download aria2:

sudo apt install aria2

then run this one command in your terminal:

for i in {1..10}
do
rand=`shuf -i 0-851 -n 1`
url=http://libgen.rs/scimag/repository_torrent/sm_${rand}00000-${rand}99999.torrent
nohup aria2c $url > $(basename "$url" .torrent).out &
done
FYI, there is no dang ping command/feature. If you wish to get their attention, the best place is hn@ycombinator.com
While physiological effects are doubtlessly a part of it, how much of the increase is just down to the fact that driving at night, when it is hard to see, is more dangerous? According to the NHTSA, the odds (per mile) of dying in a car crash at night versus during the day is... approximately 300%.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Do autopilots need to be safe or just safer then people?
Texture Generation with Neural Cellular Automata
I know this is not worth revising, but you didn't cite any statistics.

California is not losing population, it's just growing slower than the rest of the country. There is no "brain drain," as those moving in have higher education than those leaving. International immigration, in particular, is making up for the domestic net out-migration:

https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265

You haven't cited a single number, or a single fact. You accuse me of bias, but shift your phrasing and points on nearly every comment. Your only support is a YouTube video that is heavy on propaganda techniques but says nothing of substance for the first third.
What times of day are consistently night shift people going to be driving? Mostly night time. It's inseparable unless explicitly controlled for which it sounds like they didn't.
I think of it more like the Illuminati myself. Normal bureaucratic blame shifting hardly merits the term.
I have to admit that was fun, even if I'm not remotely qualified (or willing to move).
The initial probability of "novel new virus" is not "it was made in a lab / escape a lab".
Is it? If this virus came about via GoF research in a lab, the solution for "next time" is:

1. Stop doing GoF research

2. Better lab containment processes
Can you provide recent statistical data during the pandemic about actual hate crimes to back that up, specifically about the race committing the crime?
Surprisingly, yes. I want to say “yes” with no caveats, but I am ethically bound to point out that I may have changed a few of them. But if I did, it was inspired directly from what it came up with.

The way it works is, there’s something called ABC notation, and Gwern found a big ass-database of Irish folk songs. It has a “title” field along with tempo, ID, etc. I would fill in what key I wanted, give it the first chord, and let it go. (If you don’t give it the chord, it generates ABC songs that are all kind of boring piano pieces with no background chords. It was amazing how much difference that made.)

So, not only did it choose the song names, but it couldn’t not choose a song name. It’s the only thing it knew. Its whole world was Irish ABC folk music, and as far as it was concerned, the title was as important as the notes. It couldn’t know it wasn’t.

Ah, I figured out what had been bothering me. I’m pretty sure I chose “For Ireland!” and possibly Blackbird, but e.g. Crossing the Channel was a GPT original, I believe. I was aiming to make it feel like an oldschool FF3 type game, so For Ireland was the battle song, Blackbird was the name of the airship you’d make your daring escape on at the end, Marco’s shadow was the assassin team hired by the empire to take Marco out, etc.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184998, which was posted earlier and has the correct URL.
One of the most salutary responses to the ambition of bringing "digital transformation" to the legal industry comes from PaulG himself:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1384422654195683328

> In 2008 I spent a month writing a web-based system for managing all YC's funding documents. With one click you could get an instance of the latest docs, prepopulated with all the startup's info from our database. The lawyers quietly ignored it and kept using Microsoft Word.

Others have said in the comments that doctors and lawyers are "the last, most powerful guilds" remaining. On the one hand, it's easy to call for "the end of lawyers". (The Legalese website says that sort of thing as a provocation, a way of staking a flag in the sand.) On the other, it's likely that society will always define a special role for the white-collar warrior, the champion of the courtroom; for high-stakes, once-in-a-lifetime situations, you want expert human hand-holding.

In books like https://www.amazon.com/Future-Professions-Technology-Transfo... Richard Susskind offers a more nuanced middle ground. Look at medicine: together, the Apple Watch, WebMD, DirectLabs, home glucose monitors, and home blood pressure monitors (let us never miss an opportunity to say "sphygmomanometer") allow millions of people to do for themselves what they used to need a doctor for. In turn, that lets doctors focus on more high-value work.

Suppose we distinguish quantitative and qualitative reasoning: numbers belong to the former; legal and logical problem-solving to the latter.

Quantitative reasoning went in-house when spreadsheets (the original killer app) landed on the PC: now millions of people do for themselves what a couple of generations ago used to be the domain of the accountant, the bookkeeper, the finance specialist.

What would "spreadsheets for law" look like? If tools emerge that allow laypeople at home and in business to explore for themselves simple questions like "what is the deadline for me to do X", "what things am I required to prepare ahead of that deadline", and "how do I get out of doing Y", frankly the lawyers might breathe a sigh of relief so they don't have to keep annoying people by answering "it depends". There's plenty of low-hanging fruit out there like that which makes people's lives better. Software like docassemble.org and startups like afterpattern.com are exploring these possibilities. Farther into the science-fiction future, researchers in France did a lovely demo, basically fuzzing the tax code to find a sploit that deserved to be patched. https://blog.merigoux.fr/en/2019/12/20/taxes-formal-proofs.h...

One final point: people who argue for the necessity of discretion and the desirability of vagueness and ambiguity tend to have, in the past, benefited from such discretion. But there are less privileged people out there who have been on the sharp receiving end of discretion, and they might prefer a little less discretion and a little more algorithmic, explainable, deterministic fairness!
Which is more likely: millions of square miles of river valley forest and savanna, inhabited? Or meticulously avoided?

Nomadic people have very rarely ranged over more than a few hundred miles. We have here thousands of miles. There is room for every variation you can imagine, and even more you can't.

Rather, there was.
It's not Wireguard.
Paying out at a rate competitive with malicious actors makes it a market and would incentivise bounty hunting. It would be a perverse incentive.

It's not intended as a source of primary income, it's an incentive to report vulnerabilities when you find them. It's the tech industry equivalent of getting a box of beers for helping out.
A 1x PCIe 2.0 link... hardly revolutionary. Half a gigabyte/second.

And yet I do think the "high speed" expandability will allow all kinds of new applications. I'd love to see diy wifi be a possibility, but not getting my hopes up that we'll see any real availability of good wifi parts to make this possible.

This is all "brand new" -ish to the SBC scene, but I'm hoping we see some genuine competition forming!!
There's another ongoing thread on the same topic, with a different root article, but perhaps a similar impetus (the recent letter to Science):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160898
FiatMarketCap
Like other commenters, the reMarkable has been great for me. Much easier to organize notes by subject without needing to maintain an index and flip through pages (and the inevitable wear and tear on my most referred-to notes). Easier to get over the annoyance of wasting paper and notebook space on notes that wind up being useless. And I love the "send to reMarkable" Chrome plugin. (Just wish it had color.)

It probably also helps to be aware of why you're taking notes. "I wanted to be the kind of person who carried a paper notebook around" kinda takes that for granted; I'm guessing the author actually had more specific goals in mind, such as "retain more of what I experience" and/or "have more ideas"...
This is maybe 12 hours drive, depending on roads and traffic. 1000km is not a huge distance of migration to a major city.
moving towards evidence based, medication assisted rehab is a HUGE step in the right direction which does actually work - especially opiates. Soboxone, naltrexone etc. sadly seems like Meth/stims don't really have any good clinical stepping stones; it's an awful drug.
That assumes that the crowd is usually right. That's not my experience.
This is incredible. It sounds like it's playing in a 3D space. I really didn't expect the difference to be noticeable to my non-audiophile ears. This is going to be a must-have feature for a lot of streaming music users.
Thanks for the excellent summary and explanation. I knew the answer was that it wasn't safe - but the detail here is remarkable. :)
Betting it will turn out recent, based on drawing style.
A Light Stage on Every Desk
Being in Florida, your crops don't sound weird based on climate. Cacao and coffee look like a lot of trouble to process though, and I'm not sure how a person can stand to eat okra.

You're missing out on coconut, jaboticaba, mango, dragonfruit, sweet potato, figs, rambutan, lychee, loquat, longan, avocado, jackfruit, and pineapple. Note that mango and avocado should be obtained as grafted plants because seeds usually create undesirable plants.
Since when is it wrong to debunk pseudoscience. That takedown on Graham Hancock's wacko ideas is very thorough, and it's great that it's appearing in such a prominent forum. You're interpreting it as a personal attack, but it is not. It is a great intellectual argumentative piece.

edit: why was this flagged?
> In biology male and female is determined by gamete size.

No, its not. X vs Y for chromosome 23 is approximately true (but still very much oversimplified), but X-bearing and Y-bearing spermatazoa are morphologically similar, so gamete size is not, even approximately, the issue.

> those are the exceptions that prove the rule.

That phrase uses an outdated sense of “prove” (which means more what “test”, “challenge”, or even “disprove” means in general modern usage.) So you are precisely correct, in the opposite sense of what you intend.
As someone who lives in a country with “free” healthcare, no it’s not a solved problem in the least. There is a constant struggle over budget control and selecting what healthcare is worth funding and what isnt.
So I actually checked the problems listed.

In the "IQ Test #52" position (FEN: 8/1p1q1k2/1Pp5/p1Pp4/P2Pp1p1/4PpPp/1N3P1P/3B2K1 w - - 0 1) listed in #1 both LC0 and Stockfish play the correct line on my computer in seconds.

Both of them also play the right move Ba4+ in the second position of #1 "William Rudolph vs." (FEN: 8/1p1q1k2/1Pp5/p1Pp4/P2Pp1p1/4PpPp/1N3P1P/3B2K1 w - - 0 1) but they take quite a bit longer. Stockfish variants get it quicker.

Stockfish solves "Hasek vs." (FEN: r7/7k/5R2/p3p3/Pp1pPp2/1PpP1Pp1/K1P3P1/8 w - - 0 1) listed in #2 quickly. Both Stockfish and LC0 solve "Lazard=F vs." (FEN: q7/8/2p5/B2p2pp/5pp1/2N3k1/6P1/7K w - - 0 1) quickly.

Stockfish gets Bh3 from #3 "Veselin Topalov (?) vs. Alexey Shirov" (FEN: 8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - 2 47) in seconds (7-piece end game tablebases installed).

The next position from #3 "Spassky, Boris V vs. Byrne, R." (FEN: 3B4/1r2p3/r2p1p2/bkp1P1p1/1p1P1PPp/p1P4P/PPB1K3/8 w - - 0 1) is easy for both Stockfish and LC0. They both get 50. c5!! right away.

Stockfish also gets the last position from #3 "Stefan Brzozka
vs. David Bronstein" in seconds (FEN: 1r6/4k3/r2p2p1/2pR1p1p/2P1pP1P/pPK1P1P1/P7/1B6 b - - 0 48) Rxb3+.

Stockfish and LC0 see Kd1 in "Lamford=P vs." from #4 (FEN: 8/8/8/1k3p2/p1p1pPp1/PpPpP1Pp/1P1P3P/QNK2NRR w - - 0 1) but believe Rg2 is also winning.

Stockfish gets c8N from "Randviir=J vs." (FEN: 5nr1/2Pp2pk/3Pp1p1/4P1P1/6P1/5K2/8/7n w - - 0 1) in #4 in about 2 minutes on my computer.

Stockfish gets Bf5 from "Simkhovich=F vs." (FEN: 8/8/2pk4/8/p1p3B1/PpP5/1P6/r1NK4 w - - 2 2) in #5 in seconds. LC0 also gets it.

The next two positions are mentioned as easier for programs and they are:

Qe3 from "Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov" in #6 (FEN: 1r6/5kp1/RqQb1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/6P1/5K2 b - - 14 45) is very easy for both Stockfish and LC0.

Both also get "Vladimir Kramnik vs. Peter Leko" (FEN: 6k1/5p1p/P1pb1nq1/6p1/3P4/1BP2PP1/1P1Nb2P/R1B3K1 b - - 0 25) in #6 quickly.

"Matous=M vs." (FEN: n2Bqk2/5p1p/Q4KP1/p7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1) is indeed harder for Stockfish and LC0 than expected. I've confirmed mate in 13 in my mate solver.

In "Nigel Short vs. Vladimir Kramnik" (FEN: r3r1k1/1bp1Bppp/pb1p4/1p6/1P6/1BP2P2/P1P2PKP/R3R3 b - - 6 19) from #9, the engines like ...a5 more than ...c6. Hard to say that this move doesn't also win without more analysis.

Stockfish wants to play c6! and b4! from "Marwitz=J vs." from #10 (FEN: 2K3k1/1p6/R3p1p1/1rB1P1P1/8/8/1Pb5/8 w - - 0 1) right from the start. LC0 takes longer but gets it as well.

In "Anish Giri vs. Maxim Rodshtein" (FEN: 8/5pkp/3p1np1/Rpr5/8/6P1/PB3PKP/8 w - - 6 34) from #10 both Stockfish and LC0 like 34. h4 over 34. a4. More analysis would be needed to see if h4 is not also winning.

Last position "IQ Test #16" (FEN: 5k2/4bp2/2B3p1/1P4p1/3R4/3P2PP/2r2PK1/8 b - - 0 1) takes around 10 seconds for Stockfish.

In summary, chess engine might not really "understand" these positions but they solve them pretty well.
It's surprisingly short.

I tend to be fairly direct. Some people see me as rude. Others see me as refreshing.

That has a lot to do with cultural expectations on their part.

Some people are "honest" as an excuse to be mean. There can be subtext and other things going on, especially in a group situation.

I like some saying I heard that "Those who like the brutal truth like brutality more than truth." You can usually be honest without being ugly to people (though sometimes the truth about them is what's ugly and then there's no good answer, just a least worst answer).
This comment says it all: without meaningful comparison of the transaction count, its a false comparison.
Don't forget pre-conviction monitoring and probation, or in legalese "case load". Forget innocent until proven guilty.
Speculation about it might be detrimental. So it seems like a bad tradeoff unless one can find evidence one way or the other, and what constructively to do about it first.
I have no idea what was going on in this thread earlier, but once the comment veers into complaining about getting downvoted, it's breaking the site guidelines and you needn't look further for an explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is really comparing apples to apple carts.

The "research" narrowly defines Bitcoin energy consumption to include mining and node operation, but broadly defines banking industry energy usage to include even things like branch offices and ATMs.

A surprised Pikachu gif should really accompany their conclusion that the global financial industry consumes more energy the bitcoin mining and nodes.
Am I cynical for thinking there would be no punishment or accountability?
Is it me or does that look extremely easy to reproduce. Easiest $9K in bug bounties I have seen. Must have been more to discovering it than just observing traffic and composing HTTP.
You broke the site guidelines badly here. Please review them and stick to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> It spawned racist rumors like “Chinese labs sell their dead experimental animals in food markets.”

First, I don't see how is this racist. Second, this is not rumor, there are Chinese articles about how some lab members were punished.

The author lost credibility here.
Best luck I've ever had "taking notes" was borrowing an idea from a former co-worker. He just rubber ducked everything in a personal Slack channel. You get time-centric notes, with the ability to link backwards to former threads of thought. I wanted to build a note app around this idea, but the article links to The Archive https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ which is essentially that idea.