skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in the OP:

> this new algorithm opens an intriguing possibility: we can compute just 64 extra bits, and have a probability of 1 - 2^{-64} of terminating. This is so close to certainty that we can simply stop unconditionally without introducing any measurable bias (detecting any difference would require about 2^128 samples, which is prohibitive).

Using the "just use 64 extra bits" approach, there is a 1 in 2^64 chance that the result you compute will be wrong, and correspondingly a 99.9999999999999999946% chance that the result you compute will be right. That is the amount of bias in the algorithm.
Well, he was a student of Hegel's and described his work own work as "turning Hegel on his head". As for the other two it's conceivable these influences may have been formative during his student years.
Which, more or less, is exactly how Paris became Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
It's made clearer in the PR:

"detecting any difference [from uniform] would require about 2^128 samples, which is prohibitive"
People assume reddit is just the "reddit homepage", but its actually a series of long tail discussion groups. Want to discuss Ubiquiti wifi appliances and configurations? Guess what there's a whole community on reddit that is active there.

Discord essentially has this too but actually much more privately/invite only style. I could probably find an Ubiquiti owners group there too.
> or perhaps for other reasons

This is exactly where complexity hides. Simplicity of models relies on abstractions, which in the real world are invariably leaky. The complexity of making a robust NAND gate is very much observable at some level, and only goes away once you ignore the messy details. The more we look, the more this seems to hold for pretty much everything in our observable universe, from galaxies to quarks. The more you dig the more worms you find. There are thousands of sub-fields of molecular biology which try to understand how a single cell actually works, and we still are not done by a large margin. Of course we will always ignore what we can to make workable human models that we can actually reason about.
Back in the days there were stories about Bloomberg writers getting paid more if their stories move the markets [1]. According to the linked article this one really did the job, "Globalstar, a satellite services business, had their shares soar 90% from mid-August lows"

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
Interesting; thanks for sharing. It also seems like AI/ML could be used to extract labels from unstructured notes.
It's crazy to me that Reddit isn't a mark on YC's brand. I can't think of a worse site to use today. It makes it clear to me that YC's business model doesn't really care about quality because Reddit has only degraded year by year.

I mean if you want to make money, cool, but if your startup is based out of YC, I don't trust you.
If you think there's no level of piracy as a fraction of total consumption that would destroy the economics of content production, then I'm afraid you're too unreasonable a person for me to engage with successfully.
Thank god it got grounded before someone got killed.

Elon Musk ordered a flight. Imagine that he got killed in an accident aboard the Virgin Galactic. It might kill the Starship program, which I viewed as one of the most important endeavor humanity is undertaking, regardless of people's dislike or like for the man.
"If the conversion losses were as high as 10%, why did anyone bother using HVDC for e.g. a mere 85 km stretch in the Trans Bay Cable?"

1. Because AC also has transformation losses (2-3% per transformer. You need at least three (medium voltage, high voltage, medium voltage, low (house) voltage).

2. The answer is in the name, ain't it? It's underwater.

AC coupling in a dielectric increases losses very significantly. The longest underwater line AC line in the world is only 135 km, in Greece, for this very reason. The Greeks probably couldn't afford the capital to instal a DC line instead and settled for higher losses.

You pay for more expensive HVDC lines for three major purposes:

1. Underwater cables - see dielectric loss

2. Cheating on the synchronization

3. Long AC lines. This has many reasons:

- Take the speed of light, and divide it by 200Hz (50Hz * 4) = 300 000 km/s /200Hz = 1500 km. That's as long as an AC line can be before you start to deal with impedance reflections.

- Lowering losses. AC was famously adopted to lower ohmic losses by adopting high V. But, AC lines are coupled to ground (they're a massive capacitor to ground), so at a certain length you have to consider AC coupling losses that don't exist in DC

"But even if they were 10%, that’s a multiplier not an adder so it makes a difference of 10% to final energy prices, it wouldn’t break anything (though it might shift the minima to batteries, as those are also cheap and getting cheaper)."

I love how eagerly ppl dismiss 10% loss. I'm aware its a multiplicative - it's also an 11% increase in the amount of panels needed (1/0.9 = 1.1). You have to think of your losses in the inverse - how much added land you have to cover (and loose CO2 sinks to photosynthesis)

The things that are "cheap and getting cheaper" are things at a certain scale. Everyone loves things getting cheaper at scale, but forget that things also get more expensive at scale. Batteries don't get cheaper once you start running against the bounds of how much electrode material is available.

"I think you’re overestimating how much the losses matter. You only lose half your power from 20,000 km, adding an extra 10,000 km from wiggling around a bit takes you down to 34% of original generation"

so from you're original 50%, to 34%, a loss of 34/50, implying an increase in land covered of 50/34, or about 50% more land you have to cover.

50% more land if I accept your hand waving argument that you'll only need an extra 10Mm to get from point to point.

"“I am not qualified to discuss them” absolutely is not the same thing as dismissing them."

"I'm not qualified to discuss them" absolutely is used, de facto, as a license to ignore. It maybe the most common human rationalization.

"But my main point is more of we don’t need to tile the Sahara (or any single particular place), so it shouldn’t even come up in the first place."

You have to tile something. The Sahara makes most sense lacking vegetation. But sure, tile Ireland and see how much the local appreciate it.
Absolutely, and aside from job interview situations I feel that exams don't simulate any aspect of daily work.
Yes, it looks that way. Here's the history of submissions from rapidapi.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rapidapi.com

(One may need to have "showdead" enabled in their profile to see these, since they're all [dead].)
> Is GateBoy a perfect simulation of a Game Boy?

> Actually no, for complicated reasons. The Game Boy chip has a handful of logic gates that operate independently of the master clock and whose exact behavior depends on things like gate delay. These gates create glitches that depend heavily on the physical placement of the gates, the silicon process used to make them, and other weird things like temperature and voltage.

This is fascinating, I previously would have assumed that a gate-level simulation would necessarily be perfect by definition.
Is that particularly insightful? What other form would attacks take between computers that lack a traditional communication channel than to create another communication channel?
Slight correction: 18F does not require you to be in DC. They are 100% remote-first.

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/15/best-practices-for-distribute...

Open positions: https://join.tts.gsa.gov/
> That's pretty damning.

Indeed. And we all know how quickly radiologists are improving at their job. At this rate the 6% of AI systems that beat one radiologist will be down to 0% in no time.
I'll take that bet against you.

> I am guessing that there's nothing inherent in this problem that is much more difficult than other image recognition problems.

This is factually wrong. You're assumption I guess is that its a data issue: if we can just get more data we'd solve this issue.

The reality is that these diseases are complex, their presentation is complex, and compounded by different technology. There's also the issue of data complexity, x-rays contain less information compared to a picture of your dog.

We need better algos, not more data.
"Same script", for some version of "same".

And, yes, the actual language being written changed as armies swept through, except for religious matters which had to be conducted in (what would have been imagined to match) the original language and pronunciation. Can't expect the gods to learn a new language, or expect incantations to work when pronounced "wrong"!

Apparently the Hindu priesthood, from Vedic times, had a terrifyingly rigorous system for maintaining exact wording and pronunciation for their rites, for that reason; and preserved mathematical lore used for astronomical calculations the same way, before they got to writing it all down many centuries later.

Many Chinese people imagine they can read documents from two millennia ago, but rely on the inherent ambiguity of their script to construct an apparent "poetic" meaning entirely disjoint from what was written.
>putting my own desktop in a steel cage with a good lock proved effective against retaliation.

>Then we moved on to attacking the firmware in each others keyboards.

In what world is hacking keyboard firmware easier than lockpicking?
I have some experience with the aviation authorities, and they are generally competent. And I would say maybe even slightly too nitpicky, just like the general public is very nitpicky about every aircraft accident or incident. It is possible that they just didn't know about the issue it.

Did you know, for example, that every bird collision, no matter how small the bird was, has to be registered as a flight incident and investigated? Or that every TCAS warning is a flight incident too, even if everyone knew exactly what was going on and there was no real danger? And I do not think it's wrong, you hit a bird every blue moon and you get extra hour or a few hours of paperwork, it's okay with me. The point is they're very detailed.
That’s not a risk. Show me a real company that doesn’t pay for any products and I’ll show you a thousand that do.

Not pay for Docker? What are they going to do? Get everyone on AWS tomorrow? The cost and downtime for most places would be massive.
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Yeah, there were aspects of it that were utterly genius, and aspects of it that kept me busy for a while.
I should have said geography and not cities, but point being it’s easier to work with geography terms than Greek letters (in sequence!) at an international level.

Though you run the risk of people using different names in their language for the same place, and not even being consistent about when they substitute local terms.
Thanks for the f-shack

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The current government in the UK was more aligned to the worldviews of Trump's administration. They'll throw shade at the current US administration whenever and wherever they can in an attempt to bolster their own standing which has taken strain. The British public follow US politics very closely.
Are they scanning email? Browsing history for sure.
I actually really like it still. It's a bit like vim, you have to learn it's quirks to get the most out of it
What I mean is, Reddit to me seems a step closer to something like Discord. And yet Discord is apparently still necessary; so why Reddit, and not traditional forum + Discord?

I added 'single login' as an after thought, because it didn't occur to me at first, but I think that must be a big reason. But even then there's Discourse, with not single but much easier and OAuth (signup/)login.
'Rivalry without animosity', perfectly said.

Now, this is just for fun, but did you know that Queen Elizabeth's grandson is named "George Alexander Louis"? How fun would it be if he decided to call himself "King Louis I" when crowned?
And incredibly annoying as the developer - so much work translating and debugging gates, and it's still not "correct" for some definition of correct ;)
I don't mind plugging mine in (it's corded). I even use it to clean the gutters every fall. Even better than batteries unless you really need that mobility.
Also the largest and best known breast cancer fundraising organization, Susan G Komen, has, in the words of wikipedia, "been mired by controversy over pinkwashing, allocation of research funding, and CEO pay."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure
I've wanted a service like this to exist but didn't know about this company. Does it really feel like they're you're "agent"? Lots of recruiters pitch themselves that way but it's clearly transactional.

What's it like actually working with them? You get a call every now and then? Is the main benefit not having to engage in the job search or have you found the salaries to be higher? Do they take a percentage of your overall salary like agents in Hollywood or is it more like the traditional model (company pays $50k up front for the privilege to hire you)
YC sells social signaling and a network (and some good advice of course), and the wins weigh more heavily than the losses.
Formally verified programs often still have bugs.
AWS S2N, for example, currently has hundreds of open issues and identified bugs, despite being the subject of a continuous formal verification program.

Bash powers probably hundreds of billions of dollars worth of critical infrastructure...
for example: https://www.chase.com/card-benefits/benefit-details/slate/pr...

edit: Although I see it's discontinued now..news to me
My question is, would it have been grounded without the article? The article was based on testimony from one of the pilots, right? Perhaps the FAA would have grounded it based on the same info, article or not.
I think you misunderstood what I meant. As your first graph shows the elderly are more likely to be vaccinated than the young thus age correlates with vaccination rates.

However, youth is protection from serious complications or deaths. So if you look hospitalizations or deaths rather than positive tests for infections the graphs look very different. The Simpson’s paradox means your less likely to die after a COVID vaccination, but it’s easy to slice the data to make it look otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
more comments than upvotes is seen as a sign of flame war by the algos
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James Simons, Robert Mercer, Others to Pay $7B to Settle Tax Probe
I work at a Very Large Tech Company in a role where I cross between eng and legal, and the hairstyles on the eng side are definitely not the same as legal.
VG points out that FAA representatives were in the control room during the flight. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/spaceship-carrying-r...
> It means no one can drive by plug something in when your computer is locked. You will get a popup asking if you want to give some device other than the keyboard you booted with access to behave as a keyboard .

Makes me think, what would happen if I plugged this cable, unplugged the keyboard, and power-cycled the computer? Or do a hard power down, then the switcheroo, and then power up? Would USBGuard/QubesOS block the new device, even though it's the one it just booted with?

(I think finding your computer rebooted would fly under the radar of most of the users - they'd blame it on automatic updates or intermittent power failure.)

On that note, I wonder how small you could go with a MITM device to attach between victim's peripheral and their computer. Could you pack enough useful features in a dongle that would not be immediately noticeable by most users?
Not if you replace it with another lock that looks similar
I am sure the Kunda, Comb Ceramic, Corded Ware, Kiukainen, and Pöljä who used to occupy most of Finland didn't speak modern Finnish, yet here we are.

I understand the desire to make political points about the status of native/first nations populations in Canada, but frankly, English and French are Canada's official languages.
And yet, as I've argued with objective statements re: field of view and subjective experience from others and myself, we use these wide angles because they are objectively and subjectively closer to matching our human vision.

Once you get to a certain level, you can begin to make choices that invites the viewer to make a choice, and realize that your choices are only ever second to theirs. Wider lenses are more effective at this specifically because they gather more elements in the frame, inducing more ambiguity and opportunity for alternative interpretations, just like how we always have to decide where our cone of attention points.

Stopping short of advising you to touch grass, I'd invite you to shoot exclusively with wides and fisheyes for a while, and practice soft focus for peripheral awareness [1]. Apart from that, no argumentation on photography through the limited medium of text is going to reconcile our perspectives.

[1] https://www.victoriastellatoskeet.com/blog/at-home-eye-exerc...
I have both. My 80v leaf blower is pretty decent for about 15 minutes, and with two batteries there isnt a ton of downtime.

However, we also have three massive cottonwood trees among plenty of other maple and crap that amounts to feet of fallen leaves to clean up.

On a whim I got a backpack style gas leaf blower, and now we only use the battery one for "maintenance" blowing. There simply isn't a good analogy to describe the difference.

That said, at my previous house in the suburbs, the battery powered one was plenty sufficient, so YMMV.
Google is shutting down controversial data-sharing project with NHS
They (aviation authorities) did not seem too nitpicky in clearing Boeing 737 Max and are culpable in the deaths of hundreds of people.
I was hoping that at the end of each section, there would be the actionable items to do / fix, but it seems they're all sort of handled at the end of the article, which was a bit jarring.
> Just once, I'd love to see Tesla be honest. "We have no idea if we're ever going to be able to make these at this point."

But Elon said it'll all blow over by May (2020). Hard to admit you're wrong when your personality is built around always being right.

On a less cynical note, it's a cool car and I hope it gets built.
...but Apple
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Some auto manufacturers have already removed electronic features so that they can continue building vehicles with fewer chips.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/amid-chip-shortagegm-removes-st...
I was introduced to Chesterton by way of the perhaps unlikely combination of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, who jointly dedicated Good Omens to him, "a man who knew what was going on.". He's also Fiddler's Green, from Sandman -- down to the sword-cane, rotundity, paradoxes, and booming laugh.

I greatly enjoy The Man Who Was Thursday (I find that the denouement still works, if you've never read it), Orthodoxy, and some others, and he was my first exposure to distributism.

Oddly, I've always felt that he shared with Pratchett the pathological wittiness that makes him hard to read at length: he's so damn pithy every sentence that after a while I just overload.
They were simply selling apartments at market price. You fundamentally cannot increase the price of a good by selling it.

What's more likely is that housing prices in your area have gone up so much that even apartments are now more expensive than what you originally paid. If there had been sufficient supply built in the market then prices wouldn't be so high.

China has solved this problem by telling NIMBYs to fuck off and just confiscating their property to be redeveloped. I don't see why upzoning can somehow be considered bad.
There must be more to this story... My T440p and T460s from years ago both support 4K via display port and my T495 supports 4K via its HDMI.
this looked neat, but FYI seems to have been discontinued.

https://stablekernel.com/article/announcing-the-sunsetting-o...
Both can run systemd in containers. Podman can be used for system containers.
Podman can start containers without root privilege while LXD is a daemon that needs to run as root.
When you have a massive CGI budget you are pressured to make everything as cool as possible. No restraint. That’s why you end up with tiring fantasies.
(foss developer here)

Just the other day I was wondering why there aren't "software maintainence/repair shops" as there are for hardware (PCs, gadgets, appliances). A tech shop like srv.io is exactly what I was wondering existed. Surely there is a market for it. I wish you (and your competitors) all the very best!
Toronto's housing bubble is different. Look at Toronto's house price to rent ratio, which has risen from 98.9 just 6 years to 136.2 now. Like many bubbles, speculation is driving it further upwards.