skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus it is often completely legal to cross when there is not crossing close.

Jaywalking is an act, I don't think anyone in this thread cares about it's legality with respect to the situation. We're just discussing how to interpret the statistics.

The point here is that a majority of these accidents occur at non-intersections which are not covered by "Other".
> Note to Americans: the £ is like the $, except bigger

This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
> It's well known that neural networks can easily inherit biases from their training data. It's also well known that datasets generated by western universities are widely used in training and evaluating neural networks. If my training set is full of pictures of Stanford CS undergraduates, I could end up with a computational photography system that makes everyone look like Stanford CS undergraduates, or a historical photo colourisation system that makes everyone look like Stanford CS undergraduates, or a self driving car pedestrian tracking system that expects 90% of pedestrians to look like Stanford CS undergraduates.

Why then aren't foreign universities/companies simply... building their own datasets?
I take regular tours around it to see what's going on. And the general answer is not a lot.

Largest percentage of developed plots are NFT showrooms, some for sale, some just showing off (which is totally valid in my mind). Some trying to sell wearables for your in-world avatar.

There's some casino operations, the largest being a poker room which seems to where the most people congregate.

There's a crafting game where you have to collect materials that are doled out slowly enough that it takes days to make anything.

A couple of very mildly interactive "rides" for lack of a better term.

A number of largely abandoned...I don't know...architectural phantasies? Places where someone built weird/interesting things because they could.

There's a lot of hype around trading the virtual land, but the prices are all out of whack with the utility. Far, far too little land at far, far too high prices. People are dreaming of being virtual landlords, but it's hard for me to see that playing out well for them.

The software development is glacial compared to the rest of the crypto world.

My opinion is that the project as a whole on a dead end path, but I check in once or twice a week to see if anyone is doing anything interesting with their little piece of it.
I'm not sure if that would be better or worse than Project Orion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Ask HN: Is it possible to use AI to program a synthesiser to mimic a sound?
I have a limited understanding of AI so the question I'm about to ask may be entirely nonsensical.

My layman's understanding of GAN machine learning is that you have two networks working against each other. For example, one producing images of peoples faces and the other trying to determine if a given image is of a persons face or not. When both networks are pitted against each other then you can eventually generate believable images of faces.

Modern software synthesisers have near unlimited complexity in producing sounds. For example, after a quick Google, https://www.automatonism.com/the-software shows a modular synthesiser that can be composed together in near unlimited ways. It also comes with an interface for programming it that would suit plugging it into a system driving it programmatically.

Is it possible to combine both a GAN and a modular synthesiser together? In particular, I'd like to start with a wav file of a sound and have the synthesiser come up with a patch which mimics the provided sound.

I'm no stranger to programming patches and can achieve something similar to this manually. Likewise I'm sure that the GAN produced patch would/could be lacking in articulation and modulation of the sound. However, I think it could lead to some interesting "starting places" for sounds which could be further tweaked.

I'd also be interested in how something like this would perform with synthesisers that were less complicated (i.e. be easier to manually tweak once the patch had been produced)
Should we just consider buying an air purifier?

Currently in Bay Area where air outside seems good but these apartments seem poorly ventilated, old fixtures, old floors, lots of electronics, etc.
In a nutshell:

Web3::web 2.0

as

IPFS::filesystems

You may interpret this as praise or criticism depending on your point of view.
In California you only need an 80% on the written test to pass. And if I remember right you can retake it the same day.

To phrase that another way, you can be wrong about 20% of the driving laws and still drive. They should raise the bar.
This was one of the worst adjustments for me coming from an old car. I think driver testing should be updated to account for it - looking around the pillar should be as mandatory as the shoulder blind spot check when changing lanes/turning.
Thanks. That is all unfortunate. I really hope the USPS can get an administrator with enough political clout to let employees at all levels make good changes.
I meant limit cars, yes. Not that I think it will happen in the US very soon, it's designed around them.

As a European, the concept of jaywalking is so bizarre. Cities are for people, not cars. You can ban people from highways, but shouldn't ban them from walking in their own neighborhood.
Which companies? I’ve never seen anyone willing to do that in decades of contracting.

Maybe it’s just different here in Denmark, but people never buy things here without knowing what they buy.
Got to admit a "502 Bad Gateway" is not the most professional thing ever ;)
Roundabout have pedestrian crossing at the entrance - before you meet cars. Plus, they naturally force you to slow anyway.
Conversely, if you ignore social media, you get some pretty entertaining conversation starters from everyone else who spend all day on it.

And the collapse looks very different, and perhaps more peaceful, albeit brutal.
I've worked in ODEs for 20+ years and I don't think that non-quasi-static solvers have really ever come up. Are these commonly used? IE, how much CPU/GPU/TPU time is spent on them globally and how useful are they?
> You need to know what will be delivered, when.

It is valuable to have engineers who know how to decouple individual pieces to eliminate (reduce) these dependencies. These dependencies are almost guaranteed points of conflict and risk for the project.
It's currently returning 502 Bad Gateway, so the title is very fitting.
I'm being dismissive but I doubt JP Morgan Chase is going to suffer any real backlash other than the direct financial punishment they are receiving here. There's also a good chance that they will file suit over it as it's worth spending a few million in lawyer fees to try to reduce or save the $920m entirely, so it's not even over yet.
Ironically this page is experiencing HN's hug of death and 502ing - so still working as expected?
Not quite the same. Kickstarter does require projects to commit to delivering whatever they promised to backers at the time of the contribution as long as the project is fully funded. They themselves aren't going to process refunds, but you do have a legal avenue if you really want your money back, which isn't the case for any random donation.
"Unprofessional" only makes sense in the context of some particular profession. Many English dictionary definitions even explicitly mention something like "the expectations of a particular profession." I'm pretty sure there still are professional standards for doing graphic design work for a punk art organization. And you wouldn’t say that a plumber is coveralls is dressing unprofessionally. The word “unprofessional” doesn’t just mean “anything that’s different than a stock photo of a banker.”
This is not accurate. Im currently working on a "5 Whys". I am writing it in a nested bullet format which allows multiple branches. Example:

* Main Why?
* Why 1?
* Sub Why 1?
* More Whys
* Why 2?
* Sub Why 2?

Its totally fine to have more than one change or path. Theres nothing in the nature of the doc that requires one change or one path, thats just an assumption.
Oh that would be an easy prize to win: limit the car speed at the speed limit. There you go, lots of lethality and stupidity outright removed. Electric kick scooters can do it, I'm sure we can manage that for cars.
Snowboarding and Final Fantasy XIV.

Almost every weekend over the past 5 winters, I would drive 4 hours from my big city home to spend two days sliding and crashing in snow down a mountain. It's amazingly fun. This year, I moved to the mountain.

Last year, I picked FFXIV back up again after a 6 year hiatus and I probably spend a good 2 to 3 hours each day. Even when I'm not playing, I may be spending time creating task list or looking for blogs. There's a lot of content to do in FFXIV, especially if you're just starting. It's a bit too addictive and I'm worried about it, good thing winter has come.
Raven Walkout
"Current" is an abstraction, that to physicists is defined as the direction of positive charges flowing. Since most currents are actually due to moving electrons, the direction of current by convention is the opposite the way electrons move in a circuit. (Blame Ben Franklin for guessing the wrong convention, I think.)

Actual moving positive charges (e.g. ions in solution) do move in the direction of "current".
Not everyone is an ambiturner
Ask for higher pay now from another company.
Compiling C++ and Rust takes a lot of cycles
>>Eventually there will be several overlapping waves of infections each with a different variant so that people might even get sick from a combination of different variants at once.<<

it is possible for delta and omicron [and or others] to recombine genetic features, how probable is the million dollar question at the time

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination#RNA_viru...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinfection
That's the brochure description. The evidence would suggest that this is a run of the mill cryto ponzi.
Spotify Pulls Additional Comedy Albums – As Royalty Dispute Intensifies
I think the “problem” is your running. I’m an ex-runner, ex-skateboarder (knees gave up) and my close calls were always when moving at high speed.

Drivers are expecting we’ll be a dawdling pedestrian moving at 2-3 MPH, when in fact we could easily be doing 10MPH or faster.

We have street-grade LIDAR everywhere these days (at least in SF). I don’t understand why they can’t make “smart intersections” that flash drivers a warning when pedestrians are predicted to be crossing.
It's impossible to force the G7 to do anything.
I remember building sites like this using my feature phone way back when I was a kid, likely around 2006-2008. At the time I didn't have any other options to access the internet, so I used what I have. Used all of my allowance to buy some credits for a prepaid cell plan and spent most of my time on WAP site builders.
LLVM IR is still CPU dependent, and is a moving target. WASM is also a moving target, but much more controlled.
23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys (2018)
Love it, gives me https://www.pitviper.com/ vibes. I think I'm going to go for this aesthetic for my bike club's website.
straw.page has been posted by okozzie 16 times in the last 10 months, sometimes the odd URL hack to get past the repost filters (+?, /start, +?ref=hn, +?ref, +?utm) but mostly just the same page.
I'd advise putting something in front of your web services so you can handle the excess load HN is throwing at you.

however, I saw what you had and it was great style.
Well, I would agree on that.

I get a white page , a horizontal line and this content:

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
That's precisely what composability solves. We're seeing in CLIMA that using more general highly optimized solvers can greatly decrease the `f` cost count moreso than focusing on really low level optimizations. Especially in things like the land model where you can have many stability issues (such as large complex eigenvalues which happen to work very poorly with multistep methods, even BDF), the ability to split the develop of the time stepping to a huge community of 100's of developers without losing performance gives something where more optimal methods for a domain arise and are found. Yes, the standard is to use something simpler. No, it's not even close to optimal and that is something that is being made very clear.
Interesting. What are the bandwidth considerations for this? I had the impression that many ISPs make self-hosting impractical on normal household plans, but then I've never looked into it seriously.
We used SH4 chips for the cosmic-ray surface detector array for the Telescope Array project: http://telescopearray.org/

I cut my embedded development teeth writing device drivers and custom firmware targeting it.

The reason we used SH4 is because the Dreamcast had failed, so there was a huge surplus of them available on the market at the time.

It was easily one of the most interesting and rewarding projects of my life to work on.
There are so many things wrong with Texas, it is hard to even know where to start. I would probably start with "kids pledge allegiance to the Texas flag in school" [1] and end with "politicians will call you a freeloader for expecting electricity to be available in the winter" [2]

1. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Why-do-publ...

2. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-mayor-resigns-aft...
The problem is that taking a driving test in the suburbs is generally much easier than in the city, but the license counts all the same. People joke about how driving well in NYC/SF/LA/etc. traffic means you can handle driving anywhere, but that's not a joke, that ought to be the default you expect from every licensed driver.
Coming from the 1980s where many apps were written by a single person with no source control and the only test performed was "does it compile?" to the point where you need ML just to figure out what the hell you need to test completely blows my mind.

Also, it makes me cry.
Where do you buy "differential" lenses? Do you just get a lower prescription from your optometrist?
NASA Astronaut Class of 2021
... And the local lawmaker is trying to get Roe v. Wade overturned at the same time as the 2020 election!

Seriously, there's a reason properties are cheap over there.
What makes it professional is that it's designed, with the intent to look oldschool/unprofessional. You've likely used a process and tools you were already familiar with.

Vernacular/unprofessional web design is search engine driven these days – using what's in reach. Basically searching for "create a website" and using one of the guides and tools popping up in the search results.
hell yeah brother!
Bitcoin is pretty close to this, right? Anyone can publish a Bitcoin address and accept donations with no friction.
If the Analysis has been done properly and we are sure that it has left no room for error, and if we demand similar quality from the Specification and other phases, then why do we need a Qualification phase at the end at all?

Conversely, if we accept that each phase is fallible so Qualification is crucial for any chance at a good working product, what is the recourse for errors in the Analysis phase? Basically if there was an error in the Analysis phase, we will, by definition, only find it in the Qualification phase, requiring us to scrap all of our work and start over from a new Analysis phase.
There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation.
I in general prefer tables but yeah having summary of TV episodes makes no sense and has been one of my pet peeve of Wikipedia formatting for a while.
Haha! It's back up now :)
> You're not alone. I have the exact same thoughts here in London, England. Average house prices here are 10x median income.

Did the city try not to be an asset parking for questionably acquired assets by wealthy foreigners?
That sounds actually quite practical and like an amazing option! Are there papers about this you could please share the links to?
The quiet-part-out-loudness of naming a project designed as a propaganda measure to leverage peaceful applications of nuclear technology (including explosions) to build acceptance of (/ mitigate opposition to) nuclear weaponry qua weaponry so as to invoke Joel 3:9-10 (“Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: / Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong”) is, well, pretty amazing.
That’s consistent with my understanding.

They seem to be functionally identical to a Board of Directors or how a co-operative might run.

Though as I understand, with potentially a very large number voters in ever-changing cloaked identities (as voting right tokens could be continuously bought & sold).

Today, in the real world - DAO’s are an LLC coordinating on Discord, or Zoom, or other common communication tools.

That DAO coordination happens fully in cyberspace is promoted as a unique differentiator to how businesses run today.

In my experience, the key unique characteristic of DAOs are that you may not know who you’re doing business with.
I do not recommend anything Canary (canary.is), they inexplicably keep most of their air quality data locked away from their customers, so you only get to view the last $x hours of data.
No foreign spectators will be allowed. However there will be many non-athletes in attendance including coaches, referees, sports federation officials, journalists, etc.
I wonder how many accidents and fatalities are due to poor layouts (that are hard to fix), inadequate signage, and unique designs that are "safer," but add enough mental overhead that you're paying more attention to where you should be so you're not in a bus-only lane rather than looking out for pedestrians. Driving in SF can be complicated when you're not familiar with the streets. Intersections feel like multiple clever solutions stacked together.
Onboarding Hack: Getting Gifts Is the Onboarding
Reader mode is nice when it works, but since it’s hueristics-based I find it often either misses important content like images and code blocks that should be included with the article, or includes text that shouldn’t be there.

Even if it selects all the right elements, syntax highlighting doesn’t work which is an issue for me since a lot of the articles I read involve code.

These are issues with every reader mode I’ve tried – iOS Safari, iOS/desktop Firefox, desktop Chrome.

I wish there were a standard CSS media type that sites could implement, like `@media reader`, to help specify which elements should be included and to support things like syntax highlighting.
$100 m was awarded to "W&K Info Defense" and its interesting, that 75% stocks owns he and his ex-Wife. Only 25% was Dave Kleiman and whose are disputed in separate lawsuit. So basically Craig Wright have to pay to himself.
Not the issue.

OP made subtle re-phrasing tweaks that weren't forced by length limits and changed the meaning.
I pointed out that it's in use now by a few periodicals, so of course it's not dead.

> makes the language better

Do you plan to resume using the word "hôtel"? ("The French spelling, with the circumflex, was also used in English, but is now rare" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel .)

> in the age of printing presses and lead type

Here's an image for a Linotype machine. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Linotype... .

It has keys for the ligatures ﬂ, ﬀ, ﬃ, and ℔ (!). [1]

It also has the ligatures œ (handy when spelling œvre or diarrhœa), and æ (for ægis, dæmon, æther, and mediæval).

To double-check, I pulled up a British book from 1846, "Printing apparatus for the use of amateurs : containing full and practical instructions for the use of Cowper's parlour printing press" from archive.org. Page 19 shows a type case layout (see https://archive.org/details/printingapparatu00holtrich/page/... ), again with æ, œ, ﬂ, ﬀ, and ﬃ, as well as ﬁ and ﬄ.

So the idea that printing presses and lead type caused the orthography "coördinate" to disappear seems ... in need of further supporting evidence. At the very least, it seems "ö" was less common than "æ" or "œ", and the latter two were commonly available in type cases, yet certainly died out in normal use.

FWIW, Google n-grams suggests that the use of "coördinate" seems to have peaked in the 1920s, well after the rise of Linotype. And that there was never a time was it was more frequent than "coordinate". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=co%C3%B6rdinat...

Google Books finds about 300 books in the 19th century with "coördinate" and also about 300 with "coordinate".

[1] I verified ℔ by looking at a Linotype book, at https://archive.org/details/LinotypeKeyboardPractice/page/n9... .
Ah yeah, thanks, I added a saw function.
More the reason that I said it varies is because it depends on the equipment. In the US it is nominally derived from 24x lead-acid cells yielding 48v, but in older switches the maintenance charger is connected when the switch has external power and increases battery voltage to around 50v, sometimes a bit higher, like 54v. Basically due to the charger, other countries often specify 50v as the nominal voltage (this is of course similar to how we call automotive systems 12v when in practice they're around 13.7v most of the time).

All this results in 40-50v being considered a normal on-hook line voltage, but it can vary more in the real world. Of course modern SAIs or RLCs or what have you tend to use solid-state regulators that keep a very tight 48v, so I'm sure the variation is much lower in like modern suburban neighborhoods than it is in cities or with older exchanges.

When off-hook, current starts flowing and the line relays and local loop come into play. The line relays are not tightly standardized and range from say 400-700 ohm, but unless you're pretty close to the exchange the line resistance of the local loop is greater, which can be 1kohm or more. Then the actual telephone instrument has a resistance due to the current it uses for operation, 200 ohm is perhaps average but it varies plenty, I think the WECo phones were usually 180 ohm nominal. Both line resistance and telephone resistance vary widely. A total loop resistance of 2400 ohm could be called a maximum because it allows the phone the 20 mA that's considered a minimum for reliable telephone operation, but lots of equipment will work out of that range, especially since so many newer phones have an independent power supply and digital voice circuit. On older switches, where "older" includes plenty that are still in wide service like 5ESS, the line cards have a couple of jumper options to adjust the relay resistance in order to bring loop current up or down depending on length of the loop. That's mostly because high loop currents due to a short loop can shorten the service life of equipment.

Nothing is really regulated (on older equipment and per specs, newer equipment tends to have voltage regulation as a result of using more advanced transistorized power supplies), neither voltage nor current, and so it can all vary within a fairly wide range. This is surprising from the modern perspective but not so much when you consider that the "standards" here are a hundred years old. Newer switches, RLCs, etc often measure the current on lines and raise trouble alarms when it's too high or low, which does impose certain tighter bounds.
Sure. Must be me projecting, because sexism in tech does not exist.

> Spouse acceptance factor is an underrated engineering constraint

So, tell me, how could this be interpreted without implicit gender assumptions? Get creative, you got this!