skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My credit card had a bunch of fraudulent charges ~30 minutes after I ordered. Obviously that could just be a coincidence, but it seems strange.

But they are a pretty awesome service. I will just pay with crypto next time I guess.
Maybe CAD models for 3D printers? Something like Thingiverse, at the very least.

I'd imagine you also need repositories of processes and assembly instructions.
A shame they didn't look at IF+CR and IF-only groups. In my circles IF is much more common than something like ADF, but, that could be noise.
HN doesnt build a social graph or an interest graph but its still interesting to me.
Now if they can just do something about comments. Like just randomly cull a chuck every hour or so and it will be a nice energy generating space to hang out.
Well this link is on nobelprize.org, the website of the official organization in charge of the Nobel Prize Committee.

Thus, it's more like the comment you were replying to — creating a new degree program within Harvard University that John Harvard didn't authorize.

Your analogy would be more accurate if this were not in fact created, endorsed, and run by the Nobel Foundation.
If there was, it'd only be used for Ponzi schemes and other criminal activities.
If you enjoy this kind of (ab)use of browser elements, I highly suggest the works of Matthew Rayfield: https://matthewrayfield.com/. Popup trombone is a work of art.
That's why you can (and should!) scroll to the bottom of an article and consult the references, if you're unsure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#References
Well they didn't for the Economics prize, the Swedish Riksbank asked the Nobel family for approval for an award in his honor, which they approved.
Given the current state of automatic differentiation I'm not so sure it's even necessary or particularly useful to focus on backpropagation any more.

While backprop has major historic significance, in the end it's essentially just a pure calculation which no longer needs to be done by hand.

Don't get me wrong, I still believe that understanding the gradient is hugely important, and conceptually it will always be essential to understand that one is optimizing a neural network by taking the derivative of the loss function, but backprop is not necessary nor is it particularly useful for modern neural networks (nobody is computing gradients by hand for transformers).

IMHO a better approach is to focus on a tool like JAX where taking a derivative is abstracted away cleanly enough, but at the same time you remain fully aware of all the calculus that is being done.

Especially for programmers, it's better to look at Neural Networks as just a specific application of Differentiable Programing. This makes them both easier to understand and also enables the learner to open a much broader class of problems they can solve with the same tools.
I got inspired and started this over the weekend to demonstrate what is possible.

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuetils
> there's only a 50% chance they can write down the chain rule

Why should I, though? I remember the concept from calculus. I know pytorch keeps track of the various stuff I do to a vector and calculates a gradient based on it. What more do I need to know when all I want to do is to play with applications, not implement backprop myself?
He likely would have endorsed it - it was a field that did not really exist at the time but did fit in well with Nobel's other awards and his person legacy.
>Another factor to consider is that this was a study in “lean” adults, and it is possible that results would be different if the investigators included people who actually need to lose weight.

This just kind of reads like "which of these diets leads to healthy individuals becoming even more healthy", and the answer was none of them. There's got to be diminishing returns on healthy practices.
I can't speak for other countries, but for the US, none of these are aberrations. They're the way we've always done things, and no one with access to the levers of power is really all that interested in changing things. A lot of these stories just boil down to people with power being able to use people without in any way they please: use them as unpaid labor, or just dump them in an unmarked grave if they're no use to you. We call that "freedom", because for the people with the power, it is. And to have an impact on the public discourse, you basically have to accept that as the way things should be, plus or minus a little tinkering around the edges.
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It's not the goal, it's the unavoidable outcome. How we get there is all that changes. How do you know pleasure and good experience only comes through life?
> It’s not FOSS

GraphSCAD "probably" is FOSS and is GPL software, as it uses OpenSCAD API, which is covered by GPL License[0]; same way as all Blender add-ons should be under GPL[1] because they use Blender API, which is also GPL.

Also MCAD[2], OpenSCAD Parametric CAD Library, "should" be under GPL too, but its actually under LGPL (and I guess it volates GPL if only MCAD is based on OpenSCAD & not vice versa).

[0] https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/COPYING

[1] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1135229215761195009

[2] https://github.com/openscad/MCAD
> the problem is that prestigious institutions are run by bureaucrats wearing its skin

Universities are run by their professors. Invited talks are regular academic business. A 'campus admin' does not invite or disinvite anyone to give an academic talk.
I agree datacenters would clearly be targets, but our IT infrastructure is hardly alone in being a relatively concentrated strategic target.

If kinetics are in play, said actor could also destroy our oil refining and pipeline systems. Taking out a few dozen large baseload power generation facilities would have a massive impact on the grid.
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> Cab frame has no safety glass or panels, so the operator enjoys every rock and every tree branch :(. a shade canopy is a nice add as well.

> no lights. this is a nonstarter for every farmer that wakes up at 4 am.

Not to dismiss those concerns but I would say they could be addressed in later versions of this machine. For lighting, after-market solutions or even duct taping a powerful flashlight or two would do the trick.

The market is that of farmers with little to no mechanization. The aim is to be made out of readily available materials and to be as simple to repair as possible.
The linked article on that page is broken. I’m guessing he somehow refueled in flight?
> Perhaps someone should go round the American institutions with ground-penetrating radar and a shovel.

No matter how bad the scandal is in Canada, I'm positive that the crimes in the US are magnitudes worse.
I often see comments on HN complaining about Firefox being poorly supported by some sites. I honestly cannot remember the last time I experienced any support issues with it. Are these generally more niche sites and are we talking misaligned text or a completely broken page?
If you don't want to pay for journalism it dies.
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It's surprisingly hard to find information about grid-beam online. I got this book years ago. Never really did anything with it, but it has a lot more examples: https://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Grid-Beam-Constructing/dp/0...

The problem with grid-beam is that it really only seems to make sense if you A) have lots of grid-beams in various sizes already, and B) are making, taking apart, and repurposing things frequently. Without A, making grid beams is a lot more work than just purpose-cutting your pieces, and without B, you don't really have a reason to drill all those extra holes.
When I hear of multiple CVEs described without details (or categorization), the phrase "Security Theatre" comes to mind.

Apparently, there is no formal oversight over how CVEs are reported or assigned severity. But because the label sounds official & authoritative & scary, people who spam CVEs are rewarded with clout.

Some have speculated that CVE inflation will lead to the death of the term altogether:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612429
When are we going to stop posting twitter threads to this board?
The dollar was pegged at $35 from 1933 to... was it 1973? In what sense had the US abandoned the gold standard in the 1930s? What is your definition of the gold standard, where the dollar pegged to gold isn't enough to mean you're on the gold standard?
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you're allowed to negotiate a rebate with the buyer agent.
And it's in the April issue...
They're definitely a bit loose! There's some slack in the etch-a-sketch mechanism too, which is why the tops and bottoms of the curve look a bit flattened. When the motors change direction, the dials must move through a nonzero angle before the mechanism catches and starts moving the plotter. Software can help a little by moving the motor quickly through the dead region.
If the Economics prize is OK with the Nobel Foundation, which administers the prize along with the others, that should be good enough.

(Did you know that the "MacArthur Fellows" – sometimes called "Genius Grants" – were also invented by the board of the MacArthur Foundation after John MacArthur's death?)
> If we mean to say this tractor is all-electric, keep in mind most small farms arent equipped to charge anything more advanced than a cordless drill or flashlight.

Are you sure? In Switzerland, most farms I know have at least one dusty three-phase power outlet somewhere in a shed. Sometimes just 16A, but that should be sufficient for many use cases.
What do you suggest be done about it?
In a weird bleak way I was hoping that Covid would be a catalyst for the next big reset, in the way WW1 and WW2 were, but it would have needed to affect our daily lives greatly for at least 5 years for that to happen. It only managed to cripple us for 18 months, and for many it is life back to normal. Again we have used technology to preserve the status quo, and not for the betterment of the human race.
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Ng's course is bottom up: Start with the basic math, expand upon it, until you arrive at ML and neural nets.

Fastai is top down: learn to use practical ML with abstractions, and then dig deeper and explain as needed.

I preferred fastai's approach, even though I enjoyed both. Ng's could be a bit too low level and fundamental for what I wanted to learn.
Yes. Also added oil.
Yes. They flew low and slow over a long, straight road and refueled from a truck that kept pace with them.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/pilo...

> A Ford truck, donated by Cashman Auto in Las Vegas, was outfitted with a fuel pump, tank, and other paraphernalia required to support the aircraft in flight. When fuel was required, a rendezvous would be arranged on a stretch of straight road in the desert near Blythe, California. An electric winch lowered a hook, the fuel pump hose was picked up, and Timm or Cook inserted it into the belly tank. It took a little more than three minutes to fill the belly tank.

> The total fuel capacity of the airplane was 142 gallons. Plans called for refueling twice daily. Sometimes weather or the inevitable glitches upset the schedule, and a new rendezvous was worked out by radio. This activity was repeated more than 128 times.

The whole article is worth a read; it was quite the hairy sounding endeavour. Two months in a C-172 would kill me, I'm quite certain.
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What always amazes me is how small development teams often were, even through the N64/PS1 era. Flagship games from major publishers would have software development teams in the single digits, sometimes just 2 or 3. And they were remarkably productive. The multiplayer component for Goldeneye on N64 for example, one of its most notable features, was added by a single person in a few weeks because he had some extra time between when the game was "finished" and the date when it actually had to be finished to go to printing.
Has any consumer chip come to market with this tech?
They don't teach "pointed haired boss 101" in school. It's great that you are smart, and know this stuff now. But most people have to go through the hard lessons of having their good will and faith be abused by bad-faith actors.
This had already been posted several times on this thread, before you posted this comment, but apparently it needs posting again:

https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1447324896904638467?t=ou...
https://web.archive.org/web/20120429214314/http://www.airspa...

Haven't read it to find the answer to your question yet, but bless the Internet Archive
Not an important factor for many, but buying from a nearby supplier instead of shipping from other side of the globe is a lot better for the environment too, what our politicians should be incentivizing along with renewables.
You can use .reduce((acc, curr) => curr > 0 && curr < acc ? curr : acc) and have the best of both worlds.

In some cases, there are persuasive arguments to favor readability over performance, but I don't find this particular example very convincing.
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On the cello (and viola) three perfect 3:2 ("pythagorian") fifths down from the A string makes for a low C that's noticeably flat when compared to equal-tempered instruments. For string quartet playing, it's manageable, because the violins will adjust when necessary, but for piano-accompanied playing, cellists will raise the low C a little so it doesn't clash with the C's on the piano.
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Wasn't Facebook working on a similar project (Aquila)?
At least in OSH for Medical Devices, the limiting factor under current 21CFR regulations would probably be Manufacturing and the associated support operations. Design & Development is tedious but doable in an OSH/OSS fashion, and getting through 510k could probably be solved by people donating skills (and someone else donating cash). Don't quote me, but I don't think that the actual fees that the FDA charges to do a 510-k submission are not particularly high, it's just that the work that goes along with it is burdensome and people want to be paid. In an Open Source approach, this could largely go away as long as someone donates the fees.

That gives you a design that the FDA is happy with.

Now you have to build, distribute, service and support that device and no matter how you slice it, you're looking at substantial costs to comply with 21CFR across all these tasks. So this is where the creativity really has to come in: can we spread those costs across a "community" to make it worthwhile, or will we just end up right back at Square One with single use, $1,000 devices?

I don't think there's a path forward (at least in the US) without change to regulations.
You're right, but it was endorsed as a prize in his honor, not as a Nobel Prize with all that entails. Therefore it's incorrect to call it such. It's never called (or at least very seldomly) a Nobel Prize in Sweden as that isn't true.
well it somewhat works for some Oxford Brookes grads ;)
I wish I can ride onto an interest graph without having to wait for the algorithm to decide it for me by inference of who I (have to) follow.
> When asked by a reporter if he would ever replicate the stunt, Cook replied: “Next time I feel in the mood to fly endurance, I’m going to lock myself in a garbage can with the vacuum cleaner running, and have Bob serve me T-bone steaks chopped up in a thermos bottle. That is, until my psychiatrist opens for business in the morning.”

ROLF!!!
Microsoft requested meeting with the author in the guise of helping him. Told him that the company would acqui-hire him and flew him out to Redmond for a interview. Did not respond to him for 6 months. And finally released their own version.

I've heard similar stories coming out of Apple related to csound.
That's an interesting idea. I have not tried to build something similar but a humble word of caution that I want to put out is that no matter what kind of ML you use the mechanical version of the instrument will always be more precise (you likely are aware of it, just want to make sure). However, you might be able to approximate precision of the mechanical version.

Two hand support would be nice and I would love to add it in the future.

The engine should work well with different skin tones as the training data was collected from a set of many and diverse individuals. The training data will also grow further over time making it more and more robust.
The title is inaccurate and editorialized

> The changes in Chrome 94 only affect public websites accessing private IP addresses or localhost. The Private Network Access specification also classifies requests from private websites to localhost as problematic. Chrome will eventually deprecate these too. This presents a slightly different set of challenges however, as many private websites do not have domain names, complicating the use of deprecation trial tokens.
That is why I maintain my own JSON parser. First I started with the parse from FreePascal's standard library. Then I ran test cases on it, and there were lots of issues I had to patch.

First it was accepting all kinds of numbers, so I rewrote it to only accept the numbers from the spec

Then it was removing invalid \u escapes, while I needed it to replace them with U+FFFD.

Then I needed the unchanged input. Besides the test cases from the article, I ran test cases from the W3C XPath test suite. The W3C has a very odd understanding of JSON. Besides the normal numbers and Unicode U+FFFD replacement, the JSON parser must be able to parse it unchanged. That means, if the input number is like 100 or 1e2, the parser must be able to return that as string "100" or "1e2". Those are different numbers. And there must be a user defined replacement of invalid \u, like you set the replacement to identity and the input is "\uDEAD\u002D\udead", then the parser must parse that as "\uDEAD-\udead" while keeping the case.
Another post in the thread questioned why this happens in otherwise "civilized and enlightened" societies. My personal response - because we're not - lead me down a train of thought to Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter. The common thread is a lack of mutual oversight, accountability, and responsibility for others in our communities. Civilization is a wonderful thing that enables any number of deep and extensive value-adds to quality of life for any given individual member of our species, but the specialization inherent in a free society means that people are trusted to attend to their own affairs (and in the case of hierarchy, the affairs of their charges).

As a society, we share responsibility and consequences for the outcomes determined by the actions of individuals. This is the reason that the limits of individual freedom are somewhere in between the capacity and the demonstrated ability to infringe on the rights of others.

What seems to have happened is dereliction of the duty to shape those limits in response to demonstrated infringement in the past. We know - we know - what the status quo wrt, as examples, the penal system and firearms has meant for individual and collective suffering. What you're feeling is the same sense that we're not learning from the past and dooming ourselves to gory, nightmarish repetition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172 :

"From December 4, 1958, to February 7, 1959, Robert Timm and John Cook set the world record for (refueled) flight endurance in a used Cessna 172, registration number N9172B. They took off from McCarran Airfield in Las Vegas, Nevada, and landed back at McCarran Airfield after 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds in flight. The flight was part of a fund-raising effort for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund.[14][15]"
Spending on non-essentials happens by people of all income categories, including the hundreds of thousands of 55 year pensioners receiving $100K+ a year from taxpayers in California. At least the market system is allocating capital to those who are generally better at growing it. The automatic pay raises in the public sector are not mediated by any kind of economic efficiency metric. With respect to tax havens, the problem is when it's public officials that are hiding their wealth, which is why I suggested more scrutiny should be placed on them.
Even without displacement, the amount of game available in an area a few centuries ago must have been at least an order of magnitude more dense before unlimited commercialized overhunting and overfishing decimated populations.
"Airbus ultimately believes that the aircraft could remain airborne for “months at a time” and could provide internet to both commercial and military customers."

What sort of power requirements would this bring? I assume that it would be more sophisticated than just dumping RF energy indiscriminately across a huge area.
> I'm unfamiliar with zerohedge beyond this article, but I can empathise with any fond remembrance of a fiscal system that wasn't (intentionally or otherwise) designed to provide a perpetual and ineluctable boom-bust cycle.

Look at the boom-bust cycle in the second half of the 1800s. We were on the gold standard. We still had horrific crashes in a perpetual boom-bust cycle. To think the gold standard wasn't giving regular crashes requires ignoring all economic history before World War II.

They may have a fondness for conditions as they exist in their imagination, but the reality of life on the gold standard was much less rosy...
Agree 100%. By erecting this over-engineered gold-plated edifice the author has demonstrated knowledge, but not wisdom.
What is a chuck?
I agree that economists have a lot of value as political philosophers. But that's largely not how economics operates nowadays, the field is mostly trying to operate as a hard science.
This sounds too similar to a string of jobs I held at the start of my career. Promises of raises+stock options to come that never materialize and creeping responsibilities and no mention of pay (the only time I got a raise outside of getting a new job, I went from making $34 an hour to $35 an hour after a promotion. Not kidding)

In fact my current job that I took almost 6 years into my career is the first decent role I've had. But again I find myself taking more responsibilities than normal for my role with the "promise" of support for a promotion in the "next round" (almost a year from now)
Sorry, I don't see it. This tractor is too wide, has low ground clearance, too complex, hard to rustproof, seems to be hard to maneuver.
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> you have CSV which is popular beyond belief, and has no real specification

What about RFC 4180? Works for me.
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Ah a fellow Oxford alumni, which college were you in old sport?

Umm Brookes
Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution write up on this:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/th...