skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read as detect, but if you detect it far enough in advance, it gives a lot of time to do something about it. Even a small nudge make a huge change in position decades later.
So I wonder, in this situation what changes where the accident is averted? It's fine to demand accountability but what specifically is being monitored? Because I don't think there's a real answer yet. They can say IT needs to do a better job. Obviously. But in what dimension? Theres a lot of "you screwed up!" but very little "heres the fix"
I'm also a technological apatheist who likes to exploit behavioral determinism to spam more minds with more inconsequential content.

Where can I apply?
Cable Types Meaning or Nomenclature
You might enjoy the SponsorBlock add-on if you aren't already using it.
> But what is observer? It is our consciousness

You fell for a ruse. Your phone can use its camera to observe quantum phenomena such as shot noise just fine. Observations have nothing to do with consciousness.
No, the real problem is that for the most part, they can’t evaluate trustworthiness and use in-person interaction and a panopticon to cover up that fact.
> US has USGS maps, or national geographic maps, apparently (haven’t hiked in the US).

These are

(1) Easily available online, and various apps can save offline copies of arbitrary portions of the maps to be used without Internet access.

(2) Frequently not accurate / updated, and don't contain all hiking trails.

If you had looked up the Wikipedia article on the USGS maps, you would have seen the following:

> In 2008 the USGS abandoned traditional methods of surveying, revising, and updating topographic maps based on aerial photography and field checks. Today's U.S. Topo quadrangle (1:24,000) maps are mass-produced, using automated and semiautomated processes, with cartographic content supplied from the National GIS Database. In the two years from June 2009 to May 2011, the USGS produced nearly 40,000 maps, more than 80 maps per work day. Only about two hours of interactive work are spent on each map, mostly on text placement and final inspection; there are essentially no field checks or field inspections to confirm map details.

> While much less expensive to compile and produce, the revised digital U.S. topo maps have been criticized for a lack of accuracy and detail in comparison to older generation maps based on aerial photo surveys and field checks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Surve...
Why not? Siesta makes sense in the climate of Spain and Southern Italy. Isn't Portugal just as hot?
I read it for the first time an hour ago from a different article.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/drawing-pictures-of-cities

Presumably that article is why the OP showed up on HN
Historically people have regularly fallen off Ben Nevis and killed themselves by mistaking the path they're on. It's one of the things the mountain is known for in mountaineering circles. (Source: long ago was in said circles)
Adding to this: there are a few other conditions which apply. The initial orbital parameters may not be accurate (there are known major errors), there are volatiles which were onboard which may have outgassed (affecting trajectory) or exploded (affecting integrity). The orbital mechanics (and simulator) elements are quite informative and well done.

But there's reasonably good odds much of the ascent stage is intact and in orbit.

Other Apollo missions are mentioned. Apollo 10 (which executed a near-surface approach but no landing) executed a burn resulting in solar orbit insertion with a highly probably matching asteroid having recently been found. After Apollo 11, subsequent ascent stages were intentionally directed into lunar terrain as part of seismographic (selenographic?) studies.

Manly does a good job of presenting significant credible information. I'm not an uncritical fan of video but this one rewards attention.
It's somehow even worse now as the text takes up a third of the screen width and there's so much UI that doesn't tell you what it does.
We need more help on solar powered computers such as the Raspberry Pi from https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html.
Also, forget streaming. Use youtube-dl and streamripper (streaming music) everywhere you can.
Warcraft III Reforged (not remastered) is one of the biggest tragedies. It was released completely buggy, without about half of the promised features, featured an IP restriction that any map made using their map editor is Blizzard's to own (see: the entire MOBA genre that was created only due to blizards map editors).

The worst part was this: Warcraft III Reforged was made into a PATCH for the original game. So if you had the original game, and perhaps STILL PLAYED the original with all the mods that made it so continuously popular in the first place, you don't get a choice, you had to upgrade to their new buggy experience.

https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-a...

So they literally replaced the old, extremely beloved game, with a new buggy engine and pretty much destroyed the entire community built around the game.
The Statue of Liberty’s Hand Sat in Madison Square for Six Years (2017)
Utopias like solarpunk look nice but how does it make good stories?

It is hard to make stories without some form of conflict, and being a utopia, solarpunk is defined by the lack of it. I mean, if it is perfect, there is no way for improvement, it is not surprising that utopias go stale.

Dystopias are the natural result of pushing utopias too far. Once you have finished describing the wonderful world of joy, equality, optimism and forest-like cities, you will necessarily end up with the question "what happened to assholes?". Are they punished like criminals? Is their behavior "adjusted"? Did we engineer the asshole gene out? And the more you dig in, the more your utopia starts to look like a dystopia. As expected, these themes have been covered at length by many sci-fi authors.
I'm very happy running StumpWM on NixOS without desktop enviroment (just Emacs, Firefox and XTerm).

StumpWM is written in Common Lisp and trivial to customize even if you don't know Lisp.

StumpWM has a really good and simple implementation of manual tiling. After using XMonad for many years, dynamic tiling never clicked for me.
> I only wish Gmail gave me the option to do this.

That's why I pay Fastmail: no ads, and no data harvesting.
Frida 15 Is Out
I agree with you and the OP. Thank you for that link, looking forward to reading it.
Thoughts on “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination”
"Unless changes are made, the Navy risks losing the next major
conflict."

That's a pretty damning call for change, and a set of recommendations that seems fairly easy to implement, should those in command decided to actually do so.

The Navy has gotten used to the idea that nobody will dare attack them at sea. Not good.
It cant be "any video" because I am able to watch many videos without any ads in the browser, even with Javascript enabled. I think it is only some videos. Can you provide a single example. Which itag do you use. I want to test.
as usual, Microsoft a**hole behaviour

won't happen if Github wasn't taken and ruled by it
For me the biggest selling point is that the content I like is on YouTube. Everything else I can do without.

I consume it through their RSS, which is nice, I suppose.
You may want to run the numbers on Norway (5 mio people), Sweden, Netherlands, etc. and all the others that aren’t even on a list that only shows totals and not per capita ‘generosity’.

See, I don’t know if this is helping the case you are trying to make against cycomanic. You come here claiming you are more generous than the next 10 combined, when, in reality, you aren’t even in the top 5.
You know, I understand some people disagree with the insinuation here, but down voting really shouldn't be used like this. There was nothing inflamatory, ill intended, or outright wrong with anything in the comment. Seeing downvotes for unpopular opinions gives me a bad reminder of how reddit's voting meta evolved.
> What area of machine learning do you feel is closer to how natural cognition works?

None. The prevalent ideas in ML are a) "training" a model via supervised learning b) optimizing model parameters via function minimization/backpropagation/delta rule.

There is no evidence for trial & error iterative optimization in natural cognition. If you'd try to map it to cognition research the closest thing would be behaviorist theories by B.F. Skinner from 1930s. These theories of 'reward and punishment' as a primary mechanism of learning have been long discredited in cognitive psychology. It's a black-box, backwards looking view disregarding the complexity of the problem (the most thorough and influential critique of this approach was by Chomsky back in the 50s)

The ANN model that goes back to Mcculloch & Pitts paper is based on neurophysiological evidence available in 1943. The ML community largely ignores fundamental neuroscience findings discovered since (for a good overview see https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Computations-Edmund-T-Rolls/dp/... )

I don't know if it has to do with arrogance or ignorance (or both) but the way "AI" is currently developed is by inventing arbitrary model contraptions with complete disregard for constraints and inner workings of living intelligent systems, basically throwing things at the wall until something sticks, instead of learning from nature, like say physics. Saying "but we don't know much about the brain" is just being lazy.

The best description of biological constraints from computer science perspective is in Leslie Valiant work on "neuroidal model" and his book "circuits of the mind" (He is also the author of PAC learning theory influential in ML theorist circles) https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs379c/archive/2012/suggested... , https://www.amazon.com/Circuits-Mind-Leslie-G-Valiant/dp/019...

If you're really interested in intelligence I'd suggest starting with representation of time and space in the hippocampus via place cells, grid cells
and time cells, which form sort of a coordinate system for navigation, in both real and abstract/conceptual spaces. This likely will have the same importance for actual AI as Cartesian coordinate system in other hard sciences. See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.25.432776v1
and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00068...

Also see research on temporal synchronization via "phase precession", as a hint on how lower level computational primitives work in the brain https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00928...

And generally look into memory research in cogsci and neuro, learning & memory are highly intertwined in natural cognition and you can't really talk about learning before understanding lower level memory organization, formation and representational "data structures". Here are a few good memory labs to seed your firehose

https://twitter.com/MemoryLab

https://twitter.com/WiringTheBrain

https://twitter.com/TexasMemory

https://twitter.com/ptoncompmemlab

https://twitter.com/doellerlab

https://twitter.com/behrenstimb

https://twitter.com/neurojosh

https://twitter.com/MillerLabMIT
> "How much repetitive and empty of creativity most programming tasks are."

I've used Copilot for the past couple of weeks and haven't found this to be the case.

Most of the time Copilot doesn't really understand what I'm doing or isn't useful because I'm doing exploratory programming. For the trivial stuff, I've found that it's easier to write it myself because then I don't have to correct what an AI is thinking so it fits into the project or compiles.

I'm a big fan of Copilot. I think the outrage is overblown. But it hasn't been useful enough to prove that most programming is "devoid of creativity and repetitive".

> "Every task Copilot can do for you is a task that should NOT be part of modern programming, and a signal that our industry is broken and that programmers are the new blue collars."

I really don't get this point. The point of programming and explicitness is control over what gets run.

Are you sick of writing API calls to a weather service? Use no-code or a library. Are you sick of writing an algorithm for X? Find a library for it, there's likely tons, and if there isn't, that's creative work for ya. Dislike setting up a React project? Use a boilerplate. Sick of plumbing things together? Try no-code.

Feeling like nothing you're making is creative? Go write your own OS or something.

This thread reeks of the whole elitist "programming used to be real work back then" attitude.
Great links! Other related rabbit holes to go down might be Adam Curtis (kinda obvious) and Liu Cixin. Anyone else have any good living scifi authors indirectly or directly dealing with related ideas?
Fakespot shows reviews it thinks are dubious and you can take a look and decide if it's right. Some are pretty blatant.
The emphasis of the project seems to be privacy, rather than ad-blocking, although it does block ads. The two are often intertwined.
Didn't the Asians refer to the Portuguese as "garlic eaters"? When one eats garlic, the scent comes out in the sweat - so you can smell them coming.

From my own experience, if I eat garlic and later scrub my head with a wet washcloth, I can smell the garlic on the washcloth.
Apparently there's a new version called google workspace individual. You keep an @gmail account pay a fee for some extra features.

https://workspace.google.com/individual/

Not sure if it's fully launched yet.
Remind me where I said that, please.
Maybe it's the ham radio jamming that causes it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857290
The Channel Caster 16, probably the most capable Haiku OS commercial system available at present. Yours for only $3199.

http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/command-center-system-pack...
Your Zoom colleagues will be more than happy to provide the references you need for future employment.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I can share my experience.

I used to drink at least 2 cups of coffee a day, and at least 3-4 of black tea.

over a year I slowly backed down to just a single coffee coffee in the morning.. then eventually switched to decafe coffee for that one. I had headaches for about a week, and I think I was irritable.

Recently I stopped even the decafe coffee, and now drink 1 or 2 decafe tea a day when it's cold.

I feel great, save money and don't miss the ups and downs of real coffee - I used to get the sweats, shakes, funny shallow breathing, etc. etc.

I also had no idea I was living life through a "fog", that I didn't even know about until a few months after I stopped. Life is much better now.
Yeah, I tend to lean towards the side of realism (and constructivism), explicitly for the reasons exemplified by your rock / bottle analogy downthread.

But even from that perspective, I found the article's discussion of "true" / "false" rather weird, since it seemed to be taking certain positions (namely regarding the continuum hypothesis) for granted even though those positions don't seem to be grounded in any material fact.

It's as if people are conjuring up imaginary fictional entities and then asserting certain attributes about those entities as obvious and objective.
The excerpt, mostly.

The essay does continue its fair share of glib side-stepping of areas of social organization that are less deterministic than Alexander likes to suggest, but it also contains some good points and some interesting examples (even if I don't agree with his explanations/projections of all of them).
would being featured in this article jeapordize it? why even do it when you get a pension in two years
Sure, but I assume those people didn't make that mistake because of automated directions? Google maps will also happily draw a line to the White House[1], but no one is concern trolling about how the dotted line could lead people to mistakenly trespass across a restricted area... To me this is just the BBC having an axe to grind with tech companies.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/uVa2cqpNGy3YMaJs7
I was way into x-wing. That game and it’s expansions were more important to me than Tie.
Congrats, very happy for you! And thanks for letting us know!
An hour? That feels pretty quick but I guess the standard is the standard.
OpenStreetMap is a dataset that can be rendered any way you want. Where did you see that map and what were the settings?
Moving the goalposts yet again. Not only must it be technically superior for everyone, not only must it adhere to decades old computing dogma, but now it must be branded in such a way that it’s individual components must be unidentifiable?
Fascinating seeing the parallels between history and today.

> vanishingly few U.S. policymakers have degrees in science or foreign languages, and yet they nevertheless make decisions regarding nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and international trade.

Has any society ever had educated politicians as the norm? It seems like politicking is a skill in itself that leaves no time for other education (with few exceptions such as Jimmy Carter).

> the competitive testing regime systematically favored the wealthy and the connected—who thus had more reason to continue to support it.

Nothing new here, but

> A need for government revenue led to the development of the “irregular” route for advancement, in which offices and degrees could be purchased rather than earned. Between 1830 and 1912, only 32 percent of Qing officials had actually passed the examinations

That's a bit shortsighted of a policy no? Codifying the outright buying of political office is a bit different and more extreme than buying influence we see today (and throughout history). Maybe a real historian could speak to this bizarre policy.
Also a FastMail user. I don’t want to give a single dollar or as impression to Google.
I feel like this could be a double edged situation. Sure, it's great to have someone who is competent and independent. I would imagine this could go bad when if the person is too independent or doesn't exactly have the same vision as the hiring company. I feel like I am more independent than most and think outside the box. I believe this has played a part in why I'm still a midlevel dev.
I care about the issues (as an angineer), but my experience with raising any security issues is that it results in a lot of pain for me personally.

You report something to the ‘security’ team, and suddenly you’re responsible for doing all the work, as well as the prime suspect in an investigation ‘why didn’t you fix this before, since when did we know about this?!’

I’m absolutely incentiviced to just let any issue lie until it is discovered, because then it actually is the security teams problem.
What part of “not a monolith” requires portability to other operating systems?
better resolutions
The Haiku MediaKit API was available 5 years before Fabrice Bellard published ffmpeg, and back in the early 90’s BeInc’s goal was to attract the next successor to the NewTek toaster, and to be the next real time audio mixer. This is why they emphasised chaining of media nodes and sorting our “performance time” synchronisation issues with their API. The famous BeOS marketing video demos such a device.

BeOS kernel allows unique app access to a shared memory area, eliminating memory copies when sharing data. When creating the shared area, media apps can set several media access flags to engage the “fast path” if the devices have that buffer. These days modern graphics API’s (eg. Vulkan) offer the same buffer creation hints to help the driver figure out where to best allocate memory (device local, host accessible etc). Because not all memory is equal.

I’ve used both ffmpeg API and BMediaKit (I’m the author of a Haiku native video editor, https://github.com/smallstepforman/Medo). The BMediaKit API is trivially easy to use. ffmpeg is notoriously convoluted. Likewise, the native GUI API is also a pleasure to use. This is why my open source media editor is Haiku native (and not cross platform).
I guess decimation doesn't mean what it used to.
It seems to me the pace of technological improvement over the last 20 years has gotten smoked by the pace of environmental degradation.
> One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.

The population is only 54 million. How could Covid possibly kill 15 million there!?
How do you get electrolytes in your water?
Well, there's a difference between asset-poor and cashflow-poor. You might have a couple of valuables accumulated over generations - watches, silverware, etc. are good examples - but not liquid cash. Even in modern times, there are plenty of people with a small and perhaps negative net worth but who own a mortgaged house, and taking out a loan using that house as collateral is common.

Also, because it gives loans to be repaid within a year, you'd better have an immediate plan of how to earn the money back.

I bet this was more useful for, say, small-time merchants who needed to do repairs or get a pack animal or something, and not for the destitute who needed alms.
I'm comparing countries in death/million inhabitants, and now the record is in Peru ~6,000 and a few countries have ~3,000 and then the count goes down fast. Go to https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... and sort by total death.

10 millions death in a country with a population of 55 millions is 180,000 death/million inhabitants. Perhaps I'm too optimistic, but 30x times the current country record is too much. I doubt that prediction is accurate.
I didn’t see this with systemd either, so that’s good.
Wait, what about that woman on a bicycle in... Arizona, New Mexico, somewhere like that; about a year ago -- wasn't that Waymo?
What do you have to be smoking to claim a 25% population-wide fatality rate from covid?
I'd like to reply specifically to the Go is supposed to be sub-second GC pause latency part - Go's GC is crazy fast, it pauses for only microseconds, comparable to the socket transport overhead. It can't be thought of as Java-like at all.
Well, the split is probably related to how solarpunk isn't really related to the punk movement. Cyberpunk art usually describes dystopian environments, and the way individuals and communities adapt to is and subvert it.

On the other hand, solarpunk art is an overtly optimistic movement, which leaves very little room for a confrontational political message. The example tweet you cited is pretty, with a "just add trees" city, where the necessary trappings of a vertical city (mass transportation, crowds, pollution, etc) are absent.

This sounds a bit critical of the solarpunk movement, but it's honestly hard for me to reconcile the hard problems I face and what I see in this movement. Merely adding the "punk" affix is not going to transform what would probably better be called solar-hippie.
Because they can get away with it and because of greed.
> There's one feature that I'd like to see in that area: partitioned writable replicas.

This is getting more common these days. Google’s Spanner database does this. The database is divided into “tablets” which are each given their own Paxos state. Spanner moves tablets between server instances to do load balancing. There’s no need for you to do the partitioning manually, although if you run into performance problems, you may need to understand how tablets work.

Spanner’s definitely not unique in doing this, but Spanner does have a nice writeup of how it works:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... (PDF)
vitess on k8s gives u some nice options.. sure a little extra application logic but so what. you can easily break out of vitess sharding whereever its needed and you still get the benefit of k8s schuduling.
Why the Economy Is So Weird Right Now [video]
Which civilization solved this, exactly?

Of the advanced economies, Western Europe seems to have the exact issue identified by GP: the hardest working/most ambitious workers move to the US. On the other hand, in Japan "death by overwork" seems to be close to or at the level of a genuine public health crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi