skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I’m a safe driver, I don’t want to pay more for poor drivers. If this helps insurers more accurately price auto insurance while providing direct financial incentives to poor drivers to improve, I fully support it. This is Econ 101.
In Arabic it’s gift, هبة
I've heard legends of people fitting shallow feedforward NNs with pure Excel formulas.

I once interned for an economist who was using recursive Excel formulas for some kind of iterative optimization algorithm. I don't remember what it was, probably some iterative least squares thing.

I also was a research assistant for an economist who fit linear regressions with hand-written routines in Matlab. For some reason they felt more comfortable using Matlab's QR decomposition instead of just using the built-in linear modeling tools in R or even Stata.

Some people just want to use their favorite tool even if it makes no sense to do so.
The Internet is the current incarnation of the Network, this time as a digital packet switched network (its predecessors being the Public Switched Telephone Network, and the Universal Postal Union which enables letters to be sent around the world). The Network is a tremendously powerful technology which enables civilisation on a much larger scale.

The Web, or World Wide Web is an application of the Internet made by (Sir) Tim Berners-Lee about thirty years ago to deliver hypermedia over the Internet.

The Web is to the Internet as "premium rate" chat lines were to Signalling System Seven.
fun fact: the food intake does not change cholesterol levels, the body itself produces it
Those analogies don't fit. Collisions between cars have nothing to do with the intention of Toyota. Toyota isn't in the business of causing cars to crash. Firearm manufacturers aren't really in the business of encouraging civilian gun users to shoot each other.

Google's fundamental business model involves tracking people, so if you use one of their features that supposedly turns off tracking, it would be natural to assume that Google would stop all tracking.
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Is one disadvantaged in tech without having an engineering background?
> I do find it surprising that there is trend for shady companies to try to buy out popular Chrome extensions to slip adware and then malware into them, this has hardly been seen anywhere else (except mobile app stores maybe).

Oh, it did happen a lot with Firefox before the extensions were locked-in and a heavy review process was put into place.

But then, I agree that they should add the possibility of using alternative stores. There is no reason for Firefox to be this locked-in.
Vaccines are being mandated because if you're dealing with the public without them, you're more likely to hurt people (and yourself).

Drunk driving laws aren't a conspiracy by Big Taxi.
Sorry for the stupid question, I understand so little about image encoding. If each image has ALL the RGB colors ("not one color missing, and not one color twice") how can they be so different in size? How does JPG/PNG encode a pixel of information, isn't it always the same size?
Be careful not to associate reactivity with weakness; it is wise to drain negative energy quickly, if not verbally, when faced with a situation for which actual change is not a reasonable goal.
a semi-VPN (in the "teleport to other countries" sense, not the original definition)

It's weird how the "VPN providers" have taken that acronym and turned it into what is basically another synonym for "proxy".
By default SimpleML has no external dependencies (cloud infrastructure) making it incredibly easy to add much needed management to early projects. Integrates nicely with jupyter notebooks for rapid iteration and can later be migrated to more production ready infrastructure!
Teslas Autopilot does more 'automatic' stuff than real autopilot on a plan, which can basically only predefined follow gps waypoints with a set speed.
Just because people are stupid about it should not necessitate any changes on Teslas part.
> It's a travesty that the US gets to prevent people from selling things to Iran even if they are operating outside of the US

No its not while Iran has a nuclear weapons program and is sanctioned for it.

> Even if Skycom was wholly owned by Huawei, the US should not get to impose their power on actions that happen solely outside of US territory.

US imposed sanctions, company owned by huawei broke them, what should happen here?

> Using extraterritorial "offences" to prosecute someone for purely political reasons

They broke embargo and tried to hide it, what do you expect... To just let them continue to aid Iran?
also, even if "privacy" is assured, once the tech is normalized either the private version can be cracked, or a similar but non-private tech is released everywhere else (with hooks for advertising/data-mining/govt access)
Clinical depression is different from feeling sad. Being able to detect cognitive decline would probably be a great boon in elder care.
This is truly impressive.

The most impressive linguistic feat I've ever seen was on a Mastodon, which was named for the French writing group "Oulipo", whose members did work with constrained language. The work from this group you've most likely heard of (if you've heard of them at all) is George Perec's book "La Disparation", translated to English as "A Void", which does not (in either language) contain any word with the letter "E" in either case in it (so those of us who know at least a little French realize that means no "le" or "les"... wow...).

Anyway, this Mastodon was set up to implement the "no E" rule, and it was kind of a fun challenge to try to express yourself.

My posts (and most folks') was pretty tortured text.

The impressive bit was that there was a person there pursuing their Doctorate in Linguistics, and their posts... just read like ordinary English, with nothing tortured or strange about it. If you didn't know about the rule, you'd never guess it was in force. And they were fairly long, and covered a lot of ground... really amazing.
There are numerous examples of people with elevated LDL for years who have zero CAC or no cardiac symptoms. It’s easier to disprove something I admit.

I am still in the process of becoming learned. Eventually I will finish biochemistry, read all the relevant studies and truly get to the bottom of it in a way that is convincing. So even if I am wrong and spreading wrong information I will have a positive contribution in the long term. But I am being intellectually honest always.
Also a really good blog post:

https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-ha...
I get one strange group of shitty contractor agencies (India based with a middle-of-nowhere-in-Cali address) that updates their year numbers every year. So last year they wanted 10 years of experience with Windows Server 2020, this year they wanted 10 years of experience with Windows Server 2021. It's clear no one technical is involved in this.
Nebula: A WebGL Particle System Designer and Engine for ThreeJS
Interoperability is kryptonite to business. It kills whatever one's moat is, the way a microneedle will kill a cell by puncturing its membrane. Most companies avoid it at all costs, except for using it as a weapon to hurt competition. Of note is how upstarts embrace interoperability while it gives them an edge over incumbents - and then abandon it as soon as they establish themselves as a major player (see e.g. Slack, which built their userbase on this trick).

Early Internet was interoperable because of low commercial interest. Now it's centralized because it's a big market. Interoperability got replaced by contracts.
JPM is a tool distributed alongside Janet that will download deps for you with `jpm deps`.
Nope, I think in Safari all tabs are completely independent from one another in incognito.

To be honest, it’s sometimes a bit of a pain (e.g. when you are using incognito to just have a different identity, like to be on a corporate/personal account.) I wish a browser offered the idea of opening windows/tabs with selectable incognito identities.
I'm not sure such a proposal would fly. It would be overtly acknowledging the policy shift toward a federal power grab. There would be some resistance and perhaps even some re-balancing of federal/state powers in the end.

As long as the Tenth is there, it is part of the constitution which all elected officials have sworn an oath to uphold.
This is really incredible and brings enormous democratization to AI/ML applications.
Direct link to engine source:

https://three-nebula.org/
Essentially, yes (we theorize).

> It turns out that hallucinations comprising spirals, circles, and rays that emanate from the centre correspond to stripes of neural activity in V1 that are inclined at given angles. Lattices like honeycombs or chequer-boards correspond to hexagonal activity patterns in V1.

https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-ha...
Clojure was something I tried once or twice, but couldn't quite get into, at least back when I tried it before.

These days, I might be better able to pick it up, having cut my REPL teeth on Janet.
Chrome does not track you, websites will continues their scummy practises of js tracking - google not excluded
> desktop GUI applications

With the exception of Electron apps, this is a bit of an exaggeration. There are far better choices in that area than Clojure.
The article is all over the place, but I think I might be able to summarize:

- ZK involves organizing your cards in a tree

- This tree is not a taxonomy. It merely reflects the way in which the information was consumed or the ideas were created.

- It is better to link cards together with ID numbers rather than by giving cards names and using wikilinks. Wikilinks imply some amount of taxonomic organization of the cards. (Remember, naming things is one of the two difficult things in CS, along with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.)

- There shouldn't be a master table of contents that one organizes. This gives an implied taxonomic organization of the cards.

One idea from Memexes and early hypertext systems are "trails", which are special entries that include links to other cards. They're sort of special-purpose tables of contents into the hypertext archive. These are important for navigation, and they don't require that the entire archive be taxonomically organized.

Indexing is a good idea. It's basically a curated full text search.

> The index. That much overlooked invention.

I don't know if I'm just misremembering Cat's Cradle as a work of non-fiction, but I think I heard that Vonnegut sat next to an indexer on an airplane once, and they convinced him of the value of indexing. I thought I remember there being an index at the end of Cat's Cradle, but I can't find my copy to check.
"In my time in the workplace I've seen this [notes] done in maybe 5% of meetings"

I go a step further. If it isn't on the agenda, we don't cover it. Just "spit-balling" or talking about things that are clearly not researched is a WASTE of everyone's time. If you want to talk about something, we want to take 10 minutes and research it too. Put it on the agenda and be prepared. We don't want to be ambushed into stupid decisions. "Let's use mongo!" out of no where is pointless and stupid. So that 95% can keep their unresearched ideas to themselves. Thanks. Personally I live by this quote: "Every stupid meeting starts with no agenda." NO agenda? Even better, meeting canceled.
Frankly, it would probably be fine if it could be turned off and if turned on, doesn’t report its findings back to Apple (or anyone, but you, for the matter).
Stratux sells a u-blox 8 USB dongle that I've had decent luck with for this timekeeping purpose, although it can be tricky to get a clear signal indoors, and I had to bootstrap the module's first connection outside with usb-otg on a smartphone. But pretty acceptable results for under $20 when feeding it into ntpd. Not exactly plug and play to get it to work, though. But pretty reasonable for most of the diy crowd around here.

I need to tape over the green led due to photosensitivity, though. It's shockingly bright.
I was once failed on a technical interview, partly because on the coding test I was asked to write a url parser "from scratch, the way a browser would do it" and I explained it would take way too long to account for every edge case in the URL RFC but that I could do a quick and dirty approach for common urls.

After I did this, the interviewer stopped me and told me in a negative way that he expected me to use a regex, which kinda shows he had no idea how a web browser works.
it seems someone skipped the tutorial on "building a solid team"; elaborate.

about accountant: find some dropouts from big finance companies, they should be cheap, and with solid knowledge.
That terminal UI is a work of art...
Indeed, here's my version of the implementation, it's what's currently my wallpaper on most of my machines:

My background, I took a bit of liberty with the colors: https://imgur.com/a/OFcsjZn

And an animated version: https://youtu.be/mO7VuqLNK1w

Fun use case to play around with Octrees to try and speed it all up.
First "egregious violations" and now "sinister insinuations"... You are a trip. Literally that guy and you downvoted me, it's doubtful anyone else even saw the thread.

And I stand by those "sinister insinuations", for the record. There is no way, none, that multiple commenters found this old dead thread, moved to the second page, and flagged my comment within minutes of its posting. Occam's razor would suggest that OP has the power to flag people single handed.

I notice that you say "we" asked you. Is this the 'royal' we? Are there multiple people behind this account?

Dang, feel free to take this the wrong way, but I think you could use a perspective check. I've heard that acting as a gatekeeper too long can inflate one's ego. Ask yourself if you're doing as much good here as you used to.

While we're chatting all friendly; do you ever wonder what the real life consequences of removing that story about Gina Haspel all those times are? I think about it a lot. I wonder if you give even a tiny little shit about helping cover for such a ghoul. My nightmare is that you rationalised that ghastly act so well, you don't even remember doing it.

Don't take that as pointing the finger to deflect from my own horrific actions, lol. I genuinely wonder how you live with doing that all the time, and now seems a good time to ask you - you must have a great view up there on that moral high ground.
How do these compare to the isothiocyanate molecules in broccoli sprouts and mustard seeds such as Sulforaphane and Myrosinase?
For PNG, it can support what's known as "filtering" [0], where it's based on the difference between the pixel and the one to the left/top of it. So if you have the values { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }, then the differences will be { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 }, which is very compressible to DEFLATE (analogy in English, "6 1's" is shorter than "1 1 1 1 1 1").

JPEG uses a very different technology; it breaks the image into 8x8 blocks, and tries to fit the resulting 64 pixels to a gradient (yes, I know I'm simplifying). So pixels that tend to be "smooth" and "gradient-like" will compress much better than random noise.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#9Filters
I run a paid Chrome extension (with a free tier!) that audits websites for best practices:

https://www.checkbot.io/

It uses:

- Netlify's free tier for the homepage + Netlify CMS (free) for content editing

- Firebase within the free limits for cloud functions, storage + user authentication

- The free tier of Crisp web chat for support

- The Chrome store which hosts the extension for free ($5 sign up fee)

- Paddle for payments. They take a % of each transaction but they don't have a sign up fee or ongoing fees.
I wish that were true! I'd love to know how to do that one too since back in Windows 7 Foobar2k was able to wake my PC from sleep and play my music as an alarm, and this functionality has not worked for me since then.
4 hours/day of TV watching is crazy and I think this is a very generous portrayal of that time. It is certainly /possible/ for parents to adjust their schedules to spend an hour reading to kids at night (top priority imo). Treating TV as an essential activity is a new one I find quite depressing.

Parents using TV as a crutch to entertain kids is really common, and I'm eternally grateful I grew up in a home without TV. However, that was pre-modern streaming, ipads for kids, etc.
An image with the upper half black and the lower half white can be compressed to a few bytes, regardless of its size.

An image with the same pixels but randomly arranged cannot really be compressed.
Thanks! They seemed to work fine with en_us phonemes, so I haven't created a separate en_gb set yet. Maybe someday :)
Red Hat sells support, their software is free of charge. This is the closest thing to a viable business model around GPL code, and if you look at most companies doing this they are struggling. Red Hat was lucky/smart enough to get i to the government space and sell based on their rock-solid security. If your GPL software is unappetizing or irrelevant to the government world, you can't get that revenue stream going.

Amazon "commoditizes their complement" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476266) by making open-source easy to use, and hopefully you'll exit through the gift shop and drop some chunky spend on their hosting services.

If your code is the actual valuable thing (for instance, a spreadsheet program that makes Excel look like a joke), then giving the code away for free doesn't give you any path to make money.
There is also numba, which is very impressive in its own right, and also pypy, which supports features up to Python 3.7.

Some may consider Jax, and its XLA compiler, but unless you require gradients, numba will be significantly faster, an instance of this is available here [1].

XLA runs on a higher level than LLVM and therefore can't achieve the same optimizations as numba does using the latter. IIRC numba also has a Python to Cuda compiler, which is also very impressive.

[1] https://github.com/scikit-hep/iminuit/blob/develop/doc/tutor...
A lot of encoders try to exploit patterns in the data, and so instead of saving the "raw" data, they save the "pattern", with the idea being that the pattern will be smaller. Different encoding formats use different patterns, so you get different file sizes
True.

Can we make a distinction between religious self-policing and China’s surveillance-based social credit system?

Maybe not all people are equally religious - maybe some practice non-panopticon faiths.

But surveillance is an external factor influencing everyone (possibly apart from the oppressors / party officials).

Can we agree that there is a difference?
I don’t see that as consistent. The USA isn’t the middle of the world by any measure.
I'd imagine with a compression such as saving things like 255,255,255 as 3255 or a series such as #98DEEE and #EEEE89 as 98D(7E)89, only not those examples and more sophisticated
I agree with you that Eloquence sounds warmer than eSpeak. I wish there was an open-source speech synthesizer comparable to Eloquence or even DECtalk. That approach to speech synthesis is old enough now that I'm sure there are published algorithms whose patents have expired. The problem, of course, would be funding the work on a good open-source implementation.
Tl;dr: the winning strategy was relying on diversity: different groups consume electricity at different times.
In short, image files don't include all RGB colors. They basically include a line like "usesColorSpace: 'RGB'". Only the decoder needs to know how to interpret the RGB colorspace.

When you save in image in JPG, it's compressed using an algorithm that gets it "pretty close" to the source image. The software doing the JPG decoding (browser, image viewer, etc.) basically reverses this algorithm to display the image back to you. For JPG, this compression is "lossy" and so you've lost detail from the original source image.

PNG is a lossless image format, but it basically works the same way without sacrificing the source image's quality.

The "standard" for an image format dictates how an encoder creates the image and how a decoder displays the image. Since everyone is "on the same page," the individual image files only need to contain what they need to -- basically, "this pixel = RGB(0,1,2)".

Hope this makes sense and helps.
CodeParade has been working on hyperbolica for a while now and doing fantastic videos on the process.

https://youtu.be/EMKLeS-Uq_8

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/
I am reminded of one of the Trump rallies the other year. There was a fellow in a plaid shirt who was ejected and detained by the SS for not manifesting suitably ecstatic facial expressions.

https://time.com/5390792/plaid-shirt-guy-speaks-out-trump-ra...
Aug 2021, The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review
It's quite simple actually. If you have 8 bits per color channel, you can have 256 values per channel (or 16777216 in total if you look at it as a 24 bit value).

A rectangle of 256*256 pixels can display all possible combinations for two color channels, with the third one held constant. If you step through every possible value of the third channel, you end up with 256 of those pictures, which can be arranged neatly in a 16*16 grid (16*16 = 256).

Because each image has 256*256 pixels, and we have 16*16 of them, we end up with a 4096*4096 pixel image (because 16*256 = 4096), which now holds every possible combination of the 3 color channels.

Because this systematic approach creates neatly ascending rows of color values, the resulting image compresses quite well.
And people say Linux is the difficult OS.
The issue I've described is about local eavesdropping, not only remote accounts.

It was a surprise to open an new Incognito window and find it had access to sessions active in a different window.

That defeats one of the expected use-cases of Incognito mode locally, which is when someone asks if they can borrow your computer to access their account. For example I've done this a few times in a library or hackerspace for someone I didn't know well. You open an Incognito window for them, and both you and they think it's safe for them to access their Facebook and Gmail or whatever, and then close the window. They think you can't browse their accounts after, and you think they can't browse your accounts if they stick to that window. Both turn out to be unexpectedly false - unless you know to kill all your existing Incognito windows first. Which you wouldn't do if you need to use them later, unless you know you have to close all the other windows first.

As for local vs remote tracking. Incognito documentation does not say local eavesdropping is the only feature. It talks about holding a separate session for "cookies and site data" and that those are deleted when the session is closed; and about restrictions on third-party cookies. From Chrome help:

> "Cookies and site data are remembered while you're browsing, but deleted when you exit Incognito mode. You can choose to block third-party cookies when you open a new incognito window."

Like anyone technically aware of how the web works, I don't expect this feature to prevent tracking in general, or to truly hide my identity. But I do expect a cookie session container, which Incognito mode does advertise, to allow me to login to separate accounts without ending up logged into an account unexpectedly.

The issue is not that tracking takes place. It's that the scope and duration of a session was surprising in a way I didn't expect from the UX, and it's not the most useful in situations such as the "make a window for a guest" situation described above. Getting this wrong also adds a security risk to those of us tasked with protecting other people's data via browser tools. I posted about it here because I think the behaviour will be a surprise to other people too; it should at least be more well known.
If a human with a medical degree has a hard time diagnosing mental health issues after spending hours with a person, I don't see how this research will provide anything except noisy garbage data.