skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I can't say I'm defending where it's gone, at all. But I did think it was cool at the time and could result in people being shown ads they'd be interested in. And, it was inevitable; I'm sure it was thought of entirely independent of me by other people later (if not before, which is what I'm trying to find out). And as I mentioned, I DID put a lot of privacy stuff into the patent. But I didn't foresee, at all, the crazy degree to which it would affect loading times, etc.!!!
Yes, definitely. I am not in a position where I recruit anyone, nor do I hope to be, I just finished my PhD. But there is a significant portion of students who will go ahead with a research career no matter what you tell them. This is partly due to a lack of alternatives (in some fields in particular eg for life science students for example), and partly due to the irresistable cachet of academia for some. I think some people also have a degree of sadomasachism, and will fly towards the flames again and again.

Science is pretty difficult frankly, especially these days. Sure science is worth doing, and can be quite rewarding, no doubt. But I can't quite understand the popularity. Writing papers is particularly painful, again I can't understand why there are so many papers being written, it is torrential. As others have noted, this is not the same as actual progress. But lately I have noticed something telling about several leading researchers in my field, people who have made it in every sense of the word, work at the top institutions, regularly publish stunning research in Science, Nature. They have been moving to the pharmaceutical industry in significant numbers. This tells you, basically, that academia sucks for everyone. This is also my impression from talking to people who have entered research in the last 15 years. The older researchers seem happier. Perhpas it is the pay scales that scale with seniority, or just survivorship bias.
>It seems apple only asked the pictures be taken down.

Sending law enforcement to confiscate their belongings seems pretty in line with "vehemently condemned".
Personally I don't think his art project was entirely ethically in the clear so to speak, but this seems like nitpicky semantics considering they sent him a legal nastygram that referenced a criminal investigation that they themselves initiated.

>"Those violations of the CFAA give rise to a civil cause of action by Apple, and the display of the images and video is causing ongoing harm to Apple. There is also a criminal investigation related to those violations of the CFAA. Furthermore, the images and video may violate the privacy/publicity rights of the individuals pictured therein, including but not limited to Apple employees."
Will it replicate?
More or less, but with the ability to "poison" them by closing which causes downstream go-routines to exit. You can do the same thing in java by checking for a poison object and then terminate your loop.

The close is built into the language itself which is useful, along with the other built in language functionality. I wrote about it here, with an example of how to do it https://boyter.org/posts/file-read-challange/
There’s a surprising amount of this. Nitroglycerin is both an explosive and a heart drug, of course, and gunpowder was probably originally developed as an alchemical ‘medicine’.
Paid, thank you!
>someone has $1.5M to throw away on something like this

Your reaction seems pretty normal and all, but your ethical viewpoint seems backwards to me.

If they spent $1.5M on something that involved the amount of labor and resources that normally buys, then they threw it away, if it wasn't for the general good. A yacht for instance.

But if they spent $1.5M on a collectible with no real use, then they have just exchanged a coupon, basically, for another coupon. They made a decision not to take useful resources away from society that they had a coupon for.
>The listed residual value is normally set to make it extremely unfavorable to buy out the lease.

Close but it's a little more nuanced.

You lease a trendy car (4Runner or something) and they expect able to turn it around, detail it and sell it on their CPO lot for way to much money to someone who thinks they're being savvy by buying CPO. You wanna keep it then you gotta pay them the way too much money they'd otherwise make.

You lease a black sheep (say a Sentra, Chrysler 200, Focus or some other cheap lower end compact that there's gonna be a ton of with high miles in a few years) and the buyout will be minimal because they expect to make peanuts reselling it.

Your lease rate is based in part on their expectation of how much profit the car will get them at the end of your lease. Something with a low MSRP and customer base that drives the used value straight into the ground won't make them squat after cost of turning it around and selling it used. So in those case you pay much less on the buy out.
The rub in Tesla's safety report is it compares Teslas to all makes of vehicles, including motorcycles and trucks, and all costs. A fair comparison would be to newer vehicles in a similar price range.

Their autopilot stat is also misleading because AP will most likely be engaged only in ideal weather conditions on divided roads.
Is it the circumstances or the person's character? Does it even matter?

It only matters because if it's the circumstances, the person may improve. If it's because they are flawed, they won't improve. So everyone thinks they'll improve and everyone else will continue in accordance with their character.

What's interesting about evidence law is that you can't mention prior bad acts to a jury to say someone did something criminal in the past and acted in conformance with their character in the current instance. For example, it's not permitted to say the defendant in a criminal trial robbed banks in the past so he was the bank robber in the current criminal trial.
> These exceptions are the reason I say there is no single “fundamental” attribution error

I think the "fundamental" reports to the "attribution", rather than to the "attribution error": behavior is erroneously explained by fundamental attributions to the person, i.e. "he's a jerk". In this sense there is no debate of having a "fundamental" attribution error.

But I'm probably wrong.
So there are a lot of problems that arise either way. Fist, the way it works now, you file for a patent and get approved, you own it for the generic term that applies to everyone, special considerations depending on the type of patent not withstanding. This leaves us with patent trolls, yes.

The alternative: grant a patent but if it not used within some scope of time in some way it becomes public domain or otherwise no longer considered a person's intellectual property. So you go to some company and say "I've solved your problem and I want to license my solution to you" and they tell you either you're going to sell it to them cheap or they'll just wait you out. You either take it or lose the patent in short order and now they can use it free. Now the only people that even own intellectual property are the big guys, and if you don't sell they let you lay fallow until your ownership becomes forfeit. You either sell to them or lose the patent.

I hate patent trolls too, but this alternative is worse. I personally don't like intellectual property in general, I think the best solution is to just not have it. Trade secrets are one thing, making it illegal for someone to reverse engineer something they bought or draw pictures they saw elsewhere in public is a bit absurd.
Integration of Huawei ML Kit for Scene Detection in Xamarin(Android)
It might sound like gibberish to non-physicists, but it actually isn't. Eulerian energy is just the energy of something as observed by an eulerian observer, i.e. a normal observer traveling through spacetime (below the speed of light ofc). Solitons are just wave packets that keep their shape as they travel. None of the ideas presented here is new, not even the fact that these warp drives might work without negative energy. It's just a study of some more contrived geometries.
Magnuson-Moss forces them to accept third party fixes. I's been law for 45 years. The current state of affairs with monopolistic control over servicing eliminates competition and allows them to gouge on repairs like this. It is exactly what RTR is trying to fix.
Bobby Tables became an entrepreneur.
The comparison to the Pensieve is so so so good. I had previously used Tim Ferriss' metaphor for writing: that it was to freeze thoughts into a solid so that you could sculpt it into whatever shape you wanted. But as you've already noticed, there isn't really a final form a thought takes, and a lot of it's value is in bouncing amongst other thoughts.

I know this isn't a very hacker newsy comment, but wanted to highlight how amazing your comparison is :D
>Explosivity and toxicity are unrelated.

Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive? Presumably ingesting highly reactive reagents is toxic.
Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
> would still be effectively a reaction-less drive

True, but if the energy requirements for warp drives continue to be measured in Jupiters, reaction-mass is the least of your worries.
Brown has bred his cattle for efficiency.

> A large-framed cow is one that requires a higher intake level for maintenance alone

https://brownsranch.us/livestock/

My math came out similarly to yours but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for there to be 150lbs of waste high cover crop biomass in a 6 square meter area.

Again he is rotating these cattle daily and never depleting the crops of any one area, giving them a chance to grow back by the time the cattle are rotated back through.

Another term you can search for to find visuals of what this sort of density looks like is mobgrazing.
If the customer is willing to take the risk, and the repair shop takes on liability, why would Tesla care? Brand image? This is already negatively affecting their brand image (for me).
This is awesome, but Stargate Defender II is really the real deal. Am I the only one that associates these games with the band Rush?
I'm not a fan of patent trolls, and I don't generally like intellectual property or how it is implemented, but this is a bad look for Apple. A court does "justice" according to it's own law and a party in the court tries to throw it's weight around to get the country to not enforce it's own law on them. This is a huge company trying to be above the law.
I'm not sure there are much variety.

For context, there is long debate between schools/parents who think keeping handwriting at school is a waste of time, and those who argue it is primordial to learning. And it's not just theoretical, some schools are really pushing hard one direction or the other.

While I don't completely agree with the first camp, most studies done by the second camp are focused on how copying stuff during lectures brings better retention when handwritten compared to typed.

My issue with that view is that copying lectures on a computer is mildly stupid in the first place. Why don't they share the slides and text and let the students focus on hearing and understanding the lecture instead ? Ideally they don't need any notes except for future reference on numbers, names or formulas.

Students should be typing to produce content on their own, not to transcribe speeches. If learning has to happen on computers, IMO it needs to be done differently and not just an ersatz of what we were doing with pen, paper and blackboards. That reflection is already happening in some way, it just has nothing to do with the political fights around removing hand writing from school.
It seems every week there is a new "discovery" of residential schools that have "turned" into graves of indigenous people. Is this the tip of the iceberg?
It's not hard to see the connection between FSD driving towards concrete pillars and the AP accidents on highways driving towards concrete barriers. None of this is hyperbole. FSD isn't a whole new system, it's based on AP. As Elon often says, they have been going for incremental improvements rather than the all-or-nothing approach taken by Waymo and others.
What would the hardware for this look like. Is there anything more to it than two Ethernet ports, storage, RAM, and CPU?

Anything beyond putting together existing components?

Thank you for responding, I am intrigued by your ideas.
Having been a regular reviewer at ML conferences, I can tell you that it is impossible to know if the empirical results are authentic without standardized testing infrastructure that controls for randomness and the datasets used.

When you're making a judgement about whether a paper is good, it is important that the paper is also true.

An inauthentic paper can present as good due to the positive empirical results it claims and an authentic theoretic paper can present as bad because of lack of empirical results or obvious utility.

Also, the grant, tenure, promotion and media are extremely relevant to being able to gather the resources to write a paper these days. You can't expect a poorly funded lab to write a polished paper unless they have ample resources to run experiments. And no matter how unbiased you think reviewers are, they are volunteers and don't feel a personal responsibility to expend a lot of effort in reviewing a paper. This is worsened if they see the other reviewers don't care either. These people are the ones who use proxies like which lab the paper came from and how polished the paper looks to make a judgement. That is how some not so good papers from a reputable lab continue to get signal boosted while other actually good contributions get overlooked. In such an environment, you need to pause to consider whether people have any reason to still do good science.
Classic NYT burying other publications' beating them to the story.
My comment wasn’t an invitation to shit on Tesla. They make a product that’s different than other products. Some things people like, some things people don’t. The same applies to anything ever made. Nobody has ever made a perfect product for everyone.

I drive a Toyota, but I know why people drive Teslas. I’m not them. They’re not me.
Hey Zach, I would love to hear how your experience working at Palantir informs your reaction to this.
And the second you open your only door you’re in a semi-abandoned hallway of crippling depression!

no, i think i’ll pass.
Andrej works for Tesla, so yes, I don't believe him.

If he contradicted his boss in public, Musk would just fire him and hire someone who will repeat the party line. I won't believe anything he says about lidar until he's no longer at Tesla, or until they have a car that's not trying to ram concrete pillars.
Oh, interesting -- I assumed you had to have a membership to the RIR directly (APNIC in my case, which would have been upwards of 1000AUD/month). Hmm... Thanks!
While there was large emigration historically out of Cuba of people that disagree with the governments, there were very far from enough people killed during the revolution or later to significantly improve those numbers.

It's not an assumption, there are polls with approval ratings for various political figures from even western institutions that show that approval ratings 40-60 are the norm. It's possible that the approval has decreased due to the crisis, but that's not unique to Cuba and if it is maintained it's plausible for the president to change.
<snark> the cost of Facebook isn't the software you developed while working there, but (as I like to say) "the lives you destroyed along the way".
>Tesla flaunts the law

They flaunt it when they flout the law.
Your choices then are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming.

The rest either have pure joint and several liability in which each defendant is responsible for the full amount of damages (Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia), or like California have modified joint and several liability in which defendants above some threshold fault percentage are responsible for the full amount of damages (Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).
I believe the answer to this is [0], and the answer to that is [1]. I'm rather over my head here, and would love some analysis from people who know what the heck they're talking about.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03079

[1]: https://eriklentzphd.blogspot.com/2021/05/response-to-new-pa...
I don't see what's your point, that the US should invade Cuba against the will of their residents and incorporate it as the 52nd state so that eventually 50 years later the kids of the current generation may be favourable to it?
I had the opposite experience last year - a book shipped from Dallas to Australia through Los Angeles and Austria (19 November to 25 February). Maybe I could have specified my address as "Australia, Southern Hemisphere".

https://twitter.com/elahieh/status/1364818600486338560
This reads the entire file, so for large files you'll likely want something like `less -n +F` if you want to use `less`.
General relativity actually tells us nothing about whether causality is absolute. You can easily make up spacetime configurations that violate causality and still conform to general relativity. It's just that most people believe that causality should be protected, because... well it would be really weird if it wasn't. But it's just a conjecture and not like a theorem or anything.
Some chemical markers of long Covid have been recently identified, which is great news because it offers hope of research towards treatment.

Psychosomatic is what doctors call illnesses when they can't find a physical cause, especially if it "looks like stress".

I don't wish to discount genuine psychosomatic illnesses. However a psychsomatic diagnosis is often found to be wrong in the end, i.e. a physical cause is found after all. This causes no end of trouble for patients, who are effectively told it's all in their heads when it isn't.
Isn't Biden responsible for the EPA? Seems like something Bernie would have had a lot more to say about.
Out of curiosity, what did you use to make the all hands simulator?
I think the best lesson is at the time no one called the project out.

There were plenty of people who called the project out.

Nobody cared, the "story" was too compelling.

Here's my favorite quip (I don't remember where I found it) about OLPC: "OLPC is a rich man's idea of what poor men need. It's like donating an expresso machine to a homeless shelter."
“ I really hope other EV companies are learning from Tesla’s mistakes.”

This is literally the most ignorant thing I have ever seen written.
Noncircular extragenomic dna in bacteria isn't a new thing, for example, the marine algae cyanothece has linear DNA, and iirc it is important in regulating day/night cycles for nitrogen fixation (which is oxygen sensitive)
A) See if they're open to continuous improvement, organize (or have your boss organize) a post-mortem on why the situation got to the point you had to sacrifice your life to cover for bad earlier decision. What errors were made? What changes need to happen for this not to ever happen again?

If attribution goes to bad management, and decisions are made to make the situation better, then you can give them a chance.

If the developer is to blame and seriously it was such a simple project why could you not deliver it faster, then you know you need to go.

B) The other red-flag is in the "under resourced" - if no resources are put on the table, then it certainly is not a big deal if you're late. It's very scary to be late, but what's the actual problem if you are? Will you get fired? Will the company lose M$? Or is it just a product/project manager putting too much pressure on you, and making you do things they should not?
I never would have come across this myself when doing very cursory research. One step closer... Thanks!
"effectively traveling into your own past"

Can you explain how traveling faster than light leads to that? Perhaps you meant "observing your own past?"
For context, the "almost no crops" that are irrigated comprises about fifty-five million acres, a little over 7% of cropland & pastures. Removing pastures from this data is difficult, but since we're only looking at three hundred million acres primary cropland in the US, we can confidently approximate between a tenth and a sixth of primary crops are irrigated.

1 - https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/report...
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Wow, the equivalent of having a building with existing wheelchair ramps and ripping them out because they're "unsightly".

I guess it's a valid decision decision, but pretty crappy for anyone who needs them.
>They want FSD to be a downloadable app like a subscription.

Well that's just too bad.

While I'm sure it would be inconvenient to their business plan, it remains the case that they're charging ten grand for that software patch, and have no possible argument relating to margin.
> carrying for self defense makes you drastically less safe by most metrics

You're probably referencing studies such as Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault[1], which looked at whether people who were shot were carrying a gun at the time. It did not differentiate between criminals who were carrying illegally and law-abiding citizens who had concealed carry permits. The selection effect in such studies is clear: Many criminals who carry guns are involved in shootings. Also, many people carry guns because they are at a higher risk of being a victim of violent crime. I have yet to find a study that corrects for these confounders.

1. https://sci-hub.st/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099
Besides the size, are there any practical advantages over ESP8266 NodeMCU boards that you can buy on Aliexpress for $2.50? The specs are solid, but the price tag of $25 seems a bit excessive. I'm not big on microcontrollers, must be missing something.
> Really? Doesn't something being explosive mean it's highly unstable and reactive?

Not particularly, no. Some certainly are, but others require a great deal of activation energy to detonate. Nitroglycerine (another explosive medication) is notoriously touchy. But C4 is only mildly flammable; you can heat up your meal by lighting a piece of C4 on fire then put the fire out by smashing it with a hammer; it won't detonate like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)#Detonation
Now if someone could tell me how to easily live tail a CloudWatch log stream... (without gaps, errors, delays, etc).
That's not a normal range for most of the country doing SWE. If you know where to get that type of job let me know. I've done blind, sent out tons of applications, whatever. Hurts to know I'm potentially screwing myself out of tens of thousands of dollars, but nobody is contacting me back.

My professional contacts have told me I'm doing senior level work but nobody will respond even for positions below that.
Don't replace the default logging mechanism. Your wrapper version with the fancy colors isn't better.

Disagree pretty strongly with this one. Colors make changes in the data pop instantly. Colors are for humans. Logs are for humans. Use structured data if you need computers to read it. Send that data to ELK stack. Also color is very easy to strip with a regex.

Though colors should be a logformatter on the output side, a wrapper or subclass of the system logger can still be useful for collecting context data that the system logger can't collect on its own.
We need the services we run inside K8s to be highly available (as well as K8s ingress), but the K8s API we care less about. We haven't noticed any K8s API downtime issues, but I guess we mostly hit the K8s API during deploys, which for us are likely not frequent enough to notice the downtime you're talking about.