skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

That would not even remotely be classed as an electronic bike in the EU.

It is far too powerful for that.

His electric motorcycle had a top speed of 60 mph (97 km/h) and a motor power of 15 kW.

The legal limits for a pedelec cycle in the EU are a maximum assisted speed of 15.5 mph (25km/h) and a motor of no more than 250w.

The motor in Simon Cowell's electric motorcycle is 60 times as powerful as the legal limit in the EU
That actually says something subtly different than what the other article was claiming. Not only does it point to the pandemic as a whole as a cause rather than lockdowns in particular, as the Babylon Bee article did, but it suggests that the most problematic changes in behavior were increases in drinking among people who were already heavy drinkers, not people "becoming alcoholics" who didn't previously have a drinking problem.
This.

The thing is that some of the techniques commonly applied when training NN are often "good enough" to deal with the presence of corrupted data (e.g. using SGD to optimize a model, while applying weight decay and drop-out, adds a regularization effect that somewhat replicates the effect of assuming errors-in-variables), as long as the input data is not total trash, which deters people from applying more formalized robust approaches to it.

As long as "things kind of work", it is difficult to convince other people to adopt robust methods, particularly due to the existence of a "robustness vs. efficiency" trade-off (which can make robust methods seem additionally "unsexy").
A workaround which could work for regular people not bothering you would be using headphones.
I think that's a little dramatic and lacking nuance, but I can't disagree
For liability reasons, you can't sell a line of saws that chop off fingers next to a line that doesn't. You're basically admitting the former is defective.

I'd think the opposite is true - you can't sell a $250 saw that won't cut someone's finger off next to a $200 saw and expect it to sell. No one thinks it'll happen to them... otherwise Saw-stop's own line of saws would dominate the market. Some people will pay the premium, but I'd bet that most will not.
I wasn't aware I was trying to sound intellectual.

I'll go find a doctor. That was definitely not my intention.
I guess you don’t want an independent, strong-willed client state. You want one that does what you tell it to do. This creates a corruptive pressure from the very top.

Then I guess it is easy to not see that there is no “client state”, only a failed state propped up by your own power.
But that's a valid argument! "Here are tons of other examples from before the past decade" is a perfect response to "I've noticed this new thing in the past decade".
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> Either onboard compute is minimal, or it has a battery life measured in dozens of minutes.

For industrial applications you could probably have some sort of novel power system, like a tether from the ceiling or special floor that delivers power through the feet.
Everytime I hear the term "processed food", imagine eating "unprocessed" wheat.
I am just afraid WebAssembly is another way for hackers to get in. Browser bugs are common and have even led to jailbreaks and other attacks in the past.

Probably a good idea to limit the type of code they can execute.
Yeah I remember that guy and I did do the easier controller mods for better power.

That site really defined how good the internet could be. I remember Justin documenting his trip across Canada on one thread. So many cool builds.

I moved eight years ago and turned my ebike into a rope tow for the kids to use on my very small back yard ski hill. So haven't followed it after that sadly.
Would it be similar to Blur (www. abine.com)?
All those things can happen without CGI?
I grew up with a rotary phone. From memory, 1 was the shortest to dial, 9 the longest.
> Does anyone else have any ideas for how to authenticate a BigCorp caller whose corporate policies do not allow them to provide any account information to the people they are calling?

I mean, it's really their problem, isn't it?

If you need something from them, call their customer line and ask. If they need something from you, then they'll figure it out.

I had a financial institution call me one time and ask

"Is this nucleardog?"
"Yes."
"Alright, this is reallyfastwords can we start by verifying your date of birth?"
"No. You called me. I didn't even catch who you are. What can I help you with."
"I'm with really fast words. I can't tell you anything until I verify your identity."
"You called me. You verify your identity first."
"If you don't verify, then I can't tell you why I called!"
"That's fine."

There was a loooong pause before she finally decided on "Okay, what _day_ in June of 1985 were you born?" and apparently that was satisfactory.
IRL, I have heard the term hacker only as a term for "badly written code that kinda works, but is a mess". It was never something positive.
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Only the most relevant topics from the big tech news fanfare percolate inside HN; all the rest brings to the light a part of the tech web which would otherwise remain mostly unknown to me. HN us a community-driven curation process and it works because the community is great.
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NBC News: https://archive.is/8Lwxr

Same info, but less slant.
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Wow going through this persons online presence, she is astoundingly prolific. Transgender, as well.
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Why does the Taco Bell from the image look like how the Taco Bell restaurant looked like in the movie Demolition Man ?
I've seen some people using a dictaphone for this kind of thing. I'm sure these days you can get a phone app that would even auto-transcribe your 3AM ramblings. :)
One was the shortest to dial since it's just one pulse, nine was the longest one.
The purpose was to make it hard to dial 999 accidentally.
You have it backwards. 1 is the shortest to dial. Zero is longest. 9 is second longest.
That is interesting.

I would point out though that the truth does not always fit between the 'left' and 'right' views. The migration of the Overton window, capture of major media, and increased acceptance of social media censorship sailed away from truth some time ago.
This type of view of things is extremely hard to maintain considering that the last 20 years where wages have stagnated, yet productivity and profitability has been growing like crazy. Minimum wage earners have actually been dropping in pay due to deflation.
A number of technical factors in the implementation cryptography-wise (homomorphic operations on blinded hashes, threshold key release via tickets) have only been deployed in consumer-facing systems very recently.

From the system as I understand it, these are fairly essential to some of the privacy characteristics they were shooting for, such as LE requiring server code to scan for users who have some amount of non-reviewed matches below the threshold.
I somewhat disagree. It's indeed in the implemention of the principles where things go wrong, but I do believe that requires reform.

In between golden principles and everyday court are a lot of pragmatic laws and regulations. That is where I would like to see reform. To help the system full fill it's ideals and principles, especially the blindness of the justice.
No README, no command line option, not description how to use it, when trying to use as a library, there is a TypeError.

Why is it on front page?
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Earlier discussion (2019 Oct / 144 points / 75 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374204
This technology (the idea of linear compressor directly driven by a coil) is used for at least two decades, particularly in LG compressors in AC and refrigerators [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_compressor
Maybe they meant it like "don't want to ONLY be playing video games" as in they'd be fine with video games in moderation as long as they had a social life, career, money for vacation and travel, a good hobby, family...etc.
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Was the arrangement of the numbers backwards from the US rotary phone? Because in the US 1 was the shortest. That’s why large cities like New York got 212 and Los Angeles got 213 which were the fastest to dial on a rotary phone.
Large cities provide so much more opportunity to people than towns and smaller cities, that I can't see the ethical case for limiting densification, even if maximizing densification moderately compromises the character of the neighbourhoods that current residents live in.
I don't think the UK tabloid press is as harmless as that.
Yes, sometimes the headlines can be funny but very often it seems they are about vilifying or bullying an individual or group. They mainly sell "outrage" but under the cloak of occasional humour, have no regard at all for truth.

Also to dismiss their influence as "entertainment" is not accurate either. Politicians, broadsheets and "respectable" media often take their cues from or respond to tabloid stories. This gives tabloids incredible power to frame the narrative outside of the realm of "entertainment" and "mocking exaggeration" and is why politicians have always tried to cosy up to tabloid editors and owners.

Some of the covers I've seen on tabloids - particularly the xenophobic or slyly racist stuff is quite shocking to be honest - I've never seen similar in the equivalent press of other countries.
This makes me feel like a person who thought too much is re-inventing the Hagalean Dialectic, replacing the "Thesis -> Anti-thesis -> Synthesis" with "order -> disorder -> purpose". Or perhaps replacing the long arc of history

Their loop about the parent putting away the toys was not right. When a child is young a parent cleans up their child's toys in a similar way they clean their diaper: a thing of order and of safety. As a child grows, the parent teaches the child how to create order in their own life.

Chaos is all around us. (Healthy) Civilization and a Stable, Structured Family hold off this Chaos. Order is not Chaos from a different perspective. That is madness.

Just because Cause and Effect can be complicated does not mean it is not a real thing.

Thinking in terms of simple purposes (a flower's purpose is to bloom) is certainly stoic and can be useful; but that's like saying a beautiful painting is just acrylics on a canvas.

I suspect the nature of this thinking does not reflect reality and if you try to base real actions on top of it, it will end in badness.
> With everything in the news about reproducibility and doctored data, this seems too staggering to believe. Has this study been tried again?

Yep, totally! I'm a firm believer in the power of walking to increase thoughts, but whenever I read about studies like this a big red beeping alarm goes of in my brain that goes "replication crisis! replication crisis!"
Thanks all for the suggestions and feedback. Paolo Attivissimo, the author of the linked post, is monitoring this thread.
> One was a method of texting that didn't require looking at the phone

Oh that's easy, every phone before iPhone could do it - you need a) a physical keyboard, and b) a soft real-time OS. Tactile feedback of physical buttons + stable UI configuration with learnable delays = you could learn to operate the phone without taking it out of your pocket.

:)

Joking aside, what was your invention? Could you link to the patent?
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It's worth noting that the above comment, while it might sound paranoid to some, is IMO entirely justified.

I'm 50/50 on whether someone at some point hasn't executed a successful Trusting Trust attack (see Ken Thompson). With modern machines that have megabytes of binary blobs, different co-processors that have access to the RAM while they can't be reprogrammed to be on the user's side, and techniques that can actually tell when sensitive operations are happening, such attacks are becoming more feasible.
How much irrigation that is needed very much depends on where you are and what kind of tree. After the first few years it take to settle, trees have deep roots and rarely need watering.

And I have never heard of trees contribution negatively to "biological contaminants", whatever that means. Rather, trees contribute to a cleaner and healthier environment.
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How do you define "apolitical"? Can you teach government, philosophy, economics, or history in an apolitical way?

Was it the war of northern aggression or the civil war? Was it fought over slavery? Or states rights? Is one of those ways of teaching history more political than the other?

The problem is that propaganda is political, and how history is taught is propaganda.
If the company only needs cowboy programming, corner cases don't matter.

For some industries, ensuring your code doesn't fail on corner cases is very important, and questions about quirks show whether a candidate cares about corner cases and their comprehension of them.

Given that the limitations of IEEE754 are the same in in virtually all programming languages, I suspect it is actually really good to use floating point quirks to probe a candidate on how skillful they are at programming.

I roll my eyes at some stack overflow answers for their complete failure to consider even common corner cases like NaN and Infinity.

I have certainly been caught out by my own mistakes in my own code with with integer and floating point errors, and I think I am more careful than most.
Just take an existing idea and build a similar product or service competing with the existing providers of that same idea?
> - He said they're not very affected by the chip shortage

My guess as to why is that they probably have a very predictable/steady chip supply pipeline and are low enough volume and high enough margin that they can easily outbid anyone and it wouldn't have a meaningful impact on the bottom line.
Stochastic gradient descent is not embarrassingly parallel, because it's an iterative process where each step depends on the previous one. If you figure out a better optimization algorithm that is more parallelizable, the world will beat a path to your door.
I changed teams and went on a meditation retreat. Things are much better.

Your larger point is correct up until the point where the decision is “I, Mr. X am not going to take on that additional work.” Until Mr. X exercises the autonomy to say “no”, he will always be overwhelmed and struggle to think and speak clearly. Until others trust him when he claims something is hard and are willing to take no for an answer, their distrust will make him untrustworthy.

It is a vicious cycle.
that sample sounds very convincing! if you don't mind me asking, what TTS library did you use to generate it?
Yes, I know. I also know that if you look at the numbers Apple still makes the majority of their income on hardware. By a lot. (Like, 79% to 21% as of the last reported quarter.) Maybe one day this will not be true, but that day is not today, and it is unlikely to be a day next year, or the year after that, or the year after that.

In any case, I was making a dry joke about Apple not wanting your money if you weren't signed into iCloud, because how all companies, private or public, work generally includes "this person giving us some money may not be as good as this person giving us more money, but is obviously better than this person giving us no money at all." One day I will learn that dry humor rarely flies on Hacker News, but that day is not today, and it is unlikely to be a day next year, or the year after that, or the year after that. So it goes.
incumbents generally win re-elections. I'm not sure if their votes even matter:

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/reelection-ra...
problems. they are everywhere, you just gotta find one where people will pay you to fix it. the idea is connected to the problem you want to solve, think of the people you know and love. is there anything you can do to help them? well, that’s an idea. then you test it, you see if your idea solves their suffering or allows them to get back something they lost or feel like they are losing, it’s a very powerful motivator and can be rewarding on many levels outside of monetary

edit: keep a journal and start jotting down anything that comes to mind. you’ll have to test them somehow, write down some metrics that way you know if you are moving towards your end goal
I'm kind of addicted. I wish I could stop coming here, or at least have some self-discipline, but it hasn't worked. I'm aware of noprocrast and other technical means, but I just end up working around them to get at the website.

Otherwise, I come for the nuggets of useful information. I find them semi-frequently, so there is some positive to coming here.
Not at all. The areas where they are ubiquitous, which we normally call forests, are still cool.
For some people it's a nice challenge to tackle.

Additionally, M1 is currently best? platform when comparing performance with power usage, and (at least MBA) comes in a great form factor. AFAIK there is no comparable device that has decent support for Linux.
The average duration counted for a generation is about 20, maximum 30 years. So that would make it 6-8 generations.

If you consider the average lifespan during this period as being 60 years, it's more 2-3 generations.

By this logic, everything is experimental. Heck, we've had PCs for just 40 years, they're all just a big experiment, they might fail us soon.
Just trying to fit in with the style of the piece itself. e.g. the following quote

'faith” is often pitted against “science” (even by those friendly to the former) as if “science” were synonymous with “reason.”'

Lots of scare quotes around science and reason, an unfounded accusation without supporting evidence (faith is often pitted against science? By whom? When are they doing this or did the author just decide it's so true he doesn't have to back up his argument?

As for inferring motive, he provides that himself:
'How are we to reconcile this commonsense “manifest image” of the world with the quantitative “scientific image” (to borrow philosopher Wilfrid Sellars’ famous distinction)? The answer is that they cannot be reconciled.'

He has rejected objective measurement of the world because it can't be reconciled with his "manifest image" - his lived experience which you can infer involves religion of some sort.

This guy is an associate professor? I pity his students.
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> The argument may be more 'be aware of the biases of the news media you consume'.

Exactly this. That's why I said "it is not an impartial source".

This might lead you to stop consuming certain very low quality sources, or in most cases, read them with awareness.
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Those employees will leave unhealthy relationships for ones which are better for their career.
Apple is not known to provide any documentation, and it's incredibly hard to get Linux running since the introduction of T1 chips.
But the virus spreads among the vaccinated any way.

Moreover, the global population of unvaccinated will not be meaningfully affected by any one country's decision to mandate vaccination. And the mutation rate is dependent on the size of the global population of virus carriers, not one country's.

So all-in-all, I see very weak justification for such a heavy handed mandate, no matter how useful I think vaccination is.
I stand corrected then!
When are proxy servers not caching?
Sparse neural networks can be optimized by implementing them using Locality Sensitive Hashing (2019 paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.03129.pdf

Fun fact, last week one of the main authors of the above 2019 paper spun off a company for the above approach: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/13/thirdai-raises-6m-to-democ...
It's a nice piece of hardware, reminiscent of old IBM water-cooled mainframes. But as a solution to self-driving, it's doubling down on a failed strategy. If they haven't been able to avoid hitting solid obstacles with what they've been doing, more data won't help.
Yeah, I had a laugh there as well. The author's equivocation between cancel culture and Stalinist censorship does seem like a bit of a stretch. I think a better analogy would be the explicit promotion of 'patriotic education' as a matter of official state policy [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/what-1836-project-texas-promote-pat...
Intuitive argument against suggestions that Ariely might have faked the data... It seems unlikely to me that someone of Ariely's mathematical knowledge and research experience would fake data in such an obvious manner.

(Full disclosure: I've met with Ariely a couple times, 20 years ago, about cross-disciplinary research, and have a favorable impression of his character.)
The point is that people spend far too much effort worrying about the ten millionth user rather than concentrating on making a reliable product for the hundred or two they have. “Can’t use cgi because we can only support 100 concurrent users per VM” is meaningless, concentrate on the real problem of building a site that doesn’t crash out silently
That was heartbreaking to read. I’m sorry. It really surprised me when I read Germany. Shame on those people and the politicians who allow police to harass you. Shame on them!
Unfortunately, you have to feed your throwaway reddit accounts like you'd feed a pet. I cycle between them every now and then. Just take on a different persona for each one and it becomes a little game. You can register multiple accounts with a single email, so it's not even breaking any rules.

Take the time to answer some questions; you have to give back a little to the community.
Make the link password protected, and they don’t get the password in the same e-mail message.

Kinda hard to pre-scan a URL if you can’t provide the password for it.
Have you tried walking in the morning or evening?
Nova Launcher on Android (and maybe other launchers, I do not know) has a nifty little feature to activate password lock bypassing biometrics with a gesture. Which comes in handy everytime I go through the border.
"it" in this case refers to the project. If it refers to the IDE then the statement is false. So by logic it must refer to the project itself.

Why else would I come on here to make some claim that is false?
Can someone give a good reason why VAERs reporting of AEFIs is not strictly enforced?
e2e encryption is not amazing these days, it is a basic requirement. i.e. if you communicate using https you are using e2e encryption.
"Not a huge fan of the format."

That's charitable! The format is hokey to begin with and then the actual dialogue makes my blood boil.
God bless you too! We shared a lot of good times and e grins on there I'm sure.
Sure, just a gas RC helicopter at 700 size can match a full size helicopter in speed, service ceiling, and last an hour.
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> why build a humanoid robot?

For one, humanoid robots are a bit less creepy than the alternatives. Have you seen the BD robots?

That’s not as important for industrial use, though.
While it may bring down the greenhouse footprint related to transportation. It also would result in greater transmission of pathogens. Something like COVID can spread insanely fast if you have more dense cities.

The solution is to have better public transportation which America has eschewed primarily to serve the needs of car makers.
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Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages
When doing functional programming, immutable lists with value comparison are what you want. However with JS, you only get mutable arrays with reference equality out-of-the-box. You can use a library, as others have point out, but then your code gets very noisy.
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How could you comfortably siphon some of the pressure in a turbine to power the reaction? What does that mean?