skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point, but disagree with your point about psychiatrists. The ones I know are the first to tell you that the field of psychiatry is young, what we know about psychiatry is miniscule compared to what we don't know, and that reduction of behavior or disease to "chemical imbalances" is the result of simplistic marketing campaigns by drug manufacturers.

The issue is that people come to psychiatrists seeking help and, at the moment, the majority of tools in their toolbox to help their patients are the drugs derived from our study of the role of neurotransmitters in the brain. Giving medication that changes the levels of those chemicals to patients who are suffering is all that modern medicine can offer them outside of therapy and electromagnetic stimulation of the brain or nerves.
> one pixel shift will break RPA

The RPA systems I looked at supported fuzzy matching for images and text.
We tried with the British-French Concorde, the US Boeing 2707, and the Russian Tupolev Tu-144. That's three tries (or maybe two, the Boeing version was cancelled before prototype completion).

Maybe we can do better today with the lessons learnt and the advances in material science since then. There's several startups banking on that. But so far commercial supersonic flight has only worked out as prestige projects, not as commercial successes.
That seems like an oversimplification, I guess I am in group 3 if I don't mind going to the office a few days per week 2-3 depending on what I am doing?

I do however have an issue with others trying to sell me their preference as some kind of objective truth when in practice software development is so diverse these days that one's reasons to go (or not) to the office are often irrelevant to someone else.

That being said I like to see that discussion happening on HN and I don't tire of reading the different takes.
Why would it be different? They can replace the CPUs every few months if they are so worried. Or they can replace only the fault ones.

The hardware doesn't spend that much time in high rad environment, it's not a sat or a rover.
You're giving a baby-level introduction to mocking in a thread about how this approach leads to low-quality, meaningless tests in some cases, and right beneath concrete suggestions about how to make tests better by deviating from this pattern.
As of the last few years I’ve begun to replace instances of “white men”, “white people” and “white person” with “the Jews” to see if the statement in question is slanted towards a racist diatribe. Since most of us are programmed/conditioned to have a reflex about this topic from an early age, it has become useful more frequently.
I would clarify the sentence "Wealth transfers daily to and from".

What's important to keep in mind is that while money may transfer, utility doesn't. Utility is generally increasing on both sides of the exchange, otherwise one party wouldn't have entered the exchange.

This isn't always true (e.g gambling or opioid addiction), but it's true enough most of the time and explains why trade happens in the very first place.
Right? If anything Londoners should feel grateful that people are coming in daily to shop at various establishments.
Isn't that exactly what we have now, only people with less education? I don't think being a Lawyer, CEO, or Activist is any different when it comes to unintended consequences. I just look around and have to shake my head because the US Government is not comprised of the best people we have. They're all wealthy actors and most if not all get little to nothing accomplished except lining their own pockets.
I don't think that is technically culture appropriation, but yes they also participate in regardless. I don't disagree that the self-proclaimed activists usually are doing more harm than good when it comes to the causes they're fighting for.

Like body positivity movement often leaves men behind, where just because it isn't as often tied to their value in society like women doesn't mean they should be shamed or feel shame for aspects of their body they can't change. Where looping back to the watered-down version of the main concept, where they are using it as an excuse to stay an unhealthy level of obese. When the goal was more about you shouldn't have to battle a deep shame for being obese as well as the extremely hard habit changes to get out of obesity. Where it should only be optionally brought on yourself it helps you move forward
To those who missed it: it's a Yogi Berra paraphrase.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
I think the article confused the median with the mode here.

There is no median on a distribution that can't be sorted.
Isn't this the one that disappeared overnight? Good luck getting the people's trust again
I always thought of America as a very weird place, but every time, upon closer inspection, the "weirdness" revealed itself very superficial.

The basic reality of America is much more boring than the fancy hipster media tends to portray. They invented a virtual reality for themselves, and are living in it.

My political theory of America is that it is much more boring, and straightforward predictable politically, than any popular media portrayal.

And it is so because most media portrayals are partisan, created much to the ends of the respective party drawing it. A wishful thinking picture of reality.
Drones.
I was a little confused by the phrase. It seems like median only applied to age. Other than that white, no college degree, and not urban was just what was most common.

Kind of funny to think of peoples skin color on a sliding scale like a gradient and picking the median.
Privacy is just a bonus. I like not having to fuck with my stuff to have it work, or see ads in my “Start menu”.
Totally agree that every single WFH post ends up like this. I'd really like to see discussion on how to reconcile the fact that these two groups exist and now have to work together somehow, rather than just being angry that the other side feels differently.
For those who do care about what reality has to say:

"The dress itself was confirmed as a royal blue "Lace Bodycon Dress" from the retailer Roman Originals, which was actually black and blue in colour"

Unfortunately, in the case of work environments, there is no objective reality we can appeal to. Different people prefer different kinds of environments. The best solution is the one that fits each person to the environment they are most productive in.
I don’t know many WFH advocates who want to close all offices and force everyone to work from home, but many (most?) WFO advocates want to go back to the office AND have everyone else go back too. This includes almost all company execs who are pushing for a return to office. I think that’s the big difference between the camps.
Incoming WebGPU set to reinvent browser games
I’m sure there are people who do want to drive 220-440 hours per year (SoCal) to bring their laptop to a cubicle. I am not one of them and I admit I do not understand them.

But I do not doubt they exist.

I just wish group 1 and group 2 could coexist without forcing the other group.
https://github.com/apple/foundationdb

https://github.com/foundationdb

EDIT: I forgot they were a commercial product before Apple open-sourced it after acquisition.
I think it's making a dent in the younger generations. Not only due to the leaks, but the economic results of a system that continually rewards corruption.
Cool, works great now :) I like it.

A suggestion I have would be to include the time when the algorithm finishes, it's an extra data point besides the visual information!
It does not appear that Tom's Guide has the right take on what Douglas Leith actually said.

https://www.techradar.com/news/google-is-taking-far-more-dat...
Is there really anyone out there still naive enough to believe iPhones are private?
1) There was no "pivot"; this has been an Apple stance for a very long time.

2) It actually has a lot more to do with functionality than with marketing, as is obvious to even a casual observer. Apple hasn't really even marketed this as a big strength until relatively recently.
Same complaint here; definitely an odd type of average to be claiming in this case.
Having read/skimmed through, it sounds like median age is 50s, mode race is white, median education is no college. Unclear if that works out to largest demographic group in those dimensions but probably?
Lowering quality and trading on your brand works in the short term, but long term, more and more people just quit those news channels, or quit reading the news altogether.
the sheer size of the spreadsheet gives you the feeling of wide open spaces. 16,384 rows are numbered sequentially from top to bottom and 256 columns go from A, around the alphabet eight times, to IV.

The Macintosh version is the original Excel; there was never an MS-DOS version.
It was a private company, was bought by Apple, and is now Apache 2.0 with major contributions from outside Apple.
Replying to Google bots with errors will keep you out of the index, though they may keep retrying forever in case the page starts working again. A lot of times when I am retiring a site I will look at traffic logs and it will all be Google or Bing requesting content that is gone - sometimes years after the content was taken down. I think it is just greed on their part, forever hoping that if content was there before it might appear there again. No telling how much bandwidth gets consumed by that sort of traffic each year. If you are terminating traffic directly it can be really interesting to see all the connections that get opened but never receive an http request before being closed. A lot of that seems to be broken browser plugins, people scanning for live ports, or maybe seeing what certificate is offered in the TLS handshake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quern-stone#Ornament_and_inscr...

Grain millers had fierce debates about what patterns worked best on what stones and for which grains. some grooves are of great functional benefit, but then beyond that ...
Addicting Games has been acquired for $35M
You can’t just combine the median of three traits and call that the median voter.

Planet money did a really cool show about trying to find the modal American, and touched on that point: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755191639/episode-936-the-mod...
> "everyone needs to WFH"

never heard of anyone who ever said that. is it simply there for rhetorical purposes?
I think the point of the article is that there isn't 2^(32x32x3x8) meaningful images that can be encoded - there's far less than that because so many of the possible arrangements of the data are just meaningless noise, or millions of versions of the same thing with slightly altered color values etc.

The article is saying that neural networks are cool, because part of what they do is finding which images actually contain meaningful visual information.
There were robots making things in the 80s and long before. Nothing new.
Awesome. What’s the difference between an OBD interface and what the dealers can look at? Last I examined this, you needed to buy expensive devices to interpret all data. Any efforts to do this on a manufacturer by manufacturer basis?
How private do people actually think it is? It's a completely opaque system, 0% privacy should be assumed by default.
One network mitigation for Apple devices (e.g iPads) without a cellular baseband is to have a router block all connections to 17.0.0.0/8, except a once a week check for OS and app updates. This assumes no use of iCloud, which would siphon much more data than described in this article. It's also necessary to disable Siri on-device search (e.g. "Learn from this app") and Spotlight indexing of in-app content (per-app setting for "Show app in Search"), including E2E encrypted messengers like Signal and Wire.

For phones, the only mitigation is a lifestyle change to switch from always-reachable to scheduled availability windows or the always-async workflows of pre-mobile computing. A faraday bag can deny realtime telemetry, even if it's cached for relay when connectivity returns.
Oil derricks right in the middle of neighborhoods? Great idea! Apartments? Not in my backyard!!1

Oil platforms a few miles offshore a busy public beach? Sure why not? Offshore wind farms? Illegal!!
Yeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere.

Go figure.
if you want reconciliation the office pushers need to stop acting like they have the authority to decide for other people.
FoundationDB was pulled from market when Apple acquired it in 2015.[1] Apple re-released it as open source in 2018.[2] Since FoundationDB is FOSS this time around, it would be possible to fork it in case it becomes unavailable again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877395
Not yet but i'm hopeful about ideas like liquid democracy https://liquidfeedback.com/en/
Classic extroverted sociopath vs. introverted hermit archetypes.
I don't want to start a political flamewar but apart from the selfish people you describe, there are also a lot of people who genuinely believe that reducing the size and role of government will result in a better society for all. There are also a lot of people who believe in financial privacy. In fact, those are fairly common beliefs in the US. It's not that surprising that those people aren't rioting.
You have untreated ADHD, that's why your life keeps feeling apart when you make impulsive decisions.

They missed it when you were a child and none of the specialists thought to diagnose it as an adult.
It sounds that way: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/former-blue-origin-e...
Right? How the hell would you find the median race? I guess you could try with skin tone, with half the people darker than the median and half the people lighter… but it wouldn’t make sense and would be useless for determining anything.
Liquid democracy is designed with the idea that people don't want to worry about every issue, but should be allowed to change their 'proxy' for whatever issue at any time they please not only election cycles. My representative should be registered to me and if I want another one I just pick one. https://liquidfeedback.com/en/
Sensors are obviously important, but it doesn't really matter if two sensors conflict, the important thing is which one is consistent with their running model.

So far their biggest problem is that they allow flicker. That's why sometimes the software picks the wrong lines. (Of course this is a very hard problem. Our brain conveniently smooths over sensory changes for us, because that's how our everyday reality is. Things don't flicker in and out of existence, nor does a car suddenly appear as a different thing, then switches back.)

And if it turns out the sensor(s) failed, it has to be able to handle that too.
I completely forgot it was initially closed source, and only seriously considered it when it was opensourced in 2018. For the sake of the GP argument, though, I'd say that rebuilt an immense amount of trust in this case. My bad!
I was in Paris for a conference in the mid-90s. Actually, it was in La Defense which is out in the 'burbs. In Paris, people live in the city and commute out to work. They can't build skyscrapers within the city.

This was before WFH was a thing.
There are good reasons to go advocate for as few people in offices as possible though. Keeps people off roads, less traffic and pollution, those previous offices could be reused as homes that most cities desperately need.

I also don't see the point of an office when you only have a fraction of the people there.
You're employing a red herring - the internment of Japanese Americans is not relevant to a security and vetting procedure. Whatever justification they used shouldn't change your assessment of how the specific justification used here bears on the present issue.

I agree there is a problem of China paranoia, and your average Chinese American shouldn't be the subject of racist discrimination. While wanting to reduce this is admirable, national security is not the field to do it. The geopolitical forces shaping this shift are much larger than the national security apparatus - negating it at the expense of security is not their remit and never will be.
Could you clarify what you mean? I don't see anything in this article contradicting what the Tom's Guide article says.
Tape was before ISAM iirc - things like merge-sort were big then, and the spinning tapes you'd see in those old black and white movies from the 60's. ISAM needed disks, and so did RDB's
The Sprint[1] missile accelerated at 100g. That's 0-mach 10 in 5s flat. It flew so fast in the lower atmosphere that it glowed white hot.

So, just saying there were some pretty fast missiles decades ago. There was also the HIBEX missile, with 400g acceleration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
Feel free to actually test my knowledge of right-wing beliefs at your leisure. But until you have done so, kindly stick to the topic instead of incorrectly speculating about what I supposedly "believe".
This is why I really, really like unique_ptr. You either explicitly take responsibility (and it implicitly gets handled) or you explicitly hand it off.
Liquid democracy in 60 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xln9CTzPbck
And what exactly is the difference? The framing? None of the facts in the two articles seem to contradict each other.
> but fly more unpredictably

Ballistics cruise quietly. An RCS impulse can covertly re-aim it. Hypersonics scream bloody murder their whole flight path. Every satellite over the horizon will see it.

Hypersonic manoeuvres are, moreover, expensive. You have to deflect a lot of molecules to make small changes. That costs you in speed, fuel and time to arrival. If you need to maintain scram airspeed, your options are seriously limited.

This weapon has a place on the battlefield. But it’s not a strategic element.
Interesting, good to know it's not just me.

I'll switch my work laptop back to pulseaudio as being able to switch on plug/unplug is critical for my average day.

My personal laptop can stay on pipewire since I exclusively use Bluetooth there.

Hopefully it's a feature that'll be implemented soon.
You could have the median for years of education… but yeah, I have no idea how you would calculate the median race or ethnicity.

And even if you could find the median, you can’t then just combine the medians for three completely separate characteristics and then say that is the median person.
A good rule of thumb is that fields which style themselves by adding "science" to their name are not sciences. An economist friend of mine told me that, and it stuck. In fact if you are a physicist you don't go around insisting to people that you are a scientist and what you do is science and if they disagree with you they are anti-science. You just say "hey, this is physics".

So far, this rule of thumb has not let me down.

FYI, you may want to read Feynman's lecture on Cargo Cult Science -- that is avoiding the trappings of science while not actually having the rigour and intellectual honesty of true science. A good link is here:
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

I enjoy economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, etc, but they are most definately not science.
At least for DARPA this change was well established even 26 years ago. It’s a way to be more inclusive of various roles within the military.
New article reveals apple-centric headline gets clicked more often.
> I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere.

It is very true. A common example is kerning (hence the joke, keming). Once you learn the nuances of spacing between letters you start to notice it everywhere.

There was also a great SNL skit about a graphics designer who was haunted by the Avatar logo which was simply the papyrus font.
Let’s assume you’re getting absolute time stamps or arrival intervals from your Geiger counter. How do you convert those into a uniformly random PRNG seed? They will all be biased to a small range depending on your radiation source and measurement apparatus.

Secondly, non-cryptographic PRNGs leak their state from their outputs.

This is a solved problem. Many academic and engineering hours have been put into real solutions. Dear reader, please use a recognized secure scheme instead of the amateur ad-hoc approach recommended up-thread. It has no theoretic or engineering basis. Don’t roll your own crypto.
This is interesting reading:

Laffont, Jean-Jacques, and Eric S. Maskin. "The efficient market hypothesis and insider trading on the stock market." Journal of Political Economy 98.1 (1990): 70-93.
> Yeah, it turns out most cultures aren't accurately described by popular stereotypes and mass media, and people are pretty much normal everywhere.

Yap, over past few decades the people running the popular media started to drink their own coolaid, and these popular media portraits went on to live their own lives fully detached from the reality.

When people on the TV now tell of American elections being totally unpredictable, it's hard to not to notice how the popular sentiment is actually very accurate at predicting the outcome. US elections are basically the anger-meter.
> Middle class American does not feel that only a middle class politician can represent them

I've been hearing about the destruction of the middle class from middle class Americans since the Clinton era. In many ways, they were right, as I can look at some of those same people 30 years later and see how housing and medical debt, wage stagnation and the restructuring of the economy post-2008 have put those once middle class Americans into the lower class.

Are middle class Americans given a choice between being represented by people from their social and economic strata, versus representation from upper classes? Most middle class Americans have to work, they don't have the time, money or connections for effective political campaigns, especially at the national level.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support all the sex scenes in Bridgerton. I thought they were very well done.
Housing supply and demand in one screenshot
Such nonsense drivel. How much an image contains can be inflated by doing some dishonest BS like creating a unique encoding to optimize for what each image is representing in RGB.

You can clearly see with steganographically encoded images that there is a limit if you want the image to remain and image - and still be able to store whatever arbitrary data in it. Being bound to the arbitrariness of data that can be stored is against the implications of the title, which is why this should be deemed nonsense.
Quoting from https://www.apple.com/privacy/ :

"Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in."

So, according to Apple, it is designed "to protect your privacy and give you control over your information".
What particular political philosophies make this particular claim?
I have thought this for years. It’s like they don’t realize they are studying a living system, and even worse one that is actively trying to invalidate their models.
This looks like a desk calendar. e-ink is low power, allowing you to build a portable unit running on battery. And it has it own distinctive look, which some may prefer. Though yeah, an hdtv version would be lot functional.
Actually, if you look into it, you'll find that it has a lot broader appeal than that. For instance, I watched all of it, and I'm hardly a Harlequin novel reader.