skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of navigational incidents are caused by human error, but better systems would give the crew a chance to realise their mistakes

At the moment lots of maritime crew have alarm fatigue, the system constantly warns them of danger so they learn to ignore alarms and when something super serious does happen, they can ignore it
Yes. It's pretty clear that forward looking NFTs are securities under US law, per the Howey test. The NFT community is in total denial about this.

The SEC is basically reactive. They wait until people complain about losing money in a scam. Then they bring the hammer down. This avoids complaints about over-regulation.

(A "forward looking NFT" is something like land in a virtual world that doesn't exist yet.
You're funding an enterprise run by others to build the thing. That's an investment contract, which the SEC regulates.
An NFT that represents "art" that exists at the moment of sale is probably just a collectable.)

By the way, none of this is new. See "Swampland in Florida" on Wikipedia for the 1950s version of the same concept.
Imagine triggering a big instance for machine learning or a huge EMR cluster that would otherwise be short lived and not being able to scale it down.

I am quite sure the AWS support will be getting many refund requests over the course of the week.
I work in an adjacent area and agree this is all good advice.

OP, how did you even get the sequence to begin with? I have a friend who has an immunodeficiency which is almost certainly due to a rare genetic disorder and want to do a very similar thing. Despite contacting his physician, fellow researchers, and even my institution's president -- with friend's full cooperation -- no one is willing to pay for it.

I'm at my wit's end to the point that I'm starting to think the only viable option is paying for it out of pocket, but it's not cheap.

A question you might want to ponder is: suppose you isolate the problem to a single missense/nonsense/truncation mutation in a protein that seems likely to cause the phenotype. How do you plan to use that information? In theory, there is gene therapy, but in reality, given how much effort I have had to go through just to get this fellow sequenced -- and I'm a PhD working in genomics with a lot of contacts -- creating a custom one-off gene therapy solution seems like it would be a very tremendous undertaking.

There is a very difficult problem here in that rare or "personalized" disease treatments are: A) not profitable, so drug companies have no interest, B) there are mountains of paperwork, IRBs, consent waivers, etc, involved in developing an experimental therapeutic, C) by definition you cannot do a proper clinical trial on a one-off, and D) it requires several different types of expertise to pull such a thing off. Sadly this means that it almost never happens, even though I suspect there are a lot of severe and lifelong genetic disorders which could be diagnosed and treated with technology available today.

Based on my experience so far, I suspect that even if you were to hand his physician very strong evidence that "the problem is caused by this specific single mutation", the response will be "OK, thanks". You should not make strong assumptions about them being able to take it from there. All this is based on the best-case scenario of it being a single variant in a coding region; if the disorder is caused by multiple variants at different loci, anything you find will probably not be actionable.
They automatically give you an extra account when you get famous enough.
You're right that German naming rules are overbearing, but you'd have trouble naming a baby "X Æ A-Ⅻ" in a lot of places, including many US states, I believe.
And Venmo, and McDonald's, and....

This one is pretty epic (pun intended). Bad enough that Down Detector [0] shows "Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, which may be impacting your service." in a red alert bar at the top.

[0] - https://downdetector.com/
The ones who would enjoy it (and who go to Europe to find it) aren't the ones making public spaces inhospitable in the US.
> What's OP's course of action now? To move again?

Yes, if that's what I want. It's not really my backyard. it's proverbial, but we can't make the mistake of taking it literally. it's someone else's front yard. I have no say in it.

So I have a choice, move somewhere more rural, or enjoy the financial benefit of being an early resident of a growing community. But the onus is always on me, I cannot externalize my preferences onto others unwillingly. There are always decisions to be made, there is always a trade off. You're right about resistance to change.

Personally if where I live began to urbanize, I'd leave.
I think the part of this that surprised me the most was learning that Self-Teaching actually... works? Not entirely sure why, but my first instinct when I was first getting into AI was that training a model on its own predictions would just... not provide any benefit for some reason. Well, today I learned otherwise! I love being proven wrong about stuff like this.
with new technology such self printing IC, 3D printing. Designs specs can be easily shared, why is it not possible? The whole idea of have one big factory making one thing is quite inefficient. Decentralisation always is more resilient.
OK, put on your manager hat.

What do you think is the average number of quality, thoughtful reviews you can obtain per hour, from an individual, week over week, month over month?

Don't forget that people eat lunch, pee, call in sick and have productivity slumps.

And how little do you think they should be paid?
Friend that's an IP lawyer had a rant that copyright law is applied for things it has no business being applied to. The law is built around single author books and sheet music. Where the authors lifetime output is small. And commercially valuable work smaller still. Not appropriate for things like ad copy, manuals, and software.

It needs an overhaul. But the current system heavily favors entrenched interests so won't happen.
From the twitter thread at https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513

"5. Middlemen are not inherently evil - they are desired if they can provide more value than they extract"

This reminds me of bureaucracy - people only call it bureaucracy when it fails or takes special attention or impinges on expected rights or privileges. When it works, there's not really a name for it (it's still bureaucracy)
People have always thought the world is ending. It's more likely things will just change somewhat, as they always have. Some things will get better, some things will get worse. As they always have
> problems that could not have been solved "the old way" (i.e. trusting a central body).

If this is the criterion then the answer is going to be "nothing". Because anything a blockchain can do, somebody running 1 server could do. The whole point is to do things just without the central authority part.
ah corporate speak at it's finest
> Subscriptions were always a pittance.

It's not that they were a pittance, it's that they were eaten by the cost of printing and distribution. But the internet doesn't have that.

The problem was the chronology of how this happened.

Newspapers had paid print subscribers and advertisers and were profitable. Then the advertisers were eaten by eBay and Craigslist, so they went into the red. But their paid subscribers were still print subscribers, so they still had all the costs of printing and distribution. So they responded by laying off reporters.

Then they had no content worth subscribing to, so the subscribers went away. At that point they're just worthless clickbait mills chasing online ad money.

But the model of paying to subscribe to high quality content which is then distributed over the internet so that money goes to the reporters instead of the distribution costs, that works fine.

The real "problem" with it is that it works fine without a newspaper company. The reason you had a hundred reporters working together in the same building was so they could share a printing press. Without that need, you end up with individuals doing reporting on substack. Which works, but not for the shareholders of the New York Times.
Thanks! Changed to that from https://musically.com/2021/12/02/herskowitz-advice-for-music..., which points to it.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The term "intellectual property" is a relative legal novelty, and applying "IP" law to individuals, as opposed to rogue publishers printing works without a contract with the author and profiting from sales of that work, is an even more dubious novelty.

The purpose of copyright protection, which was a controversial issue at the time the US Constitution was drafted, is written in the Copyright Clause: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Anything beyond that stated purpose is hindering "the Progress of Science and useful Arts."

That copyright terms are limited is essential, and should optimize the purpose, not the profit of publishers who go unmentioned.
When did this start? The first paid admission concert in history was apparently held in the 17th century at the home of a violinist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert#17th_Century. I'm no expert, but it looks a lot like people paying money to hear music without any ulterior motives from anyone involved.
Dank Mono: https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono

Totally worth the $40.
If your application doesn't have to do anything other than basic webapp stuff, then Rails probably has you covered.

If you need anything related to ML or the sciences, go Python.
Many state judge are elected- for a very long time, the US was the only country in world history to ever elect judges. It's unheard of, not just in the developed world, but also among developing countries. (We were however joined by Bolivia in 2011). And of course many important civil cases are heard in state court. This reminds me of the famous quote by a judge in West Virginia, Richard Neely. He actually said this!

“As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth from out-of-state companies to in-state plaintiffs, I shall continue to do so. Not only is my sleep enhanced when I give someone else’s money away, but so is my job security, because the in-state plaintiffs, their families and their friends will re-elect me. ”
> Try executing 1000000 + 1000000 in Church numeral representation. Will you get a stack overflow?

The sum is just function composition, so not likely. In terms of using the sum, it depends on the function being applied and whether the evaluation model is lazy or strict. (And your stack size, of course.) The isZero function I gave above, for example, only needs to process the outermost "succ" or "zero" and the rest is ignored, which is perfect for lazy evaluation:

isZero zero
= (λn. n (λx. false) true) (λf. λx. x) -- def. of isZero and zero
= (λf. λx. x) (λx. false) true -- β-reduce n
= (λx. x) true -- β-reduce f
= true -- β-reduce x

isZero (succ N) -- for any N
= (λn. n (λx. false) true) ((λn. λf. λx. f (n f x)) N) -- def. of isZero and succ
= (λn. λf. λx. f (n f x)) N (λx. false) true -- β-reduce n
= (λf. λx. f (N f x)) (λx. false) true -- β-reduce n
= (λx. false) (N (λx. false) true) -- β-reduce f
= false -- β-reduce x

Of course, you can use other, more efficient representations in place of Peano numbers, such as Church-encoded lists of bits. Peano numbers are better suited for demonstrating the concept due to their simplicity. Lambda calculus doesn't really have a concept of "stack overflow" in any case. The point was that you can express both loops and conditions as well as more general structures such as state machines and continuations through (recursive) function calls, but—at least so far as I am aware—there is no way to similarly model data and generalized control-flow (other than loops, obviously) purely in terms of iteration. This is precisely because iteration constructs are more structured than recursion, and consequently have a narrow range of applications.
Elevator ladies still exists here in Taiwan and Japan.
>Because the author assumed 8-bit color channels at the start

The tools tested predominately use 8bit per channel. Photoshop and Affinity Designer can use 16bit int or 32bit float, but those modes are typically more for photo editing.

>Having 10k steps to control the opacity of an 8-bit overlay is wasting a minimum of 5 bits.

The article does allude to why more may be important: “There’s no real reason to not support the full range of possible 8bit opacities, or even more steps to cover wide gamut colour spaces and higher bit depths.”

CSS, iOS, and Android dev all typically just use floats with a normalised range for opacity. The future is likely using normalised floats for all colour values, like many platforms already do. This also allows for extended ranges beyond 1.0 for wide gamut support while still using sRGB.

Wide gamut displays are prevalent, as is sending 10bit per channel to the display (often with a 16bit float per channel window manager). It just seems weird for our tooling to clip this stuff at the input. That’s such an easy thing to fix.

>It would be nice to have more examples where single bit precision is necessary, and a demonstration of a visible problem that crops up if the precision is too coarse.

I think there’s lots of examples, but some are going to sound contrived.

Here’s one that didn’t make the cut: Illustrator’s blend tool creates intermediate objects by morphing the paths and properties. This is a common way to make gradient-like effects. Object opacities are also interpolated. What’s interesting is that Illustrator has 0-255 precision when doing the blend, but if you edit the objects, you’re the values display as 0-100 and edits will snap to 0-100. I didn’t include it, because it got messy explaining the finer details.
> Good luck getting the covariance matrix right in practice. Usually it is diagonal and essentially a simple low pass filter with a fancy name.

I think here you are confusing initialization of an estimator with the estimation process.
This way of thinking really reflects poorly on security professionals. They should care out of a sense of professional ethics or personal morals. Selling a bug to be fixed by a vendor or to be weaponized by one of Zerodium’s customers are not equivalent morally or ethically. They also aren’t the only two options: he could just sit on the bug. Someone else will likely discover it but he at least wouldn’t be complicit in the erosion of the security of the software ecosystem.
I don't think they are blaming Google. It's the news org's fault in that case, for showing the Google bot a full article while actual people get a paywall.
My lightswitch is used twice a day, yet it works every time. In the old days it would occasionally break (bulb goes), I would be empowered to fix it myself (change the bulb).

In the cloud you're at the mercy of someone who doesn't even know you exist to fix it, without the protections that say an electric company has with supplying domestic users.

This thread has people unable to turn their lights on[0], it's hilarious how people tie their stuff to dependencies that aren't needed, with a history of constant failure.

If you want to host millions of people, then presumably your infrastructure can cope with the loss of a single AZ (and ideally the loss of Amazon as a whole). The vast majority of people will be far better off without their critical infrastructure going down in the middle of the day in the busiest sales season going.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29475499
The owner of NYSE isn't a market maker. ICE provides exchange and clearing services. Some of their largest customers are market makers.

There is no evidence that a Blockchain based approach would provide more transparency or stability. In fact the opposite is likely true.
I think deliberately interpreting other people's speech only within the framework that your mind works in is problematic. It doesn't even matter if there's consensus — you're choosing to interpret it as ableist despite it clearly not being used in that manner and you refuse to acknowledge that people different from you use language differently. How is this not a bigoted stance to hold? It's language imperialism.
Hotwire works very well too.
Exactly, the German Federal court made a judgement in 2010 so that nearly all programs are technical solutions which are patentable.
That one was posted later (plus the link is gone) so we'll merge it hither.
Why is this in the homepage?
The article in the post suggests otherwise. Right in the abstract it says that people prefer lower density. So if living in a rural area is now more attractive because it's a shorter distance, more people will choose to live there.

There are entire regions with small cities and towns where the commute is already reasonable, but the companies choose to bunch together in the biggest cities. Just look at Appalachia - plenty of small cities to choose from with vacant factories to be repurposed, vacant housing from population shrinkage, etc.

It all boils down to choices, and it's very difficult to influence those choices - where company locate, where people want to live, etc.
These people would not have gotten the patch anyway.
They're not all contributing to that specific accident, but they're contributing to the rate of accidents.

Getting lucky doesn't absolve you of endangering others!

For a more extreme example, imagine a million drunk drivers getting on the road at the same time to drive a significant distance. Nobody has crashed yet, but many of them will. I would say they are clearly "contributing to causing fatal accidents". Would you not?

> And I would not solely blame the driver/participants in a fatal accident, you have to look at the system they are operating in (Car Manufactures, Road/Highway designs etc etc)

That's why I said "and/or drive on roads that were designed with compromised safety"
Generally I'm suspicious whenever anyone seems to imply that an entire field is barking up the wrong tree
How to convert a JSON file to CSV file with Golang
Maybe its super fast bots?
My comment was made from the relatively simpler entrepreneurial perspective, not the corporate one. Corp ownership rests with people in the C-suite who are social/political lawyer types, not technical people. They delegate responsibility but not authority, because they can hire people, even smart people, to work under those conditions. This is an error mode where "blame" flows from those who control the money to those who control the technology. Luckily, not all money is stupid so some corps (and some parts of corps) manage to function even in the presence of risk and innovation failures. I mean the whole industry is effectively a distributed R&D budget that may or may not yield fruit. I suppose this is the market figuring out whether iterated R&D makes sense or not. (Based on history, I'd say it makes a lot of sense.)
That's wonderful. Do you have twitter? I just want to be notified once the book is complete.
> The competitors have a hard time gaining traction because in the way many of us would expect because we live in a different world from when YouTube first became a thing.

> Although I desire people be a little less allergic to supposedly dangerous content, can we really blame people for being disinterested or avoidant to YouTube competitors?

My takes on this is that DMCA/copyright laws is huge barrier of scaling. Lots of contents providers (I mean small players) are not comfortable expanding their platform due to copyright laws. It would requires to have a human moderation, legal contact, etc. Content Farms and Media Companies are huge abuser of DMCA takedowns, you can see the effects on YouTube. It is ramparts with legal issues because Google rather to use the bots to deal with the issues and that didn't help. Google allows companies to spam the takedowns with random urls that are not relevant to the contents.

Also public domain contents is another issues as well. There are companies that use DMCA takedown on content that are public domain which allows fair use. Sony Entertainments did this a few times, and they are not the only one doing this blatantly. They can do this because they knows they won't be accountable for it.

There are illegal contents uploaded daily and it have to be taken down which the small players don't have the resources to do so.

There are a lot of legal hurdles that small players need to account for before trying to scale bigger. It comes with risks, some players are not willing to take that risks, even Section 230 offers protections. But it didn't offer protection against companies that are brutal and ruthless with faking DMCA takedowns.
> Rust has a big problem with certain data structures. ... The language needs something like "single owner with weak backlink, made safe at compile time". That's a hard problem.

GhostCell and its variations (QCell, LCell etc.) are meant to address this without resorting to Unsafe Rust. But it's a bit of a hack so far, and yes it would be nice to have a more elegant, language-level solution.
R is a good one indeed. I still haven't figured out how to get a good overview of the functions available in R grouped in some sensible way, but at least once I know which function I want it's often very well documented.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471535.
And trying to destroy Israel (cos it's just like South Africa!1) is completely rational? Plenty of lunatics on both sides of the fence here. I don't like the woke religion more than the evangelical religion.
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The city didn't come to them. They chose to live in close proximity to enjoy it's benefits thinking they could avoid the trade off entirely, forever.

They even considered this a benefit when they decided that as the population rose their property value would go up. They considered the state of affairs they're complaining about to be a good investment decision.

The suburbs are never truly outside the city, this is an illusion, and everyone knows it, and they knew it going in, they're just pretending they're getting the short end of the stick here.
That's exactly what the people opposing zoning changes did too. They move somewhere to avoid high density. Then demand follows them. The entire discussion right now is about increasing density where it is currently low, not about static high or low density.
Your local newspaper has started a major war?
I managed to get 14 vectors with 125 characters. I think 21 is a reference to the year 2021 and not the actual number of unique XSS vectors.
I’ve been working on an IDE for music composition https://ngrid.io.

Launching soon.
This gets me thinking of something an old friend wrote recently, contrasting music with sport in eg a bar setting. A backstreet pub can easily shell out £2200/month (almost $3000) for football (that's soccer for you across the pond), but will pinch pennies when it comes to paying for music. It is indeed kind of weird how music is so highly valued, and gives rise to such feelings on one end, and is yet so commoditized and valued so low in eg bars and shops.

A music catalog is transferred for pretty much the same fee as one football player, AFAIK.
I completely agree. He spends so much time and energy with those models only to show them for like 30 seconds.

He needs a second youtube channel or something where he can show way more detail about these things.

Every time I watch his videos I'm always left feeling kind of empty...
this is exact kinda over centralisation issues I was talking about. I'm one of first developers using AWS EC2, sure back when scaling is hard for small dev shops. In now day and age any one who is technically inclined, can figure out using the new technologies. Why even use AWS. Get something like Hetzner, Linodes please!